That's exactly as I saw it too. I have to say that I never liked Shearer as a player for many, many reasons. However, in the last few weeks Shearer the manager has actually grown on me. His honesty in the last few weeks has been a refreshing change & while he's clearly never looked up to the job it's been difficult not to admire his candid assesments of his team's "performances" & the fact that he had the balls to deal with Barton in a way that his previous managers have seemed incapable.

imagine the frothing at the mouth on here if it had been leeds fans invading the pitch.

I wonder if our chairman is 'entertaining' the idea of us being relegated now, deluded, ignorant prick.

I'm not a Shearer fan one bit, but I thought his interview was great, really. He's right, you've got to strip that club & start again. The playing staff, if you think that lot will get you back up, think again, they wouldn't have a prayer. Newcastle need to get rid, get what money they can they sign players who'll get them out of that division.

You can see some obvious exits, Bassong will now go to Arsenal, Barton to Bolton, maybe Nolan to Blackburn. Others they'll get money for probably Martins, Jonas, Taylor, Enrique. You'd imagine Harper will stay, maybe Butt, Ameobi, not many though.

It's going to need some canny movement in transfer market, a few favours & probably a bit of luck, but they will attract players, still. He just needs to look past this 'Premiership Quality' thing that people get hung up on, get players who'll get you out of that division.

If I was Shearer I'd be trying to bring the likes of Beckford, David Healy, maybe Frazier Campbell on a years loan or that Gibson. Get some width, Jobi McAnuff or a couple of them Arsenal kids, Merida or Jack Wilshire etc.

LMFAO

When the news filtered through they'd gone down I did a little sex wee.

They deserve it. The fans forced out allardyce and if he'd been in charge none of this would have happened.

The fans had a huge reaction to keegan leaving forcing ahsley to try and sell and leaving the club to rot in limbo for even longer.

This was an ego trip from shearer. He had so many chances in the past to tajke over but did it now.

Big contracts and no relegation clauses

Hopefully they'll have some financial trouble.

Please god NO!

I would honestly be surprised if Allardyce was interested now.

I think'll be relative to who's available at what cost, if you get me. If Big Sam gets the Roque money to reinvest, or some of it, knowing him, he'll want to bring in 3 or 4 folk with it. Clubs will know Newcastles predicament now, and will take advantage of it. Problem Newcastle have is that clubs will offer less, fee wise, and kinda go with an argumant of 'we're doing you a favour getting his £50k+ off your wage bill.'

If he could get Nolan for say £2/£2.5m, I think he'd be interested, replace Tugay.

The problem with the squad was that there was no balance, no creativity and very few players applied any urgency to the cause.

Too many of them seemed happy to just collect their wages and put in below par performances, one after another.

Beye, Duff, Bassong, Guthrie and Steven Taylor are the 4 that can probably put their hands up and say, well at least i tried or played like they wanted to avoid relegation to The Championship.

Too many of the players have had the wrong attitude, and they simply are not good enough.

We had so many second chances, Stoke getting a win at Hull, then us beating Middlesborough, then Man Utd winning against Hull yesterday, but we couldn't take advantage of when other teams' results were helping us out. We don't deserve to stay up.

This season has been an absolute joke, i don't really care too much of the views of the bitter Man Utd fans and other fans that have an agenda of hatred towards Newcastle, especially those who have only been supporting Man Utd since 1999. It must be a hard life as a football fan to support one of the big 4. Players like Given, N'Zogbia and Milner leaving and replacing them with Lovenkrands, Nolan and Ryan Taylor, isn't going to strengthen a team. I remember saying it at the time, and i said in December that we would get relegated.

Not really sure how people can pinpoint blame at Alan Shearer really, he had 8 games to work with players who the majority, don't seem bothered, and secondly, aren't good enough. He will have wanted to win more games in his 8 games in charge, however, apart from the fans who dislike him on a personal note, probably for turning down Man Utd twice during his career, i don't really see how he can be criticised.

It will be interesting to see who stays at the club, both players and managers.

Wrong thread Gaz.

Terry Mac worked for eight managers.

I noticed that he wasn't in Blackburn on Sunday, never mind in the squad.

Big name required at Sunderland. How about Roy Keane?