Big Geordie

If the man has any dignity, he will walk tonight. I suspect he won't though. This is going to get nasty in the coming weeks with more howkings to come.

Bournemouth make it 3-3 Back to 2nd bottom

Bournemouth losing 3-2. We go 3rd bottom

I've rang Total Sport - not sure if they will ring back, as I was on last Saturday. Shambles today. We are fucked big time.

5-1 MacArthur

Down to 2nd bottom as it is.

Make sure you mention that even Keegan is now saying what we all know, people have to stop going to the match for an extended period of time. Will do

Am gonna try to get on Total Sport again - fear that I'll just be repeating what I said, last week - but it needs doing. Will also call Radio Newcastle and the local papers to task.

mackems winning.

Gouffran and de Jong to come on. Colback and Winegum off.

He celebrated his goal in front of them, I've read elsewhere.

Ashley is all about appointing people who do what they are told without question.

4-1 Bolasie with his 2nd.

3-1

I wonder what Maclaren's excuse will be today? Colback not being match fit?

2-1 down Bolasie. More shocking defending.

1-1 MacArthur

Cisse scores!

Our usual slow start.

I've decided to listen - for now......

Cisse eh? Super!

I can't see past anything other than a Palace win. Maclaren trying to talk the talk yesterday, but failing abysmally. I'm kind of tempted not to bother watching/listening at all. Has it really come to this?

KK is on the money as ever, and just totally 'gets the club, the supporters and the area'. I dare say that now he has spoken out, there will be some kind of media attack on him, via Ashley-friendly press, or some happy-clappers will be wheeled out to say how brilliant Ashley is. I've been lucky enough to witness first hand every spell KK has had at NUFC and I really can't over-state enough the impact he had on the city and the north east as a whole - not only as a player, but his spells as manager too. I'd go as far as Ashley will be terrified of Keegan speaking out, because perhaps with Shearer (who I wish would speak out more against the owner!), he has the potential to unite the fans into a common cause. He's telling folk in this interview as to what they need to do (stay away) Sad thing is, I'm not sure enough will listen due to the mass labottomey (sp?) that's taken place at the ground over the last few years. We could do with The Chron doing a chat with Keegan, and getting it put front page, all guns blazing. Will it happen? I'm not sure seeing as how they seem to be back in with the club. If I wasn't at work tonight, I'd ring up Total Sport to talk about this. As it is, it might have to wait until after the match, tomorrow night.

KK speaks out. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/newcastle-going-nowhere-its-too-6907827#ICID=sharebar_facebook Sport Football Newcastle United FC Newcastle going nowhere as it's 'too big a stage for those players' says Geordie hero Kevin Keegan 22:30, 26 NOV 2015 BY JOHN CROSS Ex-England boss who played for and twice managed the Magpies paints bleak picture as he claims the Toon Army are too loyal for their own good Toon legend Kevin Keegan has delivered a damning verdict on Newcastle after claiming the club is “going nowhere.” Keegan, a hero on Tyneside after playing for the Magpies and having two spells as their manager, says the St James' Park club is simply too big for some of the existing squad, who find themselves languishing just one point above the relegation zone. They face a trip to Crystal Palace this weekend, and defeat at Selhurst Park could see Steve McClaren’s men slip into the bottom three. “This club’s going nowhere at the moment and that’s very sad," said Keegan. “I don’t think he (McClaren) realised how poor the squad was when he took over. Those players remind me of when I took over all those years ago when they were in the second division. The players’ biggest problem was the club was too big for them. “That’s a massive stadium to come out in. "For some people, it makes you grow — for the right players, the Shearers, Ginolas, people like that, that I had they just grew in it, but these players are shrinking in it.” Keegan led Newcastle to within touching distance of the Premier League title in the 1990s after taking over when they were in the second tier. Magpies fans turned on their players last weekend after booing them off following the home defeat to Leicester but Keegan claimed any other set of supporters would have given up on Newcastle YEARS ago. The Magpies' predicament is heartbreaking for the former Liverpool star and ex-England boss — one of the few people to have given them hope after decades of underachievement. Now they are stuck in the middle of yet another depressing season which has ended up in a relegation scrap and Keegan admits it breaks his heart for the fans. “The supporters want to see players having a go and relate to them and I don’t think they can with this team,” said Keegan in an interview with beIN Sports. “Sadly, they won’t stop coming to games. I think if ever they did boycott a game completely, I think it would get the stronger message across. “But they can’t do it, the Geordies. Every time they think they’re going to do it they think, 'What do I do? I always go to the game’, and they turn up.” Keegan described the Leicester defeat as “terrible” while praising Claudio Ranieri’s Foxes for showing the sort of spirit which Newcastle lack. Newcastle owner Mike Ashley spent big last summer, paying around £50m combined for Aleksandar Mitrovic, Georginio Wijnaldum, Florian Thauvin and Chancel Mbemba. The hope former England boss McClaren would turn around the club has also turned into a huge disappointment. Newcastle's summer spending on likes of Mitrovic has yet to pay off McClaren has struggled to improve results, looks under huge pressure and knows that results must improve as the club cannot afford relegation. Ashley gambled last summer in the hope that big investment would reap rich rewards and keep them in the top flight to earn the spoils from the next Premier League TV deal. But Keegan claims McClaren has been left “shocked” by how bad the squad is, and might have even been fooled by the club talking up their chances this season despite flirting with the drop last time. He says McClaren needs to do some deep thinking about how he can turn it around - before Newcastle sink any lower. Keegan added: “I don’t think he (McClaren) realised how poor the squad was, when he took over, I think he thought, if you read the stuff coming out of Newcastle and their own publicity, they’ve got all these top players — most of them French, but some from Holland as well. “And I think he thought with the right sort of training - and he is a good coach as well, there’s no doubt about that - they would start the season running. “I think it’s been a big shock to him. I think now he’s going home in his car... wherever he lives, I hope it’s a long drive, because he’s got a lot of thinking to do. “You can be the best coach in the world, but if you haven’t got the players - and it’s all about players - then you can’t turn them in to world beaters.”