Seems to me that Roedar was never more than a stop-gap. If the rumours are true then Freddy has been in for Alladyce at least once, if not twice in the past. Yes, Roedar is a decent bloke, and yes I do feel sorry for him in as much as the injury list he had was horrendous. However, I’m afraid his tactical decisions were strange at best and more importantly he never seemed to carry the confidence you need at this level. Watching his press conferences were like watching a rabbit in the headlights. If that was how he took team talks or training then I’m not surprised the players looked clueless on the pitch. Nothing personal - I wish him all the best and he DID guide us out of trouble after Souness - but this day has been coming for some time.

As for Shephard, what can you say? The man is a laughing stock. He blunders from one PR disaster to the next. But (and I hate saying this because I can’t stand the bloke) time and time again he finds cash under the sofa to spend. OK, you can question how it’s been used (£9M on Luque, £9.5M on Robert, or going further back £6M on the likes of Marcelino, etc) but he keeps coming through with cash. On a wider issue you have to wonder about why the recent takeover talks remained just that…..talk. Freddy getting greedy in the negociations I wonder? We’ll never know of course. But if Freddy went tomorrow, who could realistically fill that void? Where would the cash we BADLY need to re-vamp the back four, etc come from? It’s not good enough to simply shout “Freddy Out” and hope someone will jump into the hot-seat. It’ll take alot more than that if we’re going to turn things around.

As to the current management situation, I’ve got mixed views. Alladyce seems to be able to organise a team properly, and we need that more than anything right now. He also seems to have the ability to get average players to play considerably above themselves, and let’s be honest, we have some pretty average players at the moment. I can’t see him trying 33 different back four combinations for example. Now, he might not play KK-esque free flowing football, but right now I’d take WINNING football and worry about finding the next Ginola or Tino later, because make no mistake if things carry on the way they have for the past 3+ years, there is only one place we are heading and it isn’t Europe….

One last thought to leave you all with (and sorry, it’s not a happy one). I’m looking down the road to the “other” team, the team-that-dare-not-speak-its-name and I’m seeing the effects of getting a manager in who can motivate and organise a team of AVERAGE players. It’s amazing how a little planning, preparation and bloody-minded effort can turn a side of no-hope losers into a side of winners (ok, in the Championship I know, but still). If Quinn finds Keane cash in the Summer and we carry on blundering on in the dark, I really, really worry for us next year.

Let’s all hope we get the right man this time.

Oh by the way john from wallsend, all of the was Sir John Hall not shepherd.

Roeder is indeed a decent man (so what), although he does appear to be backtracking a lot recently, injuries and getting in older role models, which has lost my respect. The fact is a football club and team needs a strong leader as a manager, someone who inspires the players and has their respect and gets them motivated. Look at the great managers Shanks, Reevie, Clough, Mourino, Wenger they are/were all huge personalities with passion running through their veins. Roeder simply doesn’t have that. The likes of Roeder, Sven, Mclaren are similar types and are simply not suited to the demands of managing an English team.

As for Shepard, how anyone can have anything but comtempt for the man is beyond me, he made his thougths clear a long time ago and no one shoudl ever forget that.

It upsets me to see such a decent man fail. It was nice to see someone who was truly proud to be Newcastle manager and know how big a job it is. Glenn, you helped us stabalise after the previous regime and its a shame you may not be the one to take us to the top.Good luck for the future, be it here or else where, you deserve success, and i hope you’ll find it.Thanks

fuking hell is bin the same old story since bobby left.

we need to get rid of the fat ginna cunt now and wer sorted

with the players we have we should b ryt up there but some of ther players dont care there only happy when the pay check come in such as dyer hu gets paid 80 k a week he dnt giv a a fuk duz he.

i love bin a nufc dont get me wrong but is just frustrateing ever week seein us lose like we are doing and playing the way they do

i reacon we should just SACK Shepherd and Roader and get Big Sam in.

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Hahahaha doesn’t matter now lol. Roeder has just been sacked. It’s Official.

someone said below, its the managers fault we doing so shit for apointing, crap players and wasting money, but who apointed those CRAP managers in the first place the chairman.

the chairman must, go or step down and allow someone else ot take charge who has common sense.

Basically we’re a year on and people want to change the manager. Again. This will get us nowhere, but on the plus side it will get us there fast!!

Shepherd played his part in the good times of the past, but that was long ago and he has made a serious of mistakes since then.

The way he sacked SBR, whether the time was up on his tenure or not, he should not have let the whole summer pas then sack him as the season gets going. (4 games wasn’t it?!?)

Souness was a mistake in the first place. THEN letting him spend 50mil to try and save himself and not letting him finish the season he started.

You get nowhere changing managers all the time. A club must built, over time (even chelsea didn’t win the first yr they threw money at the team) and glenda MUST be given this summer to imprint on the squad. Three players is not enough. Let him clear out those he feels aren’t playing for him and get HIS players in. Then judge him properly, this time next season. Let him stay, and this time next yr we will still be in this division and will certainly be in the top half IF he gets half the backing the stupid scot got.

Knee Jerks.

Success will take time. Roeder needs to be allowed to build his own team, get them playing together over the summer and then we can truly judge him next season.

I hope Mr. Shepherd doesn’t make a rash decision that will detrimentally affect the clubs future after seeing this.

We can’t sack the manager again and start building the team over again. The majority of the team is still Graeme Souness’s.

All glenn needs to do is replace Babs, Carr, Onyewu, Bramble with a quality back four and i’m sure we’ll be flying again.

Plus I’m sure we’ll spank Watford away next week.

“Roeder didn’t buy all of the players but his buys have been as bad as those of Souness. Roeder has had two transfer windows to bring HIS players in.”

What a load of something I do not want to mention here! I cant think of one bad transfer. Some might wanna call Duff a poor purchase but £5 mio for one of the best wingers in the league never ever comes near to that.

John of wallsend, you are the only muppet mate, how on this planet you cannot see that Shepherd has destroyed this club!! For your little list “Without Shepherd there would’ve been:”

No Takeover
No Keegan
No Entertainers
No Shearer
No Sir Les
No Ginola
No Champions League
No 3-2 against Barcelona

I think Sir John Hall Might have something to say about this!!! KERMIT!!!!!

SHEPHERD OUT and take yer little yes man sidekick ROEDER with you!!!!

Im sorry but why have you taken my video could you not do it your self fucking wankers

Roeder did earn his job by at least temporarily sorting Souness’ mess.

But he’s clearly reached his Waterloo and must clear his desk. Those players are simply not playing for him.

No doubt this considerable display of discontent from the fans will be played down as a “small gathering” by The Chronicle…AKA Shepherd’s mouthpiece. Not forgetting the fact that this is the very paper that announced to the nation that Roeder was the fans’ choice…poo.