Robster

Looking at it from a Portsmouth perspective, once they settle dow to the fact that he is staying, will they be asking themselves why he was even interested in the first place. He was on SSN before going on and on about why he is staying, the players, the location etc etc. Wouldnt he have thought this before and just thought "No, I dont want to even talk to them". He should just be honest and say he didnt like the offer and is staying, not act on like leaving Portsmouth would have been like leaving his family.

Yep. I think its time we just give him the job to see what he can do - be it good or bad I think in the long run it will do the club good as his shadow will continue to loom. Sadly its the press that always bring his name up and they will continue to do so until he has done the job. Literally no one out there who fits the bill. I am terrified its now going to be Mark Hughes.

Why do SSN insist on showing the betting odds. What fucking relevance do they have when yesterday, Redknapp was something like 2/7 to get the job. Fucking clueless television

Going to go to bed tonight convincing myself that Defoe is definitely a Portsmouth style singing/player dont go to bed before stopping defoe singing Oops

Going to go to bed tonight convincing myself that Defoe is definitely a Portsmouth style signing/player

I wondered this when I read the story. The lad has obviously had problems for a long while. Where are friends through all of this. I dont know shit about stuff like this but I always assumed that once you hit a low like he did, his friends would be with him every step of the way to make sure he didnt do it again. I am guessing a footballer of his status knows lots of people. Its quite sad if he doesnt have any true friends who are looking out for him. Maybe it isnt that simple so I shouldnt judge.

cannot do a BBQ to save his life that lad. Burnt everything to f***. is there a joke in here i'm not getting ? private one i was guessing

keegans downfall was all or nothing, jose would be all or nothing, 'arry's would be money or nothing I think at the minute that all or nothing attitude is probably what would appease everyone

If Redknapp gets it I am trying to work out his motivation. Is is that he genuinely wants the opportunity to work at club where football envelopes the whole community and is the centre of everything (not wanting to belittling to Portsmouth but I think its fair tosay the mentality towards football in general amongst the footballing puclic is different in the 2 cities)... + win a 1st trophy for the club in a million years or is he just thinking, its a nice chance for one last big pay day before I start settling down by the seaside. For fear of raising Jose's name, with him, you genuinely feel that he wants to rule the world but with Harry and probably most other managers, you dont get that sense of real desire and I think thats the one quality that we are looking for. Keegan early on said, tongue in cheek, "Look out Ferguson, here we come".. he was driven to try and make us the best. I am worried about what Harry feels he would get out of the move. I am sure they are all driven to succeed in their onw way but I just dont know

Brilliant... SSN... Redknapp is favourite because........ "Newcstle say they want an experienced manager"...followed by no substance whatsoever

no other man is worthy of the challenge Absolutely true. Dream world stuff but I saw it mentioned before that Jose's ego could possibly lead him to say to himself "I can do what no other manager has been able to do in 50 odd years"... (am just enjoying these last few hours/days of optimism before the enveitabl disappointment comes)

The optimism is wonderful.

They all like to get their two penneth in dont they. Everyone has a comment to make. Do they all answer the journo's questions because they are ITK or do they not have the intelligence to say "sorry, thats a pure speculation story so I cannot possibly talk about it" ??

Me neither. He is a gormless knob. I cant stand him doing soccer saturday

One of them back pages said that Peter Storie had told Harry to give him an answer by lunchtime. Answer to what.. surely all day today they have all being saying that Newcastle have not approached them... so are they now saying that we have officially approached them because that hasnt been reported anywhere. How do they get away with writing this shit.

Kind of a double edged sword really. I agree entirely with the notion that Shearer needs to take the hot seat or else his shadow is forever going to hang over the club and any manager currently in charge. I just fear the headlines if it doesnt work out for him "Fans' choice fails again - when will the Newcastle fans learn"... it will all be our fault again. Guess we just have to be prepared to take it on the chin and ignore it as best we can. Of course though, he might just pull a "Keegan". Crystal ball anyone ?

I love listening to the station but you can work out their agenda so easily when they start a topic. Ray Houghton boils my piss though. How the fuck he gets a job on there I will never know

Why dont we just give the nation what they expect,a Fans Consortium picking the team every week. Everyone thinks that all the decisions made at the club are down to us so we might as will pick the starting 11 as well.

I bloody hope so. We really cant afford to come out of this a larger laughing stock than we already appear to be

Hey it must be piss easy being a sports journo. Just sit eating lard all day making up bullshit

TV and Radio are deliberately putting people like this on the radio just to make the rest of the country laugh at us. Like the idiot they let on Sky Sports phone in the other night who said we should go for Sammy McIlroy

Another trick to throw the press off the scent. They are fucking scratching around trying to work out what is going on. News on Talksport was quality "Reports about Redknapp are thinning out as he is seen in a London restaurant". FFS

I had a lovely vision as well that they had completely fucked over the press just to show how shite they are. In my heart I dont think its the case but by god if it is I shall glow in the pleasure for a long long time

Maybe not. Some of the goals he scored for Blackburn when they won the league were just awesome. Never seen the ball struck so hard from outside the box