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Good coaching will ease those current problems IMO, well some of them anyway. We do need to strengthen but major surgery isn't required. Liverpool were gash last year league wise, one or two additions later and now look at them. For 18 months our players have basically been working without any form of guidance, even great players need guidance. In the short time under Roeder's fairly simple and straightforward guidence, we've improved a lot, now we need guidance in technical areas, allied with a real sense of purpose and continuity, to improve further so we can compete with the Liverpools of this world. There is a good team in there, but it will take someone special to bring it out of them and to improve on a good team by adding to it so it becomes even stronger. And I don't just mean by spending money in the transfer market. The future could be bright if Freddy shines the torch in the right direction...

Chris, Cheers for keeping us updated mate, Im sure theres many of our members who are interested in the work you're doing to push Hitzfeld to the front, top work on this one though! Still reckon thats you and Phil like never seen either of you together or in the same room as the Look North presenter. 108210[/snapback] Not my work Pud mate, I just answer e-mails and delegate, or put people off with my annoying posting style or dictator type ramblings The lads who set up the Hitzfeld site and those that run it as well as one or two from N.O, it's their work mainly, that and everyone who has contributed, regardless of how small or how much. The biggest thing I've been able to bring to the table is a few contacts and the traffic/exposure from N.O and that was already in place anyway (traffic/exposure). We've all contributed man, just by keeping it alive on boards like this one and wors.

Our team and those who play for our club mirror our club, panic, bad timing, wrong choice, big talk, little conviction. Its the culture of the club that needs changed, not the players per se. Two managers would do that, Hitzfeld or Big Sam. The rest would work within the boundries of their job, i.e make do with what they have or get the best out of what they have. Or at least try to. We need more, we need an overhaul from top to bottom on and off the pitch. IMO anyway.

Pearce is no better than Roeder and has done nowt whatsoever to deserve some of the praise and hype he's generating. Typical of wor game actually, has a good run, says the right things and dances about on the touchline - thus becoming the messiah everyone wants. Yet when he has a bad run, or says the wrong things, which he will, people will turn on him, which they will. At the moment it's far too early to judge him either way as a manager and unfair as well. And we wonder why we don't produce good managers... Anyway, the NUFC job requires someone with know-how, tactical acumen, experience, good man management and motivation techniques, someone with a proven track record in a wide range of skills basically. Pearce is not that man... yet, and may never be. Nationality or passion has feck all to do with it. My choice: Foreign - Hitzfeld British - Big Sam If not, give it to Roeder and Big Al, which would be as much a gamble as Pearce, Curbs, Jewell, O'Neill et al. Bruce, El Tel, et al - Tyne jumping time. Get it right Freddy!

Cheeky bastard, I have more hair and I ain't a Smoggy... That's the BBC bloke who's a canny lad even though he set us up, cunt.

Who the hell is this Lukas Ramsauer anyway?? 107940[/snapback] You know your stuff mate, your translation of the quotes is pretty much word for word what was wrote by the lads. Cheers fella for the translation and check your PM. Oh, and cheers Radgina for your attempt too. PS Lukas is the reporter who did the piece.

Footballer earns lots of money and buys flash car with it shocker! World's gone mad.

Whilst (sadly) I agree that we could do a lot worse, that shouldn't however stop us from demanding better or asking pertinent questions about the management of our club or those who 'manage' it. And neither should it ever hold us back from wanting change. Alan Sugar was a Freddy Shepherd, he spent big, or tried to, he targeted big names, he talked the talk, but the people in control of Spurs today, who don't have his wealth or status, run the club much better than he ever did. They sprang out of a boardroom of a corporate bricks and mortar business. Some of them aren't even Spurs supporters or were born within a stones throw of White Hart Lane. It shouldn't be a question of who can replace Shepherd anyway, it doesn't need to be a mega rich businessman, a sugar daddy (Shepherd is neither anyway), or any kind of individual. We don't need a saviour like Steve Gibson or Dave Whelan. We just need a competent board. The club makes enough money to sustain itself. While I would ideally like the CEO or a Chairman of our club to be a Geordie, I realise the merits an independent board can bring, after all Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Utd before and now, were all ran by independent people not blood-tied to the 'their' respective clubs. And look at the success they've had. To sum up, I think we could do a hell of a lot better than FS and the Halls, a hell of a lot better and I'd wager that we would have far more success as a club without them, than with them.

I disagree. One of Freddy Shepherd's biggest strengths which fools a lot of fans, certainly the media, is to be seen to be ambitious (big name signings, big talk etc.) where as his real ambition, his motives and his drive, well that for me doesn't come from any real determination to see Newcastle United become a huge success, or the club we certainly have the potential to be. Oh no, but to make as much money as he can out of the club, for himself, his friends and his family, and for as long as possible. Or for as long as he can get away with it. Money, ego and importance or the feeling of being important, are what drives Freddy Shepherd into work each day, the needs of others beyond his own, i.e. the club's, is secondary. Any level of success we achieve is purely by fault and not by design under Freddy Shepherd and the nepotistic management structure in place at Newcastle he is in control of as Chairman of the club and majority (single) shareholder. The money that the club has invested over the years is not a sign of ambition for me, it would be if it was applied with any real conviction. But we all know, well I do, that big name/big money signings only happen to serve one purpose, to self finance Freddy Shepherd and Co's existence as powerful, rich, football owners/directors/shareholders. Big name players put bums on seats, bums on seats pay big dividends, big dividends buys lots of shares, lots of shares gives one a bigger dividend, a bigger dividend gives one a bigger salary. If Freddy Shepherd was as ambitious as he would like us all to believe, he wouldn't have even considered Graeme Souness who was appointed on the back of a betting scam. (And he had the cheek to question the motives of those fans who want Hitzfeld...) You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. That's all NUFC is and ever will be to these people so long as WE the people who bankroll the club, hand over our hard earned cash or sit on our arses on those plastic seats clapping like seals as we fawn over the latest dream sold to us by... a man who thinks we are all mugs, our women are dogs and who sleeps with prostitutes half his age. A man who sends out Alan Oliver to fill our heads with shite so we don't ask questions about his management which I don't know about you, but is weak as piss. They say in football the table never lies and your position in the table is the true mark of your team, well that also applies to our Chairman. He and he more than anyone is responsible for our current situation which isn't just down to Graeme Souness (far from it) but is the result of a catalogue of mismanagement he was/is at the head of that acted like a domino effect on our club. Or rather an avalanche effect as it transpired.

Same old UM, always bleating... Do you raise your arm aloft like the great man when one lands in that net of yours 103159[/snapback] You should get back to the other board and get my account reopened. 103177[/snapback] Missing us? 103182[/snapback] Not really. Was just going to PM the fella who banned me and labelled me a racist if would be willing to meet me to discuss his accusation or if he would prefer to hide behind his keyboard like a coward? 103184[/snapback] For beer or nuckle dusting?

Same old UM, always bleating... Do you raise your arm aloft like the great man when one lands in that net of yours 103159[/snapback] You should get back to the other board and get my account reopened. 103177[/snapback] Missing us?

EDIT (Pud): dont normally edit posts for rudey words but theres nae need for that like. 103169[/snapback] Agreed.

Aye I enjoyed that first time round, canny ending.

Same old UM, always bleating... Do you raise your arm aloft like the great man when one lands in that net of yours

Aye pick on them for a change instead of N.O

Casino the other neet on that new channel. Great film. One of the best IMO.

Like one of my articles this... just keeps going and going and going and on and on and ariston. Anyone remember that ad? What was it about again? Reminds me of this thread, or should I say this thread reminds me of that. Fook knows. BTW who is this RS2000 character then? I have my suspicions.

Didn't Saha threaten to go on strike if he didn't get his move?

Chris Evans Robbie Williams Robson Green Timmy Mallet Any random mackem

I've heard Chopra could start if Shearer doesn't make it. Toontastic exclusive

Them look familiar

1-1 bore draw, Shay to get our goal from a long punt up to Ameobi who jumping a whole 10 minutes before the shadow of the ball passes his head, creates some kind of wind factor, forcing the ball over Westerveld's head for a remarkable goal.

Same here. Went and deleted my media drive or whatever it's called by accident. The thing that lets you play music, watch mpges/avis etc.

tbh