Jack Flash

not with barton pulling the strings Sarcasm, broheim. Rubbish strikers or not we've scored loads.

Someone has to score for you to get an assist and birmigham were allergic to goals. yeah i get that, and what ocho said too...this is still his most prolific season anyway! interesting that you bring up the quality of forwards when he's being touted to come here Yes, we've certainly struggled for goals... Can't argue if he's free. Doubt the wages would be too high as we don't do that anymore.

So that would be this season would it Piers? Blackburn. /buzzkiller

According to club source, a contract was offered in January, rejected by barton, and then the club is not willing to make another offer. Not sure whether the rejected one can be rescinded. I think Barton said he rejected a contract at a talk-in a few months ago so at least that much must be true.

He just used the word "tweeps". A new low for Joey Barton.

Now we know why we've had no contact at all since February. They should have "Lies And Deception" as our Latin motto.

Your avatar says it best. He'll not be sacked because he's very willing to do Ashley's leg work and anyone coming in would need to be as malleable, which is probably not possible.

Liverpool strongly linked with Fabio Coentrao.

Awesome. Probably time to put some money on Pardew to walk. Would be incredible but I can see it happening. He's brought himself back into the frame for being a PL manager so he might think he could go and get another (safer, more comfortable) job. He's too desperate to stay. He'd have quit after the Carroll transfer if he really believed everything he was saying in the build up.

As much as most of us like Barton, he is replaceable. I'd try far harder to keep Enrique than Barton because Enrique is a much better player.

Probably didn't want to take a pay cut. It's not like he owes us anything...

I can't even select the appropriate smiley for this. http://i51.tinypic.com/ivlldj.gif I've never heard of 2 of them but as usual I'm believing the hype.

Net spend is only important when its 0 or under. /agendahorse

I do hope you've taken this sparkling piece of advice into consideration. Disappointing. Must try harder. 4/10.

Just call me a childish name and we can carry on with other stuff.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1337382/Andy-Carroll-Chris-Hughton-sacking-stupid--blasts-Newcastle-United-star.html http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/newcastle-face-loss-of-carroll-after-shock-hughton-sacking-2153083.html Plus plenty of sound bites about how close they were. You could always check this stuff instead of just diving in head first looking for an argument

We are still playing Hughton's system (with the exception of Carroll), Pardew has changed little. I honestly think that we would have won more games this season had Hughton still been in charge. We may too have lost more, but I feel we'd have more than 46 points. Hughton got his results with Carroll still here, Pardew had to get them with a much weaker team. You can't really ignore that. There's a argument to be made that Hughton played a sizeable part in Carroll being the player he is now. Carroll certainly wasn't happy when Hughton went.

It was rather funny when the fans chanted Hughton's name after Best got his hattrick.

How will this be difficult? Nolan has said many times he wants to stay and Pardew has just said he wants him to stay.

He knew we had a small squad leading up to January so quite how we managed to end up with only Ireland in and Routledge out (barring the big one) is mystifying. /blameAshley (Kuqi and Ben Arfa don't count. Xisco also doesn't count for some reason)

It's very likely that he looked on some of our message boards after the 0-0 to find out if he really was hated or if it was just a few fans in the ground.

Agreed. He's clearly trying to get this reaction so why give him it?

He can be sacked for very little money so I don't think Ashley would care too much in that regard but his 5 year contract would suggest some faith.

He looked finished after a very impressive 30 mins. He chased every ball like a cat chasing a ball of string.

But he has no say over transfers! That's why the last transfer window wasn't his fault.