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Spurs 2-0 down .well done lads

Kinnear is the Poundland version of a manager tbh well out of his comfort zone

Have a look at the pre match thread. Most people had the same line up as Kinnear. We need him on the pitch tbh and if anyone can give a reason for not playing Owen from the start please explain cos this is fookin tragic in our current state.

He will be gone in the jan transfer window if he has any sense with the muppets managing this set up .

Fook me what a fookin manager leaving Owen on the bench again .

Has to black himself up a bit and he would look fine .

Cambell knocked us back if i remember but would have been a great signing for us imho. Bloody hell forgot that i thought it was the way up in the sticks north thing my deepest contrafibularities .

That match was my first ever proper football match That sort of game is what football is all about imho ,every emotion and that is a game i will never forget .The Carney brothers were freinds of mine so this had a more personal connection for me .Gone are the days when the Shoulder,Waddle ,Carneys of this world are given a chance and it is a sad indiciment of our game that no manager in the top flight takes a chance of there ilk (maybe poorer teams do but cannot remember ) get a chance nowadays with all these over paid premaddonas .

Cambell knocked us back if i remember but would have been a great signing for us imho.

Cried me eyes oot at stjames when beat off Wrexham just hope they can get in to 3rd round ,good luck lads you will need it .

Start your own Enrique out thread then cos thats got fook all to do with Taylor .

Class and i must say we was dog pooh today and should never be on the pitch again in a toon shirt.

Was butt at fault today for collos bad challenge no,our defence was shit with cacapa playing in it imho .

Hiddinck for me if the new owners have the right ambition .

Got a good feeling today and a win will obviously shoot us further up the table ,confidence high and playing reasonably well with a settled back four .

Yes see where you are coming from with Manure,Liverpool and Villa at the wrong end of the table atm and us pissing on them from above

Far to early to get smug and lets not drop down to there level ,still a long way to go .

He has shown in a space of a few weeks what can be done to a bunch of players left in shock by the walk out of KK and the effect it had on them so early in the season but long term cannot make my mind up but if we get to safety and respectability i will be eternally grateful.

So we should bring Keegan back, eh? Aye, because that's exactly what I'm saying Well, you've said it about 500 times so I just figured that's what you were getting at. Have I? I've said many a time we need to move on from KK - go and have a search. My view today is no I do not want him back, not now, not tomorrow, not under any new owner. The more i think about Keegan the less i want him back ,i feel he has let us all down greatly and this is why we are now because of him walking out but Kinnear has given the players a self belief and a purpose and we seem UNITED for a change .

The lack of comment by the club on all matters football imho is a 2 finger salute to the media and fans from Ashley and co for the bad press and stick dished out by supporters and so the silence.If Ashley has to keep the club because of no bids reaching the asking price etc we may see a charm offensive to win back support but with his puppets around still its probably too late ,Llambras whatever his name is must be the worst mouthpiece we have had as far as any comment what so ever and the press department seem starved of information to dish out .

How on earth is it the Sunday Suns fault printing an article with a interview with Maradona about 2 Toon players .

Keane is b****** enough to be thinking that way. Should not start against them Tbh i couldnt careless if Keane targets him ,a derby match is full of physical contact weather its Barton or any toon player if they go in with the dirty tricks and hard challenges so be it and if the ref is worth his salt he will act accordingly .Refs know whats going on as they read the papers and know the storys and if they act in a professional manner we will be treated as we should expect ,but as we know some refs are shit or seem to make decisions that go against but any club have historys of dodgy refs.

This interview seems a bit more in depth and all i can say is good luck and lets move on the lad can only prove us all wrong and maybe this last episode is a watershed for him and he has a full career where he can say "bloody hell 2008 onwards was a lot better then the s*** i caused before that" ,at the end of the day its up to him to repay faith in him (how many times has that been said) . New beginning for alcohol-free Barton 9:13am Thursday 23rd October 2008 comment Comments (0) Have your say » Having completed a six-match suspension on Monday, Joey Barton will make his latest return to action at the weekend. Chief Sports Writer SCOTT WILSON discovered the controversial midfielder has a desire to turn his life around. HE is not looking for sympathy, and he is not attempting to defend actions that he himself describes as “indefensible”. But as he prepares to make his first start of the season in Saturday’s Wear-Tyne derby with Sunderland, Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton is asking for the opportunity to turn his life around. “I have made mistakes,” said the 26-year-old, who received a six-month sentence for an assault in Liverpool city centre last December and a suspended four-month sentence for a trainingground attack on former Manchester City team-mate Ousmane Dabo in May 2007. “I’ve probably made a lot more mistakes than other people. “If you don’t make mistakes, then you don’t give other people the opportunity to throw stones. But all I would say is that, hopefully, I’ve learned from my mistakes. I am trying to put things right and get my football career and my life back on track.” Some will say that anything Barton achieves now is too little, too late. Others will argue that a convicted criminal has no place on a Premier League football field. But having served 72 days of a six-month jail term earlier this summer, Barton is determined to atone for his mistakes. “I deserve every bit of criticism that has been levelled at me,” he said. “I can’t stand here and try to defend myself because I am indefensible. I am the first to acknowledge that – I am indefensible – but all I can do in the future is to try to put right what I have done wrong.” If Barton is to atone for his errors, then December 27, 2007, will be a seminal date in the process. On the one hand, it marks the evening when his life was at its lowest ebb. Having been drinking in Liverpool, he punched one man 20 times before embarking on another assault that left a teenager with broken teeth. But from another perspective, the night of December 27 could prove to be the source of Barton’s salvation. At the moment, it represents the last time he touched alcohol. In the subsequent ten months, the midfielder has acknowledged the existence of a serious alcohol problem and attended a series of courses designed to help him stay off the drink. There is, of course, no guarantee of their success. But having reflected on the destructive nature of his relationship with alcohol, Barton is determined to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Tony Adams and Roy Keane, players who eschewed their previous lifestyle to save their footballing career. “There are bits of me that I don’t want to be,” he said. “And the majority of those things come out when I am drinking. It’s well documented that I have had problems with alcohol in the past, and the thing I went to jail for was alcohol related. “I am not using that as an excuse because it was my own stupidity, but alcohol does something to you that makes you do things you would not necessarily do when you are sober. “It will be levelled at me that I had a fight with Ousmane when I was sober, and I understand that. But I know that if I drink again, I am putting my football career in jeopardy. “I have to put everyone that has believed in me first, and that is why I will not drink again. I have not had a drink for ten months, and I feel better instantly.” As well as working with the Sporting Chance clinic to sever his dependency on alcohol, Barton has also been delivering talks and seminars to youngsters who are experiencing troubles in their own lives. He intends to extend these initiatives in the future, and is keen to use his own experiences as a warning of what can go wrong. While the majority of his experiences in prison were harrowing, this summer’s incarceration convinced Barton of the influence a footballer wields. And having previously abused his privileged position, the England international is now hoping to use his status to reach youngsters and offenders who might otherwise be difficult to engage. “Prison wasn’t a nice experience, but hopefully people will see the stupid mistakes I have made and think to themselves that they won’t make as many mistakes as I have,” said Barton. “You can’t make everyone happy and I’ve probably made a lot more people unhappy than a normal person. But some young kids might look at Michael Owen and David Beckham, who are unbelievable professionals, and struggle to relate to them because they are squeaky clean. “I have met people on the street and in prison and, sometimes, they relate to you because of what you’ve been through. When I speak, I speak from experience about the things I’ve done wrong in my life and how I have tried to change them. I think they respect that. “I want to talk to people about what I know about, and explain what has helped me through the difficult times. “I have a debt to everyone at the club, and in the local area, who has had the embarrassment of having to read about me going out drinking and doing stupid things. I want to repay that.” Part of that repayment will come on the field, with Barton confident that his performances will improve now that the threat of a jail sentence has been lifted. “The last 18 months have been hell. I knew I was going to jail. At the end of last season, when everyone else was planning to go on their holidays, I was thinking about going to jail. I wasn’t playing particularly well, but that was down to my own stupidity.” Stupidity that, like his drinking, he now hopes is at an end.

Champions league no cannot remember seeing them in that this season mackems.gif

Super mac said on the Legends that Kinnear has been working with him 1 to 1 and trying to get his attitude right which can only be a good thing but he should have self belief anyway but sniping from the stands doesnt help .