James

I agree.

Basically it is a choice of: 1) Someone with a good track record who won't like the boardroom's transfer policy. 2) Someone experienced who is purely mediocre. 3) Someone unproven or with limited experince, but with some potential. 1 and 2 will fail, at least option 3 gives the club a chance of having something to smile about.

I don't think any current or former managers from Britain are either realistic or good enough. That means either finding a manager from abroad, or alternatively finding a non-manager with potential and making him a manager. Looking at current managers, the likes of Terim and Zico may be touting themselves, but lets face it, the board want to operate a structure that get's quality at a good value, and those names will inevitably lead to trouble further down the line, and I don't think their management track records make them worth that risk. If you consider the Spanish lot, for Marcelino and Lotina, read Allardyce, Redknapp. Gerard Houllier would be the Dalglish to Keegan. Deschamps and Billic have done reasonably well, but there is no reason to think that a carefully selected non-manager could not do better. For instance Keegan's record as a debutant manager exceeds theirs. Who knows what might have happenned if Poyet had managed Uruguay and Zola managed Parma? The truth is that there are no available current managers who I think could either work with the system, or who have the track record that could guarantee the football the fans will expect to see post-Keegan. Believe me, I am unhappy with the board over the departure of Keegan, and believe they should have been more flexible with their system. I am however concerned with the cult of personality that has developed, and I reckon that if fans allow these attitudes to proceed in to the long term, they will be bringing their own club to their knees. As far as non-managers go, both Poyet and Zola were great players, popular men, and have proved themselves as being good coaches. Put aside clubs they've played for, goals they've scored, people they happen to be friends with, and they are two people who have the potential to be good managers. Other managers named in this post have an equal chance of failure, but a lesser chance of success. Poyet or Zola are a gamble, but at least they are a gamble that has a chance of paying if the fans can put their feelings aside and not blame the manager for the failings of others. Just think of those other previous gambles: Michael Laudrup, Frank Rijkaard, Marco van Basten, Slaven Bilic, Didier Deschamps, Mark Hughes, Jurgen Klinnsman and Kevin Keegan.

I remember Bilic speaking rather nicely about us when we were in for Modric. Told him to come here instead of Spurs iirc.

Thought he seemed pretty chilled today.

You are the guy at school who used to sit next to brainy people to copy them aren't ya?

Fish = 60p, chips = 50p

He impressed me at Euro 2008.

I personally think there are some similarities between 1992 KK and Zola, although in addition Zola is highly regarded in Italian coaching circles. I think we'd try to play good football, he'd have a good relationship with the players, and he'd have a good relationship with the system.

He rejected a job offer, believed to be Wise's job, in January. I can really see us going for him, and as far as young up and coming coaches go, we can do much worse.

At home games. At away games. Being able to do so has always been one of the most important things to him, and I can see him trying again when things settle down.

Wouldn't be surprised if he sits in the away end flanked by security.

And what publication is this 'interview' going into?

Here is a recent photo of Llambias: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/143/378146339_fddbaea54b.jpg

why? it tells me there were financial restraints to the summer spending; if KK was told there was then i disagree with you, i he wasn't told then i agree but we don't know do we? There is nothing wrong with the fact that we can't afford something, it is the fact that the statement makes it clear that the club's hierarchy consists of some faceless contract-scanning pointdextor who was impossible to work with.

Not many fans are complaining about the quality of the players that Wise has brought in. And although you comment on his inexperience, he's actually part of quite an experienced recruitment team, with Jiminiez and Vitere. fucking hell can anyone tell me where i read something that clearly defines wise's role in events over the last week? and in the transfer team he works under? only thing i've seen so far is from wise when he took the job saying his remit was to boost the youth teams... i just want to know how wise has become the target? have either the lma or KK come out and said it was him? or is it only the papers we're now allowed to believe? That's a good point. Wise was part of a team, and it may be that he's being singled out as a convenient target. It sounds like the system is you have a coaching team, headed by Keegan, and a recruitment team, headed by Wise. Inevitably there's a cross-over between the roles, because the Manager has to be happy with the players that are being brought in. So both parties have to give their consent before a player is brought in. Neither is going to get their own way all the time. Keegan is claiming that a player or players were brought in without his consent. My problem is that I can't think of who that might be, because he seemed happy with the ones who were recruited before deadline day, he actually met Xisco before he signed and welcomed him to the club, and Fernandez was a loan signing who scarcely seems a resigning issue. If by 'I didn't want these players', he's actually meaning, 'I'd have preferred other players', he's making a rather misleading statement. That is why I am personally more angry with Ashley and Llambias. The recruitment team was working well, and for the first few signings at least, seemed to be working to KK's satisfaction. There were always going to be times when both parties didn't agree, and at those times, the chairman/owner should have been working hard to find a compromise. From the sounds of it though with Ashley out of the country leaving Llambias in charge, Llambias didn't bother to make any compromises, and just sent a letter to KK detailing all the small priont in KK's contract, essentially telling him to fuck off. I still believe that Mort would have found the compromise. yeah mort is missed now huh? seemed to know what he was doing, ostensibly anyway one thing the statement from the club makes clear, by the way, is the financial restraints the transfer people were operating under which suggests they've actually done a fairly good job imo You have to consider what the various people were actually doing on the final day. Wise was in Leeds, negotiating the £1.5m signings of three Leeds U17s. Jimenez was negotiating the transfers of Xisco, Gonzalez, and Schweinsteiger amongst others. Vetere had probably finished his work, but was probably around the place in case people needed his say on something. Llambias was at his desk, rubberstamping our dealings. What is clear was that Jimenez and Wise seem to be getting on with their day to day jobs of bringing the players to SJP. I believe that they were both doing what they thought was best for the club. If KK was unhappy about something he would have had to go to Llambias to ask for it. We all remember that he left last time because of a faceless, non-footballing individual in a suit. I believe history has repeated itself.

After seeing that statement, there is no doubt in my mind that KK had no choice but to resign. Any disappointment I had with Keegan for walking away from us once again has changed into a hatred of the current boardroom. The sacking of Llambias is a minimum requirement for me.

Not many fans are complaining about the quality of the players that Wise has brought in. And although you comment on his inexperience, he's actually part of quite an experienced recruitment team, with Jiminiez and Vitere. fucking hell can anyone tell me where i read something that clearly defines wise's role in events over the last week? and in the transfer team he works under? only thing i've seen so far is from wise when he took the job saying his remit was to boost the youth teams... i just want to know how wise has become the target? have either the lma or KK come out and said it was him? or is it only the papers we're now allowed to believe? That's a good point. Wise was part of a team, and it may be that he's being singled out as a convenient target. It sounds like the system is you have a coaching team, headed by Keegan, and a recruitment team, headed by Wise. Inevitably there's a cross-over between the roles, because the Manager has to be happy with the players that are being brought in. So both parties have to give their consent before a player is brought in. Neither is going to get their own way all the time. Keegan is claiming that a player or players were brought in without his consent. My problem is that I can't think of who that might be, because he seemed happy with the ones who were recruited before deadline day, he actually met Xisco before he signed and welcomed him to the club, and Fernandez was a loan signing who scarcely seems a resigning issue. If by 'I didn't want these players', he's actually meaning, 'I'd have preferred other players', he's making a rather misleading statement. That is why I am personally more angry with Ashley and Llambias. The recruitment team was working well, and for the first few signings at least, seemed to be working to KK's satisfaction. There were always going to be times when both parties didn't agree, and at those times, the chairman/owner should have been working hard to find a compromise. From the sounds of it though with Ashley out of the country leaving Llambias in charge, Llambias didn't bother to make any compromises, and just sent a letter to KK detailing all the small priont in KK's contract, essentially telling him to fuck off. I still believe that Mort would have found the compromise.

Watch the TV show Gladiators, we're the crowd.

Independent reckons it will be Zola, Poyet, or a Spanish speaker. We offered Zola a job in January.

Defeats the objective. As far as the moneymen are concerned, if you are protesting but still going into the ground, it's not going to matter. Doing your march, and then staying outside the ground for 90 mins will be heard much louder by everyone.

Realistically,it's not gonna happen. It would be difficult enough to raise the cash, and after the club has been bought, who is going to stump up all that extra expenditure that will be needed. Everyone would just fallout amongst themselves as usual. Would be better off campaigning for Llambias to be replaced by a democratically elected president.

If you really want to make a point with this march, make a point of not entering SJP, and stay outside all match.

Isn't there now some scheme where you give the box office a list of every season ticket holder in a group, and everybody in that group becomes a member of an official NUFC supporters group. Why not get together and form a huge supporter's group with some blatant protest title?

Will be difficult to get Marcelino as he has joined Zaragoza this summer. One name missing at the bookies is Gianfranco Zola. We have offered him a job before, and if his management matched his playing style we'd be in for a treat.