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Aren't you on good terms with his folks?

Roger should be able to shed some light on this....

Is that, like, a real thing? OMG

seriously? I have my ideas, but they're very similar to the ones that are rejected when Pardew offers them up. So yes, I'm curious what other folk see. It is interesting and i like you to expand on it because you did call him out at the beginning of the season. I know we differ on his and Pardew's merits. I certainly thing Laudrup coaches better football than Pardew and i know we disagree on that. You have however, correctly stated his 'success' as far as it can be called does seem to fall off after a couple of years (same can be said for Pardew, of course). Fwiw, i think he'd do well with our squad and would appreciate the type of players Graham Carr identifies. I think they would be more in tune with each other. I do wonder if his issues at his clubs are down to him agitating for something better or he has just had a remarkable run of bad luck when it comes to chairmen! There's no doubt to me Laudrup coaches a better style of football and I wouldn't want anyone to think otherwise. I also respect that he didn't make any excuses at all, always had a positive outlook and looked to lift his players rather than tell them they are tired even before games. Given the budgets at each club though, and the quality available, I do worry that his methods are too ... idealistic? He absolutely refuses to do what might be effective rather than what he sees as ...pure? Somewhere like Arsenal, if they spend big, someone as wiley as Wenger can sometimes win the league like that. We would have to have someone prepared to do things ugly on occasion though...and that's what Swansea needed too. The only thing I disagreed with at the time was that people were suggesting just about any other manager would be better for Newcastle United. I didn't see the benefit in the upheaval that would be involved if we were to replace someone like Pardew with someone like Laudrup, who hadn't stayed with any job long term and had seen diminishing returns towards the end of his longer spells. That's a very clear explanation of your views. Tbf, it's a very good point regarding stylistic purity. You'd think with someone like Bony (who i actually didn't rate from what i'd seen) he had the option to try something else now and again. Also, the fact he doesn't seem to do well in a job for more than a couple of years is a problem. Maybe it's because he's always thinking he should be at a bigger club? Who knows.

seriously? I have my ideas, but they're very similar to the ones that are rejected when Pardew offers them up. So yes, I'm curious what other folk see. It is interesting and i like you to expand on it because you did call him out at the beginning of the season. I know we differ on his and Pardew's merits. I certainly thing Laudrup coaches better football than Pardew and i know we disagree on that. You have however, correctly stated his 'success' as far as it can be called does seem to fall off after a couple of years (same can be said for Pardew, of course). Fwiw, i think he'd do well with our squad and would appreciate the type of players Graham Carr identifies. I think they would be more in tune with each other. I do wonder if his issues at his clubs are down to him agitating for something better or he has just had a remarkable run of bad luck when it comes to chairmen!

Without Cabaye i don't think he trusts the team to play it through the middle. Coupled with us being pretty poor from wide areas you can see the options narrow somewhat

I'd trade a derby win for beating Man U every season, forever, tbh. Why? I'd rather beat one of the game's really big teams than an average also ran any day of any week. I'm actually surprised that everyone doesn't feel that way tbh. where do you live? Firmly up Mashley's sluice gate. Hello w*****, though you had me on ignore Ola! I do click on occasionally! How's your day? Been good so far I'm pleased to say. Mine too (thanks for asking)

I'd trade a derby win for beating Man U every season, forever, tbh. Why? I'd rather beat one of the game's really big teams than an average also ran any day of any week. I'm actually surprised that everyone doesn't feel that way tbh. where do you live? Firmly up Mashley's sluice gate. Hello w*****, though you had me on ignore Ola! I do click on occasionally! How's your day?

I'd trade a derby win for beating Man U every season, forever, tbh. Why? I'd rather beat one of the game's really big teams than an average also ran any day of any week. I'm actually surprised that everyone doesn't feel that way tbh. where do you live? Firmly up Mashley's sluice gate.

If Ashley was furious with the Cabaye sale and lack of replacement, why wait til the derby defeat and subsequent ST cancellations to remove him? Kinnear's nothing more of a scapegoat to pacify the fans really. Maybe, but you don't resign if you are doing the job you were hired to do. As for waiting until after the derby defeat, we all saw how well we played against Norwich and JFK did say we had excellent midfielders still at the club. If Anita had had a stormer in Cabayes position and we had trounced the mackems then Ashley may have been happy to wait until summer for a replacement. The ensuing vitriol has clearly persuaded him that JFK didnt have a clue how to buy players. at Anita playing the 'Cabaye' role That's a big IF, mate.

How did you think HBA did in the No. 10 role?

The 'war chest' bit doesn't ring true for me. The club doesn't sign players that suit Pardew anyway.

I'm not talking about the way the game went. I'm talking about the attitude of the players going into the game. Sunderland looked up for a contest. We didn't, for whatever reason. No confidence in the manager to get it right. Nor did he fwiw.

It's going to get worse before it gets better too. A bog standard XI f***ing schooled us today, wait til Hazard, Willian and Oscar start running at us. They're not a bog standard XI. They're better than their league position suggests. Di Canio made a complete mess of things. Today, they looked relaxed and we looked nervous and under pressure. The expectation seemed to get to our players a bit, but it was always going to be a close game. 3-0 isn't a close game. No, it isn't. What an odd thing to say Also, as if the only difference between today and Norwich was Remy P*sstaker, shirley?

The thing with Taylor is, Pardew will see him and Shola as his supporters and confidants in the dressing room. He won't trust the French lads when it all goes moody.

Before the match he says it's not important how you play. After the match he says we didn't play the right way. He doesn't know his own mind. He obviously knows a thing or two about football, it would be churlish to say he doesn't. He's played, he's done the coaching courses, he's managed. He'd probably be a good assistant manager, some one with an opinion. His problem is he doesn't have the b*ll*x to be a leader. He'd doesn't have the conviction in his own ideas and he projects that onto the players. That's why he's always chopping and changing. He'll have decent spells, every manager - even the crap ones like Souness had decent spells. Over any length of time though, you'll always know Pardew will fall short because, when under pressure, he's just flaky. Always will be. Far too old to change.

The limp biscuits are out in force today

They're not reading mate. Too bust fapping over the balance sheet.

Our only geniune target was a positive monetary balance on transfer dealings. That's achieved.

You'd think watching the club sell it's best player and having 6 months, 6 F**KING MONTHS, to find the right replacement, and then watch them play the usual low-ball f**k about would actually raise a heckle or 2. But no, they prance about like a set of mindless groupies, praising ther club for way it does it's business.

Realistically, i expect him to leave in the summer. 1 year left on his contract and either the club or him must have reservations about extending it. Would be surprised if any club wants to buy him today (would not be surprised if we accepted an offer though). We've got a great squad after all...

It would take a fairly big turnaround in Marveaux's mentality for him to become an important player for us. Personally, i doubt he's got it in him. Who is he going to replace out of Tiote, Anita and Sissoko in the middle? Can't see that happening. Maybe Pardew will stick him LW but we all know he'll do next to nothing from there.

Grief is a powerful aphrodisiac.

We've a great squad according to you. I look forward to seeing how our great squad get on. See how they compete with the other great squads. Nestling among the other great squads come May. Hope you're right. You obviously have every confidence and i sincerely hope you're right. Our squad of players that we own have scored a massive 14 goals up to the start of Feb, a good squad? Yeah right. Brett knows, man. He knows a great squad when he sees one. Greatness written all over this one. Alan Mouseheart to lead them to big things.

I can't read his drivel anymore. Makes me think of that Ugandan preacher raging against men with Poo Poo on their faces. I've switched the nobby off.