It was telling that last week 77% of fans in our poll thought we’d lose at home against Manchester United, and that turned out to be true when we were hammered 4-0, and this week it was 76% of fans through we’d lose – and we did – for the fourth games in a row – this time at Stoke City.
A minute’s silence before the game – to mark the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster
And Newcastle haven’t scored in those four games and we’ve conceded 12 goals – and it’s been a nightmare for the fans.
But on the bright side (well kind of), we only conceded one goal today against an ordinary looking Stoke City side.
But it was a sloppy goal to concede after 42 minutes, as a cross come shot eluded the Newcastle goalkeeper Tim Krul, and it ended up in the top right hand corner of the net.
The scorer – Erik Pieters – at one time a Newcastle target, could only laugh – which says he meant it to be a cross.
But one goal was enough – as it’s been in the last four games for Newcastle to lose, and now we have gone 12 league games of the last 16 without scoring and picked up only 13 points.
This is all too bad to be true – but it’s what’s happening – and we’ve now lost 11 of the last 16 league games and failed to score in 12 of them.
It will be interesting to see what Alan Pardew says after the fourth pathetic performance in a row, when we have also failed to score, and Stoke were only a mediocre side today.
But the Potters were still better than Newcastle – and it’s clear that Alan Pardew just cannot motivate his players.
Newcastle United fans deserve better than these woeful performances on the pitch this year.
It’s just not good enough – and that’s the truth.
🙁 🙁 🙁
181 comments so far
toonking
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:03 PM
Comment #41croftus5678
said it just like i am saying it.
agree with it all.
TurkishFan101
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:03 PM
Comment #42manxpie
Diego Simeone: £2.09m
Lucian Favre – £1.65m
Michael Laudrup – £500,000
Jurgen Klopp – £3m
Marcelo Bielsa – £2.5m
They are worked/work under similar conditions as Pardew and have to constantly sell there best players for big money.
Mister Tuff
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:04 PM
Comment #43Ciaran – I see you posted about the FOI request from NUST to the City Council. I spotted this request earlier on, on another site and did a short post.
The gist was that whilst I agree with NUST trying to get as much information, I suspect the application will fail as the information requested is potentially not disclosable. Whilst the council could provide the information, I think that they could justifiably refuse it on several fronts. One could be “prejudcial to commercial interests” -which is not disclosable. There are other exemptions to disclosure
but I suppose we’ll just have to wait and see what the councils response is.
manxpie
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:04 PM
Comment #44did you actually see it ruddy?
there were 5 kids holding it and they were all very nervously getting it up and laughing
how many other banners were there?
there was 3000 fans there
so my point stands if that is the full feeling of fans why is it only a bunch of kids showing it?
bandb so why is that a rank opinion?
cyprus
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:05 PM
Comment #45So, once more the confusion on who should go, who to blame. You want a long term goal, talk of a new owner, there just aren’t too many billionaires crazy enough to take on a ‘wee’ NE high maintenance club. (In fact, it would appear, THERE AREN’T ANY).
Now, you want short term, this manager must go, NOW. There aren’t any decent managers who would want to work for NUFC, you say. You kidding.
mag
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:05 PM
Comment #46Manxpie jail tskunki wolfshead are the biggest idiots on here!
mag
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:06 PM
Comment #47Since January we are the worst side in the Premier league! Taxi for Pardew!
Big Pappa Cissé
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:07 PM
Comment #48@ King
Ameobi second best striker ? . What have you been smoking ? .
Cisse,Gouffran,Remy and probably Armstrong are all better than him FFS .
welshgeordie9
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:08 PM
Comment #49mag
April 12, 2014
Manxpie jail tskunki wolfshead are the biggest idiots on here!
Ha ha well said mag
Big Pappa Cissé
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:08 PM
Comment #50@ manx
Did you see the chronicle poll the other day about Pardew as NUFC manager ? .
Because I seem to remember it was something like 80% want the Muppet gone . Hardly the minority .
mag
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:08 PM
Comment #51Any muppet who still believes Teflon Pardew is a premier league manager should be laughed at!
BandB
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:09 PM
Comment #52manxpie,
Only because you don’t know Manx. You are assuming and projecting.
Which isn’t normally your style.
You saw what you saw. Fair enough. I don’t want to triangulate with Ruddy and yourself, so I will go and watch Ant and Dec or something.
mag
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:10 PM
Comment #53Manxpie is a total tool and doesn’t know anything about football!
manxpie
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:11 PM
Comment #54turkish none of them are ever ever ever ever ever ever gonna be employed by ashley but keep dreaming fella
and book that brain scan!
mag
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:11 PM
Comment #55Why I have to suffer the deluded Teflon Pardew fools!
toonking
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:11 PM
Comment #56BPC
remy is out injured mate so no he doesn’t count
gouffran could be striker but then what, do we play obatan or jonas as winger knowing we have got no other wingers?
we need someone to play out wide otherwise we are left with a FB covering a full length of the pitch which means we get a very tired player.
so it’s either gouffranor and HBA being out of position or it’s jonas and obatan in position
read the full post before making statements
if you
mag
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:13 PM
Comment #57Manxpie would fail a brain scan in between his ears is tomato soup.
welshgeordie9
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:15 PM
Comment #58You alright this evening mag
TurkishFan101
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:15 PM
Comment #59toonking // Apr 12, 2014 at 5:58 PM
“well then fcuken turkish or should i say ASHLEY LOVER
tell me what was wrong with starting ameobi as forward when he is the 2nd best striker we have got
tell me why obatan and jonas we always getting the critism they get when they ARE the only 2 wingers we have.
tell me another team who will not spend much money if any money for 3 of the last 4 transfer windows and still consistantly get top4
tell me why stoke swansea middlesboro and fulham couldn’t get back into europe when they didn’t spend money.
also how do we fcuken know that everton are not this season just getting the same fcuken luck we got when we finished 5th?”
Firstly, when we have the likes of Ben Arfa that can play as second striker, De Jong, Adam Armstrong has nothing to lose and all to gain. Why Shola Ameobi? you love him as much as Pardew does, poor deluded guy.
Secondly, Ben Arfa is a winger, so is Marveaux when he came here but he didnt get the runs he needed to adapt and kept getting dropped when his favourites were played Jonas.
What season are we talking about here? was not you not praising Pardew for finishing us 5th in the season? Gouffran is a wide player as well, so is Sissoko thanks to Pardew… although he played a few games in his old club but does not mean that is his distinct natural position.
“tell me another team who will not spend much money if any money for 3 of the last 4 transfer windows and still consistantly get top4”
What are you talking about? are you in dreamland with your buddy Pardew? deluded …..
“tell me why stoke swansea middlesboro and fulham couldn’t get back into europe when they didn’t spend money.”
WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH NEWCASTLE UNITED.
We are NUFC they are other clubs, we are a one club one city where the fans pump the blood every second, every moment of life, you idiot.
Why did we not spend you say? Mike Ashley thought if he could finish 5th in the season with those players, why buy more players if he can make the most of them?
Well it seemed the complete opposite and he found out it was pure luck and was forced to spend in January window in order to save us from getting relegated and we only just, ONLY JUST managed it due to Marveaux assists and Cisse’s goals. While Cabaye was stropping off.
Martinez is years apart from Pardew, tactically, as a man, as an individual. He managed a very averaged weak team in Wigan and got the FA CUP with them, and tried his utter best to save them from relegation but he failed in honour,
He is miles ahead millions of miles ahead of Pardew at every aspect.
When Lukaku was injured he didnt give up and just say “Lets just try to keep teams away and make them draw with us” NO, he kept on and pushed forward playing very average players and now he is in contention for champions league and will be the manager of the season if he achieves this with such a average Everton side.
Martinez won the FA cup, what did Pardew win?
Come on spit it out.
catchy in norway
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:16 PM
Comment #60BPC
RUN THAT POLL AGAIN TODAY AND IT WILL BE 90%
manx will come back and tell you it’s only 12 year olds that are voting
you can not reason with him or toonking and a few others , I have gave up,
I’m just waiting for pardew to throw lee charnly under the bus when we don’t get many players in the summer,
mag
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:17 PM
Comment #61Welshgeordie terrific! Manxpie is a moron along with tskunki wolfshead and the jail cretin.
catchy in norway
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:18 PM
Comment #62manx I’d take ole gunner , laudrup , poyet
they would come
manxpie
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:18 PM
Comment #63bpc how many people voted?
just askin because 52000 fans turn up week after week and there has been no such banners or chants!
bandb i ain’t assuming anything i posted what i saw it is others like yourself that are assuming what i meant
the fact is its 1 banner in a crowd of 3000 toon fans and it was some giggling teenagers doing it
TurkishFan101
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:20 PM
Comment #64manxpie // Apr 12, 2014 at 6:11 PM
“turkish none of them are ever ever ever ever ever ever gonna be employed by ashley but keep dreaming fella
and book that brain scan!”
I dont think you brain functions properly, look at the situations all of those managers played in and are still in. Some are worst off Pardew and they get near enough same wages as him as well.
You are the brain damaged one if you cannot function and develop an output of what that means. As long as Mike Ashley can find a good bargain that is a really good manager that can get the best out of players and sell them for more at a short amount of time, this will increase the amount NUFC make, invest more in return and also make it a club that is financially stable as much as a good figure head for other clubs.
Big Pappa Cissé
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:20 PM
Comment #65@ manx
Come off it man FFS .
So you expect every fan that doesn’t want Pardew in charge to hold a flag or chant all game ? . Most people are so fed up they don’t even bother going to St.James’ .
He is un-defendable
toonking
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:21 PM
Comment #66you lot all who bash pardew are as bad as pardew is with his excuses yourself.
you say he plays HBA gouffran and sissoko out of position as wingers then you say that obatan and jonas are rubbish when they are in fact the only true wingers we have.
you say pardew is rubbish when he chooses not to play armstrong in matches, then you give him critism for playing dummett in matches and saying dummet is rubbish. they are both youngster.
you say that pardew should be sacked then you say that once the new manager comes in we should bring in lots of new players. well pardew has not had that so why should any decent manager be given the chance of it.
you say pardews first season in charge managing to finish 5th was all down to luck. then you saying martinez first season at everton where he is looking likely to finish 4th or 5th is skill. why can’t that be luck because really if arsenal didn’t have the bad slip up then 5th would be his best option and if united and spurs were not under new management he might not even have got europe.
manxpie
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:21 PM
Comment #67haha !!!
“I’d take ole gunner , laudrup , poyet”
hahahahaha!
catchy in norway
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:22 PM
Comment #68manx
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/alan-pardew-local-press-not-6982537
read it
BandB
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:22 PM
Comment #69Manxpie,
Whether Ashley or Pardew are popular or unpopular will come out in the wash.
I don’t think we are swaying too many opinions here.
Or perhaps you think you are?
Big Pappa Cissé
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:22 PM
Comment #70And for the people saying “we need wingers that defend” .
We already have Anita & Tiote playing as DM’s so they should be helping to cover .
welshgeordie9
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:23 PM
Comment #71I have got a funny feeling Wigan are going to win this match
NUFCarter
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:24 PM
Comment #72Ole gunner and Gus poyet? No way!
Blackley and Brownlie
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:24 PM
Comment #73I see Ciaran is defending himself again, bigging himself up again and running again. I don’t know what it was about, but nothing changes. Was it Lesh who said about him paranoia sitting nicely with narcissism? Anyway, enough of the crystal maze, let me post about football.
TurkishFan101
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:24 PM
Comment #74toonking // Apr 12, 2014 at 6:21 PM
“you say pardews first season in charge managing to finish 5th was all down to luck”
You have no clue kid what is going on at St James Park or the current atmosphere that surrounds it.
Pardew did not finish 5th in the first season, it was the second season.
manxpie
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:24 PM
Comment #75bpc so its all right for you to say a poll of god knows who is proof but not for me to state the fact that 52000 people actually paying to watch the team is not on?
come on like!
Big Pappa Cissé
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:25 PM
Comment #76I know he is hated by most NUFC fans (including me) but Mcmanamon is just the kind of direct winger we need .
Blackley and Brownlie
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:25 PM
Comment #77I just want to check something. Has the world come to an end?
catchy in norway
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:26 PM
Comment #78manx
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/poll-reveals-86-nufc-fans-6932662
read it
toonking
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:27 PM
Comment #79turkish
excuse me but how many fcuken times do people slate pardew saying he plays HBA out of position on the wing. the same for marvo.
pardew got newcastle to a europa league quarter final last season.
on fcuken martinez we shall see how fcuken good he really is when everton are actually in the europa league next fcuken season.
welshgeordie9
Apr 12, 2014 at 6:28 PM
Comment #80Would you believe it Wigan have just scored