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Aye...it was all part of Pardew's lull them into a false sense of security for 70 minutes tactic and then attack for 20. It was a genius masterplan for two reasons. 1) When the 70 minutes mark came, Benfica would be completely surprised but be too tired to do anything about it and 2) We would conserve energy for the next league game despite it being an unimportant one against whomever. Simple but f***ing ingenious. It's the reason why manager of the year accolades were bestowed upon him. Don't get me started on the stupidity of that whole charade

You didn't smack the Cunt?

Rather comoli than let Pardew buy the likes of Tomkin's and Bent

Yet we can't reach a consensus on this point FML

I want to like total sport but its garbage just a bunch of fence sitters who are afraid to to upset the apple cart. Fair play to harps though, when they were going overboard on us being gready wanting to spend lots he stopped them and talked about the happy medium

Is it me, or is little being done to try and get him back into form? The problem Cisse has is that he isn't very good at football: he's absolutely dreadful at controling the ball under any sort of pressure. He isn't strong at all for a centre forward. He isn't particularly good in the air. He seems to have some sort of issue with being offside as well. Worst of all is his complete lack of technique. When your number 9 is through on goal you want some belief that the ball is going in the corner of the net. The most simple way is head over the ball - laces - corner - goal. Worked for Ferdinand - Shearer - Collymore - Fowler - any number of top England centre forwards. Cisse has never shown he can do that on a regular basis, that is why I would snap anyone's hand off for £3m plus and if some one is actually willing to pay £10m for him then they must be on drugs. Yup Pardew playing him on the wing or as a target man hasn't helped either

Am I the only one concerned by the idea that Pardew will now be able to pick who we buy

That's one get out of jail free card Ashley has used. Wonder if he will roll the rice and get another one

Everyone on here also blames Ashley et al. Most of us however also see Pardew for what he is.

Aye we'll never progress whilst people hold such stupid opinions. But again it's to be expected considering the media always talk about what a good job he's doing and how lucky we are to be in 8th.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-united-fans-express-frustration-6660011 Calling on other fans, he said: “Do not renew your season ticket next season, the only way we are going to make Mike Ashley realise how we feel is to not renew.” Other Newcastle United supporters took to our Facebook page, and flooded us with their views on what is going wrong at Newcastle United and vented their feeling about yesterday’s match. Amie Waugh said: “Disgraceful performance no heart or passion in the players, don’t blame Pardew he tries to make the best of a bad situation but we’ll never achieve anything with Ashley in charge. He’s turning us into a selling club and won’t invest what’s needed. Where were the signings? None again just one loan. Time for him to sell up and move on him and Kinnear are making a joke of our great club by ripping the heart n soul out of it.” Arron Akhtar wrote: “Absolutely fuming, disgusted and disappointed. They just showed more passion, desire and commitment. It was an absolute shambles. It’s been a week to forget for everyone associated with Newcastle United.” Laura Jane took to Facebook and said: “I don’t believe Pardew is ruining the club. I believe that his hands are tied and the transfer window was all about how much money Kinnear could get Ashley. It’s a joke that they couldn’t have at least spent half of what we got for Cabaye.” David Bell wrote: “Can’t blame Pardew he wasn’t playing out there. He’s managing nothing but a roulette machine. All the players are nothing but chips to Ashley, he’s putting nothing in and just waiting and waiting.” James Hutchinson said: “Pardrew shouldn’t be manager if he can’t motivate a team for a derby game.” Emma Roof wrote on our Facebook page: “Alan Pardew, how many times does Newcastle need to get beat off Sunderland for you to realise that Mike Ashley, Joe Kinnear and yourself are ruining this club. What an absolute shambles.” Ryan Cook said: “All Pardew should know is that the vast majority of the Toon blame Kinnear and Ashley for the bad parts of the season. Remember that we are proud to be the most loyal fans in the world, and although three derby defeats back-to-back is appalling, we’re still on course for Europe next year if we pick it up from here until May. Howay the Lads.” Gem Sidney said: “Why blame Pardew? He can only play what he’s got to play with! It’s Kinnear and Ashley to blame – selling players and not putting their hands in their pockets for a new decent player. “They will be laughing all the way to the bank now while they start their little conspiracies together as to who to sell and not replace in the summer!” Ian MacBeth added: “It’s not Mike Ashley, Joe Kinnear or Alan Pardew at fault it’s the players on the field. They know what they have to do and they haven’t delivered. So all this blaming the three mentioned is sour grapes and half of you can’t handle it. Sunderland go out to do what they have to do and they’ve been given the same sort of instructions. So blame the 11 men who went across that white line and didn’t deliver the goods instead of crying about it.” Shaun Mackenzie wrote: “Dreadful display without any desire. It doesn’t get much worse. Has anyone within the club got any respect or pride for the black and white stripes and what they mean to the fans? Invest in purchases Ashley! You won’t be getting my money.” There was also news that the official Newcastle United fan liaison officer Lee Marshall had deleted his Twitter account. Opinions of our average fans

It's a tough one TBH, I think he's an average manager rather than a s**** one. And we're having an alright season except the derby debacle. And I try to keep stuff like selling Cabaye in perspective because that will always happen unless an oligarch owns us. And then there's the question of the likely replacement. Initially I wanted to give him time because I was sick of the managerial circus of sacking a manager every couple of weeks. People mock, but stability is important to me. Right now if he was sacked I couldn't complain really, although this season we're doing alright. I would be interested to see what would happen, rather than gutted to see him gone. Obviously all of this is kind of moot because the only serious problem we have is Mike Ashley's tight purse strings. Fair play mate I can see your point of view. I'm all for stability as well but with the right manager and Pardew isn't that.

Its the best decision youve made to be fair. Brett Ian & happy would club together to put a hit out on you if you touched Pardew lol Yeah lol m8, u r cr4zee. Do you want him sacked as of right now?

Its the best decision youve made to be fair. Brett Ian & happy would club together to put a hit out on you if you touched Pardew lol

Yup. I'll still suffer watching though

I think "Deserving of blame" is probably the wrong terminology to be honest. Could the match going fans do more to put pressure on Ashley? I think the answer is yes.

Objectively what are his strengths?

Deserves a response but will only fall on deaf ears

PR Exercise. Remember them 5 players we were signing after the cup game?

Gouff will benefit from playing centrally we've all seen he has a lot more to his game than Cisse As for Cisse we might as well sell him he's no world beater just a average poacher

Doesn't for me. Not one mention of Pardews inept tactics

Your point makes no sense to be honest. 25% lost revenue is still 25% lost revenue regardless of how much Sky/BT gives us. Those figures are based on the last accounts. The new TV deal will add another £20m and make it closer to 15% Realistically, the most succesful campaign imaginable would leave about 20,000 still going so it's only 7% of income lost. He'd still be earning more in 2013/2014 than he did in 12/13. It's still lost income though happy and a clear message that we've had enough. How could media outlets ignore a big drop off in our attendance coordinated with other action.

Your point makes no sense to be honest. 25% lost revenue is still 25% lost revenue regardless of how much Sky/BT gives us.

media on a national level don't care, sure the reporters who work for the nationals probably care but the guys deciding whats headline news in London don't. Why care about us when there's a title race between two oil funded super teams to get excited over? Or Man Utd only being above average this season how can the fans cope with the horrors of being 7th?! Or the race for the 4th place trophy? All we're worthy of is an occasional tut tut in MA's direction and not any kind of investigative forensic analysis of what Ashley is doing at the club. I'm not sure I agree with this to be honest. In the past we've been massive news in the national media. The lack of dissent from the fans means the media look at us as if everything is OK. lets just say I have very little faith in the media. Not that it makes a blind bit of difference, bad headlines don't affect Ashley badly hell they're probably a benefit since the name sports direct gets thrown around a lot when referring to him as its owner and thats a lot of free advertising I have no faith in them either mate. The point I'm making is more the fact the media are the ones which set the tone. They are the ones who will shape the overall impression of the club and the level of fan engagement. You know what they say: He who controls the media controls the people.

Attendances will suffer though, I know our average attendance this season is 50k but I do believe this would drop if people made a concerted effort to stop investing in this regime.