Wullie

Rob Lee recently said on the True Faith podcast that he was praying for us to lose the derby because he knew Gullit would go. This moral high ground stuff of "you should never want your own team to lose" is canny pathetic really. Here in the real world, things aren't as black and white as all that. I want Newcastle to win more than they lose and that involves getting rid of Alan Pardew as soon as possible. Quite funny watching Happy Face backpedal furiously about the man whose praises he has sung almost endlessly despite absolutely hating him (honest Guv!).

"We need to run faster, and jump higher"

Football journalism on that sort of scale is more or less completely worthless. There's far too many complexities within individual clubs for some dickheads from London who watched MOTD and whose careers depend upon perpetuating a culture of four or five mega clubs with everyone else making up the numbers and to be grateful to be allowed to play on the same grass as a grand famous club like Manchester City, to be able or willing to offer any sort of worthwhile opinion. Don't let yourself be wound up or influenced by it, just turn it off and don't read it. Sunday Supplement ffs. Why would you waste a single second of your life watching that?

We could have had an easy draw in any one of the last four years but we chose to forfeit instead. We can hardly complain about getting difficult cup draws after the p*ss easy ones we've had. They'd have to be real mugs to lose to Brighton though tbf. How much is club mentality, and manager mentality? Di Canio was minutes away from sending them out at the first stage, a manager has came in and given it a go despite their league predicament and it's paying dividends. I know the club openly said "top 10 the priority", but who's to say if we'd sacked Pardew and appointed a manager with the mindset of Poyet that we'd not have given it a real go? My hatred of Pardew is growing by the fucking day. Tomato, tomato. Pardew's line is the club's line: we can't succeed so don't bother trying.

We could have had an easy draw in any one of the last four years but we chose to forfeit instead. We can hardly complain about getting difficult cup draws after the piss easy ones we've had. They'd have to be real mugs to lose to Brighton though tbf.

Hype? Isn't he just a mad radgee?

Canny easy to say you don't care if the squad is strengthened until a later date when you've absolutely zero intention of paying for a ticket at any point in your existence. Absolute knacker.

Internationalist?

Righto. I'll follow my own advice and fuck off. I'm off down Neutrinos-Online.org to act like a complete arsehole for giggles.

Arsene Wenger won the Premier League title in his first full season because he's one of the all time great managers. You're attempting to argue that keeping the manager that we found round the back of the League One bins is us attempting to "do an Arsenal". Go and find something else to do ffs. Is this all there is to do in Croatia, wind people up on an random internet forum? Fuck me, cross it off the potential destinations list. I'm utterly embarrassed for you.

And there you go again which is it? Spend money and get champions league /league placing or not. You talk so much drivel man, if we spent man city money we'd be in the champions league. Just as they are, and Chelsea We don't have the option to spend that much money. Let me rephrase then: "...no matter how much of OUR money we spent without totally f***ing ourselves over" our money as in solely income generated by the club, any point Ashely being here then? We DO have the option we just choose not to. How is it hard for you to grasp, bottom 4 net spend over the past 5 years Us/Everton/Arsenal/Spurs. Er... yeah. 4 clubs being run quite well then, in terms of transfers, and they've all done quite well, without making enormous leaps and bounds or having a full-on tilt at the title. In that time our squad has improved loads. What's your point? Ashley isn't there to pump loads of his own money in and have a cheeky tilt at the title no matter what the cost. Nor is Levy, nor is Kenwright. They're there to run the club as a business, so that it progresses. That is how you run a football club. Jesus wept man, I can't believe you actually think that last sentence. Football must be so s*** for you. And that's utter toss about them not having a tilt at the title. And even so I was talking about CL that you said was impossible for us. You constantly contradict yourself, seemingly obsessed with balance sheets/profit margins/. Levy hasn't put his own money in? Righto It's not s*** for me, cheers. In my ultimate fantasy world, Newcastle would tick along like Arsenal for a bit, be totally self sufficient, break into the top 4 and end up having a go at the league. That's the perfect all-time scenario. When we sell players at a profit and our team gets better for years in a row I think to myself, ooh, if we keep this up we'll have a very good team indeed and it'll be all ours. Well done Newcastle. I don't really like the idea of some guy coming in and showering us with cash so we win more. It'd be nice, but not as nice as the other way. I'm interested in balance sheets and profit margins inasmuch as that's how you do an Arsenal. You have to be making money. I said CL *on a consistent basis* was impossible for us unless we spend absolutely loads. That's true. Am I f*** contradicting myself. do arsenal do that? I just gave you the net spends! I'm done with this anyway it's so tedious Yes, Arsenal make money. And they built what they have now by buying players with good resale value, and selling them at their peak, reinvesting until they had an awesome team without having ploughed loads of someone else's money in. See what I mean? Good grief. Knows as much about football as I do about particle physics. I know it exists, and I know some terms but amongst people who know their stuff, absolutely embarrassing. Describe Arsenal's Wenger-era transfer policy for me if you could Why should I? Do your own research, unless you're planning to teach me particle physics.

And there you go again which is it? Spend money and get champions league /league placing or not. You talk so much drivel man, if we spent man city money we'd be in the champions league. Just as they are, and Chelsea We don't have the option to spend that much money. Let me rephrase then: "...no matter how much of OUR money we spent without totally f***ing ourselves over" our money as in solely income generated by the club, any point Ashely being here then? We DO have the option we just choose not to. How is it hard for you to grasp, bottom 4 net spend over the past 5 years Us/Everton/Arsenal/Spurs. Er... yeah. 4 clubs being run quite well then, in terms of transfers, and they've all done quite well, without making enormous leaps and bounds or having a full-on tilt at the title. In that time our squad has improved loads. What's your point? Ashley isn't there to pump loads of his own money in and have a cheeky tilt at the title no matter what the cost. Nor is Levy, nor is Kenwright. They're there to run the club as a business, so that it progresses. That is how you run a football club. Jesus wept man, I can't believe you actually think that last sentence. Football must be so s*** for you. And that's utter toss about them not having a tilt at the title. And even so I was talking about CL that you said was impossible for us. You constantly contradict yourself, seemingly obsessed with balance sheets/profit margins/. Levy hasn't put his own money in? Righto It's not s*** for me, cheers. In my ultimate fantasy world, Newcastle would tick along like Arsenal for a bit, be totally self sufficient, break into the top 4 and end up having a go at the league. That's the perfect all-time scenario. When we sell players at a profit and our team gets better for years in a row I think to myself, ooh, if we keep this up we'll have a very good team indeed and it'll be all ours. Well done Newcastle. I don't really like the idea of some guy coming in and showering us with cash so we win more. It'd be nice, but not as nice as the other way. I'm interested in balance sheets and profit margins inasmuch as that's how you do an Arsenal. You have to be making money. I said CL *on a consistent basis* was impossible for us unless we spend absolutely loads. That's true. Am I f*** contradicting myself. do arsenal do that? I just gave you the net spends! I'm done with this anyway it's so tedious Yes, Arsenal make money. And they built what they have now by buying players with good resale value, and selling them at their peak, reinvesting until they had an awesome team without having ploughed loads of someone else's money in. See what I mean? Good grief. Knows as much about football as I do about particle physics. I know it exists, and I know some terms but amongst people who know their stuff, absolutely embarrassing.

He doesn't know anything about tactics. He doesn't know anything about football. Stop giving him the attention he craves ffs.

Don't waste your time lads. Might as well discuss the issue with your gran.

tollemache is your classic football know-nowt who thinks that it's all about money and players and that a manager has a minimal effect on proceedings. You'd think Ferguson -> Moyes would have made people like this stop spending their days licking windows and wake up to reality but apparently not. Reminds me of Christmas Tree, just knows the sum of nothing about the game.

Don't know why anyone wastes a single second of their existence arguing with this utter clip.

Reminds me of that Villa game with Gareth Barry putting his last minute penalty over the bar. Entire crowd: "YYYYYYYYYEEESSSsssohfuck's sake..." as the reality of another week of Souness dawned.

I would agree and Saints fans should be fuming about it.

Rather have Eileen Drewery as manager than Pardew.

With any luck Pardew will be gone before season's end anyway. RIP.

This and Rollernonce have absolutely killed me.

Fucking hell, feel like my lungs are going to burst from laughing.