Alardyce is a good manager, how can they expect him to turn the club around when they only give him 6 months, and no funds to bring players in. They didnt even wait to see who he might bring in, in January they just sacked him on a bad run of form. Look at Benitez he's been given 4 years and huge transfer funds and still not challanged for the title so Liverpool fans can be legit upset with him, but the Fact is though Newcastle were mid-table and not doing too badly, and I like Alardyce because he didnt take any crap from the players. Keegan is overated, he did well with them when they had a decent side, and Shearer banging them in, but now he's doing worse than Alardyce was from what I have seen. The heart of Newcastles problem is that there centrebacks ever since they got rid of Woodgate have been consistantly shit. Until they buy 2 new premier league centrebacks they have no chance.