Bad Mongo

Besides, that's long out of copyright.

Ameobi to Robert for his volley against Tottenham (or was that from a Spuds defender? or perhaps just a poor touch?).

Excellent defending today. Bramble had only one lapse of concentration, both Carr and Solano supported the attack well. Dyer, Martins and Sibierski mildly disappointing.

Sacking managers all the time does no good. I've seen worse managers than Roeder do acceptably well, albeit on a lower level (it's not like the premiership is filled with managerial genius anyway), through long term stability. There's absolutely no point in sacking him if we can't get someone a lot better.

Must be why they have so little confidence these days. Duff is probably an internet addict, then.

The problem is that it's Roeder's decision, so it must be wrong.

True. But he couldn't do it on a regular basis, so we're just as well off without him.

We still haven't replaced him. Which makes Sidwell look like a good idea.

Parker was a pure DM under Souness. We lacked movement all over the midfield and up front. The only role with any chance of success in that mess was Parker's. We're far better off with Roeder than with Souness, and that's a fact. We're still crap, though.

I don't think the players will or should disagree with the factual content of Redknapp's statements. Their problem is to not let it affect their confidence. Roeder or no Roeder, they should still be able to string together a few passes and create a goal scoring opportunity.

It's called mind games, children.

Brann. Apart from them, I agree with this:

Maybe he wants to rest Solano or Milner while giving Carr some sorely needed match fitness. No, that would be totally sane, so it must be something else.

The most extreme pessimists around here are far more irrational than a manager playing Parker and Butt in midfield.

Errr, could it be that Erol Bulut is a friend of Emre, and is allowed to train with Newcastle since he's visiting anyway? It doesn't have to be something completely ridiculous behind this.

It'll be interesting to see Roeder's lack of excuse this time. "Having virtually no injuries is no excuse for the performance, but our playing style has been adapted to having a left footed left back with two right feet and a midget target man and two defensive midfielders and an underperforming £6M left winger, so it was obvious that this would be a very difficult game for us..." I have no idea how to make that thought reach its conclusion.

It would be great to have a CL place for the FA Cup winner, but is this supposed to work for the various other national cups around Europe? Most of them are pretty worthless. Then again, with a CL spot for the winner, that might change.

Looking at the possession stats only is a bit simplistic. We don't defend well against teams that sit back and counter-attack quickly. Neither against teams that put a lot of pressure on our midfield, or teams that play good passing, possession football. Or teams that just kick and run and hope to fluke a goal from a mistake in our midfield or defence. Or teams that are a lot worse than us and make our players over-confident and lazy. So possession doesn't tell the full story. The full story is that we're shit.

Maybe they think the chance of winning something is greater with Nigeria than with England. Besides, who wants to play for England anyway? Only Englishmen.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22i+hate+newcastle+united%22 Here are a few.

Just a wild guess, but: Lead in the brown ale?

But Babayaro is almost always injured, and usually shit. I think Ramage did quite well in the beginning, even though he obviously doesn't have much talent. He's a slightly worse replacement for Aaron Hughes, a player we've missed. Babayaro? He's too injury prone to be a backup.

The Norwegian writers <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag_Solstad">Dag Solstad</A> and <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Michelet">Jon Michelet</A> have written a series of books from the World Cups in 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994 and 1998. They aren't translated to English, but they are excellent books. Perhaps not for everyone here...

Well, he didn't do anything I wouldn't do.

Duff hasn't been that bad. We had huge expectations to him, so he's been disappointing; kind of like the opposite of Sibierski. I think he'll be much better now that Martins has started to find his place in the team.