madras

english or british ?

then ashley sings back. "i've spent £250million i'm not spending £250million more" not that i wouldn't want mourinho or lippi etc but i can understand if we didnt get them

kids toiday,nee patience

To be clear it isn't an unmitigated disaster (it isn't McClown) and there are good things about Nappy. The football might/probably will improve and we might get one or two gems and one or two donkeys...Who really knows. MA might feel better about giving Nappy the money and the relationship might be better.....But you know why jump for the stars if your keks are tied to a lamp post? at the same time...don't jump for the stars if you are on the edge of a block of flats !

what he means is if all clubs kept their managers they'd all be successful ?

Commercial station. It's their job to wind you up. True. Shame all the Newcastle fans they let on are determined to make us sound like morons. The bloody SSN effect. i reckon there's hours of footage of sane,lucid nufc fans giving coherent sensible musings on the cutting room floor.

one mans 5 minutes is anothers seven months of shit without light at the end of it

it was a reaction to the fucking stupidity being rattled about. i even used cpaital letters and stuff too.

complete drivel. we sack an under performing manager and (if true) get in a replacement. no quotes about it being a top job and "not believing who wants to come". complete fucking silence really.

Unless they pull a 'big rabbit' out of the hat this fiasco is an abject failure of reason, common sense and sorely lacks any clear judgement. It smacks of a child who can't wait till christmas day to open his presents. And if they bring in the new manager who then spends £20 to £30 million on top quality players and drives us up the league (say 8th) putting us in a far better position to attract further players in the summer? Will you still consider it a failure then? Yes. But waiting until the end of the season to sack Allardyce (when we'd no doubt finish between 13th and 15th) would be a success?? I'm having to accept a lot of assumptions on your part here. Well obviously the first assumpion has to be accepted as part of my question. The second, what's not easy to accept there? We're 11th after by far the easiest half of the season, now comes the much more difficult half.. I don't deal in assumptions. This fiasco could only have been substansiated if indeed a high quality coach had been secured. To say we had to do it cause this might have happenned or that or whatever is pointless. We're 11th and actually we had produced 2 or our best footballing performcances (Arsenal and Chelsea) recently. I could easily assume we would start picking up points again. That isn't the debate here. which high class coach would come in if we didnt have the transfer kitty he wanted. parky what you are saying is "thanks mike for paying off the debt etc . but i'm a greedy git who wants you to spend a load more to please me"

At Jose's hoose? new manager Mr Murat ?

i doubt mourinho,lippi etc would come just for the wgaes, they need the rest ogf the package ie a whacking big transfer kitty

Would you rather have Strachan? Midtable side = Midtable manager. Yeah but the same goes for Spurs, City and Villa. They're mid-table clubs and they did not get "mid-table managers". By the way, I don't think you can compare O'Neill and Strachan, as O'Neills track record in England is much better. He won the League Cup at Leicester. Strachan sent Coventry down and played a big part in Southampton's relegation. steve mcclaren won the league cup...its hardly a headline on a cv...i'd rather a prospective manager just had decent consistent prem form than a league cup win

We wouldn't have been relegated or been close to it this season. There are too many hopeless sides below us. We're 11th ffs!! People don't need the to create a spectre of relegation to justify this and if they do then it shows we are collectively grasping at straws to make ourselves feel better at what we clearly see as fundamental failure of judgement. Part of the longer term problem now will be is that it is clear that that the role of the owner is too blurred with the safety net of an independant thinking chairman. Regardless of how Redknapp performs I see no due dilligence in this. We're 11th and 9 points above the relegation zone, out of the 10 teams above us we still have to play away to 7 of them, I don't think we would have got relegated but I could of seen us finishing the season than less points than we did under Roeder, Allardyce had lost the fans and was blaming the players, his time at Newcastle was over yet people were still demanding that he gets backed with money in January. Perhaps the people who thought we could attract the likes of Mourinho have just had a long overdue reality check. It's hilarious that you don't admit that given time and due dilligence we can't attract a quality manager. like who ? Surely a question for Mashley? which he's answered with redknapp. his view will be he's always done ok with limited resources and played good attractive attacking football...what can he do with extra resources but not the sort of resources that could attract the glitterati of the mangerial world So a Billionaire takes over a club and starts looking for a manager ''that has done ok''? What's wrong with this picture? Quality managers normally only need two things a promised transfer fund the like the look of and a rock and roll wage packet. All the other stuff people babble about on here is cack. and thats as i've pointed out (re wages and transfer kitty). it looks like we wont get the abramovic style spending but if you want you can slag ashley off for not spending all his money on what you want him to. Is it too much to ask to change managers in the summer and carry out due dilligence regarding such an important role? I thought these were the uber 'INTERNAL REVIEW' boys we were dealing with? No? that was where my idea of a caretaker came in as allardyce had to go (i'm not as convinced about our final placing as you were) but ashley reckons he knows better. my guess and it is only a guess is that we will be better funded than all the clubs outside the top 4, that wouldn't have got a top international manager so ashleys believs he has got the best of the rest

We wouldn't have been relegated or been close to it this season. There are too many hopeless sides below us. We're 11th ffs!! People don't need the to create a spectre of relegation to justify this and if they do then it shows we are collectively grasping at straws to make ourselves feel better at what we clearly see as fundamental failure of judgement. Part of the longer term problem now will be is that it is clear that that the role of the owner is too blurred with the safety net of an independant thinking chairman. Regardless of how Redknapp performs I see no due dilligence in this. We're 11th and 9 points above the relegation zone, out of the 10 teams above us we still have to play away to 7 of them, I don't think we would have got relegated but I could of seen us finishing the season than less points than we did under Roeder, Allardyce had lost the fans and was blaming the players, his time at Newcastle was over yet people were still demanding that he gets backed with money in January. Perhaps the people who thought we could attract the likes of Mourinho have just had a long overdue reality check. It's hilarious that you don't admit that given time and due dilligence we can't attract a quality manager. like who ? Surely a question for Mashley? which he's answered with redknapp. his view will be he's always done ok with limited resources and played good attractive attacking football...what can he do with extra resources but not the sort of resources that could attract the glitterati of the mangerial world So a Billionaire takes over a club and starts looking for a manager ''that has done ok''? What's wrong with this picture? Quality managers normally only need two things a promised transfer fund the like the look of and a rock and roll wage packet. All the other stuff people babble about on here is cack. and thats as i've pointed out (re wages and transfer kitty). it looks like we wont get the abramovic style spending but if you want you can slag ashley off for not spending all his money on what you want him to.

We wouldn't have been relegated or been close to it this season. There are too many hopeless sides below us. We're 11th ffs!! People don't need the to create a spectre of relegation to justify this and if they do then it shows we are collectively grasping at straws to make ourselves feel better at what we clearly see as fundamental failure of judgement. Part of the longer term problem now will be is that it is clear that that the role of the owner is too blurred with the safety net of an independant thinking chairman. Regardless of how Redknapp performs I see no due dilligence in this. We're 11th and 9 points above the relegation zone, out of the 10 teams above us we still have to play away to 7 of them, I don't think we would have got relegated but I could of seen us finishing the season than less points than we did under Roeder, Allardyce had lost the fans and was blaming the players, his time at Newcastle was over yet people were still demanding that he gets backed with money in January. Perhaps the people who thought we could attract the likes of Mourinho have just had a long overdue reality check. It's hilarious that you don't admit that given time and due dilligence we can't attract a quality manager. like who ? Surely a question for Mashley? which he's answered with redknapp. his view will be he's always done ok with limited resources and played good attractive attacking football...what can he do with extra resources but not the sort of resources that could attract the glitterati of the mangerial world

f*** Redknapp and f*** you we really ought to have a minimum age limit on here

twisting things aren't you. "blew his socks off"

bizzarre

didn't they have hits with "keep on loving you" and "can't fight this feeling" ?

We wouldn't have been relegated or been close to it this season. There are too many hopeless sides below us. We're 11th ffs!! People don't need the to create a spectre of relegation to justify this and if they do then it shows we are collectively grasping at straws to make ourselves feel better at what we clearly see as fundamental failure of judgement. Part of the longer term problem now will be is that it is clear that that the role of the owner is too blurred with the safety net of an independant thinking chairman. Regardless of how Redknapp performs I see no due dilligence in this. We're 11th and 9 points above the relegation zone, out of the 10 teams above us we still have to play away to 7 of them, I don't think we would have got relegated but I could of seen us finishing the season than less points than we did under Roeder, Allardyce had lost the fans and was blaming the players, his time at Newcastle was over yet people were still demanding that he gets backed with money in January. Perhaps the people who thought we could attract the likes of Mourinho have just had a long overdue reality check. It's hilarious that you don't admit that given time and due dilligence we can't attract a quality manager. like who ?

don't, the cameras will get it for SSN

who ? if you go for the mourinhos you'll be looking at a massive transfer kitty which would be nice but we cant demand a bloke who has bailed us out to give up half his wealth for us. it's a tad like a greedy kid

We wouldn't have been relegated or been close to it this season. There are too many hopeless sides below us. We're 11th ffs!! People don't need the to create a spectre of relegation to justify this and if they do then it shows we are collectively grasping at straws to make ourselves feel better at what we clearly see as fundamental failure of judgement. http://xkcd.com/258/ Yeah, you're right Parkster, there are plenty of hopeless sides below us. Like Derby for instance. And the mighty Wigan. Now only if we could take points off them! Are you happy at how this change in manager has been handled? The timing? The cost? The lack of ambition? Happy? No. Do I feel it was necessary? Yes. Just like many of you felt Sam needed time to do things his way, why shouldn't Ashley be granted that same privilege? Ashley's first test should be assessed on the next managerial appointment. Who that is, remains to be seen, of course. He's in Hong Kong. so ?

We wouldn't have been relegated or been close to it this season. There are too many hopeless sides below us. We're 11th ffs!! People don't need the to create a spectre of relegation to justify this and if they do then it shows we are collectively grasping at straws to make ourselves feel better at what we clearly see as fundamental failure of judgement. http://xkcd.com/258/ Yeah, you're right Parkster, there are plenty of hopeless sides below us. Like Derby for instance. And the mighty Wigan. Now only if we could take points off them! Are you happy at how this change in manager has been handled? The timing? The cost? The lack of ambition? the timing i'm ok with the cost was out of ashleys hands really the ambition.......we'll have to see..if he spends £100mill in the summer i'd think he could have persuaded a bigger name...if we only have £30mill we wouldn't have got one