Mick

You can't blame Shepherd for appointing Roeder, he went along with the fans after getting inundated with text messages.

We can have no excuses for this defeat, we had virtually a fully fit squad and we were a shambles in the first half. The second half was a bit better but in reality it couldn't get any worse. I wonder what or who gets the blame for this?

They could appoint Roeder.

You do have a point with that one.

I'm sure I'd find the same thing said before he went to the World Cup if I searched through the forum.

He was supposed to be fit when he went to the World Cup but he still came back injured, I'm not sure he would have picked that injury up if he'd been 100% fit and playing for us. If you've got weak muscles then you put extra strain on other parts of your body, it's not worth taking a chance. Time will tell if anything comes from this.

I would rather he had all summer off and came back for the new season. It's not as if he's going to be rolling around in mud during July when he comes back for pre-season training. I can't see playing 90 minutes in a one off game doing him that much good because any fitness gained will be lost by the time he returns.

I doubt we'll be able to stop him playing for England although I would rather he didn't play. If the article is true then Freddy is way out of order, he should make his requests in private to Owen and the FA and leave it at that, an article isn't going to make any difference other than to stir up shit.

Newcastle probably does have the potential he mentions, the only trouble is that the club is not in a position to realise that potential.

I thought Duff was a snip at the price we paid, I also thought that he was a player that we didn't need, so far the price looks way over the top.

Proof.

Not guilty.

I'll give Roeder credit we won, we still played against shite.

so why don't we have articles from Chris Coleman and Neil Warnock and Paul Jewell on it? That's already been answered, they were out of contact with the press, they'll have been getting ready for the games today.

I would say that Woodgate was better than Moncur but Moncur was more important to our history because of the games he played and what he won. I guess it would depend on how you came to the conclusion that one was better than the other.

Glenn Roeder coached England.

Roeder also said that he was going to reduce the squads average age before signing Sibierski, take no notice of him, I think he must use a random comment generator.

We could list all injuries because as Newcastle supporters we never hear about any.

I thought it was Dixon who fouled Ginola, it looks like it was Winterburn.

The ref' was shocking, Dixon kicked lumps out of Ginola yet Ginola got sent off for diving, a blind man would have seen the foul. Pretty sure Ginola got sent off for throwing the elbow at Dixon off the ball. I might be wrong but I thought he went down in the box and went for taking a dive, that's my memory of it.

He had one of the weirdest corners I can ever remember seeing. The ball seemed to be heading for the far corner flag then suddenly drop.

40% are also dead, interestingly.

It's the first time I've seen it, its good to see him moving on.