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Remy's noticeably on the slide, imo. In a month's time, it'll be that typical phrase: "he's just not that good" that gets Pardew off the hook again.

Oh wait, so I was right! Thought so cos when they came back from the replays he was on screen and I abandoned all hope.

Edited to say exactly the same.

Sammy came on at 2-1. Thought you'd have your facts all perfect. EDIT: no he didn't, now I'm taking bollocks. Can't believe he was on the field for twenty minutes, Jesus. Definition of ineffectual, honestly thought he'd popped up for the last five. Shola has always been Pardew's go-to negative change, enables us to sit deeper and kick it longer.

Shola for Gouffran? Nah Shola for Remy mate. "Not a negative change"

TF:

That combination of letters has literally never been said before on the internet.

I wouldn't care but he never even got injured in the first place, he got suspended for being a dickhead at Man City. Presumably he crocked himself being a dickhead in his spare time.

"Avoiding relegation is what's left. We're no bigger than Sunderland really." - Ian W (aka WUM I AM)

"re-injured" If only we'd known about him being injury prone before the season began. More bad luck! I've never willingly missed a home game when I've been in the country since March 2003. Hadn't thought about not going and nearly bought my tickets last night, but not now. This will be my first. Small steps.

Interviews with players/managers and transfer exclusives, plus pushing club merchandise through the papers, which drive up their sales (do you do that in UK?). Madrid and Barça very effectively use those to beat their local press into submission. They certainly don't get any transfer exclusives, and the interviews consist almost entirely of Steven Taylor saying "We'll do it for the fans", no merchandising stuff. I can't see any benefit that the paper gets from it honestly, yes the NUFC coverage is a big selling point of the paper but real journalists shouldn't need interviews with players to manage decent coverage. I can't think of anything more boring than reading a local rag interview with a player.

Beaten by effort and percentage football. Fucking embarrassing. Goal aside, and that had a lot of fortune about it, we barely troubled the keeper either. Pathetic. We completely sank to their level, any competent side who move the ball quickly would have embarrassed them, the way they were flying into tackles and running after everything. Pardew's never been able to exploit the gaping holes left by sides that play that way, he prefers to attempt to go toe-to-toe but hasn't got the personnel to do it.

He was there days after we got rid of Hughton if memory serves. Nobody gives a fuck, man. The Milburn part where he sits is full of the worst of the worst in cowards, and folk who simply couldn't give two shits that we lost to Sunderland again.

while sacking Pardew does nothing to solve the other major issues. Best case scenario if he's sacked some uninspiring mate of JFK's sits in the dugout and same shit all over again same complaints. Worst case scenario its JFK himself which is a rather unbearable prospect. All the while no investment no change to transfer policy no change to ambition. Changing the manager is the only thing we can realistically hope for though, isn't it. Ashley's not going anywhere, Kinnear is his mate and we're clearly not going to be revamping the squad. People are quite obviously focussing on the most expendable part of the system. I get why but simply put its just not a POV I share, managing any premier league side is a hard job, managing this club in particular under Mike Ashley is considerably more difficult than any other job out there so I will always have a sympathetic view. Very odd stance to take. You will "always" have a sympathetic view? So he'll deserve to keep his job regardless of how poor he is at it? I know this is an easy jibe to take but I suspect it's a lot easier to take derby defeats on a regular basis when you don't have to go to work and sit next to the horrible bastards in about eight hours time.

Exactly. It's like saying a political journalist can only do his job if he is able to follow MPs round the commons, tittering at their jokes and writing down their cliches.

Do the local press need the club, really? I'm not so sure. I think saying that is an easy get-out clause that lets them get away with printing nothing but dull quotes rather than doing any actual journalism.

I think he's at the stage where, like his employer, he just does and says things that he knows will piss off the supporters. He hates us, anyone with sense hates him and he wants his payoff.

Cos Pardew's really suave and that.

Pardew's fans will suck anything he waves at them. Don't know if it's his suits or his hair but certain people want him to stay in a job far more than anything else that might happen at the club, including winning a derby game.

He was, and in a month he'll be on the fans' shitlist with Cisse, Sissoko et al. He's a very good player but not good enough to avoid being Pardewed given long enough - I'm not sure anybody is.

This. What makes it even worse is they looked dead on there feet after 70 mins or so It's been a trait of the mackems' season that once they concede, they collapse. Unfortunately that tends to require the other team to attempt to put a foot on their throat, whereas when we scored, we helped them up, apologised and promised not to do it again. Spot on. Didn't think we even really deserved the equaliser tbh but once it went in they were the very definition of a team there for the taking, they had completely shot their bolt. Unfortunately we seemed to think a point would actually be quite nice and made no discernible effort to go on and finish the job. We willingly removed the bloke who has 50% of our premier league goals from the pitch with 20 minutes to go ffs. Not only removed him but replaced him with Shola who hasn't played since August. Everyone in the pub was cheering like mad when Remy was subbed for Shola, people are mental Were you in the same pub as me?

This. What makes it even worse is they looked dead on there feet after 70 mins or so It's been a trait of the mackems' season that once they concede, they collapse. Unfortunately that tends to require the other team to attempt to put a foot on their throat, whereas when we scored, we helped them up, apologised and promised not to do it again. Spot on. Didn't think we even really deserved the equaliser tbh but once it went in they were the very definition of a team there for the taking, they had completely shot their bolt. Unfortunately we seemed to think a point would actually be quite nice and made no discernible effort to go on and finish the job. We willingly removed the bloke who has 50% of our premier league goals from the pitch with 20 minutes to go ffs. Not only removed him but replaced him with Shola who hasn't played since August.

This. What makes it even worse is they looked dead on there feet after 70 mins or so It's been a trait of the mackems' season that once they concede, they collapse. Unfortunately that tends to require the other team to attempt to put a foot on their throat, whereas when we scored, we helped them up, apologised and promised not to do it again.

He'd already faded into obscurity before he got it.