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we're going to get fucking dicked.

this all got far worse when Ashley bought the club; we weren't a s*** scared club when SBR was managing us - hell, even our s*** stain team under Souness, Roeder and Big Sam pre Ashley had more bottle than these f***ing cowards. Because even in those average days the club still had identity.

I think it could be a bit of a hammering tbh. Certainly if we concede early.

If we stop up and stays then it'll be amazing, but it's a case of when not if he and Ashley fall out. And judging by Ashley's pathetic comments recently it'll be quite soon.

His interview is bizarre, he seems almost blasé about the possibility of us going down. Also all this is a little ill timed imo.

He looked pretty crestfallen in his interview. Clearly knows how hard its gonna be to keep us in the league.

Delighted he's here and hope he does well. The message he gives in that interview is quite clear. Forget Ashley, McClaren or next season or what could happen. All that matters is these ten games and everyone has to pull in the same direction, if that happens we've got a chance.

Charnley is still McClaren's boss, regardless of his seat on the board. His board position means little if his job is under threat.

If he kept us up though he might stay. Him fucking off would be pretty clear if we went down.

The scenario we've got McClaren waiting for his dismissal whilst we somehow try to convince Benitez to be our manager is an interesting one. If we have that Berahino cash lying around just give that to him. tbf Rafa was on BTsport the other week and expressed his desire to return to work specifically in England. You just never know if the terms are good to him.

He's got the fans totally against him and his players have utterly stopped listening to him. Even if we don't have a replacement ready, he should still be gone. His presence around the place will be corrosive. Ridiculous this whole thing.

He should have been sacked straight after the game on Saturday.

They don't know what he'd do, but he might do things differently.

Would rather let Cathro have it for 10 games than Pearson. It would be a pathetic choice. If he kept us up he'd be there next season and it will exactly be the same. Small minded appointments get you the seasons they deserve. This club has been making shocking long term appointments since Robson left. These players need someone who can completely galvanise them. Appoint someone decent and off them a chance to leave if they don't keep us up, their choice. If they do, then he stays and tries to get us fighting up the right end of the table.

Yeh, he really hasn't done much this season at all.

Don't agree at all. Offside all day long. The argument is wether he was in line of Foster's vision. Pretty clear he was offside.

13 games left? another 3 more till we go on some sort of run according to that drivel.

Suarez went and he was replaced by a disinterested Balotelli, who had just had an appalling season for Milan. Lambert was also brought in effectively as back-up for Sturridge. One truly world class front two to that in the space of a summer. Suarez's influence on that team can't be underestimated. He lifted the entire first eleven, made average players like Henderson & Allen look brilliant, and also eeked one last decent season out of Gerrard. And of course, he made Rodgers look like some tactical genius, nearly winning the league. Of course Rodgers must have been doing something right that season, but really, picking Suarez was all he had to do, the third best player in the world during that season imo.

I'm not digging at you personally like, but it's really beginning to irritate me now reading and hearing this stupid phrase over and over again. Ambition with regards to what exactly? 'Showing ambition' is appointing and listening to a knowledgeable, clued up director / board of directors and going after a good / successful manager that could potentially win you something. Showing ambition is not appointing the reserve team secretary, Alan Carr's f***ing dad and an old, useless puppet of an ex-player and vehemently going after Steve f***ing McClaren. Not once, not twice but three times? Don't get me started on the likes of John Carver being given the reigns. 'Showing ambition' is going after players and building a solid team that can win you games. Showing ambition is not getting mostly medicore, half arsed players that don't fit or belong in your team and putting them on 5 and 6 year contracts, in the blind hope that they do well so you can make more money. On a similar note, forcing out and giving away arguably one of your best players and then spending circa £40m trying to replace said player by signing a Ligue 1 flop of the season (who knocked the club back previously), another who was either not interested, not tried or frankly not good enough and then a Spurs cast off who's barely done anything of note nor turned out this season? That's not ambition, it's f***ing stupidity. What's worse, they're only a handful of examples over his 8 year tenure. 8 years. You think Ashley has somehow just now decided he wants to be ambitious with the club? You don't think being on the verge of falling off the gravy train in 18th place is reason enough they are pissing all the club generated revenue up the wall? The whole thing is a massive gamble. Kinnear was a gamble. Carver was a gamble. McClaren and this transfer window will be this years gamble. There's no ambition or plan here aside from propping up the league for the benefit of Sports Direct. Boom. Thoughts into words there. Great post, well said.

They sold Suarez.

He gives them additional options after Mahrez & Vardy at the end of the day. After them two and Okazaki they need goals from other players. He kept us up virtually on his own a few seasons ago, if they revert back to struggling he'll probs help them survive in future seasons.

I think he's ok but his positional play was pretty poor imo when he was here. Not sure if its improved since he went back to Inter.

Any good ?

say that did actually happen you'd have to think that would be Moussa off.

We all do but that's wishful thinking. Until someone signs press links and rumours are all we can feed on? This is Newcastle after all