ed, i as a newcastle fan don’t feel embarrassed at all. in fact, i feel slightly proud. i bet every manager in the epl wanted to say what joe said but didnt have the balls to. if anyone, its the journalists who should be embarrassed. Joe’s basically vented his anger at their unethical journalistic practices and by printing and distributing the whole press conference transcript, the journalist have just shot themselves in the foot by proving Joe was right.

Hahaha… bunch of idiots!!!

what do we think of kinnear director of football, keegan first-team (with veto type influence on all club matters), shearer and beardsley? dont care, give them a role, that’ll inspiure the lot of them to attack and play football like it needs to be played.

The media will shut themselves up once we start winning.

Maybe he will look back and regret his actions.

jokes aside i think he is great

There are 3 issues to seperate out here and most of you aren’t doing that. First, there’s the point JK was making. Second, there’s the language he used to make them. Third, there’s his manner and how it affects his relationship with people around the club.

1. JK’s point is that the national media, not local, have printed consistent mistruths about Newcastle and should stop. They seem to have a deliberate mission to undermine the club, and that happens whoever is in charge of the team. It even happened to SBR, who is widely seen as a respected elder statesman in the game. That point is one we can all agree with and someone had to draw a line in the sand somewhere.

2. Joes language is badly chosen and will mean that many people (obviously not those on here but lots of others who do’t blog) will not listen to his point. That’s a real shame and he COULD have made the points aggressively with much better language. Having said that, as a journalist on other topics myself I have removed expletives from quotes when appropriate to make sure the language didn’t interefe with the point being made. Unfortunately Joe has used so many that this becomes harder, but not impossible. Journalists should be able to respond to the point as well as the language in my opinion.

3. Joe’s manner should not be confused with his style of language. Just because someone swears a lot doesn’t make them a thug. It’s the threatening style of his behaviour that worries me. A bit too aggressive for my liking BUT maybe that’s exactly what the team needs, someone to shake them up.

Finaly, what’s the upshot of all this? Well, Joe’s job is to get results during his short tenure by drawing the team together and making them fight. Does this press conference help? If the players are pissed at the media then yes it will. If they don’t give monkey’s about the media, and follow the negative response in the papers, well maybe not. Let’s hope to hell its the former.

I think you are what they call a “knacker”.

Excluding Olympic rowers.

These journo’s are also the reason for the poor relationship the club has had for the last 10 months or so. At the beginning of the year they had a field day with Newcastle United – and this the crux for me – they were very abusive and slanderish about the Newcastle fans in this period.

They wont be forgiven.

Journalists are not good as a rule of thumb. The media is total dog shit. Sports journalists appear to be under a lot of pressure to make up negative stories about us. I dont care if it is the editor who writes the headlines. If I wrote a sentimental children’s story and somebody else wrote the title for me; something dodgy like ‘Paedo Club’, then the story would immediately be received in a negative light.

They take no responsibility for their ill work.