CaliMag

How does one say it? Vuck-ich? If it's the same as Serbocroatian is pronounced like the English words View Kitsch strung together.

I have been thinking the same thing. Our hope for survival rests with him - he is a confidence player so the supporters really need to get behind him in a big way. He needs to have at least three of those "out of nothing" goals he scores in the next few games. This is a six pointer and the rest of the fixtures frighten me.

Part of me thinks we should just have Shearer so he can (most likley) fail spectacularly and we can all move on and get over it. I would have just about anyone over Kinnear. Of recent players only Ketsy and Speed actually have their badges/qualifications in order... and to be honest I would take either of them in a heartbeat to lead us in our current relegation battle because I am just plain desperate.

On a purely monetary level it makes complete sense. Ashley is (supposedly) concerned about the fact that NUFC is losing millions per year (35 million loss last year) and yet he has a massiev office in London headed by a very unpopular person who makes 1.2 million per year. Just firing Wise and closing teh London NUFC office would probably save at least 2 million per year (conservatyive estimate).

It should be pointed out that Viduka, Geremi and Cacapa all came on a free as well so they are going to have inherently high wages.

Smith couldn't save Leeds when he was still a half decent player. No chance of him doing anything for us other than help bankrupt the club.

That's some keen insight there.

Other than signing louder at games and supporting the team there is not a lot we can do. And of course there is a significant portion of people on this Board like myself that live outside of the UK and can't make it to the games. We're even more helpless.

Well said. I totally agree.

that's it

Nothing that each and everyone of us wouldn't have done for the cause.

I've said to much...

Honestly Sunderland was the better team and we got lucky - a dubious pen and Secret Agent Chopra saved us from a loss. We'll be lucky to stay up.

I CAN'T believe Chops did that.

From home... at 5:30 in the f*cking morning... I must hate myself. Santa Barbara, California

Meh. Doesn't surprise me. JFK has no player management skills and lacks the respect of the players. Zoggy has said stupid things in the past and will probably continue to do so at other clubs... and this being Newcastle, I fully expect him to pull a "JDT" on us and do very well, eventually ending up at a top team and getting regularly capped by France. You know its true.

I agree with Crumpy. This is not a knee jerk reaction. I just can't see it. We don't have a natural leader or a set of scrappers to keep us up. We have a set of demoralized players, a joke of a manager and a tight-fisted and mecurial owner. I rarely agree with Crumpy either so this isn't one of those N-O clique things (where the same sets or groups of people all agree). I have never felt this strongly since we came up. Even in the darkest depths of Gullit, Souness and Allardyce I remained hoepful. Not now though.

No Jonas either. I can't see us getting anything from this game.

Watch Shay come out at halftime in a Man City jersey while we are trailing 3-0 (to a Bellamy hattrick). That would sting a bit.

I'd rather we played with Carroll as a lone striker and drop Owen back to the midfield at this point if all we are doing is protecting our goal difference. This is shite - we are going to get killed.

I hate the club for lying on their official site like that. Best to say nothing at all than "Zoggy and Shay are errr.... injured.. yeah that's right."

No Jonas?

Butt is suspended - I think we'll see something like thsi with Barton and Geremi in the middle.

-----------------Perez Goma----- Dumas--Bassong-----Bernard Sibierski----Zoggy--Ginola---------Robert ------------Guivarc'h-- Saha

Hmm... Doesn't look too bad tbh.. Not a bad start for a Championship team tbh We might even make teh play-offs...