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• 1 Tom_Toon // Jan 9, 2008 at 17:58

  LOVE IT!

• 2 Prince_Monkey // Jan 9, 2008 at 17:58

  If we dont have a top TOP manager lined up then this is a stupid move!

  We have been rubbish recently but as I said a couple of days ago you can’t turn a rotting club round in 6(?) Months!

  Officially starting the “NO TO SHEARER” campaign

• 3 Bosck // Jan 9, 2008 at 17:59

  Shearer is a newcastle legend and one for the future, but i honestly hope its not him. If it is i will support him 100% but dont think he has the experience we need unless he has a director of football, someone like bobby maybe but dont think he is well enough.

  Mourinho or hitzfeld they are the only two for me.

• 4 Tom // Jan 9, 2008 at 17:59

  i, along with many people im sure, was willing to give sam a good chance to get it right at newcastle, however, after the poor results and the negative, often confusing tactics, I think it is only right that he has left the club and fair play to the board.

  Now lets get it right and get in a top european coach for a change!

• 5 Greg B // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:00

  Got to be Shearer. Very inexperienced though but I think the majority of the fans will have more patience with him than we have with past managers - lets just hope whoever it is we finally get it right this time.
  Im a bit shocked Allardyce has been given the boot, id have given him till the end of the season at least.
  Lets look at the possitives - its a brand new era, new chairman, owner and now their very own choice of manager.
  Toon Toon Barmy Army!

• 6 reggie22 // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:01

  our club is a joke we have to realise were are not half as good as we think we are not a manager in the world could turn us around in even 1 season if shearer gets the job it will be a joke im just fed up with this what are our board thinking at least wait till after the transfer window now were goin to try and get players with no manager no chance i better happen fast cos from what i can see there is only 1 way for our beloved club

• 7 Callum // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:01

  Dont sack Allardyce to replace him with Shearer.. unless Shearer has someone like Bobby Robson to give him advice or to that effect.. go for Lippi/Mourinho/Hitzfeld or someone with those kinds of reputations, or what about Klinsmann?

• 8 nightfall // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:01

  YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry sam but every decision you made was terrible… hope smith’s next to go… damn..a great news…made my day!

• 9 davey // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:01

  what a crock of shit….we’re doomed

• 10 ende // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:02

  I’m sure folks will be thrilled, but alas this only continues the cycle of misery… we’ll get a new manager who will need time to get things going but won’t be given it by the impatient fans and his head will be called for and management will oblige, sack that poor bastard, and thus continue the cycle still.

  I don’t think we’ll break out of the cycle until we hunker down with one manager and give him at least two seasons with very low expectations and a lot of patience. Of course as long as my fellow fans expect overnight miracles, this will never happen and we will continue STILL to be carried away by the never ending cycle.

  Smarten up lads.

• 11 nightfall // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:02

  why not mourinho… he was bobby’s assistant at sporting…

• 12 Petworth Mag // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:03

  I must say that I am shocked but in fairness he never looked like he had a clue. From an infrastructure point of view I felt he was moving us in the right direction (hopefully to continue) but from a tactical and purely footballing point of view he is absolutely inept.

  So, who’s it gonna be?

  Did I hear Bruce Arena?

• 13 Tom_Toon // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:03

  Ive actually heard rumours we were in talks with Mourinho.

• 14 Petworth Mag // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:03

  … only joking

  Jose’s a Geordie?

• 15 Greg B // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:03

  Agree, Hitzfeld or Mourinho would be brilliant, or maybe best choice of all would be Hiddink IMO.
  The other names that will be banded about are Lippi, Klinsman and Jol but please god, please, dont let it be McClaren!! (Or Mike Baldwin as the lads over at .com call him :))

• 16 obafemimartins // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:04

  i would agree to the no to shearer campaign as it would be worse than allardyce. we dont need a manager with no experience in transfer market at this time

• 17 ToonKing // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:04

  fook fook fook, and triple fook. we’ve officially become the biggest joke in football for the xxx-th time.

  I’m joining Prince_Monkey on the “NO TO SHEARER” campaign, if he becomes manager i’ll bloody loose my mind.

  Mort and Ashley just fell on their faces in my book.

• 18 Tom_Toon // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:04

  I really hope its Deschamps or van Gaal!

• 19 Hilly // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:05

  IMO, huge mistake. Give the guy a freakin chance. Now we owe a ton of money to him and his staff while trying to convince a Manager that he won’t be subjected to the same crap treatment. We may think we’re a big club, but we’re most definitely not a smart one. Shearer would be an even bigger mistake btw.

• 20 Petworth Mag // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:05

  Prince, you have my vote “NO TO SHEARER”

• 21 carl // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:05

  wow well that came out the blue, surely ashley has someone else already lined up. hope not shearer just yet though!

• 22 Howie // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:06

  as long as mort and ashley have a very good manager lined up who has agreed to join should we have done this. if we havent or have asked shearer, well then its an absolutely shocking decision. i feel sorry for big sam. i really do. this could make or break ashleys term at nufc. if he sacks and then brings in a worse manager he will be another shepard in my eyes.

• 23 Greg B // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:06

  Geordie Mourinho! I would love it….

• 24 carl // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:08

  men, i really cant see ashley doing this unless a world class manager was lined up, ashley isnt stupid enough to sit with the fans then appoint someone worse

• 25 obafemimartins // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:08

  ashley is the kind of clever business man that willhhave someone already lined up or take ages to find a top class replacement. i hope it the first one.

• 26 steve // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:12

  quite a surprise at this stage in season - hope we have someone lined up, not sure about shearer

• 27 Southern_Magpie // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:12

  I’m ashamed at the moment. In my view he was not the right man for the job but he deserved the season. Our season has been more but not disastrous and there was still time for Sam to change things around, especially with the January transfer window.

  So who will it be to replace him? I don’t believe the world class coaches who are available would want to join us. I don’t want Shearer, but maybe as an assistant manager…

  What about all of Sam’s staff. Are we getting rid of them as well? It would cost millions to do so.

  This is completely out of the blue, during a time where Sam is bringing in players to improve the squad. I have a feeling the two youngsters who have joined us were not Sam’s signings but Mort’s.

  Sam was not Ashley and Mort’s choice of manager, so now they have the opportunity to get THEIR man for the job. In my view it will be Martin Jol, especially as he managed Ashley’s beloved Spurs. A dark day for our club and I feel so sorry for Sam

• 28 stjames // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:16

  Does anyone have a clue about Shearer’s qualifications as a manager??? I certainly have not.

  Now we need an established first rate manager and I’m sure that’s what Mike and Mort have prepared.

• 29 Leo // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:19

  woo hoo…. :-/

• 30 ToonJon // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:20

  SHit this cant be good. Thought we were near to getting Diarra hope this hasnt changed the situation. Also what if the new manager comes in and says someone can buy Taylor :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

• 31 scott // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:20

  sams style of football is the main reason i wanted him to leave its just horrible to watch and i was already thinking to myself of whether i should renew my season ticket nxt year. his tactics were also very strange and playing people out of position all the time is frusrating. it seemed sometimes like the players didnt know what they were doing and as soon as they start questioning the manager thats when the manager will probably be in danger in my opinion

  glad sams gone but im one of the people who doesnt think shearer should get the job just yet. id like anyone who actually plays decent attractive football and is proven at the top level. not sure who there is though myself

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• 33 keeganpleasecomeback // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:23

  christmas again youhoo……….luw it bring back KK

• 34 Howie // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:29

  please dont bring in shearer. i think everyone will agree with me but i think we all hate when pundits etc. say we all want shearer. WE DONT! please mike and chris. not big al now.

• 35 Ashton // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:34

  Thank god the fat F%$k was trying to turn us to Bolton !!

  I would love to see Manuel Pellegrini as a toon manager

• 36 Steeley // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:38

  This news has made my day!! Woo hoo!!

  To all you lot out there who were rubbishing talks of him going…TOLD YOU SO, TOLD YOU SO!!

  If professional sportsmen and experienced businessmen could see that he was doing shite and taking the club downhill - regardless of how long he may have stayed - then it’s the right thing to do!

  So please, all you Fat Sam supporters - get over him…HE’S GONE!! No matter who comes in next it cant be worse than Sam! The only problem on this place is that no matter who we get in (unless it’s Jose) then there’s going to be mixed opinion…especially if it’s Shearer! Well I think that’s where we’re headed anyway….I love the guy and if he comes I will back him 100%, but I’m not sure whether he’s going to be as good as we want him to be. Still, it would be good because he will know exactly what the fans want, and where the players should play!

  COME ON THE TOON!!

• 37 Frankieboy // Jan 9, 2008 at 18:50

  Somebody lined up already and in place in next few days…gotta be. Mike ashley does not take risks or do anything rash without future planning.

  One to think about…Shearer caretaker till the Summer and then takes on role as No. 2 under Hitzfeld who is leaving bayern Munich at end of season

• 38 Jon // Jan 9, 2008 at 19:34

  I so glad
  ToonKing is mad

• 39 Shaun Dean // Jan 9, 2008 at 19:36

  Glad he is gone

• 40 scott9 // Jan 9, 2008 at 19:42

  A

• 41 Michael Stewart // Jan 9, 2008 at 19:47

  What a joke our club is right now. How on earth are we supposed to attract a manager of proven calibre with the quick-fire approach that the club takes to its managers. No players will want to come to this club as well, and i can forsee a mass exodus of players in the summer, including Owen.

  Newcastle have been playing awful recently admittedly, but they are still 11th in the league. Jesus Christ, Sam said that it was a 3 to five year job, and they go and get rid of him after just seven months.

  From what I heard he was doing great things in the background of the club, the academy and training facilities etc. I would have given him another season and a half. If there had been no tangible progress by then, then sure sack him. But right now? A joke, in all honesty.

• 42 scott9 // Jan 9, 2008 at 19:48

  WHAT AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE WE WILL NEVER LEARN IM WITH TOON KING WERE BECOMING A F*CKING JOKE I AM GUTTED IN FACT WORSE IM DISTRAUGHT HE WOULD HAVE TURNED US INTO A TIOP 4 CLUBB IN 5 YEARS WE WILL NEVER LEARN MANAGERS NEED TIME ESPECIALY WHEN THEY COME AND HAVE TO DEMOLISH THERE SQAUD AND GET 9 PLAYERS IN AS SOON AS THEY START WORK
  AND EVERYONE GOING ON ABOUT MOURINHO ITS NOT ITS SHEARER EVERYONE SHOULD NOW SHEARERS GUARANTEED TO GET THE JOB.
  AND CAN I ASK THE LIKES OF TOM_TOON WHEN SHEARER COMES IN ARE U WILLING TO GIVE HIM TIME OR ARE U GONNA DRIVE HIM OUT ASWELL CAUSE I TELL U AT THE START IT WILL BE HARD FOR HIM HE WILL NEED TIME MORE TIME THAN BIG SAM ALOT OF U WANT TO SEE NICE FOOTBALL EVERY GAME BUT AT THEY END OF THE DAY WOULD U RATHER WIN THE LEAGUE WITH UGLY FOOTBALL OR COME 10TH AND PLAY NICE FOOTBALL AS SHEARER SAID TO WENGER U CANT WIN THE LEAGUE PLAYING NICE FOOTBALL EVERY GAME

• 43 scott9 // Jan 9, 2008 at 19:49

  WERE GONNA BE IN A RELAGATION BATTLE WE BE SITTING COMFORTABLE IN MID TABLE IF ALLARDYCE WAS STILL MANAGER AND THATS AN IMPROVEMENT

• 44 Ruud Boy // Jan 9, 2008 at 20:02

  THIS IS THE MOST STUPID THING I HAVE HEARD IN YEARS. I AM NOW WORRIDED, LIKE SCOTT9, THAT WE GET RELAGATED. The most stupid thing is that some people say this is the right decision. 11 managers in 11 years. Every club, every baby, every granny, anyone who is even heard of the word football, is laughing at us right now. Allardyce took 5 years get good at Bolton, he needed time. IMO the only way to redeem ourselves is to get Jose M
  Over the years of underachieving we all must have realised that consistency is your problem; that comes from the top. A new manager will come in and change tactics, positions and the same comments will come out as have done season on season.

• 45 Bryan // Jan 9, 2008 at 20:04

  I was never in favour of SA when he was appointed, and I am pleased he has been sacked. BUT.
  Unless CM & MA have a top, top manager lined up, and not Shearer, then whats the point of sacking him now? Our season is finished anyway, and has been for a while now, so I think the club should have waited until the summer before getting rid of him. That would have given the new man a whole pre season to get to grips with the club.
  If MA is serious about taking this club to the level all us fans think it should be at, then he needs to appoint a big name with a proven track record and give him the funds to do it.
  The bad news is, I heard that the board are already saying the next manager will not be a foreigner, that basically rules out 99% of fans choice of manager. You know the list.
  Our club has been dragged through the mud lately and tonight we are being hammered again.
  The board have to make the right appointment unless they are going to be a bigger laughing stock then the last ones.
  Please go for a foreigner, theres only one, MOURINEO. (Sorry about the spelling)

• 46 Southern_Magpie // Jan 9, 2008 at 20:28

  The timing of this decision is bemusing, along with the fact that the club have said that they will take time in making the new appointment as there is no successor in the pipeline.
  It is a sad fact about the lack of top quality English managers today, but the news that the club will not be appointing a foreign coach has not filled me with much optimism to say the least.
  We all know Sam was originally Shepherd’s appointment and is seen as his last mistake. Now he has gone the true new era can start but this manager MUST be proven with known class. If the appointment is wrong we’ll be back to where we are now again before long.
  Redknapp would be my favored British choice, but would be well down the list if foreign coaches were included.

• 47 milnerfan // Jan 9, 2008 at 21:32

  Mort and Mike u muppets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sacked the best manager we av ad in several seasons, u cnt keep doing this! Ow bout each fan manages the club for a week den you sack em. That way we can never ever ever be successful!

• 48 Elliott // Jan 9, 2008 at 21:36

  For God’s sake Mourinho isn’t allowed to manage in the prem this season so unless Pearson is gonna take orders from him over the phone until May it ain’t gonna happen. Like it would anyway.

• 49 Elliott // Jan 9, 2008 at 21:37

  Maybe we’re getting Coleman. Yay!

• 50 Eve // Jan 9, 2008 at 21:43

  Great just great, wrote a very long rant, I post it and what happens..SUSPENDED. GRRR. This is going to be bloody long because I’m bloody pissed off.

  They’ve really done it now, now first of all, talk about completely out of the blue. Now ya we’ve been having a crap season so far and there’s been talks of him leaving, but there was no build up as such. No big embarrassing loss. Now I’d have been waiting for the news to come through if we’d have lost to Stokes 5-0, but we didn’t. There was no real obvious sign.
  And like the season is only half over, we’re in a small bit of a crisis, we’re playing badly, our team morale is low and now to top it all off, now we’ve no manager. You’d think that they’d have one lined up, but I doubt it. This is a joke.

  Now I don’t like the man, never did. I didn’t like his team selection, his tactics, his decisions, the way he always moaned and blamed the players, just overall I didn’t like him. But surely he deserved more then 5 months. It’s going to take years to get the club off the ground, we’re not anywhere near as good as some of ye think we are, we demand success and thereby we basically hang the manager if he slips up. Which we’ve done now. Now I’m not saying that he didn’t deserve in some way to be sacked eventually. But what are we doing here.
  We’ve had 7 managers in about 10 years. That means Given and Harper have seen 7 managers come and go, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d a bet going on how long Sam would last. It’s ridiculous.

  What next, Shearer, why?? Cause he was a great player, but players don’t always make good managers, look at what happened with Ireland. They hired Steve Staunton an ex very good player. Ya, it was a country he was managing, a lot pressure, but he’d never managed anyone ever before, and he got more then a fair share of chances. Too many chances, he completely took a team that was decent enough, and just messed it up completely but the senior long serving players like Given backed him, he was their friend, they’d played with him, he’d been their captain for a while. The FAI wouldn’t fire him because of him being their best friend. In the end it was messy, and long drawn out process, where the fans had completley turned on him. I don’t want to see that happen. Now with Shearer, he should go somewhere else first, somewhere where he’s not in the history books.

  But then you look at Keane who did a very good job with Sunderland when he arrived, bottom to top in one season, and in fairness he’s doing an all right job, the results are going against him right now but he’s learning all the time, the premiership’s a hard place to learn the job but I think that he’s made of the right stuff to come through it.

  IMO, Shearer isn’t. Not yet. The one thing that we would give Shearer that we seem incapable of giving anyone else (except maybe Mourinho,) is TIME, the board will him time and more importantly so will the FANS.

  It’s bull that he’s gone now we should have had given him the season to at least try and prove himself or at least of had someone lined up before he was fired. But no, now instead we’re half way through the season with bad performances, low morale and now no manager. They really no how to pick they’re timing don’t they.
  Lets see them fix this one. They’ve really done it now.

• 51 Grunde Axelsen // Jan 9, 2008 at 22:33

  NUFC has made one big mistake here! Big Sam is a great manager and should have been given time to turn things around! We will not be able to do anything this season whatsoever, so why not let him finish the season, see how we can improve and try to get a good foundation for next season. Or; fire him, fire the next, the next and the next! Complete and utter stupidity! We are an average side at best and will never win anything if we keep on sacking everyone.

• 52 yong // Jan 9, 2008 at 23:53

  go for Mourinho or Klinsmann

• 53 die hard toon // Jan 9, 2008 at 23:58

  21 Premier League games is not much time but Sam seem like he had no plans in changing his style or stop playing men out of position.I do hope we get Hitzfeld he is my first pick we need a top class manager if Ashley really meant what he said about winning the League in 3yrs time.

• 54 Greg // Jan 10, 2008 at 0:04

  relegated some of you have lost the PLOT!
  Theres no chance we are getting relegated, we have a talented squad.
  I think sam should have been giving the season but to be honest we are GASH! you cant play so many ppl out of position like he did.

• 55 lezb // Jan 10, 2008 at 0:06

  NUFC has made one big mistake here! Big Sam is a great manager and should have been given time to turn things around!
  And the planet you come from is?????????Get real

• 56 die hard toon // Jan 10, 2008 at 0:08

  The only problem with Hitzfeld is he @ Bayern to the end of the season so who until then if it was him.

• 57 Fumi // Jan 10, 2008 at 2:08

  Yes we will delight that our LEGEND Shearer as our manager, but hey now already half of the season gone, and I m not sure that capable is Shearer due to the experience he has now. I really don’t want to see Shearer is one of the manager that booed at home St James Park if the team is playing like shit. Sigh…………is there any better solution? I think is not a rite time yet to Shearer

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