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To the tune of winter wonderland Theres only one Nicky Butt One Nicky Butt He's pulled his finger out and upped his game Nicky is a geordie once again :roll: :roll: :lol:

The appointment of Dalglish has to be the main factor where the decline started. He had won the League at his previous two clubs - Liverpool and Blackburn, but had also taken a lot of criticism for it too. It was argued in the press that he inherited a championship winning team at Liverpool, whereas he bought success at Blackburn. If he had only improved the team where it needed improving, ie in Defence who knows what would have happened, maybe we would have moved on to bigger and better things, but Dalglish purposely dismantled the side so if he had succeeded it would have been HIS side that had done it, not the one he inherited from Keegan, because unfortunately for him, that is what the papers would have said

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There's a couple of ways Belgravia can bring extra cash into the St James' Park Coffers: 1. The renaming of St James Park, however steeped in tradition would be one way of bringing in an initial lump sum of money. It might prove unpopular in some quarters but would it be a price worth paying if that money was put straight into team strengthening. Arsenal got quite a big wedge upfront from Emirates for the stadium naming rights. If they came in and gave Roeder (or whoever they replace him with) the 25 million that has been suggested in many quarters for team strengthening in January, it's not beyond reason to think a similar amount of money could be ploughed straight into the coffers in time for the summer transfer window even if it means playing at "The Rock" or whatever. With that sort of money, plus whatever they budget to spend anyway, with the right man buying the players, we should be there or there abouts again. Plus the SJH and Milburn Stands could be auctioned off to the highest bidder as well 2. The creation of a Newcastle TV station. The operators of the current Newcastle World site, premium TV are a part of NTL, who have just merged with Telewest, who provide the Cable Network in the North East, and obviously nationally now. Cable Television is a lot more amenable to most people compared to the internet, so a monthly subscription channel similar to MUTV would attract a lot of interest. All friendly/reserve perhaps even academy games could be shown live, whilst the club could have the fallback of televising UEFA cup games should they not be taken up by one of the mainstream channels. Add to that interviews, classic games from the past, it wouldn't be too bad a station to have. Then when premiership clubs get to negotiate their own TV deals the basic framework would be in place to show these games too.

At the end of the day if they are gonna splash out many millions of pounds in acquiring the club everything will have been thought out. They will have an idea who they want to run the club. Don't forget there will be other jobs they will want filled too, such as chairman, chief executive and the like, so I'm pretty sure that once it's all official we will have a much better idea of what their plans are

we should send Rossi back to Man U , and get Alan Smith. Plus when it goes to looking for Strikers we need to make sure that they arewn't cup tied as we are likely to be playing in the knock out rounds of the UEFA cup

A good one from the promotion season when we played Brentford and their Physio came on to the pitch "Theres only one Jimmy Saville" One of the funniest things I've seen at SJP

Roeder has to be the man to take over as caretaker :lol: :lol:

The nail has ben firmly hit on the head, Freddie Shepherd ISN'T seriously rich. The question then must be how would he fund a takeover. As the club has long term debts secured against future ticket sales, that route is out of the question, so perhaps he has his own backers, maybe they have a few quid and would be pro active in taking the club forward. It's a possibility

I was sitting trying to come up with the names of a couple of wealthy geordies who had the financial clout to invest in the club. One or two sprang to mind. The first is Graham Wylie, worth an estimated £200million who was the co-founder of Sage, and owns a number of race horses. I'm sure I read somewhere a while back that he has a box at St James, and he has been a success in other businesses so maybe he could consider splashing his cash on the toon. A guy like that would IMO be similar to Steve Gibson at Middlesbrough, so you never know Another is Frank Williams worth approx £145million, born in Jarrow and apparently a Newcastle Fan. Had relative success with the Williams formula 1 team so you never know And just cos he's minted, I ain't got a clue what he thinks about football, the Duke of Northumberland! Can anyone think of some more?

The thing is, the longer things continue to go against us in the league, Shepherd will inevitably have no option but to get rid of GR. Obviously there will be many arguments over who should replace him and we will no doubt end up with someone just as bad. FFS said when Souness went that he would take time to make the right choice for the club. Once again he hasn't. It is inconceivable that Shepherd is going to walk away from the club so maybe a campaign of sorts can be mounted to persuade him to take advice from people better equipped to recruit a new manager ie a cerain Mr Shearer. It's highly unlikely he will want teh poisoned chalice but he would certainly have a better idea of who is required to get us out of the mess that Freddie has helped to create. Its all fair and well being a fan of the club and thinking you know what is best for the future, but if you have no idea about the playing side(which freddie obviously hasn't) how can you decide what is required

Apparently he was seen snipering between Gateshead Greggs and Wilkinsons about 12. Maybe he was meeting Sven in the Traf the sad pie eating tw*t

If we signed him he probably wouldn't get a game till next season cos Roeder would want to get him fit. At least Bernard would have a training partner

If players like Emre and the like were playing to their full potential we wouldn't be in a relegation battle. It always amuses me when the press speculate on who is going where because things aren't going their way. At the end of the day we have a squad allegedly oozing with world class who are paid a lot of money to play at their best at all times, but if they seemingly can't be arsed it just goes to show their commitment to the club when times are hard. Maybe Glenn Roeder isn't up to the job in hand but he would be helped immensely if some of these "superstars" started earning their 50k a week

The one thing that strikes me about all of the last few managerial appointments is that it's always claimed that the club have been inundated with applications for the job. As these people are showing a desire to manage the club, you would think they would at least be given the chance to put their case to the board as to how they would approach the job. I know they probably get the odd fruit loop sending their CV in cos they did well on a computer game but surely there must be some feasible names in there too. Freddie is obviously incapabable of appointing the right man, so surely if he delegated this job to someone else, be it a specialist recruitment company to provide a shortlist, or maybe if he employed someone to do the job he is currently trying to do, that of Chief Executive. At the end of the day Roman Abramovich didn't choose Mourinho it was Peter Kenyon

The trouble is we probably won't get relegated for being too good , rather that there are far worse teams than us in the division

In most people's opinion the current squad is without doubt (on paper) good enough for the top half of the Premiership at least. Therefore it is evident Roeder is unable to mould these players into a decent team, the proof is there in front of everyone the league table does not lie. If results don't go our way in the next two league games(Sheff Uth H, Citeh A) he has to go, no doubt about it. Even if they brought Venables in till the end of the season(as 'boro did a few years ago) to ensure we stay in the division it would give us a bit time to take stock, get someone(apart from Shepherd) to headhunt a good manager who can take the club forward and build from there. If the unthinkable happened and we were relegated, I fear it would be years before we returned to the premiership, and even longer to re establish ourselves as one of the top clubs in the country if ever. We could potentially be in a worse state than Leeds if we went down, as the debt which paid for the ground is secured against season ticket sales. Would we sell 45,000 season tickets in the championship? I think not

Anyone who thinks FFS would be gone in the event of relegation would be wrong IMO. As the value of the clubs shares plummeted I'm in no doubt he would try and buy all the shares himself as they would be so cheap, then he would provide enough money to get us back up again then be happy finishing outside the bottom three so he could keep the big money from sky for himself as there would be no dividends to pay out and he'd be making himself a few bob more than he his already

If Sheff Utd win next week, you'd better believe it...!! If Sheff United win next week, Roeder's position would become untenable, having failed to beat two of the relegation favourites at home in succesion.

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We could really stitch them, tell them they can have Butt as long as they take Bramble as well and play him at every opportunity! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

It's been reported in many places when Belgravia initially confirmed their interest in buying the club that they associated success on the pitch with earning extra money. This alone surely suggests they would pull out all the stops to ensure this, so I'm sure they have a plan already and know who they want to run the club in terms of being chairman/CEO, and quite possibly team manager. There's no way they would be asking Freddy Shepherd to step into the breach, if that was the case he would have sold his shares like a shot. I know it had been rumoured and dismissed that some rich oil sheik was possibly the real buyer of the club as was the case when they purchased Jordan formula 1 team, but wouldn't it be nice if something like that was the case - at least we would once again have the financial clout to compete with the Chelseas Man Us et al.

The way things are going, Fat Fred might have no choice but to take on the job himself. The thought of him on the training field in his tracksuit barking out orders does nothing for my confidence in the future of the club! On a more cynical note maybe Freddies master plan is to devalue the club enough so he can buy all the shares himself, but surely it would be better to own a quarter of something decent than a whole pile of shite, or maybe it would be better if he just sold up and ****ed off

One other possibility though is that should the Belgravia takeover eventually go through(which it probably will once FFS and SJH get what they want), will Glenn Roeder be ambitious enough for them. My gut feeling is probably no, and they will look to appoint their own man. Whether they wait until the end of the season, give Glenn a pat on the back and move him upstairs, or just boot him out straight away would be the 6 million dollar question