Leyton Orient 6 Newcastle United 1 - A Footballing Lesson
There is an attractive way to celebrate your success and there is a bad way. Unfortunately for Newcastle United, as hard as I've tried to keep my sense of decorum over the weekend, I can't hold it in any longer.
Yes, that's right Alan Shearer, Jimmy Nail, Ant and Dec, Sting, Robson Green, Alan Oliver, Freddie Shepherd, Biffa Bacon, Lee Ryder and Geordies everywhere, your boys took one hell of a beating.
In fact, it wasn't so much a victory for Leyton Orient as a rout, a walkover, a stroll on the park. But hey, come on, chin up, it's only a pre-season friendly I'm sure the boys in the custard cream shirts would have put the record straight had it actually meant something!
Yeah right, you took a thrashing, you were out-played by a better team - London's answer to the Total Football of the Dutch- with a better manager and players who actually care about the shirt that covers their backs.
It was not so much an Orient victory as a Newcastle humiliation. When you support a rubbish team like I do, you come to enjoy moments like this as much as fans of other, more glamorous clubs enjoy a cup final.
It is a moment Orient fans will cherish for years to come, friendly or not. The day a full strength Newcastle team was played off the park by those in red and white shirts.
The day Sean Thornton gave Joey Barton a taste of his own medicine, the day Scott McGleish scored a remarkable overhead kick, the day Ryan Jarvis, a striker who couldn't get a game last season, danced through the middle of the Geordie defence and the day Harry Baker, the teenage winger, grabbed his first goal for the first team.
You may sneer at that, the fact a win in a pre-season friendly could bring so much pleasure to such an insignificant club in a rundown corner of London.
But that is the sort of arrogant big club mentality which led to Newcastle's humbling at Brisbane Road in the first place and which will lead to plenty more if it has not been thrashed out of them - 6-1 in case you need to be reminded - by Orient's collection of nearly men and never will bes.
Every single team the Magpies face over the next nine months will be like Orient. In fact, given that the Os are probably a mid-table League One outfit with just an outside chance of making the play-offs next season, they will be considerably better.
For me, and I wasn't at the game as I was still in Amsterdam with Sunderland, Newcastle's players were a shambolic disgrace.
Some of them didn't even seem to try. They thought they could stroll down to London and win another pre-season game by going through the motions.
Why? Because some of them still believe they are big name stars of international pedigree. Others merely want to sign for the first club that offers them an escape from the chaos at St James's Park.
But, with one or two exceptions, Newcastle's players aren't stars, top players or even coveted transfer targets.
They are a bunch of over-paid and over-rated prima donnas who got the club relegated last season with the same ludicrously high opinion of themselves.
Forget the lack of takeover progress and the excuses about not having a manager and Chris Hughton in charge, Newcastle's players were to blame against Orient.
Well this is the wake up call, this is the hefty slap round the face with a cricket bat, this is the cold shower in the morning, this is the kick in the nuts and the brutal dressing down from an Army sergeant rolled into one.
Newcastle United are nothing special, they are a big club on its knees. Everyone in the Championship will be looking to kick them while they are down and do everything they can to make sure they don't get up again in a hurry.
That is what relegation has brought them. It has brought them a season of Leyton Orients, it has brought them cup final after cup final and it was about time someone made them realise that. I'm just very happy it was Orient who administered the lesson.
Altogether now, 6-1 to the Orient, 6-1 to the Orient, 6-1 to the Orient.....
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Thanks for that it's just a shame that you cannot put the boot into the clubs management (Ashley and Llambias) as you just did to the players and the club.
No Brian, the Orient shambles was about the players, not Ashley or Llambias on this occasion. Whatever problems there are off the pitch, and there are many, it doesn't excuse them. It is tempting to let the players off because they don't know what is going on, they don't have a manager and they don't know whether they will even be at the club in a month's time. But they have a professional job to do and they didn't do it properly. They got the club relegated last season and have been largely free from real blame because we recognised wider issues were having a negative effect. But it's about time they were accountable. My point is, while gloating ever so slightly, that these players will suffer plenty more humiliations unless they get their heads round the situation the club is in on the pitch and start working to remedy it.
Luke,
I wouldn't worry about the players at the club too much.
I get the feeling they will all be sold in the next month. They will need to be as the club still have overheads and they are the only assets than can be liquidated.
That will be the final answer as to whether the club is to be sold.
When the first player leaves we will know the club is a million miles of being sold!
"No Brian, the Orient shambles was about the players, not Ashley or Llambias on this occasion"
No Luke, the actions or lack of actions from the aforementioned pair of clowns has totally decimated morale at Newcastle United and that is why they are, as you put it a big club on its knees.
Very funny piece Luke.
Only bit I thought was a bit harsh was pointing out that Orient play in red and white shirts. No need.
A big club on it's knees indeed. On it's knees and - as the late great Bill Hicks would have said - sucking Satan's c0ck.
http://www.newcastleunited-mad.co.uk/news/loadnews.asp?cid=TMNW&id=454970
Luke - what's your view on some of the alarming opinion appearing on other message boards of late ...
... rumours of an 'all staff' meeting being called at SJP this afternoon?
... and the conspiracy theory that Ashley won't sell until the transfer window's closed, to deliberately sabotage any chance of the club being promoted first time and him looking like an even bigger div?
There's got to be a reason behind the lack of progress with the sale. Is it the bean counters taking their time counting, or something far more sinister? And who is this Tony Taylor?
http://www.newcastleunited-mad.co.uk/news/loadnews.asp?cid=TMNW&id=454970
Luke - what's your view on some of the alarming opinion appearing on other message boards of late ...
... rumours of an 'all staff' meeting being called at SJP this afternoon?
... and the conspiracy theory that Ashley won't sell until the transfer window's closed, to deliberately sabotage any chance of the club being promoted first time and him looking like an even bigger div?
There's got to be a reason behind the lack of progress with the sale. Is it the bean counters taking their time counting, or something far more sinister? And who is this Tony Taylor?
The team is simply rubbish and has no chance of getting promoted. If they go into administration which is likely they may be the first club to end a season with a ngative points total. No wonder Shearer is looking at a way to backtrack!
I don't think Newcastle will go into administration at this stage, if only because Ashley will lose even more money than if he just lowered the asking price by £20m.
Luke, your probably right about the administration rumours, but it's worth remembering that Mike Ashley is the sort of man who would cut his nose off to spite his nose.
The Dubai consortium and Keegan return story, reported in The Sun today ... I have it on pretty good authority from London media sources there is some truth to this one.
What's your take, Luke?
The story being run in the Sun should be treated with utter contempt. First of all, they have issued a name, which almost instantly disqualifies said alleged interested party on the grounds of confidentiality, then there's the fact that the Sun is renowned for printing sensationalist sh*t. I wouldn't wipe my backside with a copy of the Sun.
I tried to leave a post the other day stating that I don't think we'll go into administration either, but Captcha decided to play games with me. Can you sort it out please, Luke???
I think now that Martins is set to leave, that will open the flood gates for others to follow suit. I fear that all proceeds from transfers will be directly payable to Mr. M. Ashley. He won't sell club until after Deadline Day and this already fragile squad will be weakened yet further.
When the fixtures first came out, I thought we'd take 11 points from 15 in August, now it'll be more likely to be 4 or 5 with that bunch of over-rated, overpaid fannies.
R.I.P. Sir Bobby Robson.
One of the finest men to ever live.
A Geordie legend and a gentlement to the end.
His soul will forever be in St. James' Park.
Thanks for the great memories Bobby.
Very sad day. R.I.P SBR a true legend