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Mag hypocrisy ?

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Skellington said:
Felt sorry for the bloke, but it happens to pretty much every manager there.

2001 when Robson wasn't in the top 4:

"I think I've worked a miracle at this club, When I came here Newcastle United was sinking. This club was heading for the First Division - make no mistake about it. I did a great job here last season because I am experienced, tough and I can solve problems.

"I accept we wanted to do better this season but what we want now is for our public to be with us.

"We don't want knives in our backs and arrows flying around our heads - what good does that do to a football club."

"It would appear that loyalty means nothing.

"I've got jerks telling me to get rid of Alan Shearer, Warren Barton, Rob Lee and Gary Speed. Jerks who don't know what they are talking about.
"Without those players last season we would have been relegated. What
loyalty is that? They have saved this club."

"I hope most fans are backing me because if not, what would be the point of sticking around?

"People say 'Get rid of me'. But I took over a sinking ship. It was going
straight down to the First Division. Can people not see that we are turning it around, cleaning it up. We need time and honesty and loyalty."

"Yes, we haven't done as well as I'd hoped this season.

"No-one feels it more than I do. This is my area and my people and I'm
trying to represent them on the football field.

"Let me tell you about Mick Wadsworth, he's been in football for a long time and he's had to come in every morning, pull on his training kit and actually work with players on the pitch.

"He's no fly-by-night former big-name player who's come in and said 'I've had a great career so I'm going to be a great coach.

"He doesn't just stand there and put the cones out. He's actually worked his way up from where it matters and I know what he's done.

"Do Newcastle fans honestly think that I would employ a coach who wasn't good enough - a coach who was sub-standard for my club?

"If that was the case he'd be out. As it is my coaching staff is equal to any in the country and I will continue to stand up for them."

"I'll have more to say by the end of the week."

Then they started on him again when he only came 5th.
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There was a protest, at the bottom of the steps in front of the main entrance, when they were 5th in the league ........... it was on Look North and Robson was interviewed.

Now they're behind Brighton in the 2nd division and openly licking the bare hairy arse of the bloke who relegated them :lol:
 

The treatment SBR received after he dropped Keegan from an England squad was reported in every newspaper I read,and they all mentioned him being spat on.
 
Sima said:
Not true like, we wanted him moving upstairs into a DOF role as in the 2004/05 season it was clear that a certain group of players weren't listening to him anymore (Bramble, Dyer, Bellamy, Jenas being the key culprits) after Shephard undermined him massively in the following pre-season by saying that this was his last season.
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Thick Geordie Bassa
 
In the season we finished 5th we W13 D17 L8 and scored 52 goals and finished on 56 points.
The two previous seasons we won 21 games in each season scoring 74 goals in the 4th placed season and getting 71 points, and in the 3rd place season scored 63 goals and got 69 points.
There was definitely a sense that things had gone as far as they could with Bobby Robson. We finished 5th and were 4 points off Liverpool in 4th place. Aston Villa in 6th place had the same points but inferior goal difference. We were only 4 points clear of 9th placed Fulham.

A lot of the 03/04 season was dull with so many draws and lethargic football. Obviously 5th place looks good in hindsight but based on the previous two seasons we were going backwards.
In the summer of 04 Shepherd undermined Robson selling woodgate against his wishes, and singing Nicky Butt when he wanted Carrick from west ham. The players didn't help either, the self styled "young guns" all getting a bit complacent.
 
What A Waster said:
In the season we finished 5th we W13 D17 L8 and scored 52 goals and finished on 56 points.
The two previous seasons we won 21 games in each season scoring 74 goals in the 4th placed season and getting 71 points, and in the 3rd place season scored 63 goals and got 69 points.
There was definitely a sense that things had gone as far as they could with Bobby Robson. We finished 5th and were 4 points off Liverpool in 4th place. Aston Villa in 6th place had the same points but inferior goal difference. We were only 4 points clear of 9th placed Fulham.

A lot of the 03/04 season was dull with so many draws and lethargic football. Obviously 5th place looks good in hindsight but based on the previous two seasons we were going backwards.
In the summer of 04 Shepherd undermined Robson selling woodgate against his wishes, and singing Nicky Butt when he wanted Carrick from west ham. The players didn't help either, the self styled "young guns" all getting a bit complacent.
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:lol:
 
Johnnyh said:
In Sir Bobbys last book he said his brother who had went to sjp for 60 years would never set foot in the club again after the way he'd been treated at the club.
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I don't know how many brothers Bobby had, but the one who had a butchers shop (I think in Langley Park) had it decked out/painted in RED & WHITE in '73
I seem to remember this, unless I dreamt it
 
rentaghost said:
Those articles are how it was. The first one Robson himself stating how deeply upset he was at NUFC fans turning on him. The second an accurate reflection of the hypocrisy when he died.

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I was living in Newcastle at the time that Sky Sports article was written. The word being bandied around at that time, by loads of Newcastle fans around the town, was senile.
 
peterlaws said:
I don't know how many brothers Bobby had, but the one who had a butchers shop (I think in Langley Park) had it decked out/painted in RED & WHITE in '73
I seem to remember this, unless I dreamt it
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Definitely had a brother who went to Newcastle for years Sir Bobby made quite a big thing about it when they sacked him. You'd have to read it but he was pretty hurt by the way it was done and his Newcastle supporting brother was very bitter about it.

Never understand the way they handled it. Why they just didn't make him a club ambassador or something and put him upstairs and when they were trying to sign a good player let him sit around the table at negotiations. The player would of been impressed and sure Sir Bobby would of helped in negotiations. A much better way of letting the man retain his dignity not to mention helping the club and saving the club embarrassment.
 
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What A Waster said:
In the season we finished 5th we W13 D17 L8 and scored 52 goals and finished on 56 points.
The two previous seasons we won 21 games in each season scoring 74 goals in the 4th placed season and getting 71 points, and in the 3rd place season scored 63 goals and got 69 points.
There was definitely a sense that things had gone as far as they could with Bobby Robson. We finished 5th and were 4 points off Liverpool in 4th place. Aston Villa in 6th place had the same points but inferior goal difference. We were only 4 points clear of 9th placed Fulham.

A lot of the 03/04 season was dull with so many draws and lethargic football. Obviously 5th place looks good in hindsight but based on the previous two seasons we were going backwards.
In the summer of 04 Shepherd undermined Robson selling woodgate against his wishes, and singing Nicky Butt when he wanted Carrick from west ham. The players didn't help either, the self styled "young guns" all getting a bit complacent.
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A mag who's a central defender, what's this place coming to. Can anyone on here see thereselves being the equivelant on a mag board.
 
What A Waster said:
In the season we finished 5th we W13 D17 L8 and scored 52 goals and finished on 56 points.
The two previous seasons we won 21 games in each season scoring 74 goals in the 4th placed season and getting 71 points, and in the 3rd place season scored 63 goals and got 69 points.
There was definitely a sense that things had gone as far as they could with Bobby Robson. We finished 5th and were 4 points off Liverpool in 4th place. Aston Villa in 6th place had the same points but inferior goal difference. We were only 4 points clear of 9th placed Fulham.

A lot of the 03/04 season was dull with so many draws and lethargic football. Obviously 5th place looks good in hindsight but based on the previous two seasons we were going backwards.
In the summer of 04 Shepherd undermined Robson selling woodgate against his wishes, and singing Nicky Butt when he wanted Carrick from west ham. The players didn't help either, the self styled "young guns" all getting a bit complacent.
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7IAR
 
SnakeEyes said:
Any one else have mags on fb commenting and sharing stuff about Sir Bobby? Got a good few sharing stuff on mine. I was seeing a lass from Wallsend when he was at the mags. I remember drinking in the club down there and was loads of season ticket holders wanted rid of him. Didn't one of them spit on him too?
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A bit like how some of ours go on about Reid
Some of ours threw a beer in his face if I remember correctly . It's not just mag hypocrisy ...
 
Zig81 said:
When this gets brought up I find myself actually going through the sequence of events in my head and trying to find out at what point the numb **** actually decided on throwing a punch at a horse. It's just not normal behaviour for anyone.
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Only really acceptable if you're also a horse. Maybe he was?
Maybe he was at the wrong derby?
 
sessions said:
A bit like how some of ours go on about Reid
Some of ours threw a beer in his face if I remember correctly . It's not just mag hypocrisy ...
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You need to take a quick look at the dictionary ...... you obviously don't understand the meaning of that word.
 
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