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Also, one night out after the season is hardly 'party lifestyle favoured by some Newcastle United players during his time on Tyneside.'

The bit in bold is absolute bollocks by the way. Is it? They've said they don't want to be in the Europa League. They've said they don't prioritise the domestic cups. Pardew has played down Champions League aspirations so that whilst it's an alleged 'goal', it's not exactly a priority. The bolded part is 100% correct. It's all Ashley's bothered about. In the cold light of day, it's all any club (outside the top 4/5) have as their first priority, anything else is icing on the cake, secure that first, as absolutely paramount, then see what happens. Our lot happened to put it into words, but doesn't make it any less true for them all though. Don't agree at all, tbh. I highly doubt Ashley's mindset is one that is reflected in every single Premier League boardroom. The top 4/5 remark is even more irrelevant now, given how open the league is this season. So, at the start of the season do you think anyone but the top 4/5 were expecting it to be so open and didn't have getting to 40 points asap as their numero uno priority thus being safe ?? I suppose everyone prioritises Premier League survival in the same way that when humans are born, we intend to live until the next day and so on. I suppose it's numero uno priority in that sense. The absolute bare minimum. But Ashley has no substantial interest in anything beyond that, and that's what disappoints me. And I don't think there are many others in the league that have that thoroughly 'anti-sport' attitude, regardless of what backgrounds they come from. You have no proof of that. Equally neither do I have any proof of the contrary. But based upon his business track record he'll want one hell of a lot more than average, but he'll do it his way. People like him don't do second best (I've worked closely with/for a few in my time and they weren't anything like the scale of Ashley, they were "only" worth tens of millions, they were frighteningly driven/ruthless enough for me though, but I bet they were like kittens compared to this f***er) they'll do it their way and everyone be damned and they play a VERY long game. Absolutely I accept I could be totally wrong, but as ever, only time will tell but he'd be going against every instinct in his make up to be happy with so-so or bare minimum in my opinion. I'm disappointed to say that there has been absolutely nothing during his ownership to suggest you're remotely right. Best stick to the actual evidence then.

Yep, that precious little petal.

That's because it's extremely doubtful that's the case. What the post did do was remind or possibly clarify that Pardew knew well in advance of Hughton getting sacked that he was getting the job. It's there because i think that over time people have remembered it differently by bringing in the idea of a rumoured friendship playing a key role. Fair enough. Was just looking for some clarification from Mr Mojo to back up his own 'established' fact after having a go at Ian. Your right, it seems dubious and probably needs clearing up. I've no idea what criteria was applied that resulted in Pardew being the chosen candidate. I doubt friendship was deciding factor. But then again, nor was a past track record of something noteworthy. By anyone's calculation. He's extremely lucky to be here and knows it imo. One benefit of that is, i think, there is no lack of effort from Pardew. Whatever his dearth of talents are, lack of application isn't one of them. Compared to Kinnear of whom i clearly remember Nicky Butt saying he was rarely on the training ground in between games, made a rousing speach before kick off and then f*cked off again. Tosser.

That's because it's extremely doubtful that's the case. What the post did do was remind or possibly clarify that Pardew knew well in advance of Hughton getting sacked that he was getting the job. It's there because i think that over time people have remembered it differently by bringing in the idea of a rumoured friendship playing a key role.

Aye, the Spanish (?) CB looks a bit powderpuff. If Ashley Williams plays and marks i think he'll deal with Shola comfortably enough. Remy is an entirely different problem!

ian, i suppose the "absolute worst" is in fact that out of work pardew used his influence as a mate of llamblias to plant seeds in the guys mind that he could do a better job than hughton etc. etc. not saying this happened by the way but it's far from the realms of possibility, much in the same way that people "believe" kinnear was getting p*ssed in the pub with ashley and talked himself back into a role at the club, and believed his undermining of pardew and return to the managers seat was inevitable Well it's possible I suppose, but it's a big leap to just assume that it's what happened. Anyway, everyone uses their connections to try and get work. It's up to the regime who they give the jobs to. similar leap to assume didn't, no? Well I don't think so, but like I said, it doesn't really matter either way. If he used his connections to get a job then fair enough, that's what you're supposed to do in life. If he actually personally attacked and belittled Hughton then that's obviously bad behaviour, but there's another level of assumption again. You both seem to accept that Pardew and Llambias were friends from before their time here. You're probably right, but can't find out when it was this established? Got an interview or something I can look at. Cheers. I don't know that, I just can't be bothered to argue against it because I think it's not that relevant. I don't really remember the details of what was rumoured and leaked about Pardew meeting the regime before getting the job. There's a post on the page before, actually.

Anah, I wish he'd leave the forum, tbh. Do I really have to quote people verbatim or be chastised for paraphrasing every time? It would help. As opposed to amending it to "controlling games for 90 minutes" There's a group of you that do it. 100% of posters use hyperbole. I could make a graph but....

Don't mean to pour cold water about but surely it's hard to say what quality the squad has until it's had a proper run out due to injuries/suspensions. Sometime around Feb/Mar i would think.

fortunate that you have inside knowledge of what took place and when between pardew, llamblias and ashley ian otherwise people might think you were talking out of your arse Are claiming you have insider knowledge? Because without it, if one assumes that he engineered the change, with no evidence either way, that would be talking out of one's anus. Maybe you weren't on this board at the time but we have a very occasional poster here who told the board a couple of weeks before it was announced that Pardew had been approached to take over the job. He had been given a contract to look over. There quite a few sceptics on here at the time but this poster was proved completely correct. A couple of weeks later, Hughton was sacked and Pardew was appointed. No suggestion Pardew actually engineered the change in management. However, he did know it was going to happen despite his protestations that he didn't. Not judging anyone for what happened, just enlightening you as you were probs weren't on this board at the time. I was told the same elsewhere. none of that makes pardew to blame for engineering anything. 'No suggestion Pardew actually engineered the change in management.' it was a long post, you probs glossed over that if not most of it. Minhosa seems to think Pardew acted less than gentlemanly. I wondered what evidence there was of that. Seems odd to respond with ITK that doesn't back that up and agree it doesn't back it up. Glad we cleared it up though You may have missed my point.... Fair enough, you are putting out fires all over the forum so i suppose you may miss your mark occasionally

Didn't think Bony was a very good buy tbh. Was quite glad we didn't sign him. Early days for him at Swansea but certainly wasn't pulling up trees. Funnily enough i thought Cisse would have been perfect for them, suits their style. They could've offered us £8-10M. Money we could have put towards a bully type CF. Everyone would've been a winner.

De Guzman is a good player.

fortunate that you have inside knowledge of what took place and when between pardew, llamblias and ashley ian otherwise people might think you were talking out of your arse Are claiming you have insider knowledge? Because without it, if one assumes that he engineered the change, with no evidence either way, that would be talking out of one's anus. Maybe you weren't on this board at the time but we have a very occasional poster here who told the board a couple of weeks before it was announced that Pardew had been approached to take over the job. He had been given a contract to look over. There quite a few sceptics on here at the time but this poster was proved completely correct. A couple of weeks later, Hughton was sacked and Pardew was appointed. No suggestion Pardew actually engineered the change in management. However, he did know it was going to happen despite his protestations that he didn't. Not judging anyone for what happened, just enlightening you as you were probs weren't on this board at the time. I was told the same elsewhere. none of that makes pardew to blame for engineering anything. 'No suggestion Pardew actually engineered the change in management.' it was a long post, you probs glossed over that if not most of it.

fortunate that you have inside knowledge of what took place and when between pardew, llamblias and ashley ian otherwise people might think you were talking out of your arse Are claiming you have insider knowledge? Because without it, if one assumes that he engineered the change, with no evidence either way, that would be talking out of one's anus. Maybe you weren't on this board at the time but we have a very occasional poster here who told the board a couple of weeks before it was announced that Pardew had been approached to take over the job. He had been given a contract to look over. There quite a few sceptics on here at the time but this poster was proved completely correct. A couple of weeks later, Hughton was sacked and Pardew was appointed. No suggestion Pardew actually engineered the change in management. However, he did know it was going to happen despite his protestations that he didn't. Not judging anyone for what happened, just enlightening you as you were probs weren't on this board at the time.

Thought Pardew's quotes were pretty good there myself.

The coaches. Have you seen the state of our backroom staff? So that makes SBR's judgment on Carver faulty as well, then...?? Regardless of how hagiographic you want to get about Robson... A. It's completely irrelevant B. Our backroom staff is terrible - there's no two ways about it. Don't be a coconut. So, to summarise, in your opinion SBR had bad judgement? Tbh, i don't have an ounce of the stuff you'd need a ton of to evaluate a man like SBR. You think differently about yourself. What qualifies you for that? Robson had excellent judgement but he didn't get the man he wanted. The rest of your post makes no sense. Particularly the last sentence. There's nowt wrong with Carver imo. And there's nothing behind your opinion at all.

Gouffran's scored 3 lately i think. We don't have goals all the way through the team but i think we're a bit more than a one man side (Remy).

The coaches. Have you seen the state of our backroom staff? So that makes SBR's judgment on Carver faulty as well, then...?? Regardless of how hagiographic you want to get about Robson... A. It's completely irrelevant B. Our backroom staff is terrible - there's no two ways about it. Don't be a coconut. So, to summarise, in your opinion SBR had bad judgement? Tbh, i don't have an ounce of the stuff you'd need a ton of to evaluate a man like SBR. You think differently about yourself. What qualifies you for that?

Dude....it's his family, man. If true that's hard for him to take, even if it was his mistakes that led to it. I wouldn't be able to concentrate if my girls were the other side of the world and my marriage was looking really moody. I'd NEED to be there to do what i could to fix things. Nothing comes before your kids, nothing. And a very close second is your wife and mother to your brood. You have to be there for them. Got to. If it's his wayward behaviour that has led to the split i still wouldn't judge him. It's easy to judge people when you haven't faced exactly the same temptations as them.

He's nothing but hackneyed Walter Mitty...

He's not good enough. He'll probably be cheap enough though.

Ryan Babel is still only 26! Kicking around in the Turkish league. Career gone from strength to strength... Reckon he was on about Marcus Babel. WwwwwhhhhhhhoooooooooooppppppppssssSSSSSS ! Soz.

Cheeky skank!

Ryan Babel is still only 26! Kicking around in the Turkish league. Career gone from strength to strength...

Don't think we'd get his registration through before the WBA game tbh....