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What a load of bollocks. How they've got the nerve to run that story. Howeh, this is Ashley. Nothing ridiculous and pathetic is ever definitely bollocks. The only reason he would sack Pardew is to stop us getting relegated, why on earth would he want to put a rookie in charge if we're in danger of going down? It's never going to happen man. Alan Shearer!

Time for change at Newcastle United, Alan Pardew has reached point of no return George Caulkin Updated 1 minute ago the game blog It is broken. Not frayed, but broken. Not hanging by a thread, but broken. Not fractured, but broken. The relationship between Alan Pardew and the supporters of Newcastle United can no longer be framed in terms of tension or discontent, grumbling or unease because, on the face of it, there is no longer a relationship to frame. There is a fissure at the heart of the football club which can neither be ignored or repaired. There is a point in the cycle when the conversation stops being about whether a manager can turn things around, whether he is motivating his players, whether he is good enough, bold enough or suited to the rhythm of his workplace and it starts being about timing. Amid the banners and slogans of fans who had travelled to Southampton on Saturday, the 4-0 defeat, the calls for dismissal, the mockery and derision, the sight of a coach rounding on fans, that point was crossed. There is nothing knee-jerk about Newcastle’s predicament. It is not a response to four league matches without victory, nor the team’s position at the foot of the Barclays Premier League. This is not because Pardew was born in London or because his club’s followers are a restless, seething mass of deluded sheet-daubers, although you could be forgiven for thinking that; it is a dull, old complaint, but fans remain the subject of witless stereotyping. This is about history. It is also about facts. Back in May, Newcastle won a match against Cardiff City 3-0, although victory proved a relative concept. The unrest began in the third minute, with a chant directed at Mike Ashley, the owner. There were two organised walkouts, in the 60th and 69th minutes, accompanied by chants of “We want Pardew out” and “Alan Pardew, it’s never you fault.” Pardew, who had recently been banished from the touchline, was beaten back again by a surge of vitriol. At any other stage of the season, his position would have been intolerable; episodes such as that are rare, but they linger in the memory and trust, faith and understanding had been forsaken. What worked in Pardew’s favour was the full stop provided by the end of the season, an opportunity to turn a page and begin afresh. Nine players were signed in the summer. Pardew spoke about the “new Newcastle United.” But, the context for the Southampton result is deep. Over the course of 2014, Newcastle have won five games in the league; stack up the numbers and it is relegation form. In nine of those 23 matches, 15 of which have been lost, they have conceded three goals or more, while their biggest victory, 4-1 at Hull City, came with Pardew earning an official warning, a fine of £100,000 and a long suspension from the touchline over his boorish altercation with David Meyler. The 53-year-old is the second longest-serving manager in the division, but only once has Pardew led Newcastle beyond the third round of the FA Cup, while his record in the Capital One Cup is little better. He has presided over three consecutive defeats to Sunderland, the club’s local rivals, a dubious achievement last achieved in 1924. There are a welter of other statistics, but there is also the evidence of the eyes. Impatience does not taint that evidence. There is a great lie about Newcastle supporters - Sunderland, too - and it centres on the word “expectation”. It implies grandeur, ideas above their station, a stubborn refusal to accept reality. There is nothing wrong with pushing for improvement - if you finish sixth one year, why not hope for fifth the next? - and if you have a crowd of 52,000 where is the crime in ambition, but “expectation” has become a handy excuse for failed managers. It is also rubbish. When Newcastle stir, it is worth listening, simply because it happens so infrequently. If Newcastle fans express concern at their manager, then you pay attention because loyalty clings to them like guilt. There have been spasms of anger, but there was no revolution when Ashley’s decisions propelled the club towards relegation, when the name of the stadium was changed, when Joe Kinnear came and went. If there is fury now, it means something. It means something because the reality of Newcastle is not ferment or turmoil. It is the opposite. If they have been threatened with anything, it is by the stealth of apathy, an acceptance of their lot, an existence made up of “priorities”, by the dash for ninth, where the Europa League is an inconvenience. Where a sporting institution straining for glory has been replaced by a works’ team which plods on for the sake of it, recycling money. It is no longer mitigation to say that Pardew is a decent manager; if he is, he is not showing it. It is no longer mitigation to say that Newcastle finished fifth in 2012; they did, but so what? It is no longer mitigation to say the devil you know is better than the one you don’t; little (more Kinnear apart) could be less rewarding than this. And, it is no longer mitigation to say that Ashley is the problem; he may be, but for the next two years, he is staying put. When the Pardew era is judged, the structure of the club will be a contributing factor. Good managers challenge; they challenge players to improve and challenge owners to invest, but Ashley does not want to be challenged. The delineation of duties between manager and Graham Carr, the influential chief scout, has never been precise enough, while their transfer policy can simultaneously be worthy, uncompromising and flawed. It is not Pardew’s fault that Kinnear was a risible appointment as director of football, that two windows opened and shut without Newcastle making a permanent signing. It was not his doing that Yohan Cabaye was sold in January, robbing his team of its creative fulcrum. It is not down to him that a frontline replacement for Loïc Rémy was not found. If Rémy Cabella has not yet settled and Siem de Jong is injured, can he be held accountable? Yet Pardew fell out with Hatem Ben Arfa and dispatched him to Hull City on-loan; the France international, prickly but popular, was deemed an asset, explanations were not given and the propaganda battle lost. Because Pardew is the only public face at Newcastle, each word he utters is poured over and picked apart and even if his tone is reasonable, it is the other stuff that grasps the attention. He is tarnished by association. In the final analysis, results have been so miserable that sympathy has leeched away; the matters Pardew cannot control are now overshadowed by results, his core responsibility. Those results could turn, but Cardiff and Southampton have illustrated that pressing the reset button will not do much and if it means the manager being stricken in his dugout or his assistant breaking off from a warm-up session to remonstrate with supporters, then something has been lost. The decision, when it comes, will be Ashley’s and, having banned journalists who wrote last week that Pardew had two games to save his job, the only indication is reassuring for the manager, but the worth of that may be limited; gambling is second-nature to the owner, but he will not risk another relegation. That is the bottom line and Ashley cares most about the bottom line, but the cry from the stands is now loud and constant: it is time for change.

Guardian This season the fans’ disgruntlement has been exacerbated by Pardew’s controversial decision to loan Hatem Ben Arfa– a France international with whom he had fallen out – to Hull. Under the terms of that deal Ben Arfa cannot play on Saturday but Bruce is thought to be contemplating putting the Frenchman in Hull dugout.

Harsh to compare players when one was allowed to attack and play his natural game and the other was nullified and made to track-back IMHO

Good luck to him tomorrow night and I hope he's there next week preferably with the 'hope' banner!

I'm Colo's biggest fan but he had a nightmare yesterday (well 1st half)! Mind, if a centre half has to be dropped then it's Williamson who was far worse!

Big mention in this week's true faith Saturday Special email; SACKPARDEW.COM I’ll be honest, I winced when I read news of this site. Let me state, categorically on record that I’ve wanted shot of Pardew for the last 18 months and nothing would give me greater satisfaction than his booting down Barrack Road. My reservations, however, were that the site would be bit childish and a bit ‘Soccer AM’. In actual fact, it’s clear that someone has gone to a lot of effort to put it together. It certainly isn’t the finished article and at the time of writing, it mysteriously seems to be offline but the sentiment is clear. It’s being expressed more vocally and more visibly by supporters as time goes on – I’ve read various criticisms of the site as being ‘divisive’ which to me speaks volumes of where the United support is at present. More of that to come, but there seems to me to be four camps in SJP these days and I’ll attempt to categorise them for you. I would estimate that around 40% of the support are of the ‘seriously pissed off with the current regime and prepared to vocalise it’ and that this number is increasing. 20% are the ‘Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil’ supporters who won’t have a word said against the club and are categorised by booing the HBA chants and spinning the current situation in a positive light. 10% are what I would class as militantly anti-Ashley/Pardew – the flag makers and fans who walked out against Cardiff last season would bear this figure out whilst the remaining 30% are folk that really aren’t that arsed and just go along to the match for a few pints and a bit crack. Interestingly, other than the rigidly pro-anything United, I actually think that supporters are oscillating between the other three categories. Speaking for myself, I’ve probably moved from pissed off, to ‘militant’ to now heading towards being so sick of the whole charade that I’m veering towards the ‘sod them, they’re not going to spoil meeting my mates for a pint and I actually couldn’t give that much of a fuck about the manager/players/team/set up’. Sad, but true.

@Joey7Barton: Pistorius got bail? I slapped up a couple of lippy teenagers and got 10 days on remand! He smoked his GF with a shotgun? Gets Bail?? #mental

In 18 months time, Rangers might have secured a Champions League spot!

Southampton are 5/6 to win and 2/1 -1!

Is it just me who finds the whole debt issue a load of bollocks?! He bought the club without doing due diligence so it was HIS fault that he was apparently unaware of debts totaling around £67m. Then, through HIS various fuck-ups (mainly four managers in one season which led to relegation), the debt has spiraled to £130m. He initially had to cover it because HIS investment would have gone down the pan so why should that fat wanker be entitled to claw it back?!

He can do a job on the wings too mate! The photo on the link is why he hates Lennon as he got him sent off! Ha ha! http://www.gateshead-fc.com/5042/gateshead-sign-striker-carl-finnigan Gateshead Sign Striker Carl Finnigan 11/09/2014, by Gateshead FC Gateshead have signed former Newcastle United reserve and academy striker Carl Finnigan until the end of the season. The club are still awaiting international clearance for the 27-year-old, who was released by South African side Chippa United in June. Jarrow-born Finnigan has also enjoyed spells north of the border with Falkirk, St Johnstone and Dundee. Finnigan scored 59 goals in 102 appearances for Newcastle's reserve side but failed to make a first-team appearance before signing for Scottish Premier League club Falkirk in 2007. He found the net 27 times in 128 appearances in four-and-a-half years with the Bairns and joined St Johnstone in 2011. Loaned to Dundee in February 2012, Finnigan scored three goals in five games, and the transfer was made permanent that summer. He moved to South Africa last year and signed for Port-Elizabeth-based side Chippa United following a successful trial before returning to the north east to link up with Gateshead.

Just been on Tyne Tees News; "That's news to me (about Ashley selling) - there's no suggestion or sign at all. He's obviously given us money to spend this summer and his commitment to the club is as strong as it has ever been" Ha ha ha ha! Fuck off!

100% mate!

He's absolutely brilliant. I hope not......... @lee_ryder: Despite reports this morning told that Alan Pardew's job not under any immediate threat at #nufc

Aarons injured!

A mate of mine has just signed a one year deal – Carl Finnigan. He was on NUFC’s books when younger and had spells at Falkirk and Dundee and was over in South Africa last season! Cracking lad and player and hopefully the full summer of playing 7 a side with us a few times a week has kept him in good shape and nick

Ahaaaa, so Lee Ryder a respected, in-the-know journalist now then?

Edwards was but I think they allowed him back in. I wonder if this is an attempt by the club to quell the anti-Pardew stuff? Nail on head mate!

I hate this s****! It's all down to the humongous increase of media revenue which that fat w***** has ZERO control over! All other revenue streams are down since he bought us! "Newcastle are in excellent financial shape thanks to the prudency of the Ashley regime"

Nice of NUFC to publish an article about it! http://mobile.nufc.co.uk/default.aspx?s=news-display&aid=4133491

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/former-newcastle-united-star-lee-7747354 Lee Clark has revealed that Hatem Ben Arfa showed a courteous and respectful attitude after Birmingham City’s bid to take him to the Championship. The Chronicle reported on August 30 that Blues chief Clark was keen on the playmaker and eager to offer him a spot in his Birmingham XI. But Ben Arfa resisted the move and landed a loan deal to Hull City instead. Clark, though, insisted he was serious about bringing Ben Arfa to the second city. He said: “I contacted (first team coach) Steve Stone to find out about his availability. I then spoke to (managing director) Lee Charnley and asked about Ben Arfa to see if we could do anything. “They came back to say that he wanted to stay in the Premier League but the player appreciated our interest and thanked us for it. “Unfortunately, we couldn’t get that one done either. “But if you don’t ask these questions then you are never going to know.”

TF = True Faith? They banned me from their group for sharing a link to the SackPardew website the other day the daft c***s. Seriously?! I'm one of the several admin on there and I'm surprised at that!

That egg-chasing weekend has been confirmed! The boozers in Town should be fun that weekend! http://mobile.nufc.co.uk/default.aspx?s=news-display&aid=4132603