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Our true form will be more or less reflected after 19 games when we'll have had near enough a representation of what we're like after playing everyone once.  We'll probably have 23 points or something like it.  It's hardly a tally to inspire thoughts of an improvement on last season and given Pardew's general second half of the season form it wouldn't surprise me at all if we finished on 40 odd points.  Enough to be flirting with the relegation battle at times, but probably enough to keep Pardew in his job regardless.  It's sickening really.

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We'll be 11th this time tomorrow and 16th by the end of December.

 

Problem is, it's actually really difficult to "sink" in this league. Even with an abysmal run of form, the shit is so stale and thick at the bottom that it'll prop Newcastle up for ages. We'd need two months of rancid form to really threaten breaking into the relegation battle again, and then it wouldn't take much to remove themselves.

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"play with risk" :lol:

 

"Risk of trying to score goals" is what he clearly means. Which entirely fits with his mentality as a manager, i.e. seeing any game-plan that seeks to get us actively looking to score goals as being something that will result in us conceding them. A.k.a. the pessimistic coward's approach to football.

 

Hence why we try to shut up shop if we're a goal ahead, with clear instructions to not go for a second goal. Or, as with today, why we don't actively look to score goals until we're behind. Too "risky" to aim to score goals unless there's nothing to lose.

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"play with risk" :lol:

 

"Risk of trying to score goals" is what he clearly means. Which entirely fits with his mentality as a manager, i.e. seeing any game-plan that seeks to get us actively looking to score goals as being something that will result in us conceding them. A.k.a. the pessimistic coward's approach to football.

 

Hence why we try to shut up shop if we're a goal ahead, with clear instructions to not go for a second goal. Or, as with today, why we don't actively look to score goals until we're behind. Too "risky" to aim to score goals unless there's nothing to lose.

 

I was mainly laughing at how he can't even say simple things right and ends up making up new terms like "play with risk". How hard can it be for him to say "we needed to take more risks in our play" or something else that makes sense.

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Was just reading another set of quotes from him about how he changed the game with subs to put more "technically proficient" players on the pitch or whatever he said. It's fucking astonishing how consistently he gets away with shit in the sense that he picked the team in the first place :lol:

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Was just reading another set of quotes from him about how he changed the game with subs to put more "technically proficient" players on the pitch or whatever he said. It's fucking astonishing how consistently he gets away with shit in the sense that he picked the team in the first place :lol:

 

:lol:  Like he turned up at half time and fixed someone else's fuck up.

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