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post of the millenium/ [end thread]

Wheres that from Barney?.. If we'd sold Cabaye, we may have brought Gomis in. But it looks like this years priority was getting the cash back that he lost because of the relegation he caused.

You weren't present at SJP during the "sack the board" years around 88-92 then. There was fuckin hell on most weeks. Actually in the ground. It could possibly be said that the medium of how the disgruntled fans views are expressed has changed, but the spirit is still there.

You're saying you understand it may take time, whilst simultaneously slaughtering the coach at every turn...thats frankly fuckin nuts tbh And the second biggest critic of Pardew on here (Tooj) is also in your "target" area of criticsm...young,smart, knows his Alkmaar's from his Armenia Bielefeld's...

He's nipped home for a qulck duck pizza

you cant have it both ways old son

So do you agree that it takes time for players to settle, and some may settle quicker than others, or is it all Pardews fault?

fuck off man, they're as entitled to a whinge as you are "waah Pardews shit! no, hes really shit!!"

fuck me Fist, who knew? : o

It barely needs pointing out that there are thousands of season ticket holders at SJP who wouldn't know the internet from a fuckin hair net

I read that last week...its interesting, but it looks like from Caulkins comments on that podcast if we'd have got 20mill for Cabaye we may have done some business. Sell to buy, not much has changed tbh..

Stoke

I'm ambivalent towards him tbh, he got involved with his eyes wide open. I think his tactical shortcomings miss the point though, he's still employed by Ashley. Ashley could employ a better coach, but hasnt done up to now and Pardew is cheap...Kinnear could be even cheaper...

mate, thats all hes been since he got the job. I cant see how his role has changed. Asking for and getting Obertan is probably the limit of his recruitment activity, other than watching the youtube links Carr emails him.

Which is fair enough. Think he must have forgotten who his boss was this summer. He could have saved himself a lot of heartache if he'd gone for a part time window cleaner from Kilmarnock

Ashley was being praised for this sort of thing 18 months ago. Not that much has changed tbh, other than the present understanding that we're not going down the road that Spurs have gone down; i.e. money from player sales going straight into further recruitment. All money is going to pay off the loans, and if we're then desperate for a player or staring relegation in the face then we'll maybe buy then. But only in January.

Yeah, agree with the spirit of it but its just one step closer to some bimbo on SSN uttering the immortal words "Joe Kinnear will take over as caretaker"

The key word in this for me is "available"....someone tell me who decides if a player is available? Its hardly likely to be the fuckin scout of the buying club is it CT?

Embarrasing but totally in character that he hasn't walked rather than put his name to this shit. So he answers to the dof on all matters but has to offer "his own" mealy mouthed explanation as to why we've spent nowt this summer. No employer in the world, for any amount of money could make me do that. Shameful, even more so that many on here predicted it last night.

People loved that at the time. If you can hold your nose and accept it a sort of mission statement from 18 months rather the mealy mouthed bullshit it really is, those who were enthusiastic about the way he was going about things back then could maybe conclude that nowt much has changed. The one conclusion I'm drawing from when this article was published is that recruitment policy isnt really based on squad need, its based on league position.

Think I might join, just for the crack

Is the correct answer, and it always has been this way. Don't really know what folks are getting at with this, the club is owned by Mike Ashley ffs. Every squad in every professional league in Britain could be stronger and there are a million reasons why they aren't, but the chief one is finance in one way or other. We went to Bayer Leverkusen in the champions league with Shola and Lua Lua up front, they both scored and we won two nil. Not saying that sort of thing happens often nowadays but they were the only two strikers we had after Shearer and Bellamy. Where are they now I hear you cry?...well, according to wiki Lua's in Turkey...not sure what happened to the other bloke

todays big question: WAS LEAZES MAG CORRECT ALL ALONG??!! Let him back on for an hour to hear his side?

He covers the North East for The Times, so he's the local representative working for a national title, actually Keep fighting the good fight CT

Why should he? The Halls said they did when they sold to the fat cunt. They didnt do due dilligence either