Legod Third Coming

No, they don't celebrate Xmas in those Muslim states...

This is a nonsense. You start an argument I didn't make. You then say we wasted the start of the season. Repair the damage??? Sorry mate, you've lost me. The start of the season was not damage in my view. It was the manager doing what he should have been able to do in pre-season. Therefore you judged that he was failing to deliver. In my view he wasn't. He was simply working out who could play, who couldn't, what he needed, where and to do what. All things he put right in six weeks, while still maintaing decent results. What was he supposed to do, make those assessments by commentating on United v Chelsea for FiveLive?? When you can name the other managers who started work a week before the season started managing a team that were a fortnight from going bust and have now won four on the spin, lost only three games and are the third highest scorers in their league, let me know...

Fifteen million and a Yorkie. There ladies is the definition of an ungrateful barsteward.

I don't recall anyone saying give him two seasons regardless of results. If people did, then they're bonkers - I agree with you 100%. However, calling into question the surgeon's results when he still has his gloves on and his hands massaging the patient's heart is also bonkers, in my opinion. It took two months (that being the missing pre-season) for our squad to come together. All the evidence was there that the new manager had a grip on the issues and was working hard to put them right. In my view (and yes that's the beauty of opinions!) it wasn't hard to see that results would come because of the actions the management team were taking. Fear is one thing, faith another but all we needed was a little patience and trust. You could employ someone today and call them into question over their results at 11am, but I wonder whether that would really be fair? Or productive? So, in the end it's your judgement about when you can start to question results. Is seven games sufficient to judge a manager? I don't believe it is, you may. You would agree (I hope) that results haven't turned around. We only lost three games despite playing top half sides, and the manager established during that period where the weaknesses were and worked quickly to address them. What we're seeing is wonderful because it is the result of hard work behind the scenes to get the right players, playing the right way. That cannot happen overnight. Tbh I'm surprised it came together as quickly as it did. And for the record I was not one of those 'survival' will be ok merchants. My money is at least where my mouth is having backed us for promotion and to win the league!! (Which I confess may also make me bonkers!)

It's all ifs and buts though isn't it? We might have been a Championship club under the wondership of Ali Baba from down the road... Luckily we have a new owner who seems to have his head screwed on, a new Chief Exec who seems to be virilently ambitious but wise enough to back his Manager's judgement and a Manager who has the strength to ignore the plonkers from the cheap seats and get on with his job. Long may it continue!!

Hallelujah... It was so obvious at the time Pardew arrived we were a cardiac patient fresh from yet another attack - almost fecking fatal. But no, some people expected us to leap off the operating table (before the surgeon had even taken a look) and into top gear there and then.. They refused to acknowledge that we needed MAJOR SURGERY. That surgery took time to effect and time to heal. It took about eight/ten games. We are now healed and in rehabilitation and guess what? The surgery is working. To talk of 'turnaround' is b u ll sh i t of the highest order. We turned nothing around. We were sick and we're getting better with the addition of a good manager and some terrific new players. Football really is very, very simple. Like some of the fans it seems...

Be careful if you do. Bookies will not always lay football trebles based around the same team. For example, Chelsea's odds to win the league, cup and Champs League are not the same as if you wanted to back them for the treble. Personally, I thnk it's a disgrace. They are three separate events and should be considered as such, but you'll probbaly find they are something like 20/1 for a bet that should be 150/1 or more! Personally, I think the Champions title is at the achievable but fecking hard end of the scale. The JPT we could win. The FA Cup we need the gods to be very kind to us with the draw.... (My own money is down at 18/1 promotion and 150/1 Champions - these bets went on after the Charlton game when I could see the writing on the wall). And I make it: 300 x 10 = 3000 3010 x 7.5 = 22,575 22,575 +10 x 50 = 1,129,250 so you might have to forego the Honda...

Mate, you are no odds compiler... 300 x 10 = 3000 Plus your tenner on at 15/2 - that's seven a half times your £3010 x 50.... Or is that one of those crap deals where the bookie says you can't have a proper treble because the three odds are interlinked?? I hate it when they do that, because the real odds there should earn you about £1.5m for your Ayrton!!

He was very good then, but it was wasted because we couldn't finish a ham sandwich and had all the fight of an Italian/French infantry battallion..

I said it would take ten games. Feck me, I have never been that accurate about anything before!!!

He was superb last season and then was badly injured, from which he didn't really recover. But for the first six/eight games of the season before then he played really, really well in a poor, poor team. So, yes, I think you were unlucky. And you have already proven your expectation is too high.

A few misguided individuals thought that. The vast majority thought otherwise, I am sure. Go back six games and we were playing good football but not the finished article. For me, he has played well for two years. His goal against QPR last season was still better than anything he has scored since. He has always been top class but last season he was wasted in a team playing to a flawed plan, under a flawed coach and flawed chairman. Thankfully, all of those things have been put right and we can now see the player Adam is and always has been!

I will be very disappointed if we make the play offs. I have backed us to be Champions, the Chief Exec has targeted winning the league and I expect the team to win every game between now and the end of the season. I assume that winning every game between now and the end of the season would see us Champions? Can anyone clarify this for me?

Why is no one pointing out that before Adam's current contract expires, he could be playing Premiership football for Southampton FC...

I sat next to him once in corporate. Had no idea who he was. Afterwards one of my guests was made up - apaprently a huge NFL fan and couldn't believe Halling was a Saints fan (which I assume he is?). Seemed like a very decent fella to me. Good voice for football too - much better than that Peter Drury who I hate!!!

There is nothing wrong with the Coca Cola. It comes in a bottle direct from the factory, thus preventing the caterers from messing with it... It also contains considerably more caffeine than the coffee. It probably contains more coffee than the coffee...

The massive difference DD is that Pardew saw what was wrong and fixed it. Burley lost a striker and two top quality defenders and insisted on replacing everyone who left with a fecking midfielder. It did my head in. Totally did my head in and that Palace game at the start of the season proved what a shyte manager he was. Because it was there for all to see, all pre-season. (When Alps was totally spot on, irritatingly!) Burley would take something that wasn't broke and break it. Pardew came in, looked around, saw what was wrong and fixed it. No prolific striker - signed one (now two). No CBs with any height and bulk - signed two. No pace - signed some. No midfield leader - signed Hammond. Not only that but Morgan, James and Lallana are now playing like seasoned pros. I was a bit underwhelmed when Pardew signed. But from day one if you listened you could tell he would be successful. Yes, he has had some money but that is no guarantee of success. Look at the seven million Burley spunked away, taking us down with him. Pratt.

Mate, you advocated keeping a bloke who took us down. Why not accept you might be wrong and the manager might be right?? I'm always happy to admit when I am wrong. Try it some time, it's very cathartic...

OK.. "OI. P A P A. Y-O-U A-R-E O-F-F-S-I-D-E. Comprendez??"

You see, we're winning, winning well and you want change??? It is not required. Goals for last three home league games... goals against... That was the third best team in the league and we beat them. We always looked like we could step up a gear. We did. We despatched them. In the end, quite comfortably. Your job is not to question the manager right now, but to go along, relax, sing your heart out. Celebrate. Go home. Have sex. Get drunk. Go to bed. Leave the manager in peace. I know for five years that has been hard and nigh on impossible. But he knows what he's doing, unlike many of the last occupants of the role. Chill and enjoy.

After years of concentrating on everything but the first team, I would happily drink my own p!55 if we win every week.

Probably testing it... I once saw him in a McLaren F1 but that wasn't his either!!!! Mind you, it was then on Top Gear with him at the wheel doing about a hundred down that road from Lavant to Cheriton near Goodwood.

Tbh, when Connolly came on I didn't notice any change in formation. Connolly was playing miles in front of Lambert. But what was apparent, was the better use of the ball by Antonio who really put the fear of God into their left back! The first half yesterday I didn't think we were outplayed. I thought we looked lethargic and not quite at the races as the two systems cancelled each other out because midfield was so congested. But when we played Charlton the opposite was true and the congested midfield created space for players like Lambert and Lallana. I think what you have to be satisfied with is that we have a manager who sees the game and changes things for the better. If we'd started 4-4-2 yesterday and MK had overrun us in midfield and scored three goals, people who have been back calling for Pardew's head... Untile he starts losing regularly I will defer to the fact that he is a better judge than anyone on here!!! Including me by some distance.

Was he offside for the goal? I assume he was but couldn't see.

They are whatever the manager has drilled - Diamond, Xmas tree, who gives a monkey's? People on here seem to think that 4-4-2 is the only route to succcess. Strange, but I don't see Fergie, Wenger, Ancelotti, Capello,... that hung up on it?? Apparently playing a defensive system we scored 10 goals in three games. Chill out. Relax. We are winning football matches. The manager knows what he is doing. For a change!