Mr Logic

Think we should make a bid for Larsson myself like.

Birmingham looking good for an equaliser now.

Bollocks result. FA need a serious enema.

Thread is going to reach 500 pages mainly down to her I think.

Don't know what to make of this. Opening statement in that article clearly says employed, , but it doesn't seem to make any sense based on what is commonly known about Joorabchian. Wtf is Ashley up to now?

If there were any legs to this Leeds link they'll be backpeddling like fuck after the match today.

Couldn't make it up. What a deflection.

For some weird reason I thought this game was tomorrow, I've missed the entire first half - which is apparantly not much judging from the comments here. Was just in time to see that god awful Smith pass.

Poor Ranger.

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/6929/warmup.gif /courtesy Kasper

Want 5 now, get the goal difference up whilst we can..

Wow!

Tiote making Cole look like a nonce.

Great news...

Surprises me, would have expected to find us around the middle in most cases. Do I need to take off my rose tinted specs then.

Might do better if we took a little bit more time in our build up, it's not a fucking race.

Shit, I'm about 2 minutes behind you lot, I'm not reading this thread anymore

Jonas setting the bar high with his first pass - straight to the opposition.

I suppose if Shola and/or Lovens score Ashley will be keeping his hands firmly in his pockets. Anyway, close to kick off and I'm feeling good about this game for some reason.. let's go.

Not sure where the humour is in that tbh.

Let me clarify, I'd hate to think I was responsible for your blepharospasm. It appears that we will be playing more direct football under Pardew, this may well leave us more exposed to counters and patient football - such as many of the better teams play so effectively. Alternativley our increased desire to attack may result in beating the poorer teams we've already succumbed to this season. I tried to condense all of this into a rather tongue in cheek observation called the 'Pardew factor' as I've come to realise many people on these boards won't read posts containing more than one sentence, not that I am suggesting for one moment you are one of them. Seriously I'm not. Honestly.. damn it now I have developed a blepharospasm.

Probably because they have a damn sight better idea of what IS going on and don't have the feeling some part of themselves are invested so heavily in the institution that is Newcastle United. Despite Barton's probably pertinent observation that most footballers were completely out of touch with reality it's still just a job for them, albeit one most of us can't really comprehend. I feel no love for Ashley but I can't loath him either. My biggest problem with him is his apparent insular nature, the lack of communication - or perhaps more specifically the deliberate miscommunications. Treating us the way he treats Sports Direct customers is probably not the best way to go about things. As to Ashley saying he'd 'splash the cash', I don't know that he did say that, sounds more like classic tabloid journalism, but maybe he had earmarked a considerable sum for transfers before he discovered just how precarious the club was financially, and correcting that position consumed all those funds. At the end of the day Ashley makes his decisions and be damned to anyone else, popular opinion would appear to be a spur to him to act in a contrary manner at times.

It's a deal, it's a steal. It's the sale of the fucking century... /Tom's opinion from Lock, Stock et al

Nice work Sewelly, dl'd and on the HDD.

We're going to win this one.. I think the Pardew factor will mean we turn over our share of equal and lesser teams.. but lose to most of the big teams.. opposite to Hughton really.