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TOO LATE! TOUGH SHIT!

Major risk to sign stikkle brix muscle man.

I'd be surprised if he didn't 22591[/snapback] shouldnt we wait to find out what these clauses are before we get too cocky then? 22596[/snapback] Why? Next game Michael Owen will be starting for us. I think that's cause to get a bit excited!

"Gottle o' geer. Gottle o' geer"

Am shochchchchchchcched. Shochchchchchchched. How could he not come to us. We're boss. [/scouse] UP YOURS SCOUSERS.

They must have talked a hell of a good game yesterday. And the "entertaining" that Shearer did at his house last night must have been first class.

I'll do a sex wee in my superman y-fronts.

What's the bets this will be another "We're waiting on Michael's decision" type press release, engineered for no other reason than to make Shepherd feel important.

Has anyone got R5 on then?

If it's blue it's positive, right?

Any word?

10:04 now. What's going on like?

I'm going for a shit now and I'm going to dedicate it to Van Nistelrooy.

Owen's pregnant with Shearer's child.

I don't think this is good news like.

I am personally responsible for Newcastle United's current plight.

Aye. Nice one.

In that case, I don't want to hear even a word of complaint out of you if we get relegated.

"Following the talks Owen was whisked away in a vehicle with darkened out windows to be entertained at Alan Shearer's residence this evening" Shearer's pulling out all the stops here: "Pleeeeeeease sign for us. I'll be your best mate. Pleeeeease. You can stop at mine tonight." My source tells me that Shearer then let Owen beat him on FIFA before giving him the top bunk. It's felt that this could well have clinched the deal.

According to the Chronicle he's already been to Liverpool and had talks with him. If so, that in itself is encouraging - the fact that he's even bothering with us having spoken with Liverpool.

I don't think we'll be getting rid of Sourness yet, even if we did there are still managers that would come to us even if we did. 21186[/snapback] Good ones that would stay the course though? We'd always be able to attract a new manager but we need more than that. 21192[/snapback] Le Guen or Hitzfield? 21193[/snapback] Depends whether they would back themselves to get things right in less than a season, because unfortunately that's what we're marketing the job as if we're prepared to sack another manager a month into the season. EDIT - A manager with a good reputation will be far less inclined to put his reputation on the line under those circumstances. A manager with nothing to lose would though, and it's more likely that that's what we'd end up with IMO.

I don't think we'll be getting rid of Sourness yet, even if we did there are still managers that would come to us even if we did. 21186[/snapback] Good ones that would stay the course though? We'd always be able to attract a new manager but we need more than that.

Papa, I've just made the point in the other thread - "anything else" is not what we need. We need lengthy enquiries and discussions about who the right man is, and then we need to target them over a period of time and make sure we have a shortlist of one or two, not five or six. I don't believe that can be done in the middle of a season. Robson was a one-off - a local that wanted to manage us. "Anything else" is short termist and will land us in even worse shit when we're having to make another change a year or 18 months down the line. We need a long term plan that sets us on the right tracks over a period of time, not a short term fix that appeases the fans for a little while..

Sacking another manager at around the same time in successive seasons is not going to make us attractive to ANY manager, let alone the good ones. We'll be left in a situation where we have to make another rash appointment (similar to the one where Souness got the job). And before anyone says "Anything's better than Souness"....maybe, maybe not, but "anything" is hardly the long term plan that we're all hoping for, is it?

I didn't clap them off yesterday. But I don't know quite what reaction the fans should have given to effect any change. They were well booed off after West Ham and nothing happened.