Chris_R

I don't get this "I pay their wages, I have a right to know" bullshit. It's like phoning up BT and demanding to know why the chief was off sick for a week, all because you pay £30/month to them for your calls and broadband. They'd laugh in your face and hang up on you, and rightly so. Some things are more important than work (irrespective of your job - it is only a job), and some things are nobody's business but your own. I'm as interested as anyone in why he went back to Argentina, that's human nature, but we don't have a right to know anything.

This explains why the set penises never work. Mike Williamson is actually only 5"6. Imagine Anita Vernon Anita? In a normal shirt he's more like Verne Troyer.

This explains why the set penises never work. Mike Williamson is actually only 5"6.

Strip colours and team name are non-negotiable for me. f***ing hell, this is Newcastle United. Anyone who is supporting us because they want or expect success is somewhat deluded to say the least. We support them because we identify with them, we live there, we're from there, whatever, but not for success or trophies ffs. This idea could work in an area where lots of people don't support a local club so could be swayed into attending by a successful team nearby, but in Newcastle that's really not the case. It's a very partisan, one-club city, and if you alienate a large percentage of fans (which this would) then those fans will not be made up by other people coming in, IMO. I'd be disappointed if the badge changed to anything s***, tacky and commercial. But I'd get over it. I hated the stadium name change, but decided I could ignore it as it wasn't in my face all the time. Everyone still called it St James' Park and there was nothing forcing me to acknowledge anything to the contrary. But a change to the club name or strip would be too far and anyone considering that can f*** right off. You can't buy me with promises of success as I was never here for that anyway.

That's bordering on fucking insulting. He can just about get away with it because he says "want" rather than "expect", but he's hinting at a level of expectation that simply isn't there. I mean, of course we want to be up with Manchester United and Manchester City. So do the supporters of every team in the land, from the PL down to the Conference and below. What we EXPECT is to be able to fight for a minor European spot every year, and out compete the likes of Southampton in the transfer market. Something that Pardew has explicity and bafflingly said we cannot do.

Let's not get carried away about a victory over Cardiff. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, it doesn't mean its any use as a timepiece. We limped over the line against a very mediocre, newly-promoted side. Whoop-de-fucking-do. It's the very least we should expect.

Thing is, whatever happens we need to remember we're playing a newly-promoted team. This is a match we should win, no matter what lineup we put out. We should still be favourites here, irrespective of the XI that start. Therefore if we DO win, we shouldn't see this as a vindication of Pardew's "tactics". Far from it. This is Cardiff fucking City, not Arsenal, where at least he could have some grounds in getting all smug about a win. Not here though. But you just know that any result here will be used as a catalyst to fill the team with the anti-footballing crap like Tiote, Williamson and Jonas for the next few games. With that lineup out there, I actually want a Cardiff victory today. I cannot face the prospect of him playing his turgid, shite, negative dross off the back of result that he should be getting anyway today.

Just read the teamsheet and nearly facepalmed my head clean off. Please, someone make this stop.

I'm so sick. We're going nowhere under Pardew. Nowhere at all. I'm not saying this as a revelation, just reiterating what we already know. I've long wanted Pardew out, but I'm now at the point where I look at our upcoming matches and start seriously contemplating the benefits of defeat. I've been there before, with Souness, with Allardyce, and I'm back there again. Not actively wishing for our defeat, but seeing the positives in it nonetheless.

Remy plays, Cisse dropped. Hmm. Tiote for Cabaye scares me. Interesting.

In a Keegan line-up, everyone is better at attacking than defending!

Even more than normal, I hope they get thrashed today. It'll make them far less attractive to potential managers if they're rooted to the bottom of the league. Nobody wants a poisoned chalice like that and it'll leave them with a much smaller pool of competent candidates.

Keegan's ability was always getting players to run through walls for him and feel 10 feet tall. He spent money, but he doesn't need money. Any group of players would benefit from having Keegan in the dressing room to rouse them and get them playing with confidence, pride and verve.

Floated set penises are back.

I'm quite impressed that in 13 games, Di Canio has made 3 drawers. At least he's not wasting all that time stood on the sidelines.

Just no way the first XI should be anything other than this. Positionally I'd possibly swap Anita and Sissoko though. I'd love to see Sissoko at DM, see what he can do there. No way on Earth will Pardew the Cowardly play 2 AMs though, it'll be 2 DMs and 1 AM.

The only reason any more spending is going to put us into our overdraft is because Ashley's emptied our accounts. No way should the club with the 20th largest income in the WHOLE FUCKING WORLD be unable to have a net spend on transfers over 5 sodding years. So either the overdraft comment is a massive lie, or all our money has been drained into that tatty charva clothes shop. Either scenario is utterly disgusting.

I can't take that. I just can't. 20th richest club in the world iirc. 3rd largest crowds in the PL. But for some completely f***ed up reason you say we can't compete with the big clubs. And since not a single one of us expects to compete financially with Man City and Chelsea, I can only assume that by "big" clubs you mean the likes of Southampton, Fulham and f***ing Norwich. Just f*** off you cowardly, lying cockend. We all know that we could compete with them easily if we wanted, we're just owned by a thief who is creaming money out of the club and into his horrid, tatty, charva clothes shop. I take your points but I don't think there's anything wrong with the statement "We haven't got the finances of a big team," of itself. We're not bankrolled by Russian or Arab oil money. We don't have the commercial reach of Man United to sell an ungodly number of shirts in every corner of the globe. You're right that doesn't mean we shouldn't be doing better in transfer windows. But there's nothing wrong with the actual statement. There is something utterly wrong with the statement though. He's insinuating that there's a problem with the fans expectations. Ie that we're being unrealistic. And that's simply not what's happening, we just don't expect to have our manager come out and say we can't compete financially with fucking Southampton ffs.

Sorry, but I can't take that. I just can't. 20th richest club in the world iirc. 3rd largest crowds in the PL. But for some completely fucked up reason you say we can't compete with the big clubs. And since not a single one of us expects to compete financially with Man City and Chelsea, I can only assume that by "big" clubs you mean the likes of Southampton, Fulham and fucking Norwich. Just fuck off you cowardly, lying cockend. We all know that we could compete with them easily if we wanted, we're just owned by a thief who is creaming money out of the club and into his horrid, tatty, charva clothes shop.

We always add the cost of the wages to the fee since this regime came in. Although they seem to forget that matchday income probably covers a fair bit of that. And also conveniently ignore the wages of players that leave in their calculations That's what pisses me off, that they only do the maths one way. Such a con. But even without that: £30m my arse, that's nothing but an outright, massive, lie. Must think we all spend every day drinking like Kinnear if he reckons that's believable.

Or he might be an imbecile

Tends to happen when you spend 90% of your nights pissed. The only person his injury proneness is a mystery to is Andy Carroll.

Can you imagine how angry we'd all be right now if we'd turned down the £35m and he'd gone on to have the 2 1/2 years that he has done?

For me its his silence that raises suspicions. I mean, there is a small chance that: - Kinnear was a well-intentioned appointment to provide football input at boardroom level - We tried really hard to get players in and that money remains available for January - He wants us to do well and be a top 6 team - All the revenue from Newcastle United stays in Newcastle United etc etc Of course. However, the silence from Ashley is deafening when accusations are being flung round that: - Kinnear's a joke appointment - we had no intention of buying anyone unless Cabaye was sold - Mid-table with no expenditure and maximised profits is his ambition for the club - (And this is the massively unacceptable one IMO) He's milking revenue off NUFC and into Sports Direct whilst pretending our revenues are lower so he can keep his loan on the books He's got hundreds of thousands of customers wanting to know what the fucks going on. Now as the owner of the club he has a right to not say anything. But if we want change, or at least explanations, then we owe it to ourselves to deny him any revenue we can until he provides what we want. If the top set of points are correct and the bottom ones incorrect, why would he not just tell us? That is what's worrying. It seems the only thing he cares about is money, so every possible step should be taken to deny him it until he either clarifies his intentions or leaves. I can assure you, if enough people do the same, it WILL work.

In style of play, I think he's very similar to Ashley Cole. Yes. But I'm sure you're just being deliberately contrary here and are intelligent enough to know that there's a massive difference between comparing styles of play (which I was clearly doing) with quality of play (which I was clearly not doing).