BlueStar

Aye fuckin hell, come on lads it could be worse - we could be Real Madrid.

"Even when the team are winning, I don't think the crowd are confident and loud enough." Can you remember what the crowd are like when the team are winning? Robert was the last player in a black and white shirt to score at St James.

The club has no strikers because of Souness. The club is unable to adapt to this problem, because Souness has no tactics. I don't see how pretending that we're round the corner of some kind of improbable revival contributes to sorting out the problem.

Why are you being so negative? Is it any wonder that he has difficulty scoring when you're so harsh on him? What if he reads that message? I bet you want him to never score, just so he doesn't get played! What's the point in whinging and moaning? Where's your PMA - Positive Mental Attitude? if you got Ameobi 9 on the back of your shirt and hung around his house asking for autographs, telling him how great he is and how you can't wait to see him in the world cup, he'll be a 30 goal a season striker!

Because souness came out and publicly said he'd never play for the club again, therefore everyone knew we had to get rid of him before the transfer window shut and we had no chance whatsoever of getting his full value.

Because souness came out and publicly said he'd never play for the club again, therefore everyone knew we had to get rid of him before the transfer window shut and we had no chance whatsoever of getting his full value.

These fans are the same fans we had when we were doing well. And when we were underachieving (although jesus christ, I'd love to be "underachieiving like that again) there we're groans, grumbles and boos. Cricism of tactics, of the manager, of timing of sustituations, of players attitudes, when people thought it was warrented. Did robson and the players go "oh no, negative attitude!" The fans didn't like me selling nobby! The crowd weren't happy with me waiting to make a sub till the 80th minute! Some one said I was a lazy french twat! Lets whither and run and hide, lets not score in 270 matches, lets finish 14th with a previously champions league qualifying team!" The fans are constant. What has changed is the manager. Supporting a manager who is damaging the club before the club itself is not supporting the club at all.

Yum yum, that humble pie that Hansen told me to eat over Souness is still going. I've got it in a big tupperware container in the fridge and I reheat it for breakfast, lunch and fucking supper.

The new board, it's Grrround to a halt!

I'm not having a dig, but what good's a toon board that only works when nothing remotely major is happening at the club?

To people outside the bubble we're not in crisis? So the bookies who are slashing the odds on us sacking our manager after just 3 games into the season, the opposing fans gloating about our manager having to get the boot as early as this morning, the journalists and opposing fans who are treating our dire situation with either pity or glee are all outside the bubble? The sole person who seems outside the bubble is you mate, you seem to be the only one willing to happily watch this club go to shit and smile about it all the while.

17741[/snapback] They're not wrong like 17767[/snapback] Oh purLEASE! Owen coming would be like bringing a world class striker to a club that needs a world class striker. 17770[/snapback] And the fact we are still left severely lacking in other areas, are skint having spent £18 million on one player, have a wafer thin squad and no cover? If owen gets injured we're back to being a team that can't score in 270 minutes of football, even aganst 10 man west ham. Are they putting prozac in the water over there?

As long as you don't say CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT I think you're OK.

Knowing our clubs desperate publicity machine it'll probably be alan oliver. You know, a geordie hero to please the fans. He can join Lee Clark and be followed by Gazza, Geordie Dancer, Alan Robson and Jamie from Jamies Tiles.

On the plus side, he's in my fantasy team

So what are our tactics now? Hope for a penalty?

By the sounds of it they were spiked with something an all!

Something many a bloke has gotten in trouble for...

Yeah, I competly agree Phil. I just think we're going to have to bite the bullet to get out of this situation. It's our own fault that were having to pay over the odds for players, it's our own fault we're not desirable to players. But if we refuse to flash the cash, pay for our mistakes and put it down to experience (again) or only want players who'd want to choose us over the top 4 (and which world class players would at the moment?) we're going to be left in this position for a long time to come. Yes, we may have to tighten the purse strings, yes we may have to watch someone playing for us while knowing he may be feeling pangs of regret that he didn't get his first choice. But it'll be worth the initial pain to get us in a postion where we can buy at leisure and not to frantic deadlines, and possibly a postition people will be naming us as one of their first choice of clubs.

Well, I am also one who is critical about overspending, but if the club has to pay over the odds then rather for Owen than for the likes of Luis Boa Morte and Nicolas Anelka. 17275[/snapback] Exactly, now that Shepherd has us backed into a corner we are going to pay over the odds no matter who the player is. Still, each place in the Prem costs us 500,00 loss and relegation....... erm that would be expensive. 17302[/snapback] And if this deal goes tits up, we've now revealed to everyone that not only are we utterly wetting ourselves in desperation for a striker, but we've got £18 million kicking around to buy players. Go back and try and barter for Anelka and Boa Morte after their clubs were so awkward in the first place and they'll be asking us for a fucking fortune.

Look, through our own making, we're fucked. Yes we'll spend a lot of money on him, yes we may not be his first choice. But to have him here in any capacity would be a huge boost to our squad. If we were shrewed in the transfer market instead of letting everyone know when we're desperate to sell and buy, we can grumble about what terms and cost we get a world class player on. But at the moment, we've got to be glad of what we can get. Once we get out of the shit, become more attractive to world class players, and stop going about tranfers with "We are desperate mugs, you can name your price" plastered on our foreheads, we can be choosy. Until then, lets get Owen in if we can and not grumble to much about the details.

Publicity depts are very, very fussy about their brand logo as well. When I've worked for big companies we've been given a bible explaining what you are and aren't allowed to do with the logo. Even down to it has to be this colour, you're not allowed to put any effects on it, you can only make it black and white on a certain background, you have to clear it with marketing if you're going to use it on a letter head, or in any promo stuff you send out etc I'm pretty sure their logo being beamed arounf the world ripped in half on the chest of a seething violent looking thug didn't go down too well.

You forgot to make it a poll...

Oh bloody hell, which bunch of pillocks let Sky Sports line them all up in their crisp new toon tops and make them say in unison "Michael, wuz love yee, please come play for newcastle!"

Anachy in the Luque... transfer signing situation thing.