captainchris

That’s Gabbi dripped for next game !!!!! Guaranteed!!!

Can I have chips with that? (I’ll get my coat !)

Please please please get this - Boards are not there to chose tactics and football teams!!!! All companies have boards who know nothing the process at all! Boards run companies and make decisions based on measuring performance, that is all that counts and all that matters. Boards make decisions, they don’t put cones out ! Boards employ expertise - that’s what they do Get this into your head. Anyway if you believe most (not all) cone placers know what they are doing, again sadly you are wrong. Most ‘footbal’ people actually know very little indeed about football, sport, coaching or come to that most things, least of all how to manage a business. Again - yet again even, I refer you messrs Leibre and Cortese - turned out both had no football knowledge on their CV but seemed very good at Board level decisions despite that.

To be perfectly frank it makes not one jot of difference if Gao’s reps are knowledgable about running a Premier League club or not. None of this is rocket science. Ralph is now ‘experienced’ and is still astoundingly crap at it... Cortese has none of this experience and was really very good at it. Experience of running a successful business is more important.

Do you mean ‘this little club’ ?

Patently not the whole problem.... How about coaching and bizarre personnel choices?

What is your point ? Marcus was not a personal friend, family member or even an acquaintance of mine....

Batman - completely agree. When somebody dies - anybody, it is very sad but the grief levels expressed for famous people in football are way out of proportion....

This is a game of skill NOT ‘luck’

Makes perfect sense to most averagely intelligent fans but not our Manager it would seem .....

One hell of a lot of thoughts underestimating Newcastle. They are a better team than that...

About right. Money has wrecked the game aided and abetted by a top six addicted media. The homage paid to the top six clubs is boring the pants off the rest of us. The lack of effort and skill these days is also alarming... There are many things missing in football now and most can be traced back to money and greed....

Errrrr ‘Newcastle’ Not sure you can pin that terrible display on Hughes ..... That was rank terrible tactics by MP who was utterly clueless watching Shelvey destroy us for the whole game.

We must man mark Shelvey or at least close him immediately because he will destroy us otherwise...

Well in case you hadn’t noticed ..... We are a Premier League team so that is the level of skill we need. There is no point in running a reserve team to feed the lower leagues. The standard of player we have coming through the under 23s is, looking at last night disappointing and underwhelming and we cannot expect more than one to be good enough.....For our first team. There is clarification for you...

So you think they are all good enough do you..... A ‘Happy Clappy’ in the extreme in that case mate.

You could be right there....

Not interested really, are you? We have one player that could threaten the first team squad, the rest are a very long way off in my view. Not sure that is healthy ...

One player might make a professional Obefami.. The rest are miles off - light years from the first team....

Just turned it on ... Pathetic football from us... Our coaching is off the scale appalling !!!!!

Don’t have Sky Sports so England is now really of no interest at all. Money is wrecking the game or ‘has’ wrecked it..... Sounded like s good win but really am I boffered ? Not a lot...

You are entitled to your opinion......... ;-)))

His brother Paul was immense though !!! ;-)

If you are referring to my post then if you read it again it is about our old fashioned ways and lack of coaching...

I’m not so sure it’s all about recruitment, yes sure there is an strong element, however the top managers seem to be very good at coaching, take Poch who was/is renowned for it and Koman and Klopp etc. They all seem to be foreign admittedly but they can coach. Watching us against Chelsea it looks to me as though we currently don’t coach players. People on here - certain people, harp on and on about employing ‘football’ people to manage and coach us. The problem is these types are invariably stuck in a time warp and don’t have coaching skills. If you have coaching skills you can probably recognise the right players to recruit too... We need modern thinking, a focus on faster thinking, fitness of mind and body, psychology - God we lack belief which in this day and age is a crime of management and coaching in its self.....