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I would have been delighted to have been been watching "win ugly" football over the past 8 months.

Second paragraph could do with a retrospective re-write like

Ominously reminds me of similar posts aimed at Graeme's nay-sayers upon his appointment... I don't think we need a nutural leader mind

I wanted him sacked if we had already lined up a decent replacement because I didn't think he'd earned a 5 year stab at turning us around after his Souness impression. But if the decision was "Should we just sack him and then go and see if we can get Moyes or Hughes or someone?" then we should have stuck with him until we could get someone worth kicking him out for.

I'm sick of these clever clogs who support other clubs and haven't watched our performances all season saying we're never going to get anywhere sacking managers after only xxx, shouldn't have sacked souness, roeder, sam etc without giving them 5 years to turn it around because now no-one will take the job etc etc. Wonder if they feel the same about McClaren getting the boot.

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My view over the past few months is that Allerdyce needed to go and was showing not even a glimmer of changing things around. But I also maintained we should only part company with him if we could find someone better to replace him with. Zany, I know.

Oh for fucks sake, mong parade on SSN again. "I think Redknapp would do well, although I don't know much about him." How can you not know much about Redknapp if you follow British football?

SSN outside SJP now. Interviewing some guy still believing the brit only angle. Lots of money on Moyes. Gimp now says he wants Keegan and "everyone would be joyus" and wouldn't mind finishing fourth bottom season after season if they were entertained.

I think they should keep it hushed up until 5:15 on Saturday, when the new manager walks down to the dugout, complete with fireworks and theme music. It'll be like Royal Rumble where you don't know if it'll be Steve Austin or Maye Young. And if it's Jose he should powerbomb Fergie through the Spanish announcers table.

This is coming from "a known admirer of Redknapp"

Sam on SSN now

I was thinking that. Maybe the reaction on here caused the backtracking on only wanting and English manager

Plausible deniability. Newcastle and Redknapp would be in big trouble if this doesn't appear to unfold in a manner that follows standard protocol. That would be cracking. We have to pay through the nose to compensate Souness' employers, we have to battle with authorities to get them to allow Roeder to manage us without the right badges, we had argue with Bolton about if Sam said he wasn't leaving to manage another club and then have to defend ourselves against allegations of dodgy dealings to secure Redknapp. We pull out all the stops to get the wrong man at this club.

If we've got no-one in the wings then after yesterday I think anyone actually wanting the job would send my Purple Ronnie socks flying up in the air like on the War of the Worlds remake.

What next for Sam then? Punditry? A lower league club? Taking over the club whose manager we poach? Back to Bolton?

Seriously though, no chance of McLaren. Ashley's green enough about football to be wowed by household names however poor they may be nowadays, but even my lass knows that McLaren is a joke. If you fuck up as England manager you become the staple "rubbish footbal person" used for jokes in stuff like OK Magazine and Two Pints Of Lager. No-one could be ignorant to his failings. Some of the other potential appointments however...

Yep, it's all real. Just have a watch of the press confrence and it should all become clear.

It depends if "Experienced" means just that or if it's a euphamism for "past it"

OK, might as well rank the main managers being touted on oddschecker in order of my often arbitary preference Jose Mourinho Ottmar Hitzfeld Guus Hiddink Gerard Houllier Alan Shearer Martin O Neill Harry Redknapp Martin Jol Mark Hughes David Moyes Terry Venables Steve Coppell Steve McClaren I have to say like, I wouldn't be pleased with any of them after about 5 so it's pretty difficult to rank them.

Knock knock. Who dare?

If that's true that would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic. Seriously, having no-one lined up when you sack a manager and scrambling around for the likes of Redknapp and Huges is Fat Fred level stuff.

Says the guy making ultimatums and threatening to quit supporting the club. Uh-huh.

Like I say, even though I've been screaming at the telly everytime SSN say that "we" want Shearer as manager I'd rather the unknown quantity of Shearer than the known quantity of Moyes, Huges, Redknapp, Venebles, McLaren...

Can't face more mediocre grind for the rest of the season under any of the current British managers being touted. Fuck it, all in. Go for Shearer, death or glory, kamakazi it, cross your fingers, close your eyes and hope that the buzz he creates amongst the mong element carries us through the start and he magically becomes the next Keegan. And if not then at least we can all say "We told you so."