A plethora of your post-match views sent into Newcastle-Online.com following Newcastle’s 2-0 defeat to Liverpool at Anfield on Boxing Day, a defeat that once again piles the pressure on Graeme Souness.

The liverpool match brought memories of the 4-0 hammering in the Cup over twenty years ago when Keegan decided enough is enough. PLEASE SOUNESS TAKE A LEAF OUT HIS BOOK AND QUIT NOW, YOU HAVEN’T THE KNOW-HOW TO BEAT THESE MANAGERS AT FOOTBALL. - Wal Mallin

Replace Souness, but only if we can get Stuart Pearce. - Kev

Well what can you say about our game against Liverpool, except it was crap! In my opinion Souness has to go now, before the damage gets worse, what was he thinking playing 4 players out of position it just begs belief that someone could make such a tactical blunder. I have to say Lee Bowyer didn’t deserve red, yellow yes, but then again he didn’t deserve to be on the pitch anyway, he was like a headless chicken running around as was Boumsong and Babayaro. Shay Given was man of the match and should look for pastures new, he deserves better. Souness do us all a favour, please retire. - Garth Hope

I was born a proud Geordie. However having paid the £7 to watch the pathetic performance of my team, once again I feel it necessary to join the many calling for the departure of Souness. Despite losing a key player like Parker he made a terrible mistake to play “Baba-horrar” who has lost any Chelsea skills he might of once had, Taylor without giving him a run in in reserves, our Spanish 9 million flop who should have been given a three months reserve trial before daring to put back into our main team (clearly he needs to be sent packing and try and to recover the whapping overpriced fee we paid) then there is the likes of Amdy Flop who loses possession more times than I have hot dinners.

Let Pompey have him back and get someone who knows what midfield is all about. I feel sorry for Boumsong for his personal troubles however we grossly overpaid on his services - he makes me shiver in fear when he gets possession and is clearly not a happy man. At the moment our only good players worth keeping are Given, Owen, Shearer, Emre, Solano (on his good days), Parker and N’Zogbia.

Okay - I know that leaves a lot of positions to fill and we have not got the spending power - however if we do not start by changing our manager soon I predict we will end the season on the verge of relegation and find it impossible to attract any fresh talent to come to our club. I remember the good times when we won the Inter City Fairs Cup - Pop Robson, Keith Dyson, Alan Foggon and Super Mac. In those days we were a team playing with passion. Please please bring those happy days back. Wishing us all a Happy 2006. - Stuart Niman

The game was more then bad for us. First player vs. player analysis to me shows that we were completely outplayed. At the start of the game we made some good runs, had them teaming up on our players. After the first goal though the energy levels seemed to go down. As for where we lost the game I would say it was Souness’ tactics. He didn’t seem to know what to do. Subbing N’Zogbia I thought was the biggest mistake he made. Also not having Parker in the side hurt us as well. One thing I didn’t agree on from the refs was not awarding Crouch the red. How is it that he starts the fight and ends up with only a yellow? One thing I did like though is that Bowyer may have played the last game as a Magpie. Hopefully now the management will get rid of him. If Souness continues the was he has so far this season he also needs to join Bowyer. The man of the match for us in this game has to be Given. Hopefully the Magpies will bounce back and hopefully the injury woes will stop for us as well. - Max

A very lackluster performance by the team. extremely poor service into the strikers who were giving nothing to feed off. Luque and Bowyer both contributed very little to the game both showing no commitment to the team and traveling support. The only positive to be taken from the game was the inspirational performance of Shay Given. The sooner he signs that new contract the better, for every Toon fans’ sake! - Doc

2 Wins then 5 changes, 1 injured soldier now knackered when he should not have played in the first place and 1 sending off justified or not. Fantastic tactics by a major tactician? Where Next? - Colin

For so long during the Keegan era we had a team that could push the ball around the midfield and also put the ball into the net, but had a seriously suspect back line. Lots of goals at both ends. Earlier in the season, during the absence of Michael Owen, we saw what it was like to have a team with a good midfield - Emre and Parker - a poor defence and an off form front line. Result - a few flashes here and there, but no consistency, very few goals for us, potential for lots of goals against. In the Liverpool match we saw the other permutation. A (very) poor defence, a poor midfield and a quality front line who just didn’t get a decent ball all afternoon.

The result was always going to be lots for them, not many for us. Again we have to thank Given for keeping the score reasonable. What a bloke. I can only imagine that Souness took one look at Liverpool’s form and decided to skip this one and save Carr and Emre for next week. It was always going to be a tough one.

The refereeing pantomime doesn’t deserve to be mentioned at all, apart from to say that if ever there was justification for real time video evidence to be available to match officials - that was it. The good news out of all of this? No matter what your allegiance you have to admit that Crouch can play. His first and second touches were superb. Lets hope he stays fit for the World Cup. May have to work on his temper though.

Did Michael Owen deserve to get booed by the crowd? Obviously this says more about the quality of the crowd than the quality of the player. Maybe Owen will think twice about considering a move back to Scouseville. - Rob Brown

I have been a Newcastle Supporter since 1943 in Albert Stubbins days. Oh for another “Frank Brennan”. Woodgate apart; the defence has been the weak link over the past 10 to 15 years. There is no backbone in Newcastle’s defence. Graham Souness’ only good buy was Michael Owen. We will have to sort the defence out. Jean-Alain Boumsong & Celestine Babayaro, do not mark or close down their opponents. They would not get in a Hartlepool United team. I’m sorry that Jean-Alain has personal problems, he has had the odd game when he looked reasonable, but overall he’s not good enough.

Amdy Faye is tryer but not good enough; I know Scott Parker is injured but I am afraid that Amdy Faye is no replacement for him. Since Bernard who played left side of defence, no replacement has been found. Elliot has been a very good left back, although slow now, better than Celestine Babayaro. Against Liverpool star man by far was Given, the score would at least trebled. Stephen Taylor should of not been risked. Red cards should of went to more than Boyer, Gerrard & Crouch for raising their hands. Crouch who only got a yellow card. Please do something about our defence, when the January transfer window opens up. - Harry Lawson

I went to Anfield to support my team Newcastle United but not among my own Toon fellas, instead I was amongst my mates who are Liverpool fans. I was sitting very near to the Kop end. I was impressed by their chanting for their own players but wasn’t for the booing and jeering of our players. During the Bowyer incident they sang “ure supposed to be in jail” I was somewhat okay with this as the recent turnout of events by Bowyer disappoints me, not an ambassador of this club at all. But when they started “fuck off shearer” I was ready to stand up and shout “shut up you nob Kop” that’s the best I can do.

And bramble does not deserve that sarcastic clapping and chanting from them. All that is not what worries me most, but what does is our team’s inability to put up a fight. This is the element that we’ve been lacking, forget about the Arsenal match they’re not on top form by the way. What saddens me and upsets me and which also led me to be so silent towards my Liverpool mates was that my team wasn’t able to play in the opponents half at all. We lacked creativity imagination and finally determination in some players. Bowyer was all over the place and he makes these silly runs that don’t work.

Amady Faye was determined but not good enough he wasn’t jockeying well, he went to ground uselessly and after his yellow card his game was out of the window. I know Souness wants to do his best but at half time I knew if I was the gaffer I would’ve taken off Bowyer for Shola and place him just behind the two strikers to link up play between defence and the forwards, as he has proven able to do so far. He’s a passer and keeps possession of the ball. Solano on the right was a good choice. No comment on Luque, as Souness still wants us to wait for his best I guess. But I truly think Shola could have solved the problem on Saturday. - Paul Smith

After having to wait 8 hours to watch the game on a delayed feed we were rubbish again, why make 5 changes to a team that has won the last two games? Ok they where not our first 11 but at least they gave 120 percent, January we need two new strikers and Ameobi out. - Nigel

That was one of the most one sided refereeing performances I have seen, how was Steven Gerrard still on the pitch after his involvement in the scuffle with Shearer & Bowyer? Surely that was classed as violent conduct. As a Newcastle season ticket holder, I have seen lots of bad referees, but that must rank as one of the top ten most blatant, one sided performances by a referee I’ve seen. - Dave Robinson

I think Shay as always saved us from further humiliation. No doubt Liverpool had better players, but to me, failure to put a body on Crouch all the time cost us the game. He’s got a good lay off for a big man and aerially he is superb. We should have either Boumsong or Bramble do a Carvalho on him. If that means wrestling with him so be it. Crouch is Liverpool’s point person, no wonder Benitez didn’t want Owen. Overall I am satisfied though, it wasn’t one of the games I expected us to win. - Mustapha

I’m not one to go manager bashing, but Souness surely must go even when we win it’s never as comfortable as it seams. I have not seen a faultless comfortable display from our defence and we look as efficient as a clapped out Ford Capri. How can a man make 5 changes to a winning team is beyond me let alone bringing back injured players. He’s had one and a half years to sort out a shoddy defence and FAILED. He’s got to go. - Ben Nigam

I had to watch this one on TV - and basically the result was flattering for us. One thing that is beginning to get on my nerves is this belief that we have the best supporters in the world. To be honest, Newcastle fans are getting to be more of an embarrassment than anything else. Apart from one rendition of the Blaydon Races, all I could hear was “Feed the Scousers” and “You’ve got our stereos” - how in God’s name is that supporting the lads? Every now and again might be funny and work, but non-stop, all it does is wind up the opposition and get them playing even better. Newcastle fans were awful yesterday - made me embarrassed to be a Geordie. - Jezza

I thought we would loss this one for sure. Our team has enough good players to fight with Liverpool but we have a poor manager to bring the best out of each good player in the right way. I don’t understand why our club still lets Souness be the manager he should be fired soon. - Kenny

Liverpool are getting better and better, becoming a major force, they are better than Chelsea now considering they haven’t spent as much. We must not forget that they are the European Champions and they were robbed for the World Championship by some idiots. The middle of Liverpool’s team is phenomenal and devastating. So lets not fool ourselves, we are no match for Liverpool as we proved. - Vishal

Why the hell wasn’t Gerrard sent of? He pushed Shearer in the back (yellow card) when he was trying to calm the situation and had his hands on Bowyer’s throat (straight red card). - Steven Bainbridge

The result went the way I thought it would. Yes Souness has brought in great players, but he and his coaching team are tactically inept. Against lesser teams our better players can dominate but not because of the management behind the team. Against classy teams like Chelsea or Liverpool we are just totally outclassed. Paul Jewel has his team playing football, Souness hopes his team will. Get rid of him now. - Paul Hewitt

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