Mick

What was the net spend for Sir Bobby and how did it compare to the net spend of Dalglish, Gullit, Souness, Roeder and Allardyce? Bump. I've no idea, and I'm not really bothered because they backed all of them, but I bet it was one of the highest in the country, instead of the highest sales ie as in the board who ran the club in the 1970's and 1980's that you think was "just the same" You've got no idea yet you use it. The manager that you bang on about giving us our best three finishes since the year dot was backed with the least amount of cash while I doubt anybody could argue that he must have brought more into this club than any other manager considering our league positions and record CL finish. Silly me, it wasn't Robson who was responsible for that, it was the chairman.

The club is light years better than it was in the 70's and 80's, I've never said that it wasn't. You mentioned Gazza, Beardsley and Waddle as a way of deflecting attention away from another of your stupid statements, what have they got to do with this thread? Anyway, does net spend and Sir Bobby ring any bells?

What was the net spend for Sir Bobby and how did it compare to the net spend of Dalglish, Gullit, Souness, Roeder and Allardyce? Bump.

When did we offer Robson the job when he was out of contract? Also, do I have to bump the question about Robson having spent so much or are you busy typing the answer?

Has Bobby Robson ever broke a contract? It doesn't matter when offers came, as far as I'm aware he's never left a club while under contract, at least not by choice. Is that correct or not?

He turned us down when we were 2nd in the Premiership, were we shit then?

What was the net spend for Sir Bobby and how did it compare to the net spend of Dalglish, Gullit, Souness, Roeder and Allardyce?

If you told me before then just post the link and I'll be able to read it.

Here's some facts: Before Shepherd became chairman we were 2nd in the league, when he left we had just finished 13th. Another fact is that before Shepherd became chairman the club had cash in the bank, when he left we had debt which had shot to £80 million while we borrowed £44 million for the ground extension. Freddy Shepherd said we had one of the best training facilities in Europe, Allardyce complained that it was a converted squash club. Shitty Doug Ellis finished above Shepherd more often than not while both were running the two clubs and you claim league position is the measure of success. A good chairman always backs his manager, Chris Mort has backed Allardyce more than Shepherd backed Roeder, Gullit and Sir Bobby when it comes to net spend. It is FACT that we filled 50000 stadium every week, not true, last season saw our largest attendance fall for years and this year would have been far worse if it wasn't for the changes that have taken place. Steve Bruce claims that he was offered the Newcastle job. Souness was not sacked because we lost so many games, he was sacked because three of our players collided.

If you know the reason and I don't then maybe you can put me right.

I've read some brilliant posts in here, I'm sure the content will go down well at the club, to think this sort of stuff is so easy to produce and could be so beneficial to the club and it's been wasted.

If the debt was built up to expand the stadium and training facilities, why did it almost double while our capacity was 52,000? To clarify, so you think the club shouldn't have looked at the future ? Oh dear. mackems.gif No, to clarify, you said how we aquired the £80 million debt and I explained that you were wrong.

If the amount of money spent made a club win trophies we'd have won them by now. Throwing money at the wrong manager or at the wrong time is a waste of hard earned cash, our club should know that more than any other club.

If the debt was built up to expand the stadium and training facilities, why did it almost double while our capacity was 52,000?

Could we do a bit more than clean it? It's a bit drab and would look much better if it was lit up or something, you can see the ground for miles so it should really be the focal point of the city.

I voted yes but I'd prefer a better version of Blaydon Races if a one can be found, as someone said in another thread, start Blaydon Races then fade it out and let the fans sing the rest.

I'm not sure myself that they can do it, like you've said they've got potential.

Martins and Owen could play together up front, I don't know if it would work as they might end up chasing the same balls, having said that, they worked the goal well on Saturday and Martins gets up really high for a small player.

I know Bowyer had turned to shit before he came here, I still don't think Barton could do too well on the wing although I'd hope to be proven wrong if he played out wide, I just don't think it would work as he'd keep coming in too narrow.

You would have a front 2 with Shola but without Owen, OK.

He wasn't for us.

Barton on the wing will be just like Bowyer on the wing.

Last season we were 13th in the league, we're not going to become world beaters over night, if at all. We need players like Milner to help take us in the right direction.

I must say I was very impressed with the way Liverpool scored so many against Derby, Derby might be poor but I can't see many putting 6 past them, Liverpool were clinical, they reminded me of us under Keegan and I've got to say I enjoyed watching the game more than I usually enjoy watching a game as a neutral.

If I was Allardyce I'd tell my scouts to go out and not come back until they found the next Les Ferdinand and the next Gazza, put them two into our team and we would do really well.