Survey comments - Q3: Was Kinnear justified in his outburst against the national press?

Nov 28 2008 The Journal

Sometimes the press forgets that the games are the show, not them.

He has a point but perhaps went a little (not to much though) to far

They had it coming. He was only saying what everyone else was thinking but were to scared to say it.

Didnt agree at the time but it appears to have had a postive effect

But just wish he would keep his frustations to himself

Did two improtant things, halted the media's distastful obsession with running us down and made a seige mentality to help the players.

its just another incident giving to the national press to put nufc in a bad light and make a joke of us again

Most of the media cannot get by without a daily fix of sensationalism. If the cannot find it they invent it.

yes but i think it was to draw attention away from players, it sure did that.

I agree with what he had to say, just not how he said it.

What happened to good behaviour and good manners, thing of the past unfortunately

In a time of trial by media it should probably not have come as a surprise to him, no matter how unjustified it may have seemed at that time.

he just wanted the spotlight on him but continued to show NUFC as a laughing stock to the rest of the country

Some outrageous things were printed, yet again, by the mainly southern based press without any thought of factual reporting.
At times the club has rightly been pilloried, but in this case it was not justified so I think he was justified, although the swearing was OTT, but again the press just ran with it when it was supposedly off-the-record.  Given the supposed 'dream setup' along the road at Sunderland and the amount of money spent on what is probably the biggest squad in the Premier League, the results have been very poor and yet the lack of criticism in the national press is truly remarkable.

They havent helped the situation at NUFC or Joe Kinnears situation over the past few years and hes nipping it in the bud before he gets slated before he even starts his job at NUFC.

In was a PR stunt to win the fans round

The outburst may have had some vailidity had it not been for the unnecessary profanities.

Certainly as Newcastle are always the whipping boys for the press

I say no as it was not a good piece of PR on his arrival at a club in turmoil. However his comments were after the press conference had finished were they not? he was naive though to think no one would be still recording.

As usual they make statments without any facts Joe is an honest manager, if not everybody's first choice.

He should have been more canny in the way he phrased things.  Emotion fine but change the grammar and delivery.

I think that WAS a PR stunt designed to forge a siege mentality amongst the squad and isolate them from the press to some extent.  And to get them to notice the new man at the helm.

But he has the right to defend himself against any bad press, he could have handled that press conference with a bit more dignity. Sir Kevin or Sir Bob would'nt have acted like that

A clever move

Without question the national press declared open season on NUFC a long time ago and alll we have done is enabled them with a string of horrror stories both on and off the pitch. Some of these stories are of course script written for efffect and Joe has managed to shame thw gutter press into at least concentrating on the truth .

"the press" will do anything to make a story and they particularly like to pick on losers in tough positions or unable to defend themselves. NUFC falls into both categories and Joe was the rep of NUFC; easy target but good for him to attack to defend.

He should have realised his outburst was going to be reported anyway without the swearing. The swearing just grags the name of the club even lower.

leave him alone to get on with the job

had he have not swore every sentence then yes as the press no longer report news they simply invent their own stories and sources

its about time someone stood up and said what we all think about the press and their savaging of our club, fans, area etc.

After all the lies and garbage levelled at the man i was not surprised  At your job would you not? the media are great at destroying people but not very appologetic when proved wrong