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Keeping powder dry is a Bobby Robsonism tbh.

and northern monkey off newcastle online. He seethes for a living tbh.

Mourinho and his Blanket yesterday

Comment in the Mirror article today suggests Cole didnt want to come here. Never forgiven Cole for singing that song at Wembley with the Mancs either.

See the Maccarone quotes about McClaren this morning? Slated. Allardyce might have done a good job but he didnt want to leave Bolton. Just read the letter in full in The Times. Oops! Puff tbh.

Adam mate, you've done this before (comparing the management and strategic planning in your company to that at NUFC) and I can't help but feel it's a sackable offence. The you've missed the point, not even we have it down to a precise science. We've been 'planning' this deal for 12 months and its about to go tits up. I don't think I have missed the point tbh. Newcastle haven't operated with a plan for a long time. That's my point. And I'm not sure we had much of a one for this last window. Certainly nothing realistic if this list of Roeder's is actually true. Of course plans can go wrong and not work out, but I think you're crediting NUFC with a bit too much intelligence. Then you dont mean plan, you mean vision You are right though, how could we have had a proper direction as a club with the appointments and decisions that have been made. Its important now that someone is allowed to do what Allardyce did and have a strategic vision of where the club should be and how it should make the best use of its resources. Roeder's comments this morning shows he has a vision for where the club should be in the future. Sounds like a plan to me. I meant Allardyce coming to us too.

See the Maccarone quotes about McClaren this morning? Slated. Allardyce might have done a good job but he didnt want to leave Bolton.

Adam mate, you've done this before (comparing the management and strategic planning in your company to that at NUFC) and I can't help but feel it's a sackable offence. The you've missed the point, not even we have it down to a precise science. We've been 'planning' this deal for 12 months and its about to go tits up. http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/new...ng_longterm.php Richie, how many times do Bolton lob it into the penalty area and bundle it over the line? I wasnt really making a point about playing style, just that i know which club is 'better' to support, although clearly trying to be objective about it is impossible. Alex, just knowing i can have a drink with you makes the experience worthwhile

I meant watching the shite that they serve up as entertainment not just visiting that plastic shithole. Apologies, i didnt mean to flit about the subject. Our previous strategy fell on its arse and we are now in a fucked state as a club. Bolton have done better this season but they arent exactly inspiring.

I'd rather have my eyeballs syringed than go to the Reebok week in week out.

Planning is an inexact science. There are too many unknowns in business to have a contingency for every eventuality that your environment throws up. I think there have been conflicting priorities for the club and the main one has been to stabilise the business and shift the overall philosophy from gambling on big signings. To what is not yet clear. I have always said that the transfer market is too uncertain to have a fixed plan as each deal is related to other deals in the way the housing market is. In the business i work in, we have a strategic brand plan each year that is revised as an ongoing process a minimum of 3 times in the year due to unforeseen challenges. We deliver over £30 billion of sales each year so we are really expert at it too. Still feels like guesswork though. Tomorrow my boss is in Philadelphia doing due dilligence on a product we need. The company that owns it wants to deal but they also want to merge their whole business with our main competitor, in which case the deal is off. If we dont get it, we will be fucked in the area for good. Failure of management if it doesnt come off? Not in the slightest imo.

Missy Elliot?

Gooch and Bramble are like War of the Worlds tbh.

No, I think Roeder would like a load of other additions to the squad and would like everyone fit. Just think O'Neill is a far better manager. Their relative track-records prove that tbh. O'Neill is a better manager, but I consider him slightly above average and not the 'Mr Fixit' everyone pants on about. Hes probably still a bit ring-rusty having been out of the game for a while.

racailles is french for Charvas ??? Basically aye. Or scum Same derivation as rascal i would have thought.

Charvas.

Sweeping Hollywood shots of Whitley are one thing you dont expect to see in a cinema.

I do a good impression tbf. What? Slightly retarded? At least i'm not pointing at one of yer norks and saying it this time In that i typed the NO code for that smilie first off and wanted to sound like Pipkin in the original post, aye.

I do a good impression tbf.

show ??? No. I value my bollocks and if wor lass thinks i've been flashing her photo about on t'internet to people who I barely know she'll cut the twats off. Alternatively, it's on my MySpace profile so if you have a hunt on the forums for that you'll find it. So its on the internet anyway

I want that one...

Whats that? Looks like it says SPIV. Top brand name that. What?? Orange?? Aye, it is pretty well known! What with all this RoKr, Pebble etc shite that mobile companies come out with, the SPIV would actually be quite good. You would have to wear winkle-pickers and a crombie at the same time to complete the look though.

Photo of SJP from my mates place on Leazes Tce.