David Kelly

Probably a combination of that, playing for a manager who's fucking clueless and getting stick of the crowd every time he spins round in the middle of the park but keeps posession!

FYP

La Haine is fucking class. It's possibly even better than City Of God tbh and that's some praise!

Surely long ball football is exactly what the current players (probably Nobby being the exception) are playing!

I would imagine being pissed would add quite a bit to watching something like Team America.

Radiohead are probably the best band on the planet tbh. Kid A and The Bends are two of my favourite ever album with Street Spirit and How To Disapear Completely being two of the most beautiful songs ever. I like all of their albums (and Yorke's solo album) but I do think OK Computer is one of the most overrated albums ever. It's very good but I don't think it's a patch on the two albums they released either side of it (probably because it's something of a half way point between the two sounds). HTTT is still growing on me now and I think it will probably overtake OK as my third favourite.

La Haine - Excellent French film that comes off as almost a cross between City Of God & Boyz In The Hood.

He's trying to deflect blame from himslef for yet again (he did the same with Kluivert) being arrogant enough to beleive we will be in Europe every season and allowing a player to have ridiculous get out clause in his contract. And yet again he's making a complete arse of himself doing this in the press. You couldn't blame Owen from wanting away with the state the club is in and the way the fat man has gone on about trying to prevent him playing for England, although I would be disapointed if he's trying to engineer a move after contributing so little to the club.

If Owen is allowed to go for £9m the fat bastard in charge should be the biggest hate figure for putting such a ridiculous clause in his contract! The shambles this club has been since Owens arrival I couldn't blame him one bit for wanting to leave though!

South Tyneside rather than North but I went to The Green at Whitemare Pool the other day and it was very good. A bit more of an adventurous menu than your average pub and good portions for reasonable prices. Plenty of space and no smoking in the restaurant part at least (think it might be throughout). Recommended.

Exactly. But look at most football clubs and how they are set up in terms of coaching staff. Ever notice the amount of coaches Liverpool have? When they beat Chelsea last week they were all on the pitch afterwords and were celebrating with the players... we honestly have Clark (reserve team coach who shouldn't be near the first team on that basis), Terry Mac (who doesn't even come out for the warm ups), Genoe (GK coach), and the fitness coach who does the warm up routines. I remember Allardyce saying he had 29 members of staff working for him at Bolton, ok maybe it's quality not quantity but surely they would be more prepared than NUFC with our set up. Nutritionists, psychologists, etc. all play there part and even if they only bring out an extra 1% of the players then surely they are worth having. So the fact that Terry Mac doesn't come out for warm ups has led you to deduce we don't have a nutritionist Because we do? And a psychologist? And we use prozone? Don't we? I don't know, and neither do you. Have a look. http://www.bwfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Squad...~670354,00.html http://www.bwfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Squad...~670359,00.html http://www.bwfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Squad...~670351,00.html Compared to: Football Management First Team Manager VACANT Caretaker Manager Nigel Pearson Reserve Team Manager Lee Clark First Team Coach Lee Clark First Team Coach Terry McDermott GK Coach Terry Gennoe Academy Manager Joe Joyce Academy Coach Kenny Wharton Academy Coach Peter Beardsley Academy Fitness Coach TBA Academy GK Coach Adam Sadler Academy Physiotherapist Kev Bell Physiotherapist Derek Wright Assistant Physio Paul Ferris Fitness Coach Adrian Lamb Chief Scout David Mills Ferris is gone now is he not?

Aye that's true, but what worries me is that it is more indicative of the current team itself than failings of the manager. There seem to be an awful lot whose head and heart are not at Newcastle or at least don't seem too fussed about winning. That's one thing that impresses me with Allardyce, he seemed to collect many "older" players who could have been considered as being in the "looking for a last pay-day" bracket, yet they seemed to perform for him. What kind of clubs did these players come from? Big clubs with big expectations. Perhap the key to their success is the fact Bolton were always the plucky over-achievers and Allardyce could use that to motviate them. I don't buy that he magically made them fit again, it's all mental. I doubt that mind-set will fit here. That's a big assumption that appears to made purely on the basis that you don't like him! Observation and suppostition, not assupmtion What's your theory then? I would say that he is able to motivate and coach players into performing to their capacity. I think the available facts support that. I think suggesting it has something to do with the players being at a smaller club (not always the case since he has got performances out of players brought in from smaller clubs or Bolton's youth team to perform as well) and away from the pressure they had been under is just an assumption. We have signed players from bigger clubs than ourselves and their performances haven't matched what they produced at the bigger clubs so I don't think that line of reasoning follows.

No more lonely nights!

Aye that's true, but what worries me is that it is more indicative of the current team itself than failings of the manager. There seem to be an awful lot whose head and heart are not at Newcastle or at least don't seem too fussed about winning. That's one thing that impresses me with Allardyce, he seemed to collect many "older" players who could have been considered as being in the "looking for a last pay-day" bracket, yet they seemed to perform for him. What kind of clubs did these players come from? Big clubs with big expectations. Perhap the key to their success is the fact Bolton were always the plucky over-achievers and Allardyce could use that to motviate them. I don't buy that he magically made them fit again, it's all mental. I doubt that mind-set will fit here. That's a big assumption that appears to made purely on the basis that you don't like him!

40k a week for his is fucking ridiculous anyway. It's about time we stopped thowing stupid amounts of money at players who aren't good enough to deserve it!

I'm not convinced how pivitol the role of reserve coach is the club anyway. On SSN yesterday they had an article about how the likes of Wenger and Mourinho would like to have their reserve teams playing in the league the same way they do in other contries and they were talking to Gary Ablett who's the bin dippers reserve coach. It made me think that I had never noticed him on the bench for Liverpool games (most if not all of their senior coaches seem to be foreign) the way Clarkie is for us. Let's face it, very few of the senior players get anything other than an occasional run out for the reserves anyway. I'm not saying that we should just let any idiot take charge of the reserves but that if we had a propper first team coaching set up, it possibly shouldn't be such a high profile role!

I can understand why people are against Allardyce, he's an easy man to dislike if your not supporting the team he's managing. Under him Bolton have been a physical team who don't exactly play football in a way that is a joy to watch. He wouldn't be my first choice if we had any manger in world football to pick from but quite obviously after the last two appointments the very top managers are not knocking our door down. Allardyce does have a lot of the attributes our fans have been crying out for the last few seasons. Under him Bolton have become a team that no one likes to play against and who regularly take points of the the top four clubs. They are well organised and seem to have a good coaching set up (one that has been maintained even after senior members have left to take up managerial posts of their own). All of these things are the complete opposite of how things have been going here since Robson left (at least). He has also managed to get the best out of the players he has had many of whom were thought to be lacking in quality orfinished before he signed them. Speed is a obvious example but also look at the likes of Kevin Davies. He went to clubs for big money and was a complete flop who looked to be heading down the divisons. At Bolton he has been transformed. Some of the players that have been and are still at the club have underperformed immensly and I don't buy claims that they aren't really good enough or that Newcastle is such a hard place to come and play because of the pressures the fans put on the players. Hopefully if Allardyce does come he might finally be able to get some performances out of the likes of Dyer, Emre, Duff and others because I do believe we still have good players here. I have reservations about appointing someone who has only managed at smaller clubs in the past but least he has done it well for most part and showed a steady progression and hopefully he can show the same type of progression with us. Under Souness and Roeder we have gone miles backwards and I'm sure if Allardyce can show some forward movement (which is really all Robson did in his first couple of seasons) then he will be afforded the time it takes to do the job.

Probably and no!

That is the most astounding post I have ever read I personally would accept Hitler as manager with Phol Pott as his number 2 if we had the chance to become arrogant win-stuff all the time fans. Nice guys come second (or 11th-15th in our case) Immaterial anyway, ain't gonna happen sadly I'm not sure I'd go that far, turning Leazes park into a death camp just wouldn't sit right with me and there'd be a horrible smell on match days (although they could use the SOL as there's a stink there anyway). But to not want a bloke who's won just about everything there is to win to come and manage us because he's arrogant or whatever other character flaws are being attriuted to him is just laughable (even more so than believing it could actually happen in the first place). Does this also cover players too SSH? As I can't believe you are still supporting us with some of the pricks we have (have had recently) playing for us!

I've got nothing.

I was thinking fuck me Souness looks almost unrecognisable at first!

You are aware The Sopranos is back? Not on UK telly yet and I only download music I forgive you then. That's very big of you.

You are aware The Sopranos is back? Not on UK telly yet and I only download music

Dazed and Confused is actually probably the best.

Bjork - Volta