Mick

I think he would have tried for Jose rather than Pearson, who the current pieces of turd are likely to go looking at.

http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/story/2016-03-07/mcclaren-under-pressure/ "I've been looking at the list of managers who are available and they haven't impressed me. They have to find someone exciting to motivate the players and the fans and there's only one man. Newcastle United is a big club and it needs to think big. At times like this we have to be bold, it's a gamble either way, so let's gamble with the best. Jose Mourinho would give the club a lift, like Keegan did in my day. They need to sell the club to him, to persuade him to come, even if it's just for 10 games this season." – SIR JOHN HALL

Fat Sam?

dead I wonder if he saw it coming?

It's only a 90 minute drive.

I thought that you meant where he lives as I don't see a connection between the meeting place and McClaren otherwise.

I'm sure he lives in Yarm.

That would take no longer than a couple of seconds.

They probably think he's better than nothing and aren't sure they can get somebody else in, I do the same if I was them.

It depends on how you're reading it, McClaren could take training tomorrow and go after that.

I feel sorry for you being associated with those freaks and you will be associated with them just because of the team you support.

No need, he'll probably go in this thread as they're up to something.

Now that the Burger King theory has been ruled out, are we back to him getting the boot?

The photo was taken by a local Councillor, shit, it probably was a lie.

Where does Charnley and Moncur being in the Central Station fit in with him being given another chance?

People do have contracts paid up away from football, sometimes it's easier to pay then up than try to fight a case that they were fairly dismissed. The only difference is that away from football they'll not be paid the eye watering figures that people like McClaren will receive. Keeping company cars and going on gardening leave is quite common in large companies.

I'm sure the compensation that he will pick up helps him get over waiting around.

Ten games to go? Newcastle fans can’t stomach another 90 mins of this rubbish Alan Shearer runs the rule over the sorry situation on Tyneside By ALAN SHEARER, SunSport columnist 22:30, 6 Mar 2016 THE MOST shameful slur anyone can possibly aim at a professional player is that they simply don’t care about their club. But today that can be aimed at 90 per cent of Newcastle’s players. Their pathetic performance against Bournemouth proved it once and for all. Was I surprised by it? I shouldn’t have been after the dross that has been served up by the team this season. But still I expected so much more in a must-win game. Bournemouth arrived at St James’ Park knowing they were still in a relegation fight — and rolled their sleeves up. They came with an attitude that they were simply not going to be beaten, not going to go down. They put their bodies on the line with every single player pulling in the same direction. Not so their opponents. I think in Newcastle’s side only midfielder Jonjo Shelvey can escape criticism. Then the manager Steve McClaren comes out after the game and tells us the positive is that there are ten games left. I would suggest that’s actually a negative, because many fans can’t take another 90 minutes of this, never mind ten of them. They have Leicester up next — and having witnessed another superb display from them on Saturday in winning against Watford — I think boss Claudio Ranieri’s men could rack up a cricket score. Newcastle owner Mike Ashley is a very wealthy businessman but surely even he can see that this model is not — and will not — work at the club. They have spent £80million on players this season and, at the moment, Shelvey looks like the only good investment. The person who never seems to get a mention in this whole mess is chief scout Graham Carr. He holds a lot of power in terms of recruiting and selling players — and has quite frankly made a pig’s ear of it. We keep hearing statements of intent from the club, shame we never get one on the pitch. Most recently on Saturday the players issued one as to how they were behind their manager. Well if that was playing for their manager, goodness knows what will happen when they down tools. Quite simply they are not playing for McClaren or the Newcastle fans. Steve was very lucky to get this job after overseeing Derby’s implosion last season. For some time now he has looked powerless to stop a slide into the Championship. Because that is where I am CONVINCED my club is heading now. And don’t believe that the size of the club means they will be bouncing back any time soon either. They could go right through the Championship as well, because there are barely any characters in this side who would fight to get the club back up. They simply do not care. They have betrayed a club, a city, a community, with their lacklustre and totally heartless performances. They may even be responsible for losing a generation of fans. When I joined this club in 1996, it was everyone’s second-favourite team. Fans from outside of Newcastle loved the passion around the club, the feeling and the way we played football. Now everything around it is just negative. The club even alienates a media that wants them to do well by having unedifying rows and bust-ups. Quite simply, to save themselves Newcastle are going to have to do better than Sunderland between now and the end of the season. I don’t see that happening. You watch Sunderland under Sam Allardyce and you see a team that wants to stay in this division. A team that wants to fight for their club. They will meet at St James’ Park in a fortnight, in what could be a winner-stays-up clash. It is now five years since Newcastle last beat their local rivals — and Sunderland have won the last six meetings. I expect them to make that seven. There is simply no evidence that this Newcastle team are suddenly going to turn the corner and find a performance anywhere near worthy of a shirt graced by so many great players down the years. It was an honour for me to play for Newcastle. Not just because I was a local lad and a fan. It was an honour to play for a set of supporters with so much passion and pride and hope and desire. I wouldn’t have changed that for more titles and medals. I would have liked to have got some for the club and we came mighty close — but it was still a fantastic time. A time when the club was the heart of the community and had players who wanted what those fans wanted. Not now, not any more, and that is shameful, just shameful.

Is that even Moncur in the photo?

"We must keep this quiet, let's meet him at the Central." Pricks.

Yep, and I'm sure 50,000 people would claim to have seen it and it was an accident.

If he has been mentioned it would go against everything they've ever done, the only hope we have is that in desperate times people can do desperate things and move away from what has continued to fail in the past. Any other club in our position would look for the best they can hire, we have in the past looked for somebody who can be controlled and that seems to be top of their wish list for a manager, they haven't shown the slightest bit of ambition when appointing a manager since bringing Keegan back.

He should look further and remember what it was like under Gullit.