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Once again someone criticising Newcastle United chooses to be totally selective. I never once referred to their recent history, just their history in general. As far as I'm concerned, a club that has 4 league titles, twice finishing runner up and 6 FA Cup triumphs with 7 runner up spots plus a Fairs Cup is a decent history. Not great but certainly something that suggests they have tasted success in their history. Regarding the clubs "overblown" ambition, do you not think fans who see the players coming through their doors for massive transfer fees would come to expect a bit of success over time? It's not them signing the players. Jesus. 3 years ago, Southampton signed Rudi Skacel and we all presumed we'd get promoted as a consequence. Imagine our reaction and expectations when big name and big money players like Owen, Emre, Boumsong, Martins, Coloccini, etc etc... The fans didnt reject anything. They were all for someone overseeing the transfer policy over Keegan with regard to youngsters. When Keegan came in, he was told he was in charge of first team affairs and left because moves for defenders (players Newcastle actually needed) were vetoed in favour of signing nobodies from the Spanish league up front and in midfield. It's hard to do a job you are proven to be good at when your hands are tied behind your back. As for Mike Ashley. He is a buffoon of the highest order. I could go into why but there is far too many reasons to point out now.

Likes his attacking football. Reading and West Ham scored bags of goals under him. For every Bobby Zamora or Marlon Harewood, there is a Yossi Benayoun or a Dean Ashton.

Exsqueeze me for having an opinion. I personally think the Killers are the most over-rated, over-hyped band in recent memory. As for Springsteen, I think that says it all really... Self-indulgent mulch.

Whys that? Would you rather have a manager with no record of promotion that doesnt unite 99% of the fanbase and play hit it and hope football with a load of demotivated players? Keegan may have a track record of resigning, but he doesnt have a track record of getting sacked, which I think is more impressive. His promotion record is also second-to-none and the best thing of all, players would actually ant to play for him.

All the ones at home actually! In fairness I was probably aged between 11-16 in this period but did see him score some crackers away from home as well. Wimbledon x 2 Newcastle x 3 Man Utd THAT goal v Arsenal. Happy days.

How about hiring Dennis Wise in the first place? He had no experience in that sort of position and had history with Newcastle fans from his playing days also. Then to back his judgement over a manager of Kevin Keegan's standing cant really see the logic there either. How about commissioning the sales of Milner, N'Zogbia and Given (amongst others last seasn also) and replacing them with players costing a fraction of what they sold them for? How about guzzling pints of lager wearing a Newcastle shirt on TV amongst the fans in an area of the Emirates where no alcohol was apparently allowed? How about leaving Chris Hughton and Colin Calderwood to their own devices for 2 months waiting for Joe Kinnear to recover from open heart surgery in a display of such arrogance tha defies belief and then only acting on it when the majority of their players treat the club as much of a joke as he has. I could go on.

NOt that it helps, but putting it into perspective, if Derby scored first and we'd equalised I think most of us would be happy enough. They are a form team and we've held them. A point is a point. We cant worry too much about how other sides around us are doing.

109-8 Jimmy Anderson with wicket. 3.2 over left. its on. Come on Saints. Keep your heads...

Chris perry you absolute fecking beauty!!!!!!! Get in that onion bag!!!!!

My step-dad has eaten at a restaurant that did it and sat next to a load of Japanese businessmen who had it. The monkey is put in a sort of vice clamp with the skin on top of the head peeled back exposing the skull. Nasty and almost reduced me to tears when first hearing of it. Disgusting. But then there are people who live in the East who think we are disgusting for eating pigs and cows.

Its chicken and egg though because Pearson would have left because we were being forced into a position where no matter who was in charge, we were in a position where we had to make drastic cutbacks and let go of key players like Rasiak, John, Davies etc... and I'm not sure how happy Pearson would have been following that. It's difficult to speculate how we would have done though because Pearson didnt exactly pull up roots in his first few weeks as manager and we had on paper a much stronger squad last year to this year. I would feel confident though that if we do stay up, we would fair better next season as the players would all have a bit more experience and know-how. It also looks as if making the cutbacks we did earlier this season has stabilised us to a point as we are now in a position where we are playing the likes of Euell, Saganowski and Size etc... who would all command a lot more in wages than our kids. Hopefully that will continue next year as well, should we stay up./

Perhaps you'd be kind enough to shine some light on where exactly I might have done that?

Robbie, this really isnt the thread for it but Rupert Lowe isnt doing this because he thought it would be a jolly good idea and a bit of a laugh. He is doing this because Leon Crouch and Michael Wilde ploughed this club into so much debt in an all-or-nothing attempt at Promotion. When that didnt come off, we had a squad full of over-paid, disinterested and largely unsellable players. Lowe had to make tough decisions and the first one was whether to keep paying players who werent putting in a shift, keep a manager that would be demanding transfer funds and wages to offer (cant blame Pearson for that) or strip the club of its biggest wage-earners in an attempt to keep the wolf from the door, get a load of loans in on the basis that their parent clubs contribute or still pay their wages and employ a manager who was happy to operate under the circumstances that were laid out before he accepted the job. If you want to carry on discussing the pros and cons of both Rupert and Leon, there are 1000 other threads to do it on though.

Fraid not, he's too pretty for me. I prefer my men a bit more rugged. Roy Keane with his big grey beard does the trick for me.

He might not do that, but he does do this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF60oBBL4l0 Wonder where he learnt that from?!?!