AlanSkÃrare

Another really good piece in The Times today. Free for three more minutes. http://t.co/e45WHTlvsJ

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It's Campbell again. Talk him up in the press, claim he knows a talent "because I handled Oxlade and Lallana", put him on the bench to excite fans, throw him on for 2 minutes and hoof it towards him, then never play him because we get humped every game and humping is dangerous.

"If you look at us over the last two or three years we have produced real quality." Quality overload.

But we never spent that sort of money until Souness came in. That was Shepherd's biggest failing, trusting a bellend with money that wasn't really there. As for Sir Bobby, Viana, Bramble, Woodgate, Bellamy and Robert was hardly spending above our limits.

"It's very important that we keep our focus" What focus?

We'll lose: Marveaux, Obertan, Ben Arfa, Shola, De Jong, Cissé, Rémy, Coloccini, Jonas, Gosling and maybe Santon. Probably Debuchy as well.

Guthrie and Tioté behind Cabaye, Hatem, Papiss and Demba tearing shit up. We was brilliant. The Stoke game was on par with the WBA one.

HBA. "Alan, no goals today either..." AP: "Yeah and we was disappointed with that. Hatem didn't really provide us with that bit of fret we needed in terms of goals and assists." "But he was on the bench?" AP: "And we've made it clear to him that he'll remain there if things don't improve."

We need the media to get at him as well. The only question he gets after each drubbing is: "It's tough, isn't it?"

Ben Arfa

£2m as Shola replacement. Otherwise no.

"Our name is a little bit longer than theirs, so we have to be realistic about where we are."

Hope he picks Gosling again and we lose horribly as it'll mount more pressure from fans and media. He and the club needs to be shown more discontent. Losing games will help that. Also, finishing outside of the top 10 will not get him his fucking bonus. There's still a chance he fucks it up.

"The sky is obviously a massive concern, it's grey and not really giving us any breaks."

Me too. Don't give a shit.

"There are plenty of reasons for us to lose this game, for sure. I don't care if we lose 4-0. But losing is irrelevant. That's not us."

For sure.

Cabaye.

Anything that appears bad, negative or cowardly can hardly be deemed suprising at this point.

07/08 We were their only win that season. 4 out of 11 points against us

Not sacking Pardew is the most obvious illustration of Ashley's ambition and purpose here. More obvious than the lack of spending and player sales. How anyone with any sort of relation to Newcastle United doesn't grasp this is beyond me. The journalists surely know what's going on, they surely understand how all of these decisions come together and they surely know that Pardew is in on the whole f***ing act. Yet they ask whether Pardew "is the man for the job"? Of course he f***ing is. He's made for the job and that's the f***ing problem. He was fucking hand-picked to orchestrate the pointless mediocrity. That's what they need to be writing about. They need to enlighten the entire supporter base about it because that's the only way it'll sink in. This is a f***ing scam. Everything that seems questionable and bad is done on purpose because Newcastle United isn't important to any of them. We have an owner, board and manager working together, along the same pattern with the same objective: lower quality, lower expectation, keep paying. They're conciously reducing the club. Tell it like it is.

Good from Douglas, he's come on a bit I think. Do however disagree with this being "a new era". It's just prolonging of the same pointless shit that's gone on in the past 2-3 years. New name, new role, same rethoric and same purpose.

Bournemouth or Derby. Really impressed whenever I've seen Eddie Howe's teams play. Wonder why the FA goes straight to Gareth Southgate or Stuart Pearce when appointing a new U21 manager, rather than getting someone younger with updated ideas who hasn't failed miserably. Not that he'd necessarily want the job, but from the FA's point of view it would make sense to at least try.

Aye wasn't very good, I think he was having a difficult time implementing or at least deciding what kind of football he wanted. I'm not going to blame the Spurs fans who wanted him gone as I want Pardew gone even though we're 9th, but in terms of result he was getting better or at least the same kind of results as Sherwood has been. I mean they started the season well, and then lost to us (still have no idea how btw Krul, Willy and Mbiwa were immense) after that they hit a slump and he was sacked just couple of matches in. Not being able to score & getting battered a number of times should get a manager fired tbh. That's Hughton, AVB & it should be Pardew. If you're going to be so negative, at least be good at it. With AVB, he was meant to be tactically on point but he had some of the most confusing tactics ever. "Let's play on the half way line, let's not close anyone down and oh yeah Dawson, HALF. WAY. LINE" Dumbfounding. He's looked clueless in England. And he seems to be hard to work with up and down. Agree that he was tactically confusing, but they still got 71 points in his one full season.