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The header I can maybe give as a good Federici save but the shot from the cross that Federici saved should have been buried. His second half chance he had so much time and completely fluffed it.

Happy to blame Pardew for today but Cisse should have scored a hat trick. Had at least three chances that he should have buried.

Having said I want him gone my only caveat after seeing the last few pages is we have to replace him with the right person. That person, in my view, is certainly not Mark Hughes. Laudrup or Martinez would be play the type of football that I think the fans want to see.

This.

Precisely why he's lost me after today. All we needed to do was keep our foot on the pedal and we had that game won.

I am now in this camp. Awful. Me too. Second half today was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Have to say I've defended him relentlessly in recent weeks but he's lost me today. Second half unforgivable in both taking our foot off the pedal and our subs.

Good half. Need to balance being careful of there counter-attack with keeping our foot on the pedal. Don't want to concede a soft goal on the counter-attack but equally don't want to invite them on to us.

Grass is always greener and all that. Not saying he's not a good manager but I'd see no reason to sack Pardew in order to bring in Adkins. If we lose out next two games though (which I bitterly hope we don't) then fair enough sacking Pardew and looking at someone else.

Absolutely bonkers. Increasingly seeing a number of managers sacked for virtually no reason. Good to know there's good options available if we need to get rid of Pardew (not that I think we should).

84 points. Hazard with 38 and Lambert with 14.

Makes sense us bringing him in as it effectively allows us to gamble on two players as I assume if Haidara comes in it would allow us to loan Ferguson out somewhere, which he really needs if he's ever going to make it.

http://englishfootballpatient.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/what-happened-to-newcastle/ Interesting blog. In short it says that much of our strong season last year could have been down to luck.

It's just difficult to see where we are going to start progressing and keep progressing, we always seem to take those 3 steps back and take years to recover. This club should be fighting every single season in the top 8 and this season we have been embarrassing against teams like Reading, Norwich, Villa, West Ham, Southampton, West Brom - it's a fucking joke tbh - we are the worst footballing team in the league and a total laughing stock Really don't want to bite but get a grip. QPR, Villa, Reading undoubtedly been worse than us this season. You say we should be top 8 every single season, we're currently only 10 points off that despite us having a poor season. You've got to be mad to say things haven't really improved in recent years. Even before relegation I think our team was worse than it is now and that team certainly cost a lot more to assemble than this one.

Expecting us to confirm he's leaving this evening just to top this day off...

Frustrating but pleased we're not going to match a stratospheric QPR offer. If he wants to move to QPR that's his decision and we should move on to other targets.

I'm surprised Ashley hasn't intervened to encourage him to go to QPR - 6 months at QPR, relegation release clause, we sign him for free in summer. Guess who wins again...

To be fair I think the club has been trying to loan several of them but other clubs have deemed them not good enough. Mate who supports Charlton said they looked at Abeid at the start of season but didn't rate him.

A nice little stat to show the difference Debuchy could make - We've allowed the 6th most chances in the league from down our right flank. To compare with the other areas of our defence on chances conceeded down the middle we've conceeded the 11th most in the league and on chances conceeded down the left we've conceeded the 13th most in the league.

Almost forgot we had a game tomorrow with all the transfer talk.

For a "diplomatic" manager that's a pretty hefty slap in Simpson's face, with the whole 'putting Santon under pressure' and 'lacking quality'. As fans, that's things we see and think (and say on here ad nauseum), but quotes like these let us know that Pardew sees it too. The difference is that Pardew can't go to a presser and say "Simpson was fucking shit", because Pardew would need to play him the next week and the player would know his boss has no faith in him... Don't really have a problem with Pardew saying it as (a) it's bang on the money and (b) Simpson will probably only play for us a handful of times before he leaves in the summer (assuming he doesn't leave in January).

Feel for him with the Cisse thing - he'll have prepared with Ba in the middle and to lose him on the day of the game makes things very difficult. To accommodate Cisse in middle he'd have had to change the formation from the one which he has prepared the team to play.

Need clarity in this situation now. If I were in the board's position I'd sign Remy ASAP and then tell Ba he won't play for us again until either he removes the clause from his contract or leaves. It's simply not acceptable that in a month of 5 crucial games Ba could abandon us at any point in our preparations for those games.

Should have been Marv for Perch, as well as Obertan for Jonas. So you'd have started Obertan after he's not played for a month and a half?

Well bollocks like. I supported him and stuck up for him but now i want him gone. Many reason but the main one is the fucking dreadful long ball footbal we have had to watch this season so far (last few game have been better). He deserve everything he gets, just because he made good subs today ?. What after fucking up the starting line up, what about the dreadful play, lack of movement, poor crossing and the rest of the shite i just watched. He is proving a shit long ball merchant manager. I'm judging this over months and not just a few games by the way. Don't doubt he's made some poor decisions over the last few months and needs to take his fair share of the blame. You've admitted yourself there though that the football has improved in the last few games. Also we played mainly only the ground for the first hour today and really didn't create anything. Would love to know who you think would come in and have us playing great football with the team we had out today - let alone put up with the fact that the board have near total control over transfers.