Recall a cabbie in Newcastle telling me a story that he once pulled up at a petrol station and Lauren Robert was filling up at the other pump.

LR saw some kids in a car and bowled over to offer his autograph, when the kids declined LR asked why to which the kids replied 'cos my Dad says you're shit'.....and he was. Shearer would be barking mad to stay on hopefully his advisors will be able to talk him out of this folly,,Newcastle are on the express elevator, going down.

Off to pick my winnings up on Tuesday, thanks Mike!

Co might be there - doubt Shearer will.

I might be up for that - jump on the train to Ipswich and see Newcastle capitulate in front of my own eyes....

I'm with you on that one. It was woeful.

Can't say I'm not happy, won a few quid and on top of that have seen the most deserving team go down. I could go into a tirade about now about them but I won't I'll settle for another glass of champagne and wonder if they'll be back to getting sub-20k average attendances once again in a couple of years. Will they do another 'Leeds'... I won't be surprised and odds dependent I may be looking to back them to go down again

Ashley has invested 230m of his own cash into Newcastle. He was looking to make a quck 100m by selling it to someone quickly, however the plan has not worked. He cannot afford to lose that kind of money by not investing back into the club to try to make his investment work.

If you were him you would have to put in another 50m or so into it to try and get it back to the prem so you could recoup as much of your initial cash back as possible.

That is why Newcastle is different to the other clubs that have gone down in the past.

I do not think Shearer is the man to do this though. I think we need a proven Championship manager with the job being just to take us back up.

We did deserve to go down and the reason we did is that Ashley never wanted to keep the club this long. He did not want to spend any more money than he had to to try to maximise his profit. He is a gambler with too much cash. Hopefully he puts some back into the club before he loses the lot.

He is a cheap market trader and employed cheap tactics that have backfired on him to try to make millions.

It's back to the drawing board for Ashley or lose the lot.... and I'm a Newcastle fan.

Yeah, me too.

I've been there as a Newcastle supporter in late 80's early nineties

Strangely, I am looking forward to the Chamionshipship already.

Proper football supporting, revisiting old haunts and new.

The Premiership is over rated. Too predictable, too much money, too many egos.

It's going to be like a great holiday!

I do not think we can take the chance on Shearer.

Despite the shortcoming of the squad one win in eight matches is poor.

No experience, no track record, it would be another folly based on nothing other than emotion to think he would be the one to lead us out of the Championship.

Ashley has now made two "emotion" based decisions and neither has worked.

Time for some decisions based on real facts and statistics.

You can't blame Shearer for us going down. No manager could have done any better with this squad of players who just cared about picking up their pay cheque.

disagree, shearer used too many players and kept on changing your squad about too much, an experianced manager would have steadied the ship, brought consistancy and picked up a few more points

which debts exactly will get worse?

arsenal, man u, chelsea, liverpool - they are clubs in debt, not us!

once again you have no effing idea what the eff you are talking about.

He cannot sell. He is in too deep.

Like i said before, his losses will be too great to just cut and run. (unless he gets very lucky with a buyer)

He has to invest further to try to protect his investment.

That's just rubbish. What are you basing it on? Anyone who has watched us play will tell you our squad is crap. There is no pace, no creativity and without that you're screwed in the Premiership. Newcastle fans aren't surprised we've gone down. We saw it coming a long time ago. It was just a matter of when. Shearer did the best with what was available. But when the likes of having Viduka, Owen and Martins on the park doesn't get you a shot on goal then there is little he can do.

im basing it on the fact that i have an unbiased view, newcastle fans are so in love with shearer and cant see that he buggered up, with the experiance in that squad he should have managed more than 1 win and 1 draw in the games he was in charge

the latter stages of a relegation battle is not the time to throw in a television pundit with zero experiance as a manager to try and save the day

I don't hope that MU 'get a good kicking off Barca', I hope they win and win with the style and aplomb they are capable of winning with.

Love 'em or hate 'em, the mancs play very, very attractive football and Wednesday night has the potential to be a superb game. Ronaldo's a cock but he's arguably the best footballer in the world right now, I love watching MU (or Arsenal) play, reminds me of West Ham.