Away Toon

L' Equipe are reporting that City are in for Matuidi. If that happens, Cabaye will be gone this window.

It was a goal and should have stood, and MYM should have been given a straight red card. He's lucky the referee saw it and gave him a yellow or he would have got done on video evidence.

Pardews a cunt and a crap manager but apparently we are the only ones who think that.

Should play as an out and out striker down the middle until we buy someone else. He's wasted as a winger and is keeping HBA out of the team so we can only lose a couple to zero rather than maybe more. Pardews kind of player though so we better get used to it.

Pardew the coward refusing to try and win the game by not bringing on HBA until there is 10 minutes left.

Toure just trampling all over our piss weak players, compared to him anyhow.

What's the point in having fullbacks and then playing a CB there instead. It's not working Pardew you wanker.

We've had this discussion before, I'd take winning something with relegation to the fucking Conference. The Premier league is all about the money for us, who gives a monkeys.

The mackems beat them at home and are in the semi final of one cup and through to the 4th round in another. I quite envy them.

Succinctly put and spot on 100% correct.

I thought that Cabaye was poor today, that's absolutely not his best position , and it's Pardews fault for wanting to play two defensive midfielders and push him forward into a position where he doesn't get enough time and he doesn't have his normal influence on the game.

Pardew has made us well organised, hard working and difficult to beat, and a bit boring with it. I thought we got what we deserved, we tried to match them in midfield and that's about it. Anyhow without serious investment or a much better manager we are what we are, the 8th or 9th best team in the league, and that's where we will probably finish. Not very exciting really.

This new Shola is a pretty good player most of the time. He obviously fancies going to Rio.

Well that's a relief, especially as they have been the better team.

Having a right footed left back is just dumb.

The lack of movement is killing us.

He was probably level but there was no need for him to have gone so quickly, there was plenty of time and lots of space.

A good win and 3 points. Tiote immense and MOM. The second half, that is diabolical. Whose fault, either Pardew who tells the players to drop deep and defend, or the players who decide to do it themselves. We did nothing and didn't try to do anything until they scored (thanks Colo), and after that anything could have happened. (apart from Cisse staying offside)

Pardew's take on Tiote's run in with the law. To describe him as being as thick as pigs shit, does a great disservice to our porky friends excrement. No wonder he's such a useless manager, the man literally is brainless. Newcastle manager Alan Pardew believes Cheick Tiote was only guilty of a "misunderstanding" after avoiding jail for possession of a fake driving licence. The 27-year-old midfielder was handed a seven-month suspended sentence at Newcastle Crown Court on Monday after he admitted buying a fake Belgian licence for £12,800 and then attempting to swap it for a full UK licence. Pardew said: "There are times when international players come abroad and don't actually understand the rules."

HBA would have to play on the left if he's expected to put crosses in, and he looks pretty shit normally when he plays there. On the right he cuts in virtually all the time, unlike Townsend for example who seems happy to go either way. The best crosser we have from the right is Debuchy, from the left Sammy (see Leeds).

I thought we deserved to lose, they were miles better than us in the first half and marginally better in the second. We were pretty much diabolical all across the park, only Tiote and maybe Debuchy and Williamson weren't absolutely rank. They played quicker, passed better, pressed us for 90 minutes and deserved to win.

Not living in the NE, in fact not living in the UK at all, means it's easier not to be too bothered by the result. There are no mackems near where I live, so no unbearable gloating to have to deal with. If I still lived near Newcastle, the constant reminders that not only were we beaten, but deservedly so, would be very depressing to live with, as it used to be when I lived there.

That's where the supporters are not helping, it does beggar belief that some people still think he's a good manager. Also IMO if Kinnear wanted to be manager Ashley would have dumped Pardew by now.

If I was Anita I'd tell Pardew to pick him next week and keep picking him unless he plays badly or gets injured, or he'll be off in January. Alternatively just tell him you are leaving in January and fuck it.

Sunderland's players were just so much more up for it, whether it was the British players, Cattermole, Fletcher, O Shea, Bardsley, Johnson, Colback, or Larsson and Cuellar, it just meant more to them as it did when they beat us 3-0. Pardew is responsible for motivating his players and must accept a lot of the blame, but the players really need to ask themselves what the fuck they think they are doing playing for NUFC. The club is rotten from top to bottom.