Geordie Boot Boy

Not necessarily true. Not if the fans believe in the manager.

Nah, you can't blame the chairman. He's obviously just not good enough to do the job, blame the people/ events/ acts of God that gave him his position.

Nearly as bad as Kuyt. Worse IMO. I think we avoided a mistake by losing out on Kuyt though. He hasn't impressed me at all since going to Liverpool.

Maybe if he didn't insist on playing with a handicap (Kalou) all game, Chelsea might have scored. Seriously, what a pile of shit he looks every time I see him play.

:pottytrain5: O'Leary is a good manager, or at least he was a good manager. He did really well with exciting young players at Leeds. At the time he was backed financially. Newcastle is the right type of club for O'Leary. O'Leary would fail at Bolton and Reading because he is a manager that needs money. But he could do really well with Newcastles cheque book. You can't blame him for Leeds debts. Thats the boards fault and Ridsdales. As long as O'Leary is supported by Sheppard and as long as Freddy only gives him money that Newcastle can afford then Newcastle wouldn't go the way Leeds have gone. I think O'Leary is actually a good suggestion! Any time I think of O'Leary, I think of the man who paid something like £10 million for an on-the-way-out Robbie Fowler when he already had Viduka, Kewell, Smith, Bridges, Keane. He also paid him so much that the club had to continue paying half his wages when they sold him. The man is a car crash of a manager IMO.

Whoever wins, I hope they blitz Liverpool in the final. Hoping for Man United myself.

He is, but not significantly better than him.

Nah, if you're going in order from the XI out there last night, I'd put... Solano Harper Carr Taylor Owen Emre Sibierski Dyer Bramble Milner Martins I'd sooner see Milner or Martins captain the side than Dyer. Bramble is a tough one, I nearly wrote "2nd last" in the original post but, TBH, the big lumbering clown has never taken the piss out of the captaincy before (and, you never know, the tightness of the band might have served to keep his concentration up or just plain inspired a competent performance).

I can understand how you feel but I definitely wouldn't be pleased about the players showing so little repect for their manager, no matter who he is. A list should be drawn up of these players and the worst two offenders should be made examples of by the next manager.

Dyer was genuinely the last player I would have chosen to be captain. Really pissed me off to see him with the armband on.

a lot of players look fit but in reality are nowhere near fit enough to play premiership football Of course. I was just being facetious.

Saw Olivier Bernard walking through the Gate three hours ago. Didn't look to me to have any weight problems or injuries.

I'd like to see that actually. Sounds fun, like. "Please, Glenn, just put the gun down and let them go. Everything will be OK." "Glenn Roeder doesn't believe in using guns, but I have a gun and I'm not afraid to use it" mackems.gif

Could you show me some of these accounts? I'm not sure that Liverpool fans would agree that he is so 'honourable'.

Depends who's in charge of us at the time.

No, not unless the manager bought that specific player. Apparently.

Imagine how much more overvalued English players would become if this minimum home grown stuff comes to fruition. The mind boggles.

Haven't Inter basically always been a team full of foreigners? To change that would be to lose the tradition of the club.

So, no more massive posts defending Roeder then? They're finished?

I still don't get how Bramble has only been responsible for one goal conceded this season. The Fulham game did actually happen didn't it?

Erm, we're pretty hated anyway. Might as well be hated but successful/ not a laughing stock.

Somebody who obviously studies the game for faults so he can then write about it for the front page. Not that hard to work out is it ? Is it hindering your ability to blame Bramble for everything. Funny thing is before the away leg at AZ he had been our best CB for 5 games consistantly with Taylor taking the flack. He made that superb tackle everyone was going on about. Then he is fault for one of the goals at AZ in what was a bad team display by everyone, dropped against Charlton where we still conceed 2 goals and its all his fault. Agreed he is not top 6 class but who is in our team ? Guess you missed the game at home to Fulham then?

Is there a man anywhere with less of a clue about playing the offside trap?

I'm struggling to find much specific to Roy Keane in your post, just lazy 'comparisons' to managers that did well in the Championship and failed in the Premiership. Keane has a lot of contacts in the game, he commands respect from just about everyone, he has the pulling power of being a former World class player, he spent a decade under the management of one of the best managers of all time and, in general, he seems like a fairly intelligent football man to me. Like I said, he is an up-and-comer yet to prove himself. Roeder is a man who has shown his many inadequacies already. If nothing else, I'd like to take a chance and try to do something great rather than plod along uninspired and bored in the middle of the table. Souness was a great player, had great contacts, commanded respect, he spent a decade under great managers, he won it all. Like Keane, fair enough comparison for you? All that proves is that, despite having a lot of advantages to get ahead in management, Souness didn't have the intelligence to use it to his advantage enough. I think that Keane does and the gamble would be well worth it.

I'm struggling to find much specific to Roy Keane in your post, just lazy 'comparisons' to managers that did well in the Championship and failed in the Premiership. Keane has a lot of contacts in the game, he commands respect from just about everyone, he has the pulling power of being a former World class player, he spent a decade under the management of one of the best managers of all time and, in general, he seems like a fairly intelligent football man to me. Like I said, he is an up-and-comer yet to prove himself. Roeder is a man who has shown his many inadequacies already. If nothing else, I'd like to take a chance and try to do something great rather than plod along uninspired and bored in the middle of the table.