The thought of that smug twat Pardew with his highly punchable face relegating them as we stroll to promotion makes my tummy tingle.
What goes around...
Looking at their next 6 league fixtures, they either pick up a load of points from them or they're gone. H) HuddersfieldA) WatfordH) LeicesterA) BournemouthH) BurnleyA) Swansea
We know the feeling. When you are at the bottom, 1 win in 24, every game, irrespective of the opposition feels daunting. They're confidence must be absolutely shot, and if Sturridge was recruited to be the saviour, him going off after a couple of minutes will have crushed their spirit.
Quote from: Des Little on February 12, 2018, 10:25:41 PMWhat goes around...It's been coming for some time with them. They've stuck with the same ageing group of players for years and have added a few more ageing players to boot. It will need something a bit special to get out of the situation they now find themselves in and could well struggle next season in the Championship unless they have a massive clear out.
Am I the only one who looks at that Boggies squad and thinks that actually they shouldn’t be anywhere near adrift at the bottom of that league? They’ve got no superstars but in Foster, Evans, that Polish bloke who’s on loan from PSG and diving Rodriguez up front they’d appear to have a decent spine there. They’ve also got some reliable fodder around that, players like Barry and Brunt and Morrison who aren’t brilliant but are sort of steady and consistent, they've got some classic oafish centre-half support and they’ve got a bit of pace in Phillips and Burke. They’re not a young squad but they’re not that ancient, and in this situation you’d think that experience would count for something. Look at our relegation squad in comparison and it’s no wonder we plummeted, with our ragbag assortment of over-the-hill couldn’t-be-arsed wasters, unknown French kids and Championship punts. There was barely any proven quality in there. Don’t get me wrong, the Bitters are clearly bollocks and you’d have to pay me handsomely to go and watch them, but on paper they look at least as strong as some of the other teams down there. Surely it can only be dreadful management that has them cut adrift like that. Which is an enormous shame, of course. Haha.
I’ve got a feeling that Swansea game is at home as I seem to remember them losing away to Swansea in Pardews first game?