Kitman

Gouffran's showed nothing alright but I'm not sure HBA could play 45 mins?

We've been beyond poor at the back. Mignolet has kept them ahead mind you. Kick up the arse needed for second half and Guti needs subbing. I hope Pardew doesn't leave as is for 25 mins because we've looked really disjointed esp in midfield imo

NZ times are as a rule even worse. I rarely get to see a game live on TV, although that's been a blessing this season......

A win would do me, I don't care about the score. Although a famous thrashing would be nice.

I hope we stick it to them and send them down

I don't think we'll bother with him tbh. He gave us the two fingers for a massive pay check, we'll have moved on.

I've actually seen Meatloaf live and it was much better than yours by the sound of it CT. Reading Festival at the back end of the 80's. As I recall, he'd just made it thru Bat Out of Hell when he was hit on the nose by a bottle, went off and didn't come back. Great gig

Reminds me of the old joke about Mussolini's tanks having 1 forward gear and 10 reverse gears........the forward gear being there in case the enemy attacked from behind.....

Happy birthday chap

The "meatloaf" I pushed out of my arse today made a better noise than that tosser. No thank you.

From one bat shit crazy manager to another

Cracking appointment this. If I could've picked someone available for them it would be him. He'll make Joe Kinnear look like Alex Ferguson.

Di Canio

Devastated about this. Let's hope it's someone equally crazy and inept who takes them down....

I'm not hopeful. Especially if Simpson is playing.

I think that's true of any player, really

She looks overdressed to me

OK

Ashley's ambition is to make a profit on his shares without having to dip into his pocket any further. I think he wants to build the value of the club to the point where someone will buy his shares off him. He has no affection for us and I think he doesn't give a shit whether we win anything or not. imo the reason he didn't buy enough players in the summer was because he thought he could increase the net worth of the club without it; the reason he bought the players in January was to protect his investment in the club against the financial disaster of relegation, especially with significantly more money on offer next season for being a premiership club. I just don't think the football - in the sense we look at it - matters to him much. We're just another business he owns which needs to give him a return on investment, I don't think he cares about Newcastle, the club or the fans at all. Maybe turning around a struggling business gives him a hard on. I think he's happy to build the business organically if it makes financial sense but he's not going to do it for the sake of winning one of the cups. I don't see us spending much in the summer tbh, I think we'll still have a small squad of purples and we'll move on a few of the second tier players who weren't up to it, and looking to pick up cheap development players to replace them from Graham Carr's notebook. Pardieu will still be our manager. We will still require lots of luck to be successful. I think we'll carry on in this vein until he can shift his shares. So I don't think he's a football genius, he seems pretty good at business though. I don't follow NUFC for the financial results unfortunately.

Good

Was surprised he got the sack at Soton.....I hope he gets time to build something at Reading, most managers seem to get bugger all time these days

I'm sure they'll enjoy rattling around in their new half full stadium watching Fat Sam's scientific method......

Dunno if he's any good but it's a memorable name