Comments on: Poll: Do You Want Newcastle to Get Relegated?

By: bill

bill — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:06:10 +0000

poor newcastle…poor shearer…..

By: Jmay

Jmay — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:54:30 +0000

2 weeks on and still no win but not down yet…no one in Newcastle is under any illusions (except the muppets they stick in front of the Sky Sports cameras maybe) – apart from all the problems we’ve had this season, which would break any club, we’re currently playing the worst football in the most disorganised fashion ever seen, with a bunch of players who look past it or disinterersted apart from one or exceptions. Whether we like it or we fully deserve to go down on present form. I for one don’t care. I’ve had great trips to Peterborough Derby and all the rest.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:45:21 +0000

Newcastle wont get relegated. They will finish 16th on 38 points, joint with Blackburn who will be 17th due to goal difference. Hull will be relegated with 37 points, along with Middlesbrough (31 points) and West Brom (27 points). Hull, Middlesbrough and West Brom all have hard games. Newcastle do too, but at home against middlesbrough and portsmouth you’d favour a win, against Liverpool a big loss and at Fulham and Aston Villa tight draws due to their respective forms. I only hope im right…

By: Weston

Weston — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:24:38 +0000

the only team in england i really want to go down is Manchester United — its tough hating the richest sports team in the world.

By: Mustafa

Mustafa — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:52:03 +0000

lol @ toby… that sounds like one of those “worst case scenarios”

Guy 1: “I heard you guys went to a hole-in-the-wall Thai super buffet last night… how was it?”
Guy 2: “Man, the food was disgusting and afterwards, I was in the bathroom all night…. it was almost as bad as a Tuesday night away trip to Doncaster in November”
Guy 1: “Dude, that really sucks”

By: Toby

Toby — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:42:51 +0000

I’d like see Wolves take on a few of their players after the drop so er…yes?

Hah,I wonder how many of their players would be up for a Tuesday night away trip to Doncaster in November, now if that isn’t a wake up call I don’t know what else is.

By: j

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:37:07 +0000

Steve, Canada – I can answer that quickly for you. No

By: Steve, Canada

Steve, Canada — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:02:03 +0000

I know it’ll sadden all those Magpies fans, but honestly the team has been mostly mediocre or dreadful this season. The whole concept of promotion-relegation is terrific and I wish it existed in North America, but I doubt we’ll ever see it in my lifetime.
Former assistant manager John Carver is winning admiration for his work on turning around Toronto F.C. around and people wonder if he’d be tempted to return to Newcastle to bring them back up, should they drop down to Championship.

By: alessio

alessio — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:15:54 +0000

It’s shocking to see how the team has just plummeted.

By: j

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:54:24 +0000

I’m a little shocked to reading how anyone would consider the drop to the Championship being beneficial unless you long for the days to tell people of when Newcastle was at the heights of the game. For Newcastle the drop will put further pressure on the massively eroding cash flow’s and asset base. It will not assist the club in any manner whatsoever and severely jeopardize a climb back up in the foreseeable future. I’ve long since edited this out of my posts since no-one wishes to discuss financial fallout / business aspect but a drop will cause extraordinary stress on the overall club’s operations and a massive series of difficult changes, despite any public statements they make.

Of the many problems the club is having, in part it stemmed from the arrival of Dennis Wise and the resulting exodus of many supporting members of the staff who are now displaced around the football world. The majority of these was, with respect, “smaller” support staff but is integral to a clubs success. As they left that support structure fell apart and is impossible to replace easily. However all this pales to massive erosion the capitalized value of the parent co which is precisely why the club wasn’t able to fund the needed acquisitions. This is the root of the problem and regardless of whether like a certain manager or not, you cannot consistently over achieve without the talent and financial backing to compete.

For true Newcastle supporters a drop will be apocalyptic but they could easily serve as the first major example of the world financial market collapse in Football.