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And won't put anything else into the club before FFP rules come in, it's infuriating tbh, now is the time to maximize capital investment in the club to the hilt.

all I can think of is this lol http://gifsoup.com/imager.php?id=1506174&t=o

^ This, for me too. I'm disappointed with the result, obviously. But finding it hard to be too downbeat about it. Maybe its the fact that whatever happens in the next 3 games, then 6th and Europa League is the worst we can do, and I would have taken that back in August, without doubt. I just hope today was a 'blip' and we can get something from the remaining games, so the season doesn't end with bad results. Yep exactly. Look at it like 18 points out or 21 and it's still fantastic.

Well this is me 100% sold on a retro shirt now.

A fantastic insight. And Beren, don't you ever suggest Pardew or anyone close to him ever reads Newcastle-Online, it's 'frankly ridiculous', apparently

Probably live on Sky too.

Copy paste from wikipedia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17855980 Very interested to see how this pans out, could he ever manage anywhere else with a different (aka normal) style of play? http://i46.tinypic.com/p7wh4.jpg http://i49.tinypic.com/16gqj9.jpg Pictures on the BBC link

Very worthy of a thread imo.

Can you point me to the page in the club's accounts where this is noted? Nope because it isn't listed, it's only listed as extra debt to Mike Ashley. Freddy Shepherd http://swissramble.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Newcastle%20United That's about as much as you're going to find from direct sources.

Would have been great to have Enrique and Santon on our flanks. Man for man and as a unit you'd have a fair case for saying we would have had the best defence of the league this season if all fit, Santon/Colo/Taylor/Enrique/Krul. But we'd never have Santon if Enrique stayed, so it's all make believe but one can dream =)

I love it when people think his first name is Ben I don't know why, just makes me smile

TV money doesn't exist, only fees from players sold can be spent.

If only it was in our hands...

Imagine RTG if we finish 4th without CL. My word it'd be like if sunderland won the world cup!

I'm not going to start a 'point-scoring' quote war madras

The pitchfork bandwagoneering can be quite astonishing at times lol. "He says something different to the majority, he's not a Newcastle Fan!" ffs get a grip lol

Who was? Me But I settled on the correct side in the end.. I honestly think they don't have a chance in hell of beating either Real or Bayern, so I was happy in a way to see Barca dumped and it was good to see a British team do it. Were I worried that Chelsea could win at all, of course I'd be bloody worried right now. But meh

I don't have a dislike of Barcelona, but I'm not that Partizan that I don't enjoy other British teams doing well in Europe, was genuinely hard to not be caught in two minds about the result!

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I think Real Madrid's style will be more effective than Barca's, Mourinho is the stronger and smarter manager too imo. We've had the Welsh Barcelona for all of us to practice against his season for this kind of play

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I for one never called for him to be sacked, on the contrary, I said I'm happy for him to continue. At the time when as a team we were playing poorly, and quite a few of us thought it was the end of the honeymoon where we were seemingly getting by on the quality of players alone rather than Pardew's management, I simply said that at, quite literally, he was a very limited manager without any nuance at all, who was very lucky given his past to have any job in the premier league, let alone Newcastle. We discussed a change of system, how we thought a change of lineup and formation could be beneficial, whether it was 4-3-3 or or 8-1-1, but I wanted to see him trying, like Keegan did. Ronaldo explicitly shot me down on this. I said his management style was a square pegs in round holes methodology, and until he adapted his tactics to the players we had then he would continue to be a limited manage who would limit our development as a club. I heavily criticized him for leaving Ben Arfa on the bench for as long as he did. I always left it open in all my posts that if he did change, then that would be a marked improvement and I would be happy. He has changed as a manager in my honest opinion and I even said that I think he or some advisors of his read this forum, because a lot of what we were saying seemed to take effect a few weeks later I am happy with him and happy for him to continue. Maybe the posts on anti-Pardew rants were not aimed at me, but it felt like many are criticizing posters for pointing out obvious mistakes in tactics during a period where it was make or break time for him and the players. I am not looking for someone to quote me and go 'Oh look at Hawk he was right', and in saying this I am not tarring you all with a different brush when I say I am not a knee-jerker, but I do expect to be given the respect to air my views and opinions and not be retrospectively pigeon-holed as part of a group of people who wanted him sacked when I never said anything remotely close to that - and then treat in such a manner on my future posts as if I have no right to be happy about what Pardew is doing now. Posted from my phone so please bear with the weird autocorrects if there are any.

Look, we are both Newcastle United fans (supposedly), Pardew is doing a great job now. Pardew wasn't doing a great job in January/February. We played longball in a 4-4-2 to Ba and Cisse. It wasn't working. Many of us said this on the forum. Fewer said that most of our players were worthy of a top4 club. It's not about being proven right or wrong. If you really want me to try and find out which game Ba was arguing with Colo and gesturing to Krul to keep it on the deck, I can do it tomorrow when I'm bored in a hotel after 8pm.

Well done to pards to converting him into our man in the middle a la scholes from the deeper position he occupied at lille