Howay

Aye, "I'm not a yes man.... But I'm a yes man"

It did go well compared to what people thought would happen, as the posts on the previous few pages point out. Compared to the entire crowd walking out yes it was a failure, compared to half the crowd walking out, yes it was a failure but who was saying any of that would happen? That's like winning a high jumping competition in your county then having a bloke come up to you and say, "well that was a failure, I mean if you look at how high those Olympic athletes are jumping you're nowhere near them". It was far bigger than what anyone thought it would be, of course they asked for the whole stadium to walk out, they were hardly going to say "we hope to have 2-3,000 walk out" but I'm sure the people that come up with the idea have been pleased with the result.

Imagine the 72 pages that would follow if he saw this.

Aye unless the poltergeist grabbed his foot.

This is what it looks like in CT's head about every single topic, he's of all three opinions (even the impartial bloke):

He'll have to spend with the amount of players that seem to be out of contract. They'll be losing Borini in all who's been massive for them.

Agree with all of that tbh, I say I wanted us to win but got no excitement out of any of the goals. First time I've not got even the smallest bit of excitement from us scoring, it was like watching Gabriel Agbonlahor score for Aston Villa against Hull when Shola scored, not a jot of interest. I have said a few times this season I wont watch next year if Pardew is manager, I still will but it's the fact I'm so tired of watching his 'brand' (I don't even think I can call it that as he doesn't even have a style tbh) of football that I've thought about not watching Newcastle, which is a real shame. The article does capture how shit Pardew's tactics are quite well mind, we rarely bother past the first goal even against sides we're completely all over. We never just go and kill teams off anymore, which is poor to say about a team that's 9th in the table.

Ferguson always looked like a winger from the 1920's era, tiny, underfed and in oversized clothes. He played like one too, but the problem is most of those 'brilliant' crosses CT always squeals about came when he was playing at full back and the ball came back to him from a forward position giving him time to look up and put a ball in, they weren't from going shoulder to shoulder with his man down the sideline then whipping one in like wingers often have to. Could he deliver a decent ball from time to time? aye he could, but he was never going to be a Premiership footballer which was clear to everyone.

I'm gutted the bastards avoided the drop, but credit where it's due they've done one hell of an escape job. Poyet done a great job to turn it round so late, especially when they looked so dead and buried. Wonder if he'll stop around there next season, I know there were rumours he was looking to leave.

Sadly I don't even think losing to Cardiff would have mattered, if he can survive losing 7 in a row, barely winning any in the last 16, headbutting someone and getting battered with alarming regularity, I think he'd have survived losing 9 in a row. Honestly don't see what will get the cockend fired, maybe relegation? but even then maybe not.

The Pardew for England thing was a joke, he posted a winky face one time that he said it which was his get out clause for later.

Aye her story lines were annoying, every bloke going wanted to rape/kidnap her. Johnny Drama trying to keep her in an underground bunker so he could hang out with her was bizarre in all.

"Spent games willing the opposition on against us" don't agree with that bit at all like, the cardiff game is the closest I've ever come to wanting us to lose but come kick off I was back to wanting us to win.

We would finally get to see how truly great Shola is in training after years of being told it as well.

Aye, I just got tired of seemingly everyone working against him on everything. When he finally did persuade someone to help him their boss would come along and fuck that right up.

'milk turns quicker that Mertesacker'. I hope Podolski was missing on purpose mind.

Aye, it doesn't sound as good when the commentators yell his name so Steeeeeeevie Geeee wins again. Toure is just incredible mind, to do a run like that in the 93rd minute man is utterly amazing, and it's not like he was stagnant in the centre all game either. He's one of them players that makes everything look so effortless, that pass against us a while ago through to Aguero from the centre circle that took our whole defense out the game looked pretty simple until you watched again and saw how unbelievable it was. Imagine if Ashley had sold up to the Man City lot and we were watching him every week rather than Dan Gosling.

He's been incredible this season like, 20 goals from midfield a lot of them absolute worldies as well.

Aye, took a season to adapt but since then he has pretty much a 1 in 2 ratio in the league.

Agreed, if you go back and read the first few pages like CT told people to do thinking it would highlight his point it's clear most (if not all) thought there'd be a few hundred walk out and most not know about it. In actual fact there were a few thousand walked out, the whole stadium booming with anti-Pardew and anti-Ashley chants as well as international coverage of "Newcastle fans engaging in an organized walk out" numbers weren't mentioned much and the media wasn't calling it embarrassing or a failure, by the original feeling towards it and what it ended up being it's a success. Of course if people HAD been expecting 20,000 and international media coverage (which no one did) and there was only a few thousand walk out, then that would be seen as a failure.

The 20,000 was only used as a discussion point in the leaving early/not turning up altogether debate. Ant's post on the first page is one of the only actual estimates and he said he'd be shocked if 1,000 did it, so by that 2,000-3,000 isn't bad at all.

Aye Cabaye tbh, since he's left it's been fucking embarrassing.

Is he of the point that the squad is deep enough, so the people complaining about it should shut up? or that the ownership shouldn't get any stick for the thinning of the squad? or that it was impossible for us to hold on to Guthrie? or just the usual ambiguous attack that means he's sat nicely on the fence.

Good post Aimaad, agree with all of it. Aye, I think the problem we all have isn't that we're losing players like Guthrie it's that if we're letting them go or selling them we should be improving on them, which we aren't doing. There are examples where we have/at least tried which I am happy with, such as letting Simpson leave and bringing in Debuchy, or losing Enrique and bringing in Santon, but we've not been doing that enough so it means we're left with a thinning squad and a youth system that isn't bringing through the talent to fill the difference. Losing Guthrie wouldn't be brought up if we'd improved Bigi and he was playing regularly now while we waited to replace Cabaye, but unfortunately they've not done that and we're watching Dan Gosling. Up front has been the worst for me, we had Carroll, Shola, Lovenkrands and Best, we really needed another striker to partner Carroll and have the other 3 as back ups, instead we kept Shola out the three got Ba in, then later Cisse and then lost Ba; so we're down to Cisse and Shola, and only Cisse is contracted into next season, with again no youth coming through. The drop offs in our squad are too big now, whereas they used to be closer and that's a big problem, one which 3-4 signings wont rectify especially with further thinning coming.