loki679

Well, our visitors can see exactly how deluded we are here: http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,92839.msg3912782.html#msg3912782 85.9% of the board thought we'd finish between 6th and 9th. I don't think that's particularly deluded considering last season. Basically aiming for a top half finish.

Yeah, playing in europe might affect our chances of qualifying for europe.

To be fair, the next sentence gives it a little more context: I think he's saying we've taken the wrong option at times, playing short when a long ball was on and playing long when a short ball and keeping possession would have been a better choice.

More promising IMO. tbh its not like we have used them (arfa & cabaye) in our tactics imo. Its not like we have given the ball to cabaye and really used him as the playmaker he is. The plan for for arfa has been. Give the ball to arfa on left (hopefully he is not just outside our own penalty-area) and hope he, by himself can do some magic. It is bulls*it from pardew. They are our best players but they have not been used the right way imo. I have turned against pardew...and its only for the last two months or so....but he seems so clueless and his football philosophy is depressing. if we tried to develop football styles like for example dortmund, swansea, ajax, arsenal etc. then i wouldn´t mind us losing (often) coz i knew we where trying to get somewhere. Is this the style of play our youngsters is learning in our youth teams.....long ball and learn how to adjust to our opponents? Its wrong, and we should stop. The clubs buying policy is ok, but we need to play the same through out the ranks and find the right players for it. This current approach will fail and has already imo. The thing is, you watch our kids play and they play football and their style couldn't be any different to the first team. promising, i guess Don't worry, we'll soon coach it out of them.

This. You're 2 points behind Fulham who apparently are playing well. That doesn't mean you can't be justifiably angry at performances/tactics, but surely maintain some context at this stage of the season. It's not February. It's not even December. We have a horrendous set of fixtures coming up though which I don't expect us to pick up anything from. These 'easy' games we've just gone through are the ones where you're supposed to pick up points and they only come around once a season. We've missed that chance and while the gap is only a few points now, after we've gained zero points from our December fixtures i'm sure it will have increased.

He can piss off then. Nobody is bigger than the club.

3:45am so at least i've got a decent reason not to put myself through 90 minutes of the worst football it's humanly possible to produce. Probably still will though

If they come out and say he has improved his timekeeping and general attitude would people be willing to give him another chance?

I think maybe we don't have the time. If four days out of five are taken up with defensive work then it only leaves one day for everything else and that's only about 3 hours of actual training. Obviously in that scenario something would need to be sacrificed.

Read more: http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=744119&page=17#ixzz2DRIjLAQj Wonder if that front page is online, photoshop fun

That ref is clearly thinking 'I bet I could boot her miles'.

Seriously, was that written by an NUFC fan? Because pretty much the entire article is what every one of us see. Why can't Pardew see it? Or more to the point, why doesn't he learn from the obvious failings. So b****** frustrating. Looks like he's been on the forum Disturbing that it's obvious to everyone except the guy who can actually change things.

His, and Bimpy's, crack is f***ing awful. Revelling in our misfortune. I disagree. Bimpys crack has given us all so much pleasure over the years

The rate we're gaining points so far we'll be relegated.

I agree, his wrist would get tired after 4 or 5 of them. On a side note, what the hell has happened to this forum that in 11 pages nobody picked that up.

Reserve team football is a far cry from 1st team PL games.

At the moment this is like Vanessa Feltz and Lisa Riley laughing at each other for being fat.

Try something different, please. If we line up in that rigid 4-4-2 again we'll get spanked.

We need some of the big characters in the dressing room to go to Pards and tell him 'This isn't working'. In the past I would imagine Nolan, Barton and the like doing it. Not sure who out of the current squad would take the responsibility, maybe Colo or Cabaye?

It's alright, we finished 5th remember.

We still 442?

not what the league table says. they have a game in hand if they win it they'd be 1 point ahead of us. hardly means they are playing more effectively than us. Not what the league table would say

Put out a team with no creative players Don't create anything ???? Profit

We're not running fast enough.