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I would happily take a defeat if it meant that would be the last we'd see of Pardew in our dugout. I hate the bloke the same way as I hate Souness and Allardyce. Win, lose or draw on Sunday, it matters not one bit. We'll either be 8th or 9th afterwards which is where we'll be in May after 38 games

Have to admit I am enthused by the Kinnear sacking, his managerial appointment seemed inevitable. I have turned into one of those mythical "would rather lose 4-3 than win 1-0" fans the media created years ago now. Just want to see us actually go for it in games rather than play it safe and pick up the necessary points to stay up. The thing is that we're only in February and there's literally nothing at stake now, we'll finish 8th or 9th, probably 9th, so the prick Pardew has no excuse not to go out and at least try to entertain all those people who bought season tickets for what has turned out to be an awful lot of games with nothing riding on them.

They give away literally 1000's of tickets for league games and discount many more. They even had to hand out loads of free tickets for the derby when it became apparent there was going to be 1000's of empty seats. For the Cup games such as yesterday they have to split the gate receipts between their opponents and the FA so they aren't allowed to dish freebies out so even when they're only charging £15/£5 they can't get a crowd in. If they stopped doing the free tickets and all the cheap offers for league games (I believe for their next 3 home league games season ticket holders can buy extra tickets for a tenner) and charged prices in line with other Premier League clubs they would struggle to average 25,000 for league games.

Fast becoming my most hated NUFC manager of all time and that takes some doing after Souness and Allardyce. Literally have to turn the telly over now whenever he's on.

Awful defender. No positional sense and can't tackle.

Spurs will bring 2k and I reckon there'll still be 45k home fans prepared to suffer it so I don't think your guess will be far wrong. 0-2

I'm past caring to be honest.

Didn't realise Gateshead were now 4th in the Conference. Since I'm finished with NUFC, certainly for this season and probably until Ashley, Kinnear and Pardew are gone I might start taking in a few of their matches. A Promotion challenge with something actually riding on their remaining fixtures sounds a lot more appealing than what's on offer at SJP under the current regime.

Loyalty points remain even if you don't buy a membership. I packed my season ticket in this time last year and my profile now says general sale but when I log in my loyalty points are still on.

I couldn't have put it better myself.

They have actually managed to change some supporters mindsets from that of football fans to people who take more interest in balance sheets and accounts. I'm only bothered about the football and once again we've lost our best player with no sign of a replacement to come in even though it had been on the cards since August. That we have once again gone through another transfer window without making a signing who will actually be our player for keeps and doesn't have a parent club is a disgrace for a club of our size.

Ticket prices for tomorrow ranged from £45-£70 and it sold out in a few hours. If we had the success the likes of Chelsea have enjoyed for the past decade and were genuine title challengers, Champions League every season, winning cups, we could sell out our stadium easily charging "London" prices. I'll state now that i'm totally against charging all that for what was once a working mans game but NUFC are one of the few clubs that could get away with charging daft money for tickets if they ever realised their potential. Remember under Freddy Shepherd the club were charging £40 a ticket up in Milburn level 7 (whether that was against Fulham or Man Utd) in what is now the cheapest section in the stadium and he was filling it as well.

It was pointless appealing after Pardews post match comments basically saying the referee was right to send Remy off.

Thought as much.

Someone at graft saying that if we wait til Friday to appeal he'll be free to play on Saturday as his appeal won't be heard until the following week. Sounds like a load of rubbish to me but he's pretty adamant.

Excellent read. Totally agree.

People need to calm down. Kinnear says no players will leave during this transfer window so there's nowt to worry about.

19,000 home fans there today and it was only £10 a ticket and a fiver for kids and pensioners yet no doubt there'll be 1000s of them whingeing on cos they can't get a cup final ticket. Fickle doesn't even come close to describing that lot.

There's no doubt in my mind that they'll get through tonight. I've even stuck £50 on them at 7/4 to qualify for the final to soften the blow slightly.

It's served a purpose for the league we were in. Hughtons team outperformed Keegan team of 92/93 in terms of points, games won and fewer defeats but all of us who were there to witness both those seasons know there was no comparison between the 2 sides. Keegans team were just a pleasure to watch and captured the imagination of everyone whereas Hughtons was functional and more effective.

Just shows how many tickets they must give away for league games when they are averaging 40k home fans there yet for cup games when free tickets can't be issued in the same way they had 17,000 home fans v Chelsea for a quarter final and 25k home fans v Man Utd for a semi final. Cut out all the freebies for league games and that is their true level of support week in week out. Fair play to them for having one foot in a cup final though.

Just reading RTG before and the hypocrisy over there is staggering. Last year they were hailing the Mackem who threw the flare down onto the NUFC fans in the Leazes End as some sort of hero. A Man Utd fan does the same thing last night and not only do they want him banned from every football ground in the country but also arrested and jailed. What a mixed up bunch they are.

That's it for me now. Performances under Pardew are never going to have you on the edge of your seat but at least if there was an area where you could stand and have a bit of a sing song it would make it a bit more enjoyable. Atmosphere is flat as a fart as well and it's just as if everyone is going through the motions, players and fans alike.

I didn't renew for this season and haven't bothered with a membership either. When I log in to the online ticket office my profile now says "General sale" but my loyalty points are still there.

17,000 although it was only a League Cup Semi Final against one of the biggest clubs in the World and kids had to pay a fiver to get in tonight when usually it's free.