Mick

I can't see it, the best I think we'll do is a bore draw. I can't see us winning and if they score it'll be another long 90 minutes for the players.

I think I might have kept that one to myself.

Nope. Not a chance mate. The point of being the manager of this football club is doing your utmost to make the club the best it can possibly be, and showing that you have the aptitude to do that with the performances and results you oversee, your comments in the press and your conduct on and off the pitch. The stuff he's came out with in the press the last few weeks is unforgiveable. Getting towards Joe Kinnear "AREN'T THOUSE GEORDIES FACKING THICK CANTS" levels of bullshit now, he's just being a touch more guarded about it. Detestable prick.

Pardew: "It's been as tough a period as manager I've ever had." Wiki: In the 2006–07 season, Pardew was criticised after seeing West Ham through their worst run of defeats in over 70 years which included an exit from the UEFA Cup to Palermo in the very first round

John Hall did want Sir Bobby but Bobby was under contract at Barcelona. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/news/432906.stm Robson, who currently works for the Football Association's technical department in an advisory capacity, said: "I have had no contact with Newcastle since the day I told them I could not break my contract with Barcelona when they tried to persuade me to manage the club after Kevin Keegan had left. "I was compelled to do that because I had a two-year contract in Spain at the time and was only in the first year. I had to honour that contract.

Post it, Caulkin tweeted a link to an article of his on another forum so it doesn't bother him.

We had a cash injection, we sold players. Also, I wouldn't call appointing Souness, Roeder or Fat Sam ambitious. Signing players is great if you have somebody who can get the best out of them which wasn't and still isn't always the case.

He's telling everybody who will listen how tough the job is for him and that he's doing a good job under difficult circumstances. In other words, he's lying.

Robson made a transfer profit during his first 2 seasons at the club. He did sign players and he also sold players, including the 2 you mention who cost less than the 4 that I previously mentioned. I'm quite sure that we didn't go into a transfer deficit until we signed Bellamy ready for Robson's third season and then we spent quite a bit. I think Robson averaged £4 million a year above what he brought in over the length of his contract. It's better than what we currently spend but it's hardly a fortune either considering the improvement that was made. Souness was the one who was given the money and we all know how much of a flop that one turned out to be. I wish Sir Bob was given that money Souness was given man, esp in the season before we crashed out of the Champions League. The appointment of Souness must go down as the worst one ever for the effect it's had on the club, even if I hate Pardew more than him.

This has turned into whether you prefer cancer to a heart attack, I would rather that we didn't have either of them.

Robson made a transfer profit during his first 2 seasons at the club. He did sign players and he also sold players, including the 2 you mention who cost less than the 4 that I previously mentioned. I'm quite sure that we didn't go into a transfer deficit until we signed Bellamy ready for Robson's third season and then we spent quite a bit. I think Robson averaged £4 million a year above what he brought in over the length of his contract. It's better than what we currently spend but it's hardly a fortune either considering the improvement that was made. Souness was the one who was given the money and we all know how much of a flop that one turned out to be.

You didn't claim that he was backed, read your original post again where you claimed that he was backed very well apart from one summer.

We were 13th the season before Bobby was appointed and we finished 11th during his first 2 seasons when he had to rebuild the squad, he did that while making a profit of between £7million and £8 million. In his third season he spent something like £11.5 million in total and had improved our league position by +2, +2 and +9 positions which brought in extra income which will have made his transfers roughly a neutral cost. In total over his managerial career with us he had a net spend which was roughly £21 million while improving our league positions by +31 over the 5 years and had us actually competing in the CL which will/did increase our turnover.

What do you mean by that?

We made something like a £7 million transfer profit during the first year Bobby was with us, I remember him getting rid of Ferguson, Howey, Maric and Pistone for good money and I remember not believing how he'd managed to get so much for those 4.

Bobby hardly had a pot to piss in when he first arrived and had to get players off the books.

I wonder where we'd be now if Shepherd had kept his mouth shut about Bobby leaving and had allowed him to find his replacement instead. Things would have been totally different now because that was the start of the slide, Bobby out and Souness in.

Bobby generated a load of cash by taking us to the champions league.

He wasn't Chairman for the full season when we finished 2nd, John Hall was the chairman at the start of the season. His 2nd part season saw us finish 13th, if my memory is any good he became chairman during December 1997 and was out on his ear early in 1998 because of the News of the World story.

He wasn't too trigger happy at all, he was good at hiring shite managers.

Brilliant if true.

No chance, him Ashley are both shit for different reasons.

He's rightly getting shit from most people now, most people think he's a joke and he's been well and truly sussed out.