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There's looking awful and there's not even looking like a professional footballer, this guy is the latter right now.

If MYM had played like he did today and made basic individual errors that cost us 2 goals, he would have been hauled off. This guy seems to get away with murder.

The whole team sucked today, Haidara and to a lesser extent Sissoko were the only ones showing any fight or will to win. What does the team captain here do to ensure motivation is high and they are focused on the task. He's not a captain, a captain is a vocal leader of men or a leader by example, he's clearly neither of those.

He has been absolutely terrible in his first 4 games, absolutely nothing to get excited about, nothing to justify even his small transfer fee. Scouting network needs to look at themselves and question WTF they were thinking that this guy could lead our line in the PL. Now he may need time to settle in and I'm sure Pardew's coaching has had an impact but there are zero signs there, zero signs that he has any ability to improve.

The 4th goal was the first time, I have ever cheered a goal scored against Newcastle United, I was sure he couldn't survive after that went in, but I have my doubts now as realisation of his pally relationship with the owner sets in. He'll be in the dug out against Hull, and we'll probably win unfortunately and he'll save his job, this "needs to get a win in the next few games" line will be rolled out again and again, and he'll keep finding a friendly fixture like the next one to get himself out of jail, until it gets to a point when it's too late to save the season, then maybe then Ashley will act.

Probably been told that they will be banned if they ask any tough questions related to the club. It's all probably scripted nonsense.

LOL that's pretty funny, very un Ian like, this coming out doing you good

Nikos actually looked pretty good, laid on the ball for Cole to score our first ever PL goal, in the 1-1 at Manure. Then he just disappeared from the first team, I think there was a falling out with KK, much like Imre Varadi back in the day, if you believed the rumours.

I'm not to up to date on Bird's opinions, where's he at right now ?

He also took us to 2nd in his first half season with us. He did a great job initially. He also signed Gary Speed and Nolberto Solano, so he wasn't all bad. I love KK to bits but KK bought for the now, not the future and there was a need to replace and renew, however the way Dalglish went about it was a little heavy handed but at the end of the day what killed it all for Dalglish was Shearer's injury, selling Les looked on paper like an awful move (even though we got 6million for a 30 year old, who went on to have a lot of injuries himself at Spuds). Ian Rush was a desperate move to cover this situation, if Shearer had not got injured, John Dahl Thomasson I'm pretty sure would not have been the flop he was with us and who knows how good that partnership would have been. He did buy a lot of crap too, like Andres Anderson and such but I always thought John Barnes did I good job for us and Stuart Pearce was another veteran signing that was not all that bad, I think one of his last signings was Dietmar Hamman, who in his short time with us I thought was our best player. People turned against Dalglish for two things, the selling of Les (they seem to bottle this up as replacing great with old crap like Rush but it was really only one sale, Les's replacement was JDT but Shearer's injury disrupted it all), and the style of play, and that was huge, we went from swashbuckling attacking football, to trudged Pardewesq negative football. That swing was massive, coupled with lack of success in the league and he was a dead man walking after we lost the cup final. In fact the appointment of Guillet was sold to us on the back of retunring to those days, who would bring with him "sexy football".

I think it's very brave of Ian, I'm sure I speak for all of us on here to say, we'll be there for you and we'll not judge.

Avatar Ian W • 2 hours ago I think it's an excellent idea. Anything that exposes his lies and ineptitude is a very good thing. I hate him (and myself) with every fiber of my being and can't wait for him be be sacked. I'm gay. 24 • Reply•Share › LOL, was this really you Ian ? http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/mark-douglas-alan-pardew-caught-7741436

Awesome work, this is what we need to crank up that pressure.

He looks a right twat even back then.

I love Seattle's stadium, look at the crowd in that photo, do they really fill out for real football games ? The crowd there in seattle for the handoval games are really passionate, really tough place to go for opposition teams.

Dunno what everyone is worried about, there's really only 2 things wrong with the team right now. We can't defend and we don't score enough goals. Only minor issues and easy peasy fixes there But instead of resolving those two issues we decide to sell the only senior CB we have that is likely to get any better and the most naturally gifted player on our books, you really couldn't make this shit up.

Did Ian just call someone else an apologist

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/transfer-deadline-day-updates-live-7697279 14:49 Comment, someone we know on here

4, there are some dross in the division, having said that we've played two of them and failed to win on both occassions. The longer Pardew remains in charge the bigger my number will get.

He's not going to get sacked off his mate, if Ashley had wanted rid he had the perfect opportunity after the Hull headbutt, but he chose to retain him. The problem with hoping we lose so this guy gets the boot is, it could take a whole lot of losing to get to that stage, by which time we could be in serious trouble. This club doesn't need another relegation. Our best hope is if he gets himself involved in another touchline incident, we need to pay some opposition player or manager to provoke him

On the evidence of just one game, he doesn't seem to get himself involved enough in the game as a midfielder, you need more from a number 10 than he offered, didn't help the other midfielders out at all from a defensive stand point. I'm not sure on this evidence if he really has a position he can play in, in this league. He's not a striker and not really a midfielder. Hopefully this is just a little rustiness from missing so much of pre season and he gets better, he looks decent when he gets on the ball but doesn't get on it enough.

2 points from these opening 3 fixtures is pretty bad, especially when 2 were at home and 2 were against teams who will be in around the lower reaches come the end of the season. I wonder at what point if any he becomes vulnerable. The next 3 games with similar set of results ? I doubt it. Those hoping for us to lose to put more pressure on him are sadly mistaken. The only way he'll be sacked is if Ashley is losing money because we have been relegated. We are stuck with him until a new owner comes along

Damn he's weird looking, no chin or eyebrows. Looks like beaker from the muppets. http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101015151246/muppet/images/0/05/Beaker.jpg

Princess Mary's for me like. Me > you. Yep me too, don't think it's there anymore, so pretty exclusive club we are in.

That's an important point, you do need experience back there, but you also benefit from some youth especially with the pace in the modern game. Means we have to sit deeper, so as not to be exposed, perhaps thats some way of explaining Pardew's negative set up. We've got some promising youngsters though and the kid at forest of course, but we've not got the coaching to bring that through unfortunately.