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Long term it HAS to be fat Ash, short term I wouldn't be against getting rid of symptoms. Ashley's the cancer, Pardew's just a tumour, cut out the tumour, then blitz the cancer iyam.

We can have the ball all day and knock it sideways and backwards as much as we like, that wouldn't win a game against non league teams. We resorted to long strikes, as per, and if any goal was fortunate, it was ours. We were out-pardewed by a "bit if magic" ffs. The best team won on the day because they had more desire, more work rate, more movement and a more direct style of play. We take a fucking age to build up play, we can't break down sides because we give them all the time in the world to organise their side once we have the ball. Then while we're trying to break them down our static positioning means we don't get anywhere, inevitably they read one of our passes easily, dispossess us and hit us hard and fast. This happens every game, every fucking game, and yet we still plod along with the same tactic. Then in the games where we're out classed in possession we sit back, soak up pressure () and try and hit it forward as fast as possible to the one player past the 18 yard line. We've never perfected the fast pass and move counter attack. We're so predictable it's depressing!

.... Or you could just watch a few games from each era and witness with your own eyes?! To many variables to consider any data indubitable.

The only thing making me want to watch this is morbid curiosity. Another gutless whimper out of the cup, may need to crack out the double digit scoreboards for this mauling!

Other than Keegan, Sir Bobby and to a lesser extent Hughton, we've largely had a rough ride It always pains me to know the last Sir Bobby knew of NUFC was the relegation season. For all the talk about the moral issues surrounding it, I would definitely advocate cloning in his instance.

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TBF you'd also have to add another column showing total money spent to get a broader view. TBF that wouldn't be a fair comparison either as there's been some dire shit bought by some of those managers for extortionate money.

Tbf I was about 5'8 until I was in my early 20's now I'm 6'4

I was 6ft 1 at 16 and i'm now 5ft 8 as an old man..... You probably lost your height under the weight of Mrs Bimpy's thumb

Or as he should have done said nothing, no comment as it's been dealt with by the courts. To say it was a misunderstanding is ridiculous in the extreme and tbh he deserves all the stick he gets for saying it. What Pardew has said is an insult to peoples intelligence. Exactly, why not just leave it be, he broke the law, got caught breaking the law and was duly punished. There was no reason to blatantly lie, treat us like window lickers and advocate a criminal offence!?

Why defend someone that has obviously broken the law and was seeking to do so??

Right now Stan Laurel or Sideshow Bob would be an upgrade. I can't see us looking past has beens though unfortunately. I honestly don't believe Kinear is in the running, that would just be a health and safety / Risk assessment nightmare with his ill health. An up and coming young manager, with an attacking pedigree and something to prove, not bothered about nationality either.

He's had all confidence sapped from him, he's lost it and needs a good manager to get him playing the right way again. Though not quite comparable, look at that patch Shearer had before Bobby came in, he saw what was wrong, got Shearer facing the goal again and the right service, 2 games in and he hits 5 past Wednesday! The same can be said about half the squad, get the right manager in and we'll see a few players regain lost form. A lot of players in our squad look like shadows of the form they were in when they were bought, Cisse for some reason is the worst afflicted.

Has he not still got 8 matches of that ban left?

Honestly the worst I've felt about this team in the 20 years I've supported. At least in the times of Gullit, Dogleash and Souness there was always a light at the end of the tunnel. It was a cold hard slog and depressing at times but we knew it was only a matter of time before Fat Fred exercised that itchy trigger finger. This is relentless, there's no end in sight, he gets away with one embarrassment after another with a half decent game sandwiched in between. What does this clueless cnut have to do to get the chop?!? Fuck it!

I'm a long suffering supporter from Blackpool and don't get to many games, but even I wouldn't shop in his shitty little bargain basements.

That's 90 minutes of my life I won't get back! Felt cruel on Swansea at the end though, didn't deserve that, but a fair result to a shite match.

Littered with irony. That's just an embarrassing thread!

This Swans game is depressingly dull! The passing is terrible!!

That's the main issue for me, how Pardew approaches the game, if he bottles it or tries to steifel the game and defend a slender lead then we're gonna come unstuck. A fearless attacking display, which we're more than capable of and we'll see this with ease. I'm only nervous about Pardews mind set.

We can't expect to compete with the likes of the financial powerhouse that is Palace ffs

http://i42.tinypic.com/2ryhs37.jpg Rounding principals up to the nearest percent doesn't give a fair representative

Not as good as actually signing big kit deals with Adidas or big sponsorshipr deals like we had with Northern Rock/NTL etc. Nha, lets be bamps. Why sign lucrative deals with sponsorships when you can peddle your own tacky trash for free? Just more excuses to make more personal gain and reduce club costs in the interest of SD.