Mick

How many defensive players can he get into our starting 11? I'll start at 8.

Aye, things were so much better when disgruntled fans kicked Carricks windows in after a defeat.

It was something along the lines of Southampton being less working class so their players were more intelligent thus being able to move up from the academy I still can't work out how he had the balls to come out with that crap so soon after nutting an opposition player, I don't think he was even challenged on it either.

I think Shola is shit but agree with you on this one, it's not his fault he gets game time.

It's just a load of words randomly put together, I've tried to work it out and failed miserably. Accept that he's a good manager lonely battling adversity and move on, life is much easier that way.

It's damage limitation, he's telling everybody what to think. It's much easier to defend a poor run of 3 games than it is to explain away our form since the turn of the year. It's worked for him before but less and less are falling for it as they are seeing through him.

Hope, it's all I have. Lose the players and the fans and anything can happen, even at our club.

Anyway, for probably the first time supporting Newcastle I want to see us lose as many games between now and the end of the season so see the fraud sacked. It might not happen but I'll have a little hope, I have no hope with the fraud managing us so as many goals against as possible. The season is clearly over as nobody at the club seems to give a shit so why should I? If we pick up a couple of results the fraud will remain at the club and it's more than likely going to be more of the same. Lose and it might make a difference and we might just get lucky and appoint a manager who is capable of getting the players to perform in a way that most of us will be happy with. I fail to see why anybody would want things to go on the way they are currently going and we're almost guaranteed for that to happen if Pardew remains. I'll accept another 5 defeats in the hope that he goes and better times are ahead, I want his position to become untenable.

Yes, yes he is.

Can we please get back to slagging Pardew?

I can't see it, the best I think we'll do is a bore draw. I can't see us winning and if they score it'll be another long 90 minutes for the players.

I think I might have kept that one to myself.

Nope. Not a chance mate. The point of being the manager of this football club is doing your utmost to make the club the best it can possibly be, and showing that you have the aptitude to do that with the performances and results you oversee, your comments in the press and your conduct on and off the pitch. The stuff he's came out with in the press the last few weeks is unforgiveable. Getting towards Joe Kinnear "AREN'T THOUSE GEORDIES FACKING THICK CANTS" levels of bullshit now, he's just being a touch more guarded about it. Detestable prick.

Pardew: "It's been as tough a period as manager I've ever had." Wiki: In the 2006–07 season, Pardew was criticised after seeing West Ham through their worst run of defeats in over 70 years which included an exit from the UEFA Cup to Palermo in the very first round

John Hall did want Sir Bobby but Bobby was under contract at Barcelona. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/news/432906.stm Robson, who currently works for the Football Association's technical department in an advisory capacity, said: "I have had no contact with Newcastle since the day I told them I could not break my contract with Barcelona when they tried to persuade me to manage the club after Kevin Keegan had left. "I was compelled to do that because I had a two-year contract in Spain at the time and was only in the first year. I had to honour that contract.

Post it, Caulkin tweeted a link to an article of his on another forum so it doesn't bother him.

We had a cash injection, we sold players. Also, I wouldn't call appointing Souness, Roeder or Fat Sam ambitious. Signing players is great if you have somebody who can get the best out of them which wasn't and still isn't always the case.

He's telling everybody who will listen how tough the job is for him and that he's doing a good job under difficult circumstances. In other words, he's lying.

Robson made a transfer profit during his first 2 seasons at the club. He did sign players and he also sold players, including the 2 you mention who cost less than the 4 that I previously mentioned. I'm quite sure that we didn't go into a transfer deficit until we signed Bellamy ready for Robson's third season and then we spent quite a bit. I think Robson averaged £4 million a year above what he brought in over the length of his contract. It's better than what we currently spend but it's hardly a fortune either considering the improvement that was made. Souness was the one who was given the money and we all know how much of a flop that one turned out to be. I wish Sir Bob was given that money Souness was given man, esp in the season before we crashed out of the Champions League. The appointment of Souness must go down as the worst one ever for the effect it's had on the club, even if I hate Pardew more than him.

This has turned into whether you prefer cancer to a heart attack, I would rather that we didn't have either of them.

Robson made a transfer profit during his first 2 seasons at the club. He did sign players and he also sold players, including the 2 you mention who cost less than the 4 that I previously mentioned. I'm quite sure that we didn't go into a transfer deficit until we signed Bellamy ready for Robson's third season and then we spent quite a bit. I think Robson averaged £4 million a year above what he brought in over the length of his contract. It's better than what we currently spend but it's hardly a fortune either considering the improvement that was made. Souness was the one who was given the money and we all know how much of a flop that one turned out to be.

You didn't claim that he was backed, read your original post again where you claimed that he was backed very well apart from one summer.

We were 13th the season before Bobby was appointed and we finished 11th during his first 2 seasons when he had to rebuild the squad, he did that while making a profit of between £7million and £8 million. In his third season he spent something like £11.5 million in total and had improved our league position by +2, +2 and +9 positions which brought in extra income which will have made his transfers roughly a neutral cost. In total over his managerial career with us he had a net spend which was roughly £21 million while improving our league positions by +31 over the 5 years and had us actually competing in the CL which will/did increase our turnover.