Skeletor Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Boro and Milwall? WTF how does that happen? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlelunchbox Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Ron Liddle in the Times reckons Pardew is said to have lost the dressing room. Obviously that is probably just speculation, but the performance yesterday was very lacklustre. I came to the same conclusion months ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Ron Liddle comes across like a right bellend Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 He is a massive bellend Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishMagpie Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Might be a bellend but doesn't stop him (maybe) being correct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottledDog Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Boro and Milwall? WTF how does that happen? Family. http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsS/34929-19864.gif Mam http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jTRGtlSMrmw/TsaP_Ph51XI/AAAAAAAAAek/huYdMTotDRk/s1600/neanderthal_neck.jpg Dad /Sorry Ron. I kid. I kid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Might be a bellend but doesn't stop him (maybe) being correct. No not at all, he could well have hit the nail on the head but that doesn't stop him being a massive crusty bellend Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Probably won't need a manager soon. The starting 11 more or less picks itself. Pards doesn't speak French and I assume the French lads will just talk to each other about what to do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Probably won't need a manager soon. The starting 11 more or less picks itself. Pards doesn't speak French and I assume the French lads will just talk to each other about what to do. I really hope that is the plan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David28 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Probably won't need a manager soon. The starting 11 more or less picks itself. Pards doesn't speak French and I assume the French lads will just talk to each other about what to do. He really doesn't speak French? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Probably won't need a manager soon. The starting 11 more or less picks itself. Pards doesn't speak French and I assume the French lads will just talk to each other about what to do. He really doesn't speak French? Non. He's still struggling to put the finishing touches to his English. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishMagpie Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Surely our next manager is gonna be french too no? Hope Ashley has told Carr to scout potential new managers as well as players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David28 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Probably won't need a manager soon. The starting 11 more or less picks itself. Pards doesn't speak French and I assume the French lads will just talk to each other about what to do. He really doesn't speak French? Non. He's still struggling to put the finishing touches to his English. :lol: Should get some translator then. Seriously. Almost our whole starting XI speaks Fench. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Surely our next manager is gonna be french too no? Hope Ashley has told Carr to scout potential new managers as well as players. I hope not. French managers seem to make a habit of falling out with French Players. Barring Wenger of course. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 I don't think he's lost the dressing room like, otherwise I don't think Debuchy would've come. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 To be honest though, the only reason to have an English manager is because you have predominantly English players. For the past 10 years they have been predominantly terrible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GideonShandy Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Here's the Rod Liddle article. "I WONDER what the pressing personal reasons are that have made Fabricio Coloccini express a fervent desire to leave Newcastle this very minute and return to his home country, Argentina? I suppose, if you were a cynic, you might suggest the belated realisation that he plays for Newcastle United is the sort of thing that might unsettle any chap. You might add that not only does he play for the Geordies, but they’re nose-diving towards the Championship and the team are reportedly “unsettled”. Fabricio has experienced the Championship and may not wish to do so again. He is wanted by the Argentine side San Lorenzo; who knows if they can afford his reputed market value of £7m or his £60,000-a-week wages? Coloccini has offered to take a pay cut, so desperate is he to get the hell out. All this unfolded before Coloccini played in yesterday’s piquant 0-0 draw at Norwich, managed by Chris Hughton, who dragged Newcastle out of the Championship, with some brilliance, and was then booted out of St James’ Park. A first full season under Alan Pardew that promised much and thrilled the neutrals has been followed by rapid and chaotic decline. Injuries may be partly to blame — although providing strength in depth is the hallmark of the sensible manager — but a disastrous summer of non-spending and a series of inconvenient absences has done most of the damage. Not to mention a dwindling sense of commitment from the team and some questionable tactics from Pardew, all of which has seen Newcastle slump uncomfortably close to the relegation places, with two crunch fixtures coming up against Reading and Aston Villa. If they were to slip further into the mire, the Gallowgate faithful might begin their annual bare-chested howl for the return of Alan Shearer or, through some reanimation process, Sir Bobby. What 16th-placed Newcastle would give for the five points Norwich have on them this morning, for even the most tentative intimation of mid-table security. And what, one suspects, the fans would give for Chris Hughton. In fairness to the Geordie supporters, they have been far less quick to blame the manager than has been the case in previous seasons. It is true that, on the message boards at least, about 50% wish Pardew to be given the boot (despite that extremely generous eight-year contract); it is said that he has “lost the dressing room” and has fallen out with the top players (most notably Coloccini), too often resorts to “hoofball” tactics and has been unnecessarily sycophantic, in the past, to the likes of Demba Ba. His somewhat Panglossian post-match excuses also go down rather badly and there were rumours, a week or so back, that he had already been given the boot. This seems to have been mere wishful thinking. Still, even those who have little time for Pardew concede that it is the board, rather than the manager, that is more obviously culpable. Newcastle’s precarious position is the consequence, they argue, of a failure to invest in decent players, which has left the Geordies playing each week with half a youth team on the pitch. The summer was a particular disaster for Newcastle because at that point they were bidding for players from a position of strength, with genuine aspirations to being a top six or seven side and holding out the prospect of European football. What do they have to entice talented foreigners now, as they stare towards the abyss, other than money? And not even that much money. They were all terribly excited at the prospect of landing the Marseilles winger-cum-striker Loic Remy, but Arsenal are now in the hunt, too. Who do you suppose Remy will choose? The relegation-threatened outfit in the far northeast of England or the Champions League contenders in London — a team who, incidentally, Remy supported as a kid? How much extra would Newcastle have to pay in wages to compensate for not being Arsenal? I suspected Newcastle would not fare too well this season. But equally, and despite the fissuring at St James’ Park and the discontent of the players and fans, it seems to me highly unlikely that they will go down. This season the relegation battle is being contested by a good half of the teams in the division. It would take only two or three straight losses for West Ham or Stoke or Swansea to feel the breath of doom on the backs of their necks, and only two or three straight wins for Newcastle to feel assuaged by a certain degree of comfort. The smaller clubs tend to fare less well in the second half of the season and many will have injury crises of their own to contend with, just as Newcastle’s begins to improve a little. All that being said, I know what box I’d tick on the poll question at the front of one of the Newcastle fan sites: “Do you think we will qualify for Europe this season?” Always running before they can crawl." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 c;dr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Probably won't need a manager soon. The starting 11 more or less picks itself. Pards doesn't speak French and I assume the French lads will just talk to each other about what to do. I fully expect this excuse to be used on here if we pick up a few wins. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Surely our next manager is gonna be french too no? Hope Ashley has told Carr to scout potential new managers as well as players. How exactly would Carr go about scouting managers? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 I stop reading after the second para. And I kinda admire those who could read after that. Tons of shits. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
quayside Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Boro and Milwall? WTF how does that happen? From his wiki page: "Liddle was born in Abbey Wood, south London, the son of a train driver. From the age of eight, he was brought up in Nunthorpe, a suburb of Middlesbrough, in north east England." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottledDog Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Probably won't need a manager soon. The starting 11 more or less picks itself. Pards doesn't speak French and I assume the French lads will just talk to each other about what to do. I fully expect this excuse to be used on here if we pick up a few wins. Arf. /tbf happy to let it slide if we actually do pick up any wins any time soon... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Ron Liddle in the Times reckons Pardew is said to have lost the dressing room. Obviously that is probably just speculation, but the performance yesterday was very lacklustre. Liddle is a Boro and Milwall fan who does seem to have an agenda. Before a ball was kicked last season he was predicting that we would be relegated. Even as late as January he was saying we would finish in the bottom half of the table. In his article today he says Remy will sign for Arsenal rather than us. Hmmm... Yeah Liddle is a tosser, but even if he'd said nothing I had that suspicion watching the last couple of games, whereas before that not so much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 how does that fit in with cabaye getting debuchy here? if something was seriously wrong you'd have thought cabaye would have been looking to get away in the summer himself, rather than getting his best mate to sign a long contract. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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