Big Geordie

Many of wor lot travelling up? Hope the charva element behave themselves.

I was there that day and yes, he's a prime cunt.

This

That's the worrying thing. Loads of bullshit coming from Kinnear and Pardew - nothing from the owner, bodies being shipped out and no-one coming in. It's hard to see anything beyond a relegation fight, at this moment in time. The club is dying again, IMO. Not far off from what happened when KK walked. But fair play to Cisse, you stick to those principles mate It says more about the owner and management than Cisse.

That's the worrying thing. Loads of bullshit coming from Kinnear and Pardew - nothing from the owner, bodies being shipped out and no-one coming in. It's hard to see anything beyond a relegation fight, at this moment in time. The club is dying again, IMO. Not far off from what happened when KK walked.

This club seems to be turning more spiteful by the day. It's been a disasterous few weeks. I say fair play to Cisse for sticking to his principles, if it turns out to be true. NUFC turning into such a detestable club, even for it's own supporters.

What's this I read on FB about him signing on Monday?

Where has he said this, man? You got that from these articles? http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/alan-pardew-occasions-tactics-were-5071874? Alan Pardew: On occasions my tactics were wrong 12 Jul 2013 08:47 Newcastle United boss Alan Pardew answers YOUR questions as he admits to making mistakes last season Share on print Share on email Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew training at St James' Park, 10 May 2013Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew training at St James' Park, 10 May 2013 Alan Pardew is not afraid to admit he got his tactics wrong with Newcastle United last season. However, he refutes any suggestions that he sets his teams up to play “boring football” and is eager to provide the brand of attacking football that wooed Newcastle fans during the halcyon days of Kevin Keegan and Bobby Robson. Of course, Pardew is very much his own man, with his own ideas. And he’s a manager who has respect from close managerial counterparts such as Manchester United boss David Moyes and long-term friend and returning Chelsea gaffer Jose Mourinho. Yet while there are plenty of Premier League managers who are media-friendly, Pardew has gone a step beyond and tried hard to communicate with the club’s fanbase and the local community. The United manager did keep a dignified silence after the arrival of Joe Kinnear as director of football. But, back at his desk, this week Pardew sat down and answered YOUR questions as voted for in the summer’s Big Toon Survey. Clearly one of the factors that frustrated fans so much last season was the amount of chopping and changing on the tactics board. The previous campaign, in 2011/12, had resulted in two successful tactical systems. A 4-4-2 formation used Demba Ba and Shola Ameobi or Leon Best as two towers in attack before a switch to the fans’ favourite 4-3-3 – which helped chalk up a six-game winning streak – saw Papiss Cisse as the central striker supported by wide players either side of him as United romped to a fifth-placed finish. One of the most popular questions in the Toon Survey in May was about formations. And when asked by the fans if he had a clear idea of the formation he wants Newcastle United to play, Pardew answered: “What we have to find is a defined way of playing. “Sometimes that can go astray when confidence is low. “It is going to be about our game-plan of how are we going to score and affect the match. “That is something I will be working hard on in pre- season. We need the right personnel in the right areas to do that.” United fans crave the days of The Entertainers again. But Pardew is determined to find his own way. However, it is little wonder that fans ask: Why did NUFC not play more attacking/positive football against teams that were defensively weak? Pardew responded: “I have never been accused of setting up boring teams. “Not ever – until last year. “All my teams have always played on the front foot and are trying to win the game. “I have always set my teams up like that. “But we got into situations last year where in some of the games we were hanging on. “That was through, I think, a lack of conditioning at times because of the games we were playing. “Teams have a different mentality when things just aren’t going well.” United fans were left stunned by results such as the 6-0 loss against Liverpool at St James’ Park and the 3-0 defeat at the hands of bitter rivals Sunderland. Pardew, though, is brave enough to face up to criticism. Fans asked: Do you think you got your tactics wrong? To which Pardew replied: “I am sure on occasion my tactics were wrong. “I am not going to be egotistic enough to think that every time I put out a team and I set it up that it’s going to be perfect. “But having said that, some of the criticism we had last year, particularly myself, I felt was unfair. “If I was that tactically naive, how did we finish fifth the year before? Sometimes it is about confidence in players.” Pardew feels that particular characteristic plays a big part in a team’s success – or lack of it. He said: “Confidence can affect whether they make those forward runs and make something happen. “That comes from results and belief. “So sometimes when players aren’t at their attacking best it’s because they are lacking confidence. “Maybe something is inhibiting them. “You have to understand that sometimes that confidence can get lost. “Sometimes it can be me or sometimes it can be the feeling within the player. “It is difficult question to answer, but I hope that I have answered it the best way I can.”

More lies and flim-flam from him. He's as deluded as Kinnear if he thinks his team's don't play boring football.

Last loan player who did owt for us? Probably Distin, under SBR.

Usual patronizing rubbish from Pardew then!

He's beyond help now - only a matter of time before he drinks himself to death.

I don't think we were every genuinely interested. More like an attempt to placate fans that 'things are happening', when we all know that's not the case. The only thing that is, is that fringe players are being shipped out. Also remember, the SD News website apparently broke this story......

If we can do a deal at around £5-6million, I would take the lad. However, he's a poacher (same as Cisse) so I'm not sure how they would compliment each other.

Carlton Cole it is then on deadline day, fellas.

If something similar happened at Man United or Liverpool, there would be hell on in the press. Sadly, we are seen as a joke club to take pity on.

Kinnear in action, about 50secs in;

Kinnear reminds me of 'Kenny' from Phoenix Nights, but about a million times worse. I hope the media pick up on this latest bollocks and take it apart bit by bit, as they did the other week. Show him up to be the deluded charlatan that we all know he is, but others may not. Ashley will be laughing his tits off - once again.

Brazil have been excellent - terrific power and work-rate, which Spain have not been able to live with.

We paid £6million for Dyer, back in 1998. Under Ashley, we've been conditioned to believe we cannot ever spend more than 8 million on any one player, let alone a youngish one with some potential to fulfill. Got to remember back then 6 million would probably buy you twice as much as in today's football players' market. Definitely. It was a huge fee for an unproven lad (at that time)

We paid £6million for Dyer, back in 1998.

Another cracking piece from George

What did Lineker say?

Not sure I share the optimism. We have been here before afterall and nout happened.