Memphis

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

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!

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.

How did they do a whole segment on Hull and not mention HBA? The fuck?

We can't compete with the likes of Hull for ambition.

Why do we insist on ludicrously low transfer fees and haggle over incomings forever and ever then sanction the move away of a potential matchwinner for pennies to placate the coward in charge?

We'll probably pay them. I hope he tears Pardew a new shithole.

Driving quite the hard bargain

There is no "push on". That phrase should be eliminated from the vocabulary of any Newcastle supporter. There is no "potential" because you'll struggle to find a single player who's done anything other than get worse with our clueless coaching staff. So what is there? Stockholm Syndrome has set in amongst a far-too-large portion of our fans and we are approaching the point where an entire generation of Newcastle fans will think the extent of success is avoiding relegation and maintaining our position atop the financial tables. The team get a huge groundswell of support after scoring a 3rd to take the lead against Palace and it scares Pardew to death. No wonder our home record is so shit. We have a manager afraid of his own shadow and scared to be even more exposed as a fraud than has already happened.

I think that's very well put, sadly. The extent of our ambition is merely to stand still. We barely spend enough even to do that. We couldn't possibly sanction moves with any ambition whatsoever. The point of sport is to excel. Other than as a commercial shop window I'm still working out what the point of Newcastle United is these days.

Team that's just allowed 3 goals to a rudderless Palace team offloads 24-year-old French international defender and former captain of a Ligue 1-winning Montpellier side to an Italian giant in the Champions League. It would be hard to make up something more ridiculous.

This has actually gotten me angry as well; thought I was bereft of emotion when it comes to this club's cluelessness and lack of ambition, but here we go.

Every transfer deadline day, rumours sprout up only to be followed by the terse mutterings of Lee Ryder: @lee_ryder just got word #nufc not interested in (insert exciting, wonderful potential signing here) So the clock is starting. I assume the Nastasic tweet will come shortly.

Torn here between wanting to see common sense signings of a striker and centre back while also wanting to see Pardew out as quickly as possible. Signings that extend his time here are ultimately counterproductive. That said, Nastasic should be a no-brainer signing if available. But then again, keeping MYM would have been, too.

Word from South America is that Man Utd are signing Falcao for 65 million Euros on a 4 year deal. Crazy spending from them. No idea how they'll line up but that's a hell of a front 4.

What's Cacapa up to these days?

http://s27.postimg.org/qv4jmnter/Pardew_Out2.jpg

If you lived in a crumbling shithole of a house, and the only way to get the insurance money to buy a lovely new one was to see the shithole burned down, you'd cheer every time you saw a flame. You might even try to burn the fucker down yourself.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/newcastle-manager-alan-pardew-says-4130344 “I think once at ­Sheffield United (Neil Warnock and I) might have had a bit of an issue. But it didn’t take me long to give him the death-stare and he backed off."

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http://www.attac.org/sites/default/files/Logo_NOmeansNO.jpg

Pirlo must be rolling over in his grave (I presume he died upon reading that Colback was his ginger counterpart)

Notice Aarons seems to have graduated from "in, on, and around the squad" to now "around the first team". Prepositions are hard.