Mick

Of course he's a bad manager, take a look at his CV and you'll see that this season isn't a one off. He seems to get managerial jobs, get his feet under the table then screws up. How is that anything other than being a bad manager? How can you claim that he's not a bad manager then partly explain why he is a bad manager? How can you claim that if he was afforded control of transfers we wouldn't be in as much trouble?

I only watched the 2nd half and he looked to me as if he wasn't trying too hard while trying to make it look as if he was.

He really is a leader, he leads by example and I know that sounds weird after he tried to walk away from the club but it's still true on the pitch.

Agreed, we really have to do everything we can to keep him.

This. I'm flabbergasted. I just don't get it. You're just thick man, didn't you see how well it worked when we waited until the last 20 minutes to get a couple of goals against Benfica?

The lads in the trenches didn't have Pardew leading them.

Wow, how admirable. You've got a lovely habit of making out like people are being unreasonable when they have an opposing view like. Your argument against me tonight's been wooly at best and absolutely batshit mental to the point of being totally pointless at worst. Sure you'll come up with another wisecrack remark to make yourself look clever like, but the quite unbelievable point is that you thought today was a positive day for NUFC. That's just incredible and we're still skirting around that point. If you really believe that then you're off your rocker. something that has really bothered me with inochi & stu (maybe others) since we started discussing the possibility of relegation in jan/feb - plenty of sound football reasons were being offered as to why we could (not would) get dragged into a relegation battle yet they were countered by these two with nothing but an an air of over-confidence, sarcasm and smugness because we were over-reacting (!) by all means be smug or over-confident, but have something to back it up ffs...i honestly can't recall stu or inochi offering a sound reason as to how or why we'd get ourselves out of it I also agree with the bit in bold, it's dead easy to just take the piss out of peoples opinion without actually airing an opinion yourself. This is usually followed up with moaning when they’re pulled up for doing so.

Fixed

I've just noticed that we might have to win 2 games on the bounce to stay up and we've only done that once this season in the league.

Man City didn't look as if they could comfortably beat anybody today.

The average age on facebook is probably 12 years old.

No.

We'll not be able to answer that for another couple of weeks.

The thing that is pissing me off is that we might need to beat QPR to get out of the bottom 3, not stay up. We might have to beat QPR to get out of the bottom 3 then beat Arsenal to stay up and I can't see that series of results.

He's not the first player to have a negative reaction to a manager, he's not even the first player to do it here.

Give him a positive manager and we'll see a totally different player.

Oh, a relegated team winning.

He's a good player and I hope we keep him.

I agree, I can't stand Obertan but he does have a use coming off the bench and the same goes for Sammy.

Back from Boro

I've always said that we should keep him and I'll not change my mind, we could do a lot worse than him as back-up.