Ronaldo

It was ambitious, but real football people had Owen sussed out long before 2005 and common sense should've prevented spending £16.5m. Both Graham Taylor and Sir Bobby publically said he wasn't a great footballer and would decline when the pace started to fade long before it did. Owen was an ego stroke for Shepherd.

I'll have that, if you please.

Sim Raleigh. God rest his soul.

Peter Phoenix (Arizona). Hell of a fucking player.

The only thing putrid is this abortion of a post. Pulis rejected the chance to sign Shola for a Championship side 7 years ago. Oh Ronnie, we've been getting along so well! Why so offended? Pulis played Anichebe upfront the other night, and Sessegnon started on the bench. Anichebe might actually be as bad as Shola. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he was looking to sign him. And McManaman? Really? So Sessegnon started on the bench, and you're looking to sign McManaman huh? Okay. Sessegnon's hardly owt special, is he? Pulis is a good manager with an attractive style. I highly doubt he'll go anywhere near Shola Ameobi.

Ah, the days in which a manager underperformed and subsequently got sacked.

Did you not get tired of promoting Tiote a few years back when you spent a full summer lying about Alex Ferguson wanting to sign him to replace Paul Scholes? He's an ineffective player. He contributes less than zero going forward and with him on the pitch we've had most of the worst defensive performances I've seen from NUFC in 22 years. Steel indeed.

Thing is, there's nothing more brutally indicative about a club's ambition than it's managerial appointment. Mongish fans will spend forever arguing about good players and bad players, players who could get better, but if you're hiring a transparently crap manager with no record of anything but failure - and without the nous to placate and deceive fans verbally post-match - most supporters with a semblance of pride in NUFC will just stop going.

Of course that's before you even factor in that Carver's PR sense makes Pardew look like Bill Clinton.

And yet AP took us from 5th to 16th and was never in danger apparently. Hughton won something like 1 in 13 as caretaker and got the job permanently the next season. Is it 'let's talk rubbish' day or something?

And yet AP took us from 5th to 16th and was never in danger apparently. He didn't, though. We were 12th when he took over, finished 12th that season, 5th the next, then 16th, then 10th. That obviously constituted enough of a track record (to them) to consolidate his position as someone cheap who'd solidly maintain PL status. Carver can't emulate that.

He'd give them a bit of steel and presence which they still lack IMO.

Should Carver take us from 9th to 17th in 5 months there's no way he'd get the job.

The only thing putrid is this abortion of a post. Pulis rejected the chance to sign Shola for a Championship side 7 years ago.

Because he'll blatantly be absolutely crap and even those idiots will recognise that form over a full season will lead to relegation.

Needs to be made into a spoof Twitter account.

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I love Pedro. I can't help it.

33/1. Sounds like it could be a goer.

The forum lost credibility with those awards. People wishing Colo is sold when he's our best CB are crazy. It's a sad indictment that he's our best CB but thems the cards The craziest thing about people wanting Colo sold is the suggestion some club out there could be stupid enough to hand over cash in return for his shit defending. I don't think anyone's advocated selling him without replacement.

Ethi's got the best posts to gold ratio on the forum, like.

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Whatever became of Macbeth? Not the one frae the play.

Puccini's was disappointing when I went. I find the quality of Italian restaurants to be pretty poor down here in general, though. Best place on planet earth for Indian food, mind.

Chris Hughton was caretaker for 4 months before being confirmed. Either way, I don't think there's any danger of Carver getting the job. If he does, fuck it. It'll last weeks.