Monroe Transfer

Not sure why I bothered reading this article - http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11678/10277925/newcastle-relegated-from-the-premier-league-what-went-wrong Anyway, had a glance at the comments for it and to little surprise we've already got a "fans got what they asked for after Pardew left" and even a bonus "went wrong when Big Sam left".

Er, what about the small matter of possibly winning the Wear-Tees derby?

How can anyone hate Boro? They're inoffensive, like Norwich.

Mackems in disguise tbh

Congratulations on staying up. Your lot deserve it.

BRING BACK CHRIS MORT

They're too busy celebrating the joint best night of their lives.

Charnley's going to surprise him with the best blowie of his life tonight too, anything to keep him away from the football news.

Could find fault in nearly all of them to be honest, Saivet was the first that came to mind. Even Mitrovic was a gamble that hasn't really paid off.

You mean his successor?

Ashley clearly thought throwing a bit of money at the problem would sort it. He'd be semi-correct if he hadn't allowed Carr, Charnley and McClaren to be in charge of spending it. Recruitment has been absolutely diabolical. We spent a bit of money but what's the point if it's spent on the likes of Saivet?

I feel really sorry for Charnley.

Congratulations to Sunderland for doing better than Newcastle, they achieved their one goal this season.

As fucking if

FTFY

I'll give him the tiniest bit of credit if he does the right thing and bins Charnley and Carr.

Ah well. How have they managed to do better than us in our supposed favourite market (France)? Kone and Khazri are decent.

He's no Sam Allardyce, that's for sure.

Too lazy to insert an image, even.

Wijnaldum first out the door.

Playing solid football and hoping to catch the opponent on the break might have worked for the last few games but we needed to be more adventurous today.

5 I think it is.

Still can't believe we didn't go all out attacking this lot. They were absolutely there for the taking. Rafa has to be partly at fault. We should have thrown the cliched proverbial sink at them, from the off. Two CDMs ffs. Was as if we were playing for a point, as if the team though that would be enough. Not only do Sunderland have Defoe (absolutely the reason they're staying up, they have very little quality aside from him), in my opinion they've also got more leaders and characters, which we lack and could have really done with today. Who knows, even a win today quite probably wouldn't be enough given Sunderland won and have two very easy fixtures coming up. Oh well.

Pearl of wisdom from BBC live text: