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I just meant as a deeper CM rather than a direct replacement for whatever the fuck Tiote is these days. I agree that we need to focus on up front and defence more than accruing CM's, especially after last nights reminder of Iron Mike's lack of ability.

They're not doing well today are they.

He was good on FM a few year back and was decent in a few games I saw him play when he was at Valencia but that's about the extent of my knowledge on him. Maybe he's being targeted as a replacement for Tiote? I think you're right though it seems a bit tenuous.

Nah it didn't have sound when I watched the first half.

Lascalles just gave a pen away with a pretty shite tackle and they scored from it. Oh aye the whole this is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV9L29NlaGE&feature=youtu.be Toon put the link up on Facebook so it's not a dodgy stream or owt. 2-0 to them after 17 mins, some proper shite defending by our lot.

Aye it's fucking class, I watch it anytime I've got a half hour or so and there's nowt else I can find to chuck on (as I've seen the whole series). Jean-Ralphio and his sister are a right crease and the thing with Parks and rec is it uses characters like that just enough, they knew people liked them two but didn't start making them central characters like some programmes do with the oddball characters that are popular as fringe characters. The lass that plays April and Chris Pratt were brilliant together, in fact all the characters are class tbh.

Agree with this, everyone knows Ashley is the ultimate problem but the fact is people were sick to the back teeth of Pardew and his lack of new ideas which meant nervous, boring, uninspired football. I for one am thrilled that it's very unlikely we will see our team get 3+ goal kickings with the regularity we did under Pardew, we've got someone who is a step above Pardew as a coach and as a bloke. Aye we've still got the same prick owning the club but we'll see a fresh approach tactically at the very least.

The game that he played negatively in aye? Where Pellegrini said: "I felt we played very well, we dominated the game and played like the way I like this team to play. But we're very disappointed with the score. I don't want to analyse the referee's decision. When you do that you're trying to find excuses for your defeat." And King Pards said: "We had some really scary moments and we had to dig in and work hard." And the stats were: Possession: CP - 26% Man City - 74% Shots: CP - 5 Man City - 22 On Target: CP - 3 Man City - 4 Corners: CP - 4 Man City - 13 Good result aye but they played negatively for sure man. The bloke is a complete and utter fucking tosser and Palace isn't the only club besides us that he managed so we can also point to his poor tenures in charge of West Ham (Where he preferred Reo-Coker and Carlton Cole to Mascherano and Tevez), Southampton (where he failed to get a team with players like Adam Lallana, Rickie Lambert etc to League one promotion) and Charlton (got relegated from the Prem, not entirely his fault as he only had just over half a season however he then took favorites for promotion into the Championship relegation spots in 2 seasons). A canny start to his managerial career at Reading got him a bit of a name and a 5th place finish with our lot brought that name back from the knacker yards, but he's a fucking knacker and a thoroughly unlikable bloke.

Aye that Damain helps a lot but they definitely need a CB. FFP is working really well . To be fair to Downing I get the move if all that was interested was lower Prem sides, gets to go back to a place where he'll be a hero and to be fair that Karanka has them playing very well.

"They love to ignore recent history and focus only on the things that give them "one upmanship" - 5under1and, Eldon Square, The Metro, 1-4 at our place etc.... FFS my FIL insists on telling me the story of how Geordies got their name (something to do with people from Newcastle pledging allegiance to King George (George's Men....Geordies) whilst people from Sunderland didn't....." The (really cheesy) chip on their shoulder is massive like, they have to admit beating us does have some of the sheen taken off it by finishing below us. They do have recent wins and we can't take that away from them but it's posts like this that are just odd, it quotes the post before which is a bloke talking about arguing with a Newcastle fan in an airport where he brings up how happy he was when we got relegated, is the 5under1and craic not more recent than our relegation? . "ahh they love bringing up stuff like how their city has way better infrastructure, better architecture and better shopping centres, they also love bringing up cuffing wuh 5-1 five year ago which is mental, remembah when theyah were relegated 7 year ago? I hate having to correct people on me holidays to Scarborough that I'm not a Geordie ah'm a mackem, a word they used to use as an insult but we made it ours didn't we? AHHH FUCKIN HATE THEM, HAWAY THE LADS, HAWAY PAOLO, AHH MEAN GUS, FUCKIN 'ELL AHH MEAN DICK"

Aye he was one of the few to actually listen to them as well, stunning that scoring against Arsenal actually made him a worse player. That was definitely one of Pardew's biggest flaws, he had his players and regardless of form would force them into the side. Think it's cost us Bigirimana and it would have cost us a canny player in Abeid if Pardew had stayed.

Shame like, think he had proper potential but the injuries took it of him. Wish him luck if he goes, still has a canny shot on him but I'm sure CT could dust him in a 60m sprint.

Aye, this is much more like the doing 32 in a 30mph zone that the nonce defender mackems were saying Johnson was. It's like a lad in year 11 having a relationship with a lass in year 9... dead rare that like. Honestly man that lot are fucking obsessed with trying to find anything, trying to liken a 16/17 year old having sex with a 13/14 year old in Senegal (when they were married?) to a 27 year old grown bloke and multi millionaire married footballer grooming a 15 year old lass and allegedly entering into a relationship with her is fucking mental. As SEW pointed out I'm sure there's fucking tonnes of pregnant 13/14 year old lasses walking round SR postcodes, they all pregnant off 12/13/14/15 year old lads? Sex laws around those ages are hard to define due to the fact they're all at school together, I worked at an American summer camp in Pennsylvania when I was younger and they had some stipulation in that a 17 year old could have sex with someone 2 year older to try and get around the whole 2 high school kids in a relationship, one goes to Uni and the other is in their final year of high school issue. Tbh go on mackems yell and scream about this all you want but deep down you all know what a complete non event this is to the fact that your fans have given standing ovations to a 27 year old bloke who is accused of having sex with a 15 year old. Edit: In fact got the Pennsylvania law a little wrong this is it: "Anyone between the ages of 13 and 16 can consent to have sex with anyone else who is no more than 4 years older." With age of consent there being 16, it's to get around the whole gray area that is high school relationships. No idea of the Senegalese laws though other than Ant saying age of consent is 16 so all the mackems that are confident of the ins and outs of Senegalese laws can crack on calling Cisse a paedo if it makes them feel better about giving Johnson a heroes welcome on his return from suspension.

Should say King tbh.

It does aye, I've little doubt that Taylor has been going round telling them all he's a fucking hero back home so they should all talk to him.

Aye, it wants to be mind for the utter bilge they're playing.

Also sad that the whole Man Utd being shite for a little bit is now completely over (I know they did canny last season but the prior season gave hope), the double signing of Schneiderlin and Schweinsteiger completely revamps their central midfield and now it looks like they're going on a fuck FFP tear.

Downing looked canny anytime I saw him play last season and iirc he played basically every game, quite surprised he's leaving and that he's leaving for a Championship side (not saying I blame him for turning down the tramps just surprised no other Prem sides are interested).

Agree with both, I think Tiote's decline was one of Pardew's biggest failings. He was brilliant the season we came 5th and had Cabaye alongside him all season, the following year when Cabaye was out for stretches I felt like Tiote (hyped up from the praise from previous season) suddenly thought he was Pirlo (as Ant said) and began to try and step into Cabaye's role as the chief outlet, when this happened it seemed like Pardew never shut this down by telling Tiote to stick to his role of breaking up the opposition play and moving the ball on so Tiote just kept doing his horrific Cabaye impression and lunged into tackles anytime he gave the ball away with a wayward pass.

Brilliant.

This is what I don't understand, it offers no benefit from a training perspective especially as one of the sides is a fucking reserve team for an MLS team. The fans back home can't attend or really watch as games will be at 2am and while Man Utd, Madrid etc are playing each other soon which will be a draw we're playing utter no marks in Milwaukee at a baseball ground so I don't see how that creates/increases any sort of brand recognition.

Looks more like the national girder centre tbh

That's the front entrance?

City's pure desperation to get in English players isn't it, especially after Delph turned them down. His ego is going to be out of fucking control now mind (if it wasn't already).