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Hey, I was only joking with the picture lad That's of little concern. It's your attempts to lord it over fellow fans with your know-nowt patter that I'm talking about. Do your family even like you? More than yours judging by that photo

Supporting a team is all about being bullish about each game and the season in general. Even more so when the performances and league position BACK IT UP. I genuinely feel sorry for fans who cant see this and dont feel the same.

Im not blind Fish, but league position and performances dont back up the nay-sayers position. Relegation is extremely, extremely unlikey. This is the same view the bookies take. While we are playing well AND maintaining our league position I will remain positive.

Hey, I was only joking with the picture lad

No-one is saying it will, but it's still 2 points dropped is all. I only mention this as much as I do myself because I remember how a couple of points would have kept us up when we got relegated. We look comfortable at the moment but there's still only 8 points in it. Thats right, 8 points of Champions League

If that's for real I'm off to make a bet now.. Oh look, it's 12-1 http://www.paddypower.com/football/uk-foot...11-1858388.html More bollocks from CT My mistake. it was 1/50 to avoid relegation. (not a gambler) http://www.paddypower.com/football/uk-foot..._grp_ids=111198 Still they consider 9 more teams more likely to go down than us.

Thought Barton and Nolan looked dead on their feet towards the end. I think thats more a reflection on what they've put in this season rather than being unfit. The issue with late goals could be resolved by watching hours of video of Shearer running the ball into the corner flag.

Are you daft? all the above aside, with our small squad, our lack of quality as it is, without a guaranteed cemented replacement coming in, would you let a player who can start at times bugger off on loan? no, no you wouldn't, and if that's the way to "run a club" we are well and truly fucked if barton,caroll and enrique pick up injuries. This is why Ashley is a cunt, Pardew is a dogsbody, edit > i literally can't fathom how you can call yourself a newcastle fan, But for two late goals we would be 4 points off a champions league spot. but we DID concede 2 late goals. Make the most of this season, because he will not build on a decent first season up, and that will mean downwards again here we come. Yet he built on promotion with Ben Arfa and Tiote? What inside info do you have Leazes that says he wont continue this investment?

Are you daft? all the above aside, with our small squad, our lack of quality as it is, without a guaranteed cemented replacement coming in, would you let a player who can start at times bugger off on loan? no, no you wouldn't, and if that's the way to "run a club" we are well and truly fucked if barton,caroll and enrique pick up injuries. This is why Ashley is a cunt, Pardew is a dogsbody, edit > i literally can't fathom how you can call yourself a newcastle fan, Well one of us is Irish First of all, go steady on the old bold button. Secondly, you think The owners a cunt, The Managers a dogsbody and the team is poor......How can you call yourself a Newcastle Fan? We've already being without Carrol and Barton and the sky wont fall in if Enrique gets injured. The crappy squad is going into February currently the 7th best team in the premiership. We are 8 points off a champions league spot. But for two late goals we would be 4 points off a champions league spot. You are indeed a fucking moron. I can't believe you just mentioned European places... Your right we've been without Carrol for the last three games how many of those did we win again? Oh aye none including a defeat to part-timers side a few leagues below us, and pissing away 2 injury time goals. do tell me if barton gets crippled now who is going to play right wing for us? Rout...no hes gone, Gosl...oh no he's injured too, guthri...nope he's just awful Perch maybe? But i'm sure carroll will be back and all will be fine sure it's just a wee knock that's kept him out for a month, and injuries never reoccur or get worse unexpectedly, and anyways we've such strength and dept with the likes of Leon Best Shola, and the experianced ranger, nevermind the free goalscoring Lovenkrands. And if Enrique gets injured i'm sure some 18year old from the reserves will make the kind of stepup required that will cover for possibly our best defender, or better yet, sure the versitile Perch can fill in, we all rate him don't we? but sure onto the rest, how can i call myself a fan? well i don't know i guess i care enough not to completely give the arse of the owner the "Mr Sheen" experiance like yourself, to not lap up every utterly moronic statement some pathetic cunt like Pardew comes off in the media as if "this time it will be different", to think hang on...the boards talked shite all these other times surely this time is the same, as opposed to yourself where they have a glorious transfer policy in place, and that bringing in a manager with such a glowing resumé and reputation like Pardew was a masterstroke. And me being Irish has fuck all to do with being less than a fan than you are, you're a moronic little cunt, and as i've said before the utter stereotype of every taxi driver we all loathe to get, the big mouthed fucking nobody who talks utter shite and is so amazingly stupid he really doesn't understand just how much of a twat he is. Honestly as much shite as some posters on here can put up, and as much as people can detest the likes of Kevin and ASM etc with their patter, you are by far the worst. and breathe btw, still 7th

Well Paddy Power and a host of others have us at 50-1 to get relegated. Theirs 10 teams ahead of us who he thinks has more chance of being relegated.....10.

have we had our bad patch yet? no, and every team gets one, if you think we're going be where we are at the end of the season you're mental. We've a bad spell to come and most other teams around us have had theirs frankly. Flying high in 7th means fuck all when your less than 3 losses from the relegation zone, and there is plenty of teams below us capable of over taking us and sending us back into a relegation fight, do you really think even a team like Villa will be below us end of the season? Who says this isnt our bad patch and we've yet to have our good streak. Gotta love the way you think someone is mental for suggesting that the league position we have attained after 6 months is going to disappear after the next 3 months.

Are you daft? all the above aside, with our small squad, our lack of quality as it is, without a guaranteed cemented replacement coming in, would you let a player who can start at times bugger off on loan? no, no you wouldn't, and if that's the way to "run a club" we are well and truly fucked if barton,caroll and enrique pick up injuries. This is why Ashley is a cunt, Pardew is a dogsbody, edit > i literally can't fathom how you can call yourself a newcastle fan, Well one of us is Irish First of all, go steady on the old bold button. Secondly, you think The owners a cunt, The Managers a dogsbody and the team is poor......How can you call yourself a Newcastle Fan? We've already being without Carrol and Barton and the sky wont fall in if Enrique gets injured. The crappy squad is going into February currently the 7th best team in the premiership. We are 8 points off a champions league spot. But for two late goals we would be 4 points off a champions league spot. You are indeed a fucking moron. Don't start with that 'what if' shit. If we hadn't lost a game all season we'd be top of the fucking league. I'm agreeing with Ant. The squad is paper thin and we seem to be have absolutely no urgency in expanding it. If it doesn't fit into a frankly ridiculous wages structure, then there's no deal to be had. They're the fucking morons and you're as bad for believing their shite time and time again! So I cant "what if" we hadnt lost two late goals, but you and Ant can "what if" we lose Barton, Carrol and Enrique. Rightio.

how close? 1000mm, 6km, 1000km ? ignore me sir i'm being a total smeg head didnt Mr Pardew sir say that he was close to securing one of the current squad on a new contract rather than saying he was close to bagging anew player ? genuine question this one sir Possibly, it could mean either I suppose sounds like Barton or Enrique which would be another good move.

Are you daft? all the above aside, with our small squad, our lack of quality as it is, without a guaranteed cemented replacement coming in, would you let a player who can start at times bugger off on loan? no, no you wouldn't, and if that's the way to "run a club" we are well and truly fucked if barton,caroll and enrique pick up injuries. This is why Ashley is a cunt, Pardew is a dogsbody, edit > i literally can't fathom how you can call yourself a newcastle fan, Well one of us is Irish First of all, go steady on the old bold button. Secondly, you think The owners a cunt, The Managers a dogsbody and the team is poor......How can you call yourself a Newcastle Fan? We've already being without Carrol and Barton and the sky wont fall in if Enrique gets injured. The crappy squad is going into February currently the 7th best team in the premiership. We are 8 points off a champions league spot. But for two late goals we would be 4 points off a champions league spot. You are indeed a fucking moron.

To be fair a similar thing happened when Milner left. Just saying Ashley has history when it comes to such situations. Terrible to let him leave, imo. He's not a negative influence in the dressing room, can make a difference when coming on and unless I've missed something we're fucking thin on the ground for cover. Imagine Barton gets injured? Who's going to move across? It was an ill made decision I think, lets hope we don't rue the day. Over the moon we're performing really really well and sitting nicely in a table I thought we'd struggle in and in honesty we should be 4th or 5th with the points we've openly gifted when we were comfortable. On reflection, a draw was about reet today. Todays and last week's results are the kind you look back on at the towards end of the season and go "this is why we're fucked" the downhill slide starts now tbh, we've had our wee streak. What a load of crap. We've played pretty much the same all season. Played fairly well, lost some we should have won, and won some we didn't expect to win. Had it not being for self inflicted suspensions, then I don't think there is anyone who doesn't think we would already be in the top 6. We now have a nice two and a half (?) week break, the boys are off to sunny Portugal to recuperate and Pardew should have plenty of free time to bash the phones and get some deals done. Carrol should be fit and raring to go and all will be well. Negativity is such a wank.

Bet you've punched a few knee caps in your time as well.

He'll sign someone if the deal is fits in with the way the club is now run. What they wont do is get blackmailed to sign or loan average players with silly wage demands. I think something will still happen as the window closes, however I would rather we bought nowt than rubbish. The players we have are easily capable of maintaining premiership status.

I'd like him to instill a bit more willingness to play it safe when in front with the game is almost up. I'd like him to make sure our lot run down the clock and don't give possession away in injury time. Simple stuff realy. Course it is and Im sure Pardew wanted the same. However when you are playing a very good pacy team who have gone all out to get a goal and your playing them with a much weakened team, its a lot easier said than done.

And 90 minutes of a mid week reserve game in which he starred throughout. (Allegedly).

Yup, time for a small sherry.

Think its a tad unfair having a go at Barton as the bloke ran himself ragged all over the ground and was simply out on his feet at the end. Where we would be if it wasnt for the silly points lost this season is frightening. Guts are still wrenching as they were last week but overall a very good performance from the majority. Strange decision to take Best off instead of Ameobi and overall thought Best did very well. Wish we had Lennon.

I fucking hate him. How many times has he watched shearer run to the flag and run the clock down.

i feel sick

hobbled straight down the tunnel.

barton is brilliant. So calm on the ball under such pressure.