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Ah right, worried something had been said.

Keeps being repeated on here, but why?, what news have I missed that's making people so convinced?

Dunno Ronnie, all he has to do is keep us up and Ashley is happy. I think we will struggle badly if he's kept on but the amount of dross will see us safe. I'm 100% sure that if Carver did as s*** as Pardew has over the last couple of years he wouldn't have stayed in the job. Hasn't got the smarmy bullshitting skills Pardew has nor can he keep his temper when criticism comes his way. I'm not so sure, it appears all Ashley wants us to keep us in the league at minimal expense. If Carver can do that the job will be his imo I actually think a manager on a lesser contract than Pardew may very well have gone. But either way I don't believe Carver could take the pressure and stay quiet like Pardew. He'd lose it and his emotions would either see him do something that would force a sacking or he'd resign. That's if he was on the kind of run Pardew had in his last couple of years and under the same kind of pressure "SackCarver.com". I don't think we'll ever find out though.

Dunno Ronnie, all he has to do is keep us up and Ashley is happy. I think we will struggle badly if he's kept on but the amount of dross will see us safe. I'm 100% sure that if Carver did as shit as Pardew has over the last couple of years he wouldn't have stayed in the job. Hasn't got the smarmy bullshitting skills Pardew has nor can he keep his temper when criticism comes his way.

Carver isn't getting the job permanently IMO and no result on Saturday will change that. But continued losses may persuade them they can't keep him even till the end of the season, so I won't be bothered at all if we do lose. Wonder how long its going to be before I can get behind the team 100% again?

Haven't lost to Southampton at home since 1997, since then 9 wins and 2 draws.

Beachball did it in far less games as well, get the lad on up front Gus!

Upgrade on Jozy. That's not saying anything though. Arguably any striker ever to play in the Premier League is an upgrade on Altidore as far as goals.

He's 9th in the all time British Premier League all time scorers, 14th overall. Arguably the best ever English scorer though apparently even though the man 9 places above him in number 1 is English

Not sure why we'd sell him to them at a reduced fee in the summer really. He's been great in Italy this season and if anything his value will have increased from what we agreed with Roma last summer. I'm sure other sides, especially in Italy, will have taken notice and more teams will be interested as well. Still 3 and a half years left on his contract here.

Jesus I thought we were stingy, Roma are on another level if this is true. One of their best performers all season and they're pulling a trick like this to try to save a million or so, obviously won't work either. I mean only a total mong would believe he's just lost his place in the teams. Not a chance Ashley will let himself get played either. Especially when the main driving force behind Yanga-Mbiwa going to Roma is now gone.

Likely more about gauging what the thoughts of the squad are at the moment rather than "Colo, who should we get as head coach? ". Would also hope Coloccini would have more brains than to want Carver anyway BTW.

Not a chance the majority of the players would be behind Carver, utter bollocks. Also see no reason why Carr would accept Carver considering he's doing exactly the same as the previous cunt with his signings (Cabella, Anita ect on the bench and only brought on as a sub or started in the most difficult of circumstances).

Also if we bring in a shit foreign manager at least he won't have the same blind media support "Pards" had. Still Garde please!

Biased? The guy is kind to Pardew in that article man, too kind IMO. He did. But that wasn't his problem. He had full control over team selections, tactics ect. The excuse that Cabaye was sold wore thin a long time ago and didn't mean he had to all of a sudden play Dan fucking Gosling every game, he tied his own hands.

We would be ok, but probably get dragged into the battle at some point with Carver.

Definitely IMO, but Palace on a "new manager run" could still finish above us, which would be sickening.

Probably offered him buttons. I read recently our wage bill hasn't changed in 7 years despite all the extra TV cash. To be fair our wage bill 7 years ago was a fucking joke, one of the very highest in the league (4th or 5th highest I think) despite being right down the league, paying Michael fucking Own £100k a week. Last time they were compared (Premier League wages) ours were still the 8th highest in the league despite being slightly lower than 7 years ago

I hope to god they do remove Tiote like, fucking liability, costs us so much possession and puts everyone under pressure. Obviously the other two would be very unwelcome, mental to sell them obviously (especially Sissoko).

Bipolar

We failed to beat Palace at home this season under Pardew and he always gets pissed on at Stamford Bridge, so I'm not sure there's much difference their. Anyway I'm going to stop even contemplating Carver for the rest of the season now, no reason to put myself through it.

I've not seen a huge amount of football this season but I've seen enough to know that we're not going down. Every single player would have to switch off entirely for that to happen; and the majority either care enough to keep going or are playing for a summer move. It's not going to happen. There's far too much s*** in the league. hmm, we struggled to a home draw with Burnley. I wouldn't be so sure Same We haven't won a game under this moron and I'd struggle to see where the points would come from. Its easy to look at the fixture list and struggle to see where points will come from. But the fact is we've got 27 at the moment and need somewhere around 10-11 more to more or less guarantee we stay up (less than 10 would probably even do and often does in this league). Which is 0.64 points per game (for 11 more), which is 24 points when over the course of a full season. Not a chance does our squad even managerless fail to get those points. I think it's easy to be complacent and think points are easy to come by. Pardew only got 13 points from 17 games to finish last season. Most people assume Carver to be worse. Any chance he can do three or four points worse than Pardew? I'd say there's a chance and that makes it a risk, one that we'd be daft to take. You don't even take slim risks with premier league survival. There's just too much at stake. Carver has a better team/squad at his disposal than Pardew did for that second half of the season (especially since the mong refused to even entertain the idea of playing Marveaux or Ben Arfa), and to be honest nothing I've seen so far makes him worse anyway. I mean he's looked shit, and so did Pardew. To put this into perspective even in our relegation season we managed 11 points from the last 17 games, despite only getting 1 point from the first 3 of those 17 games. Carver in charge till the summer would be painful to watch. It would only be bearable if we already had a contract signed for a real manager like Garde ect, otherwise I'd be disgusted by the decision. But I wouldn't fear relegation. EDIT: It was 16 points from 17 at the end of last season.

I've not seen a huge amount of football this season but I've seen enough to know that we're not going down. Every single player would have to switch off entirely for that to happen; and the majority either care enough to keep going or are playing for a summer move. It's not going to happen. There's far too much s*** in the league. hmm, we struggled to a home draw with Burnley. I wouldn't be so sure Same We haven't won a game under this moron and I'd struggle to see where the points would come from. Its easy to look at the fixture list and struggle to see where points will come from though. But only 10-11 more would more or less guarantee we stay up (less than 10 would probably even do and often does in this league). Which is 0.64 points per game (for 11), which is 24 points when over the course of a full season. Not a chance does our squad even managerless fail to get those points.

Then why try to get Garde at all? Well I don't think as things stand we feel comfortable betting on Carver hence why we want someone in now. But it would take nothing more than bottom of the table form now to stay up anyway, 0.64 points per game or so (24 points over the course of a season) would keep us up. Maybe Ashley is stupid enough to have his mind changed by something a monkey could achieve but it seems Charnley and Carr are fronting this appointment. I know its dangerous to look at things logically with Mike Ashley's Newcastle United, but the fact that Charnley and Carr are deciding on this and going after candidates like Garde suggests this won't be swayed by nonsensical stuff like a man managing to get 10 or so points from 17 games.

Then why try to get Garde at all?