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maybe no-ones told him about krul! I read that Krul had been coming back to Newcastle around once every three weeks to train so he still felt part of the team. He's just had an operation for a dislocated shoulder which will apparently take 3 months to recover from.

He's homesick for London even though he's never lived there? His family live in London? Who's fault is that? They could live in Newcastle or he could visit them by flying to London which takes about an hour. Very poor excuses for wanting to leave. If he'd just come out and said he was tired of playing for the constantly underachieving NUFC at least Keegan could then say that he was going to try to bring in players X, Y and Z to change things. As for selling him to Spurs or Arsenal it has to be on our terms. If they want him, make them pay through the nose for him.

no we wont the intertoto cup doesnt exist next season I read that Man City have applied to enter a week or two ago.

The story the BBC had on Teletext (it was probably the same on their website) about Lee Bowyer being sent off had the line "Former Newcastle player Lee Bowyer". They probably only mentioned that because he was sent off as all bad'uns must have something to do with Newcastle. Fuck off BBC.

The best thing the home crowd can do is roar the team on. What would makes you play better? Someone shouting "you're shit" or someone shouting "come on"? They may not all deserve the encouragement but we can sort those who don't deserve it out in the Summer (assuming we stay up).

I can only imagine he bought him as a favour to his mate Alex Ferguson.

Drop Smith and play Owen with Martins, Viduka, Ameobi or Carroll before ever playing Smith there again. A strikers job is to score goals. If you never shoot you'll never score. All our other strikers know this and are therefore more of a goal threat than Smith. Given did his groin in again so it looks like Harper is going to get a run. Drop Carr. Play Beye on the right and Enrique on the left. Play Faye either in midfield instead of Butt or in Defence instead of Taylor or Cacapa. Play Emre. He goes forward and tries to attack. Play N'Zogbia on the left wing. Let Duff be competition for N'Zogbia and Milner. Play Barton (if his bail conditions allow) in reserve games along with all the other first team players who aren't match fit.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. All that matters this season now is that we don't get relegated. Middlesbrough and Sunderland can finish above us for all I care as long as we stay up. The North East 'Top Dog' bollocks only means the best of a bad bunch at the moment.

Most of the results aren't that bad for us. Bolton, Reading, Fulham and Wigan losing is good news.

Terry Mac is not a coach according to Keegan. He said so on the radio Q & A session.

He said 5 or 6 players at the start of the interview.

They put the Souness one up on the BBC website last time (to stream) so I'm sure they will with Keegan's. There will probably be a link to it on the main football pages of the BBC website on Friday (or earlier). The media will currently be listening through the interview and making stories from it by shortening quotes e.g. "N'Zogbia is not happy".

I doubt anyone would even be talking about Carrick as a possibility if it wasn't for the fact that he's a Geordie.

Didn't know Beardsley was working at Middlesbrough. Doing what?

BBC will put it up sometime after the interview. They did with the Souness interview.

Better choice of Jobs.

People should wait until he actually leaves before slagging him off. It won't help keep him if people turn on him.

N'Zogbia will be left back. Left back in Newcastle! He's banned for the Villa game after picking up 5 bookings this season.

Why would the official Newcastle website make it public that N'Zogbia wasn't happy? How does releasing that news help our cause? I'd play N'Zogbia on the left wing ahead of Duff. If N'Zogbia still thinks his best position is central midfield Keegan needs to tell him he is mistaken. At least Keegan has a few months to cheer N'Zogbia up. You'd think a player like N'Zogbia would love playing for a Keegan team.

If that's Keegan's opinion I think he may keep it quiet until the Summer. It wouldn't exactly boost team morale in our fight to win points. I think some people are taking Keegan's "This is a quality squad" comment too seriously. It's not like he'd come out and say "Most of the squad are average to shite but I've got to try to motivate the useless bastards until I can get shot of them in the Summer. That's if their not so shit that they get us relegated".

Unfortunately Keegan has inherited some tough fixtures after Allardyce wasted the easier games (e.g. Derby, Wigan, etc). Look at what Roeder managed. He was playing Ameobi and Chopra up front in some of the games we won. Confidence is low. If we get a result we've got a tough game straight after it.

When was our Premier League last goal that didnt come from a free kick/ own goal or random fluke? Viduka v Derby. December 23rd. Bloody hell. 43% of Aston Villa's goals this season have come from set pieces. I don't care how we score as long as we do.

When Richard Keys was talking about the bad run Newcastle are on I was shouting at the tv "The guy responsible for that is sitting next to you!"

One thing he said that I agreed with. He said he didn't believe bad decisions by refs even themselves out over a season. If they do we're going to get some very lucky decisions in our last 13 games.

The exception that proves the rule? Taken from NUFC.com: - Mirror in "not total twaddle" sensation We might not agree with all of Brian Reade's piece as follows, but there's enough of worth to justify it being presented to a wider audience: "You'll be familiar with Kevin Keegan's charge sheet as it is being repeatedly read above a backing track of cackling laughter to certify why both he and the people of Newcastle are clinically insane. He's a bottler who talks in riddles, hasn't watched a live game for three years, is committing the cardinal sin of returning to an old club, and his only qualification is he used to be a local hero in an era when men permed their heads and soaked their armpits in Brut. The gags and the accusations of madness were to be expected, yet I've been taken aback by the ferocity of the cynicism from people who frequently lament how clubs are selling their soul to corporate monsters. A ferocity summed up by the esteemed writer who accused the Geordies of harbouring "empty and increasingly pathetic dreams." So what's pathetic about wanting to see your team play in a passionate, entertaining way, led by a manager you love, trust and believe in? That's what drew me to football in the first place. That's what it used to be all about. Ah, they say, but football has changed dramatically in the 11 years Keegan has been away, as though he's a Japanese sniper emerging into sunlight after 63 years in the Burmese jungle. He's only 56 for Christ's sake, and been a genuine football man at the highest level for most of those years. Does the fact that the Premier League has changed mean Keegan has suddenly become a bad judge of a player or lost his ability to motivate them? Granted, the mind-boggling amounts of cash swilling around football has transformed the game, but certainly not for the better. Has Roman Abramovich's billions enhanced it? Has the American pincer movement on Anfield and Old Trafford improved it? No. Ask Kopites how they feel about their so-called saviours from across the pond now, or the thousands of Man United fans frozen out of Old Trafford because their wallets aren't thick enough. Those who love the game should save their anger and cynicism for our friends in the north who ushered the Americans into Anfield and Old Trafford, instead of turning it on Mike Ashley for inviting Keegan back. Who says ill-advised romantic gestures are worse for a club than the ill-advised sale of a club's soul to foreign businessmen who have no knowledge of football or love for the fans? What's wrong with an owner attempting to give his supporters what they want? Keegan's return may be an unmitigated disaster but who cares? Certainly not the only people who matter, the Newcastle fans. What right have outsiders to tell them they'd have been better off watching Sam Allardyce's brand of eye-bleedingly bad football fail? Critics say he won't win them the Premier League so what's the point? But he doesn't need to. All he has to do is repeat what he did last time around by taking them back up to the division they belong in. They're now in the top flight's third division with West Ham. If he gets them into the second with Aston Villa, playing exciting football, he'll be deemed a success. Into the first with Arsenal and his body will be interred in Newcastle Cathedral. I wish him luck. Not because I was once a big Keegan fan but because I'm still a football fan. One of many who can see that if our game is to survive as a sport for the masses, clubs need to bring in more men like him, whose sole intention is to make the people happy, and less foreign sharks whose only intention is to make the people emotionally and financially skint."