Mick Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Has Pardew started his "we have to thank Mike for releasing funds" nonsense yet? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/5779415/Alan-Pardew-insists-Mike-Ashley-has-proven-critics-wrong.html Dread to think what's on there. Our media partner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Has Pardew started his "we have to thank Mike for releasing funds" nonsense yet? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/5779415/Alan-Pardew-insists-Mike-Ashley-has-proven-critics-wrong.html Dread to think what's on there. Our media partner Firmly in the fat bastards pocket if they truly believe he's "splashed the cash" the only thing he knows how to splash is copious amounts of gravy on his cornflakes. Of course when the figures are quoted it won't be a matter of transfer fees, it'll be every penny each player will cost is over their entire contract. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Has Pardew started his "we have to thank Mike for releasing funds" nonsense yet? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/5779415/Alan-Pardew-insists-Mike-Ashley-has-proven-critics-wrong.html Dread to think what's on there. Our media partner Firmly in the fat bastards pocket if they truly believe he's "splashed the cash" the only thing he knows how to splash is copious amounts of gravy on his cornflakes. Of course when the figures are quoted it won't be a matter of transfer fees, it'll be every penny each player will cost is over their entire contract. Ashley spends £30m on transfers having recouped £32m Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Will continue to not watch NUFC's matches while Pardew is here. Waste of my time and I'm enjoying weekends much more. This forum is the only bit left about the club I care about really. The rest doesn't feel like 'my club'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledGeordie Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Yep agree with comments above, I'll watch matches down the local but the pure passion/enthusiasm has gone with this mob in charge. I certainly won't be going down the ground. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collage Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Will continue to not watch NUFC's matches while Pardew is here. Waste of my time and I'm enjoying weekends much more. This forum is the only bit left about the club I care about really. The rest doesn't feel like 'my club'. +1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Away Toon Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 I'll no doubt watch most of the matches that are on TV, which is plenty in the States/ Caribbean. I spent the latter half of last season hoping we would lose and by the biggest score the better, I'll see after City's first goal whether I still feel the same way. If we line up all negative and play Pardews normal defensive percentage football, I'm sure that will still be the case. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 I'll watch or catch what I can but I know its going to be painfull drivel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/neil-cameron-alan-pardew-needs-7532140 Neil Cameron: Alan Pardew needs to mend his relationship with fans or NUFC will struggle Jul 30, 2014 11:00 Opinion by NeilCameron Even if he wins games, Alan Pardew also needs to mend his relationship with supporters or he will struggle to make amends for the problems that beset Newcastle United last season The Surrey Mirror could never be accused of failing to spot a local angle when one of the Premier League’s biggest news stories exploded back in March. “Former Whyteleafe player Alan Pardew has been handed a seven-match suspension for his head-butt on Hull City’s David Meyler earlier this month.” It’s not quite up there with the infamous and probably entirely made up billboard in Aberdeen that read; “North East man lost at sea,” which didn’t have room to specify the poor bloke was on a boat called the Titanic, but it’s not a bad effort. Few people associate Pardew with Whyteleafe of the South Ryman League, apart from those whose own patch covers the club. And yet that is where it all began for the man who will soon become one of the longest serving manager’s in the history of Newcastle United. They still love him down in leafy south Surrey. He plays in their old boys games and they quite rightly are proud that one of their own has made to the top of Premier League management. It’s just a shame that far fewer fans of his current employers think so highly of the guy. The Manchester City game on the opening weekend of the season will be his 160th in charge of Newcastle. It won’t be long before he overtakes Arthur Cox (169) and Tom Mather (179) to get to No6 on the list of United managers in terms of appearances. His record of 60 wins, 36 draws and 66 defeats is okay. Not brilliant, that would be stretching it despite the very good bits, even if there have been moments when everything has gone right, but it’s hardly failure. Pardew’s successes in his three full seasons with the club have included that fifth place finish, the quarter-final of the Europa League, a top ten finish last season, if you can call that a success. There have been some truly memorable wins over Chelsea, Tottenham and at Old Trafford. We’ve had Papiss Cisse’s goals, Yohan Cabaye’s brilliance, the best years of Fabricio Coloccini’s career. That’s all fine. The problem is there have been plenty bad days. Too many have involved Sunderland. That 6-0 defeat by Liverpool still sends a shudder down the spine, the flirting with relegation and last season’s second-half collapse. Not to mention the cups. In fact, let’s not mention the cups. Then there is the linesman being shoved, an opposition manager insulted on live television and he and Meyler’s, shall we say, disagreement. This is Pardew’s fourth full season with Newcastle United. He cannot afford another campaign of such extremes. Don’t believe anyone who tells you that Pardew doesn’t have any admirers among the support. He does. The problem for him is they are, for the moment, a minority, and even most of them need convincing over the next few months. And those who can’t stand the man, really don’t like him. I have been watching football in a personal and professional capacity for over 35 years. Not once, and we are talking close to 2000 games, can I recall a manager being booed by his own supporters to the extent he felt it advisable not to leave his seat in the dug-out so to avoid a scene. That’s what happened to Pardew on the last home match of last season, a 3-0 win over Cardiff City. It was an excruciating afternoon for everyone involved. For me, what the team achieves or does not achieve over the coming season depends hugely on the manager’s relationship with the supporters. It has to be sorted out. Now. If the players see that the paying punters don’t respect the manager, then how can they. That’s how players think. And a dressing room that feels that way towards a manager is not going to be a successful one. Pardew needs to somehow fix his relationship with the fans. How he does that is by winning some football games, which is easy enough, and not so publicly toeing the line that Mike Ashley is the greatest man ever created on God’s clean earth. That may prove more tricky. He needs to show some humility and a bit more of the real him. I genuinely think that he’s a decent bloke, not that you would know by some of his television appearances. It’s almost as if he puts on a show for the camera. Pardew will know, or should know, that he is another mishap away from getting the sack. Ashley won’t put up with another head-butt incident. The manager has to win hearts and minds, as well as matches. If he does not, then it’s hard to see where he goes from here. It doesn’t do anyone, be it Pardew, the owner, players and more importantly those who follow this football club with a loyalty that never ceases to amaze, if the next 10 months are filled with more rancour, ill feeling, hatred and mistrust. There is enough of that in real life. Why put up with it at the footie, which is supposed to be fun, after all. Pardew has come a long way from where he began his professional football career in the loosest sense, and this is with all due respect to Whyteleafe, whose chairman Mark Coote I caught up with two years ago when Newcastle just missed out on a Champions League place and Whytleafe’s most famous son was voted Manager of the Year. Coote described Pardew as a “mobile player, something of an athlete, although not the most naturally gifted player I have ever seen.” And considering what level of football we are talking about here, Woote has not been blessed by seeing too many geniuses in the flesh. “He was a box-to-box midfielder and could go for 90 minutes in every game. Ironically, given what he does for a living now, I would describe him as something of a manager’s dream. Pards was a water-carrier. Every manager needs one like that. Pards perhaps wasn’t as talented as some, but he would always be first on your team-sheet because his attitude was brilliant.” A grafter with a bit of guile, but no more than that. This is the description of Pardew the player you get even from his closest friends in the game, including Mark Bright his former team-mate at Crystal Palace. He says; “Pards will tell you himself that he wasn’t the best player in non-league football. There would have been plenty with more ability. “The difference was that he really wanted it. His attitude was spot-on and he became a massive player for us.” Pardew has had to work to get where he is today. A spell as a glazier on a building site pre-empted his Palace days. This is a genuine working class bloke who through sheer effort has made it to the top of football. That’s admirable. Even those who don’t like him will surely admit to that. When Pardew took the job, he claimed his phone had been red hot with fellow managers warning him off saying yes to Mike Ashley, despite him being out of a job at that time. “I’ve had a lot of texts from managers saying ‘you must be mad going there. But it’s one of the top five clubs in England. It’s a daunting prospect but something I couldn’t turn down. Managers have come and gone here. It doesn’t bode well so I’m trying to say I will work as hard as I possibly can here to get a situation where I can bring some longevity to the job. “I represent the fans. I’m an employee of the club, but I’ll be knocking on the door trying to get the maximum funds I can to make the club the best it can be.” These are fine words, but it would not be amiss to suggest that he hasn’t always represented the fans and, let’s be honest, not even this season expenditure has come close to “maximum funds.” This is the most important season in Alan Pardew’s career. It is entirely up to him who he goes about building bridges with the supporters who are the club, lest we forget. Nobody else can do this for him. Not the media office, Lee Charnley or Ashley. But if he does not take on this problem, no amount of new signings is going to fix this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 So now we know why he loves the 'grafter' type of player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/neil-cameron-alan-pardew-needs-7532140 Neil Cameron: Please let us back into your press conferences Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Icke - Son of God Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 If Pardew wants to be liked he has to do three things: - Stop talking shit - Stop being so shit at his job - Stop looking so fucking pleased with himself... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosstef Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 His record of 60 wins, 36 draws and 66 defeats is okay. Not brilliant, that would be stretching it despite the very good bits, even if there have been moments when everything has gone right, but it’s hardly failure. That's an awful record for a big club as NUFC imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 It's below par and that's before you consider the three defeats to lower league sides and the 20 or so 3+ humpings we've had, including two off the mackems in our own back yard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 "Hardly failure" to lose more games than you win? What a load of shit. Cannot fucking stand the sympathy that is creeping back for the vile fucking cunt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Glass-fitting cunt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 His record of 60 wins, 36 draws and 66 defeats is okay. Not brilliant, that would be stretching it despite the very good bits, even if there have been moments when everything has gone right, but it’s hardly failure. That's an awful record for a big club as NUFC imo. It's an awful record for any consistent PL team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanji Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 "one of the top 5 clubs in England" - Why not act like it? - Why do we have to struggle to keep up with the Southampton and Swansea of the world? - Again, why not fucking act like it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 "Hardly failure" to lose more games than you win? What a load of shit. Cannot fucking stand the sympathy that is creeping back for the vile fucking cunt. Tragic how we get here after the Cardiff game was less than 3 months ago. This piece of shit deserves nothing less than hounding out of every single game until he can take no more and leaves. The fucking wanker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 SJP will be asking for a wave again before October imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 I think I definitely prefer him when he's depressed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Pardew, not Wullie. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0cafella Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 SJP will be asking for a wave again before October imo. Will be a joke, 2 year's forgotten when we win a couple in a row. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 SJP will be asking for a wave again before October imo. Tsunami, Tsunami! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 SJP will be asking for a wave again before October imo. Will be August with the amount of idiot fans we have on FB/Twitter. Genuinely think we have signifigantly improved our squad and spent money this summer. The tickets for City are being lapped up, we deserve this unambitionless life Ashley is feedig us Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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