Chronicle end of season survey

[Skeletor]

I just love the 'a man calling himself Parky' bit. Makes you sound like some kind of super hero lurking in the night.

[huss9]

 

Neil Cameron: To say we put a spin on results is just nonsense

    1 Jun 2013 12:42   

 

Sports writer Neil Cameron on The Chronicle's Big Toon Survey

 

 

 

   

 

   

 

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It's been a busy week here at Chronicle Towers.

 

Not only have we had to sift through almost 3,500 responses to our Big Toon Survey, but we’ve also had to painstakingly alter your votes so we can curry favour with Newcastle United.

 

Or as someone posted on our website, take part in a cover-up that was akin to “an African election” and that we had for some reason sat on these results for weeks.

 

First things first: the vote was obviously free and open to all. We didn’t tell anyone how to vote or how to answer our questions. We just read them.

 

And as much of the comment was heavily critical of Alan Pardew and the club in general, it is difficult to see how any of the past five days’ coverage has “got us in” with Newcastle United.

 

Many of the quotes from supporters that appeared all week in the Chronicle did not miss their mark, whether it was about the manager, tactics, certain players or the owner.

 

We published them. Again, this proves how neutral we are.

 

Also, the voting was open for two weeks and closed a week past Thursday and we started to publish the results on Tuesday.

 

So it’s not as if we kept this secret for a month, although it’s hard to see why we would do that anyway.

 

The biggest bone of contention was the subject of Pardew.

 

Those who want him sacked, which was a little under 50%, couldn’t believe anyone would have voted any other way.

 

That is where the accusations came in about us tweaking the results, which is an absolute nonsense.

 

A slight majority were divided between sticking with Pardew and giving him to the start of next season, one final chance if you like.

 

On a personal level this surprised me.

 

I thought around 60% would go for sacking him now, with most of the rest prepared to allow him, say, 10 games of next season.

 

But the idea that we somehow doctored these figures is ridiculous.

 

This is what the supporters said and this is what we published.

 

Finally, a big thanks to everyone that took the time to fill in the survey.

 

[TRon]

Some fans deserve a shit team.

 

Fair enough, it's just a shame the rest of us will have to put up with another season of treading water until the penny finally drops.

[Raconteur]

I notice Neil didn't respond to the even more ridiculous splitting of blame between Pardew and Pardew's tactics...

 

[Ketsbaia]

To be fair, in the past few weeks I've found a disturbing number of pro-Pardew fans. If these 'fans' want their club to do well, I find their stance mind-blowing.

[kevin doyle]

He had plenty of money at Reading and Southampton to spend.

It's a long time ago but I don't recall him having plenty of money at Reading.

Must also point out that he chose to leave having been poached by St Trevor Brooking earning him the nickname "Parjudas"

[Beren]

Re: that Neil Cameron piece - there was poll bias, tbh. Pardew wasn't even included in the shortlist for villain of the season ffs, yet somehow Sir Alex Ferguson snuck in there over his "wee club" comment.

[Disco]

Re: that Neil Cameron piece - there was poll bias, tbh. Pardew wasn't even included in the shortlist for villain of the season ffs, yet somehow Sir Alex Ferguson snuck in there over his "wee club" comment.

 

I voted him because I'm renegade motherfucker.

 

For the sake of openness they should've left it blank, respondents will nearly always pick an option if they're lead down that path over 'Other'.

[Beren]