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Strange question, clearly the answer is that it would be entirely dependent on who the new owner was and their intentions. I personally just want a change, I can feel my enthusiasm for it draining by the month. One consideration though is that Ashley will doubtless try to fuck us on his way out.

For Pardew, it's 52 defeats (at a very quick count), so 36.5% of defeats are by 3 clear goals. More than a third. Jeeeesus.

Spending spree imminent.

Would also like to see the percentage as a proportion of defeats rather than games personally. It seems we love a tight win but can't avoid a heavy defeat.

Achieving their "target" without having spent anything since January 2013 is ideal, that's how they'll be looking at it.

No. As repeated in the statement, the target for this season was/is a top 10 finish. I'm sure they'd be over the moon at having to pay bonuses out to the staff and players. Not sure what you're saying, do you know for a fact there's a bonus? "At the beginning of the season all our staff and players were incentivised should we finish in tenth position and above, and our commitment to achieving this will continue right up until the final whistle on 11th May. Ah, missed that one. Let's say it really exists. Why offer a bonus? Did they think that a top 10 finish was out of the question? Doesn't really make sense. Not sure what's difficult to understand - we finished perilously close to getting relegated last year, which meant we had to spend money on transfers. Never again.

No. As repeated in the statement, the target for this season was/is a top 10 finish. I'm sure they'd be over the moon at having to pay bonuses out to the staff and players. Not sure what you're saying, do you know for a fact there's a bonus? I thought you said you read the article. Hadn't memorised it word by word, my sincerest apologies. Memorised it word by word, Jesus.

No. As repeated in the statement, the target for this season was/is a top 10 finish. I'm sure they'd be over the moon at having to pay bonuses out to the staff and players. Not sure what you're saying, do you know for a fact there's a bonus? I thought you said you read the article.

Still pisses me off that they said they wouldn't sell any advertising space because nobody would give them 100million-odd quid for it.

Not sure what Lee's said wrong there tbh.

That's mint. It's a good idea. But couldn't they have filled the entire thing up with things he's actually said? I think it's a nice mix of fact and fiction, people who don't read/hear his rubbish won't know what's real and what's not.

Have you read it?

"Blame the Europa League, blame the Human League..."

That's mint.

Agree tbh, still feels like a shame though, especially with them saying they were doing fine before the distribution situation changed. Used to still read them now and again and have a bit of nostalgia about the whole thing.

The reason I was going on about it was because many of us were questioning why we'd swapped Hughton for Pardew when for a considerable time it didn't look like an upgrade at all, however there were a few in early 2011 saying he was indeed an upgrade and was doing a better job than Hughton had, which I completely disagreed with. The season we finished 5th I think everyone started giving him a break, the results were excellent and performances even started following towards the end of the season.

HTT man, howay: http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,72878.msg3711938.html#msg3711938

You definitely didn't react well to his appointment, I meant a bit further down the line. Fuck this shite for a laugh tbh. I do feel the need to ask whether this was a joke though, can't work it out. http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,72878.msg2848222.html#msg2848222

He played attacking football at home to Villa and Sunderland, resulting in scorelines of 6-0 and 5-1 in games where we tried and succeeded to score goals from the first minute to the last. So in a quarter of the home games he had in the Premier League (managing a team that had just been promoted and had barely brought anyone else in) we smashed teams in entertaining games. So "he only really played attacking football at home in the Championship" is completely false. Re Pardew it didn't take long at all for your position to "soften"", it certainly occurred long before most had and before we'd many seen any decent results. Will see what I can dig up, I'd not bother but saying I'm "confused or making things up" is obnoxious for no reason whatsoever.

Beat Villa 6-0 and the mackems 5-1 in his first few months as a PL manager, in the days before we stopped attacking and shut up shop when 1 or 2 goals clear. At home we were beaten by Blackpool, Stoke and Blackburn and drew against Wigan and Fulham. A defensive approach was blamed for most of these results. Anyway, now's not the time to kick the dog. He had less than half a season in the Premier League with us and led us to those 2 hammerings and also great results at Everton and Arsenal, amongst other decent results. There is nowhere near enough evidence of him doing a crap job or overseeing crap football for you to be so conclusive about him. You've just got a chip on your shoulder about him, not sure why since everyone else seemed happy enough. Can distinctly recall you being happy we'd sacked off Hughton for a "proper manager", well suffice to say I disagree(d) with that. See little to no difference between them in terms of overall managerial ability, but one is an absolute prick and the other isn't. Know who I'd rather have.

Beat Villa 6-0 and the mackems 5-1 in his first few months as a PL manager, in the days before we stopped attacking and shut up shop when 1 or 2 goals clear.

Think Billy Furious packed it in, they certainly wouldn't have got rid of him. Love his writing. You can get the last issue of The Mag here for £3 with free postage if you live in the UK, I've just ordered one: http://shop.themag.co.uk/collections/magazines/products/the-mag-issue-289-5-april-2014 You can also get back issues with free postage.

Only read the odd one these days, but still pretty devastated. Grew up reading them, I used to sell them outside the ground as well. Had a few articles published in The Mag when I was about 16 and I was beyond chuffed.

France taking this guy to the World Cup.