Mick

If Oliver is lying about this then it will not go down too well at St James'.

It's probably horse shit because I'm sure Mort would have done something if one of those came knocking on his door.

According to Oliver, so no.

Supposedly to get his mobile number (Morts).

Jose and Lippi have both been mentioned.

Aye man - just to be clear, I'm just saying that I fear it would be unpopular with a large section of the fanbase, possibly also with local press as well...not saying, nor would I ever say we shouldn't appoint a foreign manager (if he was German, Italian, South Korean, whatever matters not to me, just so long as he has the ability to inspire the players, the fans and the board that he is the right man for the job. I know both you and Dave wouldn't be bothered in the slightest, I'm not sure that many would either although I do know I could be wrong. As for the local press, I'll give you that but only because of one reporter, if you could call him that.

Re: the nationality thing, why would it matter and who would be bothered? Personally I couldn't give a shit where a person comes from, it's the person that matters and I may be wrong but I think most people think that way, at least I hope they do.

I agree about Nobby and Jenas, I still think he could have turned things around and should have been given the chance and support, look at the transfer policy towards the end.

The guy is actually defending our right to complain the way I read it. I also read it that way.

He's currently injured with a groin strain or something, his third injury this season.

I'm sure I've read somewhere that Carver threw a punch at Bellamy before Bellamy threw the chair, not that he should have thrown it. As for what everybody else did the season we finished 5th, it's irrelevant how others do, going by that logic I could say that Bobby finishing 5th was better than when we finished 2nd under Dalglish because we gained more points. I wouldn't say that though because you compare teams season by season. 13th under Roeder was better than 14th under Souness even though Souness got an extra point over Roeder.

That does piss me off.

The German thing is a bit narrow minded, why would nationality come into it?

We hardly lost a game in his last full season, we drew too many games which needed addressing and we would have been back in the top 3 if he'd been given the chance and pulled it off. As for him losing the dressing room, what exactly happened? Bellamy got into trouble when in Wales on international duty, Dyer crashed his car on the way to training and was rumoured to burn money and had a sex film out. Robert wrote stupid articles on his website and always backed down when Robson questioned him, he always came back and said he'd been misquoted which suggests that he had some respect for Robson. We also had players accused of rape but nothing came of it.

I might have missed something but I can't remember his losing the dressing room before he became a lame duck.

Wullie was probably one of them.

The mackems I know would prefer it if we kept him.

This isn't really the thread for a debate on Robson V Allardyce, if Robson is putting more pressure on Allardyce then I'd say it was Allardyce bringing it upon himself, he's making his own baffling decisions and paying for it.

Robson has got every right to pass comment on the state of the club. What he says is what most of us are thinking so I don't think he's too far away from telling it as it is.

Sell him and go for Anelka.

It's a hard choice for me, you could argue Woodgate because he was a brilliant defender and wasn't replaced but to get that much money for a crock was really good business, the replacement was shite but doesn't make the selling wrong. Speed looked finished when he was sold, he didn't seem able to find his own player with a pass, he's since proven that he obviously wasn't finished, the way he was sold was a poor way of backing the manager, it's not as if we brought in a fortune for him so he was a poor sale. Bellamy was a poor sale, he was a very important player for us and was forced out of the club by a prick, he was far from innocent in his sale but I feel he was poorly managed by somebody who didn't know how to handle players on a daily basis, we had a manager who tried to rule by fear and it back-fired because Bellamy rebelled. Bobby probably let him get away with too much but I don't think he was as bad as made out. He was labelled as being trouble, some of the shite that was said about him was just that, shite. He was labelled a racist while he was spending his spare time going into hospital to visit a young Asian lad who was on his last legs, I think he had cancer or something. Normally I’d back the manager against a player but I couldn’t back Souness against Bellamy in the way I did when I would have seen Gullit stay instead of Shearer, the reason, I felt Bellamy wanted what was best for both him and the club, he only wanted to play in his best position, something I agreed with. I think out of all of the players mentioned, Bellamy going was the worst for us. I’m not too bothered about Robert going even though I liked him but I think the way he was handled at the end was shocking, the manager should not have put his own ego before the good of the club and he did do that and I think Souness cost us the chance of winning something, HE caused the problems by going way over the top when Robert went to the press, Souness should have said something and left it at that but no, once again his ego is more important than the club. Robert wasn’t as bad as made out for tracking back, I can remember his getting bookings for making poor tackles when he was tracking back, he was just erratic and I think he did his best and tried to do the most important part of his job first, he made himself available to others to find and gave us a great outlet. Nobby going for the first time was puzzling and probably the biggest mistake by Bobby, both the sale and his treatment before he went. Nobby was handed a better contract because he’d decided that his international career was over, and it was because he fell out with his manager and said he’d not play for him again, something which I’m sure he meant but that changed when his international manager changed, when that happened his reason for not playing for Peru was also gone so he decided that he wanted to play for his country again. He had every right to make that decision and a former international manager should have understood that, Bobby had worked with players like Ronaldo who kept going off and playing for Brazil so why did Bobby take a different stance with Solano? I have no idea and think it was totally out of order. Ginola was a brilliant player, his goal against Ferencvaros was probably the best goal I’ve ever seen a Newcastle player score. Ginola proved how good he was after leaving us but also proved later that he could be a massive strop, again though, it’s all about managing individuals and the manager who decided to get rid of him was at fault as much as the player. Everybody is different and certain players may prove to be more time consuming than others, Ginola was one of then, he seemed to need to feel wanted and appreciated. Sir Les may be my all-time favourite Newcastle player, he would be in my top 5 without a doubt, he was a cockney but loved the club. We’d do very well as a club if we could get 11 Les Ferdinand’s and I mean attitude rather than 11 brilliant forwards. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a player who could seem to hang in the air for a header like Les could, I’m sure he could almost levitate. A few people think Rod Lee was the best pound for pound that Keegan ever spent, I think it could also be argued that Les was considering we got our money back. I don’t know if Les was sold behind the back of the manager but I do remember Dalglish saying that he knew nothing about a possible sale and also that he didn’t want him to go, getting the money back on Ferdinand at his age might have looked good business but it turned out to be terrible business for us and may be the reason why we fell from 2nd to 13th without him and Shearer injured. The sale of Cole was a puzzle and I was gutted but was more than happy when we eventually brought in Sir Les to replace him. Cole had problems with his shin splints so it was never certain how many games we’d get out of him. Hamann has been mentioned, he could have been a brilliant player for us, in fact he was brilliant. He could tackle and his shot from range was almost as good as we’d see later with Robert. After saying all of that, I’ve gone for Bellamy because of his impact and the fact that he was probably the youngest of those seriously mentioned so could have played longer, nobody could argue that we were better with him than without.

I wouldn't recommend any.

I'm sure he will be here until the end of the season, I just think it's strange that he's become more popular as our results have got worse.

More people want him to stay now, after our defeats.

Has Big Dave changed his name again?