Football: Season 2004/5 Discussion Thread.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:46 pm 0

This is one of Sky Sports' headlines:

Baggies Bag Contra

I know the Premiership is sometimes described as warfare, but aren't they taking it a bit too far?

Zen-Chan · Post by **Zen-Chan** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:20 pm 0

El Tel could be on his way to the Newcastle hotseat -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 612040.stm

To be fair, it does say "Venables' role would likely be to groom Magpies striker Alan Shearer to take over at the start of next season."

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:22 pm 0

Zen-Chan wrote:El Tel could be on his way to the Newcastle hotseat -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 612040.stm

To be fair, it does say "Venables' role would likely be to groom Magpies striker Alan Shearer to take over at the start of next season."

Indeed. That is what I was talking about, Paul. It's gonna happen.....

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:53 pm 0

I really don't think many people in Newcastle will be happy with a Venables/Shearer partnership. I know I wouldn't, although some of the brainless ones around no doubt will. This whole "We have to have a Geordie in charge" thing is ridiculous, really. Just get the best bloke in and I'll be happy.

Course, if Shepherd wants a Geordie in charge, he need look no further than my Championship Manager credentials. I've won us more in my career than Newcastle have in their history. Where's my contract, Freddy?

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:02 pm 0

PaulEMoz wrote: Course, if Shepherd wants a Geordie in charge, he need look no further than my Championship Manager credentials. I've won us more in my career than Newcastle have in their history. Where's my contract, Freddy?

Cool, where do we sign up to the PaulEMoz for Nukey boss campaign?

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 8:55 am 0

If Venables does get the job, I hope - for Toon's sake - it won't be a partnership with Shearer or anyone. I don't think they work on the whole. I was dumbfounded when LFC announced the Evans+Houllier partnership. It was never going to work and was ultimately more humiliating for Uncle Roy than if he'd had got the sack. The only one I can remember that seemed to work for a few years was Taylor and Clough. And that ended in tears.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 5:16 pm 0

I'd be really, really disappointed if Venables gets it. He shot his bolt years ago. Doesn't look like he will, thankfully. O' Leary is the favourite, and I wouldn't be too unhappy at that prospect, he seems to be capable of doing a decent job.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 5:22 pm 0

I would be astonished if we snaffle David O'Leary. I wouldn't mind Gordon Strachan, though, and he's one of the few with no current job to be dug out of...

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 5:27 pm 0

I can't really see any Premiership manager wanting to shift to SJP at the moment, unless they are already in doubt over their future, in which case why would Newcastle want them? For all of what Shearer may say about any potential management being a long way off, can any incoming manager really consider their position a long term prospect?

Not a good time to be trying to poach managers really. Gordon Strachan would be a good out-of-contract manager to grab, but what happened over him needing surgery and that?

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 5:32 pm 0

O' Leary's already given overtures that he's sick of Deadly Doug, and that Newcastle are a "great" and "massive" club. Basically he's saying, "Please come and get me and put me out of my misery".

Actually getting him is another matter, but I have a feeling they'll definitely try.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:24 pm 0

Don't you hate it when players say "We can take a lot of positives from today's game."?

We were 2-0 up against Austria, and chucked it away, so what positives can we take from that? The players should be saying "We're gutted taht we threw two points away, and we will make sure we don't do it again in the next match", or something like that. Bloody ponces.

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 12:12 am 0

Donny Rovers, Donny Rovers, ole, ole ole!

We have cracked the home form. We are scoring loads of goals away from home. If we can only now stop the opposition scoring more goals than us we will be ok!

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:26 am 0

PaulEMoz wrote:Don't you hate it when players say "We can take a lot of positives from today's game."?

We were 2-0 up against Austria, and chucked it away, so what positives can we take from that? The players should be saying "We're gutted taht we threw two points away, and we will make sure we don't do it again in the next match", or something like that. Bloody ponces.

Yeah. David fucking James. Will he ever stop ruining my football fun?

Ely · Post by **Ely** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 11:17 am 0

Sickboy wrote:
PaulEMoz wrote:Don't you hate it when players say "We can take a lot of positives from today's game."?

We were 2-0 up against Austria, and chucked it away, so what positives can we take from that? The players should be saying "We're gutted taht we threw two points away, and we will make sure we don't do it again in the next match", or something like that. Bloody ponces.
Yeah. David fucking James. Will he ever stop ruining my football fun?

Where's the BBC coverage tho ?? Have they lost the highlight rights as well as the live action?

Zen-Chan · Post by **Zen-Chan** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 11:22 am 0

Why did everyone mysteriously stop calling him Calamity James a few years back? I'm asking because he never actually improved!

(Remember the time he was asked what went wrong after a certain defeat and he famously replied "I was thinking of a bit I was stuck at in a Playstation game."? Fantastic. He's probably getting paid about 25 grand a week, and he can't concentrate for 90 minutes without thinking about how to finish Tomb Raider 2.)