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Relieved an quite happy for once.

Yes.

Horrible Hammers leading in injury time - hopefully Arsenal equalise.

In a word yes.

They are right but it's so depressing to read.

He should start by axing himself.

Apparently a fan was arrested in some fracas over throwing away his season ticket. The natives are restless.

We're a car without a driver.

They are riled on TOTT: Yeah, what was it he said "i thought we had when Scotty Parker scored, having seen it he was marginal offside" So he was F**king offside then Glenn, he wants us to be given points now because we almost got it right!

For a man who says he doesn't make excuses, he makes a lot of excuses! Sad, to be honest.

From another board: roeder on SSN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- blaming city for not coming to play and settin up shop, then hit us on the break. wat a fkn retard (no offence to anyone who is actually retarded, i would never put u down by comparing u to roeder)

Since the league was reduced to 20 teams, the only club to go down with 42 points was West Ham. Guess who was managing them at the time. I think I know the answer. If we are really struggling no doubt Owen's return will get pushed forward. Then when he gets crocked again, we can blame bad luck - again. Great plan! We have a plan?

Egil Olsen was terrible but it's worrying when you mention their position.

Since the league was reduced to 20 teams, the only club to go down with 42 points was West Ham. Guess who was managing them at the time. I think I know the answer. If we are really struggling no doubt Owen's return will get pushed forward.

I've done that and my second team is probably even worse than us.

"Drab and bland" according to Champagne Charlie who is tipping us to lose our next 2 games and struggle to stay up.

Me too. I fell asleep watching it tonight on Japanese T.V. and that's highly unusual for me.

Gooch dropped today, not looking good for him.

Rat's stats: http://shakhtar.com/cgi-bin/fc-sh/player.pl?id=52

Roeder still to decide over Gooch's Newcastle offer Newcastle boss Glenn Roeder says on-loan Standard Liege defender Oguchi Onyewu is still to convince him that he deserves a permanent deal. Roeder said: "Goochie was a loan signing, it's a free look, it's the best way to have a look at a player and it can't do any harm. If they aren't good enough, you send them back to their clubs. "He has got eight games left to prove he is good enough. I'll use those games to make my mind up about him, as long as I decide he is the right man to play. "If he doesn't start he can't impress so he has a fight on his hands. I've seen enough of him, without the European games, to get to know him."

Roeder stands tall Newcastle boss Glenn Roeder has hit back at critics saying no one could have done a better job at St James' Park than him. The Magpies are set to end the season empty handed after crashing out of the Uefa Cup 10 days ago in Holland and are struggling to qualify for the Intertoto Cup following another disappointing Premiership campaign. But the Toon boss hit back at suggestions he may be under pressure saying no one else could have done a better job. "There aint anyone in any way, any manager, who could have kept Newcastle in the top six this year," he told The People. "It is Fantasy Island for the ones who think they could have. "What I would say is that if we finish these last eight games strongly, win games and finish up the table, under the circumstances that is the best we could have done. "No one would have done any better," he said. "I'm talking about me here. No one would have done any better than me." Roeder also admitted injury problems have played a big part in his side's performances this year, adding: "We have had the worst injury crisis in the club's history and in any other club's history. "We have had a dozen players out for six months. "I've never been able to put Michael Owen's name on a team sheet to start. I have had him once as a sub. "No one else, with what's happened here and the injuries we've had for six months now, would have done any better."

He was one of my favourite players first time around. Shame it's come to this and you have to wonder if he has any sort of future anywhere if he can't make an impact with us, especially considering what injury problems we've had.

Looks like Bramble is a goner. So we're left with Taylor, Huntington, Ramage and hopefully Edgar. He said in the Journal that he wants at least 4 players with the majority of them being defenders. With him watching Portugal, Romania, Holland etc. I wonder who he is interested in. Chivu? Andrade? De Cler?

Great story and Boksic was paid so much it's believable.

Bernard: United dream is dashed Mar 24 2007 By Alan Oliver, The Evening Chronicle Olivier Bernard will be allowed to slip quietly out of Newcastle United at the end of the season. The French defender was given a one season contract by United on September 1 but he will not be given another one. And the 27-year-old will leave without getting anywhere near a first team game in his second spell at St James' Park. That is bound to be a huge disappointment for Bernard, who signed on transfer deadline day on August 31 last year. For he said at the time: "Leaving Newcastle United was the biggest mistake I have ever made. "There hasn't been a morning I have not woken up and wished I was back at St James' Park. "This is my club. They gave me my chance and I cannot wait to play for them again." Bernard (pic-tured) must be rueing the fact that talks about his new contract in the summer of 2005 broke down and this led to him leaving St James' Park. And he must be regretting that after an unsuccessful spell with Southampton, he decided to go to Rangers where he came under manager Paul le Guen. For his fellow Frenchman ordered him to lose weight and this had a detrimental effect in the opinion of the managerial and coaching staff at United. They felt that after duly shedding the pounds, Bernard also lost the pace and power that is so vital in the Premiership. It was Paul Montgomery, working as a scout for Sir Bobby Robson, who brought Bernard from Lyon to St James' Park in 1999 and he became a firm favourite with the supporters. Ironically, it was also Montgomery who, in his role as European scout for Rangers, persuaded Bernard to make that ill-fated move to Ibrox. And just as ironic is the fact that Montgomery, who worked with Glenn Roeder at West Ham, has now returned to United as a scout and has been given the job of finding a new left-back.