BottledDog

Academy fella Adrian Lamb was promoted. Who knows if his old job has been filled yet mind.

Hoo what, are you for real? /off for a beer to celebrate this mad world.

oh right thanks. there are some unprofessional remarks there considering lee clark is so high in the club he shouldnt admit openly as to how bad olivier bernard is should he? good to know that we are being linked with the right players though wayne bridge is a world better than babayaro! Roeder made a worse fucking joke about Boumsong in his last talk in. I'm amazed nobody has taken a swing at Oliver yet.

Nice one Kitman. My lesson for today is be positive, don't be a cant.

Sock it to 'em Rocky.

Well, we'll see what Roeder has up his sleeve, but an even thinner squad? I doubt that would help us too much.

..... I bluesigh.gif..... What do you want for £1m? In terms of fee paid, he's been as good as we can expect imo. Incidentally Roeder thinks both of them are wonderful, two of our best players in fact.. That's what pisses me off - who the f*ck is he trying to kid!!! Consistently sh*t maybe! Fine, he was cheap so maybe we shouldn't expect much but I'm damned if I should put up with hearing the spin cr*p that Roeder keeps blethering about good performances! His wages are far from cheap.

That's odd, you said it was £400,000 a few hours ago, what's changed?

Alan Oliver - "And whatever may be wrong with United at the moment - and there is a lot - no-one in the game ever accuses them of not being fit." *cough*bullshit*cough*

No, you see it wasn't strictly his fault in the worst sense. It was unfortunate that he appointed Souness, but the main issue is that we as supporters never took to him - something that was dictated by neither rhyme nor reason. Had we done so, it would in itself have propelled us back towards the Champion's League. Arf.

Sorry, just had to quote this part of Oliver's report. blink.gif laugh.gif The fist line is equally bizzare - http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/newcastleunited/news/tm_headline=kieron-best-bet-to-arrest-dire-slump%26method=full%26objectid=18087231%26siteid=50081-name_page.html

Macphisto has already said that that was not Winsper but Ferris. Either way if one or the other did leave, who did we get as a replacement? .com still list both of them as: Assistant Physio Paul Ferris Fitness Coach Paul Winsper

For the sake of accuracy among what is a post of massive speculation on your part I'll say that we also signed Woodgate and Ambrose in 2003, not just Bowyer. That's true, I often made the same point myself when arguing that we had actually spent a fair wedge that year. But still, I think we had all hoped for a little more fine tuning, and in hindsight it looks a poor summer.

But (and Robson also highlighted it in his biog) it was also clear to everyone that as soon as Shepherd stated that Robson would not get another contract he was a dead duck, and the team subconsciously or otherwise would have latched onto that and taken advantage (as happened with Ferguson). At the very least that showed terrible naivety from Shepherd, at worst it showed contempt for a long standing manager. Either way, it was less a case of the board tuning a blind eye, and rather the case that the board were in a large way complicit in 'losing the dressing room'.

Well, when Houllier left they were not a million miles from us either. I know which path I would have preferred.

http://www.hdfa.co.uk/kingkrul.jpg DON'T MESS WITH ROYALTY

Thank ferck we have ample cover for him then, eh? /presuming he has been sacked which is far from certain.

Noted. bluebiggrin.gif

However 'overated' you feel Benitez is, he has brought them more glory in his short stint that we could shake any sort of stick at.

Fella over on Talk of the Tyne is saying as much. This would be the same Paul Winsper, head strength and conditioning coach, who Owen (along with other players) has called a 'fantastic fitness coach', and who lectures and hands out awards at FA fitness conferences. You can say what you like about our fitness problems, but I'm sure Geordie boy Lee Clark will now be the man to sort them out.

Willie McKay for manager!

Its clear you really don't know what you are talking about and you have just fabricated the 'I know only one manager... nonsense up yourself... oh I can assure you it is true. But I don't give a flying fcuk if you don't believe me Go on then, assure us. How can you assure us? You must be even thicker than I thought Its appears you think lots of people on this forum are a bit thick, but heres the problem.... You have been asked several questions and you have failed to address any of them. Your response so far has been... eekout.gif no, you mean the WUM and macbeths monkey. You can plainly see the WUM has been avoiding giving a direct answer for weeks to the question does he still think his man Souness should have had the full financial backing that he said we should give him, since he re-surfaced from his hiding place since dishing the dirt on the club . And actually - I could ask you, who told YOU that David O'Leary was offered the Newcastle job http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php/topic,32123.msg612713.html#msg612713 Don't leave me hanging. Im on tenterhooks here. bluecry.gif

Ahggg! What in the hell? http://www.theamericanmind.com/images/conehead.jpg blink.gif

What a bunch of negative nellies. We'll destroy 'em!

Souness was our second choice? That's pretty damning. Who was our first choice? Think availability...... which is hardly rocket science..... unless of course you think the club should tap managers on motorways and hand them brown envelopes who are already in a job ie I didn't say they hadn't approached managers through the correct channels ..... the dimwittedness of some people is amazing We all know Souness was a disastrous appointment, I am just correcting cyberbats for making up something which is simply not true. But he isn't the only person who does this. As HTL has already noted. I'm an idiot. laugh.gif Who was our number one choice? well, you must be, as I didn't even say he was the number one choice. I said "only one person was offered the job" and turned it down, and it wasn't O'Leary. Huh? What is it with people today, I know exactly what you were saying. I havn't a clue who you think was the first choice, that's why I was asking. I'll try and be clear for you. You say one person was approached before Souness. My question was, who? Sheesh, some people.