Day one of a two-part session as Toon manager Graeme Souness answers the fans' questions: * How long do you see yourself being in charge of Newcastle United? - Brian, Newcastle I have another two years of my contract and I certainly want to see out those two years. * I would say that the vast majority of Newcastle supporters do not want you as manager and don't want to judge you at the end of the 2005-6 season, so why don't you give the majority their wish and leave now? - Aidan Blackburn, Wallsend At the end of the day, the person I answer to is the chairman of Newcastle United and only the chairman can decide whether I go or whether I stay. * What makes you think you can bring success to this club, because many fans would say there is little in your managerial career to indicate you will be a success in that area here? - Mike Fitzgerald, Newcastle When I look back at the managerial jobs I have had, they have been with Rangers, Liverpool, Galatasaray, Southampton, Torino, if you can count six games, Southampton and Blackburn Rovers. That's seven jobs and I won things at five of them and believe I have been a success. * There was a quote from Freddy Shepherd in last Wednesday's Questions and Answers in the Chronicle that "Graeme Souness has a good track record in the transfer market at the likes of Rangers and Blackburn Rovers and he will get our full backing". Can you tell us what signing at Blackburn Rovers Freddy was referring to? If they were such great signings, why were Blackburn Rovers fighting relegation for the last few years until you left? - Nadine Strettle, Ponteland As far as good and bad signings are concerned, there is not a manager who has been born who hasn't signed a player who he has not been disappointed in. Let's face it, if I hadn't got it right for most of the time I would not still be a manager today. As for signings I may have made, I don't want to go into names of individuals. * Is this the hardest job you have ever had? - Jeremy Scott, Durham No, I think all of the big jobs I have had have been difficult. * I have read that Galatasaray want to take you back to Turkey and that because Pino Zahvi is a big admirer of the way you work that if Chelsea had not got Jose Mourinho they would have come for you. Is that right? - Tony, Benwell I don't really want to say anything about that. I am manager of Newcastle United and that is all that concerns me. * What does a manager do with a talented player with an attitude problem? Does a manager have a responsibility to get the best out of the player or is it better just to write off the player and bring in someone else? - Stephen, an exile. That's management. You have to try to get the best out of the players you've got but if someone continually steps over the line and threatens to ruin the harmony within the group he has to go. Bellamy can never play for me again * For the sake of Newcastle United, could you please sit down with Craig Bellamy and captain Alan Shearer on June 22 when the players will be recalled and sort things out? - Daniel, Malta * Is there any chance you could swallow your pride and get Craig Bellamy back from Celtic? - Steve McGill, Bedford I can't do that. Craig Bellamy can never play for me again. * Could you have handled the Craig Bellamy situation differently? - John Douglas, Alnwick No. I asked myself that at the time and since then, and every time I come up with the same answer - that I could not have handled the Craig Bellamy situation any differently from the way I did. * Do you think Newcastle United are a better or a worse side without Craig Bellamy? - Alex Wright, Gosforth I cannot really answer that. But what I can say is that Craig Bellamy had scored seven goals up to the start of the New Year and he was probably on schedule to score more goals for this club than he had before in any one season. And what I can also say is that our dressing room is a healthier place. At the end of the day, the club is not here for the benefit of any one individual. * Freddy Shepherd stated on your appointment that you had been brought in to tighten up discipline both on and off the pitch. How would you judge your progress in this area of discipline since your arrival? - Christopher Magee I think the players have a far clearer picture of what is and what is not acceptable as long as I am manager of this football club. And we no longer have players who just walk off the training ground when it suits them. I think we now have a group of players who understand the way I want to work and what I expect from them in training and out on the pitch. * What were you thinking when Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer were fighting on the pitch with one another? - Oliver Colligan, Tynemouth I was thinking that it was something I had never seen before in 35 years in football and something I hope I never see in the next 35 years. I also believe it was such a one-off that we will never see it again. Page 2: Squad not strong enough | 
