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what a load of misinformed nonsense that is. Neither one is really better than the other. They're both have a couple of marginally above average qualities.

I can't wait for us to have a decent reserve right-back so he can substitute BOTH fullbacks every game.

Whenever Williamson is playing we all think Taylor has to be better. Then he gets a run in the team and we realize there was a reason he was on the bench in the first place. And vice versa. Reality is they're both similarly below-average Premiership CBs.

Honestly he's just about as unremarkable as Colback is.

Had been on for 15 seconds according to the BBC Sport report from that game. Sammy's will have been 7.something seconds? You might be right but find it hard to believe Chopra's was 15 seconds, was as long as it took for him to run from the bench to the area. Can't find the video on YouTube, definitely used to be one. Think they mentioned on NBC that Sammy's was 6.5 seconds, so if Chopra was indeed 15 it beats that by a fair margin.

Ashley will never sack Pardew for results. Might as well get points on the board. I'm not ashamed for having been vaguely happy about the win.

We'll probably be making the "same mistake" immediately after with whoever the next incompetent shithead Ashley decides to appoint is.

He knows exactly how miserable we are and I'm sure he takes a lot of pleasure in it.

I suspect we'll win against Manchester City just so Pardew can gloat bout a win without actually getting any of the points we need for survival. We'll be knocked out by whatever the weakest team left in the competition is after that, of course.

He'll be sacked in a second if he ever criticizes or disagrees with Ashley. Otherwise he could relegate us straight down to the conference and stay bulletproof.

I had a dream last night where I logged into N-O and Pardew had been sacked. It was the happiest I had ever seen this forum be.

Oh come on, you're a Newcastle fan, I know for a fact that you've seen at least a dozen games this bad over the past five years.

Leicester (h) Spurs (a) Liverpool (h) West Brom (a) QPR (h) West Ham (a) Burnley (a) Chelsea (h) Arsenal (a) Sunderland (h) Man U (a) Everton (h) before we start with the reverse fixtures We'll be lucky to be on 10 points if we don't beat Leicester, it's that bad. Edit: these fixture lists are allowed nowadays, aren't they? if things go as well as you could reasonably expect you're probably looking at 9-10 points from those games at the absolute, absolute maximum (beat leicester, burnley & QPR then a point somewhere) - but even then that's only 14 f***ing points turning in to the second half of the season we're done What does Ashley not see here? Or what is he seeing that we're not? Surely he's arsed about us going down? It's in black and white, with that run of fixtures he's banking on us making 30 points from the reverse fixtures, when you consider that we couldn't do a 3rd of that so far there's no nails left to put in our coffin. He hasn't got the knowledge of Football to look at those fixtures and see anything, he has to be told what he's seeing by his mates. Pardew will be telling him "its only 7 games" and "but we have injuries and too many new players bedding in". Don't forget the ACON The reality is that we're as good as down already and that Alan Pardew will be managing us in the Championship next season.

Sums up what the club has become. We hate the players, hate the manager, hate the owner, hate our legends. Can we even call this thing Newcastle United at this point?

Probably next in line to be our manager

For the same reason that Keegan won't. They've both dealt with Ashley first hand, so they would know it's an impossible job. Still, reading those quotes, that definitely refers to Pardew being poor, even if he doesn't mention him by name. I think the absence of a reference to Ashley here is more telling than the absence of Pardew being named directly. I swear they must have some sort of clause in their union contract that bans them from directly criticizing another English manager.

Jesus, might as well just abandon the rest of our fixtures

Cue a Pardew interview thanking Sunderland fans for their suppot

Imagine if he ran Rangers as the perfect owner, backed them financially, hired a great manager that we would kill to have, had them in the CL knockouts and winning the league every year. Just to piss us off

I actually kinda want to see us get a clusterfuck of CB injuries like we usually do and go down to something like Satka-Streete just to see how much of a holocaust it is. We can't possibly concede any more goals than we already do, right?

I'm at a 9 and I've never been above a 3 at this stage of the season. Not even when we actually got relegated. Hell, I probably wasn't even at a 9 until immediately after that ball ricocheted off Damien Duff's rear end at Villa Park.

We're all in the same boat really. I'd take relegation straight down to League 2 if it meant no Pardew and Ashley, but nobody's actually offering us that trade.

Ashley has never sacked a manager for bad results other than maybe Allardyce. Keegan and Hughton were both sacked for disagreeing with him. Shearer wasn't invited back for the same reason.

I honestly don't want us to lose anymore. I think it's pretty clear by now that no amount of losses will result in Pardew's sacking and I'd much rather pick up some vital points than see us in the Championship and still be stuck with him. By all means the protests should continue, mostly because he's a cunt and it feels good to make sure he knows what we think about him, but I'm done cheering against my own team. Hopefully all the abuse will make him go mental and headbutt Ashley or something. A breakdown of his personal relationship with the ownership (or a change in ownership) is the only way he leaves the club.

We're a lock for relegation and he's staying with us in the Championship.