fredbob

Gonna be brave and open up a can of worms here, but if anyone is 100% happy with SA, then they lack complete abitions for this club. This club has the hallmarks of title challengers. Just like Arsenal had early 90's? George Graham left so they went to lok at someone who would take them to the next stp, Arsene, Newcastle shold of been in that posiiton after SBR left, but instead of loooking forward we looked at where we are at. We ended up with Souness, because the criteria for the job at the time was to instill discipline. At this point n the clubs history, it is time to find someone who is capble of taking us all the way to the top 4, not someone who's primary ambitions is to make us top 8. What SAd at bolton was very good,but he only manged to get bolton in europe once? now for me, the way i look at it is a maory unlooked point. With all the stability that bolton had, despite the lack of transfer funds SA could not consistley get them into europe, somethin he should be able to do in my opinion. (They achieved in once with limited resources, why should things change?) If you have a punctured tyre on ya bike, you can do 2 things,you can repair the puncture or ya can buy a new tyre, if you repair to the trye, it'll do well for ya for the time being, but its gonna fall apart soonenough, if ya buy a new tyre, ya problems automatically ae solved and you can still set out to achive what you want. Nufc are perrenial trye repairers. Anyoe lookin for SA to fix al our problems are tyre repairers too.

So, its defnelty looks like it is Allardyce who's in charge? Does anyone genuinely think that SA is comparable to the top4 managers at the mo? I honestly dont thin so. I believe that SA will be a good appointment, no doubt. I dont think he will be the best ne available though. I really wanted the club to look to a manger who is comparable to the top 4, the likes of scolari, and Sven for me are those type of people. These are people who hve a proen pedigree at gettin teams into the latter staeges and even final stages of major tournaments. Even Houllier has some form in that department (not in the same league as Sven and Phil though) for me, although what he did at bolton was remarkable, i dont think he's the man to break us into top4. In my opinion, i dont want him here at newcastle. I think this club has top 4 potential, no doubt. more so than any other club. I am more worried by the fact that with all the years of mediocrity we have recently seen, we wil be fooled into thinkin that consistent top6 finishes are good enough for this club, from where we are at at the mo, yes, that would be good, but if it was the case for years to come, then i wont be happy. The oppurtunity to employ a person who can change the history of a club comes not very often, i think its high time newcastle at least attempt to seek a manger with the pedigree to bring this club where it belong.

Am i the only one who isn't overly keen on SA coming to nufc??? I understand and agree completely that Roeder needs go, his football has been uninspiring at best and i cant remember seeing nufc put any single team under relentless pressure for a sustained period of time in a performance all season. (Bar AZ at home). (First half) His constant referall to injuries has been unfounded at times, as the steady flow of fit players into thefirst team have done little to improve performances. The list could go on, but i think you already know. For me, what SA achieved at Bolton was fantastic, no question, he brought in a modern structure to the reebok stadiuim, from a scouting network to the scientific stats analysis, something which would be greatly appreciated at newcastle. (Though, whether FS would implement all the changes is another matter to be seen, remeber SBR wanting the 80k stats anlysis and being refused....one weeks wages for Mr Dyer). My biggest gripe with the potential appointment of SA is the style of football that SA would bring to the toon. For me, my fondest memories of nufc were the swash buckling style of football that was played in the mid 90's and the early noughtys, call me a keegan bandwagon jumper, but i am only 19 so thats what i was brought up with, and i loved every minute of it, i was really disheartened with Gullit and Dalglish but the appionement of SBR was something that has not only been the best thing but the worst thing for nufc in recent times. The brand of football that he brought to nufc were a joy to behold. It is this therefore that leads me away from SA, i dont belive there is true nufc fans who would enjoy seeing nufc reaching the upper echeoloens of the EPL at the expense of the free flowing football that newcastle bases its tradition on. For those who say that i am a band wagon jumper and dont know what it was like in the past, pre keegan, my question is, if that is the case and we weren't terrific pre keegan, why are our expectations so sky high?? The answer? It is because newcastle are definetely the sleeping giants of english football and all 52k fans who fill the seat at SJP, sit there onthe tiniest whim that they can be there to witness this sleeping giant awake. While i would love to see SA bring in the structure that this club so desperately needs, i crave more for the relentless attacking football that this club needs, in my opinion SA is not the man who wll even entertain the thought. Part of my reservations also come from the fact that SA turned us down twice, i have read that him and FS dont agree on something, there are 4 things that pop in my mind, SA wanting to proide a complete overhaul at nufc, not something FS would be keen on, comprmising the style of play, Mr Shearer and finally the bung stuff. Woud anyone enjoy reasonable success, consistent top 6 finishes with ugly football? If so, at which point would it be unnacceptable, providing we had not won anything? Would anyone be more tolerant of the same consistent finishes without a trophy if nufc produced exhilrating football, and breath taking matches? If s, in my opinion, you secretly in your heart of hearts are opposed to SA being appionted.