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George Caulkin writing in The Times, Thursday: After a Newcastle United campaign that can most charitably be described as underwhelming, Sam Allardyce’s sudden availability has focused minds at St James’ Park. While Freddy Shepherd, the Newcastle chairman, is understood to have informed Glenn Roeder at a training-ground meeting on Friday that his position was secure until the start of next season, options are being considered carefully. Sources close to the Newcastle boardroom have repeatedly played down suggestions that Allardyce’s unexpected resignation from Bolton Wanderers had immediate ramifications for their club, but those denials have not prevented rumours from pervading Tyneside. At the same time, the team’s lowly status does not assist Roeder’s job security. With Allardyce intent on enjoying a rare break from management with a family holiday and Phil Gartside, the Bolton chairman, insisting that his club will seek compensation should the 52-year-old find new employment – “don’t forget that he has 2½ years left on his contract,” he said – developments are unlikely before the end of the season. Newcastle have two league matches to play, at home to Blackburn Rovers on Saturday and away to Watford on the final day, but time is short for Roeder to persuade the doubters that he is capable of reversing the club’s fortunes. While the Londoner, a former captain of the team, has assumed the necessary long-term outlook at Newcastle, they are twelfth in the Barclays Premiership and results have been poor. The 1-0 defeat away to Reading on Monday evening was their sixteenth of an injury-dis-rupted league season, equalling their biggest tally since their promotion to the top division in 1993. They have amassed 42 points, two fewer than in 2004-05 and 1997-98, their worst previous totals, and their past nine Premiership matches have brought just one victory, six points and three goals. While Allardyce and Roeder share mutual antipathy, they have some similarities. Both have attempted to build clubs on a sound footing, yet Allardyce has a proven record of overachieving at the Reebok Stadium. Even allowing for their medical traumas, Newcastle cannot say the same. taken from .com, they know something i reckon

this.

maybe because its the truth )

why hasnt this been denied a la sven?

:lol: fair play mate. and good point!

and you believe the Sun? dont recall saying i did like...?

is it out at all sports shops or just the club shop?

hope they are ok

i was on to my mate about this yesterday. i was well pissed of with pearson, especially when you saw their bloke, wally downes coaching thorughout the game, hence the organisation of their back four. glenn will be gone soon enough

the sun today cliams glenn will be sacked, and we are confident of landing sam

well thats it, close the book he's coming!!! anyone think they do this on purpose? i remeber o'neill going to watch a fulham game when he was heavily linked with us in a black and white scarf!

i saw that, f****** incredible It was so "YOU!" points "OI YOU!!" then points down the pitch as if to say warm up as if he is talking to the naughty school kid. i thought it was at shola actualy, but probably was at zog. i would have told him to fuck off

i saw that, fucking incredible

the taxi driver is correct

so he parksit on a drive on the coast road because his lass lives on cochrane park??? personally, i think its his mam and bro's who live on the coast road

should have made it a poll. i say he will go for sam.

so would you not want mourinho or benitez here either?? in my opinion, they play the same way as bolton do. i would take results over performances anyday. we havnt seen good football at our place in a few years anyway, so we wouldnt be missing owt, we would just be a lot higher up the table. that'll do me! I am selfish,I want good football and success - f*** knows I've waited half a lifetime for it. success would do me like. but each to their own.

It aint no rumour mate, its fact. You can see by the body langauge of the players on the pitch that things arent right, this just confirms it. i agree about the body language, no-one gave a toss! the captain especially

so would you not want mourinho or benitez here either?? in my opinion, they play the same way as bolton do. i would take results over performances anyday. we havnt seen good football at our place in a few years anyway, so we wouldnt be missing owt, we would just be a lot higher up the table. that'll do me!

gutted. what will i do now? nah mate, on a serious note, sorry for taking the p*ss, i can believe that it happened last night, i honestly feel things are as bad as they were under souness, so it wouldnt surprise me one bit

cant be, he was sent off in the first half, so he wouldnt have been around to hear this after the game.

as patient as ever skirge mate, as patient as ever! its only been goin gon since sunday and your head is done in already!

the sun claims that we will have to pay £5m compnesation to bolton to get him

My pal works for Reading, he was there last night. I dont care if you beleive it or not, but thats what happend last night. did this happen last night? im pretty sure the game was last night? so...was it last night?

Then we laugh? yep.