Rich

Why would he come here if he qualifies for the CL with Sociedad?

Thank God it's over. 0-0 ffs

Real festival of football at Reading here.

Taylor is no better, Carroll would eat him alive. We'd be better off with Williamson than Taylor to go against Carroll IMO. Taylor doesn't man mark players so he's not likely to be up against Carroll in any case. He'll probably be running back towards the goal and try and block it on the line. It was this guy bimpy. Get him.

Excellent work sir. http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,67173.msg4175270.html#msg4175270 Can't take credit, was originally from there Agree that Coloccini is the key by the way, the others look like different players alongside him.

My brother's a funny fucker at times. Could honestly see Pardew going back to Williamson and Coloccini given how badly Taylor and Yanga-Mbiwa played today.

We were probably thrown by the fact they swapped Henderson and Coutinho, tbf. Can't be expected to predict such tactical wizardry, let alone adapt to deal with it in-game.

Limp on until the end of the season, scrape survival, invite him to a celebration round the back of the barn.

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So why has he kept Pardew for this long? If Pardew isn't sacked after this result it's a clear statement that he doesn't give a shit if we're relegated. Well, one out of two ain't bad.

With the new parachute payments I doubt he gives two shits. Think of all the profit from selling off all our assets. He probably thinks Carr will just assemble a better cheaper team than this one which will take us back up and keep us there. Sounds about right. Probably trouser a fortune in the process. Thank fuck.

Stuff like that starts to hit home just how low we've slunk this season. Good stuff to have in your arsenal if anyone pulls the old "you're such a fickle bunch" shit out of the bag. I realised after today that we now had the worst defensive record in the league, but had totally forgotten about that home record stuff. Abysmal.

Are you two having a giggle here or what? He stands to lose a shitload of money if we go down.

I'm at the point now where my only optimism going forward relies on him losing his job.

I think he put him there to kick onto him from Elliot first and foremost, probably thinking he'd get more change out of Enrique in the air than anyone else in their backline.

5, which is the highest I've been so far. We do appear to be in freefall and with some stinking games to finish on, but I think Wigan may have screwed the pooch today by not seeing out the 2-1.

Aye I suppose It might be worth a go, I think our version of the 4-2-3-1 is the worst I've ever seen

Not sure we'd be much better in a 4-4-2 now that we've got nobody to hit from back-to-front and nobody capable of holding the ball up.

Taylor was the most gutless of the lot of them today.

I'm glad we've had two full training weeks to work on shape though, seems to have done the trick

Played the second half with the line up that most people wanted. We were still completely outplayed. Context.

Sycophantic as fuck from ESPN bint, awful.

Game over man, game over.

Sorry about that 20 minutes of downtime there folks, issue with the host. Just needed to restart a few things on our end to get her back up and running again.