Captain Steak Bakes (now managing Blackpool/revising history)

[AyeDubbleYoo]

What a legacy for a man. 

[Interpolic]

"Water off a duck's arse" was off the Yohan Kebab interview (on Talksport?) I think, just to add to Vlad's listening list.

[Lush Vlad]

6 minutes ago, Interpolic said:

"Water off a duck's arse" was off the Yohan Kebab interview (on Talksport?) I think, just to add to Vlad's listening list.

 

Never thought I'd be going down a Joe Kinnear rabbit hole on Youtube  

[Yorkie]

Page 80ish of the Kinnear thread if anyone wants to relive their reactions. It was absolutely staggering. Think it was @Pilko who suggested he was probably getting cash in hand for every name he got wrong, just for a laugh. 

[sempuki]

1 minute ago, Yorkie said:

Page 80ish of the Kinnear thread if anyone wants to relive their reactions. It was absolutely staggering. Think it was @Pilko who suggested he was probably getting cash in hand for every name he got wrong, just for a laugh. 

Insomnia didn't go down to well with N'Zogbia I recall.

[Shays Given Tim Flowers]

3 hours ago, Interpolic said:

 

"Which one is Simon Bird? You're a cunt" is probably the finest opening gambit of any NUFC manager tbf.

 

Also never heard anyone else before or since use the phrase "water off a duck's arse". 

In that opening presser the press officer says after all the ruckus ’right can we just draw a line under this and move on’ 

 

and then one of the bollocked press-pit just says ‘what, move on to not doing anymore press conferences’ 

 

[RUHRLYASLEEVESUP]

17 minutes ago, Shays Given Tim Flowers said:

Which one is Simon Bird? You're a cunt

Superb had forgotten about that 

[Menace]

The Souness appointment set us back minimum 5 years - Shepherd had to get it right and he didn't. It's definitely up there.

[Stottie]

Allardyce, Bruce, and Souness as the worst.

 

Casa St. James, Bruce for being a plastic Geordie who knowingly used every Southern journo trope against us fans, and Souness for also blaming the fans and "expectations". All three played terrible football.

 

Pardew is not quite as bad due to fluking the fifth finish and having a certain degree of personal charisma and entertaining foibles. Shagging players' wives (at other clubs), "The King eats your dinner". those moves during the Cup Final, etc. Kinnear and Carver don't make the top group due to being comically short-tempered. Kinnear's potty mouth and Carver asking the away fans outside. Both totally inept. Of the two, I preferred Kinnear, and Carver was lucky to be replaced before his "I'm the best coach in the league" became too grating.

 

Gullit gets a pass for not taking a payoff and for shagging the same barmaid down the Quay as Gazza, enabling her to tell whichever tabloid it was that Gazza was better in bed.

[Dr.Spaceman]

 

GTFI Andy, lad 

 

 

Edited October 13, 2022 by Dr.Spaceman

[Holloway]

can't do hate tables but I'm at the stage where I can't look at an image of Bruce without some sort of revulsion, he is a fucking repulsive individual

[Jonas]

3 hours ago, Stottie said:

Pardew is not quite as bad due to fluking the fifth finish and having a certain degree of personal charisma and entertaining foibles. Shagging players' wives (at other clubs), "The King eats your dinner". those moves during the Cup Final, etc. Kinnear and Carver don't make the top group due to being comically short-tempered. Kinnear's potty mouth and Carver asking the away fans outside. Both totally inept. Of the two, I preferred Kinnear, and Carver was lucky to be replaced before his "I'm the best coach in the league" became too grating.

 

Gullit gets a pass for not taking a payoff and for shagging the same barmaid down the Quay as Gazza, enabling her to tell whichever tabloid it was that Gazza was better in bed.

Kinnear did a good job at Wimbledon. The likes of which Carver could never have got close to achieving. No 'what a character' element to him either.

That reminds me, didn't Gullit go out with Cruyff's niece? Was talk of Chelsea signing the offspring though it all sounds very Daily Star.

Doesn't work like that, every other Gullit and Cruyff in history has been shit at football and I'm not discounting Jordi.

 

 

Edited October 13, 2022 by Jonas

[Chicane]

Carroll

[Geogaddi]

Allardyce, Bruce and Souness are by far the worst ,all cut from the same cloth , always have digs at Newcastle and have delusions way above their station.

 

Carver, McClaren and Gullit were out their depth big time but don’t seem to hold any grudge towards Newcastle and Gullit gets respect for quitting when he could have held out for his payoff .

 

Dalglish, was awful and I really dislike him , ruined the second best team in the country  and gave all his mates a final payday ,hate all that King Kenny bollocks from the Liverpool fans as well.

 

Shearer hardly worth mentioning in manager terms as that team was down whoever took over .

Roeder was a nice guy and did a decent enough job.

 

Pardew, 5th, 16th, 10th and left us in like 9th wasn’t it ? Yeah he was an awful person but he did a better job than any of the other managers we had under Ashley .

 

Hughton did well in difficult circumstances .

 

Benitez is loved for his politics and going against Ashley , job he did football wise was ok but nothing special and the football was crap to watch .  Was glad he never came back when the takeover happened and we would be nowhere near as good as we are now if he had.

 

Adore Robson and Keegan and obviously don’t need to explain why. Same goes with Eddie and I wouldn’t swap him for any other manager in the league .

 

 

Edited October 13, 2022 by Geogaddi

[Ben]

Robson straight after Keegan would have been special.

[Skeletor]

1 hour ago, Dr.Spaceman said:

 

GTFI Andy, lad 

 

 

 

 

 

[Skeletor]

THE LIBRARY OF HORRIFIC PIECES OF HUMAN SHIT

Dalglish

Bruce

Allardyce

Souness

Kinnear

Pardew

Gullitt

 

DISLIKE/DISGUST

McClaren (just a thoroughly shit and incompetent manager, but not a bad person)

APATHY

Carver (mostly due to his time as Bobby's number 2)

Roeder

 

FONDNESS

Shearer (Mostly because it's Alan fucking Shearer and he was my boyhood hero)

Hughton

 

ADORE

Robson

Keegan

Benitez

Howe

 

 

Edited October 13, 2022 by Skeletor

[huss9]

howay, he was a shite manager but Dalglish wasnt a bad bloke.

[Skeletor]

Just now, huss9 said:

howay, he was a shite manager but Dalglish wasnt a bad bloke.

 

I hate his guts for what he did to the entertainers team and that will never change.

[huss9]

1 minute ago, Skeletor said:

 

I hate his guts for what he did to the entertainers team and that will never change.

got us organised and ground out results to get us into the champions league.

should have just left after that.

 

 

Edited October 13, 2022 by huss9

[Skeletor]

Just now, huss9 said:

got us organised and ground out results to get us into the champions league.

should have just left after that.

 

 

 

 

Agree with that. But remember he got to 2nd with the entertainers team, not his rag tag bunch of decaying Liverpool corpses.

[Collage]

I don’t dislike Gullit at all. Sure, he managed it poorly here but it was quite a short stint. I always liked him as a player and he doesn’t seem to hold any grudges towards NUFC. Him and Shearer made up as well iirc.

[Ashley17]

Read interviews/books from anybody who Gullit managed with us and they all say the same thing. He was arrogant and nowhere near as good as he thought he was. At least with hindsight he has realised the error of his ways.

 

Dalglish I have a degree of sympathy, behind the scenes the club was a bit of a state. The books needed balancing and he was obviously very unlucky with the Shearer/Ferdinand timing. Keegan had abolished the reserves so that was less than ideal too. Tomasson went on to have a fantastic career but again suffered from the lack of Shearer (or Les). I wish he hadn’t disbanded the entertainers but I can at least see what he was trying to do.

[Collage]

The same with Dalglish. Did poorly overall, but the ones I dislike/”hate” are the ones that never should have got the job in the first place, talked a lot of shite and served shite football, like Pardew, Souness, Carver and Bruce.

 

 

Edited October 13, 2022 by Collage

[TRon]

1 hour ago, Geogaddi said:

Allardyce, Bruce and Souness are by far the worst ,all cut from the same cloth , always have digs at Newcastle and have delusions way above their station.

 

Carver, McClaren and Gullit were out their depth big time but don’t seem to hold any grudge towards Newcastle and Gullit gets respect for quitting when he could have held out for his payoff .

 

Dalglish, was awful and I really dislike him , ruined the second best team in the country  and gave all his mates a final payday ,hate all that King Kenny bollocks from the Liverpool fans as well.

 

Shearer hardly worth mentioning in manager terms as that team was down whoever took over .

Roeder was a nice guy and did a decent enough job.

 

Pardew, 5th, 16th, 10th and left us in like 9th wasn’t it ? Yeah he was an awful person but he did a better job than any of the other managers we had under Ashley .

 

Hughton did well in difficult circumstances .

 

Benitez is loved for his politics and going against Ashley , job he did football wise was ok but nothing special and the football was crap to watch .  Was glad he never came back when the takeover happened and we would be nowhere near as good as we are now if he had.

 

Adore Robson and Keegan and obviously don’t need to explain why. Same goes with Eddie and I wouldn’t swap him for any other manager in the league .

 

 

 

 

Agree with a lot of what you wrote there, but giving Pardew credit for those 5th, 16th, 10th, 9th positions is classic stat-padding. I doubt he even knew half of the players that were signed for him, probably the only one he took credit for was Obertan. He was the first and iconic manager who could be described as a fraud IMO. Where is he now?