Big Geordie

In all honesty, as much as I like Roeder - he is Shepherd's fall guy ultimately because he is a 'yes' man. The real reason as to why a Hitzfeld or O'Neill wouldn't come to Newcastle, is because they wouldn't stand for interference from the chairman. He has too much power and say at the club, and for that reason we are ultimately doomed to fail until he is removed or leaves. A present, Shepherd is killing the club - it's in terminal decline, IMO.

It's a real possibility at the moment - I think some of the players need to take a good hard look at themselves and ask what are they here for ? Because clearly for some - they are only here for the cash.

Unfortunately - many of us have paid our money upfront already for this season. As things stand at the moment, I won't be renewing for the 2007/08 campaign.

They'd never let anyone in with a banner like that. We'll see what happens next Saturday - it might be a watershed.

Got to be looking for 6 points I'm afraid. We are in the $hit now, to be honest.

Good idea, but unforunately there is that much apathy in the ground at the moment, that getting anything going during the match probably won't happen. The only way you are going to get the fat man to take notice is to hit him in the pocket - it's a pity he's already had our s/t money this season.

I've cicrulated the link amongst my toon-supporting friends, and also posted it in the Newcastle Club thread, over on the SI Forums.

The good thing is that the Hitzfeld campaign showed the if people get organised, we can get the cause recognised in the media. Looking forward to seeing how this develops.

Roeder isn't the big problem at Newcastle - it's the man who runs the club. If Freddy won't (and he didn't) back the fella in the transfer market, then this is what's going to happen. Roeder has an extremely average and overpaid squad to work with. What else can he do ? The club is rotten to the core - much like the mackems were under Bob Murray. At least things have changed for them. From what I heard last night - there's little chance of this proposed takeover going through.

So he looks for other targets then, no. Roeder was happy in his ignorance that we had never asked how much Kuyt was and still scouted him when he was on the cusp of signing for someone else. Is this kind of window shopping syndrome wholly Shepherds fault. Is it, my arse. A smokescreen possibly ? Roeder's admitted in the last few weeks that such tactics have been used this summer with regards to the media.

Only one man to blame - Freddy Shepherd.

I'll say again - the lack of activity isn't the fault of Roeder - it's down to Fat Freddy tying his hands.

Can I have BG and 7 please. blueyes.gif