TheMoog

No way will we get relegated, no chance. I doubt we'll even get drawn in to a serious fight at the bottom.

Jeez guys come on, stop being so bloody pesamistic, no wonder the world and their dog think that we as fans are a joke. Yeah, we've had a rough start under KK but we haven't been as bad as all that - plus today's the first time in 4 games under KK that we've had a decent size squad to pick from AND importantly some of those coming back haven't had chance to train/fit in with the new boss yet. These aren't his players and he doesn't have his full back room team sorted yet - the guys only been back a couple of weeks. This season is over for us, it has been for a while so we have nothing to lose, there's no way on this planet we'll get relegated, we're just having a hard time at the moment due to circumstance and difficult fixtures coming at a time when the team's hard pressed to work as an effective unit. All this doom and gloom nonsense plays right in the hands to any fan/media/muppet from outside the club who like to have a crack at us and it needs to stop - Kevin Keegan is the man to fix our problems, time and patience is needed and all this crap doesn't help anyone. Calm down, chill out and relax until next season when the fun really starts.

Huzzah! It's laughable that some areas of the press see that Pearson leaving has 'rattled Keegans regime' though

"Even more irksome was the wariness with which the British regarded Philip when he first came on the royal scene. A poll taken in 1947 revealed widespread dismay at Philip's alien origins. Never mind that he was, like Elizabeth, a great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria. To the public he became 'Phil the Greek', an opprobrious nickname which still surfaces from time to time today. It was inaccurate. Philip was born a Prince of Greece, but his ancestry was actually Danish and German. The nickname was none the less wounding for that, though." He line is oringinally from the House of Hannover crossed with the Danes. The Danes had the practice of exporting Royalty and Royal lines to countries where the natives didn't really trust each other to run things. Our Royals are mostly Krauts as well Stevie if you were wondering. Saxe Coburg Goethe till the name changes. Aye but if a Paki is born in England, are they Pakistani or English? They're English of course they are, so Phil remains Greek till the day he dies. Hang on, my brother was born in Singapore but he's English If a dog's born in a stable it doesn't make them a horse. Still, I must admit I've always thought Phil was Greek. Getting back to the main topic, I'm not supporting anyone in particular, I lose interest when my team's not playing. Well to be honest Newcastle were never going to qualify for this one Good point

"Even more irksome was the wariness with which the British regarded Philip when he first came on the royal scene. A poll taken in 1947 revealed widespread dismay at Philip's alien origins. Never mind that he was, like Elizabeth, a great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria. To the public he became 'Phil the Greek', an opprobrious nickname which still surfaces from time to time today. It was inaccurate. Philip was born a Prince of Greece, but his ancestry was actually Danish and German. The nickname was none the less wounding for that, though." He line is oringinally from the House of Hannover crossed with the Danes. The Danes had the practice of exporting Royalty and Royal lines to countries where the natives didn't really trust each other to run things. Our Royals are mostly Krauts as well Stevie if you were wondering. Saxe Coburg Goethe till the name changes. Aye but if a Paki is born in England, are they Pakistani or English? They're English of course they are, so Phil remains Greek till the day he dies. Hang on, my brother was born in Singapore but he's English If a dog's born in a stable it doesn't make them a horse. Still, I must admit I've always thought Phil was Greek. Getting back to the main topic, I'm not supporting anyone in particular, I lose interest when my team's not playing.

I wonder if the media will make a huge deal about how amateurish the whole thing has been The last time I looked neither team were based on Tyneside or wore black and white stripes so probably not...

I doubt very much Keegan would have enthused about his original crop of players the last time he managed us - with such a poor start last time round I suspect now is no different. We need players in, they won't be here til summer, until then Keegan has to make do and put a brave face on it. I can't believe 3 games in, 2 of which were against Arsenal without a full first team to pick from, people are having such doubts - it's nonsesne like that which makes me wonder if the press are right and this club's fans really are laughing stock for good reason.

Should have been 2-0

If the ref's got anything to do with it the game'll be a 0-0 draw!

Fucking joke of a ref

My thoughts exactly, although I think the sun shines out of Big Al's arse he's always going to be second in my eyes to Kev and there's no need for him to spout this 'exclusive' if he really does have the club's best interests at heart. Sad.

QFT

We need a target man, not another shortarse runner, Defoe isn't what we'd need.

Look at your list properly. Carrick? Bridge? Garay? Richards? Sissoko? Elmander? Van Der Vaart? Deco? SWP? Berbatov? Modric? Realistic? Of the rest, some chose other clubs over us, others are players people would be horrified if we signed. Exactly, and as well as that, why pay over-the-odds for players just for the sake of it? Panic buying just adds to players we'd probably have to get rid of when Kev decides to get his own players in and to get players like that in you're likely to have to pay silly wgaes too.

I don't see what you lot are getting het up about, I haven't seen any transfers of players going to other clubs that'd have been worth us going for tbh. I think Kev's right, there really isn't anyone out there worth going for just yet - I'd have liked Van Buyten but it's not that depressing that nobody's come in so far. Another two weeks and Kev will have the lads from the African nations to play so it's not as if our squad is that bad for the remainder of the season. and come summer we'll have that much more scope on who we can go for instead of just anyone for the sake of it.

Robbing houses and dipping bins must pay well...

Don't see the point of this really unless we're losing Harper or Krul sometime soon, still I'm not adverse to us getting new talent in, there's always the opportunity to make a profit further down the line if they turn out half decent.

Who is expecting miracles? Apparently anyone other than Newcastle United supporters, the press for one, fans of other teams for another. It was a generalisation in case anyone was daft enough to think it.

I'm excited, anyone with half a brain couldn't expect miracles over-night. After what Kev did for us from start to finish (yes, including that slow start last time) I'm really looking forward to a long reign under Keegan.

This Alvaro must be tops if Birmingham were after him

We don't want his kind round here... *Spits on the ground*

Exactamundo

Nah, not worried in the slightest. This season's not really that important, as long as we don't get pulled in to an unlikely relegation battle I can't see us having too many problems. We'll stabalise then strengthen during the summer, then come back stronger next season. King Kev needs to ignore any media hype crap that starts getting kicked upand concentrate on planning for next season tbh.

For anyone who's honestly concerned with Kev's impact on the club (god knows why anyone would be), I nabbed this from another post somewhere and it makes a good point: Nobody on this planet could come in to NUFC and turn things round overnight, Kev's last start with us was a battle but things came together given that little bit of time and patience. If you refuse to get behind Keegan managing our club then you shouldn't even have the cheek to call yourself a member of the Toon Army - just a worshiper of Southern shit-stirring hacks.