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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

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Imagine if Pardew won a cup. We'd have won a cup, but he'd be here for the next three decades.

We're killing them

Riviere hat trick coming?

Well done Sammy

LEFT BACK ON!

It's been more exciting than the vast majority of our league games to be fair

Nah, full on Machiavellian mode for me. Pardew out by any means necessary and losing games hand over fist will, eventually, achieve it. Not particularly proud or happy about it but we need this c*** out asap. Getting Pardew out is the endgame, the sooner it happens the better for all concerned. I've been hoping for losses a long time in the league. Just feel like losing or winning this isn't really affecting his position, mongs will just swept the loss under the carpet so might as well win. Yeah, nobody will care about this game win or lose so we might as well win. If anything, Ashley will probably give Pardew a bonus if we crash out.

We're never going to win 5-0 again, are we?