benjii

It was clear Cortese picked the team yesterday. After all, Martin didn't get a look-in and Gully started.

Jon Parkin?

Utterly clueless.

Nonsense. We dominated from the off and but for poor finishing would have won handsomely. Feel quite sire for Wilkins. It's not his fault of someone blazes over from 5 yards.

Don't worry. The fact finding mission to Barcelona will keep the idiots occupied for a couple of weeks.

Calm down dearie, we'll get you a fresh rusk.

Possibly the silliest post on here for sometime.

Hopefully all the moaners about so-called Hoofball will afford the guy a bit of time to settle as it's clear he can be the link in some nice passing. But they probably won't, they'll probably start singing "One Alan Pardew" if he gets tackled.

Exactly. Looks a really intelligent and entertaining player.

What a great prospect. Confidence, touch, speed, strength, maturity, delivery. Much more ability with a football than Antonio or Papa, probably Theo too. If he keeps developing we've got a hell of a player.

I agree completely with the footballing part of that post.

What utter rubbish. If Puncheon didn't blaze over from 5 yards we would probably have won the game and this wouldn't be discussed. Why do some people's brains work in such a strange way?

Did any of you watch the match? We played far worse at times last season and won.

We battered them but couldn't finish. That's not the chairman's fault, or the manager's. It might be the fans' fault a bit for being infantile, impatient little ****s who have a strop at someone who misses, increasing the pressure that little bit the next time... but it's mostly just bad luck that several players had a 'mare in front of goal at the same time. Nothing to worry about though and thankfully the people in charge have a lot more sense and bottle than most of you lot.

Are people seriously pinning the blame for players missing sitters on the manager? That takes a special kind of dinlo.

How pathetic. Performance was fine. We will finish top 6 absolute minimum.

Don't think it's a big issue. I reckon it's Cortese who sells the vision to the likes of Fonte and Waigo. Don't see any reason why he can't still do that. In any event, I expect we will have a new manager towards the start of next week.

He'll never join, he hates us...

Beat me to it. Exactly.

FFS - you suspend them, send them home, tell them not to come in, tell them you'll draw up a generous package if they keep their mouths shut. Send a draft copy of the compromise agreement to their lawyers, have a bit of to-ing and fro-ing, reach a settled form of agreement, both parties sign and bob's your uncle.

Any preference of cuisine?

If he's applied than he might be in with a shout.

Yes, a good rebuttal of the causal adequacy theory.

Actually, same here. That's the real reason (and not wanting to lose a tenner). Not sure why I said religion.

If Sacchi applies he might be in with a shout. I reckon if McClaren, Gross, Sacchi and Houllier apply we should probably at least give them an interview each.