Renton

Very true. I still find it compelling TV though for some reason, he's an interesting bloke. Has he ever truly turned around a restaurant yet though? He did a good job last week but in general he's the kiss of death tbh.

Apart from shagging grannies, which has been needlessly show-horned into this thread on several occasions, like now.

I wouldn't go that far like. ManU are still far from their best imo, catch them on an off day and anything can happen. I'll be really disappointed if we're tonked.

tbh... 104442[/snapback] P-) tbh

You're a lad? But, but, I thought....... All these months flirting, wasted.

Set of bastids.

Jesus wept at some of them. Mourhino's favourite book is the Bible? And wtf is Bobalong the Brownie man that Curbishley rates so highly?

Since we haven't won there in something like 30 years I think I might settle for a draw like.....

If you use that you've got to start "talking" in a southern drawl. For a few days at least.

While we're on the subject of Ronaldinho, does anyone think we should sign him? Seems like a canny player and would link up well with Owen etc.

This one please, proud to be European.

Are you 5 years old or something?

Gemmill needs a rainbow flag as well, don't forget.

Stop fucking whinging you mong! 104368[/snapback] Can I have an EU flag then please?

He is the president.

Pathetic selection. And what happens if you are dual nationality? Get it sorted Craig you potential nationalistic, jingoistic, bigotted, Nazi fascist bastard.

Absolutely true. 104039[/snapback] |Not that I don't believe you, but have you got a link? Just the implications are absolutely massive, you could have families paying huge amounts of money. Surprised there's not uproar really. 104044[/snapback] No link. On 1st April the Department of Health is changing the procedure for contracts for NHS dentists. I'm predicting the result of this will be massive numbers of dentists pulling out of the NHS altogether. Just stand back and watch it happen, mate. The Government of course will blame dentists, and the general public will swallow it. But the fact is the new system will make it nigh on impossible for a dentist to treat people under the NHS. Private treatment for all is coming through the back door. 104058[/snapback] My mate's a dentist and is going 100% private from the 1st of April, which does support what HTL is saying. 104063[/snapback] Thanks for the support Gemmill, but I don't really need it mate. Unfortunately for you lot, on this subject I know what I'm talking about. There are links out there.........here's a couple........ Link 1 Link 2 Note the last paragraph. What a scream that is, if you get my drift as it's obvious what has been happening. 104067[/snapback] Ah, you're talking about the new contract. What you mean is that it will be harder to find an NHS dentist (I agree), not that Under 16s won't be entitled to free dental care per se. I think we'll have to see what the upshot is - I suspect the effect will vary greatly depending on your locality. I also think that the dentist shortage will be a short-lived thing - there are currently hundreds more dental students being taught than there were if figures are to be believed.

Make the wedding more interesting and give out full sized bottles.

Wouldn't surprise me tbh. 104034[/snapback] That really would be too good to be true. Would never happen in a million years, Murray would be lynched.

Absolutely true. 104039[/snapback] |Not that I don't believe you, but have you got a link? Just the implications are absolutely massive, you could have families paying huge amounts of money. Surprised there's not uproar really.

He's been in this thread ages now and posted nothing. Clearly the traffic cone is obscuring his vision. 104033[/snapback] Obsessed tbh. Regards dark chocolate you happen to be right again Gemmill (twice in a week). Manc Mag has no class.

Is this true? I've heard nothing of it and a quick Google has revealed nothing either. As far as I was aware, dental care is free on the NHS for under 18s if you can find an NHS dentist.

I will happily take that quote on baord when you tell me the gates of the other clubs during that period in time, football went through a meltdown, deaths on the terraces, hooligans and generally a fairly shite reputation which stopped people from going, not just here but everywhere else I think. Im more than happy to be proved wrong on this one but I'll happily wager that most of the clubs during that time were witnessing far lower gates than they get now. 103732[/snapback] I remember even when we were in the old divison 2 we had gates amongst the top 6 in the country. Tells you something about the fans does that.

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. 103728[/snapback] I think he madfe two poor sigings which were forseeable - Gullit and Souness. Gullit should have been obvious with a bit of research, Souness was obvious full stop. So in total he's made two reasonable signings as chairman (if not obvious choices) - Dalglish and Robson - and two terrible appointments - Gullit and Souness. So it's a draw. Now we have to see what his next choice is. I'm certainly not confident given his history, is Leazes?

Whilst we're trying to get people to answer questions , how about this one - how would Shepherd do as Chairman as Norwich? Personally, I'd attribute our relative success (if you can call it that) as down to the nature and number of the fans, and not to the chairman. Any thoughts on how he'd do at a smaller club? Could he turn around Sunderkand for instance?