It is custom for the supporters to stay behind and applaud - IF they feel the team/manager deserve it.
But Alan Pardew stood in the shadows last season after the Arsenal game, and I for one legged it long before the "lap of honour".
It was a match when the owner of the club put £1m on the table to coax the Newcastle players to win the game - SO HIS BELOVED TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR COULD QUALIFY FOR EUROPE!
Pardew boasted before the Arsenal match "Thank God we are not in Europe again next season!", and the Newcastle supporters said to themselves "What the f***?"
Pardew says he can’t determine what type of reception he gets from Newcastle United fans in the final home game of the season against Cardiff City ... but I think it is time EVERYBODY who cares about this club makes a stand!
If you want him to go - TELL HIM ON SATURDAY!
I got kicked out of St James' Park during the 3-0 Mackem defeat for going to the dugout and telling him what I thought of him.
That was February 1st and hate the man twice as much now as I did then!
Toon fans turned on him in abundance at Arsenal but he said he would fight on ... because he knows it will cost Mike Ashley £21m to pay up his seven year contract ... and he ain't moving!
It has nothing to do with "I won't turn my back on the club" and "I will fight on" ... it is all about £21million.
Kevin Keegan said he couldn't work with Mike Ashley and Dennis Wise and walked, refusing to take a penny from the club.
Don't think for one second Pardew will do that.
Kevin Keegan is everything Alan Pardew is NOT!
Keegan transformed the club when he arrived February 8th 1992 and we were a handful of games away from being relegated to the Third Division.
Keegan was indeed the Messiah, and anybody who supported the club during those heady days of promotion and the years that followed, will never forget them.
Pardew has brought us two 3-0 home defeats to the Mackems; the WORST display by a Newcastle team since 1932 (6-0 home defeat to Liverpool); and the worst run of results since 1977.
Keegan was honest to the core - Pardew is the shit on our shoes.
SATURDAY IS THE TIME TO TELL HIM!