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unless cortese has a manager and/or director of football in waiting? Who knows...

perhaps the media got the wrong end of the stick when they reported the 'cortese approached by AC Milan' story...perhaps it was t'other way around and it was cortese approaching AC Milan for their manager...? :-) Or maybe he just wants to build a monkey-chicken petting zoo...

Sorry....lazy shorthand for 'i agree with this'

this

I disagree that "most people" had the playoffs down as an unrealistic target. As recently as just before Christmas Pardew himself was saying that they were now a realstic target. It's only the last handful of games whereby it's become more unrealistic than realstic.

Didn't he say he only wanted a six month sabatical though? I appreciate that may have been a throw away quote though, assuming I recall it correctly of course

How do we know that Coppell hasn't been involved in some capacity behind the scenes? I've no idea if he has or not but I'm surprised that Coppell hasn't taken up another post in football after all this time...

Brilliant...another thread where the moaners can moan about the moaners... ;-)

Can't disagree

So...they're fairly 'ruthless' then....? ;-)

I believe there was a poll on ths very question about a month ago. Can't find it though

So, we can put them into administration after the game, not before?

You'll be telling me that the big bad wolf didn't lure little red riding hood into a false sense of security next..."oh what lovely teeth yo have grandma"... ;-)

So, that's me and Nicola then. Anyone else wouldn't be surprised?

People have been too pre-occupied with moaning about the moaners to Re-assess that Cortese may well have been taking a harder and more ambitious line since making the '5 year plan' statement at the beginning of the season. It has been quite obvious to some that he has progressively become more overtly aggresive and ambitious in his goals over the last few months. I wonder what the 'ruthless' mr cortese will do next? P.s. And I wonder why Coppell has never taken up another post at another club since being linked with Saints earlier in the season...

I've totted up the numbers and can reveal that the moaners moaning about the moaners outnumber the moaners by a factor of 7 to 1. Put that in your pipe Alanis Morrisette.

They shout 'Sunderland' or 'Sheffield Utd' at me

Does this now mean we're a creditor of PFC ? Anyone thinking what I'm thinking?

cheers for the reply and congratulations for bring amongst a handful of people to actually answer the question rather than bleat on about how rubbish the thread is. Bloody negative posters on here...sigh.... ;-)

Even taking into account Cortese's ruthless character?

Whoops, title should say 'thread' rather than 'three'...bloody iPhone

...would anyone be surprised if Cortese acts as ruthlessly as his reputation and asks Pardew to leave before the end of the season if we fall well short of the playoffs? As I say, read the question I'm posing, not between the lines please. "Would you be surprised?" is the question. Yes or no?

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