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Source? The season we finished 5th wasnt great under Robson if you're talking standard of football. If you're talking style, attractiveness etc (you're confusing the two here by the looks of it) then we were fuckin awful. Blackpool played great football in this division, widely praised. Southampton this season, we'll see what happens with them. There are loads of sides praised for their good football that have been relegated man

Asking for trouble this idea like I'll give it a go..

Man Utd beat us 6-2 at SJP the season we finshed 3rd under Sir Bobby. Did that make that side utter shit and lucky all that season too? We finished 4th the season before and are widely acknowledged to have played better football that season than when we finished 3rd. Were we lucky in either of those seasons? Don't worry, I don't expect you to offer an opinion on that with anything like the knowlegde to back it up Nobody is arguing Pardew could be doing better, but things are lot more complex then you're suggesting..HF posted this earler: http://www.eplindex.com/23371/newcastle-coming-down-to-earth-predicted-position.html fair, iyam.

Well, he said pretty much the opposite after the Fulham game iirc. Its a well known managerial tool, pretend that you're just greatful to be on the same pitch. Bob Paisely, Jock Stein and the early career Alex Ferguson were experts at it. Stein advised Ferguson to give Alfredo Di Stefano a bottle of the best whisky before Aberdeen played Di Stafano's Real Madrid in the 83 cup winner's cup final; "just let him think you're just pleased to be there" the idea then is for the underdogs to rip the better side to pieces...not sure if thats going to happen tomorrow though Aberdeen beat Real Madrid 2-1 aet

Fluking last season suggests the players we've got got lucky too...

Thats called giving the opposisition "a bit of toffee" You're the only person in Europe who takes things said for the benefit of the press seriously

Doesnt zonal marking just apply at the back though, according to the coaching manuals?....as far as I can make out Parky is basically on about what happens when we lose the ball in the centre of the park...having said that, J69 sums up what happened v Fulham with Santon perfectly.

I applied last time, got back from Alkmaar and had the email saying I had got two tickets in the ballot You can choose to accept or decline them at that point, or you could back then.

In the biblical sense?...cogratulations, but what do your wives and kids think??!!

"These aren't the droids you're looking for........"

Theres only two things you can't recover from in this country nowadays...being called either a racist or a paedophile. Cameron smeared UKIP badly with that one, but I dont buy Niggles protests either. Just need to look at the haste in which the Lib Dems lifted their skirts for a good fucking from the tories. Got a funny feeling that it will be Labour needing someones support to form the next government anyway.

The Tories are going to try to take us out of the European Union by the looks of it, possibly by getting in to bed with UKIP. Dont know enough technically about it to properly debate the ins and outs of it, just to say that its a massive call by them, possibly the biggest since the end of the war. Going into it was pretty much mereley a trade agreement. Europe now has the casting vote above us on legal matters, which is what appears to piss the likes of UKIP off. I think theyve a chance of getting it through a referendum, depending what question is asked and to what extent the proposed pull back is. Will the City all piss off elsewhere? they didnt when we refused to join the euro, infact they boomed artificially for a few years beyond that.

Vincent Kompany is injured and a major doubt.....if we can the ball off the fuckers I think we might nick a goal or two. Theyve looked far from conviincing this season iyam.

Both fair in a way. Biggest thing for me is Pardews inability/unwillingless/lack of bottle to drop either Ba or Cisse. But we haven't got the players to perform in a true 433. Marveux isnt anywhere near strong enough for the prem iyam. Wigan had 10 men CT before you mention it. He is the type of player we need in there, but he needs to be 3 inches taller and a stone heavier. HBA can do it because he's a better player.

What are their suggestions on how to curtail our current malaise?....am banned so cant see NO either....thank fuck...

Cisse, Tiote, Cabaye and Marveux have been shit so far this season. Sell the lot of them next month and thats a season's champions league money without having to qualify for the fucker

Baggio also told me the squad size was nothing to worry about this season and Mike would see us ok

Are the figures biased because theyve made you look a silly sausage again CT?

This is a comedy gift CT, but I'll play the straight man and ask if everything's ok and hopefully your young un was mucking about with a phone or something?... Or were you explaining how much you hate Pardew and the bairn had the good sense to ask for help?

Aye, he's been not watching us since the year we missed out on the title by a few points....wonder what attracted him that year?

Mira still loves us http://in.reuters.co...rtsNews&rpc=401

Thats CT off to get his ticket for the Europa League final

You seemed happy with some that last season. You werent pointing out that we never come from behind to win. And when we changed formations last season during the match (Pardew often went from 433 to 442) it barely raised a murmur from you. In fact, the opposite is true as we all know, flipflop

Most foreign players who go on to be at least half decent in this league all say much the same thing "for English football I had to be much stronger physically" Cabaye's said it at least twice and you can see Anita getting stronger game on game too. Good call on the formation too, he's sat in there and played his natural game when its been a 3 in the middle.

One thing to add, If we're playing the blame game the players come into it too. Jonas, Tiote, Colo and Samton were fuckin awful the other night. Its not as simple as saying "Pardew should get more out of them" He did last season, he's not doing this season. If its his job to motivate and inspire the players then he was pretty good at it five months ago and now he's fuckin rubbish at it? Ridiculous tbh. He's making mistakes, but some of the fuckers who were top performers last season have been dreadful this season too. Have they forgotten how to play? probably not, it might be something as simple as being out of form? having their heads turned comes into it too, no one is tellign me that some of them can't be arsed because the bids for them weren't big enough to tempt Ashley last season? Theres so many things to why we're rubbish this season that blaming Pardew alone is ridiculous.