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Which oddly I saw him recently blame on the Europa League too. Oh, that is odd. It's almost as if his excuses don't even tally with the results. God, I've no idea where to turn here, who could have been at fault for those results? [/actual Newcastle SHOWDOWN meeting transcript]

Just remembered this post, from the summer we insisted on having no incoming transfers: http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,52480.msg1891477.html#msg1891477

Changing my work password from PardewOut1! after just 12 days tomorrow instead of the customary 28. Has clearly worked the opposite way to which I intended. You fucking show them, man. Cheers man. Changing it to StabilityIn7MoreYears!, gotta support the brand/club. I don't have nearly enough sports anguish passwords. I feel like I'm not representing nearly as hard as I could/should. In 48 days time I'll go with JoeKinnear?7

That will happen in 28 days, thanks guys - I'm always stuck for work password ideas generally. Love this forum, so practical.

Changing my work password from PardewOut1! after just 12 days tomorrow instead of the customary 28. Has clearly worked the opposite way to which I intended. You fucking show them, man. Cheers man. Changing it to StabilityIn7MoreYears!, gotta support the brand/club.

Changing my work password from PardewOut1! after just 12 days tomorrow instead of the customary 28. Has clearly worked the opposite way to which I intended.

IP had a decent conversation with himself there. I know, I thought nobody noticed.

Just a shame this couldn't have been put on Pardew's headstone as manager today. I'm particularly galled at feeling like an increasingly tiny club as we go on.

I think it was some sort of gallows humour. Sorry people, move on.

Actually made myself laugh with this. Forgot what I was trying to convey now and I typed it less than a minute ago.

Fair enough, let's just move on with our hopeless fucking lives.

To be replaced by what though? What I'm saying is that these ups and downs are just a part of football. And football is just a game which is why some people might want to go an do something else for a while that doesn't depress them. Sure, that's their prerogative, but it doesn't tally with what I think being a football fan should entail. If you just want something to entertain you and make you happy then there are much easier things anyway... TV, theatre, reading, going for a walk in the country, the list is endless. Football has ups and downs. Anyway, as I said, anyone is entitled to stay away if they want I suppose. So passive. You might as well say that there's no point expressing an opinion on the running of the club. And before you kick off, read through what you've just said again and hopefully realise that I'm basically paraphrasing. I never kick off. I don't really accept that logic, expressing an opinion on the running of the club is completely different to stopping going because Pardew is keeping his job. You have a problem with the former and the latter, your posts are littered with expressions of this. "Stop talking about this", "just concentrate on that", etc. Anyway let's not create another sideshow here, we both end up looking like dickheads. I don't understand such moderate, passive views and you have your problems with mine. The end. I don't have any problems with your views at all, I just sometimes disagree with them. That's genuinely it. "Stop talking about that and accept it" is not a disagreement with a view, but I've seen it as a reply many times in recent weeks to various people on here.

OK, since we're back to a more reasonable point, I unsurprisingly disagree. Can I just put it really simply? 2 and a half years so far of generally thoroughly uninspiring, frightened and negative football. A situation that has soured the matchday experience for many. I'm generally a 5-10 games a year person (mostly aways) and I'm sick of saying "it was a good day out apart from the football". So we're 2 and a half years down the line with that and off the back of a dreadful season in which we finished 16th, we have the chance to bin the man responsible and choose not to. As if to suggest the performances are good enough but for mitigating circumstances, and committing us to months/years more of this tripe. That's not the ups and downs of football, most football clubs see appalling performances and results as a reason to sack the manager and move on to better things. There are no ups in sight.

To be replaced by what though? What I'm saying is that these ups and downs are just a part of football. And football is just a game which is why some people might want to go an do something else for a while that doesn't depress them. Sure, that's their prerogative, but it doesn't tally with what I think being a football fan should entail. If you just want something to entertain you and make you happy then there are much easier things anyway... TV, theatre, reading, going for a walk in the country, the list is endless. Football has ups and downs. Anyway, as I said, anyone is entitled to stay away if they want I suppose. So passive. You might as well say that there's no point expressing an opinion on the running of the club. And before you kick off, read through what you've just said again and hopefully realise that I'm basically paraphrasing. I never kick off. I don't really accept that logic, expressing an opinion on the running of the club is completely different to stopping going because Pardew is keeping his job. You have a problem with the former and the latter, your posts are littered with expressions of this. "Stop talking about this", "just concentrate on that", etc. Anyway let's not create another sideshow here, we both end up looking like dickheads. I don't understand such moderate, passive views and you have your problems with mine. The end.

To be replaced by what though? What I'm saying is that these ups and downs are just a part of football. And football is just a game which is why some people might want to go an do something else for a while that doesn't depress them. Sure, that's their prerogative, but it doesn't tally with what I think being a football fan should entail. If you just want something to entertain you and make you happy then there are much easier things anyway... TV, theatre, reading, going for a walk in the country, the list is endless. Football has ups and downs. Anyway, as I said, anyone is entitled to stay away if they want I suppose. So passive. You might as well say that there's no point expressing an opinion on the running of the club. And before you kick off, read through what you've just said again and hopefully realise that I'm basically paraphrasing.

To be replaced by what though? What I'm saying is that these ups and downs are just a part of football. I think we're prolonging/extending our own decline. That has an effect on matters.

I get what you saying, I just think it's an exaggeration. Well it's not an exaggeration for him if he follows it up, or anyone else for that matter. So again, we're at the stage where I'm not sure what you mean. Of course Pardew is a footnote, however a lot of support is based around hope that things will get better and achievements can be made.

There's justification for feeling like things are a bit hopeless when the main thing that keeps football fans and particularly those of NUFC going is the hope to turn things around. Can totally understand anyone taking a break or toning things down a bit until things improve. The football is joyless, which is fundamental.

Byeeee. Let's all laugh at justifiably disillusioned fans, Let's all laugh at justifiably disillusioned fans, LA-LA-LA-LA - LOL! - LA-LA-LA-LA - LOL! Oops, syllables are a bit fucked up.

I don't even blame him tbh, he is what he is.

They're perfectly happy just to make up the numbers and plod along. Zero ambition whatsoever. Pardew is the tyre the squad is dragging behind it and he simply shouldn't be here. He thoroughly deserved to lose his job this week and I'm bitterly disappointed he hasn't. I just can't be enthusiastic with him in charge after watching the disaster unfold this season. It's been utterly turgid shite for months and it's Pardew's responsibility. He needed to go, man. Fuck's sake. It's depressing if we're standing still as a football club just to gradually pay back Ashley's loan. We never won anything under Keegan/Robson but there was hope and excitement and all the rest of it. We'll see what happens but it honestly doesn't look good, I thought we'd moved forwards a bit but not now.

NUFC-related kicks in the bollocks never arrive in ones, your balls generally get a quick but sustained pounding until the next flurry a week/month/whatever later.

There is always something weird somewhere in each of our club statements and today it's the footnote about "affordable" football. They never miss the chance to pat themselves on the back about something and it's got so bad on the pitch that that's the best they've got at the moment. Affordable season tickets might be but value for money wise it's arguably a fucking rip-off. Following the team around the country certainly isn't affordable either and that's generally eye-bleedingly awful too. Style of football is something the higher-ups have within their control to influence, there's clearly no interest in doing so which is of course thoroughly depressing.

That is the exact analogy I would have used. It's generally the obvious choice. Gutted at the news, obvs. Had misplaced hope that the people running the show at NUFC had developed any kind of plan or ambition for the club. Here's to another few years wasted, it's been 44/58 years or whatever already so what's the use in changing the habit of a lifetime.