Noelie

Wonderful, wonderful, 3 points, back on top, but wot a load of fucking crap. How on earth are we so consistantly poor? I would have put Guthrie on before Harewood the Dud.

We need a win to stay in 1st.place, a draw won't do it.

Forget all the bed-sheets, boycotts, protests, etc etc; pelting is the the best way to show opinions. Anyone in protest should carry eggs and pelt them at Ashley and his cohorts everytime they make a public appearence, especially at St.James' Park, away grounds, parking-lots, corridors, anywhere, so he'll feel like Humpty Dumpty. Raw eggs should be used but it wouldn't hurt to hurl the odd hard-boiled one once in a while.(I'll deny that in court) This may not solve the problems but I guarantee you will feel better for it once you have made that first pelt.

That's more than likely true, lawyers are the ones who call the shots on the amount of claims as they know it is negotiable and they shoot for a high figure for openers.Keegan was probably told what the amount of asking was going to be and went along with it.

Well I do Papa Lazaru, the award should go to the player who missed the penalty. Without his performence we would never have got 3 points.

In all my years of supporting Newcastle(and Christ it adds up to a lot) I have seen the good times and the bad times but even in the bad times I have never felt the way I do now about the whole situation. Never before have I ever expected to lose, even when we were playing the big'uns I had hopes for a miracle, but now, I just expected to lose against Forest and today I expected to lose again and we did. It is a miserable feeling to go in expecting to lose. I think it was brought on by the draws, I saw that as a premonition that the wheels were coming off and there was no repair man on hand.

Well now it's 2 points out of 12. Hughton is a shoo in for permanent manager isn't he? Granted he seems like a nice bloke but I don't really want a nice bloke in charge unless his niceness is coupled with the ability to grind out results when you're playing well or playing badly.

You know, Hughton's first go at caretaker manager was certainly far from being impressive albeit in the Premier league, and keep in mind, the majority of players available to him in the Coca Cola league have all had Premier league experience and 2 points out of 9 in the last 3 games is far from being impressive as well. I have to question why he left a woeful Harewood in the game so long against Forest. I have to think that good guys finish last. I have to think he hasn't shown enough bottle. I have to think he is a Yes-man and will go with the flow. As a coach or assistant mgr OK, but as a Manager I have to think he's not the right man for long term.

I meant to ask this before but it slipped my mind due to the misery. WHY were we not wearing Black n' White against Forest and their solid red shirts??

So what about, Out of country? Can hardly wait for your answer

Isn't Cudicinni also eligible? There is number 1 and 2 with James as 3rd choice. I think he is, aye. Don't think either will ever play for England though. Not good enough? Or it's just not cricket? Oh dear, I guess I'm too old, too long in the tooth, too old fashioned, to even think that foreigners should play for England because their great granny slept around with the occupying troops. To be honest I was a bit uncomfortable with Jamaican born John Barnes wearing an England shirt, and there were others. I'm stuck in the past where English meant England. Says Noelie, from his Californian home. Home is where yer heart is Alex, not where you hang yer hat.

They outplayed us in the 1st half and deserved the goal. We were rubbish. 2nd half was a different story, we outplayed them, deserved to score but didn't. End of story. Well not quite, Hare-wood was like a rabbit coming out of its hole blinded by the sun. Lovenkrands was like an invisible man and when he did materealise he should have stayed unseen. Guthrie looked like a Sunday pub player with a hangover. Jonas livened-up the game, stayed on his feet, but tried too hard to score. Taylor was like the tide at Cullercoats, in and out of the match. Enrique had a decent game, as did Smith. Was Nolan playing?? All in all, just another game we should have won and as usual, didn't.

Isn't Cudicinni also eligible? There is number 1 and 2 with James as 3rd choice. I think he is, aye. Don't think either will ever play for England though. Not good enough? Or it's just not cricket? Oh dear, I guess I'm too old, too long in the tooth, too old fashioned, to even think that foreigners should play for England because their great granny slept around with the occupying troops. To be honest I was a bit uncomfortable with Jamaican born John Barnes wearing an England shirt, and there were others. I'm stuck in the past where English meant England. As for Harper, if he had not been overshadowed by Given for all these years, and had been our No.1 choice, I'm sure he would have played for England, but now, I think he may have lost what he once probably had and never had a good shot at showing it.

But it is football

From the little ray of sunshine..... Another 2 points squandered.......at home FFS.

True, but let's not overlook the fact that the ball was deflected off Saylor's foot and out of Harper's reach.

Didnt we take advantage of other results at the weekend? I'm talking about other results YESTERDAY. West Brom. Boro, and Preston all lost and 3 points today would have put us in a position whereby if we lost our next game and the others won we would still be on top by 2 points, but now we could be bumped off the top by West Brom should they win their next game and we don't. 10 games in, we're 3 points clear and only 11 points shy of our tally for the WHOLE of last season. We should definitely be happy with this, particularly when you consider what most of us were fearing. Anyone who isn't happy needs to have a word with themselves tbh. We're not going to win every game and I'd rather we'd draw the odd one than lose it. Don't misunderstand me Craig, I was only referring to historical facts that when golden opportunities are laid before us on a silver plate we rarely seem to be able to capitalize on them. I'm happy we didn't lose, I'm happy we got a draw, but naturally I would have been much happier had we won and gone 5 points ahead rather than 3.

Didnt we take advantage of other results at the weekend? I'm talking about other results YESTERDAY. West Brom. Boro, and Preston all lost and 3 points today would have put us in a position whereby if we lost our next game and the others won we would still be on top by 2 points, but now we could be bumped off the top by West Brom should they win their next game and we don't.

Disappointed again ......but not surprised AGAIN Once again other results went in our favour but as usual we shot ourselves in the foot.

According to Shearer's dad that's probably true to degree. In 2004 I was home for a couple of months and a mate of mine took me to a pub where he drank with Shearer's dad. Steve Watson's dad was also there and although I only stayed about an hour in their company the conversation naturally had some United threads. Shearer's dad made a comment about Bobby's forgetfulness and how Alan and others in the dressing room were in the habit of calling Bobby nerdy names and laughing at him behind his back because of it. Shearer's dad had been told this by his son and he seemed to get a big kick out of telling us.

And triangular corner flags! Ye'll be asking fer a laced ball next.

I bet he wouldn't have been, old school 'hands on' manager if ever there was one. I bet he would have, in fact I believe it was in the cards for him to go upstairs at the end of the season, and I think Bobby was the kind to adjust & adapt to any position he was handed. Remember he signed on as a helper to Steve Staunton and the Irish national team which showed he did not have to be the main man but was prepared to be a from the side advisor and not the 'hands on' manager.

If Shepard had moved him upstairs instead of sacking him everyone would have been happy.

Aa'd like te gan but aa'm not ower flush at the minute an' it's a lang way fer me.. D'ye think a whip-roond is in order te git enuff sheckels te git me theor an' back. Not ower much te ask is it, ye knaa free plane tickets like, free owerneet lodgins in sumbody's hoose, free transportation to & frum airport, tut digs, tut park. Not asking fer a few bob spending money like, aa kin handle that end wi me piggy-bank. Aa'd really like to be there Mr. Fish.