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Very true (well except for Baldock we've played him before and he wasn't all that) but our boys have got used to teams parking the bus and hitting it long I can't see us being "found out" by such tactics. I think we are prehaps showing more fear of WH than we need to.

I like this one from the WHU forum They do knock it about nicely, but I don't know how their defence will cope with our hoofball approach should Slender Sam decide to deploy those tactcs. 4-5-1 will find them out, I think. They do know we've spent 2 seasons in league 1 facing these tactics almost every home game don't they?

I thought it required 14 clubs to agree changes to the PL? I can't see to many chairmen thinking that not being relegated from the PL is a bad thing.

Might put a dent in the five year plan if this goes through....... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15336398.stm I can imagine all the PL chairman agreeing to this one. why can't you edit titles:blush:

It will be like a good league one match then 10 men behind the ball? maybe big sam is looking to re-create Oldhams vintage performance at SMS two seasons ago.....

yeah they kind of failed to win the one that counts didn't they?

When was the last time we failed to score? 1-1 maybe 0-0 I can't see.

No team will come to SMS and win comfortably these days. If they win I'm pretty sure it will be tight even without Adam we're no mugs. Wish we had a fit Jiadi for this one though to give Carew a good battle.

I thought big sam liked to bypass midfield altogether? WHU fans don't seem to like his longball style of game if some of their forums are anything to by. Have to say if anyone is going to put a dent in our home form I can see it being west ham.

I'll be there my kids won't. Just to spark off the "are season ticket holders counted even when they don't turn up?" debate again.....

Pretty much one way traffic on the highlights. Hammers on tuesday is going to be a belter of a game both sides on fire (cue a 0-0 snooze fest on tuesday night)

I see this has become another Alpine vs thread..........

love him going to be a saints legend (as long as he doesn't want free tickets )

I'm amazed how we seem to come back from a break with more players crooked than before the break:? Still just have to get on with it Adam is unreplacable but we have a good team as today proved.

I think on reflection I was a little dissapointed with a point when the game finished we dominated for long peroids and gave away soft goal. Before the game I would have taken a point all things considered but we were the better team even without Adam. So a point is good but still i'm a little dissapointed. We're top of the table and haven't been out played by anyone yet so I actually don't think there's anything wrong in expecting to win games.

No your right he is probably lying through his teeth, becuase it wouldn't fit the theroy of some posters that Pardew is the worst manager saints have ever had, if what he said was the truth...............

Must have changed his style a lot since the move to Newcastle then if this beeb article is anything to by http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thefootballtacticsblog/2011/10/newcastle_profit_from_pardews.html

That makes no sense if AP had a job offer (a five year one at that) why did he not just hand in his notice at the end of the season rather than waste his summer and wait to be sacked? and why sack Wally Downes to boot who didn't have a job at newcastle lined up?

do you think the same about saints?

We've managed ok so far. Part of me (the one that thinks JFK was killed by the CIA and the moon landings were faked) thinks this has more to do with the court case than his injury.

Might be but then most people who say anything are biassed aren't they? everyone has to decide who/what they want to believe professional football coach/ fan on an internet forum/ guy who heard something from a mate of a mate. A whole load of info is out there the truth is probably somewhere in between.......

Interesting BBC piece about AP http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thefootballtacticsblog/2011/10/newcastle_profit_from_pardews.html This bit from one of APs staff kind of suggests he's not quite the c unt he is made out to be Yet Stone has been impressed with the former Reading, Charlton and West Ham boss and says his man-management is a real asset. "Tactically, he is as good as anyone," says Stone. "Some managers dither on the sidelines and that can cost you, but he will change things because he believes in his own ability and his own decisions. Managers earn their corn on match days don't they? "He's got to work with the team all week, but he speaks very well and speaks in a way that gets players on side with him. It's not a rollocking, it's asking them to do it rather than telling them to do it so everybody feels part of a group. "He treats players like adults where I've seen other managers treat players like kids and they don't respond to that at all. He has been in the game a long time as a manager so it's not like he has stepped in at Newcastle and it's all new to him. He understands the game At the end of the day AP and NC didn't get on for what ever reason it was never going to work when they had different ideas of how things should be. Personally I'm gratedful to AP for my trip to wembely and a season of football I really enjoyed after many seasons of meh, others peoples milage may vary.

Not sure to many managers would have the b ollocks not to bring an extra keeper HTBH. You're right keepers are hardly ever needed but a manager is going to get a lot of stick if one is needed and he choose to bring an extra striker. What we need is a player who can play in goal and is a great striker to boot.............maybe bart could get trainned to play up front too....

I'm not saying we should give the falklands to Argentina at no point have I said we should. I'm trying to point out that people who think its fair to kick the Palestines out of the homes over a claim to a Jewish homeland that exsisted two and half thousand years ago would never consider the same thing in the Falklands (or Gibraltar I'm willing to bet) where Argentina has a better claim. Palestine was a british dependency (mandate) when the whole issue of Israel kicked off in the 40s and we weren't to bothered about defending any one then.

Not sure anything you've written changes the point I was making in the beginning. It's semantics Argentina did exist as a spanish colony whether it was as the vice royalty of the river plate or under another name. As you pointed out the pope gave the falklands to spain even if he didn't know it by extention you can trace a clear path of possible ownership to Argentina as an ex spanish colony if you want (and Argentina does). It's a strong link? not really no ( though no worse than the British one of "well we left in 1774 but we left a plaque so it's still ours until we came back in 1833 and kicked out some Argentinains who were already there" argument) My orginal point (probably not well put across granted) is countries can use history to make up any convluted reason they like to claim something as thier's. Argentina's claim to the Falklands is a hell of a lot less stupid than Israel's claim to palestine based on it being their ancient homeland.