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No idea.

Reason and logic doesn't come into it, man. Honestly-nothing would surprise me under this lot.

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Keep Shola, sell Ben Arfa.

Please, please, please, PLEASE!!!! Mind, I'm just surprised they're not running a story about how Pardew killed Diana.

Never in 36 billion years. There is only so much anyone can take - even Pardew. It will be the day he loses his list of excuses probably. Even though we know he is crap he can get a job somewhere else pretty easily. The media don't really criticise him and he was Manager of the year not so long ago. Unless the debt rumours are true I am sure he would eventually pack it in if it got too much for him. Tbf, I don't think he'll ever run out of excuses. FFS, he even blamed Science for the Cardiff loss. He thinks we're stupid and will accept any sh!te excuse he comes up with. Interviewer: "Alan-Villa put 10 past you in the first half. What's your response?" Pardew: "Jellyfish. we was done by jellyfish." Interviewer: "Jellyfish? Really?" Pardew: "No. Not really." ..."it was the Hadron Collider. No, sorry, it was ITV's Splash. Er, I mean the iceberg what sank the.. T........ " ad nauseam.... *Interviewer sighs and leaves

Part of me think this. The other part of me thinks Ashley would like a manager who can add value to the players he buys and sell at a profit weather Pardew is doing enough of that for his liking is debatable Players who've gone backwards under Pardon't...Cisse, Sissoko, Tiote (suffered from the tactical genius telling him he could get more out of him further up the pitch-only just recovering), Santon, Ban Arfa. Remy starting to show signs-better get out before he has his ability sucked out of him.

Never in 36 billion years.

FYP

It already has.....it's us.

This, and playing it without ordinairy wingers who can't cross - it's useless. Of our wide players, we have only one who can cross in Debuchy. How Pardew has come to the conclusion that calls for a 4-4-2 formation is baffling to say the least. To be fair, when Haidara came on a few games ago (can't remember which) he put several decent crosses in.

You forgot to add '-Jump off the Tyne Bridge you feckless tw@t'

He can't, like.

Colours and name change are non-negotiable as far as I'm concerned. (or has the thread moved on? )

Yes. A billion times, yes. martinez would have made so much better use of the talent we have in the squad. Plus, he wouldn't have had us hoying long balls to Shola all afternoon then blaming the fans for groaning.

Wish 'walks off' was ''f***s off'.

I think his attempts at motivation are the problem tbh. I think his attempts at management are the problem.

No, but they're about 100 times better than sunlun....which means they'll beat us-roughly, mind-300 nil.

One actually walked onto the pitch between two stewards unchallenged, then ran up to the ball and kicked it, evaded another two of the chubby funsters before being tackled. Easiest job in the world being a steward at SJP. They do f*** all. Aye. The lazy b*****d ball boys aspire to be stewards when they grow up.

Agree wi this. The players deserve huge stick for their utterly shyte performances today but the way we were set up was utterly appalling. Played right into their hands. Pardew bottled it -purely and simply. He reverted to type cos he was scared of losing this one and it backfired spectacularly. And the only ones to suffer are us. You think he or the players are going to have a sleepless night tonight or wake up tomorrow with their heads in their hands as the events of today replay over and f****ing over in their heads? Not a f****ing chance.

Can't argue with that at all.

We all love this club. That's why we're all so f****ed off.

Mind, I can't think of a player who wasn't dog shyte today. Santon did run him close, though.

Fwiw, I thought he was our worst player today.

There was a fair few of our lot singing sacked in the morning where I was. Someone said the mackems were singing it and some of our lot joined in. Good thing about the SE corner is that you can't really hear the away fans-partly acoustics, partly the noisy buggers in our section. Having said that, it's not even like the 'you don't know what you're doing' chant which was sung against Reading last season. Only time I've heard open, collective dissent against him.