Humiliating Horror Show - Newcastle Utd 1-5 Birmingham - Have Your Paroxysm
By A.K. Dholakia On Thu 18 Jan 2007 |
A disgusting and despicable performance saw Championship leaders Birmingham City rattle five goals past Newcastle. Abhorrent displays from the Pattisons and Ramages left the Givens and Martins on the pitch visibly frustrated, live on national TV, as the FA Cup died for another year. Fans can expect taunting, pity and jibes for at least a year - but nothing will erase this indelible swath upon our pride.
Which of our players could your great great grandmother play better than? How should Roeder cope with these injuries? Of the many, which is the weakest point in our team? Who do you think is being unduly scapegoated in the team? What did you think of St James’ Park? How do we proceed from here?
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absolute disgrace.no effort no passion abysmal performance.this result has been coming for a long time and the fact it had to come to a championship side makes it even worse.
ramage aint good enough at this level.hes a geordie lad and loves the club but hes useless.
pattison has never impressed me and surely luque should be given a chance.i cant help but think a good run of games will bring some good perfomances and surely better than what we have on the left at the moment.
baba is poor doesnt look like he wants to wear the shirt.the same goes for carr
ideally i would like to see a left back and a centre back coming in hopefully upson or curtis davies or wayne bridge or lucas neill and joey barton would’nt be bad either he would provide some bite to the team
Sent in on: January 20th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
I have nothing to moan about with the team or the manager. I had a feeling we wouldnt do well but I didnt think we’d play that poorly. I dont think the display was guttless or anything like that, I just think the squad has been stretched too far, and the players drafted in who had been excellent up until that game seemed a yard or two off the pace, Im OK to put that down to fatigue. The danger is that being humiliated in that way could carry over into the West Ham game…it shouldnt, we’re a far better team than them in every way.
What pissed me off was’nt so much the teams display but the home support. Low in numbers which is fair enough after Christmas and with no reduction on the tickets I blame the fat cats and the fat cats alone. What isnt on though is people leaving with 15 minutes left and giving fuck all support at any point in the match, I could hear the die hards singing their lungs out but the rest were giving them a bad name. Fairweather fans piss me off, ’nuff said.
Hopefully we’ll have Parker back for West Ham to give the tireless Nicky Butt a rest.Solano at his worst is still more appealing than having Carr back. Hopefully the players will have had some rest and be in good shape to play to our full potential. We obviously need players but not backing the current players wont do us any good.Come on!
Sent in on: January 20th, 2007 at 9:24 am
ive heard it all ,the i cant be bothered crew etc going on about another 20 quid being far too much for an fa cup tie!the team must have been shocked to see such a sparce crowd on the night to start with.These are the same fans who would find the money for a cup game against barcelona etc,or scream they are entitled to a cup final ticket as they hold a season ticket,you tell me a night out you can have for 20 notes?..anyway the team was piss poor and even made an average birmingham side look worldclass!.I recon all the armchair muppets arent entitled to a whinge anyway,greatest fans in the world ,i,ll tell you somat the makems away supporters are better than the majorritty of the newcastle home crowd ,its a good job we few thousand that follow the lads game in game out do not go on like a bunch of whinging kids so you stay at home fans can live off the aura we create
Sent in on: January 19th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
It was a matter of time before the patched up defence was found out!! We held it together against Man U and to Spurs. But it was almost like an uneven damn about to explode - and did it explode!!!! two half decent forwards with some real pace and the defence didn’t know what hit them. Ramage’s committment has never been in question but he is not a premiership defender. His ability or lack of was clear to see, when he was constantly turned by a championship sides attack. NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!! Solano was at sea, although you can’t complain with his recent form. Taylor, just be sensible, you lost your head when Campbell went past you. Huntington - too young to comment!!
the defensive line was non-existant and I can’t believe Roeder insisting no “panic buys” You can sign players outside of the window and have a pre contract. Its not a case of rushing around for 30 days in January looking and bidding for someone! Don’t let the club fool you!
Really sorry display by a team that was found out by supposedly inferior opponents!!
Sent in on: January 19th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Its no real surprise that after years of mismanagement the attitude of the fans has changed. Under KK we were a club on the up and even when things werent going our way we still tried to play football.
Since then we’ve had shephard and hall on camera taking the piss out of us the fans, we’ve watched as shephard bumbles around with ‘our’ club and this season we’ve had at least 2 players fall out with the crowd when we dare show displeasure at their lack of effort. Theres a certain fuck you attitude taking hold in the crowd, the club should be thankful we’re turning up at all. Wednesday’s debacle probably took in about £500,000 in tickets
Sent in on: January 19th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
my point was that now when our lads play crap, they get booed and fans moan in the stands were as before when they did it e.g. KK era the fans would cheer them on and raise ther confidence, and they would play better now the fans only cheer when the players do something, were as before it was the fans did something and the players responded that was what made Newcastle great, not anymore however
Sent in on: January 19th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
As I came home from work, I somehow knew that we would do badly! We’ve fought in every match for quite a while, and I felt that by the time we played Brum complacency would set in. That and a whole lot more, as it happened. We need at least one or two defenders with real power and presence. Aside from that, we will then have a squad/team that can put things right and eventually get over the embarrassment of that horror-show….
Sent in on: January 19th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Thats complete bollocks - the players couldnt be bothered as only 26000 fans turned up!? Tottenham only had 27000 fans and they managed to beat their championship opposition 4-0!
26000 fans on a freezing january night (when most folk are skint) and the match is on the beeb is quite respectable. Especially when you consider that it was our 8th home cup tie of the season and Freddie and co decided to charge £20
As for calling ourselves the greatest fans in the world? Ive never heard a genuine toon fan say that seriously, its just a myth circulated by the press and our knob of a chairman.
As for the lack of atmosphere, thats a widespread problem in football not just here. And if the players had shown one ounce of determination then the crowd wouldve got behind them but Im not going to cheer when someone misplaces a 10 yard pass and the intended recipiend stands and watches it drift wide
Sent in on: January 19th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Is it just me, or does anybody else think that we truly don’t have any money to spend?
I find it hard to think of any other reason for there not being any activity 19 days into the transfer window. If we don’t act soon all the decent players available are going to be snapped up by other clubs e.g. Lauren, possibly even Davenport. Then we’ll be left with the panic buys that nobody wants.
Gee
Sent in on: January 19th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Although, the performance was a absolute discrace, and this isnt a valid excuse…
the fact there was only 26,000 fans ther its not exactly a confidance builder to the players is it, were all saying we love FA cup etc and its extremly important well obviously not, although ther was no excuse and its a absolute discrace.
i forgive the players because, of the poor effort made by fans to actualy go. we play well when we the fans actualy support them and we certainly not doing that at the moment, every newcastke fan is starting to believe the hype surrouding how were the “Best fans in the world” which is total bullshit these days, SJP is like a libraby t & the fans jump on the players back every chance they get instead of supporting them like we used to.
we will never move forward if us as fans dont acknowledge, that we are not the Greatest set of supporters in the world & we are far from it, sure we out sung man utd fans in FA cup wen we got hammerd, and that is proof we have a decent set of support but the sheer fact 26,000 only turned up for a FA cup game says it all in abundance.
Well done to the few fans who stayed and still cheered the lads on even after 1-5 down.
Sent in on: January 19th, 2007 at 11:31 am
There will be no “panic buys” says Roeder!
Is he having a laugh?
Everyone has known that we have needed a Centre back and a left back since befor the end of last season.
FFS and Roeder used local Hacks like Oliver in the Ronny Gill and elsewhere to assure us that quality defenders would be a priority. We got Bernard as a panic sop to the fans with hours left in the summer transfer window.
We are now 19 days into the January window, they have had at least 10 months to line up and sign defenders on January 1. THIS IS NOT PANIC BUYING, IT IS GOOD SCOUTING AND CALCULATED PLANNING TO BRING QUALITY PLAYERS TO OUR CLUB!
Roeder has now joined FFS in compounding insult to our intelligence,loyalty and patience.
Like the performance of your players and your own tactics on wednesday Glenn, your statemnt is not good enough, donn’t insult us any more!
Sent in on: January 19th, 2007 at 9:13 am
I would like to say something more polite or optimistic about that pile of shit last night. But the only thing that i can think of is disgust and pity for the 26000 loyal geordies who suffered that crap last night.
Those brainless fuckwits didnt deserve 26 people at that game last night let alone 26000!! For gods sake sort it out, how can you get a win at spurs, and get a very good draw against the manks and then play like that? it was an even worse display than the shit we played against sheff utd.
Anyway we’ve got the hopeless hammers next, so bounce back lads, put in a good performance! lets look on the bright side it cant get any fucking worse!!
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
what the hell happen to newcastle
got beat by the championship leader for god sake wise up and start playing properley, i knew this will happen after they played well agaist spurs they really tired, they would win a match if they keep passing the ball to milner but what did they do pass the ball to someone that is in the middle of the pitch, milner only got couple of passes but not much well they did pass to dyer but he didnt do much with the ball and look at salano he s**t what the hell wrong with him he let an own goal in…steven taylor he played but got send off for no bloody reason he didnt touch a guy he trip himself up u all know that because you all seen the replay but it the referee fault cause every time he comes to st james park he always stick up for the away team if i was the fa i would fired him right away
given he played well but didnt save shot but i dont blame him it just the players and i dont blame milner after what he did was brilliant.
so good luck for a match against westham
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
And people think that Luque doesn’t give any effort. He would have given 10 times more than any player yesterday. Taylor too big for his boots.
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
That was a joke like, 5-1 to a Championship side. Newcastle just didn’t play, they were all over the place. Nearly everyone played completley crap. The defence were like headless chickens, though in fairness to them they are in over their heads. The only one who played god for us was Given who could do absolutley nothing about the goals, he made a couple of fine saves, he wasn’t to blam for any of them but no doubt he’ll be annoyed with himself. You could see how frustrated he was with the rest of the team. While up the other end Dyer barley got a touch of the ball and when he did he didn’t do much with it. It was just a big embarasement/let down and they need just need to learn from it and get on with it. SOmething needs to be done and needs to be done fast!! GR needs to start spending, not “panic” buying now like but something has to be done and fast.
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
we should all go down the training ground tickets and shirts in hand and tell the overpaid fuck wits to give us our money back ,coz by fuck they can afford it,i think i’ll take up the players attitude for the rest of the season and not give a toss ,show no passion or committment,yes its only 1 game but ffs 5-1 at home of a lower league side it beggars belief.we are 1 of the biggest clubs in the country best supported but overall WE ARE THE BIGGEST UNDERACHIEVERS IN MODERN DAY FOOTBALL HISTORY
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
a total disgrace.lackluster,no committment,no fight and no interest what so ever.but dont worry our overpaid, under achieving over rated players will still pick up their enormous pay cheques at the end of the month and say once again THERES ALWAYS NEXT YEAR,i wonder if the club or any of the players would re-imburse me for the total committment i have shown over 20 odd years coz they can’t even committ for 90mins stop their pay for the rest of the season ,they dont deserve a penny after this shambolic display.
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
complete f’in joke! we need players, even if we just buy one defender ffs! i see neill, davenport etc all movin, why aint we tryin for these players? lauren is linked away from arsenal to, why not move for him? :@
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
yo guys,
last night was one of those nights where nothing went right whatsoever, it was a freak performance and everybody had a stinker. i dont think this is the time for panic, i agree with glenn not panic buying and now is the time to revert bk to basics, get a couple players bk (not carr tho, solano is still better despite last night) and keep things simple.
and will you ppl realise
ITS NOT FREDDYS WALLET, FFS ITS OUR MONEY AND LETS NOT SQUANDER IT. JEEZ…FAT FRED DOES NOT ‘OWN’ THE MONEY
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
i realy dont know what we can say!i live in a town and im like one of the only newcastle fans so today i got the piss ripped out of me werever i went lol!!This is a wakeupcall to freedy s to get his walllet out and buy us some players !!
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
A result like this was inevitable guys, with the injury list we have, a capitulation like this was bound to happen, it’s just a shame it happened against a team a division below us, in the FA cup, live on the BBC rather than against Man U in the league which would have been far easier a pill to swallow.
It just wasn’t our night but we can’t dwell, the past exactly was it is, the past so lets look forward.
Easy to say, i know, but lets look at it, we’ve got a thread bare first team at the minute so the less games they have to play the fresher they’ll be for the games they do, so being out of the FA cup frees up a couple of weekends.
The ufea cup is coming back soon, the league is a lost cause this season so lets just make sure we stay up which as i’m sure the rest of you are more then confident of too, we’ve got a relatively easy draw in the next round for the uefa and by the time it’s gets serious who knows which players are going to be fit, and fresh because the only other games they will have played will have been in the league.
Silverware, that’s all we want, the uefa cup isn’t going to be easy by any stretch but if you look at all the other teams involved in it, we have the quality within the squad, when fit, to beat any of them.
In closing, this season is only over if we decide it is, i’m not done with 06/07 yet, i don’t think Roeder is either, how about you?…
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Can someone send out a memo to Roder and tell him that a guy by the name of Lauren is available to be cannoned over to the north east from the gooners and while he is out there tell him to get someone with a left foot that can play some defense….and you can’t tell me that he did not see this coming. I was thinking to myself when we were playing spurs that we were supper lucky they were not sending all their attack down our left side. i bet Bruce did not even have to give his any tactics cause everyone can see where we could be exploited and our geniuses manager comes out and proclaims to the world that he will be sending out the same team. If I was a player for the Brum I would have gone out and got a hair cut so I can look good on my glory shot on the Thursday papers……….
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
To me some of the lads looked dead on their feet, bear in mind it was our 38th game of the season and 7/8th in the last 4 weeks and our injury crisis has meant little rotation has been possible.
Not that this is a decent excuse, we had other options, Im not a fan of Luque but he would have been a far better option than Pattison. Had we handled Rossi properly then we’d still have him rather than being forced to soldier on with Sib and Martins.
Our defence wanted options from midfield but were yet forced to punt it long all top often, meaning the ball came straight back at us.
Brum werent great but we gave the ball away sloppily and then we didnt have the energy/desire to get it back.
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Oh come on, I was being sarcastic.
What I really think is that their all a bunch of useless overpaid tossers!
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Absolute joke but it has been coming for a long time, we have been played off the park in so many matches and managed to scrape through but it was always going to come to an end eventually.
The squad as a whole carriers to many below par players which is obvious to most fans so why cant the club see that.
Can only see things get worse before it gets better.
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
A thrashing like this has def been coming - the lads have done really well lately - but I have to say I’d rather get dumped outta the cup than get a thrashing like this in the league…
I say stick with what we have until the summer and then buy… There is no point spending 2-3M panic buy on an average player when we have some very promising young’uns, who with a bit more experience might just turn out to be an absolute crackers!!
We’re not going to win anything this season and I dont think we will get relegated so stick with what we have and see how things pan out… Very rarely do Jan buys make an instant impact or improvement to the team…
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Defence? That’s what happens when you have one midfielder (Solano) in the right-back position, one inexperienced central defender played out of position (Huntington), and another sub-par for Premiership standards (Ramage).
In the pre-season, Sol Campbell wanted to come to Newcastle, but Roeder knew better. At the time, he was “wise” enough to know that statistics clearly showed Campbell didn’t play enough games in the past couple of seasons for Arsenal, and therefore, cleverly said “No, thanks”. Good for Portsmouth! It seems his health poroblems sare far behind him. And once more didn’t do anything when real Madrid offered Woodgate to anyone in the Premierleague showing any interest. Weel, it’s perhaps because Woodie’s performance at Newcastle wasn’t in SBR days wasn’t matching Roeder’s standards. Fortunately for Everton, all media reporting alleged Newcastle United interest in signing Joleon Lescott also proved unfounded. Well, after all, his hairstyle is not what it’s supposed to be at that level.
And that’s what you get when you sell one central defender who had class, but played insonsistently and below his reputation, and fail to sign three who fit the profile of a player necessary for NUFC if we had any ambitions- experienced, consistent central defender ready to perform when it matters most.
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Good results from this slap-dash team were never going to happen forever; the weakness in the squad was shown up big time last night. Ramage, Pattison and Taylor were very poor, and half-arsed performances from Solano, Milner, Butt and Sib didn’t help. I’m getting pretty tired of asking this but where is Luque? Why on earth did Roeder play Pattison who was completely useless when he does have an albeit out-of-favour player with a lot more experience? What the hell is that all that about?
We need as many first-team players back as quickly as possible; this injury list has to shorten soon doesn’t it? Doesn’t it?!? :-O
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Everyone is a bit over the top with this criticism.Glenn Roeder is the man for the job, and you can see how proud he is to be Newcastle Manager.Look at the players he has to put out, lat night showed us how well he has been doing previously.Look at his record, a 52% win ratio.Compared to Souness 43%, Sir Bobby 47%, Keegan 54%(some in lower divisions).I only have one criticism of him, which is he should not be playing pattison when he has luque’s quality sitting on £40,000 a week doing nothing, give him a chance.Or play O’Brien, atleast he has some pace, Pattison looks League 2 quality.
Come on the Mags on Saturday, get behind the team.The atmosphere was partly why we were poor, it was so flat, lets get behind them.
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Why haven’t signed anyone?? and why is Lucas Neill going to West Ham and not us???
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
proud? for not knowing how to play football?
wasnt a single person on our team that looked like a player, was an embarrasment.
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
The naivety in some Newcastle United fans is laughable. We got lucky against Spurs and won 3-2, some people were then predicting us to beat Birmingham 4-0 and instead we were ones on the other end of a mauling. This young, inexperienced side could only go so far and last night was the final straw, full credit to Birmingham though, they outshone us in every department. 18 days into the transfer window and still no new faces. Mr. Shepherd has stalled on the Belgravia Groups apparent takeover bid, yet if reports are to be believed they would have offered us substantial funds in January to purchase new faces. Let’s face it, we have very little money in the kitty, after all the big man did back his fifth choice manager with £50 million pounds two seasons ago, something only a fool would do.
Last night was unacceptable – Ramage and Solano being the main culprits at the back, although I have noted in the past that I think Steven Taylor is no superstar, he gives away the most needless free-kicks and last night we paid the price. We are in need of several new players, yet I have a pessimistic feeling that we will see no new arrivals this month and it will be a long, long time before this club lifts a domestic trophy with the current regime.
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 11:41 am
as a newcastle fan from ireland i am sick to death of geting laughed at my friends and work mates there are very few of us toon fans over here ,roeder has to go now as well as shepherd
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Peter Ramage resembles a confused monkey on the pitch!
The bloke is not a kid, he’s 23 years old and therefore never going to make it at the top level. Time to bring a couple in on loan till the summer and demote Ramage to Gateshead Reserves. Said it many many times but he is just a very poor excuse of a player.
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 11:05 am
I saw two games this Season: against Frankfurt and Spurs last weekend. In both games a lot of players were missing throug injuries. In both games Newcastle came out with a positive result. In both games a lot of people hailed the players. In both games Newcastle created no danger in front of the opposite goal. And last but no least in both games the defences was poor. Frankfurt and Spurs had chances to score for about three games. So it was just a matter of luck and of - I admit - of a good teamspirit that both games were no disaster.
The passing of the team is nod good enough. The defense has always problems, when other teams plays fast and our defense do little stop crossings. Look at Solano he stands miles away of his opponent. Against Spurs his luck was that the left side was even worser and Tottenham played mainly on their right side.
Yesterday the luck lady was missing and we have a result, which is very hard. But it was just a matter of time to got one like that.
I have three requests:
a) Please Mr. Roeder buy two defender (LB and RB). NOW!!
b) We all should not think about Europe
c) Shepherd go. (You promised: after some silverware you will go. We got the Intertoto-Cup. So do what you promised)
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 10:05 am
i dout we will bring 1 player in during this transfer window, and its a complete joke, freddy as to get off his fat ass and earn his over the top wage packet he gives himself.
the other day he was praising himself for spending 10 million on the youth academy and saying they were reaping the benefits..
the only way newcastle are going to get out of this shit whole is if, we clear the whole club out from the chairman to the fans,
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Let’s face it, we all knew this was coming. It could have been Spurs on Sunday had they taken 20% of their chances but it just so happened to be a team which, despite being in a lower league, proved itself to be stronger than the one we fielded.
To sum up how I feel and I guess many other Newcastle supporters feel, here’s a statistic for Mr Shepherd and Mr Roeder. Had we let in one less goal per game, we’d now be in fifth position and on 40 points. It’s day 17 of the transfer window and we haven’t even been strongly linked with a player let alone signed one - all around us teams have strenghtened both in the Summer and this month - that’s why Portsmouth are riding high, whilst all this time, the only thing we’re picking up is injuries! The strength of the squad is an absolute disgrace, especially in comparison with the vast amount of money that comes through the turnstiles and it’s time something was done about it. If Roeder thinks it’s acceptable to take Souness’ woeful team, and add 3 players over a year, he’s sadly mistaken and at present, only the poor quality of four or five teams in the league will prevent us from going down. This is not good enough!
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 9:43 am
A friend in the U.K SMS’d the score to me as there was no coverage here in Oz & my initial reaction was to think the manager had ‘rested’ some of the players who’d played their hearts out against Spurs.So imagine my horror when i learnt it was the same eleven!!I can’t believe Shay had 5 go past him & ‘yes’ the defence is rubbish & has been for yonks so ‘yes’ buy some decent defenders.Weren’t Newcastle linked with Lucas Neill at one stage?
Maybe Newcastle have been playing above themselves in recent weeks (Man Utd/Spurs) & it was only a matter of time before the dam wall burst.Better to happen in the F.A Cup than in the Premiership,i guess.
Howay The Lads!!
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 9:24 am
I’ll keep my rantings short and sweet as I could go on about this subject forever.
There are two basic ways for Newcastle to move forward:
1)New manager - Roeders a nice guy, but we’ve seen again that he can’t cut it as a top flight manager. Tactically clueless. There ARE formations and stratergy’s other than 4-4-2 you know. Formations can even be changed during a match to best suit the unfolding scenario (like being thrashed at home by a bunch of no-bodys).
2) (The key one). New chairman - Shepherd is either a moron of stunning proportions who always makes the worst choice possible, or just doesn’t have the desire and will to do what it takes to make Newcastle a top team. I suspect there’s a little from both in this case.
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 9:18 am
A total embarrassment…I like many Newcastle fans did not know whether to laugh or cry when DJ Campbell (a former Non-League Yeading striker we played in the cup 2 years again when he ripped Boumsong to shreds on his debut) broke through to make it FIVE - One. Sure they have spent money and played a decent game but Ramage, Solano, Pattison, Dyer were all awful! I have been hugely impressed with Taylor in recent weeks but even he looked shaky with that Titus/Boumsongesq idiot of a centre-back alongside him!
Roeder/Shepherd have to bloody realise that we need to BUY players in this window, or it could be another relegation scrap!
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 8:36 am
Greg, I think St James was being ironic.
I don’t blame Roeder at all. I agree that the 5-1 was a result of defensive mistakes, mainly by Ramage and Taylor getting himself sent off.
In fact, this result just goes to show the short term thinking of Freddy and the board. It is already mid-Jan and still no defenders!! It was clear since the beginning of the season that we needed defenders. No defenders signed then and none now. Roeder has done admirably with the youngsters but they can only do so much.
Sack the board!!
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 7:56 am
The abysmal Ramage again.
What the hell does Roeder see in this lad ?
He’s worse than Bramble.
Meanwhile Roeder dithers about signing players AGAIN.
This was one of the most atrocious performances in Newcastle’s history. Roeder must take a large part of the blame.
We have managed to get results after playing poorly and getting away with it - not just the Spuds match, but virtually every game this season.
We are glaringly weak in too many places and Roeder seems to be doing the same as he did disaterously Aug 31st. Leaving it to the last minute and trying to get the sell by date is up players.
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 7:43 am
It was a woeful display by the boys a poor show they couldnt string any fluent attacks and no good passing was displayed. To lose to a championship side for a club the size of Newcastle is bad enough but to be smashed and outplayed 5-1 at home is not good enough. Glenn Roeder needs to pull his finger out and buy some recruitments or at least get some on loan, none after 17 days into the window
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 6:53 am
St James theres nothing to be proud about being drubbed 5-1 at home to a team in a lesser division, so if we were to get relegated giving our all would you be proud of them again?
Stupid comment from an obviously stupid person.
Ramage and Solano were involved in every goal birmingham scord bar one, which reulted from taylor getting sent off. Something has to change in the back four and fast, otherwise we could find ourselves back in the relegation battle, but at least we could be proud of them!
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 3:14 am
This was one game too far for this disjointed and inexperienced team. The same team could of got hammered at Spurs but rode its luck and won - this time the luck well and truly ran out.
This massacre could have been avoided if Roeder had brought in the new players he has been promising. But 17 days into the transfer window, there has been no action on the transfer front.
Is GR incompetent? Has he deluded himself into believing he can ride out the season using academy and reserve players? Or is it a case of Shepherd not backing GR with the required cash?
The only good thing about this defeat is that GR and FS have nowhere left to hide - they have to bring in new players and NOW.
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 3:07 am
Well done to the lads, there’s no shame in losing to Championship side Birmingham 5-1 at home, at least they gave it their all. I’m proud of ya lads!
Sent in on: January 18th, 2007 at 2:24 am