HawK

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

Very soon going to be proved right on my poll-day prediction of 12+ go cisse!

This right here, gentlemen. I did not see it coming at all, I can't think of any logical reason that suggested it would come, nor was one suggested by any poster on this board. Negative tactics were accompanied by cries of "you idiot, how can you pass it from the back with simpson, willo and Krul in the team/ Cabaye is in terrible form" ect. Pardew's change of mentality also exactly coincides with Ben Arfa forcing himself into the team. Now try to remember objectively, Ben Arfa was not eased into the team or anything like that, he was thrown on as a wildcard, an "oh-s***!" button. And he preformed so well in those cameos that he simple could not be dropped from the team (fan pressure being a factor too). I'm not taking anything away from Pardew he's done unbelievably well. And I almost regret typing this already as this can of worms is in the past. But people gloating ' i woz right bout somethin' , 'will you admit you was wrong' is really irritating. But you're wrong. There were people that took in past form and what Pardew had said through his time here, his general interviews, his use of players, his explanations when we played badly and his admittances when things didn't go to plan and came to a different conclusion. Buy into what we felt he was aiming for, and the way he ideally would have us play. Sometime that faith looked shaky at best, but I thought that there was very little to suggest he was a negative manager, or married to the concept of 'hoofball' that some here kept banging on about. There will be many many more games where we f*** up, set up wrongly, or end up lumping it forward. I just hope the current form makes the likes of HTT hesitate from jumping off the deep end again when we hit a bad patch. I fear it wont. /Christ, it wasn't that many weeks ago he was still calling for Pardew to be replaced sooner rather than later. /But then, it wasn't many moons ago, he was fighting Allardyces corner, or siding with Souness over Bellamy and Robert iirc... Revisionist to the extreme, did you watch ANY of the games where he was accused of this? There was open conflict on the pitch as Demba Ba was arguing with Coloccini for Krul to stop punting it up the pitch every time he got it in at least 1 game that I saw. Krul, and Colo, to their credit, kept on doing what they were told to do by their manager. Open conflict on the pitch? Bollocks. There have been plenty games, possibly the majority of games where there have been players having a go at each other. Having go at each other for following the managers instructions on those occasions? Seriously? You really think that? Absolute bullshit. So you decide to not watch the game and call people who have seen it 'talking bollocks', internet-revisionist idiocy at its finest. You what? I've watched every game in full this season, none away in person, but a good deal at SJP. I'll ask again, when did you see the players have a go at each other for following the managers instructions? How can you ask 'again' if you didn't ask anything already? It's 1am and I'm not going to trawl topics for your benefit. Continue in your hazy bubble of revisionism for all I care lol.

This right here, gentlemen. I did not see it coming at all, I can't think of any logical reason that suggested it would come, nor was one suggested by any poster on this board. Negative tactics were accompanied by cries of "you idiot, how can you pass it from the back with simpson, willo and Krul in the team/ Cabaye is in terrible form" ect. Pardew's change of mentality also exactly coincides with Ben Arfa forcing himself into the team. Now try to remember objectively, Ben Arfa was not eased into the team or anything like that, he was thrown on as a wildcard, an "oh-s***!" button. And he preformed so well in those cameos that he simple could not be dropped from the team (fan pressure being a factor too). I'm not taking anything away from Pardew he's done unbelievably well. And I almost regret typing this already as this can of worms is in the past. But people gloating ' i woz right bout somethin' , 'will you admit you was wrong' is really irritating. But you're wrong. There were people that took in past form and what Pardew had said through his time here, his general interviews, his use of players, his explanations when we played badly and his admittances when things didn't go to plan and came to a different conclusion. Buy into what we felt he was aiming for, and the way he ideally would have us play. Sometime that faith looked shaky at best, but I thought that there was very little to suggest he was a negative manager, or married to the concept of 'hoofball' that some here kept banging on about. There will be many many more games where we f*** up, set up wrongly, or end up lumping it forward. I just hope the current form makes the likes of HTT hesitate from jumping off the deep end again when we hit a bad patch. I fear it wont. /Christ, it wasn't that many weeks ago he was still calling for Pardew to be replaced sooner rather than later. /But then, it wasn't many moons ago, he was fighting Allardyces corner, or siding with Souness over Bellamy and Robert iirc... Revisionist to the extreme, did you watch ANY of the games where he was accused of this? There was open conflict on the pitch as Demba Ba was arguing with Coloccini for Krul to stop punting it up the pitch every time he got it in at least 1 game that I saw. Krul, and Colo, to their credit, kept on doing what they were told to do by their manager. Open conflict on the pitch? Bollocks. There have been plenty games, possibly the majority of games where there have been players having a go at each other. Having go at each other for following the managers instructions on those occasions? Seriously? You really think that? Absolute bullshit. So you decide to not watch the game and call people who have seen it 'talking bollocks', internet-revisionist idiocy at its finest.

This right here, gentlemen. I did not see it coming at all, I can't think of any logical reason that suggested it would come, nor was one suggested by any poster on this board. Negative tactics were accompanied by cries of "you idiot, how can you pass it from the back with simpson, willo and Krul in the team/ Cabaye is in terrible form" ect. Pardew's change of mentality also exactly coincides with Ben Arfa forcing himself into the team. Now try to remember objectively, Ben Arfa was not eased into the team or anything like that, he was thrown on as a wildcard, an "oh-s***!" button. And he preformed so well in those cameos that he simple could not be dropped from the team (fan pressure being a factor too). I'm not taking anything away from Pardew he's done unbelievably well. And I almost regret typing this already as this can of worms is in the past. But people gloating ' i woz right bout somethin' , 'will you admit you was wrong' is really irritating. But you're wrong. There were people that took in past form and what Pardew had said through his time here, his general interviews, his use of players, his explanations when we played badly and his admittances when things didn't go to plan and came to a different conclusion. Buy into what we felt he was aiming for, and the way he ideally would have us play. Sometime that faith looked shaky at best, but I thought that there was very little to suggest he was a negative manager, or married to the concept of 'hoofball' that some here kept banging on about. There will be many many more games where we f*** up, set up wrongly, or end up lumping it forward. I just hope the current form makes the likes of HTT hesitate from jumping off the deep end again when we hit a bad patch. I fear it wont. /Christ, it wasn't that many weeks ago he was still calling for Pardew to be replaced sooner rather than later. /But then, it wasn't many moons ago, he was fighting Allardyces corner, or siding with Souness over Bellamy and Robert iirc... Revisionist to the extreme, did you watch ANY of the games where he was accused of this? There was open conflict on the pitch as Demba Ba was arguing with Coloccini for Krul to stop punting it up the pitch every time he got it in at least 1 game that I saw. Krul, and Colo, to their credit, kept on doing what they were told to do by their manager.