Fatwax

It's fucking ridiculous. We have 4 champions league spots through league finish and 1 UEFA spot through league finish.

Sunderland score. Shit.

In his first game, funnily enough. All downhill from here. Of course, Martins overhead kick, etc. Geremi's look of disbelief was the highlight of Sam's tenure. Can't see the Blackburn game until 8pm, are they hoofing it and getting lucky? Don't know about the 3rd or the 1st but the 2nd was DEFINITELY against the run of play. Not sure if the first was a legit penalty or not, like.

Alot of Depor fans said it'd take at least a season for Coloccini to truly find his feet. I'm confident that he'll get even better for us in the coming seasons - assuming he stays of course.

Straightest cones in the league. good luck to the both of them though.

You are aware that Keegan came back, right? His record is better than the Record KK have in his second term thus make him a better one over him. You're completely and utterly wrong. Keegan had a win percentage in his second stint of just over 28%. Kinnear currently has a win percentage of just over 27%. For christ sake Roeder had a win percentage of just over 45% and Souness a win percentage of 43%. Your argument is really flawed if that's what you're basing it on. So you think Roeder is better manger we had since Bobby. Not at all, the reason I posted them stats was to show you how your reasoning for saying that Kinnear is a better manager than Keegan is flawed. You said that Kinnear has a higher win percentage than Keegan did in his second stint so therefore he must be the better manager, I was just showing you that firstly you were wrong about the stats and that secondly the stats aren't a clear indication, because by them standards, both Souness and Roeder did good jobs - which of course they didn't.

Bullard has bad memories of Scott Parker aswell.

You are aware that Keegan came back, right? His record is better than the Record KK have in his second term thus make him a better one over him. You're completely and utterly wrong. Keegan had a win percentage in his second stint of just over 28%. Kinnear currently has a win percentage of just over 27%. For christ sake Roeder had a win percentage of just over 45% and Souness a win percentage of 43%. Your argument is really flawed if that's what you're basing it on.

Oh aye?

You are aware that Keegan came back, right?

As I recall NE5, when the Keegan did walk out several posters did point out that you did appear to be right all along - Dave is one that sticks out in my mind. What I don't get though is why you constantly feel the need to bring the subject up. We know that the club is in a terrible state and that in many ways the old board did do a good job - whether or not we'd have ever got anywhere again with the old board or won a trophy is only conjecture now and will never be proven - we also know that the club would be much, much better off in the hands of another owner who understands the fans, area and club.. But why do you feel the need to constantly rattle on about this old board new board bollocks? You know the feelings of specific posters, we ALL know your opinion on the matter - with or without our consent - you go on about 'educating' people about the facts and figures but it's not your job to educate anybody about this club. Instead of being a well respecter poster and member of this community you constantly go out of your way to alienate people with your 'truth', like a doombringer with a sandwich board on the edge of the road telling us about the end of the world and much like this man you're treated like the resident nut and when people see you they cross the other side of the street. Sad thing is that I actually enjoy a fair few of your opinions and you've witnessed sights with this club that I truly missed out on because of my age or circumstances at the time.

I don't particularly care what Allardyce/the media/Blackburn fans have to say to be honest. They'll either do alright or fail miserably but nothing more under him. He blew his one chance of working for a big club and showed his true colours.. end of the day we all know the truth.

He'll do what he did to Liverpool and run down his contract. I really don't expect him to sign. Saying that though, at least if he does do that he'll stay professional and keep performing for as long as he's fit. Owen certainly won't throw a Berbatov-esque strop. For as long as he stays out of the England squad he'll be great for us.

As I remember it he wasn't able to adapt to the premier league at all, and that was a few years ago. Great player, but not for us I think. He played 64 games for Chelsea and scored a goal every 2.66 games (24 goals). No matter what other problems he may have had at Chelsea that's a pretty excellent goal scoring record. That many? I didn't think he'd played half of that to be honest.. completely forgot about his wife losing the baby aswell.

Via the Jeremy Kyle show?

People like Ashley don't get where they are by apologising to people, I doubt we'll ever get an apology.

As I remember it he wasn't able to adapt to the premier league at all, and that was a few years ago. Great player, but not for us I think.

Surely prices would go down rather than increase, since clubs aren't under a time limit to sign players, causing the selling club to hold the buying one to ransom.. I liked it when we didn't have transfer windows.

That SMB forum is mental, someone is comparing Allardyce's bung deals to the murders of Peter Sutcliffe.

Which results? Even early on we weren't doing particularly well under Allardyce. I can remember maybe 2 or 3 good results, the rest were average to diabolical. We were unbeaten at home until November, that's pretty good going if you ask me. Infact we had 5 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats in the premier league. It wasn't until Portsmouth at home that the wheels came off for us really. Like I said, early on we were getting decent results. This is exactly what the press were saying at the time, completely ignoring the fact that we'd had an incredibly easy start to the season. I'm not ignoring the fact that it was an easier start to the season than most, if not every other team. All I'm saying is that for the first few months we were getting results against teams that we'd expect to get results off, with only 1 major blip - that being Derby. It's not like we're the only team to ever lose to a team much worse than our own on paper. My argument was that we were doing good at the start of Allardyce's campaign and it wasn't all terrible results and performances like some people make out. I'm glad he was sacked as I never really wanted him here in the first place, but I'm willing to recognise that for a short amount of time we were getting results and things didn't look all bad.

Which results? Even early on we weren't doing particularly well under Allardyce. I can remember maybe 2 or 3 good results, the rest were average to diabolical. We were unbeaten at home until November, that's pretty good going if you ask me. Infact we had 5 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats in the premier league. It wasn't until Portsmouth at home that the wheels came off for us really. Like I said, early on we were getting decent results.

Allardyce will do well at Blackburn, at least in the short term. He may have flopped massively with us, but early on we got some good results under him. All depends if the players there want to play for him.

I love to see the end of the transfer window because I'm sick to death of every football article in them few months contain the words "slam shut".

Sissoko is a weird one, off the ball he's a machine, but generally crappy when he's in possession. No idea how he's been at Juve though, maybe the slower pace suits him.

Get in Blyth! I was watching the build up and thinking it was going to be a goal and all! Ace!