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Yeah, yeah. A German manager at SJP. Hell will freeze over before that happens. mackems.gif

I imagine it would have been something like: "Click START > My Documents > My Pictures > Lovely Animal Genitalia Pic Collection" Maximum 5 secs to download it and bish, bash, bosh...jobs a good'un...

This is English Premier League. What's your point, caller?

Yeah, an ITK mate of mine heard Ron said he'd love to manage the Black & Whites... Well, to be perfectly accurate he did say he'd only want to manage the white half...

Give it a week or so, and I'm sure Mort will be sufficiently far down the shortlist to be considering it...

So, rather than posting about your managerial wet dream (which is pretty obviously José Mourinho for the vast majority here) I thought it would be interesting to see just who you would absolutely hate to see take the reins at the club...whose appointment would probably drive you into an eternal depression and possibly even make you consider taking a walk off the Tyne Bridge? I'll start off with: http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03_02/mcclaren30a_468x485.jpg

It is true, madass - I can deny it no more...I love this smiley. I also like this one too.. We really need the club to just get on with announcing the next manager mug who will walk away after 6 months with a huge pay-off...because things are getting silly on here now.

Brilliant! You could have saved yourself a lot of typing though mate and just used this smilie ->

Quite a chip on your shoulder there mate. Well, actually, more of a licenced McCain's potato farm with on-site chip-processing factory, really... But all entirely justified. They do like to kick us when we're down (which is far too often, tbh).

Wouldn't lay a bet on it, tbh.

HTT man - I've the same reservations as you about v Gaal...and Ottmar Hitler too. I think the only realistic and viable foreign coaches for us right now would have to be Jol or Houllier.

And for a minute there, I was beginning to feel ever so slightly empathetic with the man. But then he had to go and say that... Do you not think he was right though? It wasnt if he bunged Torino, Blackburn & Southampton above us. Oh I'm not sure I could actually be arsed to argue the point, tbh...mainly because deep down I think I realise he's right. Still hurts like f*** to have that reality rubbed in your face though. Especially at a time like this. It wasn't good TV watching the club you support getting talked down. Schadenfreude is as much a part of the sport as free kicks and dodgy penalties though. Talking of Schadenfreude, Souey did say " people who are professional agitators on the outside of the club, ex-employees of the club and journalists, seem to take great pleasure in causing the club a problem" Aye, I didn't see the interview myself, but when I read that on here I instantly thought how deeply ironic that statement was...having just stuck the boot in himself. The twat.

Why not go for John Collins now he's left Hibs? Better still, I wonder if Josef Venglos or Wim Jansen are looking for work?

And for a minute there, I was beginning to feel ever so slightly empathetic with the man. But then he had to go and say that... Do you not think he was right though? It wasnt if he bunged Torino, Blackburn & Southampton above us. Oh I'm not sure I could actually be arsed to argue the point, tbh...mainly because deep down I think I realise he's right. Still hurts like f*** to have that reality rubbed in your face though. Especially at a time like this. It wasn't good TV watching the club you support getting talked down. Schadenfreude is as much a part of the sport as free kicks and dodgy penalties though.

And for a minute there, I was beginning to feel ever so slightly empathetic with the man. But then he had to go and say that... Do you not think he was right though? It wasnt if he bunged Torino, Blackburn & Southampton above us. Oh I'm not sure I could actually be arsed to argue the point, tbh...mainly because deep down I think I realise he's right. Still hurts like fuck to have that reality rubbed in your face though. Especially at a time like this.

And for a minute there, I was beginning to feel ever so slightly empathetic with the man. But then he had to go and say that...

He'd do I guess. 4th place would be no good to us - would still get the usual boo boys crying into their half time pies.

If you actually read my post properly before you had got so angry, you'd notice that I didn't actually say the things he had done were to the detriment to the club. I was taking offence at him expecting gratitude as if he was doing this out of the goodness of his heart. When his savvy business acumen eventually - hopefully - translates into a team worthy of the fans, then I may kiss the ground he walks. I'm not kissing his arse for a healthy balance sheet. Good lad. I'm with you 100% on this SSR. Healthy cynicism is by far the best outlook to have on these sort of things, rather than blind unquestioning forelock-tugging "gratitude" for someone's apparent benevolence.

Guardian Poll asking if Newcastle can ever hope to get back into the Top 4... http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/poll/2008/jan/11/2 I'm not suggesting vote-rigging would ever be a good idea, but honestly...have a look at the current results.

yep top post, hopefully we can chalk down the allardyce and redknapp episodes to inexperience. what's important is that we move on from it. re the timing of allardyces sacking.........what was dubious or dodgy about it. could we really be any worse without a manager than we have been the last few months with a manager ? the only problem should be " should he have gone a week or two earlier?" Well, aye - he should have gone well before Xmas IMO...or otherwise they should have seen what giving him the full benefit of a transfer window could do...but what's done is done, and it's all probably for the best.

How can you be quite so spell-bindingly naiive?

Maybe he had no other direction to go in, having been rejected by Redknapp, other than to come out all guns blazing, professing himself to be ready to take command of the sinking ship...but even that takes bollocks of steel and having cussed him (and Mort) most of the day, all I can say now is let's see him not just talking the talk and walking the walk but also fighting the good fight. Let's get stuck in and bounce back like heroes. I do remain somewhat circumspect about the way the last few days have gone though, and the dubious timing of the sacking of Allardyce, even if it needed to be done.

Some of us are simply trying to make light of the current situation, Dave. A little comic relief. Mixed in with some genuine insights. You need a holiday, by the looks of things.

I'm increasingly considering the possibility that Mike Ashley is actually Freddy Shepherd in some sort of comical zip-up-at-the-back type humanoid disguise. It's all been a mirage... Sigh. What's up George? Nothing Dave. So why sigh?