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How is a dire season scrabbling around the middle of the championship better than 'a dire season at the bottom of the premier league' by the way?

No No No Also, why would point 3 necessarily be a good thing, Keegan might well return and fuck off again when things get tough? You can't put your faith in a manager who can't handle the rough times. And Shearer might be a useless manager, we've no idea.

All we can hope is that being in the bottom 3 gives the players an almighty kick up the arse... combined with a few players back from injury might see us alright. I still think any of the bottom 10 can go down, although we don't seem to be able to pick up points from anywhere. I'm shitting myself TBH, it actually hurts to think about relegation - and the effect it would have on the club and city.

At least if we stay up we have a chance to improve, if we go down we're fucked.

We are currently performing as one of the worst teams in the league, whether we're one of the worst three remains to be seen. I'm sure we could equally come up with a similar list of weaknesses for any of the bottom 10.

Can't believe anyone can call Ashley a 'leech', when all he has done is put money into the club. He's got a lot of faults, but that's not one of them.

I think we understand exactly what this thread is about, that's why we think it's mental!

Yawn.

If we get relegated we're hardly going to get a world class manager are we?

Mental thread, anyone who would choose relegation is clinically insane. Ironically going down will probably increase the chances of Kinnear staying on.

He definitely seemed to help Roeder at that time... whenever his decline did or didn't start the man was a legend. Sadly Owen doesn't have a period of incredible success with the club to make us forgive his inevitable decline.

Equally, how many people would already have hounded Taylor out of the club if he hadn't been a local lad?

Do you not think he already has adapted? He seems to still have the ability to pop up in the right spots, although he can't score the 20 yard run and shots anymore. Problem is we don't see it very much because he plays so little.

He answers the questions the journalist asks, and then the journalist decides which quotes to publish to fit his story angle.

Taylor would be a better option, Colo is shockingly bad, and im no Taylor fan. Colo is 'shockingly bad'? You can't be serious. He's not been immense the last few games, I'll give you that, but he is definitely streets ahead of Taylor at CB.

This is the reason why I never warmed to Owen in a Newcastle shirt. We have always been used as a training camp for his England career. Poetic justice that his international career has nose-dived anyway. I know he won't stay here unless nobody else wants him, but if he can score a few goals and keep us up he can leave on a half decent note. I think that's a bit harsh TBH, most players would go to a World Cup if they were even half-fit. I'm sure loads of them have - it doesn't mean they don't care about their club. Shearer did in '98 to be fair. Was clear to see the second half of that season that he was nowhere near good enough/fit enough to go to the World Cup, but he did. Who wouldn't though? Most players only get a couple of opportunities like that... can't hold it against them.

This is the reason why I never warmed to Owen in a Newcastle shirt. We have always been used as a training camp for his England career. Poetic justice that his international career has nose-dived anyway. I know he won't stay here unless nobody else wants him, but if he can score a few goals and keep us up he can leave on a half decent note. I think that's a bit harsh TBH, most players would go to a World Cup if they were even half-fit. I'm sure loads of them have - it doesn't mean they don't care about their club.

Dropping Coloccini would be insane, it's not like we have Vidic waiting to come in, we've got Taylor and Cacapa.

I think he's right TBH, can't argue with many of his points in those quotes.

Just for Men ad?

I was warming towards Brown at the start of the season, but since things started going wrong for Hull he's losing it by the day. Hopefully they'll keep losing obviously. Fabregas does look like a snotty teenager on the photos from last night though, WTF is he doing on the pitch anyway in jeans and trainers... having a go at Hull staff? What a dickhead.

I noticed that too, I suppose the 'we're doomed' camp are more likely to vote in this thread.

I freaking love Oba. I freaking love Oba. I freaking love Oba.

That bit will do for me.

Class HTT, just the right post at a time like this.