Mattoon

I don't know how anyone who supports Newcastle can be classed as a glory supporter I have no direct connection to the club, hell I'm less than 40 miles from Manchester and at a time when all my friends were starting to follow Man U and Liverpool I fell in love with the toon and never looked back. It has been hell at times, but my loyalty and support has never wavered. The same cannot be said about a lot of Man U supporters, guaranteed they'll lose a lot in the coming year as red turns to blue or the old Arsenal/Liverpool tops get an airing from the back of the cupboards. Scoff at me or scorn me for not being a "real" supporter or true blood, but cut me and I guaranty it'll be black and white that bleeds out!

Absolutely cannot fault the smarmy gut for today, got everything right. I'd love to be all sweetness and light but there's a lot of deep wounds need healing. Steadily becoming more impressed with our team, if we have the longevity to see this form out and continue to improve in the same way I'm sure Pardew can win over his doubters, me included. We're getting there, here's to hoping it can continue.

Thought you would only come back when we win and show how much you hate this setup? Absolutely no need Brett, especially after a win like that ffs.

Get the fuck in!!!!!!!!!

Über negative approach and a bloody dry humping to ensue

Don't see how you can argue he's getting more from his players when he obviously can't utilise quality like Ben Arfa and Anita?

The way Pardew has spoken about fans, the club and about Ashley (in praise) are a disgrace, and to say he wants to uphold traditions Sir Bobby brought to the club make me want to put a meat cleaver through Pardew's bollocks to be honest. Wish he would just shut up. When Robson talked about fans when he was having a rough ride he called us ungrateful b******s and budgies whereas Pardew never said anything like that during his bad spell, so I suppose thats one of Robson's traditions that he isn't upholding . I don't see much wrong with what Pardew's said, as usual. If he says he's trying to use one of our best managers as a role model then what is wrong with that? Don't you think it was a tad ungrateful to want him out in hindsight? We've never recovered! Pardew is a gobshite and doesn't deserve to breathe the same air as SBR, never mind use his name for brownie points. Slimy little bitch.

4-2 City, I was rooting for you Felipau!

Crazy tbh, as much as I hated the welsh wanker, Bale is a world class player and they were never gonna replace him like for like at any cost. Everyone wants to see their team improve year on year but there's been too many changes to create instant success. They'll come good if given time, but supporters demand results, just as any bunch would get frustrated at a lack of improvement. It is however worrying for them that their penetration, final ball and finishing this season has been so suspect. AVB needs to get that sorted ASAP. One or two wins and everyone will shut up again. Sacking in November when you're 4 points off second place is beyond kneejerk like!

Satire or true story? Could be either tbf!

He made a perfectly timed run, it's difficult to criticise him for a split second decision of going a little earlier than he could have done. Harsh tbf. Incorrectly ruled offside, but considering the split decision on the board through numerous replays its hard to blame the linesman. He has a name for himself now and although the fair decision is to give the attacker the benefit of the doubt, he'll always lose out to his reputation. Just need a couple of calls to go his way to build his confidence up.

They've got away with plenty enough to deserve a dodgy red.

But they haven't played that team consistently. It was the first time i'd seen Lamela start in the league for example. Soldado - Paulinho and maybe someone else i've forgotten have started every game i've seen from them out of their front 6. Outwide we've seen Chadli, Lennon, Lamela, Townsend. In the middle Sigurdsson (sometimes plays wide too), Eriksen, Holtby, Sandro, Dembele, the French lad and i'm probably missing a couple players. There's no consistency, he doesn't know his best team and it's not surprising. Their attacking play is a little like ours last season - look like strangers. From a team lacking an effective attacking identity they could probably use someone like Adebayor up top for a bit. Sometimes you can just float the ball in to him and play off him. The way we did with Shola in the first half against Norwich, it really makes things easier when you have a player like that. Soldado seems to be a particular type of forward and they don't play to his strengths at all. Shearer hit the nail on the head from what I've seen if them, far too narrow and Soldado in particular coming too far midfield during an attack, defenders will let him play with his back to goal all day outside the box. They need to get in him in the box facing goal with some decent balls in to get the best out if him.

I don't understand comments like this. He is a really exciting player and all the things he does adds excitement to the league He is a quality player, a real danger! But on the flip side, he's a rat faced, racist, cheating, slimy little fucktard.

Schmeichel I can cope with, Savage needs muting, permanently!

Mirallad should be knighted for that.

I was thinking that, you reading this Alan?

Bobby turned Shearer back into an in for striker, I don't know why you've brought those two into this. without bobby shearer was finished? give over. my point stands, you cant diminish the results of a manager just because hes lucky to have an inform striker. He was never finished, his game had to be changed, his legs were old and tired and he couldn't play the same anymore, SBR got the best out of him and turned him from becoming bang average to prolific again. No one said he was finished?

Bobby turned Shearer back into an in for striker, I don't know why you've brought those two into this. Now if Pardew somehow got Cisse scoring regularly again for us, then it would be a valid argument.

Absolutely gutted for Cisse, obviously has some class about him, I just don't know where his head is at, he either needs no game time for a while, get him fired up, a new manager to sort him out or just shipping out to another team to build up his confidence again. I just wonder if he'll ever get out if this funk again?

Tbf Shearer wasn't exactly in a rich vein of form when SBR came in, he was responsible for getting him playing again and utilising him in a way Gullit couldn't. So that's a moot point! Can't complain about the results this season, just a couple of horrific displays. We keep playing as one half wonders though and we'll come unstuck sooner rather than later.

Better than City, worst game of "football" ever? http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/goalkeeper-horror-show-21-0-defeat-173423212.html?vp=1&CMP=OUTUK

Every journey begins with one step

Thanks to TF now the Mirror has picked up on this: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/bonus-brian-reade-newcastles-pard-2796181

Especially when the logic doesn't make sense. Obertan was brought on over HBA to help protect the left side and it actually ended up weakening us. In that instance, there was literally no excuse for not bringing on Ben Arfa. there was like, personally I'd have brought colo on and tried to push the full backs on 10yds or so especially as they caught santon loads with the ball played inside him. really can't see any reason FOR bringing ben arfa on last weekend. When you have a team pushing forwards and leaving lots of space to exploit behind, I would think a player like ben Arfa would certainly be worth considering as part of the mix. they didn't really leave a load of space for a ben arfa type player to exploit, that would call for movement and someone to work along the line or at least someone to work off the ball. not ben arfas strong points If a team is pressing forward for an equaliser there is always space behind to exploit. Why would you need someone to work along the line to do that? You just put someone with some pace and ability to run at a stretched back four and an eye for goal. Get one of the other 11 to cover the lines. because if you just keep lobbing the ball over in the hope that that player will get to it first it will more often than not come straight back at you, far better try and play it for possession and in that scenario ben arfa isn't what you need. Why do you need to lob it in the first place? I can remember when we last finished in a CL place one of our best outlets was Solano who used to pick the ball up from deep defensive positions then thread the ball through to Dyer who broke forward at pace in loads of space to exploit against the opposition who were pressing forward. dyers (and solanos) movement was far superior to ben arfas, more of it and much more intelligent. ball at their feet, good as they were ben afa would murder them but doing the basics to get the ball in that situation I just don't think he'd be good enough at it. oh aye, and usually that was when we were chasing the game rather than the oppo chasing the game. at that time I was quite happy going in to the last 15 level or trailing by one as we had the legs to do anyone, as a team we don't now. The reason I mentioned Solano is because without someone who could keep his head and play the ball out from defensive positions, Dyer would have looked pretty much a passenger as well. That's where the problem lies, we don't do that strategically, because as has been mentioned by mrmojorisin, we aren't coached that way. Our set up is still most effective when we hit the ball long from the back, and in that scenario HBA isn't going to look good, and you can understand why Pardew prefers Obertan. i fear you are massively over simplifying things, we had a team who were comfortable on the ball and had numerous "get outs", as much as I like cabaye,anita and tiote has recovered some form, neither are what you'd call an escape ball which means the escapee has to do more than what ben arfa gives off the ball. also as I've said dyer gave himself better options to be passed to because of his pace and movement, ben arfa doesn't come alive UNTIL he has the ball which is too late in this situation. got to totally disagree with the idea that we are most effective when hitting long balls from the back, we've been at our best this season when dominating games and then being organised when out of possession. HBA has got his faults which I've brought up myself, namely holds the ball too long and doesn't track back very enthusiastically, but I wouldn't put lack of movement off the ball down as a weakness. He's one of the few who regularly shows for the ball, the problem is he doesn't give it back once he's got it. But on the break against a team pressing up the pitch I haven't noticed him being any less keen to get behind the defence than Obertan. I'm sure he'd far prefer to run at tiring defences when the games opened up than go up against two defenders as is usually the case when he starts. I don't think Ben Arfa holding onto the ball too long can entirely be blamed on him, if anything its the lack off movement off the ball from other players which often prevents him from releasing it. Put him back on the right and give him Remy or Gouffran to feed into in the centre and I think you'd see a different game from him. That is presuming he isn't told to keep the ball and show us a bit of "magic"