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"Relentless, unflinching negativity" it was called by several when I said he was nailed on to go this summer if Pardew kept his job. I've no doubt that the deluded idiots who said that will find some way to defend us selling off our best players and keeping a dinosaur in charge of the team. This is the beginning of a mass exodus in terms of talent - Ben Arfa and Cisse are as good as gone too. Fucking sick. There is literally nothing to look forward to next season. Another relegation dogfight managed by a cunt, he himself employed by a bigger cunt.

Shola, Jonas, Gosling and Perch. Your mates should try and organise a five a side, they'll fucking paste them (as long as they don't invite Ben Arfa).

I'm still dying to know how much finishing and shooting practise we do, as well as coaching Cisse to try and stay onside. If we do any, I'd be extremely surprised.

I for one desperately hope we don't sell Cisse. Some people don't seem to grasp how detrimental a high turnover of players is and think we can just swap players in and out easily as long as they're better than what you've got. Quite apart from the fact that finding a better striker than Cisse would be incredibly difficult, it simply doesn't work like that. He's one of the players we simply cannot lose.

Definitely. Does my head in when you say to someone after a match that Pardew is clueless and they say something like "how is it his fault when he picked the right team?" as if he only comes to work on matchdays. Wish he did like.

Man United are fucked. I'm very confident of this. They'll struggle to finish in the top four.

Pleased for Palace, fair play to them. Went there in the Championship, might go again next year.

Can honestly say I've never watched a potential signing on Youtube since. Utterly pointless.

First game of the season. The great corner I can remember was one played to the edge of the box where Colo was running in to meet it and sent a bullet header toward goal. It was a fabulous set piece, but, unfortunately, didn't result in a goal. Can't remember who it was against or where it was. I think it's as well to have an element of unpredictability with set plays. Opposing defences know that with every free kick inside their half of the field, we're going to launch it to the far post side of the penalty area and hope that one of our centre backs is going to nod it across. They can prepare for it. Inside their half? Inside ours as well.

Spot on.

So put into context it isn't really that negative, fair enough. What was the full quote around 6ft 4" players? "We need to have more dominance in that area and it's all well and good saying the set play problem is down to tactics, delivery or whatever. Ultimately you need 6-foot-4 in this division to go and head it in or at least get first contact on it to head it across the box and we've not had that all year." That's frightening tbh. Just incredible from a Premier League manager.

I think the corner issue is really interesting actually. I think Pardew very much subscribes to the attitude of Joe Public - that the absolute worst sin a corner taker can commit is to hit the first man. I hear very little criticism at the match of the Williamson/Taylor back post floater, in comparison to days of old when an SJP crowd could be raised to boiling point by a couple of corners being headed away at the front post. I won't argue that there's something incredibly frustrating about seeing a corner headed away at that point but quite simply, that's the way to take a corner to average the most goals, to fizz it in, just above the first man's head - think Ben Watson in the cup final, think every corner Laurent Robert ever took. Think Ba vs Wolves! Yes when it goes wrong, it looks fucking abject but this season has almost been an experiment in the alternative, what everyone wants, "make sure you get it in the box". Turns out that's the absolute worst thing you can do.

Ironic people saying that fans should never want their team to lose given that the manager doesn't want to qualify for Europe, and I've never seen a game thrown so blatantly as the last FA Cup tie at Brighton.

The results have done that, the question is why he hasn't been able to reverse it. That's utter bollocks Ian. He's in the press constantly saying that they're all knackered, that they're not good enough to win Game X or Game Y, that the bench are all shit, that the young players are all shit, that we can't compete with *team we're playing today* on and on and on. You just kid yourself that he's actually saying the exact opposite in the dressing room - I suspect that he's not. It's basic human psychology and a self-fulfilling prophecy. The great modern managers go in front of the press and protect their players. Pardew blames his.

Just a shame this couldn't have been put on Pardew's headstone as manager today. I'm particularly galled at feeling like an increasingly tiny club as we go on. Very reluctant to disagree with these as they're obviously very heartfelt opinions. All I would say is that I think the negative nature of this season and the hyper-analysis of every word Pardew says has coloured this debate a bit. He might be an average manager but he's not a complete and utter moron. He's a professional football person, he knows how big Newcastle is and he would clearly want to finish as high up the league as he can. The stuff about Europa league was throwaway, many managers probably think the same but don't say it. I don't have the quotes to hand now but I remember many occasions last season when Pardew said exactly the right things about how 'we are Newcastle' and 'we should go out to try and win every game' and 'I know Newcastle fans want positive attacking football'. All of this is old ground obviously, I would just say that Pardew's (probably limited) ability has been shaken by this horrible season and he has struggled to turn it around. That has manifested partly in him saying some stupid things because he's generally too open in interviews. No real conclusion from this, except that I don't really believe that Pardew is as cowardly as people say. He must want to win every game, give the fans something decent to watch, and finish as high up as possible. The real criticism is whether he has the ability to produce it, not whether he wants to or not. I think you're out of your tree if you think Pardew wants to finish in a European spot next season. If we finished 6th and he had the choice between that activating a European spot and not (due to cups etc), he would choose not 100% of the time. Pardew's only interested in himself and keeping his job. He's laughing at us, especially people like yourself who give him the benefit of the doubt. I couldn't give a fucking toss what other managers think about European competition. Any manager who thinks that they would prefer not to be in it is a cunt and a coward, no matter who they manage, and Pardew is top of that particular tree. I've seen enough of his team to know how much of a coward he is Ian, no matter how much you cling to this idealised view of him.

Pardew's different from the team just being rubbish imo, this is a man who does not want the team he's managing to finish in the top six of the league in case it jeopardises his own job, a man who makes no attempt to win certain football matches (any away game), indeed a man who doesn't even attempt to compete in games against certain teams, only turns up because he's obliged to by the fixture list. He's a spineless shitbag who, far from wanting to make me feel proud of NUFC, attempts to make me feel like I support a tiny diddy little team who have no business even being on the same pitch as a magnificent club like Man City or Spurs and that I should feel lucky for what I've got and shut the fuck up. The very least I expect from NUFC is that I feel proud of them as a club and our manager goes in front of cameras every week and basically tells me I have nothing to be proud of. He is utter poison.

We've got a manager who actively admits that he doesn't want the club to do anything that would qualify it for Europe. Think of that.

Fucking hell. Yes, turns out you were right all along, Pardew has been a marvellous success. Hold up just one second, I don't remember saying that. But you talk with such certainty, and your record is undeniable. I just don't know what to think. You don't remember claiming Pardew should keep his job?

Fucking hell. Yes, turns out you were right all along, Pardew has been a marvellous success.

Never. Most of the Football League have better managers than the shithead laughing at us right now.

Fucking two bob Everton are still in with a shout of the Champions League places with two games to go, as we were last season, and people on here would be happy with fucking 10th?! European qualification is the absolute minimum we should demand from NUFC and always has been as far as I'm concerned. Fuck competing with West Brom, Swansea and Fulham, bollocks to that. Their crowds and income can't touch ours so why on Earth should anyone be comfortable with matching them?

That'll make me feel worse. We can't afford to keep giving him new players to ruin.

Another spanking off the mackems to look forward to as well, get in.

Coloccini, Cabaye, Ben Arfa all gone now. They don't want to play for that man and they don't want another relegation battle. Most of our squad will be putting the feelers out now, at least the ones worth having. Massive squad overhaul on the horizon. Selling some of the most talented players ever to play for Newcastle = stability.

Top ten ffs. Fuck off and die, the three of you.