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One other rather cringeworthy thing I gleaned from repeated reading. So Llambias is basically saying that he and Ashley agreed that Mort's constant communication with the media was a bad thing and made a conscious effort to reduce communication when he was brought on board? Bloody geniuses aren't they?

This - but the Medics might force the issue and then we will need a replacement. I find it 100% plausible that the board will come out with some sort of statement saying that "the job will be waiting for Joe when he gets fit" and give Houghton the reins until the end of the season. Then proceed to give him a brand new four year contract on his hospital bed. That's how much confidence I have in the sanity of our regime.

Damn. I wish Joe the best of luck and hopefully a speedy recovery. I may have wanted him sacked, but I would never wish any sort of physical harm upon anyone. My support goes out to him and his family. As for what now looks to be a managerial vacancy for us, hopefully the club won't fuck around and will get a new manager in as soon as possible, while compensating Kinnear for his service and efforts so far.

The other parts of the interview look like they'll be significantly more interesting. That one about friends

The "challenge for everything in five years" statement is probably the most overtly ridiculous part of that article. That's really not going happen even if we somehow hit the jackpot with every and every one of our teenagers from Scandinavia/Eastern Europe. I would have much preferred something along the lines of "we'll have NUFC financially stable in ~ years" or "we'll be able to maintain a sustainable amount of transfer spending through the clubs income alone by ~ years"

very true, and while we still have a good local support at SJP, there creeping in here, and some of our away trips to London id say are 20% out of town support. God help us if we ever get good again. If you're of the attitude that no one should be allowed to set foot in SJP unless their mother had them ten feet from the Gallowgate wearing a replica shirt and singing the Blaydon Races screaming "OOOOOOOOH ME LADS" at the top of her lungs then you're going to be rather severely disappointed in the coming years I'm afraid.

You're entirely missing the point. "Glory"hunters. Where is the glory in choosing to support Newcastle? or Everton? Or Villa? or lots of teams. When i see people walking around where I live wearing Chelsea tops, I really do want to vomit out a significant part of my lower intestine. These are the people I'm talking about. Their parents need to take a very long, hard look at themselves. Think you might be getting a pretty large infusion soon enough imo Fully expect to see my first Villa top back home sometime this calendar year.

Was just reading through his wiki article... ...Huh?

Sven Goran Eriksson is without question one of the best club managers in the world. His record speaks for itself. It's utter comedy that City sacked him after a brilliant first year and replaced him with a clueless hack like Hughes. The only reason that he's even in a position to consider offers from clubs like pre-takeover City, Portsmouth, or hypothetically even us is because of the stigma that unjustly accompanies him due to his time with England. Whichever mid-table club that gets him is hitting the jackpot.

If they get him I'll weep f***ing tears of blood. Two clubs in s*** situations and s*** managers. Portsmouth sack theirs and got Sven, we stick with Epic, just f***ing epic.

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Everything else aside, it's just a monumentally stupid idea to have a protest without even stating what the protest is actually for.

The apology is much needed well accepted but also extremely late. The answer on NUSC was somewhat illuminating. As for the rest of the interview, Llambias really doesn't give us straight answers on anything. Look at how he answers the Wise question: yeah, he's director of football, we've known that for two years. Yeah, he goes out and looks for players, we've known that for two years as well. What we really wanted to know was what relationship he has with the manager, who has the final say on transfers. Is he selecting all of our targets and doing all of the negotiation? Or is he just a glorified chief scout? Are there separate transfer budgets? None of these questions are answered and instead we're given a bunch of form answers that are closer to truthiness than truth. I'll have to read the rest of the interview but for now I'm certainly less than satisfied. The expression "modest net spend of 15~20m" pretty much shows what's wrong with the fans' expectations now.

Think Kinnear might have been referring to the "questions for the chairman" thing Llambias is doing this week. Assuming that he wasn't just spouting nonsense again.

exactly. And so was Alf Ramsey. Morale of the story is don't believe everything people say or what papers portray them as saying Basic stuff really. Yep. Slagging off your players in public is the quickest way to lose the dressing-room.... usually followed by your job shortly afterwards. says : huh?

[dreamland] Arsenal finishes season at sixth, sacks Wenger... Kinnear leaves after barely keeping us up. Ashley makes shock summer move for Wenger. [/dreamland]

Didn't realize we were at home. Assuming that Nolan and Oba are fit this should actually be around 50-50. (Or 33.33-33.33-33.33 if you want to be pedantic)

Two for Xisco, one for Kazenga, one for Ranger. Is this a reserve match or a N-O fanwank?

Lad can score all he wants, we'll still never see him in the first team

Sven and perhaps Scolari would both require big money to spend, Curbishley at least is proven in budget managment with Charlton and just as well because when he got some money to spend at West Ham he spunked it away. I doubt it was Curbishley who was spending multi-millions on the likes of Ljungberg and Dyer at West Ham. Seems like a much more sensible man than that.

Curbs would be an excellent appointment. Although I wouldn't think that we could get him because he'd be a bit wary of who he's working under due to how things ended for him at West Ham. Would be about on par with Steve Bruce.

Hopefully we'll get a late Christmas miracle and they'll appoint Souness.

Just worked up the guts to send a friend request to Oba. Fingers crossed

Grant's obviously a pretty decent manager. I wasn't all that impressed with him last season because I thought "meh, how hard could it be to do well with Chelsea." This season, Scolari has given me an answer: pretty fucking hard.

I'll be downright weeping if two weeks down the road, Pompey have appointed Curbishley/Grant and go to Stoke with honeymoon mode on in full force. While in the mean time we're stuck with Joe Kinnear.