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I would like to think Roeder's scalp will not take these new malcontents' collective eye off the ball. They've made a fairly good start, so far.

Its Chelsea, so get what you can, but you'd surely take it. You'd have to have quite a plan, or a stack of resources, to do otherwise. Of course, it would predicate upon a few smallish things. I trust SWP's head hasn't gone to hell in the last couple of years, for example.

Am I not right in recalling that the last occasion or two that Shepherd has found himself speaking about Eriksson, its been in a derogatory fashion? Essentially along the lines of "well, we all know he hasn't got a clue". I think one time was in relation to Parker not getting called up for England. I also remember thinking it sounded as though he'd been blown out following an approach prior to Roeder's appointment.

I don't understand why so many people throw fits about supporters of other teams having even a passing interest in what goes on at their club.

http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/PremierIcons/0,,10278,00.html Given auditioning for River Dance, here. Hands by your hips, Seamus!

I voted on what I thought would be happening if things go badly (hovering around the 14th mark a few months in, say). People will be getting very jittery and there'll be talk of him having to go if things don't begin to change.

Anyone been watching "The Real Football Factories" on Bravo? That Danny Dyer making himself look a right fool. The stuff with the OCS was absolutely hilarious.

How? Was no different to our bid for Owen last summer, only in Rooney's instance there was someone willing to beat our offer. Ha! There's a big difference when there's plenty to suggest the latter was merely a publicity stunt to try and draw the eyes of cretins away from the disintegration of the club that was taking place.

Quite frankly, I think that is a ridiculous argument. Spurs haven't beaten Liverpool, manure or Chelsea either, does that mean Martin Jol can't give Spurs a chance of competing with the best? Of course it doesn't, nor can that argument be levelled at Glenn Roeder either. What makes you think he hasn't got the attributes to get Newcastle to the CL? He got the spanners to 7th in the premiership with practically no transfer money at all. One thing is for certain. If he doesn't get the top job, there will be plenty of clubs who have seen what he can do and will. I don't think you will see Roeder back in the Academy, time for something better, either at Newcastle or elsewhere. He also took the same, very talented, team down the next season. Speaking to my WHam mate recently I commented on what a good job Roeder has done for us - he said the same thing of their first non-full season with him. The next season, according to him, they were dreadful. I believe Roeder has done exceptionally well for us as caretaker manager, but that's all it should be in my opinion. Your mate must be one of the blinkered ones that think's the sun shines out of Terry Brown's *rse!! When the spanners best two strikers at that time (Di Canio and Kanoute) were both out for 6 months and Brown refused to sanction the purchase or loan of a replacement, relegation was inevitable in most people's opinions. Maybe the only surprising thing was that they managed to go over 40 pts before being relgated. Most fairminded spanners fans will admit that relegation was not Roeder's fault, it was all down to Brown's stupidity. Even FFS wouldn't leave his team with no strikers at all! I take your point about their strikers, not least given they were playing Ian Pearce up front in that period. I'll grant that the West Ham support isn't the most fair-minded in the world, but most of them don't seem to have a high opinion of Roeder, in my experience. I don't exactly spend much time around them, so I might just be hearing the loud-mouthed ones/Cockney journalists, mind.