AlanSkÃrare

I got an email off the club trying to sell a s*** plastic rain coat about 2 minutes after a defeat and sent a simple "f*** OFF" back. Sports Direct got back saying they would respond within 1-5 working days too. Still waiting on a reply. Part of me wish I'd have gone down that route as well instead of some desperate "BE HONEST WITH US" question that Ashley has now printed and plasted in his office as a dart board.

I sent an email to [email protected] (the customer service mail-adress on nufcdirect.com) asking who'd receive my money if I bought this season's strip. I said I wanted to buy the strip, but only if Newcastle United rather than Sports Direct benefited from it, which was difficult to tell from the website as it's seemingly being run by SD. I was given a reference number and promised an answer within 1-5 working days. This was on the 8th of September. Since then, I've mailed them three times asking for an answer. I know it's not the biggest problem, but if supporters buying from the club online shop are actually aiding SD rather than Newcastle United, they (we) deserve to know so.

A draw at Cardiff on Saturday will no have him giving us another "Always overreaction" speech.

We all know he'll be recommended by Kinnear. It'll be a British or Irish manager who has a long list of failures or a vacuum of 15 years on his CV.

Pards.

Ramage still made Huntington look decent at times. Remember West Ham at SJP (2-2). What Harewood did to Ramage before he went off with a fake injury was comedy.

Reading those conclusions is appalling, on par with Kinnear's supposed assessment of the game (we should have brought in a big bastard this summer). This is all just waiting for an impending disaster. Pardew's way of dealing with the situation will be to re-install Jonas, Williamson and some of the other cloggers. If we get to January, he and Kinnear will bring in some huge fucking bellend to play along Coloccini. He'll then be sacked and replaced by someone else ridiculously out-of-depth, hand-picked by fucking Kinnear. Shit.

Hughton did a reasonable job. He's the only one we haven't actively chosen since Sir Bobby.

369 corners. 309 into the box.

Talksport dross. He'd never do that.

So. When will he start to fear for his investment here? Sports Direct exposure will be way lower in the Championship. I reckon Pardew is 2-3 games away now. Llambias was his man.

He's not settling in well into the least organised, most disoriented excuse of a defence in the whole of Europe. A year and a half ago that's Hollands No. 1, an Italian international, an Argentine international, France's starting RB at the Euro's and a 22-year old captain of the French champions (and regular in France's squad). It's not just him. It's the team. The players leave eachother to themselves. Nobody has any idea what to do, neither going forward nor defending.

When was the last game we didn't completley change our formation?

The thing is, no matter how s*** ideas you may have, it's remarkable not being able to communicate or illustrate anything resembling a footballing philosophy after three years in charge. We can't defend as a unit, we can't attack as a unit. We have no coherence anywhere on the pitch and rely on individual decision making in every part of the game. Nobody knows what territory to mark or occupy, nobody knows what spaces to run into or whether to keep hold of the ball or attack. We have no f***ing clue. It's every man for him self out there.

Played decent last night, can occupy a back four, puts himself about, wins duels, scores goals, dribbles, comes deep and gets in behind. Sign him no matter what happens.

I'd drop Santon now. His first half was as bad as he's been.

How often do we change the formation? Always caught out. It's because he sets us up to stop them rather than threaten them.

Tioté nailed on to start here. If Rémy's out I'm struggling to see us getting anything. That's how vulnerable we are in attack. If he drops Mapou as well he should be locked up.

Saw Pardew referred to last season's performance there as "good". We should have been 8-0 down after the 1st half.

Don't go to Sweden. Everybody's fighting and football is very poor.

Would have been so fitting for that team. Chelsea were rubbish as well.

Was just about to post this. League of their own and all that. Cardiff will tell you the same.

Eirik Bakke John Carew Diego Simeone Alfonso Callum McManaman Martin Skrtel Robinho

Puts Pardew's "Thank god we're not in the Europa League" in a different light. He's probably on board with all of it. What a c***.

Appalling information, most of that. Sad, sad state at the moment. The questions regarding Sports Direct need to be more direct next time. Emailed their customer service to ask who would receive my money if I bought the strip, still no answer after three weeks. It's obvious they're taking all the money from nufcdirect.com. The club HAS to communicate this.