Novocastrian

Keegan is a proven football manager. Shearer is a totally unknown quantity. What little we have seen was nothing spectacular. Can't understand the barracking of Keegan, if you bend over like a little bitch at work and let your boss walk all over you then fine. Don't hammer a professional football man who decided that his position was fatally undermined by his superiors.

Couldn't give a fuck. As far as I'm concerned all of the players are culpable for the abomination of a PL season last year. That includes the likes of Harper, Taylor, Beye, Bassong etc. I would not shed a tear, in fact I would probably rejoice, if every single one of them fucked off tomorrow. If even three or four players had of upped their game and given 100 per cent for the cause it might have rubbed off on a few of the others. If we have to start from scratch so be it. I'm fucking fed up with the lot of them. Give the kids a chance, get a new manager bring in some championship type players who can do a job and take it from there.

La tristesse durera.

Unlike us, who play really shite football and still can't score.

Fergie couldn't give two fucks about us. Anyone who thinks he harbours a long lasting grudge to see us relegated is frankly deluded. He has much bigger fish to fry we are merely a pimple on his backside at the moment and will be until we miraculously manage to challenge for the title again. He will pick the team he wants to satisfy his requirements. Its fuck all to do with us we blew our chance to take charge of our own destiny.

The apathy comes from the fact our fate is now out of our hands. We could beat Villa and still get relegated. There may very well be a final twist in this relegation battle but the failure to beat Pompey and get even a point from Fulham in two of our three 'must win matches' has deflated many fans who are now not expecting much. No point going balls out at Villa and getting picked off on the break when a point may do the trick. No point sitting tight and trying to defend for the point because we can't defend.

My abiding memory of that little shit is him rubbing his hands together when he scored a hatrick at St James's for Liverpool.

It's just one big shit flavoured Cornetto, and we all have to take a lick.

Just looking at those names [with few exceptions] makes me want to cry. What a shower, Ossie's kids back in 91/92 could have beat them.

I agree, Ashley should have begged him to come back. Even though he was clearly unhappy with the 'system' I believe he would have stayed had he been allowed to bring in 1 or 2 of his own players before the window closed.

At least the Summer break won't be as long.

Anybody still looking forward to the lap of honour?

Biggest bunch of ballbags to have ever played for the club this bunch.

At least we are taking it the last game of the season. That's quite an achievement with the dross on the pitch.

Are we shooting towards the Gallowgate end this half?

Indefatigable.

I don't think it's mental, Owen has always had plenty of self-belief. He is shot to pieces, but physically rather than mentally. You're probably right, he just looked really down to me. Maybe he is finding it hard that his body can't do what he wants it to anymore. I feel his pain, at 38 I still have the footballing brain of Lionel Messi but the body of Lionel Blair!! :-[

It's their prerogative to be honest. Why should they potentially injure players before the CL final in a dead rubber? Just to keep us happy? By the time that game comes around we will have had 37 games to get shit in one sock. We need to take charge of our own destiny and not rely on other teams who have a totally different agenda.

At no point in his career has Guthrie ever promised to be anything more than a very average Premier League player. He may improve slightly but he's nowhere the quality of side with aspirations for the top 6. He is only good enough for us at the moment because of our woeful midfield.

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If only that dozy cunt Owen had of chipped the ball over James a la Beardsley we would be sitting pretty now.

I know its a long season but the key moments for me have been the last minute goals at St James' by Stoke and Wigan and the failure to beat Pompey. Even three points out of that lot would probably save us. The way recent results have gone our way is uncanny. Of course it means nothing if we can't get at least another 3 points.

As long as Stoke hang on there is no reason at all to believe we will be relegated this season. All we have to do is beat Boro and then match Hull's final two results. Forget WBA they are doomed. We don't deserve it but we are being given a tantalising lifeline.............................please god grab hold of it!

He's hopeless. He had the honeymoon period where most were blinded by his price tag and Argie international (fringe player) status but he has been woeful all season. Nothwithstanding his physical and mental deficiencies he has no anticipation. Even slow, lumbering centre backs can get away with it if they can read the game. Another Boumsong, £10 million down the drain, will be lucky to get £2-3 million back for him from some mid table La Liga side.

Because there is no movement off the ball. The player in possession looks up for a pass, can't find anyone within 30 yards so he attempts keep hold of the ball until someone makes space for him. No-one is forthcoming so the player in possession has to boot it long up the pitch. Our ball retention must be the worst in the league. It's absolutely pitiful. Too true, and it is the biggest truism in football that you can't create anything if you don't keep hold of the ball. Our players need to think to themselves 'if I play this ball what are the chances my team mate will receive it?'. If the answer is 'unlikely', then don't f***ing try it! Too many speculative balls over the top totally wasted. I think the only thought that goes through most of our team's heads ,when in possession is, "s***, I got the ball. s***... where can I offload it so I can't get tackled... s***... just kick it!" You're right of course but there is often no option at all to the player with the ball. It pains me to watch other teams who have so much movement; strikers peeling off defenders, wide players overlapping to take defenders away, a couple of players coming short to receive the ball whilst others create space, make angles etc. We are so leaden, unimaginative and static any fairly organised midfield/defence can close our game down and crush the life out of us. Can't score, can't defend = relegation.