Norbert Colon

How can any of you criticise KK for lacking ability and knowledge - fuck off you morons - you obviously do not have a fucking clue - this is a bloke who took a completely shit team (i know cos i watched them - something a few on here did not have the pleasure of) and blended together with not that much money a side that was at times breathtaking and got us out of the second rate no hope league we had been toiling in for years - not only that but took us to a level not seen in these parts for a generation - ok he has a struggle at the moment with players he would not have chosen - it is very similar to his first time round but when he gets us out of trouble and is allowed to work his undoubted magic you lot that are so quick to point the shitty finger should fuck off and hang your heads in shame - you wankstains - go and support (?) some fucker else (may i suggest gretna)

Must get a result of any sort i reckon but it won't be easy as i can see the overly physical approach of birmingham overwhelming our fragile midfield and defense

When I got to the Central Station at 820 hand on heart there were more Liverpool fans milling about than toon. Honestly as well. Fucking jokers. They seemed to revel in us heading to oblivion as well, their loudest chant was "going down" even those wanks to the right in the main stand, were jumping up and down singing it. Our day will come. Its hard to bear at times when its every fucker and their uncle having a go - but as you say mate every dog an all that

It doesn't matter how we would have done under fatboy cos he has gone - but there was no ball retention at the front and no possession in midfield - i don't think the defence was bad at all considering it was constantly getting battered - why warm carroll up with fifteen minutes to go and then sit him down - unimaginative substitutions, poor player tactics equals bollocks all chance against even mediocre sides never mind the likes of liverpool

It hurts me to say it but KK has to take some responsibility at the moment - to persist with smith at any cost (as seems to be the policy) is utterly ridiculous and foolhardy - to think he can do a job on gerrard is a joke - i know we never expected anything here but the performance was terrible and unfortunately it doesn't look like its going to change soon - smith should not get a game - full stop - he was ineffective at best today - and we will never win a game with him in the team

He mauled Cannavaro like. Although Cannavaro actually wanted to defend him for it, but UEFA weren't having any of it. Almeyda scored a class goal iirc. As did the enigma that is Recoba when he came on with one of his first touches. Aye. Recoba curled one into the corner from next to where I sit. Enigma is right. I don't think he's ever lived-up to anything like the promise I saw in him when he was at Venezia (on loan from Inter iirc). I remember his debut for Inter. There as all this hype as it was also Ronaldo's debut. Then Recoba pings the ball in from standing a good 30-35 yards out twice. Was sensational. I wonder if inters team dentist was on piece work - he'd have made a fortune with those two

Talk about emotional scarring - i have a recurring dream of steven taylor prancing around our penalty box to the theme of black beauty - appropriate but nonetheless disturbing

Aye we've signed a few pieces over the years unfortunately alot of them were of the ring variety rather than the edge or corner type

I didn't realise that getting 20k a week instead of 40 would make you prance about like a dressage pony in the penalty box and render you unable kick a ball correctly - his timing is more than unfortunate and i hope keegan realises that he is a liability and pressurising the club during a difficult period of results is unacceptable

Agreed - if it goes to the wire its like we have a point less than those around us - those hammerings we have taken could be more than humiliating

If the bit about Hughton was true, it would be a shocking state of affairs, but I don't believe that for a second. I'm afraid they won't shut up about Keegan being underminded until this season is over and Keegan gets some serious money to spend on new players. Aye, that's about the size of it. Because the press have it ingrained to come up with bullshit stories about us and have done for so long they can't help themselves spout nonsense about us seeing as there's nothing solid right now. Unlike anyone with common sense who doesn't expect anything to happen with the team until next season the press are trying to create stories that aren't there just so they can fill columns... personally I'd prefer there to be no news than made up garbage. Just got to ride the storm and keep schtum really - its all so fucking hilarious to have a go at us at the moment but fingers crossed and we may have the last laugh - avoid a relegation scrap, limp home to the end of the season then hope Kev gets the quality in he wants and see where we go from there - i just hope we can ram some of it down their throats next season

What are you honestly going to lose by playing carroll instead of smith? goals - no, the aerial threat - no, somebody who tries hard - no - can't see a down side - viduka is obviously a preferred option but if he isn't fit then i would give carroll a game ahead of smith and ameobi every time. My only worry is that he will put smith into midfield just to accommodate him which would counteract any benefits gained from carroll up front as he will always give free kicks away in dangerous areas mainly due to the fact that he can't tackle, run, kick the ball straight or win a header

I remeber a guy coming on loan from forest when ardiles was manager but i don't think his name was andy - can't remember what you called him but he was fuckin awful - he only played a handful of games but even in that short period of time exhibited an uncanny knack of losing the ball just outside our box and gifting several goals to the opposition - now i think of it his first name mite hav been terry Aye Tommy Gaynor and Terry Wilson both incredibly shit, Terry had blonde/ginger hair I think. Aye terry wilson - looked the part and was alright on the ball but just dropped clanger after clanger - was the same when he went back to forest - hopeless - i think he was meant to shore up our porous defence but it was only later discovered that in fact kevin scott was completely and utterley shite

I remeber a guy coming on loan from forest when ardiles was manager but i don't think his name was andy - can't remember what you called him but he was fuckin awful - he only played a handful of games but even in that short period of time exhibited an uncanny knack of losing the ball just outside our box and gifting several goals to the opposition - now i think of it his first name mite hav been terry

Play him at left back - cacapa that is

Joy Divison pinched that off Ballard btw I defer to your greater knowledge

Agree totally - modric is excellent and i would ally him with a player like Arshavin on the right - and as you say a couple of decent buys or frees in the centre mid, CD and LB area and it would be a hell of a start - after all take gerrard and torres out of the liverpool side and what you are left with is pretty average

Well if we are staying with the eighties themes after saturdays performance the headline should have been Atrocity exhibition - like most of their articles i agree with some of it but i think the part about keegan is unfair - his side has just been humiliated on national television - what is he supposed to look like - if he was smiling we would say he was taking the piss

More vaccuous nonsense from the playing staff - the pr guy must be thinking we will calm down a bit if the clubs longest serving player trots out more than a few obvious cliches - its pathetic - we need actions on the field not excuses off it - try a fuckin group huddle and think really hard the reason why you are all millionaires - thats right boys because you are proffesional footballers not a fucking circus troup

Carroll definitely - as soon as he came on yesterday the man u defence realised there was a game on - wins loads inthe air and instigated our goal with his strength and eagerness to get stuck in - even if he doesn't score what are you sacrificing by replacing smith with him lets face it smith couldn't score in a hartlepool nightclub with a twenty quid note stapled to his forehead

We're in a position now where we've got so much dead wood and huge, fairly new contracts I can't see them moving on unless we go down, that's the point i'm trying to make. I know what you're saying. I just disagree If we stay up it will take 18months to improve the playing staff to a sufficient degree - relegation would mean a minimum of 3 years

Agreed - has a look of the rabbit in the headlights - the lads got talent but seems to have no confidence and nobody looks like they are willing to cajole him along - whenever i have watched him he seems to be the other players whipping boy - takes the shit and his head goes down

Agreed - Taylor is awful and shows no positional awareness at all - the tackle(?) he made for the second ronaldo goal was nothing short of disgraceful and he should be viewed by all as a liability. I still like faye - he was not as solid as i have seen him but he has good positional sense and wins loads in the air - best of a bad bunch and i thought he was having a blinder for much of the first h

Big Glen is doing a good job down there - one result doesn't make a season - he has worked wonders - i don't know why there is all the negativity about him on here - he is a nice bloke who wanted desperately to do well but was a bit out of his depth and ended up an easy target for the boo boys - for what its worth i think if he had signed sol campbell instead of dithering about he may have still had his job and we may have got nearer the uefa cup

Greaves has always had a shite opinion of us so this hardly surprises me - i remember in keegans first full season when he took us up and sir john hall was interviewed on that piss poor excuse for a tv show with him and ian st john and, honestly, when sir john was telling them that exciting things were happening it looked like the pair of them were licking piss off a step - can't stand either - wankers