Novocastrian

It's better than being smashed in the face with a hammer a hundred times. Lots of variables id say, what if its one of those inflatable rubber hammers Even it was a rubber hammer filled with a concrete/ball bearing mix it would still be less painful than watching Butt, Nolan and Duff labouring to string two passes together.

It's better than being smashed in the face with a hammer a hundred times.

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 fucking try it! Too many speculative balls over the top totally wasted.

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.

On the contrary, they played a clever game, used the space well and if it wasn't for profligate finishing would have left with all three points. Shows how awful we are in defence when Hermann Hereidessen was marauding down the wing.

A pint of what he's been drinking please barman.

Great being a Newcastle fan, isn't it? FOR f*** SAKE!!!! Seriously though, if we do somehow win those two, it should be enough...just on goal difference. Don't think Hull will get anymore than 3 points, don't think Boro will get 7 points from their other 3 games, or WBA. I think we'll draw both our remaining home games. I agree. In both games we'll struggle to get the ball into the last third because everyone will be stood around hoping somebody else makes a run. Was bitching about this all game. Our players are so f***ing static when we are in possession. This is absolutely key, players in possession have no options there is no movement ahead of the ball. We are far too easy to mark out of a game.

Shearer should "manage" this buy walking into the dressing room with a big stick and beating the entire first team senseless. He should then rip off his suit, strip the number 9 shirt off of Martins' quivering body, and put it on and start up front next week. True, but it makes me laugh when Kilcline and Scott Sellars would walk into this team of 'internationals'. What a joke.

And you sound just like the sort of walkover I'd like to have working for me. You don't sound like you have the moral fortitude to make a stand when your boss is running roughshod over you. I need a bitch to make my cuppas and cover me when I fuck off from work early.

Indeed. If only he had that spine. Think you know the real villain and it's not Keegan. I would have done the same thing as him, Ashley's a first rate c*** and is the only person to blame in all of this. As if I wasn't feeling pissed off enough. "Keegan" just reading it makes me want to throw up. Im sure Keegan will be happy enough with his f***ing 8mil payoff Good luck to him, I'm sure he would rather still be in the dug out. Ashley has reaped what he sowed.

Looks like it will go down to the wire. We have no complaints really, just like the last time we went down. We truly deserved it having had ample chances to dig ourselves out of the mire. I still think we can get a point away at Villa, unfortunately tonight was a must win (like I'm telling anyone something they didn't already know!) and I can only see us winning the Boro match. We will be agonisingly close but ultimately unsuccessful. Ashley needs to carry the can, even Hiddink, Wenger, Ferguson and Benitez working as a management coalition couldn't keep this bunch up.

Well I think thats it, in my opinion the games against Wigan and Stoke at home are the ones that really sunk us. I look at this as an opportunity. Get Ashley out of the club, lose 25,000 of the fair weathers who have attached themselves to the club in since the halcyon Keegan days and get rid of some of the dross on the pitch.

Other shite teams play two banks of four and battle for everything. We can't even do that. Absolute dross. Managers like Shearer, fresh from playing/the studio are food and drink for old campaigners like Redknapp.

Reminds me a bit of Alan Smith (when he was good).

Didn't he just sign a new contract? Yes, but he's not quite the Galactico who has it in his contract to start every game.

Almost 100% positive Butt will start the next game. As for Ameobi, his days are surely numbered.

Clutching at straws, but this may be a turning point. Surely we can't play this poorly again. Shearer will learned a lot about which players are up for the fight. Shame Ashley dithered for so long as we are now running out of time. Stating the obvious I know.

He made the tea at half time. Makes a lovely cuppa.

Me too, this was always going to be v. difficult. A draw keeps us alive (just).

Brazillian girls: Bodies from Baywatch, heads from Crimewatch.

Got a ticket for the Ukraine game, just enough time to get to Wembley after I finish work and then hope to get home before midnight after the game.

Colo has been living off his reputation for a while now. If his name was Frank Coulson instead of Fabrizio Coloccini he would have been slaughtered by now.

He is not good enough, unfortunatley Given was sold for peanuts. Give Krul a chance.

Agreed, Boumsongesque performance, he's always back on his heels.

tbh that's quite interesting. As an aside, I played at the national stadium in Freetown, Sierra Leone when I visited with the RN. We played a team of "displaced people" who had been made homeless during the civil war. The strips and balls had been provided by the English FA. There was good turnout, 2000+, and after the match we all donated our boots to the lads on the team we played. The referee wouldn't leave me alone because he wanted my NUFC socks, which I wore after the match, to complete his ad hoc referee kit!