mrmojorisin75 Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Someone should put Pardew's performance in sales terms for Ashley, i.e. one of his shops has great sales figures during the Christmas holiday but then consistently has the worst figures until the next holiday. The response of the store/regional manager is to ask for more public holidays Wonder how long they'd last at sports direct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keefaz Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Does Technical training mean our intention is outplay Arsenal? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouldy_uk Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 @CaulkinTheTimes: Pardew presser: #Nufc's "3 French internationals" - Remy, Debuchy, Sissoko - back for Arsenal. Says has been a "technical" wk in training. Means they brought balls to the training ground. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Does Technical training mean our intention is outplay Arsenal? No, it's 4 hours of Pardew telling the players how technically brilliant Arsenal are and why we should be afraid of them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 We do need new players, we are lacking in some areas, can't fault him for noticing something a trained monkey can see. However if I was MA my concern would be what players he thinks we need, what positions will he play those new left backs in and what formation/tactics he plans to use for the first 10 minutes of every game before he reverts to 4-4-2. Giving new players to Pardew is like buying a 2 year old an iPad, they'll both be used in completely the wrong way and wrecked in a couple of weeks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Going to have to face facts I think now, this horrendous bastard is going nowhere. Nevermind, been quite enjoying my free weekends of late, so fuck the lot of it, don't care a jot anymore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 We do need new players, we are lacking in some areas, can't fault him for noticing something a trained monkey can see. However if I was MA my concern would be what players he thinks we need, what positions will he play those new left backs in and what formation/tactics he plans to use for the first 10 minutes of every game before he reverts to 4-4-2. Giving new players to Pardew is like buying a 2 year old an iPad, they'll both be used in completely the wrong way and wrecked in a couple of weeks. If I was MA my concern would be how this picture of ineptitude is devaluing my assets. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
beardsleymagic Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/alan-pardew-fighting-survival-newcastle-7035793 Newcastle United can't even do mid-table mediocrity quietly believes Chief Sports Writer Lee Ryder Newcastle manager Alan Pardew The longest-serving Premier League manager faces the second longest-serving top-flight boss on Monday night. Yes, it’s Arsene Wenger v Alan Pardew again. And neither of them will be sitting comfortably, not least Pardew who will return to the dugout unlikely to cut the figure of calmness he spoke of in the aftermath of his headbutt on David Meyler last month. In a week when Newcastle United celebrated the work of the man who sat in the manager’s hotseat the most in the shape of the great Joe Harvey, his modern-day counterpart Pardew needs no telling that should the Magpies “collapse like a pack of cards” at the Emirates – in the same way that Újpesti Dózsa did back in 1969 – his future will be up for public debate again on Tuesday morning. Wenger’s side may need a victory to climb back into the Premier League places, while Pardew knows he is playing for his job. Pardew once said that the average amount of time a manager gets to make a team his own these days was about 18 months. Yesterday, Wenger slashed that estimate to 11 months. Ahead of the clash on Monday night, a game that will be played out in front of an audience of millions and will see the likes of Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher offer an immediate diagnosis of where Pardew is going wrong, Wenger felt that managers deserve time to build their clubs. But does that fit in with the modern world? In a world of iPads, mobile phones and laptops where you get answers with the touch of a finger, it’s easy to see why football managers get frustrated. Owen Humphreys/PA Wire Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger Managers are dismayed that fans and punters have already made up their mind before they are even back on the team bus these days, while post-match comments are torn to pieces within seconds of words coming out of their mouths. David Moyes was another manager who went the journey this week, within moments of him claiming his team had played well in parts during the 2-0 defeat against Everton, Carragher’s instant TV verdict was one of the oldest cliches in the book when he said: “I must have watched a different game to David Moyes.” Moyes was always under pressure but his exit coincided with Carragher’s words being played out over and over again on Sky Sports News. It can’t have helped Moyes’ case. That’s why when Wenger states: “If you want quality people in any job, you need to give them time to develop and to become good, or people with the quality will not come into our job any more”, it is hard to see how the modern-day club copes with the instant verdicts of fans – whether right or wrong – on social media. The fact that Pardew is the man behind Wenger in the Prem’s list of long-serving managers, but still 14 seasons behind the Frenchman, says it all about modern-day management, but it’s also a miracle in some ways. The suggestion is that Pardew must stay in the top 10 if he is to hold onto his job. What happened to stability then? There is talk of a change at the top but on paper Newcastle have had a better season than last time around. Indeed, none of it seems to make sense. Although, 13 defeats in 18 games is hardly going to encourage season ticket sales. It’s hard to forget that it was a mere 69 weeks that Mike Ashley’s then right-hand man Derek Llambias handed Pardew an eight-year contract and told the world: “If you look at clubs like Manchester United and Arsenal, Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have shown that stability gives you the best platform to achieve success and that is the model we wish to emulate here.” Mike Ashley and former managing director Derek Llambias Mike Ashley and former managing director Derek Llambias Llambias may have gone but what will be ripped up this summer? Will it be Pardew’s lucrative long-term deal or will it be the blueprint that Llambias spoke so highly of only LAST season? Either way the parameters may change. Newcastle’s blueprint has always been prone to change. Ashley is thought to have fallen out with Llambias last summer when director of football Joe Kinnear was appointed. Before then, just under a year ago, Ashley was far from impressed when Pardew said: “We know we’ve got an uncomfortable conversation regarding the form this year, the underachievement that’s been mentioned and everything else. “It’ll be uncomfortable for us both, because we’ve both underachieved. “Him as an owner and me as a manager.” Therefore, with six years left of his contract, Ashley must weigh up what is best for the football club. For all the talk of stability though, Newcastle have improved in terms of where they are in the Premier League. Last season they scraped to survival, this time around they could still finish in the top 10, even eighth or ninth – given the limited funds Pardew has had to spend, arguably as good as anybody could have expected. Just to keep it interesting Pardew has managed to lead the team to five straight defeats in a row in the Prem for the first time ever, head-butt an opposing player, serve a seven-match suspension including a three-game stadium ban and having clearly irked the owner last season, still managed to live dangerously in a TV interview when saying: “He loves football but he sometimes can’t understand how it works and it confuses and upsets him, and when he is upset he does things that aren’t brilliant for the football club.” But Pardew survived that and could yet survive Newcastle’s drastic form if he can convince Ashley that he can lead the team to another stable finish next season. The Toon boss started the season as the favourite to get fired first but has clung on to his job while David Moyes, Chris Hughton, Rene Meulensteen, Malky Mackay, Martin Jol, Paolo Di Canio and Ian Holloway have all suffered the chop. Ashley hates seeing money wasted so won’t want to have to hand Pardew, and potentially his backroom team, a payout. In keeping with the madness that is Newcastle United he could yet be preparing to hand his under-fire manager Pardew a bonus for leading the team to a top-10 finish. Weirdly, had Newcastle made a sticky start to the season after Kinnear was appointed, and recovered to a stable top 10 place, few would have batted an eyelid. Only, United’s risk-taking policy of selling players like Yohan Cabaye and not replacing them – in the same way they did with Andy Carroll in 2011 – means that with a certain amount of points in the bag, they are always prepared to take a chance. Newcastle put business logic ahead of football logic and the results mean they can’t even do mid-table mediorcity without drama! Recently I asked Alan Shearer what he made of the situation, his reply: “It’s just another season in the life of Newcastle United.” And that just about sums up what another crazy campaign. Seems like lee's trying to get back in their good books to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 George Caulkin @CaulkinTheTimes 37m If you had TWO mentions of "over the line" on your #Nufc transfer bingo card today then you're our lucky winner! Tune in again next week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledGeordie Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Just absolute 100% waffle from him all the time. I have to turn the radio off if he comes on Having said that I did catch by mistake that fat oaf Lowes on total sport ask "Pards" if he'd had reassurances about his position. Quite enjoyed hearing how uncomfortable and annoyed he was receiving that question. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 c/o stevey_wpl @stevey_wpl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 I hope Nikhil is ok Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Quite fancy watching the sheepdog thing like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/alan-pardew-fighting-survival-newcastle-7035793 lee ryder backtracking? was never gonna last long. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 He could be the next Phil Schofield, even though Schof is canny. Imagine him on 'The Cube'....you've got 20 seconds to fit as many left backs as possible in there. He'll probably blame science if it goes wrong. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Ryder and Shearer. The pair of them make me want to vomit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrettNUFC Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Ryder and Shearer. The pair of them make me want to vomit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Getting hammered on Soccer Saturday. The penny seems to have dropped. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 What was said, dude? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 What was said, dude? Might have lost the players, relegation form, dismal performances etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rich Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 [move] [/move] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 TBF to Charlie Nicholas he's been at it for 3-4 weeks now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Paul Merson desperately sticking up for though saying it's more the players not believing in the 'club' rather than the manager. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Really, I didn't think that was the gist at all. All about Cabaye, Cabaye, Cabaye. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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