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That's what I was saying earlier. Any quality signing is dragged into the torpor rather than pulling the squad out of it. Instill a bit of belief, then make expensive additions to a club on the up. It's like they say about getting your hair cut, you should always go when it looks it's best. Eh? If you go for a haircut when it looks s***, your barber thinks you like your hair to look s***, and gives you a s*** haircut. Surely you go to the barbers to get your hair to stop looking s***? Nope. You need to be more pro-active than that. Well what if you go to your barbers while its looking good to have it cut, and the barber does a s*** job and the end result is that it now looks s***, despite not being s*** before you had it cut? Serves you right for having a 'trophy' haircut. Just because you spend £50 on a haircut doesnt mean you are going to pull! Hey my hair was in a right state after my last barber got at it. I'm planning to "spend big" when getting a hair cut next, probably around £150 in the summer. Surely my hair will lead to quality birds jumping in to bed with me... Give it a go, everything else has failed. Well the new barber I'm using actually used to cut my hair a little over 10 years ago. Was happy with how it looked then and so did the ladies, so perhaps it's good move. or maybe you'll just get a REALLY out of date haircut that people will just piss themselves laughing at... actually I just found out he hasn't cut anyones hair for 3 years. Bad move or not? Sounds like you'd be better off with a professional shearer...

Absolutely nailed on, I think.

That's what I was saying earlier. Any quality signing is dragged into the torpor rather than pulling the squad out of it. Instill a bit of belief, then make expensive additions to a club on the up. It's like they say about getting your hair cut, you should always go when it looks it's best. Eh? If you go for a haircut when it looks s***, your barber thinks you like your hair to look s***, and gives you a s*** haircut. Surely you go to the barbers to get your hair to stop looking s***? Nope. You need to be more pro-active than that. Well what if you go to your barbers while its looking good to have it cut, and the barber does a s*** job and the end result is that it now looks s***, despite not being s*** before you had it cut? Serves you right for having a 'trophy' haircut. Just because you spend £50 on a haircut doesnt mean you are going to pull! Hey my hair was in a right state after my last barber got at it. I'm planning to "spend big" when getting a hair cut next, probably around £150 in the summer. Surely my hair will lead to quality birds jumping in to bed with me... Give it a go, everything else has failed. Well the new barber I'm using actually used to cut my hair a little over 10 years ago. Was happy with how it looked then and so did the ladies, so perhaps it's good move. or maybe you'll just get a REALLY out of date haircut that people will just piss themselves laughing at...

I can't believe anyone would be mad enough to build a team around a player like Michael Owen, who looks a. distinctly like he doesn't give a shit and b. past it. I'm with you Brum. 100%. I only hope that it's not too late for Newcastle to replicate the revival seen at Villa since O'Neill's arrived. If we can do that I'd be happy enough.

That's what I was saying earlier. Any quality signing is dragged into the torpor rather than pulling the squad out of it. Instill a bit of belief, then make expensive additions to a club on the up. It's like they say about getting your hair cut, you should always go when it looks it's best. Is it just about instilling belief? I can't imagine Keegan has been doing anything other than trying frantically to instil belief. What you have to ask yourself is why he's making absolutely no difference to the standard of play now. "There's something rotten in the state of Denmark..." In football results are all that matter. KK can say whatever he likes to whoever he likes but it won't do much good until results start coming in to restore concious belief, i.e. in reality. I also reckon a great deal of players at our club have zero faith in one another and when there is no trust or no confidence in those around you, well, you're fucked and that's exactly what has happened to us. It runs deeper of course and other factors have played their part but those are the crux of the problems in my opinion, that and the genuine lack of ability in the ranks. Get rid of some of the "stars" and get back to basics. To sort the morale issue out, we may very well need to do the unthinkable and get rid of certain players who are seen as the mark of an "ambitious" club. We may need to say goodbye to Given, Owen and others before we can have a hope in hell of righting this ship.

Relegated. A la Leeds United.

That's what I was saying earlier. Any quality signing is dragged into the torpor rather than pulling the squad out of it. Instill a bit of belief, then make expensive additions to a club on the up. It's like they say about getting your hair cut, you should always go when it looks it's best. Is it just about instilling belief? I can't imagine Keegan has been doing anything other than trying frantically to instil belief. What you have to ask yourself is why he's making absolutely no difference to the standard of play now. "There's something rotten in the state of Denmark..."

The more I think about it, the more convinced I am there is a rotten fucking cancer within the team, a collection of deadbeats earning Hollywood salaries and pissing and moaning to each other which is driving morale through the floor, resulting in the dire performances week in week out. Until Keegan can sort that out once and for all, we can spend as much money as we like...it'll all be for nothing.

You can analyse it til the cows come home. You can try and attribute blame to whosoever you wish. You can make a case that Allardyce got out while the going was good, you can claim Keegan's just been unlucky to inherit a squad of useless, uncoordinated, selfish, thick overpaid arseholes. The plain fact is that none of this pontification, deliberation, prognostication means anything at all - it does precisely the sum total of fuck all in making any difference to whether we will stop being shit any time soon.

Poor Gazza. Can't a man talk to a plastic parrot and eat raw liver whilst in the nude these days without getting negative press? What's the world coming to?

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That's your dad. In drag.

bernard was better and "homesick" is a s*** excuse Sorry madras, but that's just bollocks. Homesickness is a far more valid reason than you credit it. it's also a catch all excuse, the "bad back" of being in a huff and wanting away. Was it not actually more something to do with his religion or something anyway?

bernard was better and "homesick" is a shit excuse Sorry madras, but that's just bollocks. Homesickness is a far more valid reason than you credit it.

Just that self-loving arsehole Nick Robinson is all. Nowt to worry about. He's a complete fucking cunt and, if there's any justice in thise world, he will die very painfully.

Happy Birthday, Sir Bobby. Love you like you were my own family. Have a great day. You are a legend!

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End of the road for Gordon Brown, hopefully. f****** hell...nationalising a bank. What a complete bollocks he is...and as for that human-badger-hybrid Alistair Darling, what a total jockey. Dismayed, I really am. still rather them than cameron and osbourne. Aye, not much of a choice really is it? Like choosing between amoebic or bacilliary dysentry.

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End of the road for Gordon Brown, hopefully. Fucking hell...nationalising a bank. What a complete bollocks he is...and as for that human-badger-hybrid Alistair Darling, what a total jockey. Dismayed, I really am.

I'd have hoped it would motivate them to play better, thinking they were now in the shop window. But you may be right, it may not have that motivating impulse at all.

Whichever way you cut it,whichever reason you take for this latest development, it all stacks up as further evidence of a club in total disarray, a tailspin, it's panic time. God, but I'm depressing and alarmist.

Not sure this is good news, not sure at all. In fact, it makes you fear for the future. Looks like the management of this club is in meltdown, which can hardly help team morale?

Barton's been appallingly ineffectual, just like Smith.

The timing of Sam's sacking and replacement was wrong, whichever way you look at it... ...unless you see it as what it clearly was: an exercise in knee-jerk appeasement of disgruntled fans by a desperate Chairman and an egomaniacal owner. History may not repeat itself, but it certainly echoes itself over time.