PaddockLad

Great read Gene, might go over the head of one or two on here though..

Pardew is the right man for the job because of his 5th place finish last season has bought him a bit of time. He's getting the benefit of the doubt from most supporters and almost certainly more than that level of support from the man who's just given him an 8 year contract. That won't last long though, certainly not from the supporters if things continue to go wrong. He's only the right man for the job if he can turn things round in other words, and we can't tell if he will or won't. Theres better managers out there than Pardew, yes. Does that answer your question better?....... Sam Allardyce always seems to do well at clubs in a bit of bother. Any takers?....Tony Pulis knows how to scrap for points, but theyre both employed. As are Laudrup at Swansea, Jol at Fulham and Martinez at Wigan, Lambert at Villa, Clarke is a novice manager at WBA, dodgy call that one etc etc...would Ashley pay up any of their contracts mid season and a huge lump of compo to their clubs?... Alan Curbishley did a great job at Charlton and when they thought they could do better they ended up in divison 3. Mark Hughes produces rock hard teams when he's allowed a shout at who actually comes in on the playing staff. Anyone else?..Glen Hoddle?.....Alex McLeish?...all without a job...Terry Venables?..he produced some cracking teams to watch, LBT would love him, but I think he turned Ashley down around the time Kinnear was appointed. Whose appointment, incidentally, lead to the last time a mananger was sacked for losing 4 in a row at NUFC, and beleive it or not that was Chrissy Hughton....who'd have thunk it? ..... Craig Levein's probably waiting for a call, but Robbie Di Matteo is on gardening leave after his Chelsea affair turned sour. Experienced hands in the championship?...Warnock or Holloway for example? an old boy to get the crowd on side?...Lee Clark?..foreign managers?.... I tell you who always impressed me, Hector Cuper, brilliant defensive coach. He'd sort Willo out, probably get him an England cap or two.2 Champions League finals with Valencia. Now at Ordispur in Turkey. Klaus Toppmoller, brilliant at Leverkusen, not in work but likely to be pissed as we speak. Koemans at Feyenoord, is Klinsmann still enjoying the California sunshine?... Feel free to add to the list, there are probably dozens you could argue are better coaches than Pardew and you could also argue that they could all do a better job than he's doing at the moment.

The point he's the best man for Mike Ashley.If you're asking me who'd do a better job I'd rather have Pep Guardiola as coach and Johan Cruyff as director of football

Your forgetting how Shane terrorised them, isnt he CT?....the day they twatted us 4 nowt...

Cheers CT, weve got an aircraft carrier to build before that so its 2 year hence but still... Portmouth will close, Cameron is putting pressure on BAE not to hand Salmond a propaganda coup before the independance vote...despite the 2 yards in Scotland being 100ish years old and Pompey being 12

All that is irrelevent when you're owned by Mike Ashley.

hmmm.....are these easy to come by?....

Office based now CT... took a huge payrise for less work and not a lot more responsbilty...but then this at weekend http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/defence/9700890/Axe-looms-over-BAE-shipyards.html

Thats fair enough, am not trying to put words in anyones mouth. There was a general feel good factor and hope for the future from at least 80% though, including me to a certain extent. It appears to have all gone, but there were enough good things for a little hope to survive, even for me. Thing is nowts changed, we've had less luck and more injuries. I can accept that because I knew last season was only the start of a very long road...

Funny you should mention that, it has been mooted as a trip for next year as I know some lads who are going....not really got another team, was just wondering if it was on as Parky mentioned it.

your point being? That appears to be me attempting to pull into line another "told you so!" merchant. The road Ashley is taking us down has left me a complete scizophrenic. I think he's a cunt, but if he follows through this policy it could well work. Its what won Forest 2 European Cups and kept Lyon in the latter stages of the champions league for a decade more recently. Its going to take time though and last season gave me enough hope to give him and Pardew the benefit of the doubt for this season at least. Or at least until we're in the bottom 3 Now can you pull up the thread from last spring where I argued long and hard that Europe had come a season too early for us and was told to cheer up and stop being a miserable bastard...if you can't beat 'em, join 'em

High hopes? You bet Bit too demanding: probably But this is Newcastle, and I am not content with simply winning. We should look somewhat stylish while doing it. I'll say you're consistant....you're as unrealistic last season as you're being this season. We all want that, and you're jumping all over Pardew in particular because he's not delivering it. With the huuuuge backing of Mike Ashley. If you can't see that a. the two are intrinsically linked and b.it may take some time before we see real progress then I guess we're never going to see c. you pissing off and annoying some other unlucky fuckers ...

I'd like to see your posts regarding this from last year please, smartarse. And stop being so fuckin condescending about people who actually support the football club, not just whinge about it online.

I put my laptop and and clean clothes in it when I stay at Mrs PL's.... you know what the women are like CT.....she'd be upset if I didnt use it, seeing as it was a birthday present from her. But all its done is replace a decade old cream coloured Puma hoadall I used anyway......no ones commnented on it either, but that may be to do with none of my mates having seen me mincing down the road with it slung around my shoulders Thing is, if we buy a house together next year as planned,I think it will only get used whilst on holiday, replacing a similarly ancient rucksack, which am glad to see the back of.....so, even though I now look cooler than a fuckin ice-pop, its hardly been life changing...

No, you claimed you said on here last season that the Pardew was shite and the players, with one or two exceptions, were shite. Am saying I dont remember anyone having major complaints about anything.

No you do fake outrage leading to wind up. You do claim to have said all this on here last season,but you didnt, as HF began to point out the other day.

I'd like to see all these posts from last season where you sageley pointed all this out

You can get the filters in any plumber's merchants. If you can, take the model number and make, if not, take a piccy. PTS, Pipeline etc etc they'll all sort you out today CT. I'll forward the invoice by PM

I'd just come on to post something very similar And fuck eating, unless its a CT endorsed pie or burger from the Strawberry or somwhere like that. meet in the Black Garter at 10am?

Freddy Ljunberg always looked a bit light on his feet to me as well....its a Swedish thing maybe?...all those men only saunas....but Lindegaard has a point....the thing is the for the first player to come out the closet and be truly accepted by all fans of the club he plays for he'll have to be unarguably brilliant. Andy Cole killed racist chanting at Newcastle stone dead, although it had been on the wane in the early 90s anyway. I think the media blows things out of proportion a bit anyway. Fans used to wolf whistle poor old Justin Fashanu. To me thats funny, but I'm not on the receiveing end. Lots in the media with an agenda on stuff like this, tarring all fans with the same brush due to the actions of a few morons. Not many folk I know give a fuck who somebody wants to sleep with, its patent bollocks to say all fans hate gay folk for being gay.

Saw a bit of Dortmund v Dussledorf last night and it wasnt bad fare either. Dont know if it was espn's shitty coverage but for a club that gets 70k a week turning up the Dortmund crowd seemed very quiet. Maybe they didnt have mic's turned on to the the crowd, which seems fuckin daft to me.

Naa...Quayside boozers were a bit exotic for us country hics and too far from SJP for a visit om matchdays....may have been in it once, did it have toilets that make The Clock's conveniances look like a B&Q showroom?...

The blog's a great read Mac, all the best to you and LTB's mam.

Sounds a belter that mate. Do they have heaters in the roof of the stands like Leverkusen to keep the punters warm?

fuckin helll...must have brushed shoulders a few times....the broken doll is one of my favourite ever pubs. Best jukebox I've ever seen. Put the one in the "world famous" () Trent House into a cocked hat