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Post by Captain Marvel on Jul 2, 2013 18:48:01 GMT 1
There is only one Broon... Deadly Dennis Wise! Thanks Capt, that's the one Canny suggested be locked in a room with mercenary Mike and let them violate each other, right? I would think so but knowing Canny he could have meant Llambias!! ATB |
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Post by Blue Star Broon on Jul 2, 2013 23:57:01 GMT 1
Joe Kinnear believes his managerial experience puts him "head and shoulders above" any other director of football in the English game. Kinnear, 66, recently agreed a three-year contract to become Newcastle's director of football - an appointment that was heavily criticised by many fans. The former Wimbledon manager has begun work on the club's summer recruitment strategy, which is likely to include a renewed bid for Saint-Etienne striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, considered the Magpies' first choice target this summer. And Kinnear believes his role - and, more importantly, his experience - will be vital in helping Newcastle to achieve success. "Every top club in the land has got one ," he told the Shields Gazette.
"We haven't - that's the difference. The manager can't do everything. I'm probably the only football manager to be a director of football. I don't know any other ex-managers who have.
"I've been a manager for 35 years. I've been Manager of the Year. I've won every award there is in football as a player. I think all those qualities put me head and shoulders above every other director of football."
The last time Newcastle employed someone to deal specifically with player recruitment - Dennis Wise, whose official job title was 'executive director (football)' - his presence led to a row that resulted in manager Kevin Keegan's resignation.
However, Kinnear is adamant that his decades of experience in the game make him the ideal man to work alongside manager Alan Pardew at St James' Park.
"Some directors of football have never played the game," he added. "I'm lending my experience as a manager for all those years - ten years at Wimbledon, two years at Nottingham Forest, two years winning promotion at Luton and, of course, almost two years at Newcastle. I would still be there had it not occurred."
Hey Capt, nicked this from a ESPN site. This JFK has a pretty high opinion of himself not to mention the blue language. It reads remarkably like that stuff you mentioned the saleman spewed  |
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Post by Blue Star Broon on Jul 6, 2013 2:47:18 GMT 1
Seems to be the popular view from supporters:
It’s been three weeks. And we love a good messiah at Newcastle. Keegan and Shearer are just two examples. Three weeks to summon the energy, nay the will, to put down in words how I feel about the return of Joe Kinnear — nobody’s messiah.
Recently I ran into an old friend at a wedding; a Liverpool fan. He could tell I didn’t want to talk football. The temptation proved too powerful. So, he asked me to sum up Joe Kinnear’s return in one word. Joe Kinnear himself can’t sum up anything in a word. You could power a small African village for a month with the hot air released from one of his filth ridden, egotistical and dangerously delusional diatribes.
My one word? Shambolic.
If there was any doubt left whatsoever regarding Mike Ashley’s contempt for the Geordie faithful, it’s been put to rest now. Kinnear doesn’t rate the fans too highly either. A few years of stability and the Magpies are right back to their default status of national laughing stock.
The thought of quoting this gibbering maniac fills my heart with deep, murky despair. So, with your understanding, I’ll get on with the business of refuting (some of) his delusions and lies in a paragraph.
Hey Joe. Let’s begin.
You didn’t sign Tim Krul. You were not at Newcastle for two years. You did not do a good job at Newcastle (4 wins out of 25). We were not definitely going to avoid relegation if you stayed healthy (3 points from the drop zone). Yohan Kebab. Ben Afri. Anamobi. Those are not their names. On the day you cursed 54 times in 2 minutes at all those journalists, we had not just beaten Spurs 2-1. No Joe, You are not head and shoulders above all other Director’s of Football. You did not win manager of the year three times. No Joe, you don’t have Arsene Wenger on speed dial. Yes Joe, you were in fact sacked. Managing Luton does not register as an achievement. You did not play for Spurs 400 times. Spurs were not then nor are now “the best team in the world.” Alan Pardew may have been happy to have “a real football man” on board, but that man is certainly not you.
Hey Joe, you’re here because you’re the owner’s mate. That’s it. The only reason. You’re his mate. He hates us, we hate you. That’s how the puzzle fits together. There are no credentials. There is no CV. There is is, in fact, “a record that speaks for itself” though not in the way you imagine. So buckle up Joe. Get ready to have St James Park chanting against you every second week for the whole of the forthcoming season. A sensible man with a heart condition might decide that’s not the best place to be. Alas, Joe Kinnear is only one of those things.
So, on to the job title. Director of Football. Surely the vaguest and least understood of positions, at least in English football, where the manager is king. What on earth can Kinnear bring to the position? Lets bury my rage a moment and try to look at this objectively.
Alan Pardew made a lot of poor decisions last season. The Europa League excuse, which journalists so readily swallowed every week, wore out quickly with the people who actually watched the games and saw Pardew wasn’t using the same players. Newcastle got knocked out of both domestic cups instantaneously. The players didn’t actually play that many games at all as it happens. There were bad injuries and a baffling failure to strengthen in the summer bar Vurnon Anita from Ajax, who Pardew barely even used (despite the chronic fatigue the first team was apparently constantly suffering from). But the buck for a terrible season rests with the manager and most fans wanted something done.
In of itself, a director of football may not have been such a bad idea. Perhaps a Gerard Houllier, who could act as a go between to the French contingent of Ben Arfa, Cabaye et al and the manager. A continental director of football may have eased the doubts about the style of play held by some of the senior players and almost all the fans. Such a figure could have helped devise a plan to get the best from what is clearly a technically gifted if small group of players. Communication could have been improved. Cabaye was suffering from depression. Coloccini had personal problems. A good director of football could have provided an ear and took the pressure off the manager.
Communication. Subtlety. Working with technical players. Not Kinnear hallmarks you’d have to say. Instead of taking the pressure off Pardew, his appointment does the exact opposite. You’ll get short odds on Pardew being the first manager sacked next season. Kinnear once said he’d only take a Director of Football job as a way to get back into management.
As Jimi Hendrix once sang, Hey Joe. Where you going with that gun of yours?
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Post by LeazesEnder47 on Jul 7, 2013 21:39:38 GMT 1
Great piece Broon  Summed up brilliantly........... |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2013 14:35:26 GMT 1
FFS!....Such is JFK's magnetism and pulling power , he cant even hire a mate, never mind players he doesnt even know.....
Fair play to Harford .....he didnt like the smell of it!..........Just like us!
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Post by Blue Star Broon on Jul 22, 2013 19:09:09 GMT 1
FFS!....Such is JFK's magnetism and pulling power , he cant even hire a mate, never mind players he doesnt even know..... Fair play to Harford .....he didnt like the smell of it!..........Just like us! Surprised the FCB didn't insist on hiring the guy he's a Mackem and Ashley knows that would have pissed off the supporters yet again............pr*ck  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2013 22:52:01 GMT 1
FFS!....Such is JFK's magnetism and pulling power , he cant even hire a mate, never mind players he doesnt even know..... Fair play to Harford .....he didnt like the smell of it!..........Just like us! Surprised the FCB didn't insist on hiring the guy he's a Mackem and Ashley knows that would have pissed off the supporters yet again............pr*ck Ahhh...very rare....a Mackem wth integrity  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2013 14:38:29 GMT 1
Rename thread to Director of Fookall.
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Post by standanders on Sept 4, 2013 22:17:50 GMT 1
as long as you guys buy season tickets year after year nothing will change.
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Post by Fairscup on Sept 5, 2013 10:20:16 GMT 1
as long as you guys buy season tickets year after year nothing will change. Running away with the assumptions and generalising my friend!! As far as i know there is only one season ticket holder on this forum. Never mind tho' facts aren't that important around here  |
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Post by standanders on Sept 6, 2013 12:25:26 GMT 1
how was i supposed to know.
the way you lot go on is as if you were die hard fans.
who's the season ticket holder?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2013 15:11:59 GMT 1
Dan....you can be a die hard fan without being a ST holder.........I suggest Die Hard fans without season tickets are in the majority............some cant have season tickets by necesssity and circumstances.
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Post by standanders on Sept 6, 2013 20:40:15 GMT 1
who's the season ticket holder then canny?
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Post by Blue Star Broon on Sept 8, 2013 2:34:33 GMT 1
think the blokes name is Alponse' ain't it Canny?
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Post by standanders on Sept 11, 2013 21:38:50 GMT 1
well i was a fan who attended frequently.
then became an armchair fan.
now rapidly losing interest.
not only have we very few geordies.
but very few brits.
frankly.
i prefer the 'old days'.
beardsley.
waddle.
gazza.
etc.
this new lot, you can keep em.
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I've seen Newcastle United win silverware!