: Mon May 25, 2009 12:04 am  

Billy Banter wrote:

Charles Insomnia has the last laugh.

Sorry mate. See you in the Championship.

dunno about that, Allardyce must be lolling like mad, and double checking his bank balance.

: Mon May 25, 2009 12:12 am  

WANDERER wrote:

They may have not been 'entertainers' if Allardyce had stayed but they'd still be in the top flight - ask the Blackburn supporters which they'd prefer.

Best decision John Williams has made in years getting rid of Ince and bringing in Allardyce.Now with the money we should get for RSC he can start to shape the team how he wants it.Great send off for Tugay today from the crowd,he'll go down as a Rovers legend.

[Wanderer]

: Mon May 25, 2009 12:14 am  

The Joker® wrote:

So who's going to be there at the start of the Championship Season?...

Newcastle: Harper, Coloccini, Steven Taylor, Edgar, Duff, Guthrie, Nolan (Owen 66), Butt, Lovenkrands (Jose Enrique 57), Viduka (Ameobi 75), Martins.
Subs Not Used: Krul, Smith, Gutierrez, Ryan Taylor.

Well Nolan better not think he's coming back to the Reebok.

: Mon May 25, 2009 1:21 am  

flipper wrote:

dunno about that, Allardyce must be lolling like mad, and double checking his bank balance.

They wanted a more exciting, unpredictable style of football that would return them to the place where they belong, and they got it.

What's the problem?

What they need is some big geordie name from the past to come in and act as a massianic figurehead for the neecastle masses.

Jimmy Nail?

: Mon May 25, 2009 2:42 am  

Catalancs wrote:

Shearer saying the previous managers weren't good enough! cheeky ....

Just watched Shearer's interview on SSN.

Don't think that Shearer said a word wrong TBH. He didn't say that the previous managers weren't good enough, he said that the players weren't good enough, he wasn't good enough, Ashley wasn't good enough, and included Kinnear and Keegan in with that. One name he didn't mention was Sam Allardyce, for obvious reasons.

FireWire wrote:

What an anti climax survival Sunday was.

And I'm thankful for that. I dreaded Newcastle managing to nick a draw and somehow managing to find themselves saved.

: Mon May 25, 2009 4:22 am  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

Just watched Shearer's interview on SSN.

Don't think that Shearer said a word wrong TBH. He didn't say that the previous managers weren't good enough, he said that the players weren't good enough, he wasn't good enough, Ashley wasn't good enough, and included Kinnear and Keegan in with that. One name he didn't mention was Sam Allardyce, for obvious reasons.



And I'm thankful for that. I dreaded Newcastle managing to nick a draw and somehow managing to find themselves saved.

So he did say previous managers weren't good enough

: Mon May 25, 2009 4:35 am  

airliebird9 wrote:

So he did say previous managers weren't good enough

The initial quote was that Shearer said that previous managers weren't good enough, inferring that it was purely the fault of past managers and it wasn't his fault.

That wasn't what Shearer said in any way.

: Mon May 25, 2009 4:56 am  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

:roll:

The initial quote was that Shearer said that previous managers weren't good enough, inferring that it was purely the fault of past managers and it wasn't his fault.

That wasn't what Shearer said in any way.

In fairness the team he took over was hardly challenging for the title were they????

I listened to the interview myself and I'm pretty sure he said

'I wasn't good enough, the team weren't good enough, past managers weren't good enough and the owners have made mistakes'

A fair and honest assessment in my book. I don't think he was trying to blame anybody else at all. The whole club that is Newcastle Utd is just a big fooking mess!

: Mon May 25, 2009 6:05 am  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

Just watched Shearer's interview on SSN.

Don't think that Shearer said a word wrong TBH. He didn't say that the previous managers weren't good enough, he said that the players weren't good enough, he wasn't good enough, Ashley wasn't good enough, and included Kinnear and Keegan in with that. One name he didn't mention was Sam Allardyce, for obvious reasons.

That's exactly as I saw it too. I have to say that I never liked Shearer as a player for many, many reasons. However, in the last few weeks Shearer the manager has actually grown on me. His honesty in the last few weeks has been a refreshing change & while he's clearly never looked up to the job it's been difficult not to admire his candid assesments of his team's "performances" & the fact that he had the balls to deal with Barton in a way that his previous managers have seemed incapable.

: Mon May 25, 2009 8:20 am  

Buffalo wrote:

To be fair to him, I didn't see any kid with Downs on the pitch at Hull, I saw a short clip of a load of morons acting like morons.

imagine the frothing at the mouth on here if it had been leeds fans invading the pitch.