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As was stated by some of the more sensible and less hysterical comments here yesterday nufc.com is about opinions, not gossip, not transfer speculation, not about dirt, not about show bizz. If people want that then go else where. Just remember back to this site before Roeder was hired, how many people, including a good number who have contributed on this topic, basically just lied about what they heard, or passed on made up stories about this or that manger who has accepted. Just about 100% was bollocks, yet they come back and say other stuff which is then commented on and around and around we go. It’s a circus. NUFC.com is two blokes, and a few friends who help saying what they think. They don’t have to make stuff up to get a hearing, they don’t have to pretend to be in the know, they are in the know on lots of stuff, but thankfully they don’t pass on tell tale stories, or half-heard gossip just to appear to be in the know. And as said earlier, because you don’t go to the juniors away on a bleak wet night does not mean you can’t comment, but far to many of those who contribute here, who live in the North East don’t go and rant all the time. This culture of complaint maybe the cultural zeitgeist but its terribly tiresome and really brings little clarity to a situation which we can all pretend is not as bad as it seems, but is going to get worse before it gets better. We have a team which needs serious re-building and a club which seemingly totters from one crisis to another, the two don’t go togther.

As you go to games regularly, you will know that most of that behaviour is for those who nevr went to Port vale, Swindon, or Torquay.

"The old generation are the ones who hold the club back" Is what some child idiot posted, I was highlighting the irrationality of such and many other statements made here. How can fans of any age hold back a club??????

The old generation are the ones who hold the club back, This just about sums up the large number of idiots who write on this forum. Fans, holding a club back from what? You mean who spend their entire life stalking a bunch of footballers wherever they go and then write about it on a glorified blog? Err, what are you doing here, dear me. Then don't read it!

"the thing that boils my piss about you old 'been there done that' farts is that you singularly to a man never able to give a true account of why we were good under keegan and robson and why we were s**** under the rest" Look back to the League Cup/Milk Cup/carling Cup – what ever it was called – game against man Utd, we played our top side, they played kids, we just managed to beat them. It was in hindsight a key moment. Though we managed to jump forward remarkably quickly, from 1st division to nearly winning the league, it was built with no foundations or plan B. Who has come thorough the ranks since keegan – bar Taylor, Shola and one or two of the kids now?? Keegan goes, we then had to tighten the belts (partly because of the Shearer outlay) look at who Dalglish bought in on the cheap. We were big under Keegan because we one of the few clubs who could spend big and we did. A number of teams caught us up financially. But we can not escape the reality that though we spend money – our money by the way – we have made some rotten purchases, many rotten purchases and what links many of them is stupid decisions at board level, stupid managers hired – Gullitt and Souness – a catalogue of failure and mis-management at board level that most other clubs would never have accepted, never mind any public limited company.

Well said Big Geordie. Haven't fallen a long way................Champion League.........to the Intertoto in 4 years, and now not even that Mickey mouse cup. Get real. Souness was a disaster but the rot had set in under Robson, we might have gone back 10 years under Souness, but it was sliding in the last years of Robson. If any one see’s any signs of optimism then please show me. I like Big Geordie have been here before, and its dark days ahead.

Just because you weren't doesn't invalidate your criticisms. But far too many people on this site never go, and just repeat drivel. This site, as with those terrible radio phone in’s, verges on wanker’s paradise. Nufc.com say it as they see it, its opinion driven, if you don’t like what they say then don’t read it. I know for certain that nufc.com is inundated with gossip about players, inside stories, fly on the wall stuff. It’s too their credit they don’t publish any of it. If one wants to make any criticism of them it could be that they hold their fire too often.

so you weren't there.

"A few decent signings and we've got the potential to be a good team again." Get real man…………………… The season before Bobby went, was the start of this decline, that's what over 5 years ago??? A few decent players??? Were you in Holland, how many of our players would any top 4 team have? Given, I’d guess and that's it. We have papered over the cracks for years. The club is rotten from the top - directors - downwards, we will know doubt spend and spend again, but to what end. We buy Owen when even a blind man can see that we need what 5-6 defenders? Can you see Owen and Martins playing in the same side? There is so much self-delusion here its unreal, “They don't seem to have their inside source at the club any more and haven't for a while” And that’s how you judge them? Dear me, buy the Sun………………………… Have you ever gone back and read some of the so-called inside sources, published by the likes of people on this thread, O’Neil to sign on as manager defo, heard from an inside source, if that is what you are looking for don’t bother with nufc.com, thankfully they leave that to the soothsayer’s here who are 99.9% wrong.

As someone who has been on the road with the guys at nufc.com for longer than I’d care to remember, who has shared more lows than highs with them their match report on Charlton is spot on. Have you any idea how far this club has fallen in the past 4 years, and have you any idea how many decades we are going to be suffering this shambles? People on this message board getting excited about the signing of Steve Sidwell, just about sums up the situation? I’m not one for saying you can’t comment if you don’t travel to AZ or get out of bed at 3.00am on a Sunday to travel to Charlton, but far too many people on this board, comment from their sofa or after listening to local radio.