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Two ways of looking at it. He could think fuck this and leave, but on the flipside why should he? He only signed that deal a year ago and if he quits he's likely giving Ashley what he's looking for. He has a lot of wrongs to right from last season, wether he does or not is anyone's guess but I wouldn't let that gibbering imbecile Kinnear force me out of a job. If Pardew gets results on the pitch he'll far outlast Kinnear unless Ashley does a Hughton style firing on him.

good times.

He won't last three years, his heart will give out before then. Actually spoke about this today and we had it down as a more than serious issue.

It's subjective for each individual fan. Everyone has a cut off point.

Let's have a real stinker for the opening fixture please. We're getting beat anyway so might aswell make it credible opposition.

He released that cheese ball statement when we went down, admitting his mistakes and claiming he'd learned from them, aye right. I'v said his only concern with us is league status, it's pretty clear. Wouldn't surprise me if he finds all this perversely amusing tbh.

Was good

I shall listen! Scouted through the thread before forgot a board member rang up.

Caller before him was good aswell. It's awful radio but I honestly couldn't help but laugh.

http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/listen-again/episode/118289

Superb character assassination from Michael Martin btw just listened.

Think both arguments are valid. He may want complete control but a director of football? and then Joe Kinnear for the job? His decision making looks like pure piss taking half the time. When we finished 5th that was the time for me, he had the chance to prove if he wanted us to progress to the next level, and he proved his point and then some.

Thought as much. Brilliant writer.

Perhaps a daft question this. Is Caulkin a toon supporter? I know he covers the north east for football but he seems awfully like one of us most of the time.

100% mackem.

56 thousand?

Who's this bell!!!!?

Good stuff from this caller.

Would like to hear the part where the callers slag him off. Missed that.

Absolutely cringeworthy interview.

wtf lost two games 17-1.

was that paul rachubka?

There's some sort of rectification going on behind the scenes. It doesn't take this long.

So stay happy, keep clapping? Suppose there's a minor chance we do better than last season therefore there is some justification in that but if it turns out we do worse (and what most people think will happen now) due to a power struggle at management level then that doesn't leave much room to stay in the league. There's nothing wrong with people being worried enough to want to do something, regardless of the ideas suggested it is for me better than carrying on like nothing has happened, again. What is the final straw for you, change the name of the club? Would you put it past Ashley to do this, right now I wouldn't. Its absolutley what I want to see. Enough is enough. One of the main reasons we have this kind of s*** happening is because we are complicit in letting it happen imo. We have been far too loyal, patient and supportive of successive disastorous regimes. This current regime is as low and despicable as any, including the Westwood and Mckeag years, imo. This latest act makes no sense. It can only be construed as a big "f*** you" to our support base. a big "I own this f***ing club and if I wanna make stupid decisons cos I couldnt give a s*** about it then I will". Depends on how you view the regime. I see them as people who simply don't want to be here, have no care for the club and because of past events despise and detest us the fans. He got landed with the club cos of the recession, having bought it to sell quickly. Timing has meant he's lumbered. He has surrounded himself with fuckwits. There is no white knight to rescue us, no SJH in the background this time. Keeping us up is a bonus to him, and progression well he ain't interested. What will it take to get the message across? Yes there is a team, but they are transient players. They are not the club, he is not the club. We are. the people of our region, and our supporters from far and wide. Long after this ignorant fat c*** is dead, long after they have crawled away we will still be here. If it takes the club having a backward momentum for a while, if it takes relegation or strife or a period of anymosity between us and the hierarchy then so be it. Our club will survive, and we will return. Maybe in a lower division yes. We have to make a stand imo. This is a red line in the sand for me. I can appreciate others thinking different but enough is enough. Inclined to agree. I have no issue with the attitude of support the team through thick and thin - we've been doing that forever. Something has to give with the fans and they way they respond to Ashley's regime, otherwise it'll only get worse and worse. I don't know what the solution is either. Not going? A bold thing to say and I often say it myself, but I still go. It's hard to let go of Newcastle as you feel you are doing yourself disservice as a fan.

It's interesting thinking about that meeting they held earlier. They didn't even mention him in that statement they released. Maybe a fallout over summer recruitment? Kinnear may have been hired as a desperate attempt to make Pardew walk, rather than them having to push him.