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What seems to be forgotten is that we played well last week and so Keegan was always unlikely to make any radical line-up changes. Martins will defo come on at some point though I hope.

3-2 to the Toon - Liverpool to go 2-0 up and us to fight back hard. Owen will score twice and Martins to seal the win off the bench. You heard it here first

The first team plays in the yellow bibs doesn't it? If so it looks like Martins and Geremi might not be playing

Granted we've got a tough game at Liverpool next week but the teams around us all have tricky fixtures coming up as well so fingers crossed the table won't change drastically.

Walter Smith has done okay. Hitzfeld done okay. Capello went back to Madrid & won the title. I am sure I could think of more if I could be bothered. Redknapp's doing ok at Pompey as well, not in the same vein as the names mentioned above by a long stretch though.

About 5 ft 5, short hair, thin. Alright, how did Martins PLAY when we came on?

How did Martins look btw when he came on?

Come on Citeh.

Christ almighty. This is his FIRST possible appearance under Keegan and he's returning from injury - can you honestly blame KK for benching him?

By the signs shown today and hopefully with Martins fucking STARTING from now on, we'll be fine - we'll beat Reading, Fulham and the Mackems at home, pushing us up to 37 points and are sure to pick up a few more points here and there. Today is NOT the be all and end all.

What a fucking sucker punch, fucking gutted at the moment but if we play like that every week with Martins on hand to fucking score sometime then we WILL stay up. How did Oba play today btw? Make much of a difference?

We WILL win this, still sure of it. Howay the lads!

Come on Toon, 3-1

Am hoping (probably too much) our team for next season will look something like this; Given Beye Faye Van Buyten Enrique/Shorey Bentley/Milner Appiah Carrick N'Zogbia/McGeady Owen Martins

Not a bad player but another striker is simply not what we need at the mo.

Still no Zamblera

I'm sorry, who? Next year's best Premiership defender... after Shittu. Well, hopefully we'll still be around to see him in action firsthand. He was at Sheffield Utd last season so chances are you've probably already seen him

Bollocks, the start Keegan's had was always an impossible task. He's been left in a position where he has to inspire players simply to bring them up to the level of being s*** and on top of that he's had to play three games against and Manure. Obviously if you weren't this depressed under Allardyce then you were one of the people who didn't see our current predicament coming from a mile off, a predicament created by the fat c*** himself.. We just need to somehow find the results needed to stay up. After that Keegan can go out and replace some of the s*** currently infesting our side and we can kick on from there.

Very well? In what way? Turning a defender then kicking it out of play? Off the ball hes great, but on the ball hes only good at attacking the fullback high up the pitch. Everything else - contributing to the build up, passing and moving, picking players out, etc, hes piss poor at (remember Nobby? He was practically the opposite player, yet far better). And even being good at attacking the fullback is made useless when its followed up by a cross into the keeper's hands, over everyone's head, or straight into a defender. Got bored of counting the number of times moves broke down because of his inability to play a team game on the ball. Hes similar to Butt but not as obvious because he sees the ball less often. Very well in the way that he got an assist, his delivery from set-pieces regularly caused problems for United, he tracked back well and got on Evra's bad side plenty of times. Also his delivery was quite good today - certainly better than Zog's - but the lack of bodies in the box hardly helped. He can't be bad if Martin O'Neill was so eager to sign him and still is regretting that he missed out on him. It seems the guy can't do right by you lot.

He played very well today against one of the best full-backs in the league. In addition, he got Carling Player of the Month. If that doesn't deserve credit I don't know what does.

So did Smith in all fairness.

Why should Carroll play up front? Owen and Martins have barely played together - give them a bloody chance.

We were quite positive going forward imo but we don't have the defence to support it - Manure simply ripped through us on the counter-attack. Still, we got a goal and created a few good, legitimate chances. Milner and Duff were both standouts for me; Barton, Taylor and Faye were all awful. Still, the doommonging going on is unbelievable. The likes of Reading, Birmingham and Fulham are nowhere near as clinical or defensively astute as Man Utd and so why people suddenly feel that we are going down after almost inevitably losing completely astounds me.

Feyenoord 2 - 3 Newcastle Such a tight, well contested game and was a brilliant moment when Bellamy slid home the rebound to take us through to the next round of the ECL.

I thought Butt's had a good game so far - won almost every tackle he's gone in for and his passing's been alot better than usual. As for Keegan give him a fucking break - this sort of attitude is proving all those twats in the papers to be correct and he's had a very tough start as manager.