Big TRon

To add to the obvious reasons, i.e., wasting money on twats like Barton, poor selections, dire football etc, there are the fans to consider as well. At the end of the day they pay the wages and buy the shirts. How many would keep stumping up hard earned cash to watch that shite? It's all just speculation but if a decision has been reached then why pussyfoot around?

Problem is it's not ironic. It's being descriptive.

Because he was shit as well as all of the above. You have to wonder if the Barton situation had something to do with this. At Bolton, a lot of Allardyce's fuck ups were just pushed out to the back paddock so no-one would notice. I'm sorry Sam but 'because he was shit' doesn't cut it for me considering the circumstances, the statements, the initial backing and the recent transfers. I want a more accurate answer to be honest. He wasn't doing a very good job? As opposed to getting sacked for doing well? Which one do you think? Or do you want Mort & Ashley to type up a 1500 page dissertation which will be mailed to your address explaining in detail?

Hopefully Ashley will shove their words back down their throats with the right appointment.

Just my opinion but yes, I think it does. I think 'image' is very important in attracting the calibre of manager you want. To me this sends out a message of following the whims of the fans and I'm not sure that will appeal to a lot of managers. that's nowt a large wad of money can't fix is it?

Because he was shit as well as all of the above. You have to wonder if the Barton situation had something to do with this. At Bolton, a lot of Allardyce's fuck ups were just pushed out to the back paddock so no-one would notice. I'm sorry Sam but 'because he was shit' doesn't cut it for me considering the circumstances, the statements, the initial backing and the recent transfers. I want a more accurate answer to be honest. He wasn't doing a very good job?

Al ittle from column A and a little from column B...

But I don't see how signing players like Smith would have helped him to his long term goals. Alan Smith is a decent player but he wouldn't get a regular game at a top 5/6 team which is where the aspirations/long term goals should be for your club. I could understand Keane signing somebody like Smith as his 'goals' are different, avoiding relegation. To me, NUFC were never in danger of that so the goals should be to challenge the top 4 and players like Smithy won't help to do that. Good insightful comments those.

I heard James Bl©unt has written a song about it and kid cock is auditioning for the stage show. Why is it twats like you only ever point to what Mourinho, not that he's coming here because he doesn't even live in the country hey skol(?), only ever remember him at Chelsea, it's not as if he had any success before that did he? Allardyce has to go, the club couldn't afford him to spunk anymore money on the likes of Nolan and then expect the next manager (and there was always going to be a next manager) to work with the shite Allardyce would of left at the club on 4 or 5 year contracts. end of story.

I'm not sad to see Allardyce go. He was so full of tactical garbage and percentages he couldn't put out a team to beat Derby FFS. Not being able to get the best out of your players doesn't strike me as good management, and I'm glad Ashley was decisive.

That's how I see it as well. Although I'd be disappointed with both those guys mentioned.

Well I'm trying to look on the bright side if it's 'appy 'arry as all the press speculation seems to think. The only plus I've come up with so far is the football will be more entertaining even if it is by default rather than through any great master plan.

Don't want: Mclaren Redknapp Hughes Moyes Won't get: Wenger

fucking hell..

you reckon he's got the 'world class manager' lined up that happy face is prediciting then? if he has, fair play to him and i'll admit i'm wrong. i'm suprised no one else shares my conceren tbh. what top manager is going to fancy a job that's average term over the past decade has been just over a year? To be fair Spurs have had (more or less) as much of a turnover of managers as us over the last 11 years or so and still managed to attract Ramos Good managers don't avoid taking a top job in case they might get sacked. They'll think they are the bees knees and what a result it would be to win something at such a fantastic club.

you reckon he's got the 'world class manager' lined up that happy face is prediciting then? if he has, fair play to him and i'll admit i'm wrong. i'm suprised no one else shares my conceren tbh. what top manager is going to fancy a job that's average term over the past decade has been just over a year? One who believes in himself and wants to be at one of the biggest clubs in the Premiership with a billionaire owner?

if you're right, then i would have to agree. but we'll have to wait to see who he does have lined up - my concern is that he has gone down the same route as shepherd and pandered to the frenzy that's been whipped up without lining up a top quality replacement. like, i said though, i'll be happy to eart my words if i'm wrong and a top mananager is on his way. Ashley might also have reasoned that a caretaker manager had more chance of getting points on the board than Allardyce. I hope it's not the situation but you could make a case for it.

Frankly I don't give a flying fuck what the press or the rest of the country thinks. It's not them who had to sit week in week out watching decent players look like garbage against the worst teams in the division. I'm also pleased Ashley doesn't give a flying fuck what the press thinks either.

i would have too if they were opening up a new chain of sports shops Shearer it is then. assuming geordies are as thick as you presume them to be.

Mourinho obviously, but the timing is wrong. if we were going to get him, we would have waited till the summer when he was eligible to manage in England again. Can't think who the fuck else it might be tbh. You would think it would be someone big to have made such a decisive decision now.

I just posted something similar in the other thread.

I feel sorry for Allardyce but I can't say I'm disappointed. Three years to become Bolton didn't really fill me with hope and excitement.

Depends on who's coming in. Shearer, Redknapp or, God forbid, Mclaren - not at all. I'd rather see Keegan back tbh but only in a temporary role till the summer, when we would unveil Mourinho.

Not a big fan either but he's better in there than Smith and the likes of Geremi have been shocking in centre-mid too. He does have a lot more ability mind than any of our central midfielders on the ball, which is really a damning state of our central midfield at the moment. If you watch him when he comes on, he makes some nifty passes that none of the others could even dream of making, yet he is just far too inconsistent with his game, and loses his rag far too often. Perfect example against Citeh, he made a lovely ball near the end over the top to Owen who was just marginally offside, I mean first of all he actually anticipated the run of Owen, and actually executed the pass with ease, you'd see a lot of difference in Owen as well IMO if he had players around him who could pick out some of the runs he makes, as when you're watching him at the match, he does make a lot of clever runs, but we don't have the players to read the situation around him and who can actually pick him out. Ultimately Emre doesn't have the physique to cut it at the highest level so I am not fussed if he goes at all. Whoever comes in as a replacement will have a similar problem as a playmaker, and that is lack of movement around him and Allardyce not being a fan of bringing the ball out of defence, preferring to hoof it instead.

That's Emre gone then.