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Nah I don't believe that at all. You could tell he loved his time here and whenever he's interviewed he says nothing but positivity towards us. So? I'm sure that Ba did enjoy his time, but so what? It doesn't void my point. In fact, if you think back to Ba's comments upon signing for Chelsea ("I've made it"), you could see that they guy is hugely ambitious and wanted to sign for a top club that have a genuine chance of winning something. It doesn't necessarily mean that he didn't enjoy his time here or thought of us negatively.

ridiculous, he stated theres more chance of the opponents scoring in that 70 mins if you attack them, simple fact, and in this scenario that would have ended the game by half time. People are just making things up. This. Re your point of if HBA had scored that shot- Some of us here have been saying for a while that we can't keep-on relying on individual brilliance to get us out of jail. Last night showed exactly why. And yet you were satisfied enough? As HTT said, some of those that are making these pathetic excuses deserve the s*** that have been thrown at their faces this season. Feel very sorry for the likes of yourself and HTT that you couldn't enjoy a night and be proud of the team after that tbh. If you can't put an agenda against a manager aside after a tie where we came across a better and more experienced European team then I pity you. Proud of that performance? What.... all 15-20 minutes of pressure? (Probably not even that.) Yeah.... dead proud. I don't have an agenda against Pardew. In fact, this was my final straw with him. I was happy to be patient and give him the benefit of the doubt all season. It was only last night that I completely lost all faith in him...... and you say I have an agenda? I feel sorry for the likes of you who clearly forgot what it was like for a Newcastle side, especially at SJP, to give European oppositions a real game. Go and put on a DVD of SBR's era, will you. Where did I say proud of the performance? Then what should we be proud of? Pardewganda has truly gotten into you.

ridiculous, he stated theres more chance of the opponents scoring in that 70 mins if you attack them, simple fact, and in this scenario that would have ended the game by half time. People are just making things up. This. Re your point of if HBA had scored that shot- Some of us here have been saying for a while that we can't keep-on relying on individual brilliance to get us out of jail. Last night showed exactly why. And yet you were satisfied enough? As HTT said, some of those that are making these pathetic excuses deserve the s*** that have been thrown at their faces this season. Feel very sorry for the likes of yourself and HTT that you couldn't enjoy a night and be proud of the team after that tbh. If you can't put an agenda against a manager aside after a tie where we came across a better and more experienced European team then I pity you. Proud of that performance? What.... all 15-20 minutes of pressure? (Probably not even that.) Yeah.... dead proud. I don't have an agenda against Pardew. In fact, this was my final straw with him. I was happy to be patient and give him the benefit of the doubt all season. It was only last night that I completely lost all faith in him...... and you say I have an agenda? I don't feel sorry for the likes of you who clearly forgot what it was like for a Newcastle side, especially at SJP, to give European oppositions a real game. Go and put on a DVD of SBR's era, will you.

No.... he wanted to play for a club that have high standards and actually give winning trophies a real go.

ridiculous, he stated theres more chance of the opponents scoring in that 70 mins if you attack them, simple fact, and in this scenario that would have ended the game by half time. People are just making things up. This. Re your point of if HBA had scored that shot- Some of us here have been saying for a while that we can't keep-on relying on individual brilliance to get us out of jail. Last night showed exactly why. And yet you were satisfied enough? As HTT said, some of those that are making these pathetic excuses deserve the shit that have been thrown at their faces this season.

Completely agree. We scrapped through. There was not one point during the tournament where we looked like contenders.

Dinamo Moscow v CSKA Moscow on ESPN right now.

He's definitely put-on more muscle in the quads area. Arms look thicker as well. I'm sure he's been doing a bit of deadlifting....

Bayern to win it. (Said it at the start of last season's CL as well as this.)

Bayern-Barca....... one hell of a clash.

if he's here long enough.

Not giving them something to think about for the first 45 minutes is something that I would consider as a huge f***-up..... more so when you you're 3-1 down from the first leg. Cowardly. Simple as. Trying to protect the average defence he had out, keep us in the tie, then go for it when he had two of his big players coming off the bench who could damage them very nearly worked. 89th minute, if HBA cuts in and smashes that shot into the top corner then Pardew's played the perfect game imo. You're thinking like Pardew now, that's your problem. He's gotten into you. Benfica were very clever first 10-15 minutes. They kept the ball well, took the sting out of us and the crowd. They're a better side than us and any hopes of us getting at them from the start were denied. If we'd just went all guns blazing, they'd have picked us off and it would have been dead and buried by about 20-30 minutes. As it was, the way we set out, and the changes we made second-half and way we played, took us to within a goal of winning it really. What sting? We never had it in the first place, for goodness sake. It was our usual cautious, flat start. Once again, no one here (Or I certainly wasn't) advocating going out "all guns blazing". I don't buy all this crap about "had it not being for HBA firing over the bar" etc, that was probably our only "missed opportunity" since we scored the goal. You make it sound as if we've battered them all 2nd half but, in fact, it was for no more than a 15-20 minutes spell that we put them under any real pressure. Is that good enough? Maybe if you're at Reading, West Ham, Charlton and Southampton, I would say!

Not giving them something to think about for the first 45 minutes is something that I would consider as a huge f***-up..... more so when you you're 3-1 down from the first leg. Cowardly. Simple as. Trying to protect the average defence he had out, keep us in the tie, then go for it when he had two of his big players coming off the bench who could damage them very nearly worked. 89th minute, if HBA cuts in and smashes that shot into the top corner then Pardew's played the perfect game imo. You're thinking like Pardew now, that's your problem. He's gotten into you.

We had a good 15-20 mins. (Since HBA came on until we lost a bit of momentum towards the end) Not even one good half.

Not giving them something to think about for the first 45 minutes is something that I would consider as a huge fuck-up..... more so when you you're 3-1 down from the first leg. Cowardly. Simple as.

A "valiant" effort that lasted for only around 15-20 mins. Yeah, so proud.

Not sure they excuse that cross like, if Cabaye is unhappy about us creating enough he really shouldn't waste the rare opportunity we get like that When did I say or imply that? I was on about not having players ahead of him that are constantly troubling their markers with runs and movement. In other words, not playing in a tactical system that encourages a little bit of pass and move football...... or even passing the ball along the ground! It's all this diagonal, hopeful ball bollocks.

AVB took the Europa League seriously from day one, and fair play to him for that. Not sure how they were unprepared. They lost in a penalty shoot-out.... end of.

Adebayor scored in his last game.... he's not that consistent, mate. He couldn't even score a penalty.

Fucks-up when he wants.

This.

Pardew's tactics doesn't help, mind.

This sums it up completely. We scored our goal tonight through as bad a defending.