No point buying big without a manager.
Keegan appointed new Newcastle manager, again.
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No point buying big without a manager.
12th richest club in the world last year, 50,000 fans whether we play like **** or not. We don't need to attract Champions League standard players because we aren't playing or contemplating playing in the Champions League.
If we got to the position where we would be challenging, we would be attracting those players.
So you're saying your happy with being a UEFA Cup team? I'd bet that a fair proportion of Newcastle fan's believe they should challenging for the CL spots, you said it yourself.
You're right about a few things with Liverpool, but our situation is different to yours. We don't think we deserve or have a right to win the league, but given our past success, it wouldn't come as a shock to many if we did.
Well martins is a striker for a start and didnt do any good at all playing where he was asked too , trying to play the bolton way but with the wrong type of player for that style wasnt going to work , newcastle was already a laughing stock to a lot of people and doing this wont help at all , get a new manager and give him 2 or 3 years at least , people say the toon fans expect too much but i disagree , playing fairly decent football and being a club that should be around the top 6 every year isnt expecting too much for a club newcastle's size .
No big players? Try your old hero, Micky Owen.
da_mic and Nitro are talking sense. dokko is mostly talking sense. Some of the rest of you are making laughable comments (both magpies and other supporters alike).
I can't really understand this and I would have given him until the end of the season but we don't know what has happened behind closed doors.
Panzer
I can't really understand this and I would have given him until the end of the season but we don't know what has happened behind closed doors.
Panzer
Some of the performances under sam have been the worst i can remember in recent years,playing players in wrong positions and going to the likes of derby and playing for a draw?
Take a look at derby they are dead certs for going down with most prob the lowest tally ever at the end of the season,they so far have 7 points with 4 of them being taken from newcastle.
Take a look at derby they are dead certs for going down with most prob the lowest tally ever at the end of the season,they so far have 7 points with 4 of them being taken from newcastle.
Did I say no big players? No.
I said I can think of one, and you've just happily pointed him out.
Then you'd be wrong. Read a Newcastle Forum or something man. 95% of us don't think that.
It's true. Glen Roder's success rate was higher than Sam's! I didn't want to see him go at the time.
Panzer
It's easy for someone to enter a thread posting this, how about you contest some of the points you are finding 'laughable'?
Shay Given is comfortably Champions League quality.
A good post. Sam wasn't going to get Newcastle relegated, unless the chairman has a good replacement lined up and has to move fast then the decision is a joke. The fans booing the team every week, and the players with big ego's are the ones at fault here. Who would want to take the reigns now? A big name manager? I doubt that very much. I think Shearer will be the only option soon, and imho a poor choice. He should have been assistant before even considering a manegerial role. Dont run before you can walk!
Thought it was a dig at Owen saying he isn't a big player anymore.It was easy. Both Nitro and da_mic more or less summed up my opinion on the matter so it seems a bit pointless typing it all out again.
I came into the thread late because I was out getting some exercise, it doesn't mean I can't contribute.
I thought the post about Alan Shearer being a good replacement was naive considering his lack of experience and I would hate for him to come to us and throw away the respect he has earned on Tyneside.
Your opinion of Newcastle fans seems to be based on the ramblings from the back pages of the red tops. Despite what you might have read in the papers (and what is quite clear from most of the magpies posting here) we don't believe we have some god given right to be title challengers.
Your posting style and comments seem to be quite defensive and aggressive. I think you've been taking some of the early comments a bit too personally.
I hardly think that's relevant. He's loyal to the team and he likes living in Newcastle. The fact that he's stuck with us despite the lack of silverware doesn't stop him from being a damn good player. It's the same with Shearer. What did he win (apart from the title with Blackburn?). He stayed with us through loyalty and didn't win anything. Does that stop him from being a big name player? He didn't win anything with England but he was easily the best England striker while he was there.
Panzer
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