Yes the majority wanted Glenn Roeder to leave, but is there anyone out there who wants Freddy Shepherd to stay?
Obviously we need someone to replace him, and the chairman says he would gladly leave if the offer was right, but again the situation has reached crisis point at St James' Park.
Shepherd Silence Is Deafening
The one good point is we won't get relegated. But on current form and the attitude of some of the players in recent weeks, thank God for little mercies, and we are so pleased the season is going to end next week.
The Magpies supremo, not for the first time, was the target of the boo boys on Saturday evening. But the chants for manager Glenn Roeder's head were new as the Toon Army - thousands of them clad in the new home shirt which only went on sale on Wednesday - vented their anger as a dreadful season plumbed ever more depressing depths.
For the record, Newcastle have now gone seven hours and 51 minutes without scoring a league goal at St James' Park,since Nobby's Solano's match-winning 69th-minute penalty against Liverpool back on February 10.
Writing in his programme notes for the game, Shepherd said: "Many hurdles have been surmounted in the course of this season, although clearly a club of this stature should command a higher place in the Premiership, and that will be our principal target when next season gets under way."
Roeder said after the match: "It was not what I would have hoped for and not what I would have expected either, but that's the nature of football sometimes.
"The inability to score goals has become a major problem which we have not overcome over in the last month or so.
"The game was summed up by Michael Owen's one and only opportunity to score.
"He did very well to go round the keeper. By the time he got to the ball it was a narrow angle, he steadied himself, hit a hell of a shot with plenty of pace and power on it to bring the game level and the defender, give him credit, did well to get back."
Shepherd faced a major decision. It was obvious he wasn't going to let Roeder use the money available to rebuild the side in the summer, and many felt Freddy had his doubts about Roeder back in January.
It was strange how Roeder insisted there was no money to spend during the January transfer window, yet Shepherd said there was! But obviously he wasn't going to release it, because no player came in apart from one loan signing.