Author Profile - Archie Brand ( 18 Posts )

2 Seasons ago with an unheard of number of clean sheets, man of the match performances, and one man shows, Tim singlehandedly took us to Europe. OK , he may have used 2 hands at times, but I’m sure you get the point.

At that time he was heroic week in and week out, and our defence was then, as today, reminiscent of a box full of wind up penguins waddling around the box, at best just getting in the way of people.

What happened to our ambition? It’s called learning from your mistakes and Expectation Management.

Yes – we only got one loanee over the line in the summer but in January we chartered and filled a full carriage one way on the Eurostar.

Ashley has probably sat with JFK and Pardew and they have decided that with Remy on board and a few of the other players a little more settled, we can get through to January without being relegated.

Again, Mike probably hasn’t figured out yet that you can only be relegated at the end of the season, but that has to be a good thing surely.

On the one hand we have Kinnear and Pardew trying to convince us that our squad is currently strong enough and deep enough to finish top 10 in the EPL, while on the other we clearly struggled against a side sitting in 19th place in the old 4th Division.

My ongoing admiration for Tiote continues. I was tempted to just completely ignore anything that happened after 3-0 as the conditions were not typical, but he got mugged a couple of times in the second half, but that said it was probably 3 times less than the other players wearing Black and White.

But like the wet leaves and the wrong kind of snow, we get caught every year with the same thing.

Ideally we would have the same person doing the job long enough to learn from their mistakes. Oooh! I’m sure there’s a name for that….. errr…. ah yes…. stability!

Think of the career progression possibilities that Harford is passing up. Driving Miss Daisy, then on to maybe polishing the boots or delivering the pies, or even running around the training centre delivering messages to Pards.

I’d guess that those with good persuasive powers don’t need to be noisy or ‘gobby’.

Loud and obnoxious people tend to end up standing in the corner on their own, or leaving early, often on their back.

A tad off the mark I fear. In the same video available on Youtube you can clearly hear the kids asking him if he’s going to Fulham, then another asks if he’s going to Newcastle.

He responds with, “we’ll see”, having previously told the kids he’ll be, “out of here in the next few days”.

If this really is a matter of principle based purely on the concept of interest (which we have already challenged) then I would assume that when he leaves Cisse will not go to another team in the BARCLAYS Premier League, because as far as I can tell, those buggers are still charging me interest on my mortgage.