Spudil

f*** off man all it shows is how fickle and short-termism the vast majority of football fans are. Not to mention the extreme lengths some people on Internet forums will spout vitriol just to feel like the zealot at the front of a worthy crusade. The whole anti-Pards stuff was based on conjecture (gambling debts), anger (CH's sacking) and cynicism (Ashley put to make money from the club). It's amazing how attitudes change in a short space of time with a few wins under the belt. Sadly, I doubt all of the recent 'converted' would be so pleased of we were 'just' 7th though. Well then... this is one of the worst posts I've read on here

Feel the same, nothing much to talk about in terms of post-match analysis. Just proud.

Nah. I prefer 4-3-3 too, but tactics were fine today. City are a great side.

Absolutely.

MY FUCKING GOD. WHAT A GOAL.

Fucking ridiculous.

What an utter utter cunt this ref is.

Singed a new contract recently. Looks a very promising player though.

I'm certainly no Simpson fan ()... bat nah, definitely not for the games we have coming up. For perch over simpson? Perch is a lot more disciplined though tbh, his distribution is miles better and a good tackler, not fantastic but better than Simpson. Difference being Perch knows his limits, Simpson thinks he is much better than he is, f***ing jogging back and stopped for 2nd goal (Where colo messed up as well), f***ing horrible player as a starter I totally agree. Thought the 'definitely not' was daft. Oh, you've misinterpreted me I think, I should have worded it better. I would leave Simpson at RB for the final three games. Edit: I'm confused

I'm certainly no Simpson fan ()... bat nah, definitely not for the games we have coming up. For perch over simpson? Nah Simpson is settled in that back 4 at least, Perch was awful at RB for Chris. There's not a whole lot between them though.

I'm certainly no Simpson fan ()... but nah, definitely not for the games we have coming up.

Back to insulting him again. Wondered how long it would take. One person. Stupidly. Calm down.

The fucking Gods are against us today man. I don't think we've been too bad, though I missed the first 10.

I certainly will. And I'm sure anyone who criticized him will do the same, now that they've seen what Pardew is capable of.

What about the fact that Pardew criticized BenArfa after matches for giving the ball away at the back, and criticized him during matches for trying to play it out from the back. We have scored goals since where BenArfa played the ball dangerously out from the back. You cant just twist everying to suit one viewpoint based on hindsight. Anyway, I'm off for the night.

Tell me Stu, how did you "read into it" when Pardew categorically and repeatedly stated that BenArfa didn't have the relish to play on the wing/ would only play him in the number 10 role? Just another masterstroke to make BenArfa more mature/work harder? You can't just twist everything to suit one viewpoint, based almost entirely on hindsight.

Haven't even got to play this years version yet :'( Gouweleeuw has been touted strongly as a Vertonghen replacement. Zouma is first choice for St Etienne at 17... Astori has been brilliant for Calgiari and is being touted for a return to Milan Beladj has been around the block for a while now... Ocampos is labeled the Argentinian Ronaldo... I just read a lot and watch youtube clips and so on

Few names to throw in the hat: CB: Jeffrey Gouweleeuw,Davide Astori,Kurt Zouma. CM: Milan Badelj. FWD: Lazar Marković ,Lucas Ocampos.

Think it's just me a you on this one Last one was during a difficult time. It's noted...now lets re-vote Agreed. I voted 'OK' during that time, and I'd like the opportunity to change that please

Come on - you know what I mean. Smug may not be the correct word, but some of patronising posts on here over the last few months in relation to tactics and our style of play... don't know about patronising but the extent we were supposed to have played hoofball was massivly over exaggerated. I think the general theme that somehow only the anti-Pardew brigade were enlightened enough to see what was really happening was a fairly common, patronising and, as it turned out, incorrect theme. But anyway - going to leave it there. We're 4th so I don't care who is right or wrong. You could try and leave it without saying "I won". I'm happy to do so.

I've decided it's best to keep quiet on this as I do agree that point-scoring in the main is futile. But, and it is a pretty big 'but', I have no doubt whatsoever that if the anti-Pardew people had been proved right, there would have been a lot of pretty smug people on here (even though it would have ultimately meant NUFC had failed). So I think the people who actually backed Pardew in the face of some pretty unwarranted and harsh criticism might be somewhat keen to point this out. I always felt my position was quite hard to take actually. If I was 'proved right' that Pardew could not change his mentality/approach that means that we as a club would not have improved(performance and results-wise) as we have. I can only speak for myself,but, being a Newcastle fan, I certainly would not point score about Newcastle doing badly.

Even if some people were over critical of Pardew (in match threads too/during matches ffs, even Ferguson gets criticized for decisions in match threads on RedCafe) Why won't some people just move on and stop pathetically,and in the main; wrongly trying to point-score and even claim they are some sort of saviour of our season? It's in the past. Were in 4th. Were playing exciting football in a system that suits our players. We've qualified for Europe. Move on and let it die.