Howay

Aye I'm not confident relegation would get rid of him, he'd probably cut into those profits from previous years to maintain a lot of the players and bring in some more upper championship/lower premiership players (like he did last time) and get us back up. He'd obviously prefer to avoid going down but I think he'd hang with it, there'd only be a chance of him cutting his losses if we stayed down there for a good period of time imo which would mean 3 or more years down there, which would then make it extremely hard to get back up anyway. I agree with most others in that I see no time period for him leaving tbh, he's now able to take money out of the club while having a massive amount of advertising at a level that would probably cost a fair whack of money for free. We'll spend in January the same way we did last time. I'm still unsure why he is intent on sticking with Pardew mind as we're looking at being on around 12-15 points come the January window if this sort of form continues, which would make us a very safe bet for relegation. We've had a pretty easy start fixture wise considering how many of the top teams we've not had to play and now we have all of them in the next 2 month.

No one knows, at least he's not a drunk driver, like drunk driver Quinn has he said sorry about that yet? how many fans did Sunderland take to Grimbsy on a rainy tuesday night in 1957? It was less than Whitley Bay took to the FA vase that's for sure. Has Pascal Chimbonda apologised for spitting in a players face yet. Lots of questions not enough time. It's ridiculous to say Mbiwa is a good player based on ONE performance, of course if he has one poor performance then we can discredit his entire career and just call him shit. El Hadj Diouf hit his wife didn't he? he spat in someones face too? hmmm Has Quinn said sorry yet? has he made a charity to take down drunk driving? No, instead he hires people that spit in peoples face.

Mike Williamson would have been far better against Bayern.

Gerld.

This is getting well out of hand, one decent game where he scored a good goal (but before that he was as poor as everyone else) doesn't erase the evidence that he's not much use which stretches back to his time at Man utd. Obertan played in that 11 game unbeaten run we had that season and I'm sure that's what Pardew is trying to point to but he wasn't much use in that stretch, the entire time everyone was wanting him dropped and he contributed little.

The Beatles song and now this. I'm on the edge of my seat awaiting Mr Ryders next diary entry.

We put in a performance that encapsulated the spirit we had in the dressing room, the spirit we had to win though. Against a side like Leicester who have the wonga to go out and break their record transfer fee to bring in players. We've also got De Jong coming back in January and Ryan Taylor building fitness so that's two players like new signings, what more do you bunch of norrvurrn maaaankeeees want? We've got all the pieces to make a big push for a 17th place finish, I'm sure it's going to be enthralling and I can't wait to see what the future looks like under Pards, I keep hearing he's a brilliant coach with amazing ideas so I'm just waiting until he showcases them. Maybe we'll see some of them in year 5 or 6!

The whole thing wasn't pretty Alan. Aside from the gleam off Obertans bonce as he marauded past Richie De Laet.

Aye I heard him say that, he went on to talk about how "Alan has a lot of great ideas". I hate seeing and hearing people say stuff like that, if he has such great ideas then why have all of his teams for his entire managerial career played such bland football? There is no evidence to suggest he's some tactical mastermind so why do winnets like Houghton keep plugging lines like that.

Aye it's not real, I was just meaning it's scary that a bloke wrote in the most boring way possible and you could see Owen coming out with shite like that. And yeah it's fucking hilarious.

Not a whole lot of fret for all our possession.

That Perez lad has looked a good prospect in all the games I've seen him in, shame Pards probably wont be able to help him progress.

Obertan with the Dennis Bergkamp turn there

Aye, worrying that Obertan looks to be the only one that can shoot today.

When did we sign Ronaldo? Now he'll miss-control a soft pass out of play.

Never doubted the lad

I think it's fair to say everyone (myself included) got their Southampton predictions massively wrong. It's also reassuring to know that as shite as we are the Mackems still can't enjoy it and laugh at us!

Would have been taff to expect him to play against Leicester at home so he'd have been benched for Obertan anyway. Need that tracking back from a winger, it's their most important attribute.

Reminds me of the Harry Enfield football expert "He doesn't want to do that, he wants to score the goal"

Quality finish by Cisse there

Aye, and the commentator on what I'm watching was babbling on about what a brilliant coach Pardew is with some really fantastic ideas. I'm assuming those ideas aren't related to football tactics because there has been zero evidence of that at any point in his career.

Fucking hell colo

Well if nowt else it's given us all an extra hour where we can enjoy the weekend before we have to suffer what I'm sure will be an utterly dreary game.