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Good luck finding evidence to that effect. Not sure how you got onto Pardew from claiming that nearly every club in the division would laugh at Coloccini and Yanga-Mbiwa like, but carry on.

You're no more right than you've ever been. Colo and Mapou are both good enough. Admittedly we're never going to agree on this Colo and Mapou would get laughed off the park at almost ever PL club, man. We'll be much better off when we get some proper defenders in the middle. Hopefully MYM will get up to standard in time. Christ you post some unbelievable dross at times but this is up there with the worst. As per usual it's all Pardew's fault the players play like shit and get outpaced by Charlie Adam. None of their responsibility. We get it. You backed Pardew 100% and said he was magnificent. We get it.

Nearly every Premier League club would laugh an Argentinean international and a Ligue 1 title winning captain off the park.

You're no more right than you've ever been. Colo and Mapou are both good enough. Admittedly we're never going to agree on this Colo and Mapou would get laughed off the park at almost ever PL club, man. We'll be much better off when we get some proper defenders in the middle. Hopefully MYM will get up to standard in time. Christ you post some unbelievable dross at times but this is up there with the worst.

Only have to look at Man United to see what a difference a manager can make. Baffles me how people give Pardew a free pass like you say. Everton too. For ten years they've been a very solid, functional good but rather dull team. Mainly the same players still there and a year later they're giving Arsenal (and us) a complete arse-kicking. They've been doing that to us (and a few of the big sides) for years, to be honest. Yeah, no they haven't.

He doesn't seem to have been having unbelievable luck recently. Did you watch today's match? Crouch could have taken two match balls home.

I think we'll beat Swansea, purely and simply because this cunt's unbelievable luck will see us through. A defeat will see SJP the way it should have been since the day he rocked up. My little part of it has been. I reckon the folk who sit near me are sick to death of me calling him a cunt every five minutes. My missus for one.

Only have to look at Man United to see what a difference a manager can make. Baffles me how people give Pardew a free pass like you say. Everton too. For ten years they've been a very solid, functional good but rather dull team. Mainly the same players still there and a year later they're giving Arsenal (and us) a complete arse-kicking.

There's a shitload of football fans who don't understand the importance of a good manager and think it's all down to players. For these people, a manager who doesn't buy the players, like Pardew, basically has a completely free pass for life.

Moan, moan, moan about Remy. This is the bloke that left him and Cabaye out of our FA Cup tie, only for the club to then defend him and justify our exit by claiming "that team was easily good enough to win" CUNT.

Ben. Worked with Pardew at Southampton, and is now Head of Performance Analysis for us. Head of Performance Analysis. He's certainly got an easy job at the minute. He wrote "Absolute fucking garbage" on a Post-It in January and gives it to Pardew every Monday morning.

He doesn't think Newcastle fans are intelligent enough to make up their own mind on his performance. If they're riled, the thick cunts must have read it in the local rag. Didn't bloody get this in Southampton.

He certainly looks like someone who has to watch our games more than once.

BTW Everton made a tiny profit in their last accounts, and a loss the year before, and they have a debt of more than £45m. Are they going bankrupt? Liverpool made a loss of £50m, and have a debt of £114m - that is vastly worse than ours in 2007. Surely they're going to the wall? You can't just post numbers without placing them against the context of other businesses in the same sector - i.e. other Premier League clubs. Looking in isolation as a lay person, they nearly all look fucked - big losses, big debts. In reality, none of them are unless they drop out of the Premier League.

Agree with everything apart 'Mike saved the day' and the club was going down a very poor financial path. Genuinely would like to see how the debt has doubled though. No bullshit or anything. It was around £61m in 2007. It's now £129m.

The loan didn't have to be paid off immediately under Shepherd. Surely you know this? It didn't. The club were going to struggle to meet the repayments though due to profit/loss under Shepherd. Surely you knew this? How do you get from that to bankruptcy?

The loan didn't have to be paid off immediately under Shepherd. Surely you know this?

What was the debt when Ashley took over? That is not pure speculation. Barclays wanted to call the overdraft in, it was common knowledge. Around £61m. "Common knowledge"? You'll have to do better than that. http://www.sportspromedia.com/notes_and_insights/bank_orders_newcastle_united_to_cut_overdraft/ http://www.football.co.uk/newcastle_united/trio_s_exit_vital_to_seal_deal_rss183561.shtml Quick google. That was debts carried over from Shepherd which Ashley paid off by his now infamous 'loan' Don't really know where to start with that tbh. a) the article was published two years after Ashley bought the club. b) it was published when we were in the Championship where obviously the club's ability to pay its debts had become compromised - by Mike Ashley's mismanagement. You can't blame Shepherd for that particular enormous change in circumstance. c) the club accrued a lot of debt upon purchase because of the structure of the loan on the stadium. Again, that comes down to Ashley not doing due diligence and would not have been the case had Shepherd remained. Nobody questions that the finances of the club were looking decidedly ropey at the time. Even Shepherd knew that, which is why he brought in Allardyce, in the hope that he could solidify us enough on a pittance for a couple of years. My objection is to the use of terms like "bankrupt", which is just nonsense. Even Leeds and Portsmouth have never gotten as far as declaring bankruptcy for God's sake, and their financial problems make ours at the time look like owing your mam a fiver.

What was the debt when Ashley took over? That is not pure speculation. Barclays wanted to call the overdraft in, it was common knowledge. Around £61m. "Common knowledge"? You'll have to do better than that.

Of course the debt has doubled under Ashley. Statements like "Barclays were straining at the leash to call in our hefty overdraft" don't help your argument either Thomson Mouse. Pure speculation.

Aye.

I can certainly see why he'd have wanted to stay and strive for 8th.

How in the name of Christ is Sanogo playing for Arsenal man?

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