macphisto

Right up until the closure of the window I thought they would have got someone but in hindsight (wonderful thing) it's plain to see that there’s no half truths about it, they never had any intention of bringing in a striker. The very fact that we didn’t off load one of our current strikers during the window says it all as they would never have kept 5 strikers on the books (I feel annoyed about not picking this up at the time). For the club to say that we couldn’t find a striker better than what we’ve got for a reasonable price is just insulting. If the statement is true and it’s not but if it is then Graham Carr should be sacked already.

Me too, takes a lot for me to be surprised by the club now but I have today.

-5 for me for the following: If not the worse then at least joint worse strike force in the league Shola extended his contract Smith still at the club Barton gone Nature of Barton and Enrique's departures says a lot about the club New signings, jury out but even giving them the benefit of the doubt I have to wonder why they are at the club? No decent player with his head screwed on would come to Newcastle at the moment, FACT, we are rotten to the core.

We've got even closer links to Charlton than you realise as they are partly owned by Tony Jimenez who Ashley employed in tandem with Wise and another fella when he first came to the club for their "expertise"

I was at the Charlton sponsors night a few months back sat on the same table as Rob Elliott for a few hours and I've got to say that he's a really nice fella, well mannered and down to earth who went out of his way to make everyone feel welcome around the table. He's big for a footballer too, built more like a rugby player (not the fat type like Brian Moore). Only seen Charlton play once so can't comment on him as a player.

That's why the Fulham fans sing songs in favour of their owner at every match, he probably has more support amongst his fans than any other owner in the league. Saying all the above I'm not sure how many fans will buy the Michael Jackson range: http://shop.fulhamfc.com/retailprods.aspx?cat=139&h=56

I think they could get by without access to the club and just publish news that's been syndicated by the Press Association etc. As mentioned earlier it's not like they get that much information any how (particularly when compared to the relationship Oliver had with the club). For the “inside story from a club insider” and transfer news they could use any old information given to them by agents etc to keep fans interested. Also fairly sure they could quote Pardew when he speaks at press conferences.

I wouldn't call a few banners an organised and on going protest movement which is what I had in mind when I wrote earlier. Even if it didn't force Ashley out at least it would give the fans some pride, being treat with contempt and not doing anything about it doesn't feel too good to me.

That has to be a joke right? I was being serious, I'd be willing to go through anything for Ashley to leave the club. With him there I don't get one bit of enjoyment in following the team. I think it's disgusting how the fans/city have just let him do what he wants with the club without much protest. Personally speaking I don’t go to any matches or even watch matches on the box because I just don’t get any enjoyment from Newcastle at the moment. I even avoided this football forum for a long time and only log on at the moment because I’ve been travelling for work the best part of 8 weeks solid and also try to adopt the attitude of not taking some of the views on here too seriously. I might come over as a fair weather fan but believe me that’s not the case, just best for me if I stay away from supporting Newcastle because otherwise I just become angry/depressed about the whole situation.

All for it, the more unrest the better as far as I'm concerned. What is happening to our club is scandalous.

Sounds like his passport has expired if he needs to go to the Ivory Coast embassy. He'd need to go to a British embassy if it was related to his visa.

Just been reading some of the stuff on the “Pardew on Total Sport” thread and can’t helping thinking that my original post of a few years back is even more relevant now than ever. Some of you have got to be working for the club, the reasoning on that thread is just baffling. There’s always the Teenage angst angle too I suppose. http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,60160.0.html Probably is a few on the Pardew Total Sport Thread who genuinely believe what they are saying and I can only be charitable and put that down to their love of the club blinding them to the obvious. Just sad that people are still being hood winked by the club and some people on here. I also find it scary that my original post in February 2009 is just as relevant today as it was back then. Like my original post I wouldn’t give credit to some of the arguments being expressed in the Pardew Total Sport thread by replying as they really don’t merit a response. Similar to Holocaust Deniers in many respects in that I wouldn’t argue with them either due to their argument not being worthy of a reply. PS. Admins I’m not trying to circumvent the locking of the original thread

Well that's me finished with the club/football from now on, I could go into a load of reasons why I feel like this but I basically just can't be bothered with it anymore. Not a knee jerk reaction either as I've felt like this for a long time, today is just the final straw. When I come on here I'll just be checking out the chat section from now on.

I think Bowyer would be a better example

OK appointment in my opinion, I'm not too sure what he brought to the club under Sir Bobby. I'm fairly sure that a few fans asking that question when he was under Sir Bobby.

Hi All, I was wondering if someone could doctor the Alan Partridge/Alan Pardew car photo doing the rounds? I remember in the actual Alan Partridge series that he repainted the car so "cock" was made into "cook". Bit of a depressing day and I need a work friendly version of this photo to put on my work desktop as it would make me laugh. Not just trying to create a new topic for the sake of it, just thought this might get overlooked in the other threads. Thanks for helping out if anyone comes up with something, I'd do it myself but I wouldn't have a clue where to start!

Should include Charlton fans in this too, I work with a few of them and they think he's hopeless!

I go along with this, I just don't think he had it in him to be a top manager. The home results this season have been dreadful, something you can't get away from. I'd also add that no top manager would allow themselves to have been treated as Hughton has by Ashley. You need a bit of arrogance/self confidence to be at the top of any sport and Hughton just didn’t have that for me.

Going off the list by Ikri a few posts aboove, I wouldn't be adverse to Hoddle as I think he could put in some good foundations. Quite impressed by what he did at Chelsea and with England (away to Italy in the WC qualifiers is one of the best displays I've seen by England). My preference would be to go abroad, more of a risk to go abroad but worth the risk.

His sons support Newcastle!

We're not a club that would challenge at the top end of the league. We've done it twice in recent times.

In the grand scheme of things I'm not too bothered as he was never a top manager who would have us challenging at the top end of the league. Yeah he might be a nice fella who would have kept us up but I want more than that and I don't think he was the person to do it. Newcastle is too big a club to learn on the job which is what I often heard on here, there was a lot of “he should learn from his mistakes”, etc. There’s a whole lot of other clubs out there more suited to learning the art of management. Call me deluded if you want but it’s how I feel. Main reason I’m not too bothered is that I've been apathetic about Newcastle for a long time now as nothing will change whilst Ashley is in charge, simple as that really.

I think SWP and Keane would be terrible signings, both are clearly on the way down. Would be a similar to when we signed people like Duff, Geremi, Smith, Butt etc. I'd much prefer us to take a gamble on someone from overseas.

Linked to this, I once thought it would be a good idea to produce a national football newspaper based on regional papers. Basically it would have the football sections from the Evening Chronicle and other papers like the Evening Standard, Liverpool Echo, Manchester Evening News, etc. All these papers publish in the evening and the football part could be collated and printed the following morning.

I always find it interesting that a lot of people rate Beardsley as the best ever Newcastle player and yet never mention him when referring to Dalglish's time as manager. I would say Beardsley getting too old had more to do with the club going downhill than anything else.