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Sacked due to concerns over poor staff morale (good team spirit and morale being just about the only thing that's been holding this club together at times over the past few years.)

Pardew isn't even a sideways step from Hughton, it's a step down. Would any club have picked him over Hughton if given the straight choice on Sunday?

Ketsbia would be pretty high up if I had to rank the names mentioned so far by order of preference.

Although obviously I'm begging for it to be someone like Jol and not Pardew, the way I feel at the moment, I can't see light at the end of the tunnel no matter who it is. Good manager: Wants to progress with the club, wants transfer funds, doesn't want backroom staff comprised entirely of Ashley's mates, refuses to let Ashley micro-manage the team, too much self respect to stick around being shat on, leaves after 3 months and we end up in the wilderness again. Bad manager: Just happy to have the job, doesn't care about what the fans think, not enough dignity to walk away, plods on for shit result after shit result saying we're about to turn a corner.

He'll be slurring his words by the time he gets here.

Ashley's used to running businesses where he has the final say on absolutely everything, if a subordinate doesn't want another of his employees as his assistant or won't let him micromanage their work, he kicks them out and considers that strong and effective leadership.

I'm not the only one daydreaming about assembling a rifle in the east stand and picking him off then? That an a load of hooligans dragging him half naked into the centre circle...

Jol quitting is great timing for Mike, mans Pardew's odds suddenly shorten and he can lump even more money on.

Pardew doesn't care if fans think he's a cunt any more than Ashley does.

And he scored so many guuuurrrrls

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6559233,00.html Although it seems a bit like they're basing the article off old quotes.

http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/4976/capturek.jpg

Hope and expect his first game in charge would be 90 minutes of being pelted with coins and bottles of piss.

Just feel like it doesn't matter. At some point they'll get sick of "Oh, by the way, it's my godson's birthday and I'm a bit short, so his present is that he gets to be your assistant manager for a year. let him pick the team now and then, yeah? Oh, and some lad at the golf club's in a bit of trouble and owes some agents a favour, they've got this Namibian wonderkid they can't shift cos he's got white hair and crows feet. It's medical. Anyway, he's your £3m buy this year so you've got 500,000k left. He's starting up front tomorrow, and make sure Smithy gets a full 90 mins and everyone knows he's our pen taker. He's me fantasy captain and I've got Derek in the head to head this week and the loser has to snort Sir Bobby's ashes."

That's good to know, because you'd need to be a bit of a cunt to take this job after the way Hughton's been booted out, which might be why Alan Pardew, a man who would shag his best mate's dying gran and wipe his cock on the curtains, is in the frame.

If the players think pedro had a hand in Chris going, are they even going to play for him against the bindippers?

:jol:

Sky Sports poll http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/9670/captureeu.jpg

skysports.com's take http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6557604,00.html

Was a strange feeling having a nice guy as the public face of the club instead of us being everyone's least favourite bunch of cunts, never seemed real so I guess it couldn't last.

Can we please have someone running this club whose sole priority isn't giving jobs to their mates no matter what the cost?

So a keegan and wise sequel.

Is Ashley worse than Freddy yet? What else does he have to do before we'd welcome back fat oaf number 1?

If this goes down in rewritten history as "Stupid deluded geordies got on Hughton's back because he didn't have them top half by Christmas and got their just deserts" I'm going to choke a cunt.

Make a change to what? I'd probably look at if I could attract anyone who would do better with this groups of lads, come to the conclusion, no, not really, and stick with it.