Robster

fucking hell. makems 1-4

whole 90 mins

Just wait for that first boro goal mate

How long is Duff out for ? Hope its more than one game because Zog will need a couple of games to show himself. It would be harsh for him to feel he has just 1 game in which to prove him worth of the left wing berth

For me, having someone like Owen in your side, apart fromm the goals he brings, is that he can help you sell the club to a potential new signing. I think the club is big enough to encourage the youngter lesser known type signing but if we are trying to sign older, more experienced and to an extent foreign players, having someone like Owen in your side is a good selling point. (or used to be before he got dropped like a stone by Capello)

You would get a pretty good idea fairly quickly that the offers coming in werent adequate. Then, if you didnt want to sell at a loss, you would formally take it off the market and maybe think about making changes to the house to improve it instead in readiness for when the market pics up again. (to use a pretty rubbish house analogy)

Or else

All of this is pointless anyway because Mike Ashley has not given anyone the slightest indication that he is in any way intersted in being the long term owner again. Cant see him reacting to a poll saying fans want him back, as quickly as he did when the fans wanted him out.

Cant really see it as a surprise. I am sure Shearer wants to come into the club but not be linked to anything or anyone involved in the current debacle.

He could have reversed that pretty quickly with an open, honest, heart-felt interview (and I think a tv interview would have been a massive statement of intent as he had never done one before) which outlined his dedication to the club and its future development and success.

Well there is no doubt he has put pressure on himself with all the transfer target talk.

We need to try and find as many positives as we can out of this season and after this decision today we can try and take that we now have a smidge of stability and manager who has the opportunity he has been asking/crying out for for. That, I am hoping will push us on enough to relative safety. I just hope JK has the ability and the respect of the players to be able to carry it off.

In my opinion, the problem football has is that I dont think there is a "right sort of people". Whoever they are, their agenda, maybe 8 times out of 10 to be to make sure they make some money - or at worst dont lose. I must admit I havent an earthly clue who our ideal owners would be

Aye, that's the plan and you're right about it being the litmus test. I think Steve's going to be around to monitor things as we go, so if we do have problems we may be able to get right onto fixing them. Its a fair way away but Jan 31st will be when its really put to the test.

Please tell me your drunk if jk gets his men (who i imagine will be realistic targets) then questions have to be asked about just who keegan wanted. Good luck proving any of that. ok dont ask then. just assume he wanted realistic targets in the right areas but didnt get them because wise is a prick. makes more sense. Or maybe Keegan wanted the kind of quality (genuinely attainable quality) he thinks we deserve but the club werent prepared to pay the going rate. Just a thought like as a kind of counter argument

Please tell me your drunk

Must have been fantastic to have the chance to go along and see Kaka and Ronaldinho on the same pitch (well nearly but you know what I mean)

Actually I worried about that straight away. I am fearful of a reaction liek we got when Roeder got his contract. Hope I am wrong

To be fair, this has been coming. Shouldnt come as a surprise to any of us.

And purely and simply is because of what he did first time around. Whether realistic or not, but I would guess most fans hoped that within 3/4 years, we would be somewhere towards reproducing that kind of football/atmosphere. A "Win" for KK keeps those hopes and that dream alive. The reaction is possibly based on the realisation that we are going to be bloody lucky to get a manager who is going to get anywhere near those times (and SBR's)

But your signature suggests that you think Kevin Keegan is very much at fault

or "developing the squad" by bringing young players through, getting new players playing well, old players playing well again etc. Thanks for backing up my point that the statement you quoted can be interpreted in a variety of ways and isn't clear cut. how nice of you to argue against your own position. thankfully wise's statement is more clear. which is my entire point. nobody knows what has happened fully other than the few people involved. so why is keegan the hero and ashley and his team the villains? nobody has answered that yet in any respectable way. Human emotion is the best way to answer that. Rational : No Understandable: Yes.