There’s not too much Alan Pardew could say after the game tonight, as Newcastle failed to score for the fourth game in six game in the league this season, and a huge problem we have is that we just cannot seem to score goals.
Peter Crouch heads home the winner after 15 minutes
That was epitomized in the 84th minute when Gabby Obertan made a great run down the right wing, crossed the ball to Jack Colback, who had the ball five yards out – and he somehow managed to hit the post – when he should have put the ball into the back of the net for the equalizer.
It’s not surprising that Alan Pardew didn’t look too good during the interview after the game, he’s taken so much abuse and criticism over the last several weeks.
But the manager handled himself very professionally both before and after the game on TV, to his credit.
This is what he said to Sky Sports after the game tonight:
“It leaves us in the bottom three. We’ve got to fight, I’ve got to fight and the team’s got to fight and that’s what we’ll continue to do until we turn it around.¨
“I don’t expect a serious conversation with Mike Ashley tonight but I think we’ll have some serious conversation before Saturday because he doesn’t want to lose and nor do I.¨
“It’s important that I showed to the team that I’m here to lead.¨ “I’ve never really been in this situation before – it’s unique – but I’m a professional football manager. That’s what I do, and that’s what I’ll continue to do.”
“It’s a tough place to come to – Stoke – on any given day but today was tough for us.¨ “There were only slight margins in the game, but unfortunately another defeat for us and you can’t keep getting beat so we’re going to have to address that.”
Mike Ashley did not look a happy man at the end of the game, and if Alan Pardew is to be fired we should hear about it tomorrow morning.
This is a low time for Newcastle United.
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146 comments so far
manxpie
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:40 PM
Comment #41thats 1 answer but wat about the players catchy espesially the goal scoring point ya made!?
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Sep 29, 2014 at 11:41 PM
Comment #42Like I said earlier if stoke were composed we would of been 3-0 down at half time. I lost count of how many breaks they had that they fcuked up!
We had a few chances though didn’t we king alan? No not really. Just the one with colback that was clear cut. Deluded!
But the king says it’s fine margins eh!
He must surely mean fine margins as in we didn’t lose by more? Surely? He can’t be that fcuking deluded can he?
He can.
manxpie
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:45 PM
Comment #43catchy he got a prem league team relegated and then got a very well invested championship team to the bottom of that league and then got sacked so he failed in beating wat was in front of him in some fuskin style i’ll give him that
but in other words he’s been an utter disaster in english football as a manager!!
beermonkey
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:46 PM
Comment #44average
we could/should have been 3 0 down and down to 10 men
manxpie
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:46 PM
Comment #45oh shit o’leary has just been spotted in toon!!
Belfast
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:47 PM
Comment #46Times up Manx. I’ve kept you a seat beside me in depression valley. Get your coat.
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Sep 29, 2014 at 11:47 PM
Comment #47G
Stationed there for the longest two years of my life mate doing rotations in Bessbrook, South armagh and a few other places. COP was fun though for a year 😀
catchy in norway
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:48 PM
Comment #48manx
CISSE holds a premiership record for 13 goals in 14 starts
thats NO 1
no 2 ARMA, a kid yes, but has scored goals at all levels,
chucky on youtube looks amazing, ( i know its youtube)
rivi, is not a bad player, he just has no help in the box.
manx, all we need is a different mentality on how we approach the game, the players need some confidence,
Belfast
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:49 PM
Comment #49Bandit country average contents
Mister Tuff
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:51 PM
Comment #50wearethemags – good contribution -more insults.Thicko.
catchy in norway
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:51 PM
Comment #51manx
what did rodgers do at reading ?
n 11 August, Rodgers got his first win as Reading manager with a 5–1 win over League Two side Burton Albion in the first round of the League Cup. Despite a good start in the league, a disappointing string of results followed, and Rodgers left Reading by mutual consent on 16 December, just over six months after his arrival, with Reading one place above relegation in the Championship.
now look at him
manxpie
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:53 PM
Comment #52catchy that is desperate to say the least especially since we have sold every good striker we have had or loaned
and cisse has had absolute shockers for 2 years you could blame the manager but the strikers ahead of him scored for fun in his place but were sold or not baught
again no proven goal scorers especially in midfield ffs
catchy in norway
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:54 PM
Comment #53manx
keep digging
you make yourself look foolish every week
toonarmydownsouth
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:54 PM
Comment #54@robbieelliott3: Wow 19 points out of 81 since Boxing Day. You kidding me!! #enoughsaid #nufc
jimmysmith
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:54 PM
Comment #55Two pretty duff sides on that showing. By all means sack Pardew, but give him his compensation, he’s earned it fronting this too often appalling regime, and put in place a more progressive coaching set up, if he has to stick with this transfer policy.
Even he must see his approach is flawed, he’s in the stands, he’s seeing us plod along week in week out. You get the sense that, it’s only at a club like Newcastle with its size and fatalist attitude that this stasis could be tolerated for so long. A smaller club would be nowhere near the premier league with such an approach, and the fans of a bigger club wouldn’t have it.
Ashley is a blight on the club as things stand, despite the money he’s pumped in.
catchy in norway
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:55 PM
Comment #56manx
we had HBA, and goofy until pardew killed it
manxpie
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:58 PM
Comment #57funny you pick reading
he was promoted to manager of the club after a successful spell as caretaker in 1999. He turned the club around from relegation fighters to promotion candidates through players, such as Jamie Cureton, and his régime to increase the fitness of the squad.
Pardew’s Reading side lost 3–2 to Walsall in a Division Two playoff final at the end of the 2000–01 season, but this was redeemed the next season as the club achieved automatic promotion to Division One. Pardew’s first season in the higher division was impressive, as the club finished fourth. They lost in the play-offs once again, this time to Wolverhampton Wanderers. Pardew was starting to gain a reputation as one of the game’s best up and coming young managers.
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Sep 29, 2014 at 11:58 PM
Comment #58I’m interpreting his “I’ve never been in this situation before and will continue to do this job to the best of my ability” as:
This is hard as fcuk with these loony toon supporters wanting me out, I’m just little ol king all hard done by. Look what I’ve got to put up with eh, all these over the the top supporters and I have no intention of walking even though I’m doing more harm than good to this club that I love.
He still here? Of course he is! Pissflap
G
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:59 PM
Comment #59Belfast / AC, I got shot at once (he missed) blown up twice (one was a coffee jar bomb so probably doesn’t count) and damn nearly killed by helicopter pilots more times than I can remember south of Bessbrook, but it was still one of my favorite places on the planet. The shrapnel wound on my right leg was also way less painfull than watching the toon this season too.
catchy in norway
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:59 PM
Comment #60manx
but what has he won
wynsleap
Sep 30, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Comment #61The sight of the lightweight, ineffective Cabella pulling out of a tackle tonight made me want to puke. Pardew says there is fight in this team – I’d like to know where it is because I can’t see any.
Riviere looks peed off with the hopeless cause he has to chase up front. Janmaat blows hot and cold throughout, Gouffran has forgotten how to be a footballer, Sissoko promises a lot and achieves nothing while Tiote goes around aimlessly turning in circles and losing the ball whilst flying into tackles that he shouldn’t be making.
In fact some of the needless free kicks we gave away tonight bordered on amateurish stupidity.
Other players like Colback, Williamson and Dummett try hard enough but that doesn’t cut the mustard in this League. Poor Cisse came on only to be given the usual
non-supply of midfield creativity.
We need two strikers playing together up front, we need a tall, strong, commanding central defender, we need a creative playmaker and above all we need a new manager and coaching team as they are all bloody clueless.
It says something that the much maligned Obertan was the only bright spark at the end of the game.
Unless Ashley sorts this out NOW we are heading for relegation and probably by the time the Christmas turkey leftovers are sitting in the dustbin.
manxpie
Sep 30, 2014 at 12:02 AM
Comment #62catchy you’ve had 4 years to dream of your replacement and you’ve come up with…………….mcclaren!
and i’m the foolish 1!??
and you celebrate goals against us!!!!!
hahahahahahahahahahaha that is all!
catchy in norway
Sep 30, 2014 at 12:03 AM
Comment #63manx
like I say keep digging
fool
Belfast
Sep 30, 2014 at 12:04 AM
Comment #64I’m not surprised G mate. Real staunch republican area that neck of the woods.
Snipers at work etc etc
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Sep 30, 2014 at 12:09 AM
Comment #65Belfast
Wouldn’t really call 5-6 year olds who spit and swear at ya on the border bandits lol.
Little turds 😀
On the other hand the sangers with 50cal pockmarked glass, well that definitely was done by bandits 😉
G
Sep 30, 2014 at 12:11 AM
Comment #66@64, I still loved the place though. Very diverse, friendly and hostile I equal measure, but everybody straight talked, a I respect that. If only ap and ma could follow their example
G
Sep 30, 2014 at 12:14 AM
Comment #67@65, Baruki sangar, 88, still got the burns. Anyway getting up soon, so better get to bed. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, far more pleasant than the match
manxpie
Sep 30, 2014 at 12:17 AM
Comment #68catchy your the person who has disliked the manager for 4 years your the 1 who celebrates goals against us your the person who wants fat sam back or mcclaren your the 1 who can’t back up the players which you say are good and are prem class!
i ain’t the 1 who needs the shovel fella!
Mister Tuff
Sep 30, 2014 at 12:17 AM
Comment #69three legs @57 – what is the point of posting “direct lifts” from Wikipedia -verbatim chunks of what somebody else has written.
Use your own brain to formulate a post—————oh I now see why you do it.
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Sep 30, 2014 at 12:20 AM
Comment #70On rotation in Bessbrook once and we were out on patrol somewhere (the only way in or out of Bessbrook was by heli at the time) tabbed for about 3 fcuking hours with all the anti jamming shite called chubs, can’t remember the name of the other fcuker but it was a,big bastard like. We stopped at the pick up point and fanned out to protect the landing site. We all had ear defs on so couldn’t hear a fcuking thing and the next man to move is supposed to tap the man next to him when he goes to get on the heli.
Soft shite here was stuck in the field on my own for 3 fcuking hours, running out of ciggies and busting for a shit. Needless to say the fcuking radios were and probably still are shite and didn’t work so I had no option but to break cover and find a shop for some nicotine and a phone.
The knobber who was supposed to tap me tried to blame me, said he did and it was my fault. Me being the charming guy that I am handed him his teeth back once they mysteriously fell to the floor.
The oc got a right rollicking and hated him forever lol.
manxpie
Sep 30, 2014 at 12:21 AM
Comment #71and btw its the same as wanting pulis having fat sam back just remember that when you even think of havin pulis!
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Sep 30, 2014 at 12:24 AM
Comment #72Wow sorry about that it was a bit of a waffle wasn’t it.
G
Indeed mate. Good times, well kinda lol.
I’m skiving as it’s the first night back on nights. It’s the law.
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Sep 30, 2014 at 12:26 AM
Comment #73Has he gone yet?
Fcuking spunktrumpet!
manxpie
Sep 30, 2014 at 12:27 AM
Comment #74tuff ya mean posting a stupid picture link and then telling people to follow ladies wrestling while insulting actual supporters??? 🙂
carry on you sad sad man! 🙂
i actually responded to a post of the exact same thing unless you believe catchy knew wat rodgers did at his time while at reading?
and btw i’ll show up everytime you make a statement from now on not taken from other sources you very very sad man!! good luck!
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Sep 30, 2014 at 12:29 AM
Comment #75If he didn’t sack the useless cretin tonight then he’s safe….ffs!
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Sep 30, 2014 at 12:35 AM
Comment #76Unless……he’s sacked him tonight but doesn’t want the fans to know as he’d lose face and be seen as pandering to the masses.
Instead he waits a couple of weeks to announce it but in the meantime because the king isn’t here he gets charnley to stick a cardboard cut-out in the dugouts and press conferences.
No fcuker would know any different.
Mission accomplished.
jimiley
Sep 30, 2014 at 12:35 AM
Comment #77We need to stand by our manager in difficult times. Pardew or Pulis or MCClaren.? Stay with the rubbish we have rather than new rubbish.
andrew84
Sep 30, 2014 at 12:38 AM
Comment #78When number 25 flashed up on the subs board to announce Obertan coming on I was just about ready to put my foot through the telly.
However I am happy to say I was wrong about him and he actually looked like the biggest threat (if we had any) of the game.
Maybe The King should start him against Swansea, if he’s still collecting his wages at that point.
optimistic prime
Sep 30, 2014 at 12:38 AM
Comment #79I really can’t see why Ashley hasn’t sacked Pardew, it’s a money no object descesion as we’ll lose more going down than paying him off.
IMO the descesion should have already been made to let him go after the Swansea match, however with Ashley he likes to push things as far as he can so who knows maybe another 4 to 5 games.
Which I couldn’t bare.
I’d like to think he goes as it’s pointless him continuing.
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Sep 30, 2014 at 12:39 AM
Comment #80Anyway back to the grindstone for me