ChrisMcQuillan

Steven Taylor when he's backing off.

Got a straight red 3 games ago, and was suspended for the next two. He has another game suspended, so Chronicle is wrong.

Isn't he banned for one more?

Ah right, yeah he should just play him and see how he gets on but at least he explains why he hasn't. But the explanation makes no sense. It's like a guy standing up in court, and saying, "Yes, your honour, I shot him in the face. But, in my defence, he did look at me funny." "Well, son. It was wrong. But at least you explain why." More to do with the opposition. The two games he's mentioning being Stoke and Wolves would arguably be against the 2 most physical sides in the league. He's taken that into account and made/will make his decisions with that fact in mind. But he's proved he's capable against Stoke. And unsettling the backline never works. Perhaps you're just playing Devil's Advocate, but it seems a clear choice to me.

Ah right, yeah he should just play him and see how he gets on but at least he explains why he hasn't. But the explanation makes no sense. It's like a guy standing up in court, and saying, "Yes, your honour, I shot him in the face. But, in my defence, he did look at me funny." "Well, son. It was wrong. But at least you explain why."

I guess the entire debate re: Ferguson annoys me. The whole "He's really good, but he hasn't started a PL game before so I don't think he should start." The argument against him starting seems purely based on the fact he hadn't ever started a PL game before. Well, once that applied to Carroll, Owen, Torres and Cantona. You have to start them at some point. You see Wilshere and Ramsey clocking up league appearances before 20, why are we so afraid of blooding youngsters when they do appear to have quality and only doing it instead when everyone else dies? Also, when the other option is putting fucking Steven "I'll back off for fifty yards but stare really hard at the ball so I look heroic" Taylor at RB and shifting Simpson out of position at LB, I can't see why there's even a debate? One kid verus messing up the shape of the entire backline AGAIN.

http://www.journallive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2011/03/26/alan-pardew-is-delighted-by-shane-ferguson-61634-28405988/ He just comes across as an absolute knobend in this interview.

Pardew's line-ups and formations make less sense than Skirge's, sometimes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympic_games/london_2012/9433316.stm Who would your Team GB starting XI be? Hart Johnson Terry Ferdinand Cole Walcott Ramsey Fletcher Bale Rooney Carroll Subs: Camp, Evans, Giggs, Dorrans, A. Johnson, Agbonlahor, Healy

NWOAT. Merge with Barton topic.

It IS laughable.

Harper Simpson Williamson Campbell Coloccini Enrique Barton Tiote Nolan Ameobi Lovenkrands Kneejerk!

Pardew said he never gets thrashed, didn't he?

Please be: Krul Simpson Williamson Coloccini Ferguson Barton Ireland Nolan Jonas Best Ranger Anything less than a win, and we're in serious trouble.

Good lad.

Only happens AGAINST us, man.

I feared we'd lose this as well. Truth is, it's beginning to smell like a relegation season again. The injuries, the managerial upheaval, the moral-damaging transfers (like Given, N'Zogbia). People on here will laugh and mock you and say you're being demoralising, but history and hindsight will come to the same conclusions we're coming to now, and for the same reasons.

Wolves, Blackpool, West Brom all still winning.

Has now lost as many as Kinnear, in three fewer games.

Agree. What an amazing job Hughton did against Stoke at home. They won 2-1, with 1 shot on target. Just a bad day.

Hillarious. 60 minutes to go!!! I said if results stay as they are. That leaves us 4 points ahead of relegation. Which is relegation threatened. If that's hilarious because you suffer from some debilitating mental illness, fine. Otherwise, it's just a statement of fact.