Glenn Roeder Quotations

We are pleased with that performance and result. Bolton are a hard team to play against, you can see that by their results, and I am delighted, as we played some terrific football.

We've spoken about the fixture list for the rest of the season. And we generally believe that there's no reason why we can't finish the season in some style if we carry on playing like that.

This win keeps us in with a chance.

The only huge achievement next week will be taking three points off the Bolton Wanderers. If you look beyond that, you trip up very quickly.

When Titus Bramble went off Jean Alain seemed to take on all the responsibility and it was almost as if he said to himself 'I am the man now'.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, Michael has been to see his specialist for an X-ray and a scan and as a result, he missed a couple of days' training.

I would have thought I got a good response from the players. I can only be myself and whatever has come my way I have taken on the chin and got on with it.

I have had a good chat with Kieron this week and he now feels he is ready to start a game for us, and I agree with that.

But Alan was in the dugout and as a future manager one day, I think he enjoyed it. He spoke to the lads in the dressing room. If he doesn't make that, he should be fit for Saturday against Everton.

If training goes well this week he will be mightily close to being able to start a game. But he has to be a main driver in the decision.

He's had a brace put on his knee. It was the body weight of the man who fell on top of him that his knee couldn't take and over-stretched the ligament.

He's had a brace put on his knee.

He has got no concerns with the way the operation went and the way the injury is healing. Apparently, it is healing really well.

Whatever job Alan does for this club, whatever job Alan would want to do for this club, he will always do his very best. He's assisting me brilliantly.

Knowing Alan Shearer like I do, he will be happy to share that (the record) with the fans and send them away really happy.

Some of our players did well, some didn't. We conceded two goals before we'd even caught our breath. In the end I was stood there thinking, 'My God, I wish we'd got Rooney.' He's not even near his full potential right now but in three or four years there's every chance he could be the world's No1 player.

It couldn't have been more perfect. For the team to win 2-0, for Shay Given to keep a clean sheet and then to throw Alan's record-breaking goal into the mix -- it was just what we needed.

Michael saw his specialist on Monday and had a good look at his latest X-rays. He is happy at what he has seen and heard and now it's full steam ahead for him. Things are going well for Michael and he is perhaps a week ahead of where we always thought he would be after his injury.

Michael as I understand having listened to Derek Wright, put his boots on this morning and did some running with his football boots on. He did a very little bit of ball work as well, and after the session he was very happy.

We don't set dates because if you don't reach that date and he's not out training when he says he's going to be or playing, there's hysteria all around the country because of that. All I know is, having seen Michael this week, he's very happy with the way things are progressing.

With the experience I have, there's an argument I should be able to.

We knew the crowd would be with us today and the volume was frightening. This is the best crowd in the country.

There is real concern. It is a ligament injury and with the season running down he might not be fit before the end. I hope so much that this is not the truth but we are really concerned.

To suggest Michael Owen has had a setback is ridiculous. We accurately assess what stage players are at during their rehabilitation and Michael Owen is where we thought he would be at this stage of his recovery.

We are very, very hopeful that Titus will make it for obvious reasons. I have seen him training and he has been working hard and running hard and looking good. It would be good to have him back.

We are still waiting for confirmation but all the signs are that Scott has got glandular fever. Doctors don't like to say anything until test results come back, but that is what we are expecting.

We had plenty of possession but we didn't make their keeper work hard enough.

Craig Moore has only played two reserve games in the last five or six months and he didn't play very much football in Germany last year.

Everything was perfect because it was a win, he scored from open play, which I think he would have preferred to have done, and it couldn't be a more perfect day for Alan Shearer, the rest of the players and the fans.

Perhaps last time around we didn't have suitable candidates and Eriksson came in. Whatever you say about him, he's done a good job and he will do a good job in Germany. But we now do have candidates.

Alan won't want sympathy. He'll shake himself down, shrug his shoulders and get on with it.

This is not a case of us having to let Moore go under FIFA regulations because it is not an international game but a training camp.

Thirty-eight games - that's when the season ends. That's what I've always believed. What a shameful thought, to pack up and go home with seven games to go. I didn't hear players saying that, but I heard people around the place saying 'they have got nothing to play for, they won't be motivated'.

This job has reminded me how enjoyable it is to work with high-quality players. If it had just been for one game I would not have had the chance to get that feeling back.

It was encouraging to see Kieron come back. We had decided it would make sense to put him on the bench and afterwards he said he's fine.

It's a huge disappointment because he's had a terrific season in his first year here.

It's great to score early. You can never score too early and I think we needed that away from home because we haven't scored too many.

It's onwards and upwards for Michael. I'm confident he'll play for Newcastle before the end of the season.

It will be touch and go. Apparently, he's certainly not behind (his recovery) time, if anything he might be a little bit ahead of time.

Not winning the Champions League seems to have hit him hard, and obviously it's the second year running now. It seems to have really irritated him and the players.

I'm not expecting a call from the chairman and, until he asks me any questions, I will not give it a thought.

I had a chat with Albert before the game, and he asked if he could go home. I haven't got a problem with that and there's nothing sinister in it. He's a very professional person.

If you go back to my first game in charge, if we had lost at home to Portsmouth the gap to them would have been just a few points.

In terms of reaching peak match fitness in time I think we've run out of games.

I rang him on Friday night and asked him if he felt he could take the extra responsibility of being captain and he told me he would love to.

He's hugely disappointed - anyone would be because when he came off (on Saturday), he would have been happy to stay on. It was me who withdrew him after he scored the goal, he really would have liked to stay on because he felt so full of running with no pain whatsoever.

I'm not a lemming about to run off the end of a cliff.

David James is frustrated because he thinks us being bottom isn't helping his chances with England. I think it gives him more chance to show his ability.

I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer.

It is easy being a manager when you are one of 25,000 sitting in the stand or if you are an ex-player who is now working for the media who will never manage anything better than an under-10 team, thinking he knows best - and you know what I'm talking about, and I will deal with that, trust me. I'm a nice bloke, but not always.

When Andy Carroll first appeared on the scene he was a tall skinny kid and his coordination was all over the place. He reminded me of a giraffe.

You can't accuse him of taking a short-cut, so that would suggest he is mentally tough.