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We'd never be able to cope with extra playoff games if we made them. Imagine those two games a week again like this season! Doesn't bare thinking about!!

Our brand image is hardly good though. You won't get many respectable companies wanting to sit alongside Sports Direct and Wonga. Sports Direct is hardly a pariah brand, although Wonga is definitely shaky ground. But even before Wonga signed up last season we were hardly attracting big bucks in sponsorship deals, and was probablyone of the reasons we ended up with them eventually. I think it's more to do with big companies want to be attached to clubs which are aiming for success and show ambition. With us it's still appears to be the case of survive on the cheap and take what you can above that as a bonus. Sticking with a cheap manager rather than appoint a quality one sends out that signal for sure. Sport Direct is a horrendous brand I'm afraid. It cries out 'stack em high sell em cheap'. It's a bargain basement brand, and it's been plastered all over what was once a great looking ground. The club used to have a fairly good brand image itself tbh, but the Ashley regime have changed that. Even the Puma shirts are cheap template kits with sow on badges as opposed to embroided ones. Look at the state of the club shop. Its basically a Newcastle United version of Sports Direct where everything is crammed in and its 3 t-shirts for a tenner. I haven't been in many other club shops, but I have been in Arsenal's and Chelsea's. Both are pretty classy and the items on sale are desirable and of good quality. Personally, I haven't bought one item of merchandise since the last Adidas top. The whole image of the club is wrong tbh, but what it is is all Ashley knows. His kind of marketing doesn't adapt well to a Premier League football club where you're looking to attract sponsorship and where brand image is important. Brand image isn't really that important to Sports Direct. It's hardly a wonder our commercial revenue has almost halved, and disgracefully so is now even below Sunderland's. No high end brand wants to be associated with us, and whats on the pitch is only a tiny part of it.

Our brand image is hardly good though. You won't get many respectable companies wanting to sit alongside Sports Direct and Wonga.

NUFC: Feyenoord 2-3 Newcastle Newcastle 5-1 Sunderland Newcastle 4-3 Man Utd Arsenal 1-3 Newcastle

He was there last year as well apparently. Aye he got interviewed on BBC last year. Notice he's a guest of Marussia as well, the shittest team on the grid.

I think it's fully justifiable to be honest. If we're awful, sinking because of resources, but we're trying to improve then that's fair enough. Even if we've no money, a terrible team and trying to halt a slide like Portsmouth, then fair enough. I would still go and support the team as much as time and money allows. Personally I can accept being shit, at whatever level we're playing at. This is a sport where the aim is to win and to do your best to better yourself and improve. What I can't accept and don't want to support is when the club is just happy to sit still. Where we don't even try to win things and where we aren't even trying fulfill our full potential. The club make no effort to increase turnover (commercial revenue below Sunderland), no really effort to try and win things, Europe is now something they don't want to be in, and we've just given the worst manager in the league the reigns of the 9th most successful club (still) in English football, with the 8th highest crowds in Europe and with the 20th biggest turnover in Europe. I don't want to waste my money just supporting a team through the gate for the sake of it. As I said, it's a sport and we should be trying our best. We aren't.

I kind of agree to be honest, I'm just worried about the players to be honest. We signed Cabaye etc because we told them that we'd be playing fluid passing football and we'd be challenging for Europe, what's he going to do now that we're playing s*** football, lose to f***ing Brighton in cups and don't challenge for Europe because "too many games" The board has no ambition and it shows. Mid-table mediocrity for the years to the come until his contract runs out. He seems to have negotiated a different transfer policy by looking at his recent comments. To me that says bringing in players to suit his style of play, i.e. shit ones.

I'm struggling to see the point next season. We don't try in the cups and we don't want to get into Europe. Whats the fuckin point in going? Seriously? It's not like the football under this cunt is entertaining. I can accept shit football if it's successful, but it isn't. It might as well be 19-21 home friendlies. What makes this all the more frustrating is that there are so many good managers available at the moment, and what we'll probably do is sack this useless cunt in November wasting a season, when no decent manager is available be stuck with another useless desperate arsehole for another few years in the name of 'stability'. I actually hope we don't sign anyone if its just going to be these 'big men' being brought in to compensate for his shit set piece routines. Criminal that we have French, Dutch and Italian internationals and they're all probably going to pass through this club without playing under a competent manager. So depressing, the best squad of players we've had in a decade wasted because of one manager. So disappointing we'll never get to its full potential. p.s. Sorry if you've read these views before. Summing up my twitter rant. haha

Only message that Llambais and Ashley know is when it hits them in the pocket. Can't see me going to a home game until this cunt Pardew has gone. At least Gullit had the balls to fuck off when he failed.

I see Benitez is favorite for the Stoke job. If we keep Pardew and Stoke appoint Rafa before the weekend I will cry, I really will.

Exactly. "Yohan, you sit deep as you can spray them great long balls from just in front of Stevie and Colo. Don't get as far as the opposition box." "Sissoko, great number 10 you are. Papis is playing up top himself. As the other team are good at pressing high up the pitch, we will be sitting back a load and trying to hit them on the break. Your job is to get the ball deep, then run. Keep running and running, hopefully with the ball. It will relieve pressure for another 20 seconds or so. If you can, try and pump it to Papis when you're far enough up the pitch."

Big towering centre back, big man up front, Anita the wrong signing. Basically, buy more players to fit my shit, long ball, direct style of football. Anita is his Newcastle Mascherano. The fact he used to pick Hayden Mullins ahead of him says it all. He's too shit of a manager to manage good technical footballers.

That article says nothing.

The only glimmer of hope im holding, is that I expected Llambais to come out with his end of season statement backing the manager by now. It's usually pretty soon after the season he speaks.

No excuse what so ever Europe.

I see we need 2 or 3 experienced players for next season to move forward. Great, considering we're already losing Simpson, Harper and probably Shola, and still haven't replaced Best and Lovenkrands. We need 6+ players really. And a new manger, some decent coaches and some medical staff.

...and we might even win something.

Rafa would work wonders with this squad of players.

@NUFCSetPiece hahaha

While correct, it's amazing to say but that was the best we've played for a while too. Show how bad we actually are under this bloke True. It's so frustrating because we have the players. I can see it now, when Pardew finally goes half these good players will be gone. So frustrating that we're wasting such a good squad.

That was absolutely shite. Didn't have a decent chance all game. Injury time summed us up. Not a clue what to do. A few long balls, a few aimless runs with no movement around the runner, and one or two shite punts to our biggest defender on the corner of the box. Fuck off Pardew you CUNT!!!!

The only positive I can think of is that it won't be as bad as this season. All depending on what players want to stay and play under our dinosaur tactics though. Painful watching good players wasted. Not looking forward to next season in the slightest though. If we sacked Pardew though, I can't wait for next season if we make the right appointment.

What shows up Pardew's terrible tactical knowledge is his inability to manage good players on the pitch. He was picking Hayden Mullens ahead of Javier Mascherano. He has no idea what to do with Vernon Anita despite his obvious quality. James Perch comes on ahead of him ffs! He plays Yohan Cabaye as some sort of defensive midfielder lumping the ball forward. He thinks Sissoko is a number 10. He had Cisse out on the right. He throws Obertan on simply to run. Its all pathetic.

The Q&A will be pointless. I don't doubt a few will get through with decent questions, but Pardew will be able to bat them off and the caller will get no come back. It's pointless unless you can get into a debate with him because every question can be easily answered in Pardew style. It will be like when we had Nick Clegg in our town hall. Everyone was there ready to rip into him. He got difficult questions, deflected them and answered in his own way, then moved on without the person asking the question getting a come back.

What a stupid cunt Pardew is! Joking or not, he's made a total tit of himself. Sick of his fuckin excuses and embarrassing this football club. Sooner the cunt fucks off the better so we can look forward with a bit of hope. He's promoted himself on my hatred list above Souness tonight.