Howay

He's an odd bloke, they've been stockpiling slightly above average for years expecting that to get them into the CL spots. 10m for a bloke your team never plays is excellent money and his price is only going 1 way the longer he sits on the bench/in the reserves.

Fuck sake, bet the stupid twats turn up and comfortably beat us on the weekend as well.

Heavily linked to Berahino again today, talented lad but no idea if he would fit into our current game plan although McClaren would no doubt have a plan for him since it would seem more likely to be his signing.

It would serve me right for having a pop at the king.

The little rant felt good after I caught "part one of behind the badge" about Crystal Palace yesterday as it came on after the Arsenal v Stoke match, seeing his smug face and him yapping on about how important the FA cup is, despite seemingly not giving a fuck when he was at us, drove me a little mental, and by little I mean it made me want to frisbee my set top box out the window.

I know it's only paper talk but I'm slightly worried we're never linked to any left backs, the club can't seriously view Dummett as the long term answer at left back. I think Dummett is a canny enough CB and would make a good 3rd choice but he's a dodgy full back.

It does aye, I do think Mitro will become a good player and he seems to have the right attitude as after missing a sitter he doesn't shy away from the ball. I think we're fairly fortunate that Wijnaldum is a good finisher so it can at times paper over Mitrovic's lack of goals, I also think Mitrovic's play style leads to goals for us as he's good at holding up the ball and tying up defenders. I would like to see us bring in a striker who is a bit more experienced mind as Cisse looks to have gone to shit a bit and the amount of offsides and miscontrols he does wastes a lot of good build up play.

Aye he does, probably to try and appeal to the fans and make him seem more like them (especially at Palace) when they start getting on his back a little.

Aye, I think McClaren deserves credit for the turnaround in chances created. Earlier in the season we had a lot of possession but didn't create anything at all (often only 1 shot on target) but he has definitely made some tweaks which has us getting more opportunities, obviously having a bloke who passes the ball forwards in CM last match helped us but our chances have been increasing in number the last few games.

He normally gets one really good run of form per season, the rest of the season is usually a fucking disaster as when the wheels come off the unsustainable game plan A he has no fucking clue what to do. When Cabaye was hurt or huffy the team reverted to 1920's style hoofball, which really hurt us. The season we came 5th we had Cabaye playing quality, with two back to back unsustainable goal scoring runs by our two strikers, our defence also played amazing with Colocinni peaking. To Pardew's credit he did manage it all well that season even though I still think most of the games served up weren't great to watch. Palace this season had Bolasie and Cabaye playing amazing but as Stone Cold said Bolasie has been hurt and Cabaye has missed games here and there recently so Pardew hasn't had a clue what to do, especially as their strikers simply don't score goals. I think the reason for the media love in with Pardew comes from these crazy runs of form that catch the eye and he's not at all shy about giving himself all of the credit (he normally starts wearing his thick rimmed glasses during this time and speaking slower to come across all continental), then when it goes tits up his team are (usually) safe from relegation and just slip into mid-table obscurity with the media completely focused on the title race and relegation fight by that point. I don't think Palace will go down under him as I think he has figured out how to get at least one of these runs per season which seem to pick up enough points to all but guarantee safety, the Palace fans will no doubt get sick of it but the daft bastards deserve every minute of shite football they get served up by local hero (and national cockend) Alan Pardew after the grief they (and the media) gave us, I also hope that when they inevitably turn on the King the media rip them to bits.

:lol: I'd like to see us try and get Ben Davies from Spurs for left back, he was solid during his time at Swansea and is in and out of the team due to competition from Rose so we may be able to get him.

Bet he spent an hour of his holiday doing that the utter fucking doilem.

Are you saying there was football before that? I'll have to get Chiles and co to talk that attitude out of you.

Aye overtook Henry, only took him 100 or so games more to manage it mind.

The bloke has no interest in coming, if they waste the rest of the window chasing this lad then somehow they are even bigger knackers than I thought they were.

Very poor game, to be fair anytime I've watched Manchester United this season they've looked dreadful. I just hope their league position starts to reflect their shite performances soon as they're still pretty high up regardless of being one of the most boring teams in the league.

Aye Balotelli would be a disaster at Newcastle and I thought he was on pretty crackers wages. I think Ayew is canny but not sure where he would fit in to our side unless he was to play on the wing, I wouldn't want to play him off Mitro as that would mean Wijnaldum having to either drop deeper or play wide and Ayew isn't as good as Wijnaldum. Not too fussed about Gomis, his goal record this season is 6 goals in 19 games (last season was 7 in 31) and Mitro's is 4 goals in 17 so doesn't seem like he would be any more prolific and at 30 he's not a project like Mitro is.

I must admit he has proven me wrong, I wasn't keen on what I saw of him in appearances before Krul got hurt but he has stepped up and done well. I don't think he is a quiet lad which helps, long may it continue.

Looked like it was a pulled hamstring.

Aye 12m is good money for him but it strengthened the team that's their main rival for the drop at the minute, they're not even showing many signs of using the 12m either.

Probably turn their noses up at that cheap plastic shite, I know alot of them used to get coats off some shops in the town but not sure if that still goes on. It would be nice of people to give them to a homeless shelter mind, it's not like people who already have coats need an Everlast jacket worth 6 quid (that's what someone found it on Amazon for).

Aye although I think Bournemouth will kick on and be safe now they have invested in forwards, they always played well just didn't have anyone up top after Wilson's injury. Norwich are in danger like as they are a bilge team, Swansea are in real danger now too after giving us Shelvey.

Aye he may not have meant it but his hands were extended out and it stopped the ball going in so it's a red tbh. Just saw a few mackems saying they're happy Bournemouth won because they play them next and 'teams like that don't win 2 in a row' flawless logic that.

Aye, the commentator is going mental saying it was a harsh pen, not sure why he thinks that as Cissoko had both arms outstreched and blocked the ball that was clearly flying into the net what else could the ref have done? think Cissoko was really lucky not to be sent off for it tbh.