danswan

Superstars? I think I was too young to see that one but I do remember Brian Jacks inventing a new way to do squat thrusts, using grease. Brian Jacks was the Superstars Champion.

But what a thing eh?

cool

yay

Admirable tactics, sounds like a genius but jesus; can you imagine our bunch of retards trying to get their heads round that? Simple game complicated by fools tbh, mostly wearing black and white.

Souness didn't turn out too well. How about someone who would allow the players a bit of slack, encourage rather than rule with the iron rod. Engender an atmosphere which allowed the players to live and breathe the game so they could express themselves and their sheer love of football on a Saturday afternoon. A 'total football' man.

We need a hard disciplinarian. Someone to weed out the bad eggs.

The ability to win ugly?

Thing is, there's no template for success for a manager. For me what has been missing from a lot of our recent incumbents, certainly the last 3 is adaptability and humility - the ability to see when something blatantly isn't working, swallowing pride and trying a different approach. Having said that, usually the best managers have a single mindedness and 100% belief in their approach so that they won't change no matter what. In summary, haven't a clue. (penis size?)

Penis size.

Why does he want to go to French school? Surely he already knows French?? There's plenty of good English schools up here, that's what he needs.

What £100M? http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=48562.0 The 100m would be for the new manger clearly. It's clear they haven't thought this through....Just an idea it might be better to do it properly like a proper club in the summer. I'm asking for water to be turned to wine. Just a thought. So is that some sort of cryptic Parky speak to indicate that you're expecting the Second Coming? Return of the Messiah - Keegan? Shearer? Or perhaps the Big J C himself? About the only one big enough to lead us to victory... I don't really rate John Collins tbh.

lol

the best in my opinion agreed To me, Hiddink is hands down the best manager in the world. My nationality biases me a bit, but still, I would trust him unconditionally any day. If at all possible should snap him up right now when he's not in club management, although the Russians probably wouldn't take kindly to anyone poaching him before Euros. The man likes to things over all else: money and a challenge. We can give him both. Mort would be crazy to not have at leats pitched the job to him. EDIT: only on 2.4 USD a year apparently! We can double that. Hell, we can quad that. Nine dollars and sixty cents? Bit steep like.

Except for a 4 week period every two years.

Indeed. The bird with the golf club bending over needs something handing to her too.

its not a love in... the fact is nobody knows what would happen. would you not rather take the chance than wait for another distinctly average manager to take over so that we can have this same conversation in a years time I have a problem with giving the job to a man with no managerial experience. He has absolutely nothing on his managerial CV...yet he wants us to take this leap of faith and appoint him as manager. If he was so interested in managing ,why did'nt he take up a job at a smaller club in the lower divisions.. that is what most ex players do. Keegan. Keegan. No doubt the most inspired and successful manager in mine and most of our supporters lifetime - your issues with Shearer's potential appointment would have prevented his appointment. What say you?

By the same token, 5 footballing reasons why Keegan should have been appointed? Anyone know if Shearer is on MOTD tonight?

Indeed. You raise another valid concern which springs directly from the apparently amateur way this whole episode is being executed - but by associating with Redknapp, I do feel, like you appear to Parky, that we have massively undersold ourselves and our ambitions. I think the honeymoon period could be coming to an end for Mort and Ashley now... Jesus. If that was the honeymoon, I'm not looking forward to the rest...

What's the problem? Did you really think it would be José?? Good manager, plays good football, big chance at a big club. Fucking pessimistic bastards!!

Plays better football than Sam.. I would love to see a 'Big Name' come in, but the question has to be, how and when did they become 'Big Names'? They weren't born that way. If the new appointment comes from a 'smaller' club or even from the lower leagues, there's nothing to say he won't be a success. Conversley it's not beyond the realms of possibility that someone like José or Lippi would come here and die on their arse. Right man, right job, right time. That is what we need, there are no guarantees. The new man, whoever he is, must come into the club with everyone pulling in the same direction, if half of us are whining on that he hasn't won the Champions League and the World Cup then we will have failed before he even starts.

I've often wondered when people say stuff like this, what would happen if you walked into Fenwicks and said 'excuse me, would you mind awfully opening your window display as I need to go in there and display my arse' Not sure it would go down too well.

Lol good plan. Could get a bit expensive unless they are prepared to sign a 3 month contract though.

All the betting is on Redknapp - according to *cough* Talksport *cough*

Sounds pretty defensive to me, that. But i don't know masses about Diarra. His signing would signal a 4-3-3, though. Him at the back of it, a la Makelele, the role he was meant to move into at Chelsea. Can you see us playing anything else? If anything, I'd expect to see us play a team that is a poor man's Liverpool or Chelsea as opposed to Man Utd or Arsenal. Sissoko/Mascherano, Alonso, Gerrard is hardly gung-ho, neither is Makelele, Essien, Lampard, which was Chelsea's most successful midfield trio. Who will be our Lampard/Gerrard though? Had high hopes for Barton but that's not happening.