Mick

From the same paper the day before the last one, this time about what Wise and Co would be doing. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2290357/Dennis-Wise-takes-role-as-Newcastle-director.html Dennis Wise will begin a new chapter in his career as Newcastle's unofficial director of football at Arsenal tonight after his appointment was confirmed by the St James' Park club. Newcastle chairman Chris Mort announced that Wise had agreed to join the Tyneside club in the role of executive director (football) and will be joined by Tony Jimenez as vice President (player recruitment) and Jeff Vetere, who joins from Real Madrid in the position of technical co-ordinator. The club said that Wise, who quit his role as Leeds United manager today, would "assist the board on football-related matters", including the development of the club's Academy as well as player recruitment which is an area that Vetere and Jimenez will also have an influence. Wise will report to the chairman at Newcastle who have moved to stress that recently-appointed manager Kevin Keegan will be responsible for all first-team affairs. "This is all part of the vision that recently helped us to secure Kevin Keegan's return to the club as manager," Mort said. "Two of the conclusions of our strategic review, since acquiring the club, were that the club would benefit from having a football person involved at board level, which it has not had historically, and that further senior resources are needed for recruiting players of the highest quality from this country and further afield. "Dennis would like to move away from day-to-day football management to a Board role and, with his considerable energy and intelligence, we believe he will do very well in this new position. "With Kevin able to devote his efforts to developing and running the first team squad, Dennis, Tony and Jeff will each help us to secure success for Newcastle United Football Club at all levels and for the long-term. One or two further key appointments will follow in the months ahead." Wise has already cleared his desk at Elland Road and he will be at the Emirates Stadium tonight to watch struggling Newcastle take on Arsenal in their Premier League. But Wise will stay in the background, allowing Kevin Keegan to get on with another tough assignment. The 41-year-old Wise is likely to have overall charge of transfers, youth development and scouting, making him a director of football in all but name. Wise, whose lawyer wife is expecting their third child, drove up from London yesterday with former Newcastle and Chelsea striker Joe Allon. Allon, who has been a member of Wise's backroom staff at Leeds, also handed in his notice at Elland Road yesterday. Wise's appointment is unrelated to the situation of former England colleague Alan Shearer who has been told by Keegan to carry on with his media work and turn up at the training ground whenever it suits him.

What was his (Keegan) job? Was it manager like over here or coach like on the continent? If he came in as a continental type coach then he was allowed to do his job.

He's not but I doubt that he's lilly white in all of this.

You said you wanted to kill Wise, Keegan said he approved of the appointment. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2290428/Kevin-Keegan-relaxed-about-Dennis-Wise-role.html Kevin Keegan said last night that Newcastle's appointment of Dennis Wise to the management team had his blessing - provided that Keegan is allowed to get on with his job of turning the club into a major force in the Premier League. Wise, who confirmed his resignation as manager of Leeds United earlier in the day, was installed as Newcastle's executive director (football), effectively the club's unofficial director of football, and sat next to Chris Mort as his new team suffered a second 3-0 defeat at the Emirates Stadium in four days. "I think it's positive," Keegan said, "as long as I can get on with my job and I get all the help I need as it has been put to me. You'd be a fool to say, 'I don't want that'. "I talked with Dennis before the game and he wished us all the best. I knew he was one of two or three names put forward. "There's been no deception, it's been very open. I'm fine. I pretty much know, from conversations we've had, what Dennis is going to do and the idea, in principle, is very good, to go and look for new players, to bring a lot of youngsters in. "I'm all for the changes, it's not a problem, I approve of them. We had this discussion when I took the job. "They want somebody on the board who understands football and Dennis Wise, whatever anybody wants to write about him, understands football. I know Dennis and I think it'll work very well. He'll report to me." Wise, the former Chelsea captain, will be joined on Tyneside by Tony Jimenez as vice-president (player recruitment) and Jeff Vetere, who joins from Real Madrid to take up the position of technical co-ordinator. "This is all part of the vision that recently helped us to secure Kevin Keegan's return to the club as manager," Mort added. The arrival of Wise will have no impact on former Newcastle captain Alan Shearer's situation after he rejected the chance to become manager Kevin Keegan's No 2, though it seems certain he will have no formal involvement with his hometown club but will continue to concentrate on his media commitments. Keegan was able to include Joey Barton for the first time after his bail conditions were changed. Barton, 25, was charged with assault and affray last month, and ordered by a High Court judge to live in Hampshire and return by 7.30pm each day. He was being flown to training but has now been allowed to move to Newcastle and last night started the game on the substitutes' bench, coming on in the 56th minute for his first appearance since Dec 22.

Who doesn't recognise the damage being done? The only debate is about who is responsible.

IE is OK now but it wasn't for half an hour, mine started hanging at 23:59 and has just started working again.

What are people using to browse at the minute?

Where did I make light of the threat of relegation?

This is strange, I can't get on with IE but can with Firefox. IE is throwing up a dnserror, these problems we're getting might be browser specific.

We didn't have a problem when Llambias ran the casino.

Shearer has never been offered our job, I think he'd take it if offered and for the first time I wouldn't mind him getting it.

We don't know what part Ashley has played in this other than to know he doesn't have a day to day role at the club, he wasn't even in the country when that shitty statement appeared on the club site, he was in New York. I've defended people who work for me in public and blasted them in private.

Why kill Wise first? He was only doing the job that the second person you'd kill told him to do, Kill Llambias first.

I read the "script" as a total piss take of the situation and nothing to debate other than something to have a laugh at, I can't see the problem with it and don't see anything to argue about as it wasn't meant to be his version of what actually happened.

You're right, the truth could be the post in question, the opposite to that post or anywhere between the two.

That'll not help if the database is the problem.

SMF error again, I've had my worst night so far tonight.

Agreed, I was glad that they took him off, it saves him for the weekend.

I thought he had too many of his own players around him and would have done more if they'd given him more space.

Yes, he wasn't bad and made the first goal. He wasn't as involved as he can be for us but did everything well.

Jonas off on 70 minutes.

I had the same.

We'd need a box set.

Pathetic mackem bastards.

It just took from 15:55 to 15:59 to get on, we had 73 users and 6 guests. I tried opening more windows at various intervals and they all opened together, I had the smf error.