No disrespect to the Championship but ...

[BensGrandad]

How many people said the same about Man Utd when they got relegated from the old Div1 afte Matt Busby left.

 

[lighthouse]

They're running out of Messiahs in the North East though, I understand they are down to Ant and Dec.

That sums them up perfectly

 

[Tooting Gull]

No disrespect to the Championship - but League One is where it's at in the Football League next season.

 

[The Large One]

No disrespect to the Championship, but what are they doing allowing a f***ing numptyhead to darken its competition by having him playing in it?

 

[Altered State]

When will Newcastle realise it's about winning matches, not how 'big' the club is, how passionate the supporters are, or the messiah ranking of the manager

 

[Spider]

When will Newcastle realise it's about winning matches, not how 'big' the club is, how passionate the supporters are, or the messiah ranking of the manager

No disrespect to Newcastle, but they don't deserve to be in a league with real loyal fans, competitive football, honest players, reasonable ticket prices and a league which isn't garanteed to be topped by the same 4 teams at the end of the season - not to mention which they might have a chance of winning a few more than 7 games!

Hope they finish lower mid table next year and the Geordies start booing Shearer in late September because they are only in 5th place, only for him to be sacked and the club to appoint Terry Venables who just about keeps them in the league. They truely are the definition of a circus club.

Also, no disrespect to Newcastle, but they deserve clowns like Jokin 'ere and Alan 'Messiah pt. 3' Shearer for manager and overpaid also-rans like Damien 'I used to play for Ranieri' Duff and Joey 'Say Championship again and I'll put me fag out in yer eye' Barton for players.

 

[withdeanwombat]

No disrespect to other Premiership goals this weekend,but Duffs WAS a beauty.

 

[Northstander]

I read that from Duff and now realise the Newcastle are complete and utter thunder *****!!

I hope they keep falling and pass us on the way as we go up!! I hate them now more than Leeds!

 

[Northstander]

No disrepect to Newcastle but the premiership aint gonna miss you!!!

 

[Worthai Seagull]

I know they're passionate, but these are the same fans that hounded out Allardyce when they weren't playing 'beautiful' football after a few weeks. They need to take their fair share of the blame for the whole mess too.

Sure...agree !

 

[Brian Fantana]

Vast majority of Newcastle fans are not as deluded as the ones who constantly protest outside St James'. If you speak to many they will cite the sackings of Robson and Big Sam as the real issues. Many of them didn't want either of them to be sacked. Tarnishing all Newcastle fans with the same 'deluded' and 'arrogant' brush is a bit harsh.

 

[Gwylan]

Vast majority of Newcastle fans are not as deluded as the ones who constantly protest outside St James'. If you speak to many they will cite the sackings of Robson and Big Sam as the real issues. Many of them didn't want either of them to be sacked. Tarnishing all Newcastle fans with the same 'deluded' and 'arrogant' brush is a bit harsh.

There's some truth in this. Certainly, most of the people who seem to gather outside St James's Park whenever something happens to the club appear to be certfiably insane but I don't think that it's quite true to imply that there was no mass call for Alladyce to go. The booing and the chanting from the crowd wasn't a handful of people - that was a mass demonstration. I'd have said that the majority would have wanted Big Sam out.

And no other clubs seem to have this obsession with a local Messiah. There's some (just a little) dissatisfaction with Wenger right now but I haven't yet heard a Gooner say "You know what we need? We need Tony Adams back as manager" And I bet we won't hear it - no matter how unhappy the fans get. But Newcastle fans seem to be a breed apart from anyone else.

Still, I bet if you'd surveyed Brighton supporters this time last year and asked who'd you rather have as manager - Wilkins or Adams - it would have been "Bye-bye Dean" so what do fans know?

 

[nevergoagain]

Newcastle have 15 players on 50K plus per week contracts withourt relegation clauses. Their income from the league will drop from £60 million to about £4 million. They raised £27 million through coprorate boxs, will they sell that against the smaller teams in the championship?
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Don't they get some quite chunky parachute payments still ?, not sure how much and unlikely to offset the benefits of staying up but I thought it was still a hefty sum ?.

 

[adrian29uk]

Premiership clubs are probably the worst run clubs financially out of all the leagues, they throw all their eggs in to one basket and never have a plan for relegation. I think we will see a lot more Leeds cases as the seasons go on.

I don't take joy at seeing clubs relegated, but after reading the comments, I hope they have a bloody hard time of it in the championship, and have a short sharp shock to see what life is like in the world of real football.

If they think they are going to walk this league they got another thing coming. Teams will rubbing their hands looking at their fixtures next season. Newcastle will not be used to the grounds, attendances and the most they can look forward to is a five minute slot on ITV championship show.

 

[Austrian Gull]

West Brom are much better equipped to go straight back up IMHO.

Newcastle will need to move on a lot of under-performing, over-paid players (Smith, Viduka, Owen, Coluccini to name but a few) before they can think about building a side which is suitable for winning promotion.

 

[Simon Morgan]

I would LOVE IT if Mike Ashley went crazy and made Ant and Dec co-managers

Probably better than appointing Shearer

 

[Tooting Gull]

The thing is, you CAN just about manage the finances - it just takes some balls. Sunderland have player contracts that all stipulate a huge wage cut if they go down. That will not have been easy to negotiate with players or agents, and there will have been some ultimatums, and players who went to other clubs as a result.

But what you are left with is a group, albeit of slightly lesser quality, that genuinely want to be there and are playing for their own futures as well as the club's. Fans have to buy into that as well, realising that going for top players on four-year deals on big money when you could get relegated after a year is a recipe for disaster.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

How many people said the same about Man Utd when they got relegated from the old Div1 afte Matt Busby left.

To be fair BG most of us are too young to answer that question.

 

[desprateseagull]

yeah, newcastle are sooo big, they got RELEGATED.

wye aye man? cos they're sh**!

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I hate them now more than Leeds!

Steady on. They might be deluded twats, but let's not get carried away!