Craig

They were talking about it on TalkSport tonight and querying how it makes Newcastle fans feel... On one hand we want Souness out, but on the other we'd kill for some silverware...

He's Shearer's replacement in stature and fan/media appeal - that I agree with.... But in terms of on the field, he's more suited to playing alongside Shearer rather than instead of him.. The bottom line with the Souness/Bellamy issue (and something I think we both agree with) is that neither one of them is blameless... For the record, there's a large part of me who thinks Souness has 'given up' and is playing to be sacked. I think the article above (which is a bit pathetic) is him saying that his family is something he gives a shit about whereby the grief he gets for being Newcastle boss is not - sorry but he should be giving a shit! He's in a no-lose situation tbh. He carries on as he is, he's getting paid handsomely for delivering a load of dross. He gets the boot and it's a nice fat pay-off. Either way he wins.... And that little gem I'm afraid is totally attributable to Freddy Shepherd..

To be fair PL, I'd consider Michael Owen a more than admirable replacement for Bellamy - can't even argue about him being injured as CB spent a good amount of time on the sidelines... I do question Souness' actions with regards to Bellamy and wonder if he did have pre-conceived opinions. That being said, CB did himself no favours by texting Shearer when we got knocked out of the cups... This from the player who 'loves the Newcastle fans and wants what they want'. If that's true, then why rejoice in us getting knocked out? That's the point I seriously started losing respect for him...

How long before we're linked then?

who's ignoring the performance? We've all said we were shit, we're just choosing not to dwell on it... Tell me HTL, are you going to be whinging about what Souness did to this club long after we get rid of him?

Exactly. It's more than blinkered to dismiss yet another shite performance claiming, " we're through to the next round. " 86282[/snapback] While we were absolutely dogshit and it frustrates the fuck out of us, Gemmill does kinda have a point. We're through and what is past is prologue. I'd much rather us be shit and we go through than we play our bollocks off and we lose.... 4 March 1996 still sticks in my throat - we fucking murdered Man Utd that night yet we still ended up losing 1-0. No point dwelling on what's gone before - we need to move forward tbh...

And you know this how? Previous life? 86269[/snapback] Buy "Flight" magazine (its weekly) - every 6 months they publish a full list of stats and details of all accidents for every plane that is commercial - easy really or http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm 86277[/snapback] OK, here's one for you... TWA plane that crashed off Long Island during the '96 Olympics. Brought down simply because the plane had been left on the apron too long with the air conditioning system left on. The aircon system heated the fuel in the centre tank to flash point and a short caused by the shoddy insulation on the wiring loom caused a spark and the fuel exploded. It resulted in a fracture which caused the nose to detatch and the plane literally fly for another half mile without a front section before it stalled and crashed...... You telling me those people felt nowt!

righto.... And like your point about them gliding, I wouldn't want to find out....

Technically I just said that, you closet Chelsea fan 86257[/snapback] As long as it's not statistically, then all's OK...

There was a plane a few years ago in America that lost a section of it's tail and flew upside down for 15 minutes before eventually crashing and killing all on board. To compound matters, I have heard when the body is stressed like this time goes into slow motion "survival mode" and it would have felt like hours to the victims. Horrendous. 86247[/snapback] Renton, I think you're referring to the plane which crashed over Queens a couple of months after 9/11, which lost its rudder, inverted, stalled and crashed. If you are, then I don't know where you dreamed this 15 minutes thing up, there was a program about it on the Discovery channel the other night and the plane was down within 90 seconds of losing the rudder.... 86258[/snapback] I'm referring to a completely different plane crash a decade before actually. 86261[/snapback] Then it was more than a few years ago....

Car crash isn't gonna get you on the news though, is it? 86256[/snapback] Who gives a shit?

There was a plane a few years ago in America that lost a section of it's tail and flew upside down for 15 minutes before eventually crashing and killing all on board. To compound matters, I have heard when the body is stressed like this time goes into slow motion "survival mode" and it would have felt like hours to the victims. Horrendous. 86247[/snapback] Renton, I think you're referring to the plane which crashed over Queens a couple of months after 9/11, which lost its rudder, inverted, stalled and crashed. If you are, then I don't know where you dreamed this 15 minutes thing up, there was a program about it on the Discovery channel the other night and the plane was down within 90 seconds of losing the rudder....

For fuck's sake, I can't believe this is still going! Fact is, while flying may be statistically safer, if you were going to crash a plane and a car and you had to choose which one you had to be in, give me the car any day of the week....

Renton won't get it tbh...

Jesus weptafragilisticexpialidocious tbh. 86221[/snapback] seconded.... Renton man, how many times have you been banging on about how Luque fails to hit the net!

At least it means I'm losing the "you and Craig are the same person" tag now 86203[/snapback] No, it just means that Craig seems to be a Chelsea fan, too... 86209[/snapback] Bollocks! Not a fucking chance in hell would I support that bag 'o' shite!

I read something but wasn't sure it was adressed to me. Are you saying Boumsong wasn't Souness's signing or something? If so, I disagree. 86182[/snapback] Read the article (and then your quote, which was included in the post so quite how you weren't sure if it was for you is beyond me, again then!) You said Robson was linked with him but wasn't interested. Yet that article states that we had a £3.8m bid for J-A-B turned down the weekend for SBR was sacked! Now either Robson was being allowed to bid for players 2 days before he was sacked (and thus proving that FS fucked up and sacked Robson on a whim) or Shepherd himself made the bid.... Souness did indeed sign him, I never disputed that - if you recall my initial point (which you said was wrong) was that we approached Rangers for Boumsong before we sacked Bobby!! 86188[/snapback] OK, so Robson might have been interested in Bounsong as a second choice defender when Woodgate was sold under his nose and there was literally only days left to go before the transfer market closed. So what? 86195[/snapback] So what?? *cough* No, Bobby didn't want him even for free. 85707[/snapback] You was wrong.....nerrrr!

I read something but wasn't sure it was adressed to me. Are you saying Boumsong wasn't Souness's signing or something? If so, I disagree. 86182[/snapback] Read the article (and then your quote, which was included in the post so quite how you weren't sure if it was for you is beyond me, again then!) You said Robson was linked with him but wasn't interested. Yet that article states that we had a £3.8m bid for J-A-B turned down the weekend for SBR was sacked! Now either Robson was being allowed to bid for players 2 days before he was sacked (and thus proving that FS fucked up and sacked Robson on a whim) or Shepherd himself made the bid.... Souness did indeed sign him, I never disputed that - if you recall my initial point (which you said was wrong) was that we approached Rangers for Boumsong before we sacked Bobby!!

Oooooh! Get her 86178[/snapback] still avoiding the issue like - perhaps we'll get more of a response out of KCG!

You're spot on actually. 86152[/snapback] *lick* tbh. 86158[/snapback] tbh!

Nope, I wasn't confident enough to say we'd win... Different 86156[/snapback] Meh 86161[/snapback] Bastid!

Nope, I wasn't confident enough to say we'd win... Different

I agree with you on this one... Wouldn't be as confident if it had been at St. Mary's though...

Who was seriously expecting us to lose against Cheltenham? 86141[/snapback] I second that one - you might have interpreted my "I hope your confidence doesn't come back to bite us on the arse" as an admission that they'd beat us but it wasn't... It was an admission that I wasn't confident enough to say that we wouldn't lose - there's a difference...

Do you think Gary Neville groaned when he saw that one ? 86128[/snapback] He's going to get some serious shit like....