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I'd imagine Ben Arfa is on high wages. I doubt Mike Ashley would have agreed to give him a new contract even if he came back into the squad and did well in the last six months of his contract. Ben Arfa won't have been viewed as good value for the money by Ashley. The savings made on his wages can be used else where e.g. to increase the offer to Aarons. At least when Ben Arfa is no longer on NUFC's books it might bring to an end (or at least reduce) the constant arguing between those who love him and those who don't.

With Cheick Tiote away to the African cup of Nations and Mehdi Abeid injured (or going to the ACN) I assume Anita will be starting more games in the next month or so. Let's hope he does the business.

I'm certainly not blaming Armstrong. It wasn't his fault he was subbed on but he's not up to Premier league standard yet. He won nothing in the air (which is no surprise considering his height). He barely touched the ball (although his miss-hit lead to Sissoko's goal). Send him out on loan.

Subbing Armstrong on has been a disaster.

We've been an embarrassment in this half.

What the fuck happened at half time? We haven't started this half. It would be nice if our players could pass to each other.

Riviere and Gouffran having decent games. Tiote keeps losing possession.

We have so many injuries there isn't much choice on who to start. Santon and Haidara are just back from injury so weren't likely to start. Not starting Cabella is the only real "controversy".

People expecting Pardew to be an instant failure at Crystal Palace will probably be disappointed. His record is usually one to one and a half seasons of reasonable results before the malaise sets in.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-set-welcome-davide-8368132#rlabs=6 It's strange how NUFC don't even tell the fans certain players are injured. Sammy Ameobi and Haidara just disappeared from the match squads with no explanation. It turns out they were injured. I'd be surprised if Carver and Stone change the team much. For one thing, injuries and suspensions limit who can come in. Will we see two strikers? If so, Perez and who? Rivière, Armstrong or Gouffran (restored to being a striker rather than a defensive winger)? Cabella to start on the wing?

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http://www.nufc.com/ Hopefully their record improves now Pardew isn't involved.

If history is anything to go by, Pardew will keep Palace up this season and will have a decent season next season. It's the season after that they'll have to worry about. It will be interesting to see who Palace buy in January. I wonder if Pardew will try to buy any NUFC players.

Mike Ashley will take the cheap option. He'll go for the "free" internal appointment to take us to the Summer. Ashley will gamble that the person he picks will do a good enough job to get us enough points to stay up. If he's really lucky they'll do a really good job and be popular with the fans.

In the circumstances discussed, my sympathy is with the innocent person the suicidal person has used to commit suicide.

True but most suicidal people have been thinking about it for a long time before attempting it. That being the case, they will have thought of ways of doing it which didn't involve endangering anyone else.

I have every sympathy with anyone who feels suicidal and I hope they get the help they need. However, after getting all the help possible, for whatever reason, some people just don't want to live. I don't think suicide is cowardly or selfish. I do think people who involve innocent people in their suicide are worse than selfish. If someone you knew was killed as a result of someone else attempting suicide (crashing a vehicle into them, jumping out in front of their vehicle, jumping off a roof and landing on them, etc.) I'm sure you wouldn't have much sympathy for the person who committed suicide. You'd more likely be wishing they'd killed them self in a way which didn't involve anyone else. It's better than flinging herself in front of some poor innocent minding their own business.

The worst thing is they can end up killing other people. I've seen stories in the media about how someone attempted to kill them self by driving their car in to traffic coming the other way. Inevitably they survived the crash but the family they crashed into all died. Someone jumping off a motorway bridge as traffic passes underneath becomes a lethal projectile.

If it was a suicide attempt, I'm aware suicidal people aren't thinking rationally but killing yourself in a way which will involve innocent people (I.e. jumping in front of a train, off a bridge, in front of traffic, etc.) is extremely unfair on those people.

If NUFC could "park the bus" I'd suggest we did that. As we can't we may as well go for it. I'd rather we got hammered trying to score than get hammered trying to defend.

A draw would have been a fair result. It was a "shit off" between the two teams as to who was the worst. Sunderland created good chances but their finishing was appalling (I can see why they are struggling to score goals when they are missing sitters). On the few occasions Newcastle players got shots away they kept shooting straight at the Sunderland keeper.

Sunderland's misses were shocking. There were at least 3 occasions when I thought they were certain to score only for them to miss. That would usually mean they go on to lose and are filled with regret over their misses. Not against us it doesn't.

The January transfer window opens in 10 days. I'm sure NUFC will bring in quality players for the positions we need to strengthen.

Gomis would have cost nothing in transfer fees (obviously that's not taking Agent's fees and player signing on fees into account). Gomis doesn't get much game time at Swansea so maybe he isn't all that but at least he's a big lump up front. Pardew seems to instruct our players to punt the ball to the striker as if we've got Peter Crouch up front rather than Perez or the even shorter Armstrong. Gomis would probably have been more suited to Pardew's tactics.

It will be very interesting to see where Ben Arfa goes on loan to next. It will be even more interesting to see where he goes in the Summer when he is a free transfer. His stock will have fallen as he hasn't been playing much for the last year. He'll need to impress in his next loan to get a decent deal in the Summer. Which club and manager in which league will sign him?