You can presume I'd rather that did not transpire. Don't really have faith in a defence that features Coloccini, or a midfield with Sissoko out wide and an Anita-Colback axis, or an attack dropping Perez (although he was anonymous v Leicester and Palace).

Still, 10 gone and no concession yet, which is contrary to what I was anticipating.

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So Williamson is recalled on Tuesday with the possible intent of starting v Liverpool and has since tweaked his hamstring and is now out of the Liverpool game.

This fucking club sometimes.

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Yeovil sack Paul Sturrock

Is there anyone who can stop their seemingly constant plummet?

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By gaz12321 | On 30 November 2015 - 09:56 AM GMT

All in all I couldn't write Villa off yet, Garde has them playing some good football and they have a few winnable games coming up, if they can stay sort of in touch with the stragglers until January and make a couple of decent signings they might be ok, Garde has the capability just needs a bit more about the squad and that was a positive performance despite losing.

It is early, yes, but mathematically the omens aren't good (all teams to have 5 points by this point of a season have bitten the dust in May, while defeat at Southampton at the weekend makes it as bad as Sunderland's 05/06 start, which ended in what was then the worst BPL points record), and this is certainly one hell of a tailspin Garde has to get them out of.

Its not impossible tbf. But the omens aren't great.

Mind you, speaking of fatal tailspins, I highly doubt I can talk. And we're 5 points higher up ffs.

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Wow. Well played. Although I still don't know why "Chat Shit Get Banged" is the associated meme

By Ninja | On 28 November 2015 - 18:03 PM GMT

Nice of us to give Vardy some nice symmetry to his record by fielding two non-league players in Rooney and Young and defending like a non-League side for his goal.

Praise be, praise be. And tbf he equalled the record last weekend at the same place RVN set it against a team who play like a non-league side.

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By bmg033 | On 28 November 2015 - 17:22 PM GMT

I said at the start of the season McClaren would go 10-15 games before Newcastle fans wanted him out. Apart from a spell at FC Twente, he has been shit wherever he's been since leaving Middlesbrough. Who would you guys want if he does leave? Moyes maybe?

The sad thing is I don't see him leaving anytime soon. Charnley and Carr pushed for his appointment and unless Ashley culls all 3 directly, we're stuck with that Donald Trump lookalike even as it becomes increasingly clear he was the wrong choice at the wrong time.

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By Shola | On 28 November 2015 - 17:15 PM GMT

McClaren looks so completely out of his depth. - And out of time. - It's seem incredible we waited half a season to get him.

Even more incredible that we are absolutely desperate to sell Papiss Cisse. He's our best player by a mile at the minute.

We don't even seem to attempt to play to our strengths. Palace aren't world beaters - but at least them have actual tactics - attack at speed, attempt to get wingers one on one with full backs, put crosses into the box.

The incompetence of Charnley and Carr is staggering. Unbelievable to think we actively got rid of Perch, Abeid, Ameobi & Jonas. All in the name of progress and ambition.

He's completely lost whatever it was that made him desirable. He cost Derby promotion twice, and is taking us backwards. Which given we going that way very quickly in the first place is a fucking achievement.

He's just been on Sky and said the killer was the 4th goal, and the players were focused in the game. Fuck me he's delusional.

Charnley was a terrible appointment from day one but Carr is blowing it. Mbemba, Wijnaldum and Mitrovic all looked good earlier in the season, and now all of them appear to be on the same level as the morons already here. Its all eating the team from the inside and everyone playing looks like they lack heart or desire to even do anything remotely helpful.

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By bmg033 | On 28 November 2015 - 16:43 PM GMT

Bye bye Aston Villa.

Seems to be us two in a race to the bottom. Clearly, the longer we keep McClaren, Charnley and Carr, the greater probability of relegation.

Surprised people haven't really gone to town yet on the fact Pardew is the latest to pump us. Maybe people know he used to lead us to defeats of a similarly wide margin on a frequent basis.

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1-0 up on 11, 2-1 down on 18. The fuck is up with our defence?

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By Shola | On 26 November 2015 - 20:50 PM GMT

McClaren apparently launching an attack on the players this week. Good to see some fight - even though it may make his position untenable.

I wonder if Newcastle might double down on Cathro - and try and get Nuno once he's sacked from Valencia.

Its probably more fight than was shown on the playing surface in the last game tbf. Disappointed Coloccini stays as captain though.

#298442 What's the last thing you bought thread

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By Based Jorge | On 18 November 2015 - 21:34 PM GMT

leather jacket from all-saints

I like their t-shirts and also the cotton jacket I purchased from them (well, older lines of theirs I got from eBay). Curious in acquiring a new leather jacket - what's their leathers like?

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By Shola | On 22 November 2015 - 19:03 PM GMT

I'll romanticise being in the top 10, and actually looking like a football team, when it looks like they only way we'll survive is by Sunderland, Bournemouth, Villa and Norwich being worse. And I really can't see the point in caring about staying up if that's the case.

And yeah things can change quite quickly - Newcastle turned from a top 10 team to relegation fodder literally the moment they allowed Pardew to leave.

If Newcastle are still in serious relegation trouble by January surely Ashley will get rid of Carr and Charnley.

I really don't think the problem starts and ends with Pardew leaving. There's systemic failures at play everywhere. In any case, Pardew had lost half of all league games in 2012/13 and 2013/14, and was already on his way to losing over 10-15 last season before leaving, and he looked spent at the end of the season in May 2014, be it the headbutt, the stadium ban, protests, the then-worst form by any Prem-era NUFC manager, the seemingly constant thrashings, etc. Sure, we finished 10th then, which would be an improvement on now, but given we wrote off half the season, I really don't think anyone cared long before the end.

We could argue from here on out about the merits or otherwise of Pardew post-May 2012, mind. Frankly, I don't see anything other than him winning on Saturday.

Dunno about Charnley and Carr but they can't be on a firm footing after this long series of fuck-ups.

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By Shola | On 22 November 2015 - 13:18 PM GMT

No but Newcastle recovered from the awful end of the previous season, where he admitted that he couldn't motivate the squad and after an awful summer, he steadied the ship and rediscovered how to win football games - while enduring undeserved hostility.

And again you can't just write off his wins as not mattering - as they came in a run, its nonsensical. Pardew won 6 in a row once. - We've won 5 games since, against Villa, Hull, West Ham, Norwich and Bournemouth.

It still took 2 months to get to such a position to win football games, which followed on from the woeful end of the previous season. Sure, the faintly ridiculous lengths Pardew Out eventually went to may well have been over-the-top criticism, but any other club would've pulled the trigger, and I don't think many would've complained.

I'm not saying the sequence doesn't matter - what I'm saying is all those wins all came in one month out of 9/10/whatever months of competitive football is played in a year, and doesn't really excuse the inconsistent remainder of it, plus there were a lot of sequences of fits and starts in his tenure - 2013/14 had one sequence of 4 wins in a row and ended with 7/8 lost. All I'm saying is that its too easy to romanticise Pardew's tenure and it wasn't exactly great either. Its just only really tempting to do so given the horseshit being served now.

But arguing the point now is basically arguing semantics. With the same idiots still running the gig at the top, and an even worse manager seemingly putting more focus into his spam e-mails, is anything going to change any time soon?

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By Eric Portapotty | On 22 November 2015 - 12:09 PM GMT

Hindsight and all that, Cabella was brilliant in Montpellier's title winning season while Ayew wasn't quite the most professional bloke if his probalems with the Ghanian NT were anything to go by
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Yeah, true. Although Cabella seems to have gone into even further reverse at Marseille.

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By Shola | On 21 November 2015 - 21:55 PM GMT

Carver took 0.68 points per game = 26 points - dead certs for the drop
McClaren is taking .77 points per game = 29 points per season.

So McClaren and is new all star coaching squad, and £50m in investment will amount to an extra 3 points and still lead to relegation. Shocked that Charnley and Carr are still completely inept.

Useless Alan Pardew took 1.37 - A disgusting 52 points (and a cup run). - The lack of ambition is horrendous. We would have finished 10th for the second consecutive year. No one wants that.

Wouldn't exactly describe Pardew's end as halcyon days - were it not for a 90th minute equaliser at home to Hull and a similarly late one at Swansea, he would probably have gone in September/October last year. Yes, we were 4th on this day a year ago, but that was all down to 5 wins in a row. Take those away and 2014 was a long crock of shite.

Although compared with the appalling form in 2015, anything would feel like paradise.

Certainly, Carr's judgment has to be questioned when he decides Thauvin and Cabella were better purchases than Andre Ayew or Payet.

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By Franck | On 20 November 2015 - 06:49 AM GMT

Spent the night browsing Spotify looking for something to listen to and I came across this somehow:

Outrageously catchy, I remember having hear it ages ago as it was on the soundtrack for an NHL game back in the day. The whole Bleed American album is actually pretty good, giving it a listen was a great throwback to the early 2000's.

I remember seeing them live opening for Foo Fighters in 2011. They were really good that afternoon. Still only know that one and The Middle though.

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By Shola | On 21 November 2015 - 19:43 PM GMT

It's time to beg Pardew to come back.

I wonder if there's some going "John Carver, all is forgiven". Although grant you I missed the game so can't make further comments other than those on statistical and match reports, all of which to point to three simple words - we were shite.

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Seriously alarming and shocking stuff.

I really wish the usual crowd spouting the "all Muslims are responsible" crap would stop doing this. This is exactly what these spineless cunts want.

As if that wasn't enough, news also out that a 7.0 earthquake has been registered off the south-west coast of Japan, and tsunami warnings have been issued.

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Actually it does read like a merger of EDF Energy and the EDL.

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The 2nd, 3rd and 4th tiers are now being rebranded as "The English Football League".

Can't really see the point in that tbh.

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Sky saying early favourite is Paul Lambert.

Would he work?

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Just confirmed by Blackburn that Gary Bowyer has been fired.

Fourth dismissal in a week in the second tier, right?

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Couldn't find a thread for the first round of this, so thought I'd create one.

First Round weekend this weekend, and been a few shocks already. Fair play to Salford, Altrincham, Forest Green, Eastleigh and Chesham knocking out league teams.

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I see Delph got the welcome he probably deserves.

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Saw the highlights and its good to see Cooper was up after inexplicably headbutting his own teammate. Also agreed that Wootton got lucky.

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Fucking hell we've actually lost less games than Chelsea.

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Spectre

Not perfect, but entertaining.

Needed more Waltz in my view, and also Andrew Scott could've been used more, but I did think Lea Seydoux was great in her role, and it also felt to me Craig's character had more confidence. Contrary to other viewers, the plot made sense to me, and had some amusing parallels with the current proposals on government surveillance, and the Mexico City sequence at the start was terrific.

Shame the theme song is fucking dire.