I find it amazing that so many people assume wealth should equate to happiness... It's just totally not the case unfortunately soceity has made us all into capital materialists...

50 yrs ago success was respect due to ethical values...

Just feels like such a waste... Such a tragedy especially for his family... Feel completely gutted for them

May God Bless them all

Had never met him..

But clearly a man many of us can learn from

God bless Yr soul sir

Ideal (and realistic) team for next season:

Friedel

Neill Nelson Todd Johansson

Reid Savage Parker MGP

Bellamy Stead

Subs:

Enckellmen

Spektor

Mokoena

Emerton

Dickov

Remember guys we only have £5 million, which by the looks of it will get us Bellamy only (as he is doing so well with Celtic).

Think the others should be loan deals, biggest let down so far in my opinion has been Thompson, this lad should be in the england squad, what has happened to him???

only watched the highlights guys so not a precise opinion, but from what i saw i thot neill was awful, looked like he jus cudn be bothered!!!!! the chelsea and boro goals where both his fault in my opinion????

I would play 4-4-2 at home:

Friedel

nelson Todd Mokoena Nissa

Emerton Savage Thompson MPG

Dickov Johnson/Stead

I think Tommo will come good if not, put Flitty in.

Away would have 4-1-4-1, with flitty playing in fornt of the back four (I think Mokoena was very impressive against chelsea in this role, but we need a settled back 4) and dickov or jemal up front.

We were awesome today

savage and thommo centre mid - miles more energy...

thanks alan

Guys,

How was mokoenas performance on the weekend... ?

I cant believe some of the things I am reading. I am talking about the WHOLE of Souness's time with us. Not just the last year when everything was poor granted.

Well I doubt we could have improved on 6th to be honest unless we kept our best player and bought on top of that- what the hell do people expect?? Constant progession is near impossible- in terms of league positions. Get real guys. I always remember an article in the LET before last season when Souness said we would struggle because of the departures and he was doubtful if we had the individual talent to beat teams- it ended up a horrible season and a fight to stay in the league, much worse than he probably ever imagined.

In terms of attractive football- I remember playing our way out of the Nationwide and apart from last season we did play a good brand of football under the man you all despise now. We were lucky things worked out the way we did- Souness's shelf life was up and now we have one of Britains promising young managers.

Could not have summed it up better myself John I completely agree, oh and about the fans, are we creating fans by offering youngsters special rates, maybe arranging school patnerships, we probably are... am not sure just posing the question???

I can understand you using that analagy with the club but not with the manager, am a bit worried you see souness as a girlfreind or lover??????? you need help if that the case????

Souness did a JOB over a period of time, and then moved on... Get over it!! My point is that we can all find problems over detail but the bigger picture is:

1 - He got us into the prem league

2 - We won us the Worthington cup

3 - WE are still in the prem league not div 1 when he left!!!!!!

Football fans have very short memories, over the course of Souness time with the club he was very successful. Look at our recent history last 20-30 years and you will agree! (Aside from the KD era). I think he had taken the club as far as he could have done and it was a blessing in disguise that Newcastle came in for him and we ended up with a btter manager.

I think the reception he recieved from us on Boxing day was atrocious, I am gonna offend a few on this forum now, but why is it that former successful managers / players at other clubs (not all but alot) get decent receptions yet unless you are a 'Blackburn' lad you are gonna struggle to get any kind of decent reception!!

Is it our small town small mind outlook on life!?!?!?

Sorry if I offend anyone but I think we should have shown a bit more respect for the man...

Correct me if I'm wrong but my thoughts where that we seemed to loose our impetous each time we levelled as tho consciously we thought a draw was OK???

A draw is NOT OK!!!

As has been said we need to convert to wins, I think we are deffo heading in the right direction and speaking to some geordies on the way out, "we have the best manager"... still dissapointed to see Souness get bood tho...