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posted Jan 12, 2008

Ninuendo...

"We dont want him at SJP. He's a small club manager with a small club attitude, just like Allardyce."

Face it mate...in terms of results, you're a small club!

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posted Jan 12, 2008

Bad day all round for the barcodes!

Now to put the Black Cats
to the sword tomorrow.

Play up Pompey

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posted Jan 12, 2008

Tinmanx, I concur. Great days when harry was on board at the hammers and it was the biggest shock when he got the push by Brown and co. Not only did he show us but how we suffered without him (relegation etc). He's got Pompey firing and he is loyal I'm glad he stayed put. I can only try but imagine what it would be like if we'd kept him until the current owners.

I think Newcastle are a great club with with great supporters but I don't think Harry would have been the right move for both sides of the coin. There's something fundementally wrong at board level at Newcastle. I think thats obvious? Shearer could be the hero with the people's backing but whatever is going on with the board there? I'm glad they departed company with olderspice. He was turning them into a hoofing long ball team. I read somewhere Keegan with shearer understudy and Sir Bobby sporting director. Sounds good to me?

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posted Jan 12, 2008

Ninuendo...

"We dont want him at SJP. He's a small club manager with a small club attitude, just like Allardyce."

Well you booed out legends like Dalglish and Robson so what do you expect.

Harry is a better manager than Newcastle is a club and he knows that if you can boo a local legend like Sir Bobby out of the club what chance for Harry.

Maybe the 6-0 thrashing by Manu will get you thinking.

BUT I BET THE BOO BOYS WILL TRY AND BOO THE TEAM OUT THE PREMIERSHIP!!!

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posted Jan 12, 2008

TinmanX...

"Saddest day of my life when Harry left the Hammers. The man is loyal through and through and only left because the board stabbed him in the back - didn't show him the loyalty he showed them."

I think he could have done an Arsene Wenger with the Hammers if the board had supported him. Great players like Lampard, Ferdinand et al. Comming through and they were already in the top 6.

Could have gone all the way.

Anyway the club got relegated and the board bought out so the Hammers have done their time and are now supporting Curbs.

Newcastle need to do theirs and start showing their managers some respect.

A lot of great managers have been fired by the FANS.

Most loyal in the world. Barton got it right HORRIBLE!!!

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posted Jan 12, 2008

Sorry phillyboyhammer

"I think Newcastle are a great club with with great supporters but I don't think Harry would have been the right move for both sides of the coin. There's something fundementally wrong at board level at Newcastle."

It is not the board it is the FANS that are the problem.

They booed Kenny Dalglish out the job and almost got relegated.

The booed Sir Bobby Robson out the job despite Shearer asking them to stop and explaining that it kills players confidence when they are being booed by the home fans.

Sam was just the latest manager to be booed out of the job.

The away support is great. But a section of the home support are real trouble and keep killing their managers.

It is not the board it is FANS, because when they turn the team can not get the results and the board have no choice but to change managers.

The only way it will change is if they start banning the BOO Boys from St James.

PS I think Harry would have been a perfect match . Great football and a real eye the game.

But he was right not to take the job. Lots of posts from TOON fans saying even before he turned them down that he was not good enough and they would have booed him into relegation first bad result.

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posted Jan 12, 2008

relegation is on the cards...the next manager at the carTOON will have the freedom of the entire city, be given virgins in his own temple and have shearer clean his shoes with his tongue. It's the only way they'll entice anyone to join a sorry sad excuse of a club. Losers. They deserve every goal scored against them. I have no sympathy with the fans...they've hounded out manager after manager. No time is given, I really hope they go down, the footballing gods will be happy.

And see what happen when Titus isn't around?

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posted Jan 13, 2008

EVEN ARRY THINKS THAT SHEARER SHOULD TAKE OVER AT NEWCASTLE.I THINK THE RUMOR AROUND HIM WAS MANUFACTURED (NOT FOR FREE) TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR SHEARER.

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posted Jan 13, 2008

Oh dear! - the arrogance of the SJP brigade shows through time and time again. They should perhaps have a spell in the Championship and build slowly from there yet they think a miracle is just around the corner. Poor Sam - he had a lot to put up with. A few million in the bank is perhaps reasonable recompense.

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posted Jan 13, 2008

Well Sirbob I agree with a lot of what you say. Harry would be a great manager to grace any team but in the current light and chaos it would be a shame to see his integrity and confidence chewed up by the boo boys (which exist at all clubs let's be honest....even the W Ham fans get the hump at home now and then..ie Reading)- I had read some of the negative press about him taking the job from the fans. However, I'm not convinced by your current chairman sitting with the fans in a Newcastle Jersey listening to them? and as for Shepperd (spell?) and co? I really think you got it wrong with Alderdyce however. He had the arrogance of SAF with nothing to show for it and I think in some ways the players were letting you know they didn't like him either.

I think the fans impatience at wanting some kind of success is at frenzy point right now and blinkering their vision some. It will take some man to harness all that negativity and turn it into back into positive energy but lets not forget it is passion after all?

When the fans are behind the team St James park is a formidable place to go to.

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