Rob W

Aye well I can understand his frustration

A barrage of long ball overs the top to some of the biggest defenders in the PL when you are 3ft 6" high can start to look like a bit of a pointless afternoon

Suppoorted all my life - the family  are totally Black & white - first game in the late 50's

I prefer an 9-8 win with us getting all our goals in teh last 5 minutes TBH having been reduced to 8 men

and NUFC fans unfortunately - its part of our passion for Grand Opera at SJP

c = 100

m =  1000

mm = 1000*1000 = million  (my City friends refer to £ 1 million as " a bar" FYI)

B = billion = 1000 million

T = Trillion = Million Million

satisfied

He has no experience at all

The record of top class players as managers is not very good

Strikers especially tend to be unsucesful  (I exempt Brian Howard Clough of course)

Players going back to their old clubs also have a poor record

I'm not sure he's a great man manager either

Lets face it - if you looked at the whole of the TV punditry and you HAD to choose a mangaer from amongst them it would that smart arsed Scotsman

Parky clearly just on the wind up in this thread like.

 

When someone disagrees he either insults their intelligence or misrepresents their view.

 

Clearly.

 

You'd think the people agreeing would be more embarrassed once NE5 started agreeing with him. 

 

no. I have quite clearly been correct for a long time, and I'm dead pleased parky is correct too.

 

And, if the end result of todays events is the club showing real ambition with their own appointed manager, I fully expect to see quite a lot of u-turns from those of the more conservative persuasion - probably the same people who oddly wanted the old board so "splash the cash" all the time, meaning they have done a 360 degree circle of u turns.

 

 

i'd like to see cash being splashed if we can afford it (ie ashley spending like abramovich)

 

i'd not like to see cash being splashed if we cant afford it (ie racking up unsustainable debts)

This si a very very valid point...........  the use of Other People's Money is always wise.........

I reckon if we spent £ 100 mm we'd be up there in 2009-10

What of course the Park Meister & I haven't pointed out that we're assuming we don't buy any Souness Specials with  £ 100 mm - you really need to budget for the odd catastrophe

another loser FFS

If you have to get a manager from the  PL rabble get Copple

I wonder why he went so suddenly ? 

It might be he put his list of "buys" for the window in front of Mort & Co and they just woke up and said "NO WAY!! He's got to go.............."

Can we do it so the new one has enough time to buy some players? 

the new man will have less than 2 weeks - and everyone will know he's desperate so prices will be crazy

REAL class players are now £ 20mm - £ 40 mm

AS I said earlier just assembling 15 top4 quality players will cost us  north of £ 100mm - you'd be lucky to salvage 5 or 6 out of teh current squad

The STORY was that lower league club nearly thrashed Great PL Club - thats the news

if you want the stats look somewhere else

I think the Elf-Meister is correct - we only have 5-6 players who would even make the squad at Arsenal or ManYoo

Say a 24 man squad - 18 players needed; maybe a couple of kids , one lucky dip at £1 mm - still 15 needed - at £ 6 milion a piece we're at £ 100 mm before you can say Gandalf

Why is this forum so negative..............  mackems.gif mackems.gif mackems.gif

36 years without a trophy may have sommat to do with it maybe?  :undecided:

for me the damning fact is that you couldn't tell which team was a struggling Championship team bought for washers and which was a a very expensive PL side

Too many long clearances, very little accurate passing, a dreadful left back, no-one picking up attackers at corners

Sam has had 6 months and we are actually WORSE in some ways than we were under Roeder - he had the excuse that all he had to hand was bairns

Mike Wrays Wonderfull spreadsheet allows you to calculate the toughness of the opposition played so far and to come

needless to say we have by far the toughest to come  of any team in the PL  :kasper:

Constantly playing a very promising left winger at left back in a team with a with an appallingly poor defensive record will make them succeptable to a move to another, sucessful team. 

exactly - I can see Arsene thinking..........  neat player, french, young , can play anywhere down the left side............ 

until we spend some money on a defense we're going nowhere

i was asked recently by a Chelsea fan how the hell we'd underachieved for so long and when you come back to it we ship far too many idiot goals

the fans want strikers but all great teams are built on a watertight back 4

I think the Zog is the only one of players that would interest the top 6 right now - maybe Taylor.... but no-one else

Our French Friend in Norf Landahn woudl probably pay serious money for him  for a start

from the title I thought this was an unfortunate medical post.............

Anyone hear those two ...."ladies"........... on 5Live last night ? 

Screaming and gibbering like fishwives

It's all a conspiracy against the "best supported team in the country"  with a masonic group of linesmen and refs getting their own back on Roy Kean............... 

Made my Christmas................................    :celb: :celb: :celb: :celb:

It's normally thought that no other club has achieved so little and had such a large and devoted following over the last 50 years

what you forget LLO is that he might have to deal with some of the people he's run rings around in the past - and I can assure you they'll see him starve in the gutter rather than help him

So far this hasn't touched the club - principally because we already have a load of decent finance in place negotiated by Fat Fred - the problem might come if we want/need to roll it over or increase it

He also will have trouble getting decent managment - the word is out that he wants to run the shop himself and so all he'll get are creeps and brown-nosers - and that is the first step towards disaster

the way these guys stay rich is using Other People's Money - you borrow and then if it all goes pear shaped you still have your stash

The Club will continue to borrow - it makes sense from a financial point of view