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What really winds me up about Ashley (well... one of the things) is the fact that he misses the point completely when it comes to us, the supporters. Instead of antagonising us seemingly at every chance he gets, he should be using us to his advantage. He sees us as some irritating necessity rather than the actual epitome of the club itself. We're not the enemy. So what if we want a little bit of ambition, a bit of excitement. That's what footballs all about! Instead of using every opportunity to dampen our expectations with his laccys (Pards, JFK) spouting shite about how we can't compete with the likes of Southampton, Everton and such, and basically saying we should just be grateful to be in the league. He should be talking the team up, telling us "we might not be able to spend £30m on a player but ours are going to give it a right good go" (not a great example but you know what I mean). The atmosphere inside SJP over the past couple of years has sometimes been more suited to a funeral, rather than a football match. That, is down greatly, to the constant putting down of our team and the future prospects of it by the people in charge. Look at the game yesterday. When the ref (and I use that in the broadest sense of the word) chalked off the goal, the atmosphere was electric. That lifts the players, it gives them an extra 15-20%. In short it makes players better. If Ashley and such bigged up our chances, maybe even invested a bit on a couple of players. That would give the crowd a lift, it would make SJP more intimidating for the opposition like it used to be. It really annoys the hell out of me because this scenario would benefit everyone. Anyway.... I've rambled on a bit. Rant over. Get us onside and use us!!!!! It's not rocket science!! (Now rant over).

Sad but true

The head might not but the heart would have him back in an instant.

Ashley - "No new signings Pards unless you do the truffle shuffle!!!"

Unacceptable

I think its got feck all to do with association to be honest, I think it's down to pure advertising.

Bottom line is Mike Ashley is a Conniving Untrustworthy Nasty Tosser of a man. That is all.

This man is simply a car crash of a manager. And I use the term "manager" as loosely as possible.

It's like debating which one out of two lumps of dog shit on the pavement looks better... It doesn't really matter, they're still lumps of shit.

While I agree in an ideal world we would stick with a manager through the bad times, there also has to be some sort of reason behind this other than "stability". This could come in various forms such as, players all pulling together for the manager or style of play. In the case of the players, I don't honestly think (in my opinion) that they are. We know Colo had a fall out with him, Pardew said so himself and Cabaye doesn't look happy at all. This of course, is all just my opinion but watching the team play, it doesn't look like a team that knows their own teammates names let alone what they are supposed to be doing on the pitch. This then brings me onto the second, and most important point.... style of play. Or should I say, lack of it. We seem to have the mentality of sit back for 80mins, then hope Cisse scores in the last few minutes. Regardless of the opposition. When was the last time we dominated a game? How many times have we won by 2 goals? Then there is the set pieces. If Cabaye doesn't score direct, we don't score. And everyone knows about the corner situation. If we are behind/level/in front (yeah righto) with 15mins to go... Hoy on Shola. Why? When was the last time he has done anything bar give away fouls? Our shape goes more and more out the window with every substitution he makes, it's infuriating. And that is it for me, Pardew just doesn't learn from what is happening. Everyone can call his subs 10mins before he makes them. If we can do it, so can the opposing manager. This obviously makes us a lot easier to play against. The bottom line for me is, either Pardew can't see the mistakes he's making, in which case he should go. Or he, like the rest of us, can see what's going wrong but doesn't know how to fix it, in which case he should go.

Just fuck off Pardew!!!!!!!!!!

Back to the '80s we go.....

I can't believe that he's not getting any stick in the media over the last few results. Baffling.

Exactly. This is why I can't agree with the people who are willing to give him next season to see if he can turn it around. He's had 2 and a halfish seasons to put it right, but we are going backwards in terms of style of play and effectiveness. Souness showed how quickly you can destroy a good team with just a few departures and bad signings. This talk (if true) of "big men" doesn't sound like a man who is trying to implement a style of play that suits the majority of our players. We will not be the only ones who notice this, our better players won't hang around for ever playing hoofball and fighting relegation. Sorry, for me he has to go at the end of the season.

I've got a theory... he's a fucking idiot!

Was just wondering, what are peoples pro's and con's for getting rid of him? Might get a clearer picture from this because I am struggling to think of many con's at the minute.

I think most people on here would agree that we could do with some fresh blood. I'm not overly criticizing our current coaching staff by the way, I just think it's a fairly small team. I also think some new ideas and more specialised training would really make a difference. So... to get to the point, who would you suggest we should try and recruit to the coaching staff?

Everything that's being said on here since yesterday can be summed up in one simple word...... Go!

I won't hold it against him for going. Just as long as he goes quickly without a whole load of media stories about Pardew telling him not to go, then his "agent" saying he wants to. Then 1 minute before the deadline, he fucks off leaving us in the shitter again. With the right forward/wide left type of player hopefully brought in (yeah righto), we might be a better all round team.

The thing is while its true that lack of investment is a big problem, the main thing for me is the tactics this season have been terrible and thats down to pardew

That's been the problem with much of this season. Most other teams play a 4-5-1/4-3-3 sytem, meaning Tiote and Cabs are outnumbered all of the time. We need to give them a chance and even up the numbers in the middle of the park. Then we should see them come into some better form and influence games like they can.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was doing such a great job Also i hear there's one Mr Steven Bruce looking for a job. We can hope.

And i'll raise you with... the fuck???

I don't think i've ever seen such a "head in the sand" type manager as Kean. Every week it always an excuse, it's never the fact that they were not good enough. Even against us at St James' i remember him saying how unlucky they were and a couple of our goals should'nt have stood. Comes across as a bit of a plank to be honest.

Very true. However a lump of shite with glitter on, is still a lump of shite