7: SHEARER GIDDY FOR SILVER Delusions as to his trophy chances: "I know I've been saying this for some time now, but I believe under Bobby Robson, we've got a great chance of achieving things. A lot of Premiership teams went out (of the League Cup) including Chelsea, Arsenal, Aston Villa and Leicester City, and with Manchester United seemingly playing their reserve team, it's got to be to our advantage." As if Newcastle would beat our reserves, eh? Although, of course, it's not all THAT long ago since we wiped the floor with the first team...short memories some folks. Also, this is what they consider news? Obsessed with Shearer? I think so.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

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"Obsessed with Shearer"?...what?...naaaaaaaaa..Ole Gunnar was cheaper

Anyway Douggie...if it was gongs and pots he wanted he knew where to go.... :-)

"Cheer up..................."

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

You keep saying this, LR. He doesn't wsnt pots with any old club where pots are two-a-penny - he wants them at a club that matters: NUFC.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

And you don't think they matter to us?

Footballers wanna be seen as winners....successful etc etc. They want shiny things to show to their kids. Ok, it would be romantic as hell to show yer kids pots and gongs from yer home team but at the end of the day any footballer would choose gongs over a sense of "being".

Put it this way Douggie....just how many Geordies on here are not living in Newcastle due to work?...Bleedin' loads. You all got out. Shearer should have stayed out. I bet had he known that NUFC would not have had the staying power then he'd have come to us.....and we'd probably never have won the Treble :-)

By the way....go tell Nev, Nev, Scholes, Butt and Giggs that their gongs mean nowt :-)

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

Firstly, LR, we all go home as often as possible. Secondly, of course your gongs don't mean as much to you as a gong would mean to us. It would be more meaningful for you lot if you had a flirtation with relegation. Thirdly, winning a gong with NUFC means more to Shearer than all the gongs in China with your lot. If you had have had him, you'd have won the European Cup a bit earlier.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

Bottom line Douggie...you left Newcastle to better yourself. You knew you'd not have the same sort of openings on the banks of the foggy Tyne as you would in the Smoke. Same with Gav, Stu etc. Not saying you don't love Newcastle...but yer all businessmen and wimmin.

You're assumption that our gongs mean less tro us than one would mean to you is wrong. We take following the Shirts as a faith...a religion. Just because we have a sack load now doesn't mean that they are worthless.

I would agree that WGB would rather win medals with NUFC than MUFC...of course he would...just in the same way the Nevs would rather win them with us than with you lot...but if he had a choice between ending his career in his hometown...gongless...or at another club...any club..and be seen as a winner, I know what he'd take. Don't deny it.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

"but if he had a choice between ending his career in his hometown...gongless...or at another club...any club..and be seen as a winner, I know what he'd take"

He had the choice

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

No Geordie.....I'm talking retro. Five years time....give him the choice again.....a chance to turn the clock back and do it differently. He would.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

There are some immensely successful people who have stayed in Newcastle...on this very BBS.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

All this supposition that Shearer regrets his choice...seems to me a bit like this analogy ;-)) Rich, arrogant bloke - let's call him Alex. Gorgeous woman, object of everyone's desires - called Mary Poppins. Alex makes a pass at Mary and is publicly rejected in favour of what Alex sees as some no-hoper. Alex goes on to be the successful, wealthy person he was driven to be, but Mary's rejection of him still wrankles, especially with Alex's extended family that see his success somehow linked with their own. Surely she must regret her decision? What has she achieved with this other bloke? For Mary there was only ever one choice, and the passion still burns strong.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

"Typical" Geordie romance Windy...but this thread is on the back of comments made by said Mary....not the sour faced Wizard.

If the passion still burns for you all, why did many of you leave?. It's just the same for footballers as it is for businessmen.

If my goal in life was to a footballer, I'd accept the glory and the praise at ANY club...that's what being a proffesional is all about.

I suppose yer gonna have me believe that WGB only played at 70% for Blackburn when they played NUFC...ya know...his LOVE for Newcastle and all that.

Tosh...you know it...you just can't bring yerself to say it.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

Fine way to start a monday morning this is. Geez LR don't you ever stop, I mean really what is the F***ing point behind this crap you so cerimoniousley spout on a constant basis. Now you question why Geordies leave Newcastle and manage to equate that with a lack feeling for the area. I speak for myself only but I think a few may have a similar vein. I had to leave, to work, to make money to be able to look myself in the mirror and say I wasn't one of maggies millions. If I could do what I am doing now in Newcastle I would be there no question. Sometimes circumstances dictate where we live and work. Tough but true, mancs do it, scousers do it. Unfortunatley there is still this north south divide in England which only seems to be getting wider. I refuse to live in London on principle.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

Syme..yer wrong on your 1st point....I made no reference to Geordies leaving the area and having no feelings for Tyneside....where did you pick that one up from?

Yer rocking yer trolley for NO reason.

I'm using the analogy of exiled Geordies like yerself to help describe why I feel WGB would...at the end of his career...take winning pots and gongs at another club over his potless period in Newcastle. Nothing more......nothing less.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

"I suppose yer gonna have me believe that WGB only played at 70% for Blackburn when they played NUFC...ya know...his LOVE for Newcastle and all that."

Well, I think it's interesting that in 1996 when we were going for the championship Al failed to score in either game against Newcastle but did pop one in against you lot! ;-)

Although why, in God's name, I'm bothering to get involved in another of these futile and childish LR wind ups heaven only knows.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

You can't help yerself Jacko...and you know it :-)

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000