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I do not like the fixtures facing us in March and April. Almost all those teams we play I expect to be pushing hard for promotion. Not good

That's the EDS.

Don't think even QPR could manage that given that hey're playing Sheffield Wednesday at home on the opening day.

So was Peter Ramage. He's now in the premiership and we're..................

Yes, there's always room for the late finishers, coming up on the rails, especially for the play-off places... But there's nothing like getting off to a flyer, as we know from 2010-11!

I do wonder if, come October, you'll still think this is a relatively easy year to go up? My feeling is we'll be stuck in a cycle of dismal draws... I hope I'm wrong, but it still feels like everyone in the club is still in denial about our situation...

Past history doesn,t look to good.www.11v11.com/teams/queens-park-rangers/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Huddersfield%20Town

Please, please, please don't loose at home to Huddersfield 0-5 on the opening day!! Please!

Guardian

Derek Llambias resigns as managing director of Newcastle United
• Shock move comes a day after Joe Kinnear rejoined club
• Thanks fans for support of the club over the years

Louise Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 19 June 2013 04.02 EDT

Derek Llambias, right, sits with Newcastle United's owner Mike Ashley at St James' Park. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA

Newcastle United have been thrown into crisis by the resignation of its managing director, Derek Llambias, with immediate effect on Wednesday morning.

Apart from acting as Newcastle's effective chairman and running the club on a day-to-day basis, Llambias was a close ally and champion of Alan Pardew whose position as manager has never seemed less secure.

Llambias's sudden exit appears a direct consequence of Mike Ashley, the club's owner's, decision to appoint Joe Kinnear as Newcastle's new director of football. It is understood Llambias was not involved in this appointment and did not appreciate Kinnear's suggestion that, from now on, the MD would restrict himself to financial rather than footballing matters.

Moreover during an outlandish radio interview on Monday night Kinnear talked about "Llambezee" and claimed he had recently resigned as director of football. This was a position Llambias, a long time ally of Ashley's recruited from the casino business and a key mover in Pardew's appointment as manager, had never held.

In a statement issued early this morning Newacastle said: "The club can announce that managing director, Derek Llambias, has resigned from his position with immediate effect.

"Derek said "I have had an incredible journey during my five years at the club, including some challenging times. I will reflect with great fondness on my time in the North East and, in me, Newcastle United have a lifelong supporter.

"I want to thank the staff for their hard work, our fans for their support of the club, and wish them all well for the future."

In Llambais Pardew, who along with chief scout Graham Carr, is now answerable to Kinnear, has now lost the man who habitually fought his corner in debates with Ashley.

Llambias, who has worked closely with United owner Mike Ashley since he took over the club in 2007, has polarised opinions of the club's fans during his time at St James' Park.

He has overseen the sales of some of the club's most popular players, such as Andy Carroll and Kevin Nolan, while also being involved in controversial decisions such as the one to appoint Kinnear as manager in 2008 and changing the name of the club's famous ground.

There have been positives too – the club's smart recruitment and wage policy was heralded when they finished fifth in the 2012-13 season – but a troubled last campaign stirred things up once more.

Llambias arrived at Newcastle in the summer of 2008 and was criticised by the supporters for being part of a so-called "Cockney Mafia", comprising himself, Ashley, Tony Jimenez and Dennis Wise, who was installed as a director of football.

Between them they signed a number of previously unheard-of players, some of which have proved successful – Fabricio Coloccini and Jonás Guttiérez – while others, such as Xisco, failed to impress.

www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jun/19/derek-llambias-resigns-newcastle-united

Silly me, I thought he was a CB.

The Championship doesn't work that way.

Reading came from nowhere to win the Championship the season before last. Bolton nearly made the playoffs last season after looking relegation candidates in February.

If there was ever an easier season to win this division I've yet to see it. All the teams who have been consistently strong in this division over the last few years are already in the Prem now. This season its wide open. And a bad start is recoverable easily enough in this league.

... and another thing!

What's happened to my avatar of Dave Thomas?

Nice header. shitety conditions to play in too. Well done Aussie, that's 4 World cup attendances now!!

BBC

Newcastle United: Derek Llambias resigns as managing director

Newcastle United managing director Derek Llambias has resigned, the day after Joe Kinnear's return to the club as director of football.

Kinnear has taken charge of all football-related matters at the club.

In a statement on Tuesday, Llambias said he was "pleased to welcome Joe back".

After his resignation he said: "I have had an incredible journey during my five years at the club, including some challenging times."

Llambias, who had worked closely with owner Mike Ashley since he took over the club in 2007, did not give any reasons for his decision to leave St James' Park.

"I will reflect with great fondness on my time in the north east and, in me, Newcastle United have a lifelong supporter," he said.

"I want to thank the staff for their hard work, our fans for their support of the club, and wish them all well for the future."

In an interview with talkSPORT on Sunday, Kinnear said Llambias "was the director of football, he resigned and the role became available". During the interview, Kinnear mispronounced a number of names, including describing Llambias as "Lambazi".

The former Wimbledon boss, 66, managed Newcastle during the 2008-9 season, but stepped down after suffering a heart attack. He has been brought back by Ashley to run the football side of the club. Newcastle manager Alan Pardew is yet to comment on the appointment.

Kinnear, 66, who managed Newcastle during the 2008-09 season, has signed a three-year contract at St James' Park.

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