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Woop! Let's hope we pull it off.

A lot better than £8m...

Absolutely correct. The media are thoroughly enjoying the mess Sam has made - and trying to slag us off even before he's sacked to try and stop it happening - they just love to see us struggle, and Sams the man to keep it happening ! But the media will always have a go anyway... if we sack Sam now it will be stories about how short-sighted Newcastle changed their manager yet again at the wrong time in the season etc etc. If we make decisions based on the Fleet Street reaction we'll be fooked.

As much as I hate the arrogant and presumptious tone of that article, I can't help but agree that our managers' jobs will be always be more difficult and pressured until we get the Shearer era 'out of our system'. Either that or the press could stop talking bollocks about it and we could forget about the whole thing...

Really disappointed with those quotes, if they are accurate. It's becoming harder and harder to defend Sam's approach at the moment...

This quote is the mark of a really great manager; not one who has 'their style', but one who has the ability to assess any squad of players and select the personnel and formation/tactics to get the best out of them.

Wasn't it what Jennifer Lopez was rumoured to have had?

Have a heart Mr Al Fayed, it's christmas! :icon_santa:

I was thinking exactly that before I clicked on this thread! He needs to button it, the challenge was ludicrous.

Quality on Pro Evo Quality at Pro Evo?

Fair enough, but it would be a quiet board if nobody replied to anything, ya bastards!

Should we have the 'big club' debate now as well?

Not true, in my opinion. I know we aren't playing well at the moment but I did see signs of improvement.

Seven

Yours faithfully, Ian

Goal record is canny, albeit not in the prem. Think I've only seen him a couple of times, but looked a decent player.

I saw a few signs in the Fulham game that we can threaten teams again, some great touches by Smith etc, it just isn't quite clicking yet. Not sure why everyone thinks we won't turn Derby over. No reason to think we won't get a win here, looking forward to the match...

One thing we could do with is someone who can fill in for Beye when he goes to the ACN, to keep Carr on the bench. Maybe Wes Brown could come in partly for that reason.

He just walks like one.

Sadly this is true, I think we'll be seeing a lot more of the big lad from January onwards.

Looking forward to some more of those quotations in future, classics. Should be some good times ahead, interesting to see who he picks...

He could have paid Babayaro for a week or two on that!

Wouldn't call a bad 20 minutes 'being found out' tbh, he'll come back stronger.

Lol. Care to expand? Jason Koumas wouldn't improve our side, he was a very good championship player but hasn't hit it off in the Premiership despite playing for a very poor side, if we have aspirations of getting into Europe we must be looking at a better quality of player. Fair enough, I think he's been pretty impressive this year in the Prem despite playing for a crap team, and he could provide some forward drive to our midfield at a bargain price. Anyway, this thread was about January, sorry!