Craig

Wenger needs a fucking slap tbh, his reasoning for Flamini not deserving of a red card was that he didn't make contact.... Never mind the intent though, eh Arsene?

There's a rumour going round that he could have them all by the end of the summer if he wanted to...

nice little sidestep. suggesting he deliberately wants a manager to fail is laughable though.. While you think about an answer, explain the difference in terms too .... 93114[/snapback] For one, I've not side-stepped. Secondly, I've never suggested that he deliberately wants a manager to fail... When I said 'engineer', I mean he has performed the actions which have resulted in what we have - I've never said that his goal was to achieve what we have become. But then I don't think Ridsdale wanted to fail at Leeds....

I know what he's getting at and to an extent, I agree... Had his personal life not be as complicated, I'd feel a whole load more happy with the idea..

Reyes' dive yesterday for Arsenal was a fucking disgrace. If the referee is not going to give a penalty in that situation, then surely he has to book the diver?

sorry, I should have said he 'engineers' failures.... Jesus wept!

Knew he's side with Shepherd...

What's their view about the O'Neill stories this morning?

Didn't Greg Dyke resign because of a fuck up that he had absolutely nothing to do with? *playing devil's advocate*

Same as O'Neill 93076[/snapback] True, can't argue with that one...

I think the bloke is straight out of the Cloughie school - his style of management is enthusiastic, passionate and on the whole, successful. Like I said, I know not everyone will agree with me, but I think he's just the bloke we need to get us back up where we belong.

93058[/snapback] I know not everyone will agree with me, but I hope to god Shepherd reads that with interest and acts upon it...

Agree with DotBum... Shepherd is responsible for all those beneath him, particularly those directly beneath him. Souness was repsonsible for the poor footballing decisions, but likewise Shepherd was responsible for the fact that it was Souness who continued to make them...

OK so HTL has changed his mind then! Just so this doesn't degenerate into a 10 page volley between the two of us, I'm referring to a while back when I outlined why I felt Shepherd had contributed to our downfall (timing of sackings, continuing to support Souness long after he should have done, etc) and you replied saying that you were in agreement with me! If you remember, I said that you were replying to my argument with someone else! For the record, I have no gripe with the amount of times / money Fred has provided over the length of his chairmanship. I do feel he had to those considering he was following SJH into the chair and anything less than what he has provided will have been seen as a total failure on his part...

He'll probably come out saying that Souness was obviously holding a gun to Reade's head when he wrote that or some other shit... What's for certain, Leazes won't knock Shepherd - he'll never admit he's wrong about something!

I see you're still plugging along with that line! Think you'll find no-one actually said that, they've said we could have a better chairman than FS but that does not automatically translate into "he appoints shit managers"... It IS....you can't knock him for handing out money to managers, and haven't, you've knocked him for appointing "failures"....so why don't you lay out the criterial you think he should look for ? [none of this hindsight malarkey] 93005[/snapback] Nope, he's been knocked for making failures, not appointing them! We've been here loads of times and 99% of people don't support your view that Shepherd is innocent in all of this - even HTL agrees he's fucked up big time...

about 1½ hours IIRC...

Agreed, although it looks good, the sponsors won't like it and I doubt we'll see that scheme exist beyond a year... It all depends how it shows up on TV I guess.

He only wants the academy job though, he's made that abundantly clear.... I'm speculating, but given the problems he's had with his health, he probably finds that running the academy is a far more relaxing prospect than permanently working with the first team... Just because he isn't working as a coach, doesn't mean he hasn't been offered the role - not everyone wants the top job you know!

Roeder's already said he doesn't want the job and is happy running the academy...

now where've i seen that banner before?

I see you're still plugging along with that line! Think you'll find no-one actually said that, they've said we could have a better chairman than FS but that does not automatically translate into "he appoints shit managers"... As for O'Neill, an obvious improvement on what we had but is he the right man to take us forward? I think under normal circumstances, O'Neill would be an excellent choice, but that fact that his missus is ill fills me with reservations. They're reporting that she's improved but if she was to regress again, would he want time away from the game again? He's also an advocate of the long ball game - something which frustrated the fuck out of the majority of fans under Souness - it's not the style of play I like - if it brought success then great, but I wouldn't personally enjoy watching it... Gut instinct is telling me that this is not the right choice.

The way you used to be able to cheat was play the match and if you won, save the game, if you lost press CTRL ALT + DEL and kill the game! Bit sad doing that though...

Was hoping no-one would pick that one up!

First post in 2 months - of course it's cos you actually like this place rather than the fact that you've been banned from over there, right? 92539[/snapback] You should welcome him with open arms. A real supporter who posts sense, like. 92572[/snapback] You claiming we have none?