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He'll probably spend about £10m net. Selling Owen off will generate some funds for him as well.

Would anyone say no to sacking Allardyce for Benitez?

I'd be fucking livid too. Cheeky twats. (If true) Do they really think Mourinho would be told to wait months to sort transfers out ? - iam starting to like Hicks and Gillett It's becoming a clear case of American owners not understanding an English football club and all that goes with it. They are trying to wrench the buying and selling power away from Rafa and also wanting to wait till Dec for 'the talks' is a sign they want to see how the CL qual go. Still stand by my prediction he's be gone by summer, but it might not be cause he isn't as good a coach as made out but simply bad communication and power struggles within the club. I think they're trying to implement a 'general manager' structure which is the same structure that American sports have (NBA, NFL, NHL and MLS). It's just a shittier name for a 'director of football' i.e. someone to take care of the signings and that leaves the 'coach' just coaching the team and doing the tactics and training. Similar to the way Spurs are doing things now I guess. Rafa will walk soon enough if this is what they're trying to do.

Was there applause after they scored their beautiful 3rd goal? If there was, it was deserved.

Do we have anyone leftover from SBR's reign btw? There's Butt, Given, Carr and umm.. I can't think of anyone else. Just a general question btw.

What? Roeder was a useless tit. Have you forgotten about the home game against Birmingham? How about the away game to AZ? How about all the 'Glenn Roeder does not... bla bla bla' or the 'I'm not using it as an excuse but really we had so many players injured and that's why it lost... but I'm still not using that as an excuse'. Fuck me, this is quite depressing.

9th.

SBR? He's already said he's about to leave football all together. A chance to finish things off here in a way he wished he did? A chance to turn this club around with a figure like Shearer beside him? I don't think he'd actually turn us down. And I'm not saying that he should come in and manage, but more like a consultancy role just to help Shearer start things off. Allardyce wasn't everyone's choice but I bet Shearer and SBR together would generate the kind of feel-good atmosphere that is needed now. Saying all that, I'm still backing Allardyce until the end of the season. The above was just an out of the box suggestion that I'd be excited about.

It'd be interesting if Shearer and SBR got a call from Mort asking whether they'd be willing to work together.

Backing him till the end of the season.

Villa have taken a 1-0 lead away to Boro.

Everton 3-1 up. Reading have equalized against Citeh.

27' Arsenal 0 - 0 Wigan Athletic 27' Birmingham C. 0 - 0 Portsmouth 27' Bolton W. 1 - 0 Manchester U. 27' Everton 2 - 0 Sunderland 27' Manchester C. 1 - 0 Reading 27' Middlesbrough 0 - 0 Aston Villa Scores atm.

Yorkie, we're not going to be beating Arsenal at home! Even if you're going to be there

Cahill makes it 2-0 Everton.

Citeh and Everton have 1-0 leads. There's starting to be a gap between us and them lot (challengers for Europe).

I don't think he has the balls for this. Started off really well, especially off the pitch. He talks a good game as well. But he's bottling it. Ridiculous mind-boggling substitutions and baffling team selection. He should be fucking embarassed that his own fans had to sing 'you don't know what you're doing' today. It's even worse because we all had reasonably high expectations of him, especially after the summer transfer window and the positive start to the season. At least with Roeder and Souness it was almost just wishful thinking that they'd do well. With Allardyce there was actually geniune optimism and excitement about the club's future. Fuck. I'm in two minds as well. Does he deserve January? Does he deserve this whole season? I always said that as long as we're not in relegation trouble he should get the season to show signs of progression. We all knew there would be ups and downs but I never imagined the 'down' would be this low.

So is that why we have 5 wins this season then? Smart boy you are, Elan.

For the first time in a long long time, I'm actually not looking forward to the next game. Even during the Souness lows I always had hope that we'd pull out a random draw or something but over the past few seasons, any shred of optimism that I've had has disappated.

don't talk fucking rubbish, they've been up against nothing It takes a decent manager to take advantage of us. Did you see at one point when they had 80% possession? That doesn't happen every game. It's only because Benitez knew exactly how to exploit our weaknesses (ball control under pressure, lack of pace in attack) that we've been so utterly dominated in every facet of the game today. You can see we've been shambolic, but if you didn't think that third goal was a special Arsenal type goal then you need to open your eyes.

Who the f*** has been saying that, eh? Have you been missing this season? Instead of this mythical group of people that you seem to be referring to, why don't you find an actual quote that says we play better against the big teams? They think their mythical or have some mythical powers, why don't you have a search if it bother you so? eh? I'm saying they're 'mythical' because they don't exist. So are you suggesting I go search for a group of people that I know don't exist? Nice. But they do. Have a search. I can't be fuked, you either know what am talking about or you don't, not my problem, its yours. They don't. You're being delusional and just lashing out at some random group of people that you think exist. We may have been alright at home against the bigger teams during Roeder's days but that's as far as that premise goes. We were s*** against the top 4 during SBR's days, same with Souness as well and we were also f****** s**** when we were away under Roeder. http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=46775.350 Only Parky's been saying that, and that's only because he doesn't rate Benitez. It's a wishful thinking type of thing, which all of us have been guilty of in the past.

What now for us though? Where do we go from here? Our season's not over, it's not over by a mile. Even if Allardyce goes soon enough. But how does he excuse his baffling team selection today? And how does Mort and Ashley react to the past two games at home? As ever, it'll be interesting to find out.

Who the fuck has been saying that, eh? Have you been missing this season? Instead of this mythical group of people that you seem to be referring to, why don't you find an actual quote that says we play better against the big teams? They think their mythical or have some mythical powers, why don't you have a search if it bother you so? eh? I'm saying they're 'mythical' because they don't exist. So are you suggesting I go search for a group of people that I know don't exist? Nice. But they do. Have a search. I can't be fuked, you either know what am talking about or you don't, not my problem, its yours. They don't. You're being delusional and just lashing out at some random group of people that you think exist. We may have been alright at home against the bigger teams during Roeder's days but that's as far as that premise goes. We were shit against the top 4 during SBR's days, same with Souness as well and we were also fucking shite when we were away under Roeder.

Who the fuck has been saying that, eh? Have you been missing this season? Instead of this mythical group of people that you seem to be referring to, why don't you find an actual quote that says we play better against the big teams? They think their mythical or have some mythical powers, why don't you have a search if it bother you so? eh? I'm saying they're 'mythical' because they don't exist. So are you suggesting I go search for a group of people that I know don't exist? Nice.

Class from Liverpool today. If it wasn't for Torres finally showing his true self, we would have lost by 7+ goals.