Interpolic

Fucking Jesus Christ.

Nope. Not a chance mate. The point of being the manager of this football club is doing your utmost to make the club the best it can possibly be, and showing that you have the aptitude to do that with the performances and results you oversee, your comments in the press and your conduct on and off the pitch. The stuff he's came out with in the press the last few weeks is unforgiveable. Getting towards Joe Kinnear "AREN'T THOUSE GEORDIES FACKING THICK CANTS" levels of bullshit now, he's just being a touch more guarded about it. Detestable prick.

John Hall did want Sir Bobby but Bobby was under contract at Barcelona. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/news/432906.stm Robson, who currently works for the Football Association's technical department in an advisory capacity, said: "I have had no contact with Newcastle since the day I told them I could not break my contract with Barcelona when they tried to persuade me to manage the club after Kevin Keegan had left. "I was compelled to do that because I had a two-year contract in Spain at the time and was only in the first year. I had to honour that contract. Well exactly tbh, we showed an interest in Bobby Robson at times when he wasn't available. Nobody ever actually chose Dalglish over Robson.

Sorry. Jesus Christ.

What do you think about that then 'polic? Maybe he was just lucky? January 2008, after Hall and Shepherd had sold the club. Right.

People are just accepting that John Hall stuff?! :lol:

I love it. I'm sorry but if you don't come up with a decent source but your own day-dreams that's fucking hilarious. John Hall = football visionary who can look at the world of football and identify the best possible football manager for NUFC. Unfortunately he kept getting overruled.

Hindsight's great for supporters, but if you own a football club then you don't want to be relying on hindsight to learn about your mistakes. Hall wanted Robson and Shepherd and Hall Jr. wanted Dalglish. John Hall was also talking up Martinez when he was relatively unknown at Swansea in League One. Shepherd went for Allardyce instead. Shepherd then also went on to hire Graeme Boumsong Souness and Michael £17m Owen during that era. Fuck knows what was going on there but it's difficult to avoid the suspicion that money was getting trousered by someone away from the camera. Other than that though, I will agree that Shepherd was at least answerable to the Newcastle fans and if someone was skimming off the top at least we still were allowed to dream. But like you say, hindsight's a wonderful thing. Erm, how on Earth do you know all of that?

"I had a great first half of the season".

From the Guardian's live blog: Abso-bloody-exactly, the papers will be full of it and it'll be tedious as fuck.

Micky Mouse competition.

Tough club to play for FFS. Compare that to the way Keegan and Robson used to speak about our club.

Think he's doing intermittent updates still. Yep, this is true. Will ignore the Yaos or add them to the losses. Might just update at end of season now tbh.

He's not deed FFS.

People seriously in here talking about hard they are.

Whatever the situation is, that's us on a voluntary transfer ban this summer. £10k or something, an absolutely crippling blow.

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/08042014-newcastle-away-refund-1475873.aspx

Welcome to the dark side. Ironically what many of us have been saying on here for the last few years. Although you have articulated it very nicely, whereas here it's been mostly along the lines of "piss off you cockney cunt". Nope. Last paragraph says why that's not true. I wasn't saying owt about your article (haven't read it yet), just disagreeing with the idea that posts written about this on N-O are largely inarticulate. Plenty of posters have expressed their view perfectly well.

Welcome to the dark side. Ironically what many of us have been saying on here for the last few years. Although you have articulated it very nicely, whereas here it's been mostly along the lines of "piss off you cockney cunt". Nope.

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Knee-jerkers.

They just make it up as they go along man - soon enough people will forget the 1 or 2 players quote, same as they forgot we were following the Villa model, or the Arsenal model...

Great summary of the situation at present.