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Viduka is a good player but his signing really surprised me. He was never going to work as a cebtre forward in an Allardyce team. i really can't imagine what Sam was thinking. It's quite a mess it really is.

We really do have to clear out all the left over players from before. They are all losers and their attitudes stink. I have no doubt it is the likes of Duff and Carr who were clearly way out of shape last season who are now having a moan. It's quite disgusting really.

So with the players disgruntled already and the fans carrying on like they did today is it going to be possible for Sam to weather the storm? The players will only be more of a pain now as they will no doubt lose even more respect for the manager having seen the extent to which the crowd turned on him today.

Don't think anyone spotted this from this mornings paper. Our recent performances are beginning to make more sense now ... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/newcastle/article2933696.ece Very worrying if this is the reason for the players apparent lack of effort. I think Sam has struggled and made a mess of things and I won't be sad to see him go, but for the players to be complaining about training being too hard?! The players certainly have to take some heat too. Quite unnacceptable.

Norwich beat Coventry today ... Two assists for our very own Matty Pattison!

The thing is though, Sam wasn't their guy so it's a bit different. Why should they stick with him? They were probably very smart not to give him a lot of money in the summer. They haven't backed him a lot with funds so why deal with this mess? Surely they would be a lot more comfortable dealing with whatever the situation was if they had their man in charge right? This is Freddy's mess. You could argue we need to make a complete break from the past regime now.

England managers are utterly and completely useless ... No more English managers please. All bloody useless and just don't earn their money. All "passion" and jumping up and down but don't know a damn thing about the game. Yeah, let's just keep blaming all the foreigners because they are 100 times better.

SAM OUT!!! Where is Fat Fred when you need him?

Gerrard ... "Yeah, it was quite comfortable"

I think what you mean is why is Sam at this club?

Wow ...

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I honestly can't help but laugh at this now! Allardyce is too defensive minded, too negative and too cynical. We are down two goals but he is still worried about conceding so he takes off Zoggy and Emre when he should be taking off Geremi and Butt if anything. Honestly I can't back Sam anymore. Whatever happens happens but I don't necessarily think we have to give him time anymore.

When you have a team that isn't that great defensively and the manager places a greater emphasis on them being tight and not encouraging the players to get forward then it is going to lead to trouble. Overall we have a team that is crap but better at getting forward if anything but the manager is discouraging them from doing this so we look absolutely clueless. Sam still doesn't get this and that is just not good enough ... Beye has been awesome today by the way. Looks like a hell of a Centre Back although he was a bit dodgy on the set piece goal.

Given doesn't deserve to be playing ahead of Harper by the way ...

ZOGGY OFF NOW!!! Honestly I think our players just aren't good enough. I mean what excuse does Zoggy have today? He has been awful. If Milner comes on it will be the same crappy amateurish stuff. Geremi is just too slow now to play out wide. We are actually defending well but the midfield is putting pressure on the defence. We have no decent wingers and thats a fact. Butt, Emre and Smith have been better than usual but it means nothing because our wingers are terrible. I'ts like Souness said you don't win nout with kids, but what he meant was shitty kids like Zoggy and Milner. They just aren't ready yet.

A lot of our half decent play has been ruined by Zoggy running blindly into people and giving the ball away and doing STUPID CRAP!!! Zoggy is SHIT I'm sorry and he is playing in midfield! He is messing up all the good stuff Enrique tries to do too.

Smith has been alright so far I think.

I cannot stand Given ... how can he not know how to kick a ball straight?

Emre needs to stop giving away stupid freekicks around the box too. His tackling is a liability for us in midfield. He is way too unathletic. I love Beye he has looked much better at CB ironically.

The Zoggy hype has to stop ... he is awful most of the time!

Apparently it's actually a 3-5-2 according to the people in the studio! Beye, Roz and Enrique at the back.

If Rafa doesn't play Crouch we will do well defensively tomorrow. Beye and Rozehnal are mobile enough and athletic enough to not get dominated by Torres. If Rafa decides to pump balls up to crouch though, then it will be difficult for them. I think we need to g0 4-5-1 to protect them a bit more back there.

I think this is part of the reason Rafa wanted to stick him on the wing and at least have him whip in crosses instead of thumping long balls out of the reach of his teamates all game! Rafa recognized that Alonso and Mascherano were actually real central midfielders and not Gerrard.

Why Gerrard wants to play those raking long balls is beyond me. Gerrard is actually an awful passer of the ball because of this. Doesn't play the forward pass along the floor often enough.