Frazzle

It'll break the internet.

I think that's been a factor. Which won't be an encouragement for other managers to join us, if they have other decent options. Will certainly rule out managers who don't back themselves to do better than Alan Pardew.

That's the owner's problem, he's not willing to spend the club's money to pay compensation.

The Mail have a very good track record (relatively) with our stories in recent years. No doubt because Ashley is a fan of the paper.

I always thought the criticisms of De Boer were that he wasn't effective enough and was too caught up on trying to play Tiki-Taka? Either way, would be a massive coup to bring him here IMO

Pardew not even favourite for next manager to leave with Skybet

Would be fitting if he went after a swashbuckling 3-2 win tbh

Pardew always been a poor manager so nothings changed in that respect.

Far right

Saw Poyet clapping but not Pardew They both clapped Pardew wasn't clapping when I looked over, fairly sure of it.

A campaign needs to be started against these. Too many people follow them which means too many people are influenced by them. No wonder not everyone was behind SackPardew

Too much concentrating on his acts and not his omissions though, most the time he's nowhere to be seen when we need him.

Pathetic that. Even if you want to be hostile there's no need for that.

Saw Poyet clapping but not Pardew

I'm all for bringing youngsters through but that Armstrong sub was pure tokenism as someone has said. Why haven't you played him the preceeding games if he's there on merit you knob!

Just sack the bastard ffs

Doesn't matter if he is or not, if he's not played he won't improve and won't reach his potential. In terms of achievement, Campbell eclipses most all of our young players for a while now. Wat Sameobi, Aarons and Dummett have all made the first team and Armstrong is pushing for a place. Campbell's been on loan in Scotland and a few lower league teams in the north. I meant in terms of youth team achievements. I know Armstrong has got caps and goals for England youth team but Campbell was winning player of the tournament in every tournament he played for a bit and looked our young player with the most potential. Aye, that's the point --- you believe Campbell has the most potential, I don't. I rate Ayoze and Armstrong higher for the same position. How much have you watched of Campbell? Armstrong has been given the odd first team chance so you will have seem him, unless you've watched them in youth team games its difficult to compare them.

Doesn't matter if he is or not, if he's not played he won't improve and won't reach his potential. In terms of achievement, Campbell eclipses most all of our young players for a while now. I don't think we really could afford to give TWO young striker enough play time for development, especially when there's Ayoze. I got your point, that's why I was shouting for Vuckic a few years ago. But this doesn't apply to Campbell imo. Campbell failed mostly because he is "comparatively" not good enough, from the limited time on the pitch. Armstrong's touch and football sense are a lot better and he deserves to get the limited play time left out by Cisse and Ayoze. Campbell has to prove his value on loan - like Dummett - and if he failed, that's it. This does not relate to whether Pardew is the manager or not. Campbell is two years older than Armstrong though. He should've been in the first team squad after the European season but he just dropped off the face of the earth. If he had been given chances to prove himself and hadn't made it I would say fair enough but he hasn't been given a chance IMO. If he had proved himself on loan he probably would've been given more chances, true, but our loans seem terribly thought out to me. Campbell was strongly linked to Brighton for a loan a few years ago (not the sort of rumour that gets made up) but we ended up sending him to Carlisle and St Mirren, wtf. Most FL clubs are managed by dinosaurs, if your playing style suits a team playing football then you'll probably never succeed (see Vuckic as well). There must be plenty of players who've done nowt on loan but still carved out decent PL careers. Carroll being on that springs to mind.

Doesn't matter if he is or not, if he's not played he won't improve and won't reach his potential. In terms of achievement, Campbell eclipses most all of our young players for a while now. Wat Sameobi, Aarons and Dummett have all made the first team and Armstrong is pushing for a place. Campbell's been on loan in Scotland and a few lower league teams in the north. I meant in terms of youth team achievements. I know Armstrong has got caps and goals for England youth team but Campbell was winning player of the tournament in every tournament he played for a bit and looked our young player with the most potential.

Colback pretending he's a fan in today's programme.

Doesn't matter if he is or not, if he's not played he won't improve and won't reach his potential. In terms of achievement, Campbell eclipses most all of our young players for a while now.

Its in the FT that they want to buy Spurs.

We'll never know the inside story of what went wrong with him here but I don't think you can say that just because he ends up at a rubbish club that he would never have made it here regardless of what happened. What Pardew will never realise is that is you truly want to bring youngsters through, you HAVE to play them even when they aren't at the level they need to be. If they never play, they'll never be 'ready' as he says. Aarons has been lucky in that made an immediate impact (goals/assists wise). If he hadn't have done this he wouldn't be thought of as first team regular IMO. Let's hope they don't lose faith with Armstrong just because he doesn't score in a grand total of 90 minutes or something over the course of this season. Seeing Campbell fall out of favour should never have been a surprise when you think that as well as Pardew he had to work with Wilie Donachie, a man who said this: Maybe Campbell's just taking it easy for a couple of years until he's allowed in the first team...

Will miss Jan due to African Nations Cup.

Pretty much. Smith only started one game after Tiote made his full debut (a game that Tiote missed).