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I found it interesting the other day when Parsnip was talking about the transfer window and he said "we put players to the board......". "We". Possibly an insignificant word, but I found it a bit more than that. It's wonderful how things can work when you have a head scout rather than a DoF. I found it interesting the other day when Parsnip was talking about the transfer window and he said "we put players to the board......". "We". Possibly an insignificant word, but I found it a bit more than that. It's wonderful how things can work when you have a head scout rather than a DoF. Aye Ashley has realised the stupidity of appointing 3 blokes in Wise,Jiminez an Vetere to do a job Graham Carr appears to be able to do 3 times as well on his own. Am I right in saying only Vukic looks like making it out of the players Wise & co brought into the club?..

Can you give an example of Hughton's reluctance to toe the party line? He played hell when Carroll was sold and not replaced and was sacked soon after. Pardew has had Barton, Enrique and Nolan flogged and has barely grumbled. Let's not pretend Pardew wasn't solely employed as a YES man just because Joey Barton said something nice about him. Neither could hold a candle to Keegan or Robson either btw. Like either of those would have stood for MA changing the name of the ground, plastering huge signs everywhere or buying and selling players behind the managers backs. That happened to Robson, and he stood for it. Can you give an example of this during Sir Bob's time here? Robson also wanted to sell Shearer to Liverpool after they offered £5 million for him, but Shepherd wouldn't let him do so. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...es-decline.html All true. Speed was on his way out as a player and we'd bought (expensively and on paper, quite well iyam) his replacement/s in Jenas and Viana. Bowyer was apparently disliked by Shepherd and seeing as how he was brought in on free Shep may have seen a profit to be made and a wage off the bill. And I thiink you've read the Shearer thing wrong. They got an offer and it was turned down. Shearer was bigger than the club and Shepherd both knew it and allowed it to happen when he shouldve been replaced before he retired. Sir Bob's book (your source for the other two examples) doesnt state that he wanted to sell him, it says he wanted to bring in Emile M'penza and ease Shearer out of the first team picture. I didnt state that it hadnt happened. I gave a plausible reason why things like that do happen at football clubs. There are others as you've stated. What about the rest of my post though?....any manager of KK or Sir Bob's vintage wouldnt put up with whats going on at SJP in 2011. Things are changing in football in this country, things are going a lot more "continental"...we've got that set up here. I just can't see where its going to go with a manager not being given the profits made on players to reinvest in the squad, like the financial support Redknapp has received at Spurs. We're not going to progress as a football club with the policy we have here at the moment. Without making excuses for Ashley (because it isn't that), what actual sense is there in saying that profits on player transactions should be ringfenced for player acquisitions? It actually bears no relationship to the overall budget of the club. Also, in a way it endorses the practice of buying and then selling at a profit-the very thing that everyone is up in arms about. I think you have to dissociate the two things tbh. Obviously it's easy for players to come out and say that's what should happen, but then they're only interested in that money ending up in their pockets at the end of the day and wouldn't have the first inkling as to the economy of running a football club-even if they are disposed to imply that they do I'm not an accountant or all that business literate tbh. But I can see Spurs selling Berbatov and Carrick and susequently qualifying for the champions league, something they didnt acheive with those players in the side. And Spurs acheived it with a wages cieling. And the'll be there or there abouts 4-6th this season again, possibly even higher. Thats because they got a manager of proven ability and gave him some money to make his own choices with. They generated a lot of that cash by selling players they already had. All that is vastly different to how things have been done here, apart from selling our best players. What the players have subsequently said has to be taken with a bucket load of salt as you say. Fuck knows what Barton and Nolan wanted in the first place, but there was a chance for compromise iyam, not just shoving them out the door. So if theyd signed at the start of the year would Enrique have stayed?...probably not, but we'll never know because there was no intention to keep him anyway, judging by his contract offer of the same money he was on. And as you say we dont know if new contracts for those 3 wouldve made us financially head towards the receivership courts but I doubt if it they would have. Look at Spurs...We're 10-15k fans a fortnight better off than them and we act like fuckin Wigan. I suppose we're all guessing to a large extent but we're going nowhere and it doesnt matter if Pardew is the secret lovechild of the little known unholy union of Sir Matt Busby,Jose Mourihno and Roy of the fuckin Rovers thats not going to change with the clowns we have in charge.

That was my question that was being answered and not Leazes. What the fuck has it got to do with him in this thread?....you can answer my pioints if you like, but anyone would think that you were trying to hijack this thread to start a petty argument with him....again...

Can you give an example of Hughton's reluctance to toe the party line? He played hell when Carroll was sold and not replaced and was sacked soon after. Pardew has had Barton, Enrique and Nolan flogged and has barely grumbled. Let's not pretend Pardew wasn't solely employed as a YES man just because Joey Barton said something nice about him. Neither could hold a candle to Keegan or Robson either btw. Like either of those would have stood for MA changing the name of the ground, plastering huge signs everywhere or buying and selling players behind the managers backs. That happened to Robson, and he stood for it. Can you give an example of this during Sir Bob's time here? Robson also wanted to sell Shearer to Liverpool after they offered £5 million for him, but Shepherd wouldn't let him do so. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...es-decline.html All true. Speed was on his way out as a player and we'd bought (expensively and on paper, quite well iyam) his replacement/s in Jenas and Viana. Bowyer was apparently disliked by Shepherd and seeing as how he was brought in on free Shep may have seen a profit to be made and a wage off the bill. And I thiink you've read the Shearer thing wrong. They got an offer and it was turned down. Shearer was bigger than the club and Shepherd both knew it and allowed it to happen when he shouldve been replaced before he retired. Sir Bob's book (your source for the other two examples) doesnt state that he wanted to sell him, it says he wanted to bring in Emile M'penza and ease Shearer out of the first team picture. I didnt state that it hadnt happened. I gave a plausible reason why things like that do happen at football clubs. There are others as you've stated. What about the rest of my post though?....any manager of KK or Sir Bob's vintage wouldnt put up with whats going on at SJP in 2011. Things are changing in football in this country, things are going a lot more "continental"...we've got that set up here. I just can't see where its going to go with a manager not being given the profits made on players to reinvest in the squad, like the financial support Redknapp has received at Spurs. We're not going to progress as a football club with the policy we have here at the moment.

Can you give an example of Hughton's reluctance to toe the party line? He played hell when Carroll was sold and not replaced and was sacked soon after. Pardew has had Barton, Enrique and Nolan flogged and has barely grumbled. Let's not pretend Pardew wasn't solely employed as a YES man just because Joey Barton said something nice about him. Neither could hold a candle to Keegan or Robson either btw. Like either of those would have stood for MA changing the name of the ground, plastering huge signs everywhere or buying and selling players behind the managers backs. That happened to Robson, and he stood for it. Almost all managers are told to raise cash by selling players at some point in their careers knowing full well the cash won't be re invested in the squad. Thats how we got Batty out of the blue from Leeds, they needed the cash for a bill for something or other.Can you give an example of this during Sir Bob's time here? The thing Sir Bob wouldnt have put up with is the wholesale shipping out of the most talented (and opinionated tbf) players from the sqaud to be replaced with unproven cheap foreign replacements, and with no chance of the mananger himself reinvesting any profits made back into the squad, relying chiefly on a DoF/cheif scout to identify talent for the team, a team managed by a man who is responsible for the results of a team largely recruited by others. KK could see the game at SJP and walked. So would have Sir Bob iyam. Old Skool. Pardew will put up with this situation with little or no complaint. Makes him a fuckin puppet in my book. The best thing I can say about him is he seems to learn from his mistakes. But he has been hamstrung by the unwillingness of the club to finance a centre forward for the team and players signed with questionable medical backgrounds. This situation would drive anyone fuckin mental...keeping a team of millionaires happy and motivated and also having to dance to the owner/chairman's tune. If we don't get a centre forward in January then I'd expect him to walk if he has a shred of pride in himself. If we're down near the bottom I think they'll sack him anyway. If we're bobbing along in mid table acheiving next to fuck all then things will stay as they are.

Can you give an example of Hughton's reluctance to toe the party line? He played hell when Carroll was sold and not replaced and was sacked soon after. Pardew has had Barton, Enrique and Nolan flogged and has barely grumbled. Let's not pretend Pardew wasn't solely employed as a YES man just because Joey Barton said something nice about him. Neither could hold a candle to Keegan or Robson either btw. Like either of those would have stood for MA changing the name of the ground, plastering huge signs everywhere or buying and selling players behind the managers backs. Mental. Or am I missing some outrageous sarcasm. Thats what I'm thinking....am I reading that right?.....Hughton kicked up fuck when Carroll was sold in January this year, even though Hughton had been sacked the previous November?..

Rangers 4 Celtic 2 ft Naismith with 2 for Rangers, he's a canny player iyam, Jelavich too. Mulgrew sent off for Celtic at 3-2.

red card for Charlie Adam at WHL Rangers 3 Celtic 2 about 18 mins left.... not a lot of skill on show but an exciting match according to Pat Nevin on 5live

Sixteen months after we became champions of what used to be called division 2, our opponents in the game which saw us reach that summit lie bottom of the entire football league, 4 points adrift with one point from 9 games.Players have been unpaid for months now as takeover plans have failed to come to fruition. And now this morning theyve sacked their manager, one Mr P Reid, formerly of Albainia-on-Wear...sacked for a poor run of results apparently, by (you'll never guess, top man at a crisis hit club) Peter fuckin Ridsdale http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14964634.stm

Tuesday night 20th September v Nottingham Forest in the Carling Cup according to Alan Pardew about half an hour ago

If Carter and McCaw are crocked (both injured at the moment) thats a statement of supreme over confidence old son......imagine NZ fucking up at the world cup...who'd have thought that?

Not sold out according to .com.....its the commentry match on 5live this afternoon. Will be pleasantly surprised with a point, think we'll lose by 2 goals though. Monday night was fuckin painful to watch.

Any almond + sugar based baked crumbly thing or confectionary type stuff is truly the snack of the gods....Mrs PL is addicted to cake, so am off to see her in a minute to give her one.....lemon drizzle tonight I'd wager...

Anyone mentioned the SBR fund swindle on there yet? Think am still banned :-D

On what basis would NUFC report McKay? Representing Barton with NUFC and QPR, i think thats frowned upon which is why they claim Barton represented himself in the QPR deal. But he was going on a free anyway, it's not like we missed out on any money. Unless you're suggesting that McKay induced Barton into those tweets in order to get a free transfer? If we learnt anything this summer it was the freer the transfer the higher the agent fee. I presume by representing himself Barton also would have gained financially. An intereting set of incentives at play anyway. Only 2 parties involved no "transfer fee" for the clubs to haggle about. So only the contract to negotiate....how the fuck can Mckay justify at least 1 million for an afternoon's work?....the likes of Fifa and the FA want shooting for handing a huge amount of control of the game over to the likes of these fuckers. Middle men are cunts. What the fuck do they bring to party?....am all for a player's interests' to be protected but if they used the PFA or some other registered salaried individual then the huge fees agents pick up could either go to the talent or stay in the game. How much skill does it take to negotiate a contract?...can you get a book from the library on it?..I'd be tempted to do that rather than line the pockets of some spiv with ideas above his station in life Yeah get a book out the library. yeah well.."football contracts for idiots" could be a bestseller What do you actually need to know?......if we take this story at face value then Barton and Mckay have between them extorted a couple of million out of 2 football clubs for next to no effort, just by being a bit smart,very brazen and not giving a fuck about the consequences. I'm not saying I could do it, but I really don't think it's rocket science.

Ray Parlour...the Romford Pele was there an Italian called Roberto Punucci or something?.....

On what basis would NUFC report McKay? Representing Barton with NUFC and QPR, i think thats frowned upon which is why they claim Barton represented himself in the QPR deal. But he was going on a free anyway, it's not like we missed out on any money. Unless you're suggesting that McKay induced Barton into those tweets in order to get a free transfer? If we learnt anything this summer it was the freer the transfer the higher the agent fee. I presume by representing himself Barton also would have gained financially. An intereting set of incentives at play anyway. Only 2 parties involved no "transfer fee" for the clubs to haggle about. So only the contract to negotiate....how the fuck can Mckay justify at least 1 million for an afternoon's work?....the likes of Fifa and the FA want shooting for handing a huge amount of control of the game over to the likes of these fuckers. Middle men are cunts. What the fuck do they bring to party?....am all for a player's interests' to be protected but if they used the PFA or some other registered salaried individual then the huge fees agents pick up could either go to the talent or stay in the game. How much skill does it take to negotiate a contract?...can you get a book from the library on it?..I'd be tempted to do that rather than line the pockets of some spiv with ideas above his station in life

Don't you need folk like Moore though to be the antidote to the other foaming mouthed nutters in the US media who oppose everything he says though?....the best ("truest"?)way of thinking about these things is to pick and choose valid points from both sides. Going into Afghanistan could be justified in 2001, going into Iraq the following year was fuckin lunacy iyam.

hadn't seen that....local property devloper/football club "saviour"/gangster Eddie Mitchell inviting the "Steve Fletcher Stand" regulars for a chat. Steve Fletcher is still a player at AFCB and the stand named in his honour has a life sized effigy of the player himself perched on top of it some strangely similar sentiments to our own in the local rag... http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/924..._on_field_rant/ even more worrying, from the bbc report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/e..._2/14773109.stm

All things being equlal, he should be on the bench tomorrow night. Ryan Taylor's done nowt wrong this season bar being shown up a bit by Gervinho in the first half v Arsenal. No disgrace in that. If Simpson's not at the top of his game he can be shown up by virtually anyone. And this season of all seasons we need all the goal threat we can get on to the pitch. Cheers again Mike.

Got this from the fb page.... looks like someone was a Lee Payne fan I think this was from the live Sunday game v manu the season we went down, nowts each?.....check out the manu side...Garton? Gill? Ralph fuckin Milne? Fergie's brought them a long way. Was up most of the night before this match getting bombed in various ways..then straight into the Strawberry for the best part of a gallon of draught Becks, into the ground where I promptly fell over right in front one of Northumbria's finest..."a knaa ye are fuckin wrecked but just fuckin behave" he uttered whilst helping me to my feet, best copper Ive ever met at a football game looks like I'm struggling to embed this is the link

2 nowt to Chelsea.......Sturrigde has just done what Ballotelli did in pre season for citeh apparently only Sturridge scored his backheel and wasnt substituted

The Chronic just emailed the questions to the PR bird at SJP and got a entirely predictable set of bland corporate PR bullshit answers. No chance to challenge the answers (and no doubt no effort to even propose that on the Chron's side) but when the next horrendous set of club decisions occur (my guess, late January/early February ) and provokes a reaction from the fans they can point to " we answered fans questions in September blah blah blah...." Utterly pointless excercise and sadly all too predictable.

Its paul wyn I feel sorry for...hes been accused of being a paedo in gen chat and nobody has flounced on his behalf.... ;-)

The problem is around 1 in 7 English players are black. Even allowing for foreign managers,the Glasgow gang,multi millionaire players and Fergie seemingly going on till hes 108, there should still be more than 2 black managers from 92 clubs. The Rooney rule changed a similar situation in the NFL. Dont know how it would get on here, but the 2007 superbowl was contested by 2 teams lead by black head coaches. Teams aren't forced to appoint a black guy, just interview them. But that would indicate some sort of process, not just phoning big Sams agent and offering him the job like that....