Park Life

Because? Cause above everything we need organising and a re-vamp of the set up. Something he knows a thing or two about from his time at Bolton. His attention to detail and empahsis on player development and motivation and his overall psychological approach (something that some of our player sorely need). IMO Sam will put this background structure in place (and it wil take 2 seasons at least to start showing) and this will be the platform to his legacy. It is exactly what we need. For now the system of play and purchases and other 'on field' stuff although important ( and will be communicated to the side) is not quite as critical as making the base right to take us forward. That is why I feel at this moment he is a godsend.

Souness was never actually a good manager though, that is the difference Neither is Allardyce tbh. His team conceded more than Newcastle this year....and look at our defence. I wonder if you ever watched us when Keegan was in charge, we nearly won the league in a season and conceded loads yet played quite well and there was a plan B & even C As someone says, we never actually conceded that many, not as many as Roeder's (bare bones) team, and nowhere near as many as Allardyce's this season. Worst goal difference in the top half Bolton. One of only 2 teams whose GD is negative. Without Owen we've scored 37, without Anelka's goals they'd be on 35. Obviously a replacement would be drafted in for Anelka and they'd have scored a few, but I think people are deluding themselves if they think the gulf between Roeder and he is that huge. Allardyce has had a good few years to sort Bolton out (which Roeder never got here) and they finished 16th and 17th before he was able to move them up to top half finishes, he'll not get that chance here. Give over HP you still flogging this dead horse. Please don't call my opinion a dead horse, you think aliens killed JFK. And I respect it. Did they?

At this moment in time he is precisely the right man.

Yes Please. Get Carr to clean his boots.

Souness was never actually a good manager though, that is the difference Neither is Allardyce tbh. His team conceded more than Newcastle this year....and look at our defence. I wonder if you ever watched us when Keegan was in charge, we nearly won the league in a season and conceded loads yet played quite well and there was a plan B & even C As someone says, we never actually conceded that many, not as many as Roeder's (bare bones) team, and nowhere near as many as Allardyce's this season. Worst goal difference in the top half Bolton. One of only 2 teams whose GD is negative. Without Owen we've scored 37, without Anelka's goals they'd be on 35. Obviously a replacement would be drafted in for Anelka and they'd have scored a few, but I think people are deluding themselves if they think the gulf between Roeder and he is that huge. Allardyce has had a good few years to sort Bolton out (which Roeder never got here) and they finished 16th and 17th before he was able to move them up to top half finishes, he'll not get that chance here. Give over HP you still flogging this dead horse.

Damn! I never thought of that! we could have had Klinsmann stood on the steps of his home saying WTF??!?

Sven. Does look like Allardyce, but I feel a surprise is in the air.

Don't drink Skol mate its well diiiiiirrrtyy. Plus its only 3 % what yeh a little pussy boy.

Ferguson's an absolute tool who pulls every trick in the book and Wenger's not much better tbh. I'd have them both here though. And a lot of the problem with people's percetpion of Chelsea is due to Abramovich's lolly imo. Not wanting a winning manager syndrome.

I don't think he's got the first clue who to sign tbh.

That's what I keep telling people. We're mid-table mediocrity who might push europe in a good year. Why are people calling for Roeder's head if he's only just fallen short of what the club is geared towards under Shepherd. Are you accepting that as our lot then? Recognising what we are currently is one thing, settling for it is quite another. Souness, Roeder or Allardyce. I put them all in the same bracket tbh. The revolving door policy on managers everyone knows would have been laughed out of town 10 years ago is what's got to stop. I'm not saying we can attract a top manager, but that I see keeping Roeder and getting Allardyce as having very similar outcomes. Neither involve us shooting up the league. I don't think you really beleive that Nicos. SA has done wonders at Bolton and it looks like Sammy will continue the good work with all the foundation that has been laid. FS imo clearly gave GR the job in some kind of holding capacity on a relatively short contract. I can only imagine this was a move so as to keep things relatively simple when the right man came along or he got a 2am call from Shearer. The right man has come along imo - not a fantastic manager, but a good one.

Suddenly Zoggy has a big ego?!

They have deffo spoken...Whether he will come or not is a diff matter.

Having Emre doesn't help though right? As much as I dislike the player and will dance on the street if we can get rid of him, I would appreciate it if Emre was used in a way that he was a benefit for the team. He is an arsehole, but (theoretically) a decent player. The lack of service for the front men ... err man ... is very much down to the incompetence of Roeder to give the existing midfield any shape. They have not the first clue on how to play through the midfield. There have been momemts mainly with Dyer rotating and jinking around for a few minutes here and there....That they seem to come out of a deep sleep.

Nice.

Computer World and Trans Euro Express 8 bit versions.

Bought on correctly he will do the business for us. We have to keep him interested.

Sorry Parky, in Germany (Hamburg specifically) in 2008. Why Hamburg? Great place to be in Germany and for a quick change of scene only 1 1/2 by train from Berlin.

The same Belgium regularly voted the most boring country on earth.

What a miserable bunch they are.

Olive farms are nice. Stayed in a converted olive press in Tuscany once. Was a canny holiday. We were the only people in the village who spoke English like, so trying to buy anything involved pointing and speaking very loud in English. The fresh local produce is something to behold in places like Tuscany. I spent a few months in the middle of France Massif Central (sp) with a French girl on a farm.....The sheer stillness..Beautiful. Parky retreats to isolated French farmstead with girl. I'm not sure he means the countryside when referring to the beautiful, still thing in front of him. 'Baby, now you'll never leave me... but how peaceful you look. My, my.' ...actually that reminds me she was a devout Catholic and had this little foibal of sleeping with a bible under the pillow. I bet she only started that after she met you. ...I must say I found the whole business quite invigorating.. Exorciso te, immunde spiritus, et omnes administros tuos, in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, et in nomine beatissimae Virginis Mariae. Amen. I say that's not very sporting.

Olive farms are nice. Stayed in a converted olive press in Tuscany once. Was a canny holiday. We were the only people in the village who spoke English like, so trying to buy anything involved pointing and speaking very loud in English. The fresh local produce is something to behold in places like Tuscany. I spent a few months in the middle of France Massif Central (sp) with a French girl on a farm.....The sheer stillness..Beautiful. Parky retreats to isolated French farmstead with girl. I'm not sure he means the countryside when referring to the beautiful, still thing in front of him. 'Baby, now you'll never leave me... but how peaceful you look. My, my.' ...actually that reminds me she was a devout Catholic and had this little foibal of sleeping with a bible under the pillow. I bet she only started that after she met you. ...I must say I found the whole business quite invigorating..

Olive farms are nice. Stayed in a converted olive press in Tuscany once. Was a canny holiday. We were the only people in the village who spoke English like, so trying to buy anything involved pointing and speaking very loud in English. The fresh local produce is something to behold in places like Tuscany. I spent a few months in the middle of France Massif Central (sp) with a French girl on a farm.....The sheer stillness..Beautiful. Parky retreats to isolated French farmstead with girl. I'm not sure he means the countryside when referring to the beautiful, still thing in front of him. 'Baby, now you'll never leave me... but how peaceful you look. My, my.' ...actually that reminds me she was a devout Catholic and had this little foibal of sleeping with a bible under the pillow.

Of course we can.