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I'd love to be proved wrong btw. I'd like nothing better than to go there and knock 4 or 5 past them playing really good, attacking football. Every single person would benefit from thrashing the poor twats but I've got zero faith in it happening. The fear and negativity he shows in his interviews comes through when he picks his team, decides the tactics and makes his changes. That's not going to change.

This is exactly what we should do, unfortunately the manager simply doesn't grasp the concept of building confidence by scoring goals. "...not going to underestimate them, they deserve respect and we'll give them it because they've earned it. Coming here is a tough prospect for a team like us, believe me. They'll be up for it and we need to be organised and handle the pressure they'll put us under." You reckon every other Premier League manager (who have ties against a lower league side) won't say the same, like? Are they all going to come out and deliberately undermine their opposition, guaranteeing a comfortable victory? Showing a bit of tact in public to Morecambe is one thing. Problem is he seems to transmit this to his players and the performance reflects this. Smart managers do the respect thing in public but are telling their players to go out and rub their noses in it, Pardew doesn't seem to do that. That's the difference imo.

This is exactly what we should do, unfortunately the manager simply doesn't grasp the concept of building confidence by scoring goals. "...not going to underestimate them, they deserve respect and we'll give them it because they've earned it. Coming here is a tough prospect for a team like us, believe me. They'll be up for it and we need to be organised and handle the pressure they'll put us under."

Remember when we poached Souness from Blackburn as he was on the brink of getting sacked? Let's hope Palace are just as fucking stupid to re[eat the same trick.

Was about 3 or 4 yards wide and never on target. Certainly wasn't over, not that it matters like because it never went in.

I nearly burst when he kicked the ball out of play when the West Ham lad went down. Fucking unbelievable.

Sky obviously sniff an upset. They clearly think Newcastle can full off a shock win.

If he's refusing to play then the club should be refusing to pay him imo. It's a big 'if' though as we know the spin and lies that come out of this club. Suppose it's beyond the realms of possibility for him to submit a transfer request if he's that unhappy though? Thought not...

The only thing that more mental than starting with this useless wanker is leaving him on for the entire 90. He's a fucking mill-stone.

As a spectacle that was fucking dross. The first half was atrocious, from both teams, proper basic level, off-the-cuff football with no pattern or flow. Second half was a little better from us, bit of urgency and a bit more movement and possession. It was still a pile of shit but someone had sprinkled a bit of glitter on it. Thought Ben Arfa did well, looked lively, Coloccini is still a very good player, both FBs got involved and overlapped and there was a definite improvement. However, we're crippled by the lack of movement at CF. Shola gives you virtually nothing, he's shot after 20 minutes of each half and was struggling to even get in the box towards the end of the game. Play develops on the wing and the crosser looks up and has to pick out 1, maybe 2 NUFC shirts with about 6 or 7 opposition players to avoid. The rest are just watching cross after cross get cut out and cleared. Still causing no threat whatsoever at set pieces, still losing men when defending balls into the box too. It was a little better but we're crying out for 2 new CFs. No shots on target in 3 hours says it all. Could easily have lost that today.

Shola's been the last resort for a while now. The substitute you throw on for 15 minutes if you're chasing a goal and everything else hasn't worked. Not got a problem with him coming off the bench purely as a last resort when you've got nothing to lose but to start him, bearing in mind he can't play for more than 20 minutes, is brutal. It's 2013 and after 1 game we're resorting to starting Shola in a Premier League fixture. This is the best we can do folks, he's fucking wank and we're unwilling to invest in better. It fucking stinks, man.

Can see it getting a bit unpleasant if we go behind early. Never really kicked off in the stands last season, as shit as we were, but don't think it will take too much atm.

Never ceases to amaze me how so many of our crowd are unable to go for 2 hours without eating. These fucking fat bastards have every opportunity to eat before or after the game they've paid to see but they choose to fucking gorge themselves during the fucker instead. The fucking fat pigs should be thrown out.

He looks spangled.

Clearly Wyoming to fit in with Andrew and gorilla.

Shirts are a cracking idea.

BASIS LOCOMOTIVE DOWEL

Change your name. I really need to speak to the powers that be about that, makes me angry every time I log in. Speak.

If anyone knows it should be you tbh.

Was that not Belhanda? He's at Kiev Meh, same thing. 520miles Whatever. It's the Soviet abyss.

Was that not Belhanda? He's at Kiev Meh, same thing.

Was that not Belhanda?

Honestly can't see Ashley accepting a smaller sponsorship deal. He's all about money and getting value and giving up a £10m per year deal to sign a £6m a year deal is just barmy. We all know he's a cunt but where a financial deal is there to be made then he's right on the button.

Looks like he's trying to retrieve a pube from the back of his throat the minging wanker.