BottledDog

nemeth Spammers sign some guy I've never heard of. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/7851056.stm Sounds like a very good player from what the BBC write-up says. If we are serious about up and coming players then that's the kind of person we should of been looking at. When we are struggling as we are, spending all our budget on a player Tony Adams say's may not even get a game this year doesn't sound the best plan to be fair.

Blimey, there's availability all over the ground. Comon lads, this one has to be a sellout.

Just confirmed on Russian TV, Arshavin to Arsenal is now a done deal.

I haven't looked at it. By the way, I've responded to some of your previous posts directed at me, and predictably you have joined the list of those who are unable to reply and prove me wrong, when you would love to if you could. Are you someone else that insisted we would be better off without the fat bastard [for anybody] ? Which questions have you asked me, sorry if I missed them but your perpetual arse kissing of Freddy Shepherd sends me to sleep. Which fat bastard are you on about, Shepherd or Ashley? well, we are certainly not better off since the last ownership change are we, but I thought that soopa Mike was going to be the saviour to end all those embarrassing days of qualifying regularly for europe ? We are financially more stable than we were under Freddy "Lets hoy some more cash at the problem and hope we get somewhere" Shepherd. You should know that from your sneaky peaking at the financial report thread. We will have to see where we are come May to decide how bad Ashley has been. If we finish 13th or so you could say we are on a par with Fat Fred couldn't you? Well you wouldn't cos obviously you are blinkered. While Mike Ashley is not the man to take the club forward, Freddy Shepherd certainly wasn't either. But at least Ashley isn't taking money out of the club to line his own pocket, unlike Fat Freddy. I haven't looked at the thread, because I know it will be full of people like you slating the old board for anything you can think of, such is your cluelessness. You and people like you were told for ages by myself and one or two others that getting rid of the old board wouldn't necessarily lead to more success and a better club, you were wrong. You are being told again that Ashley is taking the club downwards and downwards, his policy is wrong, you are disputing it, but you are wrong again. I think you have mistaken me for someone else. I have said time and again that Mike Ashley is not the man to take this club forward. But deluding yourself that Freddy Shepherd was is just stupid. Freddy Shepherd was running this club into the ground financially, and getting a nice wage packet out of it too. Its all well and good for Shepherd to come out now and say that Ashley is doing things wrong, but we would have been crippled had Shepherd still been at the helm. He needs to give himself a shake, and you too, and you both need to realise that the reason we are in this mess is because of Fat Fred's policy of throwing money into a bottomless pit to try and put things right, instead of sorting out the fundamental problems with the club. I don't think Ashley is the right man for Newcastle, and never have, but no-one else would have taken the club on and put the money in he has to stop us going to the wall. Others looked at the books and ran!

And yet we are meant to believe the club is no longer up for sale and that we are "Driving the club forward". A wanky summer ahead I think I don't get it. Are people suddenly crying out for Kinnear, Calderwood and Lovenkrands to be signed up on long term contracts? You're all mad. This is madness!

I dont speak redundant languages, what is he saying? That it would be a backward step going to Newcastle. Looking through the thread they seem to have a couple of issues with him sometimes but recognise that he has got good potential and don't seem to like the idea of him leaving.

Heh, at least the guy feels he would be a big loss to them.

View from Forrest fan and BBC Newcastle fella, Matt Newsum - "I must profess at first I was tempted to joke about yet another Nottingham Forest manager turning up at St James' Park? Who next? Frank Clark? However, I am pleased that Colin Calderwood has found himself a new post, even if it is just as a coach until the end of the season. Fact is, in my humble opinion, he's a likeable bloke. I had the pleasure once, in The Dragon pub in Nottingham, and he was a top fella - agreed to have his photo taken with me and a quick natter about Forest's fortunes. And although quite rightly in some circumstances he's had a fair bit of stick from Forest fans, he's not been all bad. He introduced a lot of youngsters to the side, Matt Thornhill, Emile Sinclair and latterly the impressive Brendan Moloney have all made the progression from youth team to first-team under Calderwood's management. Also his work in the transfer market wasn't too disasterous... he signed and then sold Junior Agogo for profit, he brought in Nathan Tyson, who has become a fans favourite, and his use of the loan market has seen Paul Anderson arrive at the City Ground. Even when the Neil Lennon signing went wrong, it was a positive sign for Calderwood that his persuasive and ambitious nature was a factor in his moving from Celtic (SPL champs, European Champions League entrants...) to Forest (League One promotion scrappers). The main gripe with Calderwood was of a tactical nature. With the players at our disposal you felt we could pick teams apart at will in League One, but the Scot's pragmatic, dour methods meant we often laboured to beat teams that we should have buried (on paper). Sometimes we got it right - a 5-1 demolition of Huddersfield lingers long in the memory, a 3-0 exhibition of football at home to Cheltenham and of course last season's 3-2 last day win against Yeovil. Then there were those bad days. The days where we sent our fans home miserable from places like Hartlepool, Leyton Orient and Swindon, messing up accumulators and weekends throughout the country. One evening summed it all up. Yeovil Town, League One play-off semi-final, 2-0 up from the first-leg. Two shellshocked hours later and it's 5-4. To Yeovil. On our own ground. Calderwood's defensive tactics, substitutions and a series of daft decisions by players sank us to the most galling and heart-breaking of defeats. It was a clear embodiment of what supporting Forest under Calderwood was about. However, he's obviously been brought in for a purpose at Newcastle and I would presume it's a defensive one. As a player he was lionhearted as a centre-half, and his outlook on the game tactically is defensive. He's also a former colleague of Chris Hughton, when the Magpies' assistant was a coach at Tottenham. I wish him well. He got us promoted, he's a nice fella. Whether or not he can have an impact at St James' only time will tell."

Kinnear reckons he will be here today, and training tomorrow. Probably the Sunderland game on Sunday. Source? All I have seen Kinnear say is that "Talks have been going very well regarding Albin, and we are working hard to make sure he comes to Newcastle." No timescale, and no guarentee he will come here full stop. The Journal had quoted Kinnear saying he expected Ebondo to be in Newcastle today and training "straight after". Ah right, found it.

For anyone who doesn't have tickets yet or fancy an upgrade. http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10278~1533170,00.html /Hint. It's not 9.

Hull have failed to agree a fee for John Arne Riise, wonder if we'll be in for him again.

Not going to happen. /fingers crossed that it happens.

For fucks sake, why have a pop over this? What does it matter if he is indeed a good coach?

It certainly is now. Just contracted till the end of the season which is interesting.

I would say pretty much everything.

Reputed to be a good coach. Fingers crossed he can help get the players all pulling in the right direction again once the window shuts.

Arf.

How many right backs do they need? Gunter, Hutton, Corluka and now Pascal (i don't care about the money) Chimbonda. Old saggy arse complains about inheriting an unbalanced sqaud and then buys yet another CM and another RB? Daft old prick! 4 right backs in less than a year. Greedy feckers.

That's the spirit.

indeed, waste of breath and kinetic (?) energy typing it out Ah, its massively unlikely but I'd like to think that if there is a chance, we might still be able to pull off big signings once in a while if Ashley sees a player that could have a decent return value in the future. Not sure that spaffing a wedge on Keane is such a good idea though.

don't they do that a fair bit in spain and italy too? go to the press and start chelping about tactics and the like? doesn't work with us, of course, but evidently seen as OK there... Think Robert was a bit shocked at our reaction to his French website interviews. /I was too considering they were all pretty much spot on.

There was a time when it seemed .com was always first with the news, but for the last few years the few things that they have got right seem more like luck that anything tbh.

Bobby Robson looked at both Balde and Boumsong as possible replacements for Woodgate. Indeed, Robson told Shepherd Boumsong wasn't worth it on a free, then Souness convinced Shepherd he was worth £8m. You couldn't make it up so he is saying that the chairman of the club should act on the advice of an ex manager rather than the current one, and you are agreeing with him ? haha, you couldn't make it up. I don't expect to see you accusing the chairman of the club interfering in transfers in future, having now said you think he should I think the point is more that you back the right manager. Or "Top Boss" if you prefer oh well, I don't think the club, or any club, deliberately appoint a manager they think will do a poor job. You've still got your unrealistic hat on today haven't you Most people who ask you a question on here must wear that unrealistic hat. Have you been in the finances thread yet? nope. Haven't read it. I'm sure it will be full of people obsessed with finding fault with Shepherd and telling us how you can be successful in football by spending nothing and not running up debts, just like manU, Arsenal and Liverpool do. mackems.gif I'm not sure what you find so funny, but you should read up your history of the club, league positions and value of it pre-1992. It might help you realise that the Halls and Shepherd didn't bring an end to decades of glorious success, unless you count challenging for the 2nd division title. Hey, don't get me wrong, a part of me is a big fan of the Halls and Shepherds. They saved us and pushed us upwards, and (while lately they pretty much royally fucked us, right) there were some good time, really good times. Was just surprised that you hadn't even looked at a thread that concerns issues that have a rather large bearing on the club at the moment.

Fuck knows if it'll come off but those two would be a good help. Fully expect us to get turned down and get nobody, but fingers crossed and all that.

I would be happy for him to stay yet understand he want's out, but sorry, I'm glad we're trying to squeeze as much as we can out of his next club. Christ I'm almost wishing we let him rot in the reserves the way he is going on.