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I want NUFC to succeed. The problem is I don't think it'll ever happen with Ashley, Llambias and to a lesser extent Pardew at the club therefore I believe protests and boycotts to be the way forward. Short term pain for long term gain. That's what it comes down to. Are enough people willing to take the short term pain? From an outsiders point of view, you struggled and got relegated largely due to Ashley, but because you had some good players left and a half decent young manager, you came back up. It's easy to lose sight of the original problem with that success and your premier league wins, but Ashley is still there and will still make poor decisions. At best under him you might be a yo-yo club, and Newcastle should be more than that.

If I were you, I'd consider having as many people as possible arrives a minute or so into the game. It doesn't then prevent supporting the team for most the game, but it does mean a largely empty stadium for Pardew's welcome and an obvious comment on how the decision has been greeted. But it's very difficult to coordinate something like that.

It depends if you WANT Pardew to succeed. Many might not look beyond immediate results, but for others seeing him do well under a chairman they hate after such a stupid decision isn't what they want. Understandbly too. Ashley deserves to fail on this one. But I would predict you'll scrape survival this season, never show any consistency or signs of finding it, and Pardew will take all the credit for staying up highlighting what a tough job it was. He'll then try to lower expectation for next season, have a woeful start and get sacked.

'My teams play positive, attacking football'?! Bollocks Alan, they play lump it forward to a big striker and hope for the best.

True, but you can say that about any manager. It's hard to give someone as much of a chance when you know they're a mate of a chairman you hate. He's very likely to fail long term, but managerial records aren't everything, sometimes a manager just fits with a club and does better than ever before, like Holloway at Blackpool. We had Strachan do well for us then be crap everywhere else. BUT, I can see it being another Souness. That's pretty much what he was for us. Apologies for sending you our shit managers. Although to be fair, we also (indirectly) sent you Shearer back as well ;-)

Also, this was from an interview today with our Chairman, about our current manager Nigel Adkins, but I think you can tell between the lines the problems we'd had with Pardew. Especially the last sentence or two. 'He's changed the attitude. His personality, his way of being, it's motiviated people. People who haven't been here for a while, they come down here and they say 'it's a completely different atmosphere'. Our style of play is about to change as well, obviously it needs a bit more work and that's what Nigel has been saying. We're always looking at ways of improving ourselves and he's a man with a plan. If plan A doesn't work, he's got a plan B. That's the main change he's made in this very short period'.

Hi guys, I'm a Saints supporter, just thought I'd chip in if you don't mind. Before getting on to Pardew, it's really harsh on Hughton to go like this. There are so many overrated managers around, he was clearly an underrated one, and I could see you stabilising in the premiership and building slowly under him. We tend to get through managers because we have rubbish ones, rather than sacking decent ones! Which brings us to Pardew. A lot of media seemed shocked he was sacked by Saints. He certainly went on, and continues to go on, about his 'success' here and winning the JPT. But that wasn't a priority, it was a good laugh, but promotion was key. Don't be fooled by the 10 point deduction. We had a very good squad for this level and a huge amount of money by comparison with other teams. Effectively a league 1 allstars. Yet we never got into the playoffs, not once. He couldn't find consistency, because he NEVER had a plan B. We had some very good footballers but he opted for a long ball to Lambert system, which will become long ball to Carroll. He wasn't the worst manager we've had, but he did seem to think he was far better than he is, and I wasn't confident of going anywhere under him. For some reason we barely had a pre-season, he didn't seem interested, didn't strengthen in obvious areas and we had a very poor start. It took us a while to recover despite having a very good squad, but only under Adkins has a turnaround begun. The odd decision with the sacking was the timing, as there were rumours of him going at the end of last season, and that's when it should have happened. No-one is missing him now, that's for sure. This is the man that didn't play Tevez and Mascherano, preferring Zamora and Mullins. Although Curbishley was initially just as stupid. I think he'll struggle to gain respect to be honest. Some players seem to like him, but he falls out with a fair few too. You won't hear much about the exact details of how he left Saints, but a 'training ground incident' was involved. Anyway, good luck. Not sure what to advise, it's horrible when appointing a manager you'll struggle to support, especially when you know the owner is messing it up. It's as if he'd accidentally starting to do an OK job by shutting up, letting a decent young manager get the club back up and get used to the Premier league again, but such chairman never change. Still, if it's any consolation, Pardew never stays long. Just don't expect to win 2 games in a row, ever.