benjii

You = prat too, I think.

Swap "Pardew" with "Cortese" and you might have a point.

Legume casing.

And that's a perfectly valid point of view IMO. I am not overly thrilled by the football league in general any more. I just try and enjoy the match if possible and have a laugh. But what I do understand is that no professional club can have a future if it doesn't aspire to grow in terms of football and business. All this nostalgiac nonsense is exactly that, nonsense. If you want to point the finger at someone, point at the regulators of the game for allowing such an uneven playing field - don't point at businessman just trying to do a decent job.

"I promise, I will never die..."

So it was "our club" during a ten year spell under public ownership but not before or since? So basically, it's the same old. All this "our club" nonsense is ******** anyway. If people yearn for that, go and stick a pound in Salisbury's bucket and watch them or something. We aspire to top level professionalism round here. If you don't like it, see you later.

Which country are you referring to? Not many of us live in Scotland. There are lots of foreign countries with strange laws TBF.

How bourgeois. You should stand shoulder-to-shoulder with your opressed brothers.

FFS, we don't need another left-back. FFS, the man's mental. He obvioulsy has no respect for history. FFS, I've long supported the cause of press freedom and the rights of the free-lance photogrpaher. I don't like paying for stuff either. ARRRGHH FFSFSFSFSFSF.

O'Grady was good.

The post I said was silly was the one in which you said we would have beaten Swindon and Rochdale if Pardew was in charge. Seeing as yesterday was a carbon copy of the two home league games we had under Pardew I pointed out that was a silly observation. It was also silly because: a) it was worded in the absolute - as Deppo has explained to you that makes it virtually meaningless as a valid viewpoint as it just ignores the vicissitudes of reality; and b) the reason we didn't win yesterday was because people on our team missed easy chances. It doesn't matter who the manager is if players blaze easy chances from five yards over the bar.

Connolly played pretty well IMO. When he plays we play nicer football as he demands it to feet. Unfortunately he looked a bit rusty in front of goal. Yesterday was so frustrating; so many "nearlys" - we actually played fine.

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.