Renton

Thing is Leazes, one thing you constantly choose to ignore in your comparison of Shepherd with other chairmen is the comparatively large resources at his disposal. If you compare hime to the chairmen or chief execs of comparable clubs (e.g. Arsenal, Liverpool), I think you will find he doesn't compare favourably at all.

Working in the medical field I reckon this is pretty essential like. But I'm a bit embarassed to ask for it.....

You crazee foo.

You're all a bunch of bastid splitters. I'm sticking with O'Neill until tuesday at least.

100134[/snapback] I'm the Graham Le Saux of this board tbh. Anyway, is there any news yet?

It'll be the first match you've been to tbh.

LM's gonna go mental. Not only are you saying he can't abuse Souness over Luque, you're actually saying he's duty-bound to transfer all the abuse he's given Souness onto Shepherd. Oh dearie me. 100094[/snapback] I would concur with that actually. Luque is certainly not a Souness player, he smacks of a desperation buy by Shepherd to get bums on seats. What's worse is when we bought Owen he became entirely superfluous. LM's constant harping on about Shepherd is getting a bit tiresome now tbh, I expect I'm going to regret saying this.

Theatre Royal? Is pantomime still on like??? 100052[/snapback] Pleb.

HTT, can I just say in a non-patronizing way, you can be genuinely funny when you take your head out your arse. 100063[/snapback] HTT will be back soon. 100065[/snapback] That's the stuff. Maybe when this manager stuff is over the two forums should merge.

HTT, can I just say in a non-patronizing way, you can be genuinely funny when you take your head out your arse.

I've just passed SJP on my way back from the theatre Royal (cos I'm cultured like) and can report Fat Fred's car was still parked there. Make of that what you will.

Are you not pleased we kept him? I know he's injured constantly, but I think if (huge if) we can get him playing regularly he's a big player for us. We look a totally different team when he's on song. 99906[/snapback] Gemmill, he's on song as you put it twice a year on average and has been for the 8 years or so. We were mad to renew his contract.

We were lucky to draw a lot of those games to be fair. Can you really see no improvement under Roeder?

Ahem, you need educating.

Utter shite! A souness team would have lost tonight with Ameobi on the left and Luque up front from the start. We never looked in trouble (perhaps minorly in the closing stages) and just missed the world class strikers we have. A Souness team would have used that as an excuse to be outplayed all over the park. 99495[/snapback] Exactly right. The difference was we had shape and structure, and a degree of belief and determination. It was always going to be difficult with a side lacking any decent strikers or pace - that isn't Roeder's fault. Optomistic nut you're either being a wum or an idiot, I reckon probably the latter. 99618[/snapback] Neither, just putting my opinion across that I didn't see a lot of difference last night, to what I saw versus West Ham, Fulham, Boro, etc. You're saying, "It was always going to be difficult with a side lacking any decent strikers or pace", yet that was the case with a great deal of Souness' matches yet that excuse wasn't allowed! 99868[/snapback] I would say the injury problem we have now is worse than just about anything Souness had to put up with, at least up front. Shearer only missed one game prior to his latest injury which was a write off anyway. At least under Roeder we play with some structure and width, we are organised. Not only that but the passing is better and the defence has improved. I think we would have lost that game under Souness and I'm surprised you can't see that tbh.

My that's a lot of votes!

Thanks lads and lasses for participating in my first poll on this forum. When we get the results in (by Tuesday), I'll e-mail them to the Chronicle, Fat Fred, and SuperMac.

I agree. There are plenty of people who are uneducated about Marty, as you say refer them to Alex's dossier and educate them. If they are still unconvinced, they are lost - forget about them and move on.

Great news! When will this happen? 99825[/snapback] Tuesday. Which tuesday though is anyone's guess.

Ahh yes, I remember that now. T'was funny like. Definitely the way he tells it! I'm slowly forgiving him for Mr Bean. Very slowly mind.

99811[/snapback] Can someone give me a synopsis please? Wtf is this thread about?

And anyway, don't we need our own forum which we can run for a bit before deleting it?

You can tell you're desperate to be a mod.

Thing is, they presented virtually no attacking threat. Unfortunately neither did we.

That's great. Don't forget to divide it into three columns and put some pics in.