Comments on: Your Shout: Toon 0-0 Charlton - Have Your Say - Write In

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:13:26 +0000

Luque is an amazing player, he must be given some games! I feel very sorry for Albert because he’s a good player but in his time at Newcastle he has never been given a proper run in the team. Sack Roeder!!!!!!!

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:42:43 +0000

Boy, are we in trouble. If playing badly and winning is the mark of a good team, what does playing not bad and scraping a draw or losing tell you about a team?

I’m not one to blame Roeder. The current situation is the result of a long, slow slide caused by a blatant lack of creative or strategic thinking at a higher level. A club doesn’t become this mediocre without some ‘help’ from the boardroom. It’s all very well saying Freddy Shepherd’s always backed his manager with money, but what’s the good in giving multi millions to a buffoon like Souness? Where’s the strategy, the footballing nous? Andy Johnson at eight million quid isn’t good enough for the Toon, but Martins and Luque (a snip at nineteen million for the pair) are? And to be going into this season with the defence entirely unchanged is criminal - and I don’t care who we were “in for,” that sort of smokescreen doesn’t wash: if they’re not in the black and white it doesn’t matter, does it. “Too big to go down,” yes? I’d rather be too good to go down. Right now, we’re just bloody not.

By: AA

AA — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:51:50 +0000

We are in a dogfight because we are being managed by a clown and being run by a bufoon. Clueless, Roeder lacks the ability to change a game through the use of subs, formations or tactics . We were reduced to long ball football towards the end and Charlton looked just as likely to score. Roeder has to go NOW and we have to make sure Shepherd joins him. SHEPHERD OUT!

By: Omar

Omar — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:56:56 +0000

The one thing thats killing me about Roeder is that he is trying as hard as he can NOT to play Alberto Luque in any game, in the game vs Pompey the side was comfortably winning and giving a player that is lacking match practice a chance was the best thing to do, but Roeder didn’t, in the Charlton game all we needed was a finisher, Luque was there to warm up and watch the game from the bench, and I am starting to think that we will do to Luque exactly what we did to Hugo Viana before him. Also another poor second half peformence from the team, and honestly I think that Roeder’s decsion to make only 1 change was the reason we couldn’t end the game with all 3 points.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:47:18 +0000

8pts from 10 games say’s it all, we are going down.

By: Chris H

Chris H — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:41:28 +0000

Another cracking performance in the first half, with failure once again to find the back of the net. The future is looking bleak at the moment, mid-table mediocrity lingers again if were lucky! The main reason I’m writing is to ask the question… What does Albert Luque have to do to get a game at this club? The vast majority of Newcastle fans don’t really want to give him a chance, and Glenn Roeder certainly doesn’t. I think there is a personality clash or something. I know for a fact the club will be looking to move him on in January for a considerable loss. So why not play him and try and increase the price on his head? We could do far worse… Antoine Sibierski! I rest my case.

By: David Styles

David Styles — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:04:09 +0000

How come all these injuries at Newcastle? It cannot just be bad luck, there must be something wrong with the training methods. Has any other Premier League team got the same problems? I don’t think so, but maybe someone could check. Thank goodness we beat Portsmouth, that’ll keep my son in law quiet for a while, it’s really hard being a Toon supporter here in the Midlands.

By: YJ

YJ — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:55:21 +0000

Why does Roeder wait till 80 mins before he brought on just one sub? He said that Rossi is tired for the last 15 minutes and I think Luque can be the person to fill his job! But he decided not to. And when Charlton put an extra man up in the midfield and things were changing towards Charlton’s advantage, he prefers to hesitate. Just when will the Newcastle I’ve been proud of come back? What’s the real problem?

By: giorgio

giorgio — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:40:03 +0000

I hope we as fans stop moaning if we aren’t going to stand up and be counted! This club clearly has been on the fall since Keegan left and since Fred has came in. If it wasn’t for a few good years under Robson we would already be down. Under Dalglish we were mid table with an incredible team and we have been going down since then. We have to stop knee-jerk reactions and stop thinking that we will magically go up the table from nothing which was what happened under Keegan. The difference then was that we had a good chairman and a good manager. What do we have now - a Freddie and Glenn whose record speaks for themselves. We have all seen what a good chairman brings to a club e.g smoggs, and conversely Hearts. Lessons to learn are analyse things through the past and not through some trophy players which make us feel like a big club, a big club is a club that wins and that is that! Fat Fred out!!!!!

By: Espen

Espen — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:53:57 +0000

The treatment of Luque is really a shame, to play a rookie on loan from a competitor instead of our own player bought for 10m, is incredible. The lad has to be given a chance before he’s written off, this can’t go on. Maybe people are right, this might be a too big job for Roeder.