Mr Logic

Comedy of errors for the goal there..

To the top of the stand?

Ballack coming on?

I didn't find one single point in that post to give me any cheer. I remember wishing it was Robert about to take that free kick. R. Taylor has been poor today in just about everything.

How did Terry get away with that?

They look good going forward, fast.. Chelsea I mean.

Jonas has to settle down.

Shearer enjoying it.

I think Dowie will prove to be an excellent number 2, he's a coach and assistant manager. He's pretty much proven he's not the complete package as a manager, his strengths lie in that support role.

Ah feck, just noticed it's that bastard Rob Styles reffing today.

Night before a game might be a good idea too.

I used that predictor yesterday and had us comfortably safe with 3 wins and a draw from our last 8 games. Mind you - I never predicted any other teams results, only ours.

Not really, team building exercises are vital if team spirit is lacking. And players may rebel against strict regimes if they feel the person trying to enforce them hasn't 'earned' the right to do so, in this case I think they will be happy to comply because it is Shearer.

Is that why all the mongs take off their shoes then? "A shoe, he left us a shoe, it is a sign. Everyone take off one shoe and hold it aloft. It will show we follow the Messiah" (or something like that..)

Shearer > Allardyce

Just reading that Caulkin article you realise that already there has been a massive lift for everyone involved, at least at the real business end of the club - the playing football part. Dark clouds have parted and the sun has come flooding through, wether it can heal all in time for the Chelsea kick-off is debatable but there will be a new team on display saturday afternoon. To hear that Shearer had his arm round Xisco and spoke to Guiterrez and Enrique, well I'm sure he spoke to everyone but it needed to be done - it's been sadly lacking by all accounts. Then thinking ahead to the unthinkable, season over, Newcastle have survived and Shearer is allowed to leave. It just can't happen, it can't be allowed to happen. A cancer patient in the joy of remission being told a new tumour had been found would be a depressing but accurate... simile or metaphor? Either way it would leave me suicidal, much like, I suspect, the cancer patient.

If Shearer told the BBC he wanted to quit they'd have to let him.

'said a source close to Owen.' No Owen quotes, may still be true but.

Surely it's all just politically correct soundbytes? If we stay up and Kinnear takes back over from Shearer in the summer that would be the end for me.

20 odd pics up on Getty Images from todays training.. http://i42.tinypic.com/2n06a77.jpg Need a caption for the one above I think. http://i41.tinypic.com/f3zx8m.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/7977711.stm Alan Hansen's thoughts.

Sacrificial goat.

You're forgetting Shola the Goala Ever thought maybe he didn't forget him?

love that first sentence. conjours up a great mental picture. I found myself wondering who his G(g)od was, Shiva the Destroyer perhaps.

http://i40.tinypic.com/29fthsm.jpg