We were'nt good enough. It's that simple, we had the chances presented to us by other teams, but the lack of urgency yesterday is so hard to take. They didnt even fight

This has been coming for years, the clubs been horrendously mismanaged. Everyone at all levels of the club have to take responsibility. To blame Shearer is ridiculous. He didnt do a good job. I fail to see who could have saved us? It's fine to criticise with hindsight but if the goal last week didnt get disallowed? If we'd scored yesterday. We could have survived but it wouldnt mean that the club is rotten to the core. It was criminally badly run by the last regime. Ashley holds a lot of responsibility as well.

On a brighter note its nice to know so many fans of other clubs who arent even our rivals care so much about us

Good little player

I reckon they should be Hull City targets. I'd be surprised if they don't make another move for Campbell, and they should be begging Ferguson for Gibson on loan if they have any sense. The championship isn't good enough for him, he'd achieve nothing by going to Newcastle.

Really don't rate him. The odd flash of brilliance, but too much inconsistency and doesn't score enough. They need much better to survive, as proved by his current club going down, and I think he'd be poor value for money because I suspect he's on a good wedge at Boro.

Will the Newcastle fans be at St. James's Park in their tens of thousands next season when they play the likes of Sheffield Wednesday, QPR, Shorpe and Doncaster or will they wait until they're in the Premier League again ?

He's took over a sinking ship and wasn't able to stop it, very harsh blaming it on him. Mike Ashley has a lot to answer for, both in terms of his manager recruitment and the timing of everything.

How long ago was it when Joe had the heart problem? Why appoint Kinnear in the first place? Why let things get so bad that Keegan left? Why appoint a man who's never managed to try and steer a club out of relegation with only 8 games left? I think Newcastle will be straight back up as long as they appoint a semi-decent manager.

The club's a shambles.

The deluded ones maybe, not the ones who realise what is truely going on.

Couldn't agree more with that post, mate.

Never Shearer's fault the players have never looked like they where was in a battle to stay up no fight at all.

Yeah didn't mean anyone on here mate.

I see Paolo Maldini has retired after a 24 year career and 901 games played for AC Milan.

Fair doos.

Maybe us getting relegated will reduce the number of idiots who do ruin the rest of the fans' reputation by shouting their mouths off with absolute crap on SSN and saying that we deserve to be in the Premiership and are a big club and so on.

Maybe the media will give the messiah boll*cks a rest too, i can't remember the last time i heard a Newcastle fan call one of our managers a messiah.



That is the main reason mate, added to the fact that the players weren't good enough, and better players were reduced with inferior, cheaper players, relegation was the only thing that was going to happen.