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OK what on earth is going on? Newcastle can't be this bad
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Wow.Didn't expect that at all
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Fuck 8 years, Pardew doesn't deserve another 8 minutes in the job
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Newcastle have some amount of work to pick themselves after this. Such a damaging defeat. They're too good a team to go down though.
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By Sears | Permalink | On 27 April 2013 - 19:12 PM
Newcastle have some amount of work to pick themselves after this. Such a damaging defeat. They're too good a team to go down though.

I am so sick of that phrase - the more I hear it the more likelihood we will go down.
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Liverpool looked quite good tonight.
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Let the horse-punching begin!
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Fabio Borini facing 10 match ban after biting his own hand.


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By Portaloo | Permalink | On 28 April 2013 - 04:33 AM
Let the horse-punching begin!


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Glad to see Borini scoring after his injury.
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By Obtuse | Permalink | On 27 April 2013 - 18:12 PM
Red card. Studded and in the air...

Fuck off, old man
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By Portaloo | Permalink | On 27 April 2013 - 19:33 PM
Let the horse-punching begin!


Suarez was banned, dummy
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Newcastle fans deserve relegation. Absolute scum.



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'That was the worst performance I've ever seen'
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You're the worst.
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Sitting in a stadium with several thousand grown men (often with young children), shouting abuse for 70 minutes (when they leave) over a football match. They need to grow up.


Also some top banter by Liverpool fans, who started chanting 'Paulo Di Canio' whilst I think doing Nazi salutes. Classic.
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After home defeats you seem to come home and have a pop at your fellow supporters, not the players or Pardew. I don't get it.
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I got to watch it all again on MOTD, only this time in a better resolution.

The tactics are baffling - no defensive organisation and playing Cabaye as a holding midfielder behind two DMs who got nowhere near Coutinho or Gerrard all afternoon. The players were shocking but the manager moreso.

Why blame the fans when those in front of them do nothing to positively enliven them?
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By BR. | Permalink | On 27 April 2013 - 21:19 PM
After home defeats you seem to come home and have a pop at your fellow supporters, not the players or Pardew. I don't get it.

By Number 1 | Permalink | On 27 April 2013 - 23:47 PM
The tactics are baffling - no defensive organisation and playing Cabaye as a holding midfielder behind two DMs who got nowhere near Coutinho or Gerrard all afternoon. The players were shocking but the manager moreso.

Why blame the fans when those in front of them do nothing to positively enliven them?



Because the fans start negative and it seeps to the players.

-The average Newcastle game starts with no atmosphere.
-Then on about 4 minutes the crowd will get ratty about something. Normally a misplaced pass or something minor. - It becomes a crisis.
-This will normally build up until they score their first goal. General uproar.
-Why isn't Pardew changing it? is asked. Who is actually on the bench is totally irrelevant.
-Crowd will start chanting for Hatem Ben Arfa, regardless of how unfit and overweight he is.
-Get stuck in etc;
-Half time. Crowd get behind team, performance picks up but no goal, crowd revert.
-Pardew changes it - often the only fit offensive first team player is Ameobi. Crowd criticise decision.
-75 mins - large gaps in the crowd begin to appear.

Today the negativity started before kick off when it was announced Newcastle would play two holding midfielders. At home. The shock, the horror. Heresy. In a week when Bayern and Dortmund both played the double pivot and both won with big margins.

Actually attempting to keep possession is hated, with players shouted at for not getting the ball forward as quickly as possible. Any pass backwards is also hated.

In truth, the performance today wasn't that bad, we've played much worse than that this season. Fulham, West Ham, Swansea, Southampton and QPR performances were worse, and Newcastle actually played some nice stuff from about the 30 minute mark and Liverpool's third. Liverpool were excellent though. Best team at SJP all season.


I've never warmed to Pardew, but at least give the bloke a chance, we were fifth last year.
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By Shola | Permalink | On 28 April 2013 - 01:10 AM
Because the fans start negative and it seeps to the players.

-The average Newcastle game starts with no atmosphere.
-Then on about 4 minutes the crowd will get ratty about something. Normally a misplaced pass or something minor. - It becomes a crisis.
-This will normally build up until they score their first goal. General uproar.
-Why isn't Pardew changing it? is asked. Who is actually on the bench is totally irrelevant.
-Crowd will start chanting for Hatem Ben Arfa, regardless of how unfit and overweight he is.
-Get stuck in etc;
-Half time. Crowd get behind team, performance picks up but no goal, crowd revert.
-Pardew changes it - often the only fit offensive first team player is Ameobi. Crowd criticise decision.
-75 mins - large gaps in the crowd begin to appear.

Today the negativity started before kick off when it was announced Newcastle would play two holding midfielders. At home. The shock, the horror. Heresy. In a week when Bayern and Dortmund both played the double pivot and both won with big margins.

Actually attempting to keep possession is hated, with players shouted at for not getting the ball forward as quickly as possible. Any pass backwards is also hated.

In truth, the performance today wasn't that bad, we've played much worse than that this season. Fulham, West Ham, Swansea, Southampton and QPR performances were worse, and Newcastle actually played some nice stuff from about the 30 minute mark and Liverpool's third. Liverpool were excellent though. Best team at SJP all season.


I've never warmed to Pardew, but at least give the bloke a chance, we were fifth last year.

There's giving someone a chance and there's taking the piss. Yes he got 5th last year and a Europa League Quarter Final this year, but Pardew's win ratio of 37% is lower than Hughton, Roeder, Allardyce and (bizarrely) Souness. I would've accepted a midtable campaign this year but this is too far backwards.

After the defeat by Reading I felt he should've gone. He had been returning up in my estimations of late but this double decimation is too far. He's favourite to be next sacking for a reason.

Tactically, fans can moan and fans do moan. Everyone does. Playing the double pivot is fine - that's more or less what we did last season when we went on that run this time last year. The problem is playing Cabaye behind both of them, and Sissoko as a winger when he looks an unnatural fit in that position. How does that work?

Plus is playing defensive really that good an idea? We have now conceded the most goals of anyone in the league, and have all of 5 league clean sheets this season. So what makes us think playing defensive will actually work?
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Always remember, you could support Leeds.
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By Fantastic | Permalink | On 28 April 2013 - 13:25 PM
Always remember, you could support Leeds.

I dunno - Wolves look on the verge of obliteration
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By Shola | Permalink | On 28 April 2013 - 01:10 AM
Because the fans start negative and it seeps to the players.
Today the negativity started before kick off when it was announced Newcastle would play two holding midfielders. At home. The shock, the horror. Heresy. In a week when Bayern and Dortmund both played the double pivot and both won with big margins.


That's a ridiculous comparison, Tiote and Perch are not Martinez and Schweinsteiger. Playing both of them together was a stupid decision and you could see all game that our players weren't technically good enough to keep possession and that suggests a problem with the midfield.

The tactics were awful, Sissoko playing on the right wing was a terrible decision. From the best of my knowledge he's spent most of his career in centre midfield, Pardew saw him play a couple of good games at CAM and now seems to think he's some sort of marauding attacking forward. We needed Gouffran today too, at least he offers support to Cisse, you look at the midfield we started with and straight away you could see that it lacked balance.

Don't even get me started on the defence.

Maybe the crowd was bad, but what do you expect? This is just the culmination of months of dodgy performances under Pardew who has always looked tactically inept.
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Reading and QPR are gone after a 0-0 draw.

They were both completely terrible. Reading might be back up in the promotion chase next year but it's a very long way back for QPR.
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"I can't believe QPR have just been relegated and full-back Jose Bosingwa was walking down the tunnel laughing! Embarrassing. Show some guts man." - Joey Barton. Hahaha.

"Gutted for the club. To many wankers amongst the playing staff. All brought in by Hughes. Some good lads but not enough. Too many maggots"
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Well Pardew did put on two wingers at half time and Newcastle conceded four. And Newcastle had more possession than Liverpool. My point is the crowd are against the double pivot as a matter of principle. I can see why Pardew did it, to try and free Yohan Cabaye.
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Prince Poldi up top.

MON BEAT THE SCUM

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