Mick

Are you turning to religion in these difficult times?

I had to think about that one.

Oliver being right was never a priority, arse licking was good enough.

This isn't the talk in, it's a thread discussing it.

I wonder if it was Tony Blair who kept texting him asking for Roeder to be given the job?

The answer to the how long question.

He's right about backing his manager, the problem is that he employed them in the first place, it's no good putting all of your money on a donkey if it's running in the national, prick.

I thought about posting that then decided that if it's too hard for somebody to put "christopher mort" into Google then why bother.

That's possible, we'll have to wait and see.

I've answered the question and you've responded to it in the post that I'm now responding to. I can understand that you're probably having problems seeing the screen, here's a cyber present as a sign of my condolences at your loss. http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/6995/kleenexblj3.jpg

I guess that Allardyce thought that he could come to the club and do a good job. Also, I think he has a better chance now than he did when he first came.

I don't think Ashley was showing any interest in December, I've seen something in the last couple of days which mentioned a timescale of a couple of months, St James' Holdings was setup a couple of days before Sir John sold up.

Chris Mort is working his bollocks off for the club, that's good enough for me at this time. The club has been run unprofessionally for years, the sooner we start moving forwards the better but I'd prefer the club to move forwards while knowing where we stand and not on guess work. If the review is holding us up for now then so be it, that will not always be the case, I see today’s developments as another sign of progress and also a sign of confidence that those running the club feel they can start to make decisions without the help of anybody.

They're not saying that he got it, I think they are saying that he was entited to it, it may have been negotiated out of his contract when he sold his shares.

I'm sure he's used Google before, try a search for "newcastle united financial results," even I can see the financial state of the club so I'm sure they could have done it.

I think Allardyce has more chance of getting left to run the team under Mort, if only because he's new to the job.

I'm aware that the dividends are paid to all, I don't think it was our money the minute we handed it over but can understand where people are coming from when they say that it was ours.

True, he never tries to wriggle out of a question.

I'm sure what you say about West Ham was probably said 12 months ago.

The same thing you've said about what might have happened under Shepherd and Allardyce doesn't always go as planned, it didn't under Dalglish and Gullit.

Did the club make a profit in 2000? The year they paid a dividend to shareholders. I couldn't care if they compensate losses with profits from another year, they made a loss that year yet still paid a dividend.

Here's one, Shepherd or Mort at this time, take your pick.

The warehouse was sold between the Shepherds for £175,000 and leased back to the club for £150,000 per year.