Wullie

Go on son.

he's basically the summary of the lack of any investment. He's clearly not up to premier league standard on any kind of consistent basis as a striker with only flashes of competence but the unwillingness to actively replace him means he stays around as we need something up front. Now I don't blame him in the slightest for staying I would do the exact same thing in his boots nor will I ever hate him as he seems a nice guy never caused any bother or bad headlines or generally dragged the name of the club down and hating someone because they're bad at football is not a good reason in the slightest. Apart from that time he said he'd been robbed and it turned out he'd left the flat messy. Sums him up really. :lol:

I feel much worse about the club at the moment than I did when we went down, even worse than last season. Just goes to show that the league table isn't everything.

Because he has no idea how to beat Poyet and he's scared of losing to Sunderland game after game, so he reverts to his conservative tactics - keep it tight & hope that one of our flair players can create something out of nothing. Except we're running short on flair players since they're either injured or suspended or we've yet again sold someone without having a replacement lined up and it's a tactic that never works when the opposition press our players quickly (basically doing exactly what we should have been doing from the first minute). That style of tactics clearly don't work with the players we have, as has been demonstrated almost every time he's tried it. He's an utter fool to try it again but he really does not seem to have any other idea of how to set a team up to play. Good post. He basically admitted several times last season that he couldn't win a game without Cabaye. The only time we've ever been able to pass the ball is when he's been on his game. Now he's got four months without him. It's going to be fucking grim.

Brown, O'Shea and Bardsley must be one of the slowest backlines in the history of the Premier League (no idea about Alonso). Very sensible to howk long balls at them. You wouldn't believe it unless you'd seen it for yourself.

All either pitifully tame or into the stand. As you say though, Happy Face will have convinced himself that it means we were brilliant.

Cronky doesn't fancy de Jong but he's spent the best part of ten years telling us that Shola is brilliant.

Pre-match thread was completely prophetic, by and large, other than Brett's drivel including: My missus wanted to put £50 on them to win, why the fuck didn't I just go with it?

He's meeting his performance goals 100%.

It's clear from today and the comments he's been making that the only way he thinks there is of playing without Cabaye is to launch the ball into orbit and I suspect that's what we're going to do from now on. Not sure if he's noticed that there's 19 teams in the league that also don't have Yohan Cabaye.

He won't feature whilst Stevie's available.

Another point worth making is the number of games they've had lately, yet we won't try in the cups in case we're knackered. Their cup form has been a springboard to safety. None of the spineless journalists would dare ask Sir Alan of League One about that though.

Some of the stuff you read on Facebook is incredible like. I tend not to have many clampets on my feed but I see comments on other people's that make me want to weep. Several people have commented on Greg's saying that nobody at the club can take any blame other than the players.

Those flat chipped crosses are embarrassing. He's not the only one who attempts them mind, they're a long standing theme of our game.

Agree. Needs dropping.

We won't get another derby point.

He's on a percentage of transfer profit thought you knew that. Er I do. Some people still seem to linger under the impression that Pardew cries himself to sleep at night when our best players are sold, when what he's actually doing is his ridiculous air-punch round the house.

I don't know how thick someone would have to be to genuinely believe that Pardew is not complicit in the transfer policy. We're talking genuine mental deficiency here.

Why would he be sacked after giving Mike and Joe the opportunity for a fantastic night out? He literally couldn't be doing the job he's employed to do any better to be fair to him. Stay up - check Have enough points in January to be able to sell the best players and not have to buy anyone - check Make a complete mess of any thought of Europe - check Wimp out of the cups - check Make the fans' lives a fucking misery - check

It's been nice of Hollywood to make a movie about Mark Douglas. http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/secret-life-of-walter-mitty-poster.jpg

alexthegreat who thinks Pardew is "the most tactically astute manager Newcastle have ever had" Piss off man.

Quite apart from the derby record, today was our fourth home defeat on the bounce.

Definitely not.

Don't just cancel the DD lads please, you'll regret it.

Aye, Happy Face won't be able to wank over his long ball charts for much longer. Couple of weeks we'll be back to the top of the long ball table because we've lost one player. Sure him and his mates had a canny day though, swings and roundabouts. "We're gonna win 4-3", ah man it's been fucking mint.