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Pardew trying by any means to get more cloggers in.

"But Mike he's free, and he's a Geordie!"

Fully expect him to be in the team ahead of Anita next season a la Perch.

On Boxing Day Pardew's Newcastle were 3 points behind Liverpool and 17 ahead of Palace. By April 20 Newcasle were 34 points behind Liverpool and 3 Points ahead of Palace.

I can't even imagine a time we were ever within three points of Liverpool.

Martinez at Wigan dared to try to play despite a much less talented squad, particularly in defence, hence their continued struggles at the wrong end of the table. If he had one fault at Wigan, it was never getting decent defenders in, which didn't make much sense. people like Caldwell and Alcatraz were just strange.

Aside from that, his Wigan teams always looked great going forward, and more importantly played with lots of confidence and freedom. They also had some great performances and results against far better teams. He clearly has a more winning mentality, which is more suited to a more talented team. With better players he was always going to do much better.

Looking at the current Newcastle team in comparison to Everton's current team, and believe it or not we are not that far off in terma of talent. If he was managing us right now, we'd be in and around where Everton are at the moment, no question.

Remy would be tearing it up still, Cisse would be scoring regularly, Ben Arfa would be going nuts, Gouffran would be like Naismith has been for them etc etc etc.

What was that stat about never winning the match if we were behind at half-time?

 

We've never won a match if we've been behind at half time.

60(us)/40 (HBA)

 

Think his lack of application and poor attitude in his younger days has stopped him from becoming a world class player at a club like Real, Bayern, Barcelona etc.

 

And we have failed to capitalise on this.

Can't wait to see that table after Liverpool and Arsenal have bummed us.

Pardew's winning sideline mentality though.

Who are our senior officials?

They probably ran into a drunk Kinnear on holiday in Portugal, still claiming to represent the club.

Considering how much Allardyce loves anything over 6ft tall, you really have to marvel at the fact that even he couldn't see any use for Shola. That really is damning.

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Could you please start a blog or something with each of these pearls of wisdom.

This stuff needs to be made available for mass consumption.

Pay as you play deal? I don't want him around if he is willing to play for free.

Just his presence in and around the team has started to grate. Enough injuries will always somehow occur, to force him back into the reckoning.

Or the manager will continue to use him as some bastion of leadership and character, with which to goad Ben Arfa, or any other talented player who dares to have any flair.

The instant sign of a bad manager is that they value Shola in any capacity.

 

Sir Bobby liked him

 

To be fair that's when he was just coming through and maybe looked mobile.

I love the use of the word "looked" in that sentence.

The instant sign of a bad manager is that they value Shola in any capacity.

 

Sir Bobby liked him

Didn't he think he was Carl Cort?

Scholes strikes me as the type of person that thinks what he does is simple. I watched an interview with him and Gary Neville and he was asked about becoming a manager and his entire idea on how to play football was "score goals, score more goals than the other team"

Wonder if he'd be up for replacing Pardew.

Shola's contract talks ...

Shola: "Can I have a new contract?"

Any available club official: "No"

Why does this have to wait until the end of the season?

The youth team I believe.

Giggs, Butt, Phil and now Scholes. They're getting the old band back together!

Any predictions on how the final few games will go? Can you imagine if they start tearing it up? The press will start clamouring for a permanent Giggs, or start touting him for other jobs, or maybe the Wales gig. Won't make Moyes look too great either.

The instant sign of a bad manager is that they value Shola in any capacity.

 

That's twice today that I've agreed with you. I feel uncomfortable.

Don't feel that way. I'm actually quite highly rated around here.

The instant sign of a bad manager is that they value Shola in any capacity.

He's been here 14 years, had over 300 appearances and he's scored less goals than Andy Cole did in the year and a half he was with us.

 

f***ing hell.

That really is disgusting.

There was some right condescending s*** thrown at those of us who knew how awful he was back then mind. f***ing Inochi the worst of the lot.

 

Not to name names.

Inochi was just ridiculously rude and condescending, over Pardew of all things. It was nuts.

This guy is such a freakin' nuisance. My goodness.

He's a terrible manager! He wasn't strong enough to tell Ba he would be staying on the left for the team's benefit, and so tried to play both him and Cisse upfront, which never worked.

He then went even more boneheaded, and started playing Cisse wide instead of Ba, because again he wasn't strong enough to manage Ba. It's essentially been downhill from then on.

Even with the start of a new season and Remy essentially coming in to replace Ba. He's never thought to go back to that formation with Remy on the left, and stick to it, especially as Remy has looked great on the left when he's played there.

He's completely clueless, there's no doubt about it. I honestly don't know how he's a manager. He isn't aware of what works well for the team, and never learns from past experiences. He's just really stupid. Ironic that he keeps harping on about needing smarter middle class players, as he's the one that is very unintelligent.

Tough running drills? Are you actually kidding me?

This guy couldn't be anymore archaic. Disgustingly out of his depth.

This moron is definitely one of those clowns that just makes players run and run and run, and then work on defensive shape and set pieces.

Get him out please.

One of my favourite bits of Pardaganda...

 

"I don't feel particularly great, it was a tough day. They looked like a team who had worked all week on us and we looked like a team that had a really tough game on Thursday night. It was a great day for Sunderland and an awful day for us.

 

“We couldn’t match them. They had an energy level above us. In the end, a couple of good saves from their goalie and a couple of wonder strikes, have made a horrible result for us.

 

"You’re looking at the team, and you just know that ain’t our team. We looked tired in the mind and tired in the body. I’m not making excuses for me or the team, but I don’t think you needed to be a professional to know that one team looked really fresh, and one didn’t.

 

“We still had a big chance in that game. If the linesman had given that (Papiss Cisse) goal suddenly a goal can do wondrous things to your energy levels.

 

“Three or four players ... you have to (ask) whether they could play that game. Mapou (Yanga-Mbwia) and (Yohan) Cabaye, in particular, looked really tired. You don’t really know until you get out there.

 

"I think they (the derby debutants) got it but if you’re not at your full battery levels, it’s difficult to put that out of the pitch. Sometimes your levels are such that you just can’t match the opposition.

 

"That was a tough decision (not to start with left back Massadio Haidara). He is a young boy and I wanted to play a bit of experience, people who I I think know the game and with hindsight, perhaps I should have played him. I didn’t think he could get through that after Thursday’s match, his first game back, also get the intensity of it.

 

“Maybe if Tim (Krul) hadn’t got injured at that crucial point, it could have been 1-1, and we could have had an extra sub with extra energy. We could have brought on an extra offensive or defensive player, or whatever we needed. That got taken away. It was a game that really didn’t work out for us.

 

"I will make sure it hurts the players. We've got to do some work with the team. There's no Europa League left and we need to make sure we get our shape right and get ourselves disciplined and try to win games.

 

"This (result) won't leave me because it's our home and we don't want to get beaten by our rivals."

 

He's not making excuses about tiredness though.

Full battery levels

"I watched him at 17 years of age at Wembley for Denmark and I rang [Tottenham chairman] Daniel Levy the day after and said that he needed to sign this boy - £10 million later he is finally here, so that is all good news." - Tim Sherwood, April 2014

 

"I’ve never played at Wembley." - Christian Eriksen, March 2014

 

Redknapp mk 2.

blagger.