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We'll storm the Championship with captain Shola bagging the golden boot award. Anyone who doesn't realise we have an ice cube's chance in hell of staying up is deluded. We can't win a game for anything - when we play top teams we put in a decent shift but get inevitably overrun in the end, when we play shit teams we play shitter than them. The two men in charge of first team affairs - one coach who never wanted a manager's job and has the charisma of a shrub and the other who nearly took forest to league 1 - can't do anything about it but are stuck, the owner is a crook and a clueless one at that, the first team lack any direction, there's nobody who can really score or create goals, and on top of it we have our usually squad decimation by injuries. But aye, everything will be fine. Reality check, we're fucked, it's over.

Really hope people lay off Steven Taylor now - should be given man of the match already. For a season when we've been bereft of luck we deserve a 1-0 win with a goal off somebody's arse.

I have more faith in Fritzl being granted early release than Chris fucking Hughton leading this club to safety.

But come one guys! Duff's a match winner! Maybe Steven Taylor will continue his one-man assault to become top scorer.

Yeah that Setanta package about how we're fighting - nothing like a heavyweight champion like Damian Duff fighting in your corner. Jonas was one major reason I thought we still might not go down this year. That team is bereft of pace, flair, creativity and potency. It's effectively Martins v Arsenal.

I hate Chris Hughton. How can you justify playing Duff and Ryan Taylor ahead of Jonas is beyond me. When you need your biggest result of the season you don't leave arguably your best player out. Twat.

Finishing a post with "end of" doesn't mean you're right. End of. Yes it does. Period.

Personally think the flack he's getting is mad - compared with our squad as a whole, he's a useful player, end of.

I'm just bored of it. The only way we're staying up right now is if the teams below us continue to be as shit/a bit shitter. I can't see us beating anybody on current form, we only have two players who interest me at all (Jonas and Oba), our manager is awful, our owner's a crook, our captain has one foot out of the exit and we just got spanked by a team managed by Sam Allardyce.

They did this piece in an NUFC magazine - Viduka asked for world peace.

Went out and bought that strip with his name and number the day after that game... the ex still has it as I bought it when I was well fat and she used it as something to sleep in. You've reminded me to call her and get that back, good work.

what date is it?

If it's before Christmas eve I'm happy to come along - if we have 23 players I could make it 24 and have one sub each or something? Am quite useful, played for my university side.

Don't see why Shola should be dropped, fancied him to at least give their centre halves a physical battle. Our midfield is going to be tumultuously overrun. My tactic would be give the ball to Jonas and hope a lot.

Disagree entirely - Butt looked solid and generally played fine. Held things together nicely. Great free kick too, think he should take more. If Geremi is allowed despite being so awful he shoed he could at least have a go. Butt wins a hell of a lot of tackles for us and, while some of his passes are wasteful, an equal number are good.

Thoroughly enjoyed his booing, his a massive dickhead, always has been, does not deserve the lifestyle he leads. Normally against booing your own players but I don't like him representing my country as he's such a ginormous arsehole. What a pass though...

Why do they pick Duff?

I find that Wes Brown looks like the Tango man or a baked bean.

As much as I loved Keegan here, and I hate Dennis Wise not because of his London background but because he was a nasty rat turd of a player, I find myself agreeing with their transfer policy. I love Keegan's ambition to get us going again very quickly by spending huge amounts, but that's a risky strategy, it's not guaranteed and there are not that many bottomless pits of wealth. Abramovich and City aside, it's still a rarity. Ashley isn't a limitless source of money. He has had the club analysed from a business point of view, and thanks to Shepherd we were going down the toilet. If ensuring that this doesn't happen means slow building and buying lesser known, still talented players then I hate to disagree with Keegan but I do - I agree that it's wrong to do so behind his back, if that's the case then he had every right to fight back, and Wise is an odious twat as it is. But if Keegan thinks we can just throw a ton of money and buy huge name players then he's sorely mistaken. I am behind the board's attempts to offload Smith and Barton. I understand Keegan wanting to keep them as the squad was not big enough, and I am also in support of those who argue that the board has not adequately addressed the issue of our thin squad. However, we need to build slowly to achieve in the future. I don't despise Ashley, I think some of his actions are ill-informed and infuriating, but if anything I'm intrigued to see what his next move is. I think we are now being run as a business, as Ashley's business, but what's going to make him the most money? Buying young players and selling them on and alienating fans or slowly building a strong wide with prospects of success in the future? Our success = his financial success. He's not a tit, he knows that. While his methods are not popular at the minute, hate him or not Wise has bought some good young players to this club. The squad's still thin but it's better than it has been for a while. There are issues they need to resolve - Owen's contract for starters, as well as improving communication with the fans, not least securing a mutually acceptable and forward-thinking manager - but at this point to say we are relegation fodder and going down the toilet is unnecessary. If nobody gets hired for a while, we lose our next 5 games, players want to leave and nobody else is signed up in January, then I'll join in saying I have no faith in this set up whatsoever. As it is now, we have bought in 6 players who have made our squad look significantly more useful, although we've lost a manager we loved and trusted. There is clearly a downside and upside to the situation. I won't go to Shearer's Bar or buy club merchandise because it's a pile of shit anyway, the only thing I want is me shirt which I will continue to wear with pride at all games and everytime I play footy, and I agree with letting the board know that we are concerned with progress. But I'm prepared to wait until the new manager is bedded in and see how the team is playing. Who knows, in a few years, Wise's transfer policy could see us in the Champions League, you just don't know. I hate what they did to Keegan as much as the next man, I hate that he's not our manager. But I love Newcastle United more than both of those feelings.

The only thing that stands out there is the Euros. AC Milan didn't go far, Gala/Fener win everything in Turkey and one cup final appearance is something that mediocre managers can achieve - read Steve McLaren and the UEFA Cup with Boro.

One reprocussion which hasn't really been discussed with all the debate about what we the fans will do as a reaction is what's going to happen to the squad. There's a whole host of them that I can't see staying. If the papers are to be believed, Barton is effectively gone as Keegan was the only one who wanted him here, same with Smith (good). Owen will leave, I reckon he will have had enough of this nonsense and the only man pushing for him to get his new contract is gone. Can see players like Nicky Butt, Shay Given, Steven Taylor becoming seriously disillusioned. A To be honest, if any half-decent or bigger club comes in for any number of our players bar the new recruits I think they'll want to leave.

To be fair to the lad he's going to be one of a very small group of players who will actually still want to play for us, so I think he'll be pretty key for the future.

Only one from an available crop I'd want is Rijkaard. Doesn't mean I think he'd be successful here.

Hooray. Sense. Exactly! Disappointed that he's sided with Wise and Llambias over Keegan, but how much of this is just pantomime hero v villain based on extreme local bias? It's a strange sign that our net spend this summer resulted in profit for the club, but it's one thing to jump to the conclusion that he's using us for a business when it is clear that he has cleared us of massive debt.

Don't fool yourselves, it's going to be Wise/Poyet. This week has showed a) how much power the board has and b) how little the fans needs matter. This is club is being run as a business, nothing more. All they'll want in is a man happy to pick up his over-inflated paycheck, accept players hei s given, develop them and farm them out for an inflated price a few years later. There is no good manager who in their right mind would take this job, no manager who will make up for our loss and no self-respecting man who would put up with a board like ours. It's going to be a puppet.