Wullie

I think they'll care about paying Tiote's wages for 10 weeks while he sits with his feet up at home. Does he live in Ghana like?

Yay, another chance for you to stick the boot in. Pathetic.

12,000 people turning up today is evidence, if ever it were needed, that NUFC as a fanbase will never be able to stand up collectively, say 'no more' and boycott games to get rid of this lot. Too many people simply don't have the willpower to avoid going to the game, and I include myself in that.

Just sums up the way the club is run generally. Top and bottom of it is that they don't care.

Jonas bends a shot wide.

Best misses 1 on 1.

That would make the Bowyer and Lua Lua issues look competent, especially after we effectively sacrificed millions of pounds last season in order to have him for the first two games.

Absolutely ridiculous how little game time Marveaux and Ba have had. Suspect our "sign frequently injured players because they're cheap" approach is going to play absolute havoc with our season.

Actually I think they're shouting 'shoot'.

Tony Hibbert being booed at Goodison?

Tend to agree, twenty quid as well?! Be surprised if the crowd tops 10k.

Jesus.

Seems faintly ridiculous to me, the suggestion that the paper shouldn't offer opinion for fear of sanction by the club. Maybe all press should start doing that, no questions asked of the government in case they take the huff? Personally I couldn't give two fucks if the club banned Thomson House... what would I be missing out on? Exclusives with Steven Taylor - "We'll do it for the fans"? It's certainly not informed transfer news because they generally report absolute shite and tend to be days or weeks behind the foreign press and it's years since I actually learned anything new whatsoever from a piece they printed. At least they'd have a shred of credibility. I'd be much more inclined to buy something that I thought was going to offer interesting opinion pieces rather than arselicking and cliched soundbites and I think that's the way media is going in general, opinion rather than news, which is too easily available online.

As per usual.

That's fucking mint.

Carroll missed a chance just as easy at home to Plymouth in the Championship.

His man-management is absolutely atrocious. UV made a very good point earlier about him airing dirty laundry in public as well.

Great post Chicago.

Coloccini can fuck off, the greedy curly haired cunt. Sorry, just getting some practice in for next summer.

I don't think much of his direct free kicks but I do think that his delivery from wide areas, be it from free kicks, corners or open play, is excellent.

Cheers.

He makes Joe Kinnear look compulsively honest.

And look how well that went. He's getting found out by more people, more and more each day. Look, I know you don't like him. You've made it clear on here for weeks. I'm just telling you what Barton himself said. Whether he was successful or not in his attempts to get Barton the deal is really irrelevant (knowing the men upstairs that he has to deal with). The point I was making is that the players don't seem to dislike him.... and none of the ones who have left or are leaving have said a bad word about him. Yet. Yes yet. I can't predict the future can I (neither can you by the way ). However, it's been 7 months since Carroll left and 6 weeks since Nolan. Still nothing..... All I'm saying is if Pardew was a bad and as "part of the cockney mafia" as some people on here and Twitter would have you believe, don't you think we would have heard about it by now. Some people may have believed he had more influence at the time of the AC sale. I should think that people now realise he's got jack all to do with the club, apart from taking names out of a hat every weekend. I think everyone realises that his job is basically first team coach. So on that basis, how do you think he's done (purely as a football coach / managing the first team)? In my eyes, he's done alright. About the same as Hughton. Pardew has easily done as well as Hughton. Of course, just look at the legacy he'll leave. A f***ed up team spirit, a squad thats threadbare and a first team that might as well be called 'injury 11'. I thought we had established that Pardew had no control over transfers? So with a worse team (ie no Carroll) and taking over from a popular manager with the players (too popular perhaps...?), he got results that were certainly as good as Hughton's and played far better football? Played far better football when??? Better than sunderland, better than Villa, better than Arsenal, Everton? You have got to be joking. It was so good in fact, he didn't manage to beat any team above 15th.

I think he was incentivised to make money for the club by way of sales and reduction in wage bill Ian. this thing annoys me, why would the board give him money to do something they're perfectly capable of on their own Not without a manager who is complicit in it, they don't want to run the risk of what happened with KK happening again.

I think he took the job on the understanding that he must sell Carroll. And in turn was more than happy to repeatedly lie in public in regards to keeping him at the club. Yep. Vile snake in the grass.