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Best way to do it is take that game out of your sums altogether, imagine they both have 3 games left...9 points...they can still both overtake us and afford to lose that last one...or even just to match us on points and relegate us on goal difference.

Que?

Same as ever. Shite manager

70% of people who would vote in a sky poll want him gone....to be accurate

Makes then attractive to buyers man. #CTLogic

Why are you making excuses for Ashley? He's failed with every appointment he has made. No excuses allowed for Pardew.

Still abed. Can't summon the strength of mind or body to move to the shower.

Just thought about Leazes Mag for 30 seconds then.

Wonder who he is considering. The shit manager roulette wheel must be picking up pace.

Take a bow son

I like to add "and that" to the end of a sentence too and that.

Bacon butties and coffee in bed done. Shower and shit next. Not in that order. Then wilkas for a curtain rail to hoy up in the bairns room. Mebeez a bit of painting then dinner time. Then a few beers in town watching the 3pm games before we take 3 points off these rats. [/CT storytime] Howay lads!!!

Absolutely. What the club have done publicly seems confused though.

I love adding "like" to the end of a sentence me like. Not in the middle like. That's mad.

Probably not Ashley or Hughton.

Do people in the jacuzzi like you taking pervy photos of them and hoying them on the internet?

Newcastle midfielder Cheick Tiote is available after missing out last weekend with a hamstring injury. Fabricio Coloccini is back in training but unlikely to start after a seven-week absence with a back problem, while Sylvain Marveaux (groin) is sidelined. Liverpool striker Luis Suarez begins his suspension for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic last Sunday. Daniel Sturridge will start, and Italian forward Fabio Borini may return from a dislocated shoulder. MATCH PREVIEW At 5.30pm on Saturday, Liverpool will be playing football again. That, for two hours at least, will have to be the subject of conversation, which could be the most positive aspect for the club since the full-time whistle at Anfield last Sunday. Ever since then, one man has dominated every headline and every opinion. The real frustration for all connected with Liverpool will be that, once again, those stories haven't been about the footballing ability of Luis Suarez. Not his brilliant last-minute equaliser, not that it took him to 30 goals for the season, not that it even showed some progression as it took the team past their total points tally of last season. LAWRO'S PREDICTION Liverpool haven't won in the month of April and have only scored two goals - one or two players look like they've run the race. They produced a good comeback last week against Chelsea, but we all know Luis Suarez shouldn't have been on the pitch after biting defender Branislav Ivanovic. Somebody at Liverpool will be making financial calculations in order to work out whether the club are prepared to let him stay or go The Uruguayan is now banned for 10 games - that is a really, really big blow for manager Brendan Rodgers. He can be a world-class idiot on the pitch, but he's a world-class footballer. He'll be really missed by his team-mates and I just have a feeling they will feel a little low and hurt. They'll all be looking around and thinking 'what will happen in the next few months?' It was already going to be a big summer for Rodgers, with thoughts on bringing in a new central defender and wondering whether goalkeeper Pepe Reina will stay or go. It's going to be far more challenging now because of the Suarez situation. He misses about 20% of the games in the season not through injury or poor form, but because he's suspended. Somebody at Liverpool will be making financial calculations in order to work out whether the club are prepared to let him stay or go. I think Newcastle will win this one. Lawro's prediction: 2-0 Brendan Rodgers will have endured the most testing week of his managerial career to date, and he'll know there are now tough months ahead where he must plan without his top scorer. He will want to see some togetherness and spirit from his squad as they begin life without a world-class player. They have only lost once in their last eight games and still have a chance of a top-six finish. Sixth is currently occupied by Everton, who they play after this game. That match and the fact that it's 50 years since they finished below their Merseyside rivals in successive seasons, should ensure the campaign doesn't fade away. Newcastle, mathematically, are still looking over their shoulder and I watched them respond well at West Brom last weekend after themselves enduring a difficult week in the wake of their home defeat by Sunderland. They'll want this to be the game they win that takes them to 40 points and safety. The fixture has a great tradition and will bring back good memories for Alan Pardew. Back in December 2010 I was at St James' Park as he took charge of Newcastle for the first time and saw his team win 3-1. A lot has changed since then - Andy Carroll and Joey Barton were among the Newcastle scorers and Roy Hodgson was leading Liverpool. Suarez hadn't arrived at Anfield. How much will change for him in the future will be an ongoing debate. MATCH FACTS Head-to-head Liverpool have won six of the last nine meetings. The winning team has scored a minimum of two goals in the last 12 league meetings. Newcastle Newcastle have taken four points from their last five league fixtures. They are 25 points and 12 places worse off than at the same stage of last season. The Mapgies had won four successive home matches prior to the 3-0 defeat by Sunderland in their last outing at St James' Park. Only Reading and Aston Villa have conceded more than Newcastle's 60 goals. Their remaining league fixtures after this one are away to West Ham and QPR and then at home to Arsenal. Liverpool Liverpool have taken 15 points out of the last available 24 (W4, D3, L1). However, they have drawn their last three matches. The Reds have kept 13 clean sheets, second only to Manchester City (15). They have not lost a league match this season in which they led at half time (W9, D2). Last Sunday, Luis Suarez became the first Liverpool player to score 30 goals in a season in all competitions since Fernando Torres in 2007-08. Glen Johnson is expected to make his 250th Premier League appearance. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22228835

I reckon Pardew is paid lip service on the transfer front. No way could he say to Llambias "This lad I've seen is perfect, you have to go all out to get him, it will complete my team" and be listened to. At best he has right to refuse on the players identified, but even then if Carr said so, he'd be overruled. Maybe if there's two targets, he'd be asked which one he'd prefer to push for or assign more of the budget to.

I once got David Beckham's scent for christmas Wasn't even off Fish's sister either.

"There they go, feminising men again...." I don't wear aftershave.

The Everton lad at work came over after the derby and commiserated with me that "sometimes Everton lose" their derby too, just have to suck it up. Fuck off! If you're gonna make the comparison you're Sunderland, we're Liverpool. The feeling of winning/losing for the dominant force is totally different to that for the inferior neighbour.

Aye, think it's pretty much accepted that the 8 year deal is one to favour the club if anyone else were to take an interest in Pardew, not so much one that offers pardew a great sum if we were to let him go. Just think it's interesting how the club try to spin these things in a way contrary to what they've stated before. If they have no qualms about cutting Pardew adrift, and they are putting out feelers to other managers i wonder how many actually worth their salt respond positively to a similar contract so heavily weighted in favour of the club. EDIT: Or what PL said

The 8 year contract is a funny one isn't it. Ashley has spent 5 years refining the recruitment policy to ensure that a change of manager does not mean an overhaul of playing staff. He was very explicit after he sacked Allardyce that the club could not sustain replacing a manager every year or two and gifting them tens of millions to rebuild their team, with a loss on the majority of a predecessors buys. That's the whole reason the manager has so little say on purchases nowadays. You would have thought that the whole foundation was put in place for moments like this when a manager has not been able to get the performances out of the team that their ability/cost suggests they should be capable of. Moments when a refresh is needed tactically, without wholesale structural rebuilding. Giving the bloke an 8 year contract undermines that effort and suggests that if you are all about stability at any cost, then the man you are putting the utmost faith in should have had more say on the recruits he needs and the investment to realise his own vision. Not sure I've made my point well. Basically, Ashley set us up so that replacing a manager was not a costly, foundation shaking change....so you'd think he would be happy to bring in a new man. But the contract handed to the manager and the noises about stability fly in the face of that. Just another example of the confused nature of things under Ashley's ownership.

I underestimated the ability of LFC to play the victim card. Didn't think that was possible.