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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.

Sounds like we are going to be splashing the cash: Long-term planning holds key for Roeder George Caulkin Scrawled on a whiteboard above Glenn Roeder’s desk, is a sentence that encapsulates Newcastle United’s recent history and, perhaps, hints at a brighter future. “Newcastle always buy one star here, one star there, but never a team,” it reads. “I look at that every day,” Roeder, the manager, said yesterday. “One star here, one star there, no team, no backbone.” Roeder is confident that Michael Owen, among others, will remain at St James’ Park after another season ravaged by injury and disappointment, but there was a caveat and a context to his comments. It can be argued that he risked silverware when refusing to overreach in the transfer market this season but, unlike several of his predecessors, he is gazing at the long term. “I speak to Michael every day and I would be shocked if he was not here next season,” Roeder said. “But like a lot of the big hitters — and we have some big hitters, even though we don’t have a team of them yet — he will be looking to see who I bring in, because he, Scott Parker and Shay Given want to be part of a winning team.” Owen has not played for Newcastle since severely damaging anterior cruciate knee ligaments during the World Cup finals — the club are continuing their case for compensation from Fifa and the FA — but a player of his stature naturally prompts speculation. The next step for Roeder is a vital one. “Last year, I had targets I didn’t get for a variety of reasons,” he said. “But I didn’t panic and just buy players I wasn’t certain about. It would have been here we go again — players on four-year contracts, who in six months’ time are no use. You can say I was gambling with my job, but it was for the good of Newcastle United, not for myself. “We could have got players who were past their shelf life, because that’s happened here in the past, players who are a name but that’s all they are, on the way down. This summer, we go into it with room to manoeuvre in the squad.”

Owen's progressing: http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10278~1001119,00.html but Ramage is coming back! http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10278~1001083,00.html

From tonight's Chronicle (talking about Huntington): "And while he is nowhere near the finished article, I expect him to be challenging our two central defenders next season - whoever they are." This last statement from Roeder is significant and, speaking personally, I will be surprised if Bramble, Moore or Onyewu are still at St James' Park at the start of next season. My view that Newcastle United will never win anything while Bramble is in their team caused a big breach with Sir Bobby Robson, which has never been healed, but it is something I stand by. Strong stuff!

How many times can one man say "wide of the mark"? Roeder Italian job's off Mar 20 2007 By Alan Oliver, The Evening Chronicle Glenn Roeder's Italian job has been called off at the last minute. The Newcastle United boss was due to fly to Milan tonight as part of his 12-month course to obtain his Pro-Licence. But AC Milan informed Roeder they were unable to accommodate him because the expert on sports science he was going to see over a three-day period had been called away on club business. Roeder told me today: "I was due to go to AC Milan for three days and it was all arranged for this week because we have so many players away on international duty. "But it was called off this morning and re-arranged for next week on the proviso it would not interfere with our training for the game with Manchester City at St James' Park a week on Saturday. "I will now go to take training on Tuesday and go straight to Milan and do what I have to do on the Wednesday, and be back to take the training session on the Thursday morning." Roeder has now fewer than 10 players away on international duty - it would have been 11 if Steven Taylor had not pulled out of the England Under-21 squad for Saturday's game with Italy at Wembley - and he will not see most of them until a week on Thursday. Not only that, but his No 2 Nigel Pearson is also with the England Under-21 squad, leaving the club's training ground looking a bit deserted. Meanwhile, reports that United are going to make a move for Villarreal's former Manchester United striker Diego Forlan are well wide of the mark. For Roeder's priority in the close season has to be defenders, and if it was left to me I would clear all the current lot out apart from Steven Taylor and Nobby Solano.