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Isn't it also the name of a PJ & Duncan Monkees cover**? Open to ridicule. ** My lass bought it, honest.

On his way back to Newcastle now. Confirmed later today/tomorrow - Caulkin, Hope & Hardy

Pretty sure I'm being overly optimistic but I've chosen to believe that his break clause was only publicised as an added incentive for the players to stay up. i.e. Stay up this year and you get to work with a world class manager next year. Go down and it's back to working for has-beens and charlatans.

I agree, he should have played through his collapsed lung. Pft, molly coddled footballers these days eh?

Surely this stems from defenders jockeying strikers in the box - with their arms outstretched. They are therefore attempting to block the space between attacker and goal and that can therefore be interpreted as deliberate should the ball strike the arm. Clearly not the case with this incident where you'd be extremely hard pressed to make a case that it was deliberate in any sense.

Nowhere to go now after going head to head with the players this week. Surely this was shit or bust, and was quite clearly just shit.

Need someone to beat someone?! This guy for real? We've got one in Hull!!! :rant: :rant:

Perfect tone and as others have said, a dignified response. The most notable point for me in the whole statement is that they are confirming now that this will continue until Ashley is gone as well. It's been strictly about Pardew until now. It'll be interesting to see if that brings a few more off the fence.

More evidence (if it was needed) that this is why he can't stand Europe - he loses his precious "preparation" time.

Moyes would be a huge upgrade and the pick of domestic targets surely? Built steadily at Everton under similar constraints but at least seemed to understand the club and fan base. At the very least he would have the bollocks to challenge Ashley. He certainly isn't a yes man.

Sounds a bit like when he let Demba dictate his position despite it being obvious to anyone with a pair of eyes that he'd be off as soon as his clause was activated.

The cynic in me suggest that this is why we've started doing business in January. All of the recent season ticket deals (10, 9, & 8 year price freezes) mean that renewal decision time is the end of January/February. If we can stumble through until the January window and then buy some players that offer hope, then fans will renew. It will be interesting when the original three year deals expire.

I have zero faith in the team, but Wigan have to win two games and I simply cannot see that happening (as well as us losing all three of ours, which is almost a certainty but that's irrelevant UNLESS they win two games) Not if Wigan win one and draw two, then we'll need points. Not massively out of the realms of possibility that they get a point at WBA, beat Swans at home and then just need a point at home to Villa. Even worse if Villa only need a point at that stage as well.

Of course, but that doesn't mean he isn't decent at man management. He might still be good at it but, like you say, unable to counteract the effects of so many defeats. You're right though, man management is easy when you're winning. He might be decent at the lovey-dovey side of man-management but when it comes to the difficult bit he's failed miserably with the most notable example being his treatment of Ba to the detriment of the team. He should have had the balls to stand up to him and it cost us big style. Have to wonder if that's where the players started to disrespect him. They may like him but that's not enough if it produces the garbage that we've seen in the past few weeks.

If Sissoko has left early due to it being a "light training session" then how come that only applies to him? I thought it was only him that left early? Doesn't add up IMO.

Rubbish. It was a bit fickle, but at least the team used to fight on the pitch, the club used to at least try to go places, going all out in Europe, making the Champions League, going out at the start of a season with the intention of challenging for the title - half of that was only 10 years ago. We've just become a big ball of apathetic nonsense in the last few seasons. Ashley and his cronies have squeezed every last ounce of passion and excitement out of Newcastle United, and people just shrug their shoulders and say "ah well." The protests under Shepherd were embarrassing but at least we showed we f***ing cared then. Remember Shepherd's car getting attacked at Wigan after a League Cup humbling to cries of "Souness Out"? What the hell happened to us? Remember it well. Football is about passion, it's about standing up for your club and showing what it means to you. It's not about taking pathetic excuses from the managers, watching abject performances be churned out at home and justifying the penny-pinching owner from keeping his wallet in his pocket. We just don't care anymore. I've never seen such an abject St James' Park before - we lose 6-0 to Liverpool and half of the people sit there just sighing and shrugging their shoulders - I know, I was one of them. The bite, the edge has just gone from the supporters and its sad because this football club is a f***ing million miles away from what it once was - and even that wasn't the best that it could be. My biggest pet hate is fans saying "We can't sack him now, we can't chant that, we can't do this - the media will have a field day and slag us off" - half of these people are the ones that turn around and slag the media off and say they talk a load of s*** anyway - you either care about what they say or you don't. I'd rather stand up for what I believed in and be made to look a fool in the papers than sit quietly and watch a damn quality squad go down AGAIN. The apathy in the ground is the most depressing aspect of this whole mess. The blame that the fans received for our last relegation has the ground in fear of a repeat. There was an inkling of an uprising at the Reading game that they managed to quash with the new signings. Be interesting to see the reaction (or lack of) at the Aresnal game if by some miracle we're already safe.

Losing Krul now would make the sale of Forster look ridiculous. Especially if we end up paying more than we got for him to bring in another young English prospect. Not gonna happen.

It's not ideal that we've spent all season accommodating his wish to play centrally at the expense of Cisse in the hope that we'd hang onto him, and he's still offed at the first opportunity. Thanks for the goals, goodbye to The Ego.

But he's English isn't he?

He was good on the deck when he was here, and I thought he'd go on to big things, but watching him run lately he looks like he is wading through waist-high treacle. He looks a lot bigger than when he was with us. Didn't Liverpool make a big deal about him working on his upper body when he was working back to fitness? Either way, I think we had him right physically, he was strong but way more mobile than he seems to be now. Hopefully we could put that right again.

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