Mick

I know quite a few who don't want him sacked but they are losing faith in him as they see what everybody else can see and more are turning against him. I don't know anybody who doesn't think he should take the largest share of the blame for our season so far. I don't know anybody who thinks we should be playing hoofball and I don't know anybody who thinks that playing 2 in the middle is the way that suits our players. I don't want him sacked yet even if I do have a go at him, that could change on Monday if we lose the game because losing that changes our season from a season of struggle to a season where we might get relegated. Fail to win on Monday and we could easily be bottom 3 by Christmas and QPR have taken steps to stay up so they have given themselves a chance. If we’re bottom by Christmas we can virtually kiss goodbye to our league status as I think only one team have stayed up from that position. We rightly binned Allardyce when he was taking us on a run of games like the one we’re facing in the coming weeks and I’m convinced that we stayed up that season because of that decision. I’m not sure that we’ll have the balls to bin Pardew and we might suffer for the indecision of Llambias and/or Ashley. Is keeping Pardew more important than staying up? At what point does his job become untenable when you look at the games coming up? Make no mistake about it, we are now in a relegation battle and we’ve got a series of games coming up that could kill us. Too many people are still in denial about the danger we're in.

This is a must win game, lose and we'll probably go into January with 17 points in the league. The only points I can see us realistically getting are 3 from QPR and even that's less likely than it was a week or so ago.

As bad as Williamson is, we'd be screwed without him and people need to remember that. It's not his fault that he's getting games.

He's already learned them, he doesn't need time for that.

I don't agree that we haven't got the players to go 4-3-3, regardless of the opposition. We simply don't have the players to go 2 in the middle and haven't for a while.

How's that?

No more than the 4-4-2 which has us where we are.

I'm surprised that he hasn't been accused of it.

Routledge was written off far too early by some, the most important to write him off was Pardew who didn't give him a chance. I’m pleased for Routledge that he seems to have settled into a club and is doing well. It’s just a pity that we didn’t have him as an option as we’ll have brought in next to nothing for him and his replacement has been shit most of the time he’s been on the pitch.

He's right in what he's saying.

Sammy should be nowhere near the first team, he's a good kid who could make it eventually, nothing else.

He didn't.

It was Perch.

Nice try but I don't think we can blame him for anything.

They hardly caused us any problems until the last 10 minutes, we were comfortable for long periods of the game.

I thought that we made Swansea look better than they were.

I agree with him for a change, I'm not sure we should have had a penalty though.

He was probably our best player tonight, he never stopped working until taken off.

Most of my mates are Newcastle fans and not one of them would rather see somebody at the club fail.

I'm not bothered about Ranger being involved if he was set a target and has achieved it. If he's the same as he was and just brought back to make the numbers up then it's a joke.

The same should go for all Newcastle fans, it doesn't stop people liking or not liking people associated with the club at any level.

Do you seriously think anybody would want him to fail? If he fails then we fail, expecting and wanting are two different things.

West Ham, Swansea and Southampton were poor.

You don't know that we'll not, only time will tell. We're never going to qualify for Europe this season but we can still regain some pride and enjoyment, two things which have been in short supply so far.