Hughesy

That Championship season, for me, was incredibly overrated. Seems to have taken on this mythical brilliance.

If only I'd put a tenner on us at 150-1 as opposed to one whole English pound.

Should have put more on the 150-1 to go down odds I found.

What's he said? Really like him on the guardian podcast..

Doesn't he have a Uefa pro licence? Must be the easiest course in the world if this cretin passed it.

Wasn't there some ridiculous stat about Palace's goals to shot ratio - something like 50% success rate? Can't rely on that...

I know our squad has some serious issues... but is he for real? No-one could get more out of Cabella, Perez, Sissoko etc?

20% bonus seems pretty high just for finishing in the top 10.

I don't get that - we didn't buy anyone? If anything, our costs should have gone down?

Along with Janmaat and Cabella, he's one of the few players I actually like. Really think he's going to be a top player (somewhere else).

Usual caveats about other forums, itks etc, but it looks like Armstrong isn't a fan of Carver: "Just had a mate round to watch the match, he owns the best boys club in Newcastle, Adam Armstrong came from there, Armstrong was telling him that he will have to get away from Newcastle as charver doesn't fancy him, a lot of the first team are sick of charver always talking about the other teams strengths and talks about how to stop them, never about what Newcastle can do, clubs a fookin mess." "My mate has coached armstrong since he was 8, he was there the other night and asked if he could take the u11's training for an hour, grounded lad, been away with england, scored a couple of goals, rooney gave him loads of advice, come back to the club buzzing until charver knocked it back out of him, it will be a shame if he has to leave the club" http://thecumbrians.boards.net/thread/4568/newcastle-fans-deluded?page=2#ixzz3XHZAyTFA

A half decent manager could easily have outperformed Pardew in spite of Ashley and his restrictions.

On 3 million euros as well - not even 'that' much. About £2 million a year.

All my dreams. Gone in an instant. Kept hoping we would appoint him.

Told me in December that he didn't think Tuchel would come to us - which was disappointing: Me Hi - do you think there is any chance Tuchel would consider nufc or are his sights set higher? Would seem a perfect fit to me! Dec 29 Raphael Honigstein I personally think he's CL material. would be a step down to go to NUFC I wonder if we have tried speaking to Tuchel though.

Surely it depends on the manager we appoint? If we showed some ambition and got someone highly rated in - Tuchel, Garde, Jemez etc - there is absolutely no doubt in my mind the manager would extract more from each player we have and we'd do a fair bit better than Pardew (in terms of style of play/entertainment and points).

Admittedly I've only played it once, but he doesn't say the 'team' is shit at all. Isn't what he asked what he thinks of the defeat and he says 'shit'?

Would genuinely lose it if we had passed up the opportunity to get Tuchel in.

Just saw Marcotti retweet this - https://twitter.com/PardsinPornos. So weird...

Great goal.

Does seem like Roma fans aren't massive fans of MYM from looking at their forums..

Ryder's idea that because people aren't chanting against Carver at the moment, this is somehow indicative of the fans endorsing Carver as manager is unbelievably dense.

Chronicle keep denying that they are pushing Carver for the job and that may well be true now - but what they should be doing is writing articles highlighting exactly why he should never have a chance of getting the job, how generally incompetent he is and how there are much better candidates out there.

Have to agree as well..

Interesting article - http://www.thesecretfootballer.com/articles/the-secret-footballer/24353/sad-tale-of-adam-johnson-and-sunderland-afc/