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You say "the club" as if the only direction people at "the club" take is from MA. We have no idea where that direction came from, but I'm sure if AP tells Wendy/The Tea Lady/any other lacky cunt, to get in touch with Stoke and ask them to close the area, then they would. I find it extremely doubtful that you could do something like this without some sort of approval from the management. It unfortunately jives with all of the other things we've seen for the past few weeks: giving away players he doesn't get along with, confiscating the sackpardew banners etc. He's here for as long as Ashley is here. But you literally have no proof to support that. Ashley says nothing, and by all accounts has been exceptionally hands-off for the majority of his tenure. I'm sure no matter what, whether it's a lacky, or maybe even Charnley, they'd do what AP asked for, and IMO it means absolutely nothing with regards to his potential sacking. Right now he's NUFC manager, and they're going to "support" him, but it doesn't mean shit if we don't get results. Of course I'm just making an educated guess here, but I think if he was ever going to be sacked over results it would have happened months ago. At that point we were safe. It meant absolutely nothing to Ashley to be losing those games. We continue that for another month or two? We're in real danger, and fatman will make his move. Hopefully he'll do it a lot earlier than that, obviously. We were in deep, deep shit two seasons ago and Ashley barely flinched. Then he survived another half season of basically losing every game. He's bulletproof. If he's ever sacked the reasons will have nothing to do with football.

I wonder who the next sub will be. There aren't any left backs on the bench.

You say "the club" as if the only direction people at "the club" take is from MA. We have no idea where that direction came from, but I'm sure if AP tells Wendy/The Tea Lady/any other lacky cunt, to get in touch with Stoke and ask them to close the area, then they would. I find it extremely doubtful that you could do something like this without some sort of approval from the management. It unfortunately jives with all of the other things we've seen for the past few weeks: giving away players he doesn't get along with, confiscating the sackpardew banners etc. He's here for as long as Ashley is here. But you literally have no proof to support that. Ashley says nothing, and by all accounts has been exceptionally hands-off for the majority of his tenure. I'm sure no matter what, whether it's a lacky, or maybe even Charnley, they'd do what AP asked for, and IMO it means absolutely nothing with regards to his potential sacking. Right now he's NUFC manager, and they're going to "support" him, but it doesn't mean shit if we don't get results. Of course I'm just making an educated guess here, but I think if he was ever going to be sacked over results it would have happened months ago.

Fuck analysis. Everyone is bad at everything.

Looks like a man that knows its decision time. needs to hurry to the pub and get pissed and tell a jouno what hes thinking. Probably giggling to himself knowing that a bunch of people are overanalyzing his expression

You say "the club" as if the only direction people at "the club" take is from MA. We have no idea where that direction came from, but I'm sure if AP tells Wendy/The Tea Lady/any other lacky cunt, to get in touch with Stoke and ask them to close the area, then they would. I find it extremely doubtful that you could do something like this without some sort of approval from the management. It unfortunately jives with all of the other things we've seen for the past few weeks: giving away players he doesn't get along with, confiscating the sackpardew banners etc. He's here for as long as Ashley is here.

The club specifically emptied out part of the away section just so he would get less abuse. He's going nowhere no matter how many games we lose.

This cancer is following us all the way to the Championship.

I wonder how many we'd score if we hit corners non-stop for ninety minutes

I feel like I'd be happy for about five minutes if Pardew is sacked. After that I'd be overcome by utter dread at what sort of unspeakably shit new manager Ashley would decide to punish us with.

He will never be sacked for results. Ever. He will if it puts Ashley's investment at risk. I.E relegation. He's already put Ashley's investment at significant risk but has received unconditional support from his boss. NUFC is a drop in the bucket for Ashley and he can always find a buyer in the Championship if he has to. He doesn't care.

He will never be sacked for results. Ever.

I'm kind of torn at this point. I couldn't bear seeing Pardew's smug face if we win. On the other hand, I'm confident he'll never be sacked so we might as well avoid relegation.

He's supposed to have been a great youth coach and I think that's his level.

That's the nature of young players though, they might pan out but they might not too. Risk is inherent. (Smith and Geremi were already ridiculously over the hill by the time they joined so they're not really relevant) Of course everything that can go wrong does go wrong at this club, so young players do tend to fail more often than not. Dummett is a decent prospect and it's absurd to claim that you're already confident what level he'll be playing at ultimately.

Perhaps we just have different expectations. Not looking like a complete liability at Premiership level and popping in with the occasional goal isn't a bad place for a young defender to be. He's never going to be world-class or anything, but he's hardly a worthless player. He's already much, much better than Ramage was.

He's fairly promising for his age and gets a lot of undue stick due to the perception that he's one of Pardew's "favorites." I do think his long-term position is centerback.

Shit

This game is so ridiculous

I'm so glad we've taken off our two main attacking threats.

Stadium announcer

So predictable please lose now

This game is kind of fun though I feel like I'm watching it as a neutral.

Pardew's face

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