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He's starting next game.

At the very least he seems to be fully aware of the situation and knows that he needs to just go about his job quietly instead of trying to be in the spotlight. It will take a long, long time (probably never) for me to support him because of the circumstances of his appointment. But we'll see.

The near-to-long term future of the club may still be as bleak as hell. ...but for now, three points makes me a little bit happy.

Enrique and Jonas blatantly do not want to be here.

If we still had Chris Hughton we'd be 3-0 up by now.

Why are the Liverpool players the ones playing like they're distraught from losing a very popular manager?

Fantastic fucking dive Fernando you cunt.

fuck me, the flatmates do it again. 1. Ashley you fuck, how dare you be happy 2. Why does Pardew look like somebody just raped his dog? 3. MEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

Such a blatantly wrong foul given, it even confused Johnson for fucks sake.

I hate to say this, but on a scale of 1 to 10 for "not bothered," Jonas and Jose look somewhere around 9 right now.

Who's that guy shouting next to Pardew?

Jesus, Shola's first touch is from Mars.

Ashley and Llambias having a laugh. Fuck you. His daughter looks terrified to be sitting there though

Today's Jose's 100th game in a Newcastle shirt.

I'll be really pissed off if they just lie down. They've got to at least try to rise above it. Carroll was trodding very sadly to the changing room and Beardsley had to give him a pat on the back. Not looking good.

Seeing the players walk into the stadium.. They really don't look up for this.

We could probably do without him in our squad if we sign a decent right winger mind. merlin is spot on, he has to be sold at some point...

I have to say that my respect for this man has returned full stop now that I've realized what a fucking lunatic Ashley is. Sorry I ever doubted you Kev. And you're absolutely spot on.

We may miraculously fumble to safety somehow, but Ashley has proved to me that he cannot be trusted to be in charge of this club under any circumstance. Even when he accidentally does something good.

Most completely irrelevant game in recent history in terms of what actually happens on the pitch.

I think he's the one player we have who could potentially go in January. I remember Ashley having supposedly tussled with Keegan over wanting to sell him and from the perspective of somebody who thinks he knows a lot about football but actually doesn't, we have a lot of similar central midfielders so he's seemingly expendable.

Might as well keep this thread updated because we're going to need another new one fairly soon anyway.

it's not like, it happens all the time actually For managers that are in the running for a premiership job?

He got a lot out of a very ordinary group of players at West Ham, (how many of his first XI still play regular first-team Premiership football?) if we're being charitable I think you could argue that the Mascherano and Tevez fiasco was down to a power struggle between him and the board. He was pretty much doomed from the start at Charlton, although not coming anywhere near promotion in the Championship for two seasons is pretty much impossible to excuse. Did a goodish job at Southampton by all accounts. I think ability wise he's a decent second tier English manager. It's the timing and circumstances that surround his appointment that drive people insane. My beef is firmly with Mike Ashley. Pardew is just the latest symptom of the terminal disease he has brought to this club.

Looking back, I remember saying something along the lines of "sack Kinnear and bring Pardew or Curbishley in immediately" sometime two years ago. Just shows that timing is everything, I suppose