Jackie Broon

Of course it's his job to motivate them, I don't see a problem with motivation, I see certain players who are not good enough, I blame Keegan for repeatedly picking the same s*** week after week, one s*** player is a handicap, three or four isn't giving us a chance. OK, Smith and Butt are s*** but what was the alternative today? N'Zogbia and Geremi? Well he has tried N'Zogbia in the centre without success and Geremi has hardly shone when he has played there either. Faye is an option too but then that leaves us having to play Taylor and Cacapa in central defence. Smith and Butt are rotten, absolutely dreadful. Keegan is no mug, he'll see that too and he's ruthless enough to do something about it in the summer (if we stay up) but for the moment those are the players he is stuck with.

Sell up to whom? I don't think there'd be many takers.

You're judging Keegan on the performance of players who have been s*** for most of the season. In probably our most lopsided premiership season ever. The first half of our season was packed full of winnable fixtures and Fat Blobby B****** Sam failed to take any advantage of them.

But we haven't won any of our last 6 home games. All of them bar Man U and maybe Man City were winnable games. What makes you think we're capable of winning 3 of our remaining of our remaining 4?

I'm not slitting my wrists yet. Like I said, 3 points from the next three games and we'll be fine. But if we lose all three we're in deep, deep trouble.

no way back? cant agree there. well have 6 games left after liverpool and the next 2, and we are 3 points above the releagation zone. the lowest we could phaesibly be if we lost all 3 would be 18th, and thats unlikely as well Seven actually, but only two that are winnable. The rest I would expect us to lose unless we have a big turnaround in fortunes.

The next two games after Liverpool will decide it. If we get three or more points we'll be fine. If we lose both I don't think there'll be any way back. I just hope we put up a decent fight against Liverpool and take a bit of confidence from that. Even if we lose, as we inevitably will.

He's still a junior. Yet he's famous enough for me to have heard about him, and I have no interest in basketball what so ever.

He can dunk/block without his feet leaving the floor. He doesn't need any skill.

Just a shame it isn't a real sport. Why? http://media.scout.com/Media/Image/38/386129.jpg He can barely move around the court but could become one the most effective basketball players ever, simply because he is 7'7" tall.

Kevin Keegan is Newcastle United and Newcastle United is Kevin Keegan. There is no other man for the job! For what he has done for our club, bringing it back from the dead, twice! He deservers our unflinching support.

---------Neville---Carsley-------- Osman-------------------Pienaar --------------Cahill---------------- I'd like to see us play something similar: -------- Geremi - Faye -------- Milner ------------------ Duff/Zog ----------- Smith/Duff ---------- Owen/Martins Which is basically how we used to play pre Shearer under Keegan. the movement under keegans first spell newcastle teams meant it was hard to work out a clear formation. pav/hislop/hooper was in goal...cole/ferdinand was up front(till shearer came) and in between was very mobile and fluid. Aye, like Arsenal and Man U now, there's so much movement it's very difficult to tie down how they actually play. But it was basically a 4-4-1-1 with two, relativity defensively minded central midfielders.

---------Neville---Carsley-------- Osman-------------------Pienaar --------------Cahill---------------- I'd like to see us play something similar: -------- Geremi - Faye -------- Milner ------------------ Duff/Zog ----------- Smith/Duff ---------- Owen/Martins Which is basically how we used to play pre Shearer under Keegan.

More precisely, central midfield. We need a proper holding midfielder and a proper creative midfielder who can spot a pass. Break the bank to get 2-3 top class players in that area and it'll transform our team beyond recognition.

Spurs & Everton and the like have built good teams from a few established players but mostly from lower ranked clubs. Roughly half of both sides starting XI have come-up from the Championship. There are players out there in the lower divisions that can do a good job (Chimbonda, Cahill). Why can't we sign the next Aaron Lennon or Lescott? To a large extent I think it's because we as fans haven't given young players the time to develop. We're far too quick to get on their backs and/or write them off. If they're not an instant success they're s*** or lazy or greedy and are told so in no uncertain terms by all corners of St James' Park.

Yes that is what i have been saying since keegan took over, We need to scrap for evey point now, But this will be lost in keegans thinking he does not do defence. A bad shout from the board going for keegan IMOA. when it was so obvious we needed to go for dour draws week in week out . We will now pay for having an inexperienced management team, We will most definetly be relegated this season on our current form there is know way back. Our current form is terrible. But look at the games we've played! Despite our current form, we've pulled away from Reading (who've picked up two points from their last ten games) and Birmingham have only managed to cut our lead over them by five points in the last ten games. If we are going to be relegated both of those teams will have to finish ahead of us. Even on current form, that's unlikely to happen. Other than the Liverpool away fixture we've got a run of winnable games coming up. Our form will improve!

Ameobi scored against them, for what it's worth

When Keegan came in it was never going to be any different. This is mostly the fault of Fat Sam for wasting money on s*** players but partly just a freak of chance that we got the most unbalanced season I've ever seen out of the fixture computer. With the easiest first half of a premiership season we've ever had, we should've come into this incredibly tough period games high on confidence and in the table. But Sam's negativity and p***ing about line-ups and formations sapped the players' confidence and by the time Keegan took over the set of results (results, maybe not scorelines) we've had were inevitable. It was inevitable that our players, who are not good enough collectively to be anything other than a mid-table side and already low on confidence, would have whatever was left shattered playing Chelsea A, Man City H, Man U A, Arsenal A, Villa A, Man U H within 8 games. What makes it even more difficult is that top clubs still see playing us as one of their bigger league fixtures and delight in beating us. But we're over the hump now, we've still got Liverpool away but other than that and a couple of others most of our remaining fixtures are winnable. Things will get better.

Turnbull2000. Just simply f*** off!

BBC commentator: "cleared by the United defence" Which United?! The one that was actually a result of two clubs uniting, or the one that copied the name 12 years later because it sounded good?

The result is of f*** all importance today If Birmingham beat us next month it could be of massive importance to us. That one point might make the difference between us and them for the 3rd relegation spot.

Totti gets blown up by the mother of all bangers: http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/135/bangha9.jpg http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1167/bang2aa4.jpg

Resurrection - Stone Roses. Although you'll have to chop off the five minute instrumental bit at the end.

He hasn't really had that many playing in his preferred position, from about December onwards Fat Sam tended to play him as a winger-come-forward, on the right Before that genius bit of selection he'd played 7 and scored 4.

I dont think i've ever seen Martins unfit TBF. More chance he's lost his sharpness infront of goal but TBH he never really had that. Don't worry he will come back fit and fireing. Martins gets way too much stick imo. Without his goals last season we would now be playing in the championship.