The roller coaster ride looks like continuing. here's Bobby's post-match comments from Sporting Life:

"We're a broken outfit at the moment," he admitted.

"Alan gave a performance which I thought he would give us, but he's not had a reserve match, he's come straight back from a two-month rehabilitation and it's going to take him two more games at least before he's going to be Alan Shearer.

"But he's got to start somewhere to finish where we want him to be.

"We had a magnificent crowd of 52,000 people - you couldn't get a ticket here today after the performance at Charlton.

"We have a brilliant club and a brilliant public, and we obviously didn't give them what they wanted.

"It's not an ideal situation for me to criticise.

"We've got to stick together and we've got to regroup and try to get people in and people fit, and it will take two or three weeks, I guess."

Eeek.

-- Anonymous, February 24, 2001