Dr Gloom

what's the latest? anyone watching it?

howay the sib. i always said he was a good buy

if the signing of siberski wasn't desperate i don't know what is

there could be trouble ahead....

until someone makes him an offer he can't refuse

you don't see it do you ? You can't accept the need for one or two short term stop gap players in the real world. You're so thick, you expect the board to find 50m quid every summer, buy half a team every year....yet you think they are shite ........ Lost irony or what. Priceless. thick? that's rich coming from the man who defends the chairman's actions this summer. SHEPHERD OUT As I've said before, blokes like you will moan on like fuckwit manu fans do, regardless of what the club do. I never thought I would see the day NUFC fans whinged on like manu fans. Which is a sign of raised expectations - but you are too thick to see it or understand it. You are also too thick to understand that if you think in the real world our board is shit, then you wouldn't know one if they slapped you in the face with a wet fish. You could - maybe - slightly raise my opinion of your attitudes if you commented like an adult on what you seriously think the club were able to do this summer, how much money you think they had, and how they should have alternatively spent it, instead of forever bleating on about how you - hugely ironcally and stupidly - expect a shite board to spend a shitload of money every summer that isn't there. you're starting to get really fucking boring now. we've had this debate about a thousand times before and i'm far too busy at work today to get into another one. at the end of the day day leazes, you are in a minority of one on this board when it comes to your unwavering defence of shepherd. are we all thick fuckwit man u clones on this board? or has your argument died on its arse and you are too proud or stupid to admit you were wrong? SHEPHERD OUT

i've got a feeling something truely awful is going to happen to nufc this season.

you don't see it do you ? You can't accept the need for one or two short term stop gap players in the real world. You're so thick, you expect the board to find 50m quid every summer, buy half a team every year....yet you think they are shite ........ Lost irony or what. Priceless. thick? that's rich coming from the man who defends the chairman's actions this summer. SHEPHERD OUT

not while shepherd is at the helm no. and purely because no decent manager wants to work for the fat twat

sibierski - great planning rossi - great planning no new centre half - great planning duff was a good buy, but it was hardly a problem position. we bought him because he became available at a good price. good planning would have been to buy campbell and not to wait until the last week of the window to go for huth and woodgate and then panic buying the likes of siberski, rossi and bernard. that for me is BAD planning. SHEPHERD OUT

i don't fancy our chances

i don't think we'll see that kind of buzz and optimism around the place again until we get rid of the board. we need a takeover and a fresh start from the top down to get the feel good factor back.

Absolute bollocks maybe. maybe not. it's hard to say for sure because he's hardly played a first team game for ten years. whenever he has he's impressed me and he's highly rated by a host of premiership managers. west ham and bolton were both in for him over the summer. i would have been tempted by the move if i was him.

good keeper but he's not the most ambitious player in the world is he? fancy spending your entire career on the bench when you could walk into the starting eleven a host of premiership sides and most championship clubs.

this lad isn't getting any younger. for all his potential, pace and strength, he is still making elementary mistakes that are losing us games. i blame bramble for the defeat on saturday - both their goals came from titus ball watching and losing his man. he's a liability and i don't see how at 24 he is going to get much better. why oh why didn't we buy a commanding centre half in the transfer window? i can't believe we've stuck with bramble when sol campbell was going on a free.

we missed a trick not moving to castle leazes. sjp as a city location is second to none but the new site was only a short walk up the road. we could have got a bigger stadium for much less money. instead we've got a huge great lopsided ground. the different size stands mean a lot of the noise escapes too - not helpful considering the lack of atmosphere these days. extending the gallowgate to level 7 would help but we're still going to be stuck with a tiny east stand. adds character i suppose - a lot of the new grounds are boring, ugly and all a bit uniform...

Totally agree, tbh even an imbecile could make money with the NUFC “brand” and they always could (a’la McKeag, Seymour et al). The old saying goes “you’d get 20,000 Geordies in to watch the grass grow at St James” If anything it is easier to make even greater sums these days than it was 30 years ago, the fact we can generate cash is not a measure of how good (or not) the current directors are. The simple fact is that, given the cash that we do generate, we should be performing better - at all levels from a first class scouting network through to the first team (a strategy anyone ???). The only difference between now and 30 years ago is that, because of the nature of the game these days, we now generate SO MUCH dosh, that there’s plenty for the directors/shareholders to get fat(ter) on. But there’s also plenty left over. It is the incompetence with which the “left over” is utilised which is the problem, and THAT is down to “the management” (and I don’t mean Souness). We should have a plan for the growth of the business, we should not be chopping and changing managers every 5 minutes, we should not be writing off vast sums on crap transfers (with monotonous regularity) and we most certainly shouldn’t be skint. 194390[/snapback] If it is easier to generate cash, please explain why the mackems aren't doing it, or Wolves, or Sheffied Wed to name 3 ? The fact - and always has been the simple fact - is that the field is level for everybody in all or any era , how much advantage you take of it to ourperform your rivals at any particular time, is on merit. 194823[/snapback] I never said it was easy to generate cash for everyone, what I said was: Any comparison to the poor performers is irrelevant and missleading, our current "extra richness" is to do with riding the Keegan wave for a few years and the position that put us in. Not to mention 52,000 every week. Level playing field my arse, we were in a GREAT position but that position is now being badly squandered. Despite the irrelevance IMO of the point you make, IF David Kelly had never scored that goal and we'd gone down and IF we were "doing a Sheff Wed" we would still by comparison be much better off than them because of the unique nature of this club. There is no kudos due to "powers that be" because we can say "thank fuck we're not Sunderland, Wolves or Sheff Wed". Because we are rightly asking "why aren't we Liverpool or Arsenal" in terms of both on-field performance AND club image/professionalism. 195064[/snapback] spot on. this is where leazezmag's argument falls flat on its arse. i wonder if he's got an answer to this

i can see us winning a trophy before the new wembley is finished

please don't tempt fate

i know it's an old chestnut, but we should blatantly extend the gallowgate...

tbh

ahead of siberski and luque? you must be joking

to be fair to the lad, shepherd hasn't heard of him

i'm surprised west ham and arsenal aren't higher. two of the best footballing sides in the league imo

weapons of ass destruction