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At least he could cross a ball. He could, but by the time he signed for us, he needed a fucking zimmer to get to the byline. I used to stand in the Milburn paddocks back then and the shit he would get was unreal. Always had a banter mind in fairness to him. Can't imagine Lightbulb Heed responding kindly to such warm greetings as 'geet ya shoulder down you fucking skinny cunt' or 'Sheedy ya that fucking slur me fucking granda could outrun ya', especially when fans were within 10 yards of the players, as they were back then.

Luckily nobody is. Laughable that people are comparing this situation to the Hughton one then, given that we're currently 6th only a couple of points off 5th, compared to 11th when we were by no means guaranteed of staying up. I didn't bring it up myself, but I suppose the reason it was is because of the point I made - a lot of people did start making out it was written in the stars and a good move to chuck someone who obviously lacked big team 'class'. It's them who need to justify why they won't want Pardew out if results don't pick up soon, because they should be consistent in talking patent bollocks. We weren't that far off 5th when Hughton went by the way, and guaranteed not to go down in my view. Moreso than now, even, not that I now expect us to in the slightest. Pointless comparing the two because Hughton was sacked because he wasn't a yes man. Same reason Shearer didn't get the job and the only reason Pardew did get the job. So, in that respect, football/results pretty much go out of the window.

I think getting Nolan out of midfield has helped the defence as we're not carrying a player who has the movement of the QE2 but you're right when we have our best players we defend better. Yup - agree on both counts. The downside being he should have been more aggresive on the Pieters/A.N Other Defender deal and maybe we wouldn't have thrown away points due to lack of depth.

This lad must be fuming. Seeing kids come on ahead of him. This won't end well.

Home crowd will turn on him within the month, he'll be getting the Kevin Sheedy treatment.

If he goes straight back in ahead of Santon and still no Ben Arfa and we don't get a result, things will start turning nasty. I should fucking hope so too.

The only positive I'd give him is that the work he put in over the summer on the defensive side of the team seems to have paid dividends, especially when you build in the Enrique loss. That's all he'll get from me though because I've never taken to the guy.

Had a NUFC/Swindon double on. Thanks lads.

Why did it take so long for him to get his start? Does Pardew walk around the training ground with his eyes closed?

After 50 minutes it was absolutely obvious that we needed a door opener on the pitch. His subs were fucking woeful. Think Sammy must be sucking AP off. Either that or giving him a go on his lass.

Fucking shite. Needs to find a trick and quick.

No, no, no....................the correct course of action is to wind him right up so he thinks he's in for a bumper commission. When he calls you with the price tell him you've been thinking about it and you'd actually like a conservatory aswell as the front door replacing and you want the best quality products they stock............money is no object. When he comes back, add another couple of bits on, the back door, the fucking kids wendy house the lot. Then, just before Christmas, after he's already spent the commission on his grubby red and white kids, you pull the plug telling him a MAG firm have undercut his lot by 51p. Get it done.

Sports Direct vocuhers more like.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16178900.stm Phil Brown booted from Preston. Shame it wasn't a couple of weeks ago, he could have made the sideways move to Sunderland.

Didn't Alex McLeish go for him when he was Brum manager?

Not everything in life is black and white sob, sob fucking sob but we'll advertise in a Newcastle based airport, referring to a Newcastle based team with some of the wording in black and white - obsessed? Not much. Wonder why the didn't stick an advert in their airport? Oh, wait.......................

Fucking hell - could end up wearing a bag if steriods etc don't work.

I don't see him developing into anything other than a mid-table (at best) full back and if the club do want to push on towards top 8 then we'll need a better RB. Wouldn't be bothered to see him go.

I'll go for 'JT'.

If, by that, you mean he didn't initially seem to be a cunt then I'm in agreement.

How has Neil Taylor being doing for your lot? How highly do you rate him? He's been playing very well, links well with Sinclair on the left. Highly rated really. We've lost a little on the right though with Angel Rangel being injured, he links well with Dyer. Routledge started instead of Dyer the last game. Ta. Oh well, another positive in terms of our scouts seemingly picking him out before he was too well known. Just a shame we couldn't nick him on the cheap/were prepared to pay what he was worth to you.

Is 29, will want big money and will have limited sell on potential. Yeah - that'll happen. 29? Thought he was like 25/26. But yeah, it's simply not going to happen and £10 million is a bit excessive as well. Yeah - he'll be near enough 29 - don't forget he played at Sheff Utd for a good few years before his move to Everton.

Is off to Spurs.

Is 29, will want big money and will have limited sell on potential. Yeah - that'll happen.

He's a young lad in a new country, playing in an unfamiliar league against two big lumps up front and a game plan of hitting the centre backs. Yeah - way to ruin his confidence. Have a word. Are you not worried about Perch and Simpson's confidence? Simpson has way more experience than Santon and I couldn't give a fuck if playing centre back ruins Perch's mental wellbeing for life.