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Newcastle Utd isn't "an ugly fucker" though. We deserve better, really we do! Is this battered husband syndrome? Oh but it is. If you think Joe Kinnear and Mike Ashley are attractive to any manager worth his salt you are incorrect. Harry Redknapp knew.

Basically, my wife is a shit cook, the house is a mess but she's canny in bed and I'm an ugly fucker. I ain't about to dump the bitch cos she's not Cindy Crawford.

A season ticket holder saw Newcastle win 33% more games than a Swansea season ticket holder last year. But I know facts tend to cloud the issue so I apologise for mentioning it. "Last year" isn't the same as last season. Is this another one of your creative uses of stats? No. I meant last season. We won 9 at home. They won 6. Its a pointless discussion. Like being asked who would win a fight between the grufallo and sasquatch. I named several other PL managers I wouldn't be fussed on at the same time. It's really not worth pages of discussion. I'd rather win 6 at home but finish 8th, than win 9 and finish 16th. Besides they collected only 2 pts less than us at home, and lost 4 less than we did. Stats are just utter bollocks, and another excuse to give Pardew. You seem to have missed the point of Willie's argument. He only goes to watch a team that plays to win. The fact that Swansea drew more games than we did is of no interest to him. Newcastle won more than them so as someone that wants to see winning football he got his moneys worth more with Newcastle. More than he would any team outside the top 6. You seem to think stats mean more, and the major point that flies over your head like a fucking polaris missile is......you seem to think stats are more important than someones eyes and knowledge of the game. While i agree this season (Hull and Man City games apart imo) we have certainly played a lot better, i say that as a massive Pardew hater (as some call it) but i cant deny what my eyes and football knowledge tell about the football this season, it is much better. Last season we were dreadful, no amount of stats can change that. Percentage wins, wins at home, lalalalala. And saying Wullie got his moneys worth in fucking insulting with the standard of football served up. Wullie should have got a refund, and bought a drink, and a pie, and a cab home. Whatever Willie tells you, he would not be happy if we failed to win 13 games at home as long as we played nice tippy tappy stuff. I've never once made the case that stats show we play good football. Anything I have presented has been to counter a specific misrepresentation of the facts of what Pardew's failings have been suggested to be, over and above tactical naivety and a failure to have a team play as a unit. I am used to watching shit football at Newcastle. Very few managers have put together fluid attacking teams in the 20+ years I've been going. It's not something I expect it's something I appreciate when it happens. It should happen when a manager is given all the backing he needs. I have no illusions about ANY manager pulling it off while his paymasters seem to be actively working against him. Mate, no one likes Pardew's paymasters, but that's no reason to excuse rank bad management and coaching when it's there in front of your eyes. Allardyce failed here because he had no idea how to use footballers who weren't suited to his limited long ball game. Since he got sacked, has he proven anybody wrong that doubted he could step it up a level? I'm sure you could make a case though that he had a better home record than Laudrup so he must be a better manager. Misrepresentation.

Which is why he is the sort of bloke the club can tick along under until Ashley has his money back. Very few would put up with the lack of investment and the installation of Joe Kinnear over their head. I reckon Laudrup would have walked. He's not been known for sticking with clubs. Sorry Willie. On me phone so swipe changes your name automatically.

A season ticket holder saw Newcastle win 33% more games than a Swansea season ticket holder last year. But I know facts tend to cloud the issue so I apologise for mentioning it. "Last year" isn't the same as last season. Is this another one of your creative uses of stats? No. I meant last season. We won 9 at home. They won 6. Its a pointless discussion. Like being asked who would win a fight between the grufallo and sasquatch. I named several other PL managers I wouldn't be fussed on at the same time. It's really not worth pages of discussion. I'd rather win 6 at home but finish 8th, than win 9 and finish 16th. Besides they collected only 2 pts less than us at home, and lost 4 less than we did. Stats are just utter bollocks, and another excuse to give Pardew. You seem to have missed the point of Willie's argument. He only goes to watch a team that plays to win. The fact that Swansea drew more games than we did is of no interest to him. Newcastle won more than them so as someone that wants to see winning football he got his moneys worth more with Newcastle. More than he would any team outside the top 6. You seem to think stats mean more, and the major point that flies over your head like a fucking polaris missile is......you seem to think stats are more important than someones eyes and knowledge of the game. While i agree this season (Hull and Man City games apart imo) we have certainly played a lot better, i say that as a massive Pardew hater (as some call it) but i cant deny what my eyes and football knowledge tell about the football this season, it is much better. Last season we were dreadful, no amount of stats can change that. Percentage wins, wins at home, lalalalala. And saying Wullie got his moneys worth in fucking insulting with the standard of football served up. Wullie should have got a refund, and bought a drink, and a pie, and a cab home. Whatever Willie tells you, he would not be happy if we failed to win 13 games at home as long as we played nice tippy tappy stuff. I've never once made the case that stats show we play good football. Anything I have presented has been to counter a specific misrepresentation of the facts of what Pardew's failings have been suggested to be, over and above tactical naivety and a failure to have a team play as a unit. I am used to watching shit football at Newcastle. Very few managers have put together fluid attacking teams in the 20+ years I've been going. It's not something I expect it's something I appreciate when it happens. It should happen when a manager is given all the backing he needs. I have no illusions about ANY manager pulling it off while his paymasters seem to be actively working against him.

A season ticket holder saw Newcastle win 33% more games than a Swansea season ticket holder last year. But I know facts tend to cloud the issue so I apologise for mentioning it. "Last year" isn't the same as last season. Is this another one of your creative uses of stats? No. I meant last season. We won 9 at home. They won 6. Its a pointless discussion. Like being asked who would win a fight between the grufallo and sasquatch. I named several other PL managers I wouldn't be fussed on at the same time. It's really not worth pages of discussion. I'd rather win 6 at home but finish 8th, than win 9 and finish 16th. Besides they collected only 2 pts less than us at home, and lost 4 less than we did. Stats are just utter bollocks, and another excuse to give Pardew. You seem to have missed the point of Willie's argument. He only goes to watch a team that plays to win. The fact that Swansea drew more games than we did is of no interest to him. Newcastle won more than them so as someone that wants to see winning football he got his moneys worth more with Newcastle. More than he would any team outside the top 6.

The gruffalo is a soft shite. He got done by a mouse.

A season ticket holder saw Newcastle win 33% more games than a Swansea season ticket holder last year. But I know facts tend to cloud the issue so I apologise for mentioning it. "Last year" isn't the same as last season. Is this another one of your creative uses of stats? No. I meant last season. We won 9 at home. They won 6. Its a pointless discussion. Like being asked who would win a fight between the grufallo and sasquatch. I named several other PL managers I wouldn't be fussed on at the same time. It's really not worth pages of discussion.

A season ticket holder saw Newcastle win 33% more games than a Swansea season ticket holder last year. But I know facts tend to cloud the issue so I apologise for mentioning it. Do season ticket holders only watch home games like? Which one do you think enjoyed the season more? Swansea finishing ahead of Newcastle under any circumstances is an utter disgrace. I'm a season ticket holder who went to every game (24, 25?) and only enjoyed two. The stuff we serve up is utterly miserable. You have a very strange attitude to the game. I'm the same. Every home game for 10 year. And loads more in the 10 years prior. The football now is on the whole not as disappointing as that under Allardyce, Roeder, Souness, Kinnear or Shearer.

A season ticket holder saw Newcastle win 33% more games than a Swansea season ticket holder last year. But I know facts tend to cloud the issue so I apologise for mentioning it.

The question was asked of me who I'd rather stick with Pardew over bringing in from the other premier league clubs. I said I'd be ambivalent about laudrup. He may well get us playing some prettier stuff. But he's not got a track record that puts Pardew in the shade by any means. He's not stayed the course with any of his last 4 clubs either. Anyone scoffing and insisting he'd be a guaranteed long term appointment to bring success to NUFC is talking out their arse because its all rhetorical opinion making.

..and the Mallorca squad was back to it's best the year after when they finished 8th?

"excuses"

He had a pop in May that the Europa league was no excuse for dwindling league form. But Laudrup did no better at Getafe. UEFA quarter finals and 14th. It was their worst finish sinnce being promoted back to the Primera Liga. Having not failed to finish top half for years previous. He had similar problems in a relegation battle at Mallorca in his one season there. Finished 1 point clear of relegation with a club who finished 5th the year before he arrived and 8th the next year without him.

Because i don't cut off my nose to spite my face. You need to think decisions like that through to their logical conclusion. Would his replacement be an improvement? Would he get money to spend? Would he handle Ben Arfa as well? Would he handle the Kinnear situation as well? etc. I don't see why it's too difficult to answer yes to all of those questions if you hire an intelligent manager who hasn't got a huge reputation yet. Like who, man?! I've seen you post this a few times now. Who is Mike Ashley going to employ? I would get Poyet in, I don't know how many times I have to keep saying it. Would Mike Ashley? How the fuck would I know? Poyet hasn't got an ounce of the self restraint Pardew has shown to keep the club on an even keel. Poyet would be shitting on desks and slating the chairman in no time. Is that a fact? I would have thought the chance to manage a top premier league club and top players would bring some perspective with it as well. I would prefer a manager who had some ambition tbh, rather than a PR merchant like Pardew who will pick up his wages and read from the script. Course its not a fact. You don't know how he'd do any more than I do. I just see him in the di canio mould of cock end. So based on not very much then. Yes he looks a bit arrogant, but he was generally well regarded by Brighton fans from what I saw on their forums, and his side certainly put in a lot more effort and played the better football when we played them twice in the space of a year. Nothing more than you've based him being an improvement on. Pardew had a pretty similar record at Reading to Poyet at Brighton....only better.

You reckon he'll change his footballing philosophy because of a few extra games? It's not a question of his philosophy changing. I don't think it will. More having the players to keep playing it for an extra dozen games and whether the opposition get the measure of them. I don't like the bloke. Slagging off Pardew when he's not done 2 seasons anywhere since Brondby seemed twatish. Maybe he can keep it going at Swansea. He's not shown that capacity anywhere else yet though.

Because i don't cut off my nose to spite my face. You need to think decisions like that through to their logical conclusion. Would his replacement be an improvement? Would he get money to spend? Would he handle Ben Arfa as well? Would he handle the Kinnear situation as well? etc. I don't see why it's too difficult to answer yes to all of those questions if you hire an intelligent manager who hasn't got a huge reputation yet. Like who, man?! I've seen you post this a few times now. Who is Mike Ashley going to employ? I would get Poyet in, I don't know how many times I have to keep saying it. Would Mike Ashley? How the fuck would I know? Poyet hasn't got an ounce of the self restraint Pardew has shown to keep the club on an even keel. Poyet would be shitting on desks and slating the chairman in no time. Is that a fact? I would have thought the chance to manage a top premier league club and top players would bring some perspective with it as well. I would prefer a manager who had some ambition tbh, rather than a PR merchant like Pardew who will pick up his wages and read from the script. Course its not a fact. You don't know how he'd do any more than I do. I just see him in the di canio mould of cock end.

Because i don't cut off my nose to spite my face. You need to think decisions like that through to their logical conclusion. Would his replacement be an improvement? Would he get money to spend? Would he handle Ben Arfa as well? Would he handle the Kinnear situation as well? etc. I don't see why it's too difficult to answer yes to all of those questions if you hire an intelligent manager who hasn't got a huge reputation yet. Like who, man?! I've seen you post this a few times now. Who is Mike Ashley going to employ? I would get Poyet in, I don't know how many times I have to keep saying it. Would Mike Ashley? How the fuck would I know? Poyet hasn't got an ounce of the self restraint Pardew has shown to keep the club on an even keel. Poyet would be shitting on desks and slating the chairman in no time.

Because i don't cut off my nose to spite my face. You need to think decisions like that through to their logical conclusion. Would his replacement be an improvement? Would he get money to spend? Would he handle Ben Arfa as well? Would he handle the Kinnear situation as well? etc.

What are you basing that on? Career Pardew 42.44% Win (50.89% points) Allardyce 40.05% Win (49.03% points)

Allardyce won 42.7% of league points over 21 games here. Pardew has won 45.31% £6m on Alan Smith man!!

Pardew has a better record than Allardyce and Hughton had when they were here before. With Hughton I think it's like for like. With Allardyce I Can't imagine anyone that watched his football when he was last here wanting to watch it again. Aren't West ham and Norwich fans both voicing dissent and wanting rid? I knew Laudrup would get that reaction. See how he copes with this season in the Europa after having a dig at Pardew, then I'll eat my words.

24 hours late I wouldn't swap Pardew for Bruce, Allardyce, Hughton, Hughes or Di Canio. I would be ambivalent about Mackay, Laudrup or Clarke.

I never saw the Villa game, but all accounts have been positive. Once Remy got on we tore Fulham apart too. And even the naysayers are insisting we were all over Hull, at least until going ahead. We just aren't going to dominate entire matches from start to finish and need to make dominance count while we have it. The defence are (rightly) getting a lot of stick following Saturday, but after conceding one in three previously, I wouldn't start tinkering yet.