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First game was a 4-1 league cup win against Notts County in 1993. Cole got 3.

Has he actually come out and said that he's not kept up with the game? All I've heard is that until last night he'd not been at a live game since he quit Man City. I know people who have been speaking to him at the Soccer Circus thing and he was talking about recent games and how different teams were doing and stuff. He probs just said he wasnt watching football to stop clubs giving him job offers all the time.

Started following Newcastle in the promotion season because I didnt really get into football untill I was 8 or 9. Quite late on because my dad wasnt really interested in football back then. I forced him into it by making him take me to game. He loves it now. I was always going to be a Newcastle fan though. Still got a little kids toon top that I had with Greenhalls on the front. Not sure what season it was from though.

It gets people to the ground and they will sell about 500 "King Kev 1" shirts and make quite a bit of money for doing it so its worth it from the clubs point of view. Im down at uni so might pop along.

Not sure if this is a serious post as I havent noticed you before, however.... You would appoint a manager on the basis of reading an interview in a down market tabloid newspaper? Its just a good job you arent chairman. Shearer may be good, but he may be another Bryan Robson i.e. shite.

Why has he been so averse to getting his hands dirty learning the management trade elsewhere rather than farting about on MOTD for the last 2 years or so? He knows he has influence but rather than build upon that he's relying on it. Would learning the trade elsewhere guarentee him success at Newcastle? Allardyce had got his hands dirty in the past and where did that get us? Handling a bigger club is obviously far different from handling a big club, many that have been good at the small clubs has found this out. Equally if Wenger or Fergie took over at Bury or Wrexham there are no guarentees of success, it is a totally different job, Fergie or Wenger maybe s**** managers in the lower leagues. Would you take Martinez who has done well at Swansea? He has picked up experience and cut his teeth elsewhere? Fergie managed East Stirlingshire, St Mirren and Aberdeen before ever going to Man Utd. He learnt his trade at each club preparing him for the next. He even had the experience of getting sacked at St Mirren. People who say 'Why are people so sure Shearer will fail?' Im not sure, I would think more than likely he will be a good manager, but that isnt good enough. Just because he loves the club isnt good enough. We are in a state and need a proven manager, someone who is more likely to get it right than a rookie.

f*** Shearer. Why are people obsessed with getting him in? I agree. The rest of the Premier League are just laughing at our fans demanding Shearer. They can't wait to see him fail. We might as well put Barton, Lee, Beardsley or Ferdinand in for the job if we are going to consider Shearer. Bobby Moncur should know better as well!

Given?

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All I care about it results mate. I don't think he is any more likely to get them than Sam, who would have improved results if given time. Yes, of course Fat Sam woudl have improved us. He was so good at learning from his mistakes, ad his transfers were ace. hahahahahaahahahahahahaha!!! Im not saying Sam was brilliant, but he would have improved us in the end. He is a better manager than Redknapp, doing more with less money. Harry spent shit loads at Pompey so its hardly a surprise they are in the top half. As for mistakes, how can't Harry learn from his mistakes when trying to get Pompey to score a home goal? He spent about £30million there and they can't score at home getting beat off shite like Boro.

All I care about it results mate. I don't think he is any more likely to get them than Sam, who would have improved results if given time.

My thoughts exactly. If I was a decent manager I would be offended at being placed behind 'Arry in line for a job.

I might just go to the Stoke game and shout Shearer for 90 mins with the slackjaws and charvs. I don't even want him, but shouting Shearer seems to be enough to put pressure on a manager.

Im gutted. I feel like I did when we appointed Souness. Another few years of nothingness for us then. Im all with giving managers time, but when they are so obviously the wrong appointment, I hope they fail as quick as possible so we can get round to starting over again before too much damage is done. Only the right manager should be given time, Sam was that right manager. Totally gutted tonight.

Keegan has lost a load of money on the horses and needs a job. He was on holiday with Ashley, Shearer and Rob Lee last week in Barbados so is getting the job. Thats what my dad has just told me anyway. hahaha. Load of shite.

As revealed at 10am this morning.

Because the Spurs guy wanted Redknapp instead of Ramos. Did Redknapp not say this morning that he has already turned down a bigger job than Newcastle this season. Im assuming he is talking about Spurs then? If he thinks the Spurs job is bigger than Newcastle then he shouldn't really be considered anyway.

Have to say. I would fuckin love to have his job! Never a dull moment up here.

He lost the dressing room at Hibs almost straight away and they were a worse team when he left than they were when he joined.

OK,lets all take up tiddly-winks instead - after all , we are useless fans, don't appreciate the finer points of the game(i.e. we like value-for-money and a team that wants to win),and too demanding(after all, there's only 50,000 of us, I mean what right have WE got to expect such things as a trophy every 40 years...!!). Lets all get some practice in - repeat after me 'We are only second-rate and that's the way we should be - the media says so...' It's idiots like you who think success is instant. It takes time to build foundations and then build a team up. With your slackjaw attitude we will never get success.

We have always had too many 'sources close to the club'. I thought it would change post FFS, but it looks like they still linger about. The tabloids best mate, Newcastle United FC. David Craig seems to find out everything too. We must be the only club to have a SSN reporter outside our ground every fuckin day because another disaster is going on. Until we sort out these 'insiders', we deserve all the shite we get from the press.

He would have been great if given time to sort out the mess. Now we are a laughing stock. Only at Newcastle though.

Terrible decision!!! If Shearer gets the job I will be disgusted!!!

Anyone know why Plymouth got rid?

Indeed he has, but he is still fat and lazy. Typical slackjaw. Every player must have every attribute. Robert suffered the same despite being one of our most important players and match winners for years. I do however think the article is a load of bollocks. Its months since we dominated a game.