Dr Gloom

get someone like kanu in up front and a younger lad with some pace alongside him

if shearer stays, i can see us pulling in some decent championship-standard players. the trick is to get in a couple of experienced old heads in and surround them with some pacy, younger players. sol campbell is a good shout. him and taylor at the back would do a job. nicky butt can probably mix it in the championship. someone like paul merson or teddy sheringham up front too - they were both different class when they helped take pompey up.

a few more fun away days too. surely we're going to win more than the two we managed away from home this season

Aye, another 3 years. Testimonial time soon for the Fenham Pele! on the plus side, the championship is probably his level so he's maybe worth keeping. i doubt he's on massive wages Aye I thought that about the Championship, but then it was pointed out to me that he was as shit at Stoke as he is here. he's destined to be warming the bench then regardless of what division we drop into. may as well offer him a contract for life

Aye, another 3 years. Testimonial time soon for the Fenham Pele! on the plus side, the championship is probably his level so he's maybe worth keeping. i doubt he's on massive wages

after owen, viduka and martins all make their inevitable edxits, shola will be our senior striker. i'm sure we'll keep him....didn't he just get a new contract too?

does anyone know what are our projected home gates for next season....or is anyone willing to guess? i imagine that our hardcore is around 35k - anyone know how many season tickets we've sold for next season? i suspect that although there will be more empty seats around the ground than we've seen for years, the atmosphere may improve as it will be the true hardcore support that continue to turn out every week. perhaps a return to pre-level 7 extension noise levels...

putting an optimistic hat on, i'm hoping that we enjoy a season challenging for a top 2 or play off spot. a decent season in a competitive league might make supporting newcastle fun again. it would be great to enjoy next season instead of dreading match days like i have for the last 18 months or so. i'm struggling to remember a season in recent years that i enjoyed more than the promotion year when cole and kelly were banging them in.

tbf, shola will probably do a decent job int he championship and is worth keeping nowl.

every cloud....

exactly second half sums up the whole season. pathetic.

horrible pictures

fuck sake

they'll all be up for sale if we go down. relegation is going to cost the club about £100m so the wage bill will have to be slashed plus bassong is one of our few saleable assets. i'm sure we'd get mroe for him than collocini

i'm pretty much given up hope of us staying up too. can't see us getting a draw. and yet this is going to hurt more than relegation in the 80s because we have more to lose this time. we genuinely have the potential and the facilities now to compete at the top of the premier league but conversely, going down - because of the financial implications these days - could hurt us even more than last time. i wish it was all just over

harsh but funny

i actually agree with those that say we would be safe if we hadn't sacked allardyce. we would be playing horrible football mind

calm down dear - it's just a message board

it's going to be agony but i'm going to have to watch it.

i'm sure plenty around would the country would enjoy seeing a big club like us go down. likewise, there are many others that would rather come watch football at our stadium and have a day out at a town like ours instead of away days at places like stoke, hull, wigan etc. i don't think this manc wind up merchant is representative of most man u fans. sounds like a bored 13 year old who watches the match on the telly, not one of their hardcore supporters, who are mostly a decent lot.

great idea. then after a couple of years fred can sell to ashley again, who'll take us down another division before selling the club back to fred a couple of years after that...

even if manure do us a favour, i doubt we'll get the result we need. the dirty manc is on a wind up mission but he's probably right. the mancs will put out their youth team and hull will be well up for it.

if we can't beat fulham or pompey at home we're not going to turn this lot over in their own backyard are we. a draw at best but i still don't think it'll be enough. hull to beat fergie's youth team and us to go down is how i see it playing out. we don't deserve better tbh

it was a blatant red card. we're going to have to suck this one up i'm afraid

it is impossible to put a positive spin on relegation. it would be a disaster for the club and the region. the championship is not an easy league to get of. just look at other big clubs who haven't been able to get back since goign down - leeds, wednesday, forest to name just a few