Noelie

Let's see now, didn't he bring in; Barton. Smith. Faye. Cacapa. Beye. Rozenhal. Viduka. Enrique. Geremi. That's nine out of eleven players needed to field a team of his choosing. In addition to his buys he had on the existing rosta a number of players with Premier league experience such as, when not on the injury list; Martins. Ameobe. Emre. Butt. Taylor. Milner. N'Zogbia. Given. Harper. Edgar Duff. Owen. Carr. So with the majority of these players available where does the blame lie in not being able to put forth a half-way decent team that won't lose to teams in the bottom three like Derby & Wigan? So how much blame can be attached to the players selected and not the person doing the selection?

Well I for one would enjoy a patch of any colour just now Mr. Fish. A change from the pathetic, underperforming, shitty patch we're mired in would be welcome even if it only lasted for a short while.

We started with Emre in the midfield, and both wingers in their correct positions, and still lost. Yes, but with Rozenhal, Cacapa, Barton, Martins, and Butt not in the starting line-up like Saturday, N'Zogbia still at left-back, and Viduka by himself as a lone striker up front. Another pathetic display and ZERO points against a bottom 3 team who now have a new manager.

Well so much for the so-called good start to the season which has slowly and surely been flushed down the netty by an under-achieving group of players who for the most part have all had international experience at some level. However, the journey down the drain can be largely attributed to the inept manager who keeps pulling the chain. His line-ups, his formations, his insistance for out of position playing, his questionable substitutions, and his obvious inability to bring out the best in some quality players and mold them into a half-way decent team is proof positive that his competancy is shitty. He has had time enough to show some team improvement so spare me from those who keep saying have patience, he needs time. BOLLOCKS, the time has come to stop him pulling the netty chain.

I have to question whether you saw the game! We certainly had more of the game in the first half than Derby did and we should have put the match beyond their reach, but the second half was theirs until the last few minutes. We had to come from behind twice to salvage a point. Derby were unlucky not to get 3 points and for most of the second half it looked like they were going to get the win until Viduka scored that late goal.

It's hard to believe that we have moved up the table to 9th place after a shitty performence against the bottom team who very nearly beat us. I guess we have Blackburn to thank for our rise. I think the saddest part about the debacle today is that in 10 away games Derby have only scored 3 times and 2 of the 3 fucking goals were against us.

Eh? Eh wot? should have been done & dusted in the 1st half.

Has anyone noticed that Ugly Sam sits in the stands until half-time, goes into the dressing room and we play like shite in the 2nd half? I've never really come right out and said Ugly Sam should go but I am now, he's the wrong man in the wrong place and I'm not listening to any more excuses or platitutes about time, he's had enough time. When you can't dust properly in your own living room you need to get another houskeeper.

This does not speak highly of Allardyce's management skills. Surely from his initial decision-making of choosing a team captain he must have had a No.2 choice in mind. Surely he would have a Plan B & Plan C on his agenda when he knows full well that injuries occur and players leave for various reasons. Has the role of 'vice-captain' been made redundant nowadays? More players arrived since Geremi, tbf. In addition, he came in to the job this summer without having a chance to get to know the squad. So, really, your point isn't valid. I think my point has more validity than yours Mr. Patrokles, when you are in the process of deciding who should be the team captain it's quite obvious you know the number of players from whom you have to choose, and in deliberating over it you obviously consider the attributes of every player and what they have to offer the position. If you have already gone through this selection process once why should it pose such a difficult problem to make a second choice? How many players arrived since Geremi? they are the only ones he would have to sort as he's done the rest already. You ignored the rest of my post, tbh, which was written in anticipation of a point like that. You're talking nonsense again. No no no Mr. Pratokles, I didn't ignore the rest of your post, I merely addressed what I thought was pertinent to Sam's difficulty in decision making. And after spending many, many years in a position where man-management and decision making was critical I hardly think I'm talking nonsense again. If Sam had already gone through the motions of selecting a team captain with say 75% of the players on hand, the addition of a few more players should not make it a difficult decision to choose another.

This does not speak highly of Allardyce's management skills. Surely from his initial decision-making of choosing a team captain he must have had a No.2 choice in mind. Surely he would have a Plan B & Plan C on his agenda when he knows full well that injuries occur and players leave for various reasons. Has the role of 'vice-captain' been made redundant nowadays? More players arrived since Geremi, tbf. In addition, he came in to the job this summer without having a chance to get to know the squad. So, really, your point isn't valid. I think my point has more validity than yours Mr. Patrokles, when you are in the process of deciding who should be the team captain it's quite obvious you know the number of players from whom you have to choose, and in deliberating over it you obviously consider the attributes of every player and what they have to offer the position. If you have already gone through this selection process once why should it pose such a difficult problem to make a second choice? How many players arrived since Geremi? they are the only ones he would have to sort as he's done the rest already.

This does not speak highly of Allardyce's management skills. Surely from his initial decision-making of choosing a team captain he must have had a No.2 choice in mind. Surely he would have a Plan B & Plan C on his agenda when he knows full well that injuries occur and players leave for various reasons. Has the role of 'vice-captain' been made redundant nowadays?

Mr.Peasepud, on your coming out gig were the other sperms singing in harmonic unison or were you singing solo? Oh, and did you know all the words?

mmmmm, but like Gateshead wasn't South Shields in Co.Durham until the sods changed the geography and created Tyne & Wear. I'll never forgive them for that!!

Gateshead was in the 4th. Division so it was natural for schoolboys to dream of that lot across the river. Not sure exactly when the love and devotion took hold but it may have been when my dad came back from the war and was demobbed, started taking me to watch, and Albert Stubbins may have had a hand in it. I'm sure I had an interest earlier but 1946-1947 was probably when I was smitten.

I'm surprised that nobody has fessed up to being birthed at that hospital in Coxlodge.

I think some years ago the Liverpool paper read; "Jew Scores Two"

Mam from Gateshead, dad from Huddersfield.

Noelie was it a woman that got you living in Anaheim, or did you drop out in the sixties? Neither, actually it was the lure of the sun that made me do it, got the urge to live in a place where the sun shone a lot more often than it did on Tyneside, a lot more

Lived in Bensham, Gateshead for the first 21 years of me life, then went to sea for a few years but Gateshead was still me home. Noo live doon the road from Disneyland in Anaheim, California but still consider Gateshead me hometoon.

In the days when the shirts were numbered from 2 - 11 and the number defined a position it would have been unrealistic if not idiotic to retire a number but in todays game where the numbers don't seem to have any rhyme or reason I suppose there could be some merit in a club retiring a legend's number. HOWEVER, after legends such as Gallagher, Milburn, Macdonald, Shearer, how in the world could Newcastle even think of retiring the famous No.9 shirt regardless of who wore it with distinction.

Gonna be interesting after Wigan beat Blackburn yesterday, scoring 5 goals in the process.

Maybe so, but I wish he would stop throwing and passing to the opposition............and making mistakes. Maybe if Jose was given a run of games he might prove to be the left-back Allardyce wanted and paid good money for.

GREAT result, SHOCKING display, Fulham DID NOT deserve to lose, they had us under the cosh from the first minute of the 2nd half. I don't know what Allardyce said or did when he left his seat in the stands at half-time and went to the dressing room but one things for sure, he let all the air out of the tyre that was already looking flat.