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Oh, and ludicrous analogies. I'll be disappointed if he doesn't use the "If you borrow someone's tools and return them broken, you have to pay for them" one.

I don't know who's more annoying, that cock muncher Durham, or Shepherd. I'll stick it on on the way home and listen to Shepherd grunt and mumble his way through another interview. Freddy Shepherd bingo - I've got "One thing you can never say about Newcastle United is that we're boring".

Medical fact.

Rocker, ask yourself when was the last time you heard a decent coach that couldn't speak intelligently when interviewed? Good coaches are good communicators, and not only that, they are good thinkers - they analyse things, and can get their point across to different types of players of all nationalities. Lee Clark has a sausage roll for a brain and can barely string a sentence together. I think it's fair to assume that he's not going to make it as a top coach.

Thought this was gonna be a new cook-in sauce thread. I feel like Shepherd tonight! Shepherd tonight!

You reckon he's got what it takes? How do you know he hasn't? Like I say, do we look like a team that's well coached?

Because we all know why he's got the job, and it's fuck all to do with his coaching ability. Have you seen the team keep churning out shit performances? That's cos we've got shit coaches like Lee Clark.

The lying twat! There is absolutely nothing going on behind the bloke's eyes. It's like Homer Simpson when there's a donut inside his head, Clark has got a Gregg's Sausage Roll in there.

Fannyface!

So this is what it comes to - we fail to win the UEFA Cup, but the next target after that is to qualify for the InterToto Cup which we won't do now. Fear not, we'll still avoid relegation if it's any consolation. What makes it even worse is that 7th gets UEFA this year too, so 8th must be Intertoto. Not even good enough to strive for 8th ffs.

Only a twat with a myspace logon would know that though tbf.

Aye I was saying this the other day. I reckon we need a transfer window. You don't hear a fucking peep out of him after one of them.

Just thinking about this btw, and who Shepherd's legal advisors on this sort of thing are, and I reckon he actually gets all of these ideas from watching Dream Team. I don't watch that shite, but this is just the sort of pap that that or Footballer's Wives would have as a story line.

Roeder's response to news we could be selling him: "It's all news to me. "But I certainly haven't waited all these months to write Michael Owen's name on my team-sheet to even contemplate selling him. "Michael is a very big part of my plans for next season and I know he's been as frustrated as everyone else and can't wait to start playing for Newcastle again. "Personally, I can't wait to see him scoring goals for us that no-one else can." What day of the week it is is news to Roeder tbh. See that Renton? Michael "can't wait" to play for Newcastle again! Swivel on that, moaning minny!

You're all so weak, you've already basically conceded it to them.

Do we though? At times I wonder if half of those on the pitch are poor as a result from poor coaching or if they are just shite full stop. That's as may be, but how many of the Sunderland squad would you swap them for? Sunderland at the minute are all about momentum and confidence. Playing against higher quality opposition every week, and starting the campaign with a few defeats and it'll be a different story. But much like Keegan did when he brought us up, the pulling power of Roy Keane may bring some decent players to the SOL. Roeder has to rely on something you hate and thats overinflated wages.. Nah, they will need to rely on wages as much as we do if they're going to get people in. It's nowt to do with Roeder/Keane's pulling power, and everything to do with getting players to come to this region. We'll see anyway, I don't see Sunderland making too many summer transfer coups though.

Do we though? At times I wonder if half of those on the pitch are poor as a result from poor coaching or if they are just shite full stop. That's as may be, but how many of the Sunderland squad would you swap them for? Sunderland at the minute are all about momentum and confidence. Playing against higher quality opposition every week, and starting the campaign with a few defeats and it'll be a different story.

Aye we'll see. Wages are gonna be an issue, as is attracting players to a newly promoted team. We've definitely got good enough players to be finishing above them though - it's the fuckwit we've got in charge that is the concern.

Want to bet on it? Already have titmunch!

Pwning the Championship means fuck all when you get up in the Premiership tbh. I can still see them having a long hard struggle of a season.

You stupid shit.

Straight £200 Renticus. I've got £200 on that we finish above them next season too, although I'm less and less confident about that one.

Shame Blackburn or Watford didn't get through really. Blackburn v Watford, the place would have been dead.

If it was the only ticket available, aye. Doesn't make it a "sensible and affordable" price though, as Barwick claims.

If that £95 is just a standard match ticket with no add-ons, they want their fucking arses kicked.