Memphis

Float a free kick to Mikey

Cause you've got no Plan B

That's a Pardew

That's the part that's so great -- regardless of who these guys are, the quotes they've provided and the stance they've taken is free from unnecessary bluster and hyperbole. They've put the facts out there, been 100% accurate and have very calmly stated what is apparent to all of us. It's brilliant. Normally these sorts of campaigns are accompanied by cringe-worthy hand-drawn banners and crazy quotes from supporters, but this is a different story. Beautifully done.

We need you to lose

We need you to looooosssseee

Trust us, it's better

We need you to lose

More to the point, this is truly one of the most amazing protests I can remember. The scale and cohesion dsiplayed is beyond belief. 30,000 posters and 200 banners, plus who knows what other surprises, equals a mind-blowing statement. And the clarity with which they put forth the argument and the grounds for protest is welcome and should offset any calls about what it's really about.

Finally, people from the rest of the world are starting to understand why we've detested this man for so long.

I don't think it's possible to support the team and hurl 90 minutes of vile abuse at the manager at the same time TBH.

 

1. Holding up banners and signs that say Sack Pardew ≠ "90 minutes of vile abuse"

2. Supporting the team ≠ supporting the club

 

1. If you think it's going to just banners you're dreaming.

2. I don't know what you mean, I never suggested otherwise

3. I support the protests

Supporting the team = wanting 3 points v Hull at all costs

Supporting the club = being aware that a short-term loss is best if it leads to a long-term gain

I'm not saying you are or are not supporting the protests, that's not really relevant, but if you aren't willing to see that you can support the club by making sure to bring about regime change, whatever the atmosphere on the day does to the result, then we can't ever see eye to eye.

I don't think it's possible to support the team and hurl 90 minutes of vile abuse at the manager at the same time TBH.

1. Holding up banners and signs that say Sack Pardew ≠ "90 minutes of vile abuse"

2. Supporting the team ≠ supporting the club

The person that's incapable of understanding that you can - and should - both:

1. Protest against Alan Pardew and hope for results that would see him leave

2. Love the club and want what's in its best interests long-term

is a very, very dumb one indeed.

I did think it was funny that Carragher slated our lot for "walking" - "I'd never walk during a match! Always on your tiptoes at least!" then while they're highlighting Fabregas for Chelsea, league leaders and rampant force, against Swansea, you can see no less than 3 of the mighty Chelsea players walking, WALKING ON A FOOTBALL PITCH! And, of course, that fact is never brought up.

 

I love the microanalysis those guys do and generally I quite like MNF but to pinpoint that stuff is ridiculous because it happens everywhere.

 

Our defenders walk and subsequently let players score and we get thrashed 4-0 by Southampton. That's the difference.

In general, the effort level cannot be defended full stop. Effort, positioning, all of it was a disaster. My point was simply that Carragher bleated on and on about how you NEVER walk on a pitch, always on your toes, etc then showed several clips of a winning team and a title favorite doing just that. That's all, nothing more.

The Chelsea clip was showing walking in the first 5 minutes of the match, though, very little difference.

My point is that sort of analysis is ridiculous and there are literally hundreds of other, better ways to hammer Pardew than that. The lads at sackpardew.com have done that well.

I did think it was funny that Carragher slated our lot for "walking" - "I'd never walk during a match! Always on your tiptoes at least!" then while they're highlighting Fabregas for Chelsea, league leaders and rampant force, against Swansea, you can see no less than 3 of the mighty Chelsea players walking, WALKING ON A FOOTBALL PITCH! And, of course, that fact is never brought up.

I love the microanalysis those guys do and generally I quite like MNF but to pinpoint that stuff is ridiculous because it happens everywhere.

Our lot are shit and don't care because of the manager and the horrendous way he prepares his team. You'll be shocked how decent that same squad would look under a decent manager. Nothing to do with walking at all.

Anyone who would turn their nose up at Moyes at this point is fucking delusional.

Compared to Pardew, he's Mourinho + Ancelotti + Ferguson x10.

It's well beyond the point of no return. The only question now is one of time -- even Ashley must know that there's no way back for Pardew under any circumstances. He's put his faith in a CB pairing that's absolutely awful without any reasonable alternative, he's put his faith in a strikeforce consisting of precisely zero strikers, and he's actively pushed aside creative forces who could potentially score goals for the sake of his ego. He can't get the best out of anyone.

We're gangrenous. Do we merely cut off the diseased finger now or do we wait until the entire arm or more is rotting? Because that's inevitable.

And anyone who even insinuates that Pardew should stay because of who might replace him is a complete idiot. You couldn't find a manager with a record as poor as Pardew's -- couple that with the toxicity of his presence and literally anyone would be better.

Caulkin. Best in the business.

Typically unprofessional behaviour from a thoroughly unprofessional coaching staff.

Inexcusable but not surprising. Not much of a coach and in no way a professional.

But as others said, Pardew squared up to a player,  called Pellegrini a cunt, and today failed his contractually obligated press appearance, so we are a self-hating fucking Mickey Mouse operation regardless.

Press box for the Hull match:

http://www.gopsusports.com/blog/DSC02226.JPG

The terms coming out from Tancredi Palmieri regarding Falcao's contract with Manchester United are absolutely astonishing:

--10m Euro loan fee, option to buy at 44m -- deal automatically becomes permanent if he makes 15 appearances and scores 5 goals

--14m annual salary after tax, around 270k per week, plus 3m in after-tax bonuses linked to those same small performance incentives

Wayne Rooney makes 300k/week under his new deal but that's pre-tax. He'd have to make 436k/week to match Falcao's deal (before the incentives kick in).

Holy shit.

Would love to see one of those like the ones showing the goals, except this time depicting every attempt by Pardew to leave the dugout during the Cardiff match

The quotes from Pardew regarding our home support just serve to cement what a cowardly manager he is.

It takes a special kind of cowardice to take the thing that's been a huge driving force in making opponents fear a trip north to SJP and turn it against us. It takes a special kind of myopia to see that home support as more likely to cause our team to be disrupted rather than the opponent be intimidated.

Much like his freezing out of HBA, it just exposes the way he thinks - self-preservation and "tactical nous" winning the day rather than empowering an individual or a crowd to do unpredictable but potentially wonderful things.

I talked to Tim Howard one time and asked him his toughest place to play, and he immediately without hesitation said SJP, he loved the passion, the intimidation, the atmosphere. This was a few years ago. I wonder what he'd say now.

http://www.marca.com/2014/09/08/futbol/seleccion/1410165416.html

Don't habla Español but this all seems very good for Wor Ayoze.

NOW DON'T GO AND START PERFORMING WELL YET. YOU AND ROLANDO COOL IT DOWN UNTIL DICKHEAD IS GONE, THEN GO CRAZY, OK???

Does anyone know the actual details of the potential buyout/payoff should Pardew actually get sacked?

I know he's got (ugh) 6 years left on his contract but surely there must be very favourable clauses in there in case of termination? Ashley's a tight cunt and Pardew's lucky to have a job so surely this contract wasn't ironclad for Pardew.

Offhand people have mentioned things like "surely Ashley'd have to pay a lot of compensation" but is that actually true?

Why do we have so many fans who seem to hate the idea of flair? Books have been written, waxing melodic about the majesty and beauty of the game. That is the point of doing all this, especially for a club like us that clearly isn't going to win the Premier League anytime soon, if ever.

The moments that lift you off your backside and make you scream, the moments where you run around your house/pub/wherever acting like a maniac because you've just seen an outrageous bit of play, the moments you remember for the rest of your life -- HBA is the embodiment of those kinds of things, and our club, the one that used to produce those moments on a regular basis just a decade or so ago, now actively hates them.

No child has ever gone to a match and left wanting to become Yoan Gouffran (harsh on the lad but you see the point).

It would be almost impossible to have watched HBA in his prime and left not wanting to be him, at least for a few minutes.

We have no soul, no reason for existence other than merely to make up the numbers. In many ways that's sadder than what happened to Portsmouth or Leeds.

HBA is a player full of colour and we are a club that, now literally and figuratively, can only see black and white.

Pointless

I don't know. Why has today broken me more than anything they've done in recent years? Why?

Utter confirmation of the fact that Pardew is in control.

Utter confirmation that fear reigns and ambition is pushed aside.

Utter confirmation that we'd rather persist with grafting 4/10 players than a flair-filled, maverick matchwinner.

Utter confirmation that the football on display will only get worse, not better.

Utter confirmation that Hull's squad and tactics are more like the Newcastle I remember than Newcastle itself is these days.  Hull!

You think you can't get anymore pissed off with this club and then they mange to do just that.

Apt description of this club.

Each ticket bought to support this club now is like giving alcoholic family member a pint.

Watching the decline is sad enough without actively supporting it.