Tachikoma

Ahahahaha, if only that counted

Donkey.

Picked up a knock during the warm up tbf.

Phew, good thing I didn't try to get Sanchez in.

3 more left back substitutions to go.

Just wait for the plane leaflet drop at 4.00pm Would be amazing but the club might just use that as an excuse to replay the game in a closed venue or some shit like that.

Utterly pathetic, but more than half the banners will get through with any luck.

Not this s*** again. Ashley is a crap owner but he doesn't pick the team, dictate tactics or run training sessions. Ashley hasn't consistently picked inferior players (Smith, Perch, Gosling, Ameobi) when other options have been available to the detriment of the team and club as a whole. Ashley isn't the one who has shoehorned players into the team out of their natural positions, destroying their confidence and nullifying any threat they might have once offered. Ashley and Pardew are a good match for each other, they each cover the other's inadequacies but it has gone beyond the point now where Pardew is only holding back the club with his own shitness. Pardew is now the root cause of most of the team's issues and has to go. You ask why he should simply walk away since he has a contract? Because it's got the point where the crowd detest him, the players no longer give a f*** and even the media have started to wake up to his inabilities. If he walks away now he might still get another job in the Premiership or top end of the Championship, the longer he allows it to continue the more questions will be raised about his skills and fewer clubs will think him a potential asset. Walk away now and let the media run with the stories that it was Ashley's way of running the club that harmed the team, or carry on and let everyone know it was Pardew himself who couldn't organise a gangbang in a brothel. Mark Hughes or David O'Leary, pick a career path. I'm not saying that Pardew is innocent either, I just feel that Ashley is more to blame. Yes Pardew picks the team, but how much of a say does he have in the players at his disposal? He has shown in the past that he can get results when he has the right players. He is no scout, I doubt he even knows who half of the players we signed this summer actually are but we finished 5th with Pardew as a manager and a very average side tbh. But when Ashley decides he wants to sell our best player (by far) because he is far more interested in lining his own pockets than the fortunes of the football club. That is why, imo, Ashley is more to blame. So sick of this 'we finished 5th once so he must be good' sh*te. I really am. Ipswich have finished 5th with George Burley. Allardyce finished 6th with Bolton. Do you want either of them as manager (again in Fat Sam's case)? Is it qualification enough? Numpty fluked it, it can happen. He'll never manage it again and don't kid yourself or any one else gullible enough to listen that he can. I remember coming away from a lot of games that season thinking either it was a very evenly balanced game we were lucky to win, or that we have downright robbed the other team! The following season I don't think we were significantly worse, I don't think European football really affected us (we played the kids and reserves after all), we just didn't have fortune on our side the way we did in 11/12. That season was a pure fluke. I made plenty of noises after the 5th place finish that the way we were playing was going to make those results totally unsustainable. We had a quite a share of good fortune. We also very 'direct' in our play and relied a lot on the opposition making mistakes. Which they did. There was clearly no plan for evolving a system and style out of that fortunate finish. If there had been one we could used the fact that we looked like an attractive proposition given our league finish to sign the kind of players we would have needed to kick on. Newcastle Utd is nothing but a Sports Direct first Eleven. Just an advertising board for his tat. Ashley has absolutely zero sporting ambition. Not one iota. Agreed. One of the best examples of this is the away game at Swansea in 2012. We were absolutely bossed around for 90 minutes. Cisse scored 2 and we got three points. Redonkulous. I mean just look at the stats: http://www.fourfourtwo.com/statszone/8-2011/matches/360787/summary#tabs-wrapper-anchor LOOK AT THEM! 77% vs 23% possesion.... Eh, I'm no Pardew supporter but Swansea were crap that day. Most of the possession was backwards passes in the first two thirds of the pitch. They were absolutely awful in the final third and never looked like scoring. We were much more comfortable than those statistics suggest, they never really looked like scoring. We wouldn't have either if Cisse wasn't on a shit-hot streak, tbf.

Cough up 300 mil to buy the club then.

No one is advocating that we boo our players when they get the ball.

Fuck, I don't even care if we challenge the top 7/8, just a manager who has a smidgen of common sense, and isn't a total fucking dickhead would do. How I wish we could have Hughton back.

Ashley deserving blame doesn't mean Pardew gets absolved of blame. If turdface intends to hang on to his job, then we have every right to abuse the living daylights out of the asslicker. A side with a free scoring Papiss Cisse, with Demba Ba, Hatem Ben Arfa, Yohan Cabaye, and Tiote/Colo/Krul/Perch/Best (wait, can't remember if he was still there) all in form is a very average side? Is that the first Newcastle side you've ever seen? because that was easily the best squad we've had since Sir Bobby's days.

Ashley is such a w*****. I bet he saw the game on Saturday, the post-match interview and thought to himself "they have got to him. He'll jump and save me 500k from my 1.5bn. This is brilliant. He might even cry on Saturday." Can't wait.

What if hbarecall is right though? Having HBA back AND Pardew gone, can you imagine that?

Dammit <_< There's more common sense in that statement alone than everything we've seen from NUFC in the last year.

Most teams would have sacked him midway through the 2012-13 season, nevermind now, nearly 2 years later. We'd have to be delusional if we thought everything was going to be ok. A part of me wants that to happen, but I am genuinely worried about our survival. The new manager is going to need every game he can get to turn this around in time.

Bet his stats were horrible.

Dat triple quote. Alan Pardew could have the stadium solely filled with supporters who have bought into his brainwashing and it still won't change the fact that he is going to relegate us if he stays.

Fingers crossed that Ashley is just waiting for a suitable replacement before sacking the turd.

How the fuck is he not sacked yet?

Sounds like we've bought a more athletic version of Marveaux. How much better would we have looked if we built a team around our better players for a fucking change, but no, the vindictive cunt preemptively stopped that from ever happening.

Just can't take it like a man, can he? Even he must know that he's well and truly buried now.

Ashley doesn't care about people. I think Ashley is just going to goad him into walking "resign or get pelted with shit for the rest of the season, your choice".

Dude, you need to back off those shrooms.