Micky

No need to do any u turn. We are relegated, that's not Ruben's fault. Let him see over this shit show to the end of the season and then part amicably. Serious reset needed in the close season to sort this mess out.

Fuck, we made the BBC national news as well...!

I do want to receive it, but i want it to tell me that they are sweating blood to put things right!

I have to say I was pretty much hoping for the same, and wanting a clean sheet as well, which would've given us a bit of confidence going into the weekend. After 30 minutes though you could see that we just weren't going to win the game, and when they got the second penalty you sort of knew it was game over. I can't remember the last time we scored 3 goals in a game, but initially I was hoping that it would've been tonight.

The clubs media department really fucks me off. Emails, YouTube, Instagram the works, peddling that 'all is rosy' at the club and the players still think they can 'turn it around'. Do they really think the fans are that stupid? I get the fact that they have a job to do, but ffs, get some reality and context, stop treating the fans like fools.

Errrrr static.

We really tested the Grimsby keeper.... oohhh actually can't remember him making a save...

We really are very shit aren't we?

Just knock it about at the back boys, bags of time...!!

Doing OK. Only two down.

We are a basket case.....

Lol another pen.

Yeah I know, when you get back you can watch it for yourself.

Watch it back, it's not difficult to spot. It was a pen.

The real killer will be our total lack of urgency in the second half. We will come out thinking we have plenty of time to turn it around and just play our normal 'patient' game. Then in the last 5 minutes they'll realise that they need to get a grip, by then it'll be too late. Seen it hundreds of times with these clowns. If I was the manager I'd be screaming at them in that dressing room that I want them to go all out and get back in the game quickly.

Yeah, it was handball. Blatant pen.

Personally I hope he does go, he deserves a whole lot better than us. He's done as much as he can here, and doesn't deserve to be playing in the championship. I really can't see us being back in the top flight for many years now so I hope he doesn't 'stay with us for one season' to get us up - never gonna happen. All of that said I can't see him at a top 6 club, as we know he plays every minute of every game, but he would have to spend a lot of time on the bench at a top club. Unfortunately I see him at Villa, West ham or Everton even, a mid table type club. Whatever happens, I wish him well, this clusterfuck is not his making.

Lol. That's us going hell for leather in a 'must win' 6 pointer...! Classic saints.

Agree to a point, Long, despite his lack of goals, could actually do a job for us when we were leading and trying to close the game out. He'd be no good to us now though because we are very rarely leading. Loved his work ethic alongside other strikers, that was his strength, but he was only a four or five a season striker.

Ahhh right, sorry, didn't make the connection (or I'm much more of a realist - no way will we win the FA Cup). If the impossible did happen I really couldn't see it attracting many players that could get decent prem clubs and wages, let's face it any European tour would be very brief!

David Ginola reckons Newcastle will be at Wembley every year....!

I don't think you needed to highlight the stats, the problem has been clear to many on here for ages. We are all well aware that our 'strikers' are basically crap. Many, many posters on here have been saying for ages (from last season even) that we need a quality (QUALITY) striker - its been plain to see for ages without having to analyse any stats. The reason for our demise has not been hard to see, but we have contrived to not address the problem.

Sorry, I don't understand. Very few (and I mean very few) of our players are good enough for the Premiere League. How in the hell can they be aspiring to European football given the crap they've produced this season.

Want Everton and West Ham. Will be Bournemouth and Leeds.

And in those 3 lines you have basically highlighted the reason we have been relegated. We don't score goals. You can have as much of the ball as you like, but if you don't score, you don't win. Our front players are dire, players we have gambled on from lower leagues who frankly are nowhere near premiership quality. The 3 new boys, from the little I've seen, also look poor at this level and there is no way they are going to score enough goals to keep us up. Why our owner and various different managers can't see this is beyond me. Goals win games and we very rarely score any. It ain't rocket science.