AlanSkÃrare

So how come people on here, myself included, hate him and think he's a shit manager? I think the way he got the job and the way we were warned about him beforehand, has played a huge part in my disgust for him. He was never employed because of his managerial capabilities. That coupled with his negative, cowardly approach, his constant bullshit in favour of Ashley and especially last season has turned me towards the point of almost no return. I've long said to myself that my confidence in him is there for the taking if we just pick up. I don't think I'll ever like him, but I could live with him being our manager if we progressed. However, we're not. The fact that he's on board with our ambitionless excuse of an agenda kills it for me.

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Staggering that this still needs explaining considering all the evidence. Most shining example of this is when we replaced Ba with Sissoko, which Pardew even admitted. I seem to recall him making up some bullshit about Sissoko being a "modern number 10 that we've been missing" as well, to try and justify the way he was deploying him at the time. Got any quotes? The only one I can find is this... "You lose great players - you lose Andy Cole, you lose Alan Shearer, Gary Speed, people like that," he said. "They come through the door, you love them and unfortunately for whatever reason, money or the end of their career, they drift away. "But new stars emerge. Demba was one for us - he has gone away now and Sissoko has announced his arrival. He's not saying Sissoko was a replacement for Ba on the pitch, just that while we may have lost a great player, Sissoko had the chance to become a hero too. "I've been saying for a long time since I arrived at this club that we've never really had a natural No. 10 because in the modern game, you need to have that," Pardew said. "Moussa came in and is much better at that [than Ba]." When we didn't get Rémy, we turned to Sissoko and pretended we'd signed a replacement for Ba.

Staggering that this still needs explaining considering all the evidence. Most shining example of this is when we replaced Ba with Sissoko, which Pardew even admitted. I seem to recall him making up some bullshit about Sissoko being a "modern number 10 that we've been missing" as well, to try and justify the way he was deploying him at the time.

Fucking absurd, those numbers. What do people see in him?

Hey! We're not Swansea.

MOTM against City, everything went when he was subbed. Really runs games for us when we play three in midfield. His movement and energy makes it so much easier for everyone else. There was a moment in the 1st half when he and Tioté solved a tight situation with 6-7 quick passes in a small space, something we never used to do last season. I've said this before, but he's perfect for the same role that Leon Britton has for Swansea. His technique and movement wins him and the entire team so much time on the ball when under pressure. One of my favourite players at the moment.

Ashley has no pattern to his madness other than being cheap That's why. Nobody expects it to happen now. He's pulled things out of the hat before. It's not supposed to make sense.

Would be typical of Ashley to sack Pardew now. Not that I anticipate it, but it would be very Ashley.

Haidara looks a very good prospect and has been sound defensively apart from the Liverpool game. Playing Taylor today could very well cost us, him and Williamson as a partnership is recipe for disaster, whereas Willo and Mapou have played well together.

Honest he's one of the worst divers I've seen at the club. Honesty as in commitment to the cause. Don't remember too many dives but he had one hilarious exaggregation at Watford from which we scored the resulting free-kick.

Loved his commitment, one of the most honest players we've had in my time supporting the club. Such a likeable guy. Never up to it technically in the Premier League, but did his job admirably anyway. Wish him the best of luck.

He's failed miserably in the Bundesliga. I trust Carr but I think he's just a compromise. Pardew has been begging for a new battering ram since Carroll left, Carr is looking for talented players. He's somewhere in between.

Excellent post.

Fantastic piece on North East football and it's alliegeance with misery today if you haven't read it.

Fucking hell we need rid of this man. All of them. They're killing it. I sort of distanced myself from everything during November and December. What a fucking state we're in. This isn't a football club.

Doing an excellent job at what's asked of him. Fuck the whole lot of them.

He can eat shit

I thought was Kinnear coming in to "oversee playing-style"? Maybe he'll explain what our style is in the next match-day programme

"Boyd strikes again as Killie beat Buddies" on YT Decent turn and shot from Campbell.

the one article I read, he said he was an anti-zionist. He's been convicted of anti-semitic hate-crimes 7 times. He tries to hide his anti-semitism behind criticism of Israel. I knew about him before this. For example, he's invited Robert Faurisson onto the stage during his shows. Faurisson is Europe's most prominent denier of the Holocaust. He awarded Faurisson with some sort of "honour" while dressed as a concentration camp prisoner. Read more on Dieudonné here; http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/nicolas-anelka-quenelle-dieudonnes-la-2970567 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/27/france-ban-comedian-antisemitism http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/from-dieudonn-to-nicolas-anelka-hands-signal-new-french-race-row-9028420.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2530753/MARTIN-SAMUEL-What-Nicolas-Anelka-did-twice-bad-Luis-Suarez-John-Terry-episodes.html

Some brilliant quotes in there from Amaechi about the FA's trouble in working with the right people. Will be interesting to see how the FA handle the Anelka case. Already deeply troublesome the way WBA have gone about their business. There's no room for interpretation of his gesture, there's no valid argument in his explanation as he clearly states he's doing it in honour of one of France's and Europe's leading anti-semites. Yet, they have no problem fielding him in the game afterwards. He knew what he was doing and refuses to take back any of it.

I wrote a piece for the latest issue of True Faith about supporting NUFC from Sweden.

I fear him angling for a move if things don't change soon. Fucking Pardew man. He'd revel under any manager that allows for him to express himself.

French journo/pundit iirc. Reputable or up there with the rest of the Twitter wasters? Reliable and NUFC supporter. Been spot on in his assessment of other L1 players.