WhatTheFunk

MON only ever does 5 year stints, so he wont be there for much longer. Only another 3 years then - how long has the average manager of NUFC been in place.. If MON is doing well at Villa & thinks he can take them further, he will be there longer than 3 more years ;look at the clubs he has managed in the past - only Celtic were a 'big' club & he couldn't take THEM any further in the Scottish Prem. Absolutely staggered that there are STILL some people here with their heads in the sand about O'Neill, while he quietly gets on with making Villa into the club NUFC should be..! top post

in all honesty though, something was missing this time around. i know most of you will say it's because KK realised he didn't enjoy working in the set-up he found around him. But... the first time round he was the underdog. we were the forgotten sleeping giant. this time round, the Keegan/NUFC marriage had a reputation to live up to. The media were only giving us and he one game and one game only to redeem ourselves and play the swashbuckling Keegan way against Bolton, and beat them 5-0. IMO that 0-0 draw got the media immediately on our backs, and we never recovered from there in terms of doubt, hearsay and uncertainty.

Ok, genuine question. How is his 2nd spell as manager memorable other than for the wrong reasons? It barely had time to even begin yielding results! Yes the football improved, and we managed to string a few good results together. But how is that memorable? Souness went on a 8 game winning streak (iirc) and Roeder oversaw a good few games unbeaten. I was there against Stoke and against Bolton, for weeks the whole city was buzzing and in KK dreamland, the team and club have had better days of course but I can't remember the whole city being as happy as that since KK was last here. For that alone it was memorable. Then there was the 4-1 win over Spurs, the way he got Owen playing and scoring, how at one and spirited the team were becoming. For a few months all at Newcastle were happy, content. This has always been a turbulent club and these moments are worth a lot even when so fleeting. The saddest thing about all this is that KK is actually a very good manager who if backed financially and supported 100% in running the club, he is arguably the only man capable of taking this strange club of ours higher than we dare imagine. In KK we trust... ed. We could appoint a good manager who has a great spell but a lot of fans will always be wondering in the backs of their head when the wheels are coming off like many did under Sir Bobby. With KK he had the capacity to make us genuinly believe. At a club like Newcastle where there is no grey areas where when we lose its all doom and gloom and when we win the world is our oyster, that kind of belief whatever is actually happening is very potent and half the battle. IMO anyway. nearly speechless. agreed.

Ok, genuine question. How is his 2nd spell as manager memorable other than for the wrong reasons? It barely had time to even begin yielding results! Yes the football improved, and we managed to string a few good results together. But how is that memorable? Souness went on a 8 game winning streak (iirc) and Roeder oversaw a good few games unbeaten.

yet another deluded fool on the forum same same And yet another empty reply from a knobjockey who doesnt agree with anothers viewpoint oh really? and you think Beyewatch's "input" was any richer and more valuable in content? Coloccini didn't have the best game of his life, and that makes him "yet another foreign mercenary" eh? and hey, i love the term of endearment. KJ WTF. has a nice ring to it. t***

what I want from KK is to have a fucking word with HTT about those damn threads!

yet another deluded fool on the forum same same

oh my!! hard luck GG. must feel shit

You're missing the point. Protests with the intensity and voracity that we saw pre-Hull and post-Keegan have served to disrupt and distract the players and the team. Personally, yes I do think Ashley find himself in a position where he simply must go, but I disagree with the protests completely, especially the way they were carried out. They were needless and mindless for the most part. Protesting for Ashley (and I'm what you would consider pro-Ashley) would be just as damaging.

bullshit Proof or STFU. no no. STFU. quite allergic to proof. gets me bloated

a long time? as in like eons? or as in like forever dude?

bullshit

biggs biggs deluded fool

anorthosis on the points board! get the fuck in!!!

mods/designers, could someone drum up a ketsbaia smiley?

Come on Anorthosis!!

sorry like, and HTT, you know how much a lot of ppl enjoy your posts.....in general. however, i think this thread is full of shit, and your anti-Ashley agenda is full of shit. I think the protesters and the banners were full of shit. Ashley has fucked up yes, but he does not deserve anywhere near the hatred and vitriol he's been on the receiving end of.

there's no winning with some! you've been calling for him to sell off and ship out, and now that he is, he's a coward?

1000000% agreed Those mindless cunts walking around with the banner, and the idiots who applauded them effectively played up against the team. Pathetic showing from the supporters today.

exactly. utter stupidity

BooBoo you are not allowed to post things like that without mentioning how fat that cretin Mike Ashley is, and how he wants to eat all Geordie children

i'd take Terim. in theory, ashley is on the right track to relative redemption if he's looking at someone like him

probably a pointless post, but i must say that i've enjoyed reading the sensible debate in this thread, which makes for a change from reading some of the crap in others. not much more can be said about sir bobby's comments other than that they were quite on the money.