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Lets All Laugh At Newcastle (Again!)

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gipetto said:
The thing is, if he does stay on. There's nothing stopping him from leaving if a bigger club comes in for him following the start of the season. That's of course if he stays on in the mean time.
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I think it's pretty obvious no big club is coming for him.

His desperate shouts for a better job by setting the deadline of the end of the week make that painfully obvious.
 

Reiver said:
Don't get me wrong, after the vast amount of money spent, what McClaren did was shameful but Benitez failed to do what he was brought in to do.

He failed by losing to Norwich, failing to win a home game against a relegation rival and going to the rock bottom club and allowing them their first point in months.

No amount of 'points per game' stats can change those poor results.

The players are to blame along with the manager who failed to get them playing well enough ...... strangely those players are the same ones many Newcastle supporters are desperate to hold on to.
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I know that you will twist logic to fit your narrative but when the great and the good of football say that Benitez didn't have enough time, I'll take their word over a biased Sunderland fan. Carragher said, before Benitez had even taken charge of a game, that he's unsure there were enough games left as Rafa isn't firebrand motivator, he'd need time to turn the ship around.

We went down because we accrued insufficient points over 38 games to end the season outside the bottom three. You can point at 3 games if you like but that's cherry picking at it's worst. We would have stayed up had McClaren beaten Villa and not lost to you, or prevented Everton and Watford from doing the double over us, and so on.

It's revisionist to declare that Rafa was to blame for our relegation, just as it's revisionist to declare that sunderland sent us down.

I understand why you would try to manipulate the facts to show either of these things though, so if it helps, you crack on old boy.
 
The Fish said:
I know that you will twist logic to fit your narrative but when the great and the good of football say that Benitez didn't have enough time, I'll take their word over a biased Sunderland fan. Carragher said, before Benitez had even taken charge of a game, that he's unsure there were enough games left as Rafa isn't firebrand motivator, he'd need time to turn the ship around.

We went down because we accrued insufficient points over 38 games to end the season outside the bottom three. You can point at 3 games if you like but that's cherry picking at it's worst. We would have stayed up had McClaren beaten Villa and not lost to you, or prevented Everton and Watford from doing the double over us, and so on.

It's revisionist to declare that Rafa was to blame for our relegation, just as it's revisionist to declare that sunderland sent us down.

I understand why you would try to manipulate the facts to show either of these things though, so if it helps, you crack on old boy.
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Facts.

Benitez came in claiming the players had enough quality and that he could keep Newcastle up.

He failed.

Everything else, from you, me & Carragher, is guesswork.

As for being too late ......... Newcastle were above Sunderland less than a fortnight ago, now they're in the 2nd division.

That's all that matters isn't it?
 
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