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The Crowd Says (13) | Page 1 of Comments

• Viscount Crouchback said | April 29th 2009 @ 8:21am | Report comment

  Newcastle v Leeds in The Championship will be a tasty fixture next season…

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• Millster said | April 29th 2009 @ 10:09am | Report comment

  Matthew – This article, while not as contentious as your previous two, is just meaningless drivel, all of which we have read in the paper over the last 2-3 days. Plus it ignores the beauty of Newcastle potentially going down which is the fact that the league table is a harsh mistress and that that even great clubs are not safe from the magic of football’s P&R system.

  Anyway we thought we’d made it clear in terms of your writing about football. GIVE UP.

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• Muz said | April 29th 2009 @ 12:03pm | Report comment

  This is one of the worst football articles I have ever seen.

  Penalty? What penalty, if you had watched the match there was no missed penalty. A poor shot from inside the penalty area but thats not quite the same or is it!?!

  Also great research about the forth coming 4 matches for the Toon. Liverpool(Away), Middlesbrough(Home), Fulham(Home) & Aston Villa(Away) are my guess of them. Glad you aren’t a supporter, but it would have been class if you turned up at Stamford Bridge instead!

  Maybe do your own research for future articles.

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• Mattay said | April 29th 2009 @ 2:25pm | Report comment

  Newcastle have always been a yo-yo club. In fact, 16 years in the top flight may be some sort of record for them. (Since 1934 anyway according to Wiki). For all their self-appointed big club status, they are generally a victim of their own fans delusions, much like my club Spurs. For me, Newcastle going down is no bigger than Sheffield Wednesday, Nottingham Forest or Leeds United being relegated. The club has been a laughing stock since the end of the Bobby Robson era and success due largely to Kevin Keegan’s gung-ho management style in the 90′s, and Alan Shearer’s dominance more recently.

  For me, the more interesting story is the demise of Middlesborough. From competing with the big clubs to lure players like Alen Boksic, Fabrizio Ravanelli, Juninho, Emerson, Hamilton Ricard and Christian Ziege, to recycling aged superstars like Mark Viduka, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Paul Gascoigne and Paul Ince, to scraping the barrel of their admittedly very good youth ranks, they’ve been a club that dreamed big but ultimately failed. The Boro of 10 years ago was a very exciting team to have in the premiership and were one of the few clubs who sought to bring a bit of football culture to the Premier League at a time when Man U dominated with their very British style of football.

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• Sam said | April 29th 2009 @ 2:43pm | Report comment

  Matt

  If you are a football fan, then I would suggest when you write articles in future to football followers that you back your opinions up with reasoned logic (not generalisations). For example do not write that a-league players can’t tackle, pass or score (or that a park game is better). Because we know that is not true..

  Maybe write for example that the defences in a-league aren’t compressed enough compared to other competitions, which means we have a long way to go before the standard will reach other better competitions. You might win some friends on the Roar if your next article is a good one.

  By the way it would be sad to see Newcastle go down. I kind of miss Southampton as well.

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• Eamonn said | April 29th 2009 @ 4:26pm | Report comment

  Hey Burton Albion are up…what about that!

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• David V. said | April 29th 2009 @ 7:16pm | Report comment

  There seems to be a lot of personal attacks and abuse on here lately. FFS, what happened to the Australian way of a fair go and being laid back and relaxed? How can you expect this country to hold up in the long term with this sort of “me first” attitude.

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• Sam said | April 29th 2009 @ 9:28pm | Report comment

  David V

  I just tried to explain to the guy why people may have been upset at the previous article he wrote. There were personal attacks on him because I guess he personally attacked a game a lot of people love and want to see do well in this country, with a very poor choice of words.

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• Joe FC said | April 29th 2009 @ 9:32pm | Report comment

  Newcastle are going down and I am sorry to see it.

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• thenewoldguy said | April 30th 2009 @ 5:31am | Report comment

  hey everyone i reckon this aussiesly dude is spot on with his comments, good on ya mate for tellin it how it is

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