Mick

Our new central defender, he's replacing Coloccini.

Well he's stuck with us until now, if this story is true then something must be seriously wrong somewhere.

He's not going to be homesick, he's been away from home for years and has just signed a new contract, it has nothing to do with home sickness, if true.

I haven't a clue what is giving him a problem, he doesn't come across as a hot head so whatever it is must be fairly big as far as he's concerned.

You don't know what his personal reasons are.

You're right, it appears to be more Taylor saying it than Pardew.

"We've got 17 league games and at least two in the Europa League to go and I'll need a lot of questions answered about what I think is under the first team here. At the moment, what's been underneath hasn't produced as I hoped it would."

Why isn't he telling that to the first team players who have let him down, rather than a bunch of kids?

Newcastle United's manager has been questioning himself and his methods and now acknowledges he has possibly placed too much faith in the club's youngsters.

He appears to blame them for our current situation instead of looking at what he could have done better which is slightly different to somebody on here slagging them off.

He's such an arrogant prick that it's never going to be him at fault.

So he's been looking at himself to see where he's gone wrong and the only thing he could come up with is that our younger players might not be good enough. Aye, right.

It's a pity Debuchy didn't play on the left or we could have had 2 shitty musical youth songs.

You suffer him away from here? You have my sympathy, you really do. Can you take him back to Facebook and leave him?

Good.

Why don't you use your real name on here, Derek.

You're inventing an argument which doesn't exist.

How much has it cost us by not getting player X and player Y?

We needed Debuchy in the summer, we also needed a forward and centre half, not getting those players has contributed to our current position and because of that has cost us money. Sometimes you have to speculate to accumulate and we've failed miserably at that this season. We’ve even lost the player we tried to base our team selection around.

You can't see into the future, can you?

More spin without foundation. Ashley has run the club in at least an embarrassing way as Shepherd did, the headlines since Ashley bought the club have been at least as bad as the headlines before.

I'm playing Devil's advocate to a certain extent, motivated by what I see as hysterical, blinkered pessimism in some quarters. I think if your opinion is that Pardew (or pretty much any professional manager with very rare exceptions) is an absolutely hopeless numbskull incapable of basic footballing observations, the likelihood is that you're completely wrong and that there is a little more to the situation than you think. Of course you're playing devils advocate Are you Pardew or the clubs spin doctor? Just to make my position clear, I think Pardew is clueless, what that makes me to you doesn't make the slightest difference. The fact that you appear to be either sucked in by the shite the manager spouts or you're happy with the current performance of the club is mind boggling. Football is a competitive sport and this season we've gone massively backwards. I can't work out the thought process which would lead anybody to be satisfied.

I rest my case.

From that article: Pardew believes that only against Sunderland in the Tyne-Wear derby at the Stadium of Light was he able to name his strongest team. Krul, Simpson, Williamson, Coloccini, Santon, Tiote, Cabaye, Gutierrez, Ben Arfa, Ba, Shola.