Newcastle?s players were yesterday using a whole body cryotherapy chamber hired by the club.
Used by the Welsh national rugby team, it aids recovery, and Pardew?s hopeful his players ? who each spent three minutes into the super-cooled chamber ? will feel the benefit when they take on Chelsea.
?It?s something we?re thinking about for next year,? Pardew said.
?We?ve introduced it for this particular game to try and increase the players? recovery. We think it?s something different, and we know it works. Hopefully, it?ll help us.?
However, United?s staff can only do so much, whatever state-of-the-art equipment is used at the training ground.
?Being in that tank with dried ice poured over you ain?t going to be like playing Chelsea!? added Pardew.
?I?d have liked to have gone into this game with a different feeling (from the defeat at Wigan), but I know, having looked in the players? eyes, there?s a determination to put it right.
?Hopefully, we?ll take that on to the park, but even at our very best we could struggle to win at Chelsea.
?But we?ve got to believe we?ll get a break in the game, and that we?ll be at our very best.?
Pardew accepts Newcastle may yet end up in the Europa League and is duly anxious to finish at least fifth rather than sixth, which would shorten the summer break by requiring involvement in early qualifying rounds. "If we can't strive for fourth, it's important we strive for fifth."
