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If he stopped making such a fuss over things like this, this would all blow over. Ashley Cole is the new AF.

You're easily caught with chocolate though, aren't you pet? 103963[/snapback] Just had a Twirl with my lunch there.

Too violent tbh 103947[/snapback] Run, run, as fast as you can! You can't catch me I'm the strawberryblondebread he/she! I'm not talking about me, before any of you clever shites start. 103950[/snapback] The bit about not being able to catch you gave that away tbh. 103959[/snapback]

I've made it quite clear it's expansion and elaboration I'm looking for, Colby!

SMO ditches his lass for the second day in a row. I can see Wacky moving in there like.

Too violent tbh 103947[/snapback] Run, run, as fast as you can! You can't catch me I'm the strawberryblondebread he/she! I'm not talking about me, before any of you clever shites start.

.....and down came a rainbowbird and pecked off his nose! :roll:

Is that being presented to him by Wacky?

I've got the same speakers, Wacky.

Ugly Mackems spin tbh. It also says he's GUTTED Bellamy's gone if you read it properly.

There is history spanner! It says so in the bit I posted. I was hoping someone could expand on it, but I see you're as useless as ever, Craig!

And they say romance is dead. 103915[/snapback] It was either the Dyson or a new hi-fi system, built from scratch.

By the way, Cath, you only started this thread as a thinly veiled method to post a picture of one of your cats.

From NUFC.com in reference to our game against the mackems, should Roeder and Ball be in charge: Assuming no permanent appointment at SJP by then, that promises to be an interesting afternoon on the touchline; the early -season wear-Tyne Academy derby seeing a pitchside confrontation between Ball and Glenn Roeder.

How many of your desk contents do you reckon you'll get through before lunch? 103895[/snapback] I'm hoping to eat the questionnaires by 4pm. However, there is 152 of them and I'm supposed to be analysing the data. Although, I could check the bog at about 8pm and have a read through... 103897[/snapback] Any more ghostly light incidents of late? Did you see Garraway in the papers smoking whilst 8 months preggers by the way? Tsk.

Is anyone else really looking forward to this one tonight? I've bought into all the hype on Talksport and can't wait for it.

Bellamy would be a good replacement for Willow if they ever make a sequel.

And this from todays article ... I don't know whose memory is better - Taylor's or mine - but wasn't it Uncle Bobby who gave him his full debut (I would have looked it up at .com but they are down). 103881[/snapback] SBR gave him his debut at Bolton IIRC. He played him at right back and he promptly made the mistake that led to their opener after a few minutes. 103883[/snapback] Left back wasn't it? 103888[/snapback] Nah right back I think. I was there, behind the goal, in the Bolton end. Soopafan-takkatastic!

103879[/snapback] That's more like it.

Their match against us is in the week, so it can't be that close if they were still in the CL - their squad is plenty big enough to cope anyway. Besides, chances are they'll do us anyway, so I'd rather they weren't still in both competitions after the FA Cup tie. Ideally they'll be out of both.

Someone thinks they're a bit posh with their Radley passport holder.

Looking forward to being a big Barcelona fan tonight like. I'd love to see Mourinho humbled.

Well in view of the fact that we waited 22 years to reach a Cup Final, and neither Leeds, Birmingham, Villa, Everton, mackems, West Ham, Portsmouth, Sheffield Wednesday, Wolves and other big city clubs haven't reached one either since we reached one in 1998, nor qualified or competed in the Champions League or even the UEFA Cup, then comparatively speaking it makes us more successful on and off the field than them. And only Arsenal, Liverpool, Man U and Chelsea more successful. All the people who are slagging off the board STILL fail to answer this question, nor answer another one, if the club are so bad and are appointing "shit" managers, what do YOU think they should do that they are not to ensure more success in future ? I'm not holding my breath for a reply as it hasn't been supplied so far, and I don't mean you chocchip only you and PP and possibly Renton have gave anything resembling a half decent constructive reply so far 103702[/snapback] He made it fairly clear he was looking for yes/no answers like. 103705[/snapback] Thats my answer, it is there if you read it, and its a fucking damn sight better than the absolute crap you spouted about Souness for months 103707[/snapback] All I can see is you skirting round the issue tp avoid having to give the only logical answer, which is a resounding NO to three of the appointments and a partial yes to one of them, in terms of the progress we made under Robson. So that's three unsuccessful appointments out of 4....oh dear. 103708[/snapback] I've said they were comparitively successful. As there are only 2 trophies, why do you consider there are 18 premiership failures a season ? Now what criteria do you think the board should apply when choosing a manager, apart from foresight, in view of the outstanding CV Dalglish had in particular ? 103719[/snapback] Unlike you I think it is perfectly acceptable to look at the performance of a manager and THEN judge whether or not it was a successful appointment. I get the impression that you think that unless it looked like a mistake on the day of the appointment, no one has any right to complain if it turns out to be a fucking shambles a year or two down the line. I agree and have posted elsewhere - Dalglish's CV looked perfect for the job, and you can probably cut Shepherd some slack with that one, but at the end of the day, it was an unsuccessful appointment, given where we were when he was appointed, and where we were when he left. The buck stops with Shepherd. 103720[/snapback] But what can he do other than appoint people with a top CV like Dalglish? 103723[/snapback] To be fair, Dalglish is one example from 10 years ago. As I've said, I don't think you can give him too much credit for Robson, as that was just us getting very lucky, and something like that situation is never going to occur again. So we're going to have to rely on Shepherd's judgement of what makes a good manager, and outside of the fluke with Robson, and the Dalglish appointment (which should have worked but ultimately was a failure), his judgement doesn't really look up to much.

Well in view of the fact that we waited 22 years to reach a Cup Final, and neither Leeds, Birmingham, Villa, Everton, mackems, West Ham, Portsmouth, Sheffield Wednesday, Wolves and other big city clubs haven't reached one either since we reached one in 1998, nor qualified or competed in the Champions League or even the UEFA Cup, then comparatively speaking it makes us more successful on and off the field than them. And only Arsenal, Liverpool, Man U and Chelsea more successful. All the people who are slagging off the board STILL fail to answer this question, nor answer another one, if the club are so bad and are appointing "shit" managers, what do YOU think they should do that they are not to ensure more success in future ? I'm not holding my breath for a reply as it hasn't been supplied so far, and I don't mean you chocchip only you and PP and possibly Renton have gave anything resembling a half decent constructive reply so far 103702[/snapback] He made it fairly clear he was looking for yes/no answers like. 103705[/snapback] Thats my answer, it is there if you read it, and its a fucking damn sight better than the absolute crap you spouted about Souness for months 103707[/snapback] All I can see is you skirting round the issue tp avoid having to give the only logical answer, which is a resounding NO to three of the appointments and a partial yes to one of them, in terms of the progress we made under Robson. So that's three unsuccessful appointments out of 4....oh dear. 103708[/snapback] I've said they were comparitively successful. As there are only 2 trophies, why do you consider there are 18 premiership failures a season ? Now what criteria do you think the board should apply when choosing a manager, apart from foresight, in view of the outstanding CV Dalglish had in particular ? 103719[/snapback] Unlike you I think it is perfectly acceptable to look at the performance of a manager and THEN judge whether or not it was a successful appointment. I get the impression that you think that unless it looked like a mistake on the day of the appointment, no one has any right to complain if it turns out to be a fucking shambles a year or two down the line. I agree and have posted elsewhere - Dalglish's CV looked perfect for the job, and you can probably cut Shepherd some slack with that one, but at the end of the day, it was an unsuccessful appointment, given where we were when he was appointed, and where we were when he left. The buck stops with Shepherd.