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Stop talking shit, ok man?

"not looking abroad" And that quote comes from?.. You?

But Shearer isn't experienced nor do I think he'd be confident by himself, which is surely the whole point of the idea of Keegan as a director of Football.

Why would Ashley need to "go through the proper channels" for Venables? He isn't currently in a job is he, so I wouldn't bother with that wager if I were you.

Unless Mort has his socks blown off by the idea of some mediocre English manager that story now apears to have been confirmed as utter s***. Well, thats the things, its neither been confirmed true or false yet, and won't be until a new manager is appointed. As you say, a mediocre British manager wouldn't blow any fuckers socks off. But it has been confirmed, unless you think the club are lying about the manager they want not being foreign. What would they have to gain from that?

Unless Mort has his socks blown off by the idea of some mediocre English manager that story now apears to have been confirmed as utter shit.

Shocked, confused, happy-ish, shocked, depressed. All within the space of an hour or so from hearing Allardyce had been sacked to hearing the manager they want to take over is British.. What I don't understand is why have they even mentioned that they won't be appointing a foreign manager?? Is that supposed to be a good thing or something "oh thank god we won't have one of those horrible foreigners, well done Mr Ashley". This smacks of the kind of narrow minded crap we got from fat freddy.

"Shearer hasn't been aproached, we know who we want and will go through the proper channels to get him. We'll take our time, we're not looking for a foriegn coach" Oh for f*** sake!!! I give up with the club now, who the fuck is worth getting who's English

If someone tells me they're 6 foot tall and I can see they're 5 foot tall I'll believe my own eyes Especially when everyone else seems to see the same as me. I think he was just getting sick of the whole injury/fitness thing being talked about (which is understandable considering the nightmare he's had with it for the last few years). But no matter what he says its clear as day to me that whenever Owen comes back from an injury he looks poor until he's played a few full games. Which is why I never like to see him playing for us in any important game until he's had a few full reserve games behind him (perhaps another reason for him to deny the whole thing).

If Owen ever actually gets fit then judge him. Its pointless looking at him when he's unfit and saying "he's slow and immobile or any other bollocks. Anyone with even half a clue knows he needs 4 or 5 full games before he's properly fit and when he isn't properly fit he's nowhere near the same player. That's why he should have been playing reserve games IMO.

Diarra is a ready made replacement for Emre?.. in which alternate reality?

He let go of David Bentley, for a pretty small sum as well as far as I remember. It all comes down to keeping players happy, like Bentley, Diarra obviously isn't happy with being thought of as one for the future and wants regular Football now.

We can get 3 players for the best part of £50m as Souey proved. That was years ago, we were a champions league chasing side, in the UEFA cup. We could then, we can't now. What? We'd finished 14th in the Premiership the season before we signed those players and we weren't in Europe in any form. We're a premiership side, that's enough to attract big players if you're willing to spend the cash. Of course it also doesn't hurt that we've at least been in Europe plenty of times unlike most of the rest of the Premiership..

One player didn't work out so no other can?.. fantastic logic, well done.. Anyway O'Brien was considered promising because we heard he had great pace, I don't remember anyone thinking he looked like a good player after actually seeing him play. I remember thinking he looked like he could run very fast without the ball, but had little ball control and couldn't cross.

They just want a different manager, someone who won't be incredibly negative, who won't play his favourite players no matter what and out of position to boot. All they want is a manager who can show that progress is being made. Of course ask a fan who there suggestion for manager is you'll get some of them mentioning Shearer, Keegan ect, as well as plenty mentioning Mourinho and a plethora of others. But the overiding fact is the fans don't want Allardyce sacked because they want any manager in particular to replace him, they want him sacked because they think he's shit!

How can anyone actually agree with such nonesense, get a grip for f*** sake. Answer this question, any of you (Happy Face, Toon4Life ect), if Shearer didn't even excist what would be happening right now as far as supporter opinion towards Allardyce? If you really think about that and answer it honestly I think you'll realise what complete bollocks this all is. Its amazing how the press works in this country really. They are the ones creating this whole "Shearer for manager" bandwagon (most Newcastle fans would want someone else), then they have the audacity to come out and write articles about how wrong the fans are for wanting Shearer So called Jounralists in this country really do just create there own little fantasy world and report within it.

He ran forward at speed and with very good close control, which is already more then most of our team can do. Nobody's saying he's obviously amazing and should start the next game. But he looked very promising, especially for a 17 year old.

Is Lua Lua a striker or attacking midfielder?

Bench Harper, Cacapa, Edgar, Lua Lua, Carroll EDIT: Beaten by 4 seconds

Given Rozenhal - Taylor - Faye - Enrique Duff - Smith - Butt - N'Zogbia Viduka - Owen My only problem with this team is Smith in midfield again. Like many have said in the past, if Smith isn't up front he shouldn't be in the team. If Emre had started instead of Smith I would be very happy with that side, as it is its still better then usual so I'm still happy-ish (even though I suspect this has actually been forced upon Allardyce due to missing players and he'll go back to the usual s*** when possible). To be clear the official team sheet isn't out yet, so none of this is 100% yet.

Enrique starts, N'Zogbia on left wing, Duff right wing, Viduka and Owen up front.

Nobody's turned it around before?, what total bollocks Keegan failed did he?, Robson failed? Well then by fat Sam's standards we should expect to win the league and cup in the next few years or he'll have to admit he's failed. As to the article and Ashley's so called quotes, this is the News of the World, its like the Viz but not as funny. I wouldn't believe a thing in there that isn't directly quoted, and even then I'd assume its taken out of context.

I agree. It's f****** cheating. Keane does it all the time. I was always under the impression that it was a 'clean' run up and strike at goal. As i said, it always used to be but seems to be ignored. John Aldridge started it. I was just going to mention Aldridge when I saw your next post. Did they go through ashort period of banning him from doing this ? I think there was much talk about it, but don't know if it actually happened. Talking of cheating, see also the tendency of some keepers to be about 6 feet off their line when the kick is taken. These are simple rules which seem to get ignored an awful lot nowadays. I fear its not picked up on for the reasons similar to technology being introduced. I think they know it will take too long to have to re-take penalties about 5 times until the keeper stops coming forward. its like trying to get a defensive wall at a free kick to actually stay 10 yards from the ball. Why refs' dont just say to them, "move 1 inch forward and your all booked" I just dont know. Its not difficult when your dealing with a single player (or two if both keepers do it in a shootout). The first time he does it you call for the retake and say "next time you step off your line your off the pitch". The sub keeper can take over if neccesary. Its impossible to do that with a wall of players at a freekick, because if they don't listen and get sent off the match ends automatically

If this is an outright lie then it will go down as the most outrageous one yet from Anal. Is the article on the net yet?

So the whole of the world has a soft spot Klinsman? Did I say that? I'll rephrase...Outside of England...The North East, no one gives a f*** about Shearer. Complete bollocks, Shearer is known and respected the world over. I think your really letting this crush get out of hand if you think that Klinsman is so well known and respected in comparison to Shearer.