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Keeping him here is just playing into the media hands, I thought the circus theme had been eradicated when we were relegated and promoted again. The media just love an NUFC atomic bomb, that grinds my gears more than anything, giving the shitty rags fuel for their poisoned letter writing, probably why they haven't been piling pressure on Pardew.

I was just gonna say the 'no' votes must either be WUMs or have Parkinson's!

Thought about this as I was coming out the ground. Probably the worst team we could have left to face. Any team that can pass and move to a vaguely competent standard can basically score as many as they like at the moment. It's gonna be a full on Mandingo!

I wouldn't have minded letting in another couple of goals if it meant seeing the back of the coward, looking back, we should have all walked out at 3 or 4 - 0 to send the club a message. I really think we missed an opportunity and should think about doing it against arsenal if we go a couple of goals down. Unfortunately by then I fear it'll be too little too late, we've missed that opportunity and if he's still here by the Arsenal game I'm pretty damn sure that game will be irrelevant.

It was a sad indictment that after the first 2 goals went in, rather than hope and wish for a fight back I actually wanted us to capitulate, I've NEVER felt like that in a game before but it felt like it was the only way we were going to get shot of this joker.

Anyone seen the Taylor interview on NUFC.cock? He's a shell of a man, looks defeated. The negativity is burning through the whole club like wildfire, it's sickening.

I can't see MA happy with relegation, yes he may be set to trouser some money in the short term with sales of our 'purples' however we don't know what clauses they have in their contracts and whether we would make any decent amount of profit from them especially after this season. Even so the damage to the club's bottom line in the long term would be far more damaging to his pocket. Every man and his dog can see what is wrong with the team, now whether Pardew is stupid/arrogant/proud he clearly cannot and will not make the required changes to move us forward, I know it's risky changing manager at this point in the league and at this threat level (see Shearer) but it could also have a catapult effect (Roeder) and must be worth the risk after that gutless, pointless performance. I've never seen such a display in B&W in all my 35 years, it was beyond embarrassing. After our wake up call against the Makems it should have been a humbling moment for Pardew, but he obviously slept through his wake up call because rather than rectify our deficiencies he seems to have exsaserbated them to the Nth degree! There's no moving on from here, he's lost it, the teams lost it and most people have completely lost all faith in him. Pack your bags and fuck off Pardew, thanks for the 5th place finish and European football but you've been found out now and nobody wants you anymore!

He's never going to know. Won't live to tell the tale?

What's it like standing in the dole queue?

So glad I'm not watching this today! Perfect opportunity for Pardew to show some intent and prove to us he can handle it and change our fortunes and he bottles it AGAIN with his containment philosophy, he's just a joke! Fuck off out my life Pardew you cockney bullshitting tosspot!!

Do you even know our history? To understand that all we ask for is free flowing, attacking football. Just look at the managers past, it's clear to see the successful ones are the ones that impose our game on other teams and the managers who have been hounded out play, well, your kind of football!

I've had a few cracked ribs in years past, very painful, even a sneeze or a cough will floor you. So kudos to Papiss if he's playing through one, though I imagine he'll be on better painkillers than I was!

That was an embarrassing dive, Bayern are good for their win but this ref has been useless! One offside goal, one blatant foul before the third goal! Feels like watching one of our matches!

Divvent be daft marra 6th next year!!

I just can't see anything in Pardews locker but a flat 4-4-2 with Carroll in the team, there's no way he'd be on the bench as a plan b. it'll be the first half if the season all over again only worse as I rate Ba over Carroll IMO.

Nothing to do with formations there is more to do with football than formations..... Its due to how little movement and how the players are completely and utterly shackled by Pardew's tactics. We never have more than a couple of a players in the box at a time, that is the reason we struggle to create we are always too deep and trying to cross to two players who have no aerial power in the box and just watching the ball come back at us time and again. http://i71.servimg.com/u/f71/16/55/20/10/nufc10.png Out of all that playing in our own half is the key reason why we struggle to create and score goals, the formation is irrelevant what is relevant how ever is the tactics and mentality of the manager. Everton and Liverpool hardly have bigger and stronger squads but what they do have vastly superior coaches. I know that man and I agree with you. Exactly what I've been saying all week, there's no movement, no outlet, Pardew screams at the players to get back, there's nothing they can do but hoof it forward. It's the manager who is responsible for the lacklustre displays cuz there's nothing they're allowed to do!

Norwich and Wba play well on the deck with very limited sides. Don't even need Swansea as a yardstick tbh - they are lightyears ahead of us in their general play. Totally agree, was just referencing a quote by Ronaldo. There aren't that many in the league that play hit and hope tbh, it's just a panic mode we seem to go into every match at some point and Pardew should be screaming at them to keep it on the deck but he seems happy for us to do it.

I'd love for us to play somewhere between Swansea and Barca, but I'd settle for a bit of pass and move and venturing out of our own area with the ball on the floor, utilising a decent midfield rather than hoofing it to a midget and watching it come back for 70 minutes a game. I want to see us go after a game and not nervously try and cling on to a slender 1-0 for 80-odd minutes!

You can blame the players all you like, as a retail manager I can blame my staff if my store is under performing but if my staff aren't performing who do you think my area manager blames? It's my fault they aren't doing there job down to my handling/training of them. Ergo the buck has to stop at the managers door, Pardew has more than capable players in his team, the fact that they aren't performing HAS to be his responsibility.

Our aim this year was a top 8 finish according to the tactically inept one, he has a stronger team than the one thy finished 5th and no Europe to contend with and he expects us to swallow a top 10 target?? Typical cowardly Pardew, aiming for the stars!

Real football & goals Where's the fucking tactics man??? Crazy bastards, what kind of team tries to score again after going 1-0 up?? They'll regret that, they should have played for the draw!

I haven't even been able to take satisfaction from the Europa League, yes it was great getting so far and finally being back in Europe where we belong, but, damn we were bloody aweful for most of it and an embarrassment to ourselves. We had some lucky/scrappy wins.

The air is foul with the stench of BS

You've got to imagine that Ashley can't be happy with this at all, the "plan" isn't working as someone else pointed out a few pages back as our players are depreciating rather than us having the ability to sell on at inflated prices. That coupled with the value of the club in general depreciating, yes we're on a better financial footing and we're being more prudent in that sense, but even so a club in 17th is worth much less than a club fighting for Europe. A failing club with depreciating players in not a valued investment, Ashley, a shrewd business man will not stand for that for long. I bet if one of his SD stores was haemorrhaging money the store manager would be binned rather quick, I don't see this as being any different in his eyes. That. Is. All.

I don't profess to be any kind of footballing expert, however I do understand the basic principals of pass and move, pressing the ball and man/zonal marking, all tactics that seem to elude Pardew. Here's one for the twitter thread, Football 101 by Alan Pardew. Inexcusable!