Sunderland Fans Try To Hijack Pardew Poll After the dismal performance against Reading, instead of our usual man of the match poll, due to the first real signs of the crowdâs dissatisfaction with the manager, especially his substitutions and the boos at the end â we asked what you thought about Alan Pardew continuing as manager and after 24 hours of voting we brought you the results in the article Fan Vote Goes Against Pardew and here is part of that article below- âShould Alan Pardew Remain As Newcastle Unitedâs Manager?â Firstly, thanks to the thousands of you who took the time to vote and secondly, I had to admit I had no idea how the vote would turn out. Now 24 hours after the match we can reveal that the voting has continued in the same vein all along and the voting stands almost exactly at 70% saying no and only 30% saying Alan Pardew should remain in the job. Of course we arenât claiming that our result would be the same if every Newcastle fan was counted but with over 5,000 fans voting it is a snapshot that shows the support for the manager is split at this moment in time. We thought leaving it up for 24 hours would give everyone who wanted to take part enough time to vote and then bring you the results. The poll wasnât closed off but it had done itâs job and the findings presentedâ¦last night though after the poll story had long been and gone, we found something strange going on. From the poll opening the voting hardly ever deviated from the 70/30 split against Alan Pardew staying, as tens of votes turned to hundreds and then thousands. However, last night there was a sudden surge in votes which was strange as it was no longer a âliveâ story, even stranger was that there was an avalanche of votes and almost without exception they were all in favour of Pardew staying. Digging into the technical side of things our people quickly found the answer, our hilarious friends down the road had heard about the poll, the only problem was that they were 24 hours too late. A well established mackem message board is âReady To Goâ and somebody had put the following up along with a link to the poll; âThe Mags are voting on whether he (Pardew) should stay. Sadly, up till now 70 per cent of them want him to go. Your chance to have a sayâ¦â â¦and then amongst the follow up messages on the thread there was further mentions such as; âGreat stuff. Itâs gone up by about 3% in about 5 mnutes (their spelling!). Weâll turn this round no problem.â There is a long tradition of rival fans getting involved whenever the Chronicle or the Mackem Echo have put up anything similar. Fair play to them because the mackems rallied such a huge number of votes so quickly, which belatedly made the poll result around 50/50 but the only problem was that the horse/story had already bolted, they had only reacted when we put our results up rather than when the poll was launched. Our technical people could trace nearly everyone of these extra votes back to the mackem message board. They might be outperforming us on the pitch at the minute (which isnât exactly difficult!) but I think weâll take a moral victory on their failed attempt to hijack the poll.
A spelling mistake on an informal message board?!?!?!!? Devious Mackem barstools. Typs'o are almost impossible to aren't they.
I'm waiting for Pointless to start on BBC 1: apparently instead of the usual quiz show, they are replacing it with highlights of the Mags match with Reading..
I did some Mag bating and voted "Pardew In" and also made comment that Bent wanted Premiership football therefore would not entertain NUFC. For my sins I got lots of negatives reps from irate Mags. Very sensitive people!
Many thanks although I think I have set myself up for further "Mag attacks". Not that I care knowing that I wind them up!
I did the same mate started a thread on their board purely on a wind up, pretty new to the board, didnt even no what rep was until somebody on here pointed out that i was a red as a blood transfusion! The lads on here got me green again fairly sharpish! Its all about rep with that lot, most of the mags that post on here are decent and lash it out to us aswel, mag rep whores ACS would sell a kidney for rep!
Smacks of an angry mag who is throwing his toys out the cot. It's a bloody awful paper who will happily print lies about Sunderland fans. Maybe they should be more concerned with telling the truth rather than what fits their small minded mentality!
Just neg rep them back & tell them you don't give a ****, winds them up even more. Sad bastards. Have some from me anyway.
