Kevin Keegan is back at Toon!

The Sparrow · 16-01-2008 09:50PM

Mr Alan wrote: »

Are Newcastle fans the most fickle in England?

Total number of tickets sold for tonight?

Before the Keegan announcement-30,000

After the announcement-sold out.

says it all really.

That is a bit unfair. Most weeks St James Pk is sold out even when Newcastle are doing badly. Cup attendances are down everywhere this year and of course the attendance tonight would take a hit since it is against a Championship team, they had no manager and in their last game they were thumped 6-0 by Utd.

So of course when ppl found out Keegan was the new manager they were suddenly interested in going again. I don't view that as fickle.

kryogen · 16-01-2008 09:56PM

aye i wouldnt be too hard on the toon fans for that one, i mean all cup ties have lower attendances to be fair. they do get a huge amount of fans in the stadium week in week out

Villain · 16-01-2008 10:05PM

BBC Match of the Day Live had Newcastle fans giving their opinion, they actually think this is a great move. The only thing is if/when this goes wrong the fans will only have themselves to blaim.

kryogen · 16-01-2008 10:09PM

Villain wrote: »

BBC Match of the Day Live had Newcastle fans giving their opinion, they actually think this is a great move. The only thing is if/when this goes wrong the fans will only have themselves to blaim.

no way, they will definatly find some other way to shift blame...:)

event · 16-01-2008 10:19PM

flanzer wrote: »

How can Mike Ashley be worth £1.9 billion? He must have some serious financial advisors over the last number of years. IMO he's a half-wit

you'd be wrong

you do not become a self made billionaire in 28 years by being a 'half wit'

tbh, i dont know what to make of it.
Ill tell you one thing, if he does well there will be a lot of red faces on this forum

OPENROAD · 16-01-2008 10:22PM

snickerpuss wrote: »

, or indeed England fans generally. (Is it me or is Wembley always half empty when England are playing?)

Oh no, England have a huge following,normally a sell out at Wembley and as for away matches, huge numbers travel.

Villain · 16-01-2008 10:22PM

I think the red faces will be in Newcastle, I have no doubt that Keegan will lift the club for a short time but I don't think in the long term he will get near the top 6.

Chardee MacDennis · 16-01-2008 10:35PM

newcastle winning three nil, he only has to be in the ground for them to start banging them in!

most hilarious hiring ever, thank you Newcastle!!

Cionád · 16-01-2008 10:37PM

4-0

It has begun.

Mr Alan · 16-01-2008 10:38PM

If you werent serious, Cionad, that'd be funny

MrJoeSoap · 16-01-2008 11:02PM

Mr Alan wrote: »

Are Newcastle fans the most fickle in England?

Eh... I'm sure a lot of people paid on the night.

Newcastle have had an average attendance of over 51,000 every year this decade. What have they won? The Intertoto Cup.

smog · 16-01-2008 11:06PM

glad sam is gone just shows how little the players wanted to play under him.

long live king keegan

KdjaCL · 16-01-2008 11:11PM

35100 official attendance according to sky sports.

kdjac

Xavi6 · 16-01-2008 11:16PM

Ha Keegan back at the Toon. This is gonna be fun to watch. "If they score six, we'll score seven and I'd love it....".

flahavaj · 16-01-2008 11:16PM

Well well, now this joke of a club have the joke of a manager that they deserve.

They showed an interview on BBC earlier of Keegan from 2 months ago saying that he hadn't been to a football match since he left City! I will personally bump this thread next season when the Car-Toon Army are up to their necks in a relegation dog-fight and Kev "no balls" Keegan walks out having buckled under the pressure, just like he did with England, just like he has done for every club he has ever managed. His naive attacking mentality and lack of tactical acumen will be ruthlessly exposed in the EPL of 2007 which is a far cry from the English league of 11 years ago when he had his finest hour (although why completely bottling a title that looked cut and dried is lauded as a major achievement is beyond me!).

As for Mike Ashley, he's the joke of a chairman that this joke of club deserves. I've nothing but contempt for this pathetic slob who thinks the proper way to run a club is to don an ill fitting jersey and sit around asking the opinions of dim witted, similarly rotund geordies about how his million pound investment should be best run in to the ground. He reminds me of a fat kid in a playground who'll do anything to impress the boys and win their friendship.

Any club who sacks their manager after just 6 months in charge deserves the ridicule their going to get in the next year. They currently sit mid-table, a position that a club with no silverware in 50 years should be delighted to hold not firing their manager in a knee jerk reaction. For too long this club's deluded fans have had ideas above their station. Contrary to popular opinion, they have no divine right to challenge for the title, finishing second once over a decade ago and a few FA cup Final appearances do NOT warrant such grand self opinion. hey should leave such lofty ambitions to the clubs that have a history of success and achievement like United and Liverpool.

Anyway, this appointment has made my day as I'm gonna laugh my hole off watching these idiots plummet back to the Championship where they belong.

smog · 16-01-2008 11:25PM

bump all you want wa have faith

Unearthly · 16-01-2008 11:28PM

smog wrote: »

bump all you want wa have faith

I can't see how any Newcastle fan with their head screwed on could be happy with this appointment

BaZmO* · 16-01-2008 11:28PM

Hey flahavaj, get off that fence and tell us what you really think!

Cionád · 16-01-2008 11:34PM

BaZmO* wrote: »

Hey flahavaj, get off that fence and tell us what you really think!

LOL

flahavaj,
Chris Mort is the chairman, not Mike Ashley, he's the owner.
Big Sam was in charge for 8 months, not 6.
Belong in the Championship? - They've never been in the Championship before so eh... [ i love technicalities ]

I suggest you have a sit down and take a deep breath. Maybe put your energy into something more constructive.

smog · 16-01-2008 11:35PM

Unearthly wrote: »

I can't see how any Newcastle fan with their head screwed on could be happy with this appointment

and why not ... we are, thanks for that

flahavaj · 16-01-2008 11:37PM

Cionád wrote: »

LOL

flahavaj,
Chris Mort is the chairman, not Mike Ashley, he's the owner.
Big Sam was in charge for 8 months, not 6.
Belong in the Championship? - They've never been in the Championship before so eh... [ i love technicalities ]

I suggest you have a sit down and take a deep breath. Maybe put your energy into something more constructive.

Meh, minor technicalities indeed! None of the above exactly refute the fact that Newcastle have gotten themselves into a quite wonderful kerfuffle!;)

evilhomer · 17-01-2008 12:46AM

As for the Keegan appointment, could be a stroke of genius for two reasons;

A) If he does well then Ashley/Mort look brilliant to the fans for bringing back their favourite Manager and the good old times. The fans will also be patient with him.

If he loses the plot and it all goes belly up, Ashley/Mort say, well at least we got who the fans wanted (not all fans mind you, including me.) and the shadow of the Keegan era is lifted from the club, so the next manager isn't under as much pressure to please so soon.

If they put Shearer in as number 2 in what could only be described as a Newcastle "dream team" then they would kill two birds with one stone, for the very same reasons as above. Genius!

Now hopefully half the players will realise they could be gone in the morning and get their act together, they will be playing for their jobs until the end of the season.

Keegan will also get backed to the hilt in the transfer market for the next two weeks. Expect one or two more back-pages filled with toon signings over the coming weeks.

Exciting and entertaining times ahead no matter what.

Come on the toon!

The Sparrow · 17-01-2008 12:47AM

flahavaj wrote: »

Meh, minor technicalities indeed! None of the above exactly refute the fact that Newcastle have gotten themselves into a quite wonderful kerfuffle!;)

Kerfuffle is a quality word!

Healio · 17-01-2008 02:05AM

We ar slowly turning into Harchester day by day ................ I'm fcuking sick of this.

WhiteWashMan · 17-01-2008 02:56AM

Excellent. 'EPL mockery of the year award' has moved from Spurs to Newcastle.

I really dont understand that decision at all. Not in the slightest.

And evilhomer, I understand your points, but I find it hard to believe that the board would install someone with a ready made excuse if it goes belly up. Its not as if they are far from the drop zone.

But who knows. Maybe King Kev will do the business?

kinaldo · 17-01-2008 04:29AM

I said nothing would surprise me, but ****ing hell, I didn't expect this!

My first reaction was disappointment. But on reflection I don't think it's such a bad move.

If it doesn't go well he'll just resign and we'll move on. He won't persist in dragging us down like Souness would have done. He's also proved he can manage Newcastle where so many others have failed, and where so many more are likely to fail.

People so easily forget the reasons he left us 11 years ago was not to do with football or pressure (which I admit he doesn't handle too well), but the club becoming a plc and asking him to sell players. He actually left us in a very healthy position. We'd thrashed Man Utd 5-0 and then had a poor December, but started 1997 in style with a 3-0 win over Leeds followed by a 7-1 drubbing of Spurs - his last two games in charge if I'm not mistaken.

That team went on to finish 2nd again before Dalglish dismantled it. If only Robson had broken his contract with Barca at that stage, I really believe we would have won the league...

Overall Keegan did an unbelievable job at Newcastle, but I think most people feel Newcastle SHOULD have won the league in 1996. I'm sure he still feels he has unfinished business to take care off although nobody will be expecting a title challenge this time round, at least no time soon.

So anyway, I can't help but feel excited. I don't care what outsiders think. You have to be a Newcastle fan to understand. Grown men were seen crying outside SJP the day he resigned. I expect Ashley to fully back him and put his money where his mouth is. And as one other Newcastle fan said, if our defense is a good as it was under him the last time then I'll be happy.

ShiverinEskimo · 17-01-2008 07:05AM

kinaldo wrote: »

I don't care what outsiders think. You have to be a Newcastle fan to understand. Grown men were seen crying outside SJP the day he resigned.

Understand what? That Thousands of fans are letting memories of 'the good oul days' cloud their judgement about progress for a club in trouble.

And as for the grown men crying - girls cried when take that split up - doesn't mean the act was a mistake and look what reuniting them has done for music.

Blazer · 17-01-2008 09:07AM

I'm one of the more grounded Newcastle fans and at first I was thinking "what a joke"..the hairs were still standing on the back of my neck though

We're not going to win a trophy but signing Keegan will bring unbridled optimism to the Toon supporters and they won't be on his back..not least for a while anyway. At the current state Newcastle are in, the only worse thing that could happen is relegation and that's not going to happen regardless of the doom merchants.
Mike Ashley is a businessman and I'm sure he's thought to himself "wtf?" as well.
Chris Mort has already come out and said Mourinho is out of the equation, Lippi and any other top class manager. None of them will risk their reputation at the Toon.. Harry Redknapp's the same..
With Keegan they're onto a winner...he'll pick the team up...give him £50million to spend on strikes and £2million on defenders:D and the team will start to move back to the top of the table. Top 6 at least.
So if Kev bottles it again in a year or two at least Newcastle will be in a healthier position and be able to attract a better class of manager.
Whatever happens it's gonna be fun..following Newcastle over the 17 years has been like marrying the prom queen..watching her turn into a fat slag over the years and thinking wtf did I marry her for?..but now she's joined a gym and ur hoping that things will go back to the way they were supposed to be.:D

ciaran76 · 17-01-2008 09:27AM

I wonder how Keegan will get on with the likes of Barton and Owen ?

I know him and Barton didn't have the best of times together from a chat I had with a City player in the past.

I seen on Sky News this morning extracts from Michael Owens book saying how he thinks Keegan never rated him blah blah. (Maybe thats Sky starting the backlash already!!!)

But I think in general every football fan except Newcastle fans are baffled and also amused in a way at his appointment.

If he does anything like he did before at Newcastle it will make the league a better place for entertainment.

SheroN · 17-01-2008 10:28AM

<QUOTE> And as for the grown men crying - girls cried when take that split up - doesn't mean the act was a mistake and look what reuniting them has done for music.</QUOTE>

By this logic, keegan coming back to newcastle is a good idea?

Kevin Keegan is back at Toon!

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