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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.

I suppose the less he's playing under Pardew the better

Imagine if he just put a giant Pardew face on our shirts with "The King" written under it

Beardsley or Carver seem like clear favorite to me.

Probably just talking about some unrelated meeting he had scheduled immediately after the game.

How prophetic in light of the clubs 'sources' comments today. You just always assume the worst thing possible about this regime. It's always right.

Wise, Kinnear and Llambias were all mates with Ashley but ultimately they got the boot. Pardew is incapable of keeping us clear of relegation trouble so he WILL be sacked before Christmas. Probably this month at some point. I wouldn't be surprised if Kinnear just decided to pack it in because of his health and Llambias left because he disagreed with Ashley on how to run the club. Don't really remember the circumstances behind Wise's departure. Was announced hours before Shearer was announced interim manager in the relegation season. I guess it was one of Shearer's conditions for taking the job?

I really can't wait to see how all of our ostensibly decent players who look like pure shit play under a normal manager.

He was okay when he first came over. Classic case of being Pardewed

Or whatever Hughton got sacked for. What was that again? Getting beat by West Brom while 11th in the league? He got sacked for disagreeing with Ashley. The results had less to do with it. Wrong it was all Llambas work. He said Houghton is too nice a yes man. Pardew can stand up to him. Llambas said he use to watch Pardew Westham and he admired his work there. Ashley only stick to him because thats what he does on his business managers. The point is, the sacking had nothing to do with the results on the pitch. Results on the pitch lead to results in the bank account. Ultimately the threat of relegation will force Ashley's hand regardless of how much he wants to support Pardew. I don't buy the idea that Ashley is terrified of relegation. Newcastle is a drop in the bucket relative to his total personal worth. While the free advertising for Sports Direct is a nice bonus, all around the club probably makes him very little money relative to the trouble it causes him. On the other hand, I can see Ashley being extremely wary of the effect it would have on his image as a businessman if he showed that he could be influenced by any form of popular protest. He'd rather see this club relegated to the conference and/or dissolved than appear weak. I would also guess that he hates the fans and would like nothing more than the longtime ST holders/hardcore supporters to give up and fill the crowd with daytrippers who barely even know the manager's name. Part of his calculation has to be that he'll drive the sackpardew.com crowd and other vocal folks away from matches if he keeps Pardew around long enough. All of this is just conjecture, of course.

Or whatever Hughton got sacked for. What was that again? Getting beat by West Brom while 11th in the league? He got sacked for disagreeing with Ashley. The results had less to do with it. Wrong it was all Llambas work. He said Houghton is too nice a yes man. Pardew can stand up to him. Llambas said he use to watch Pardew Westham and he admired his work there. Ashley only stick to him because thats what he does on his business managers. The point is, the sacking had nothing to do with the results on the pitch.

Wise, Kinnear and Llambias were all mates with Ashley but ultimately they got the boot. Pardew is incapable of keeping us clear of relegation trouble so he WILL be sacked before Christmas. Probably this month at some point. I wouldn't be surprised if Kinnear just decided to pack it in because of his health and Llambias left because he disagreed with Ashley on how to run the club. Don't really remember the circumstances behind Wise's departure.

Or whatever Hughton got sacked for. What was that again? Getting beat by West Brom while 11th in the league? He got sacked for disagreeing with Ashley. The results had less to do with it.