Mick

I don't know why but I've become very positive about this game and think we'll win it 3-1 and we'll not look back after this, then again it's not the first time I've felt we were going to turn the corner. Still, I'm very confident about this, that will probably all change when I see the team we put out.

I doubt it, it would be like insuring somebody with terminal cancer, it just wouldn't happen.

Logic, what's that?

At least you have an excuse for appointing the bastard, his failure started at Liverpool and has so far ended at Newcastle. For anybody to defend his appointment even now is crazy. To say he might have been appointed because his league position might have been seen as a blip is a one of the stupidest reasons I've seen so far. We sacked a manager who had three previous league finishes of 4th, 3rd and 5th but we sacked him because he'd lost a few games. Losing a few games early in the season had been something we'd done for at least 2 seasons yet we sacked him and appointed one of the very few below us in the league, I still can't work the logic of that one out. The season we finished 3rd we were 2nd bottom of the league after 5 or 6 games, the season we finished 5th we were 2nd or 3rd bottom after the same number of games yet we sacked him for being 5th bottom after 4 games, that is just as pathetic as anybody defending the decision. The sacking has been defended because Dyer refused to play for Sir Bobby, Souness was such a disciplinarian that Bellamy is supposed to have refused to play for him twice, he was such a disciplinarian that we had two of our players sent off for fighting each other, we had a player calling him a liar on national TV, a player we had to sell for a fraction of his value just to get him out of the club. The appointment of Souness would have been laughable if it had happened at any other club.

Allardyce had plenty to spend, yes he generated most himself through the sale of players but what he got with that money is proof that he couldn't be trusted to spend the clubs money. To say that Smith and Barton are never going to be at their best in a team that overall is struggling is just daft, they are very much a part of why we're struggling. That and the poor tactics used by Allardyce against teams who we should have tried to beat instead of looking for a point. Allardyce is as bad as any manager we’ve had recently, at least while he was at this club.

If people are forgetting how bad we were under Allardyce then good luck to them, I wish I could forget things that easily.

Sad but true, I feel like that, at least going around in circles.

You're ridiculous.

I'm not blaming Keegan for it, he came in late during the transfer window, far too late and I've said that many times, I blame Mort and Ashley for the poor timing. Keegan had money and tried to spend it but couldn't get the players that he wanted. I could probably say the same thing a thousand times and you’d still ask the same questions.

You don't get it do you? You claimed Robson had lost his marbles because he said something that you didn't agree with, he later said something which you used yet he was older when he made the 2nd comment but he had made a miraculous mental recovery. You openly claimed on this forum that Mike Ashley embarrassed you, you followed that claim by stating that you were not taking the piss, stop trying to change history.

15th isn't our worst Premiership position, not even after the 29th game of the season.

Keegan walked out of the club because he didn't get his own way and he did it more than once, do you seriously think he'd lie for anybody?

You had a go at Robson for losing his marbles then were happy to use something he said later, when he was older. Do you think Keegan has now lost his marbles? I answered your question when you asked it earlier, you replied to my reply. Is that "nasty man" you refer to the same one who embarrasses you for wearing his shirt in with the fans or is it the one who lets his mouth go in a brothel? Which one of the two embarrass you?

I'm not sure the Spurs ambition had a lot to do with him chosing them as in the same article you quote Woodgate saying "Newcastle is a massive, ambitious club and I'm sure that sooner or later they'll get some silverware."

The difference being?

According to Keegan we had money to spend in January, unless you know better. what exactly are you commenting on here, because it certainly isn't what you clipped as mick clipped the question and answered an imaginary one instead, here it is again. bump. I clipped the post, just like I usually do, thanks for highlighting where you expect people to accept what you quote from Keegan. You were the same with Sir Bobby, he said something you didn't agree with so you put it down to him losing his marbles, he said something later that you agreed with and all of a sudden his marbles were restored.

Do you mean like when Roeder tried to bring him here and Shepherd was chairman?

You were quoting something by Keegan and expecting people to take it as read yet you refuse to accept that Keegan has said that he had money to spend in January.

Duff offers nothing, Milner does make a difference at times.

1992 - £4 million debt, £4 million income. 2007 - £100 million debt, £87 million income.

"Woodgate [when we offered him the money]." What happened when Roeder went in for him?

Portsmouth finished 4 places higher then we did last season, how come it's now become the first time in decades?

Fixed.

People should go and watch the reserves now that they are back at St James' and it's easier to get to. It's £3 max' to get in and nothing for season ticket holders, we play Man U reserves at the end of this month.

Sorry, I was going to get to it. The book is by Peter Mallinger and is a really interesting read which gives you something to think about when people keep going on about how we were almost bankrupt when we had £4 million debt on a £4 million turnover yet we weren't in danger when we had over £100 million of debt on a £87 million turnover. A lot of it will be gloss to make things look better than they were but we get that sort of spin all of the time. You learn a lot about the last takeover and some of the stunts that were pulled to gain the upper hand, at least the fans did gain from the takeover, how it happened isn't really our concern, it was our gain and the sort of things which went on will go on everyday in business.