Fair enough

I disagree with most of it, but different strokes etc.

Personally, I think he's done a poor job this season. I don't think his "rebuild" has worked anywhere near as well as he hoped it would. He appears to have alienated pretty much all of the pros who've been here a while because he insists on building his own team. But he hasn't had time to build a team and he really, really needed to meld his own players on to the spine of what we had, which was pretty good. Drury, Russell, Cureton, Doherty and Otsemabor have all been dropped for loanees or GR signings and they're all decent players at this level. All managers want to bring in their own players, but GR seems to have taken it to a whole new level, publicly stating with the Hucks departure that he was part of the old regime and he wanted new heroes. That's fine, but you have to combine the new heroes with the old ones or you'll have a club and a dressing split down the middle between the old and the new.

I think, and it's just an opinion, that to some extent that's what's happened.

I think if he was arrogant but we were 10th nobody would care.

Posted By: duke of york on December 28th 2008 at 20:05:58

Message Thread

OK, so I see most are calling for Roeder to go... (NCFC) - conker, Dec 28, 19:22:05
- How about Santa? He is only busy one day of the year and we dont play that day (n/m) (NCFC) - conker, Dec 28, 19:46:29
- John Ward (NCFC) - pants, Dec 28, 19:41:23
  - Isn't there even a shred of doubt in your mind about Roeder? (NCFC) - duke of york, Dec 28, 19:45:22
    - I think GR makes a few mistakes, but I also think he has a lot of good ideas too (NCFC) - pants, Dec 28, 19:57:11
      - Fair enough (NCFC) - duke of york, Dec 28, 20:05:58
        
        fair enough, I think of it another way usually (NCFC) - pants, Dec 28, 20:17:44
      - That's just apologetic drivel (n/m) (NCFC) - BillySteele, Dec 28, 20:02:22
      - That's just apologetic drivel (n/m) (NCFC) - BillySteele, Dec 28, 20:02:22
        
        It can sit nicely alongside your profile of contrived pretentious crap then (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Dec 28, 20:07:27
        
        but he has an informed opinion (NCFC) - SCC 28, Dec 28, 20:09:39
        
        tee hee hee (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Dec 28, 20:23:31
        
        To be fair (NCFC) - duke of york, Dec 28, 20:10:37
        
        i'm a great judge of character tho (NCFC) - SCC 28, Dec 28, 20:11:55
  - are you really happy though? (NCFC) - Tombs, Dec 28, 19:44:59
- Mike Phelan (n/m) (NCFC) - Tombs, Dec 28, 19:39:11
  - Terry Phelan (n/m) (NCFC) - duke of york, Dec 28, 19:39:46
- Dave Bassett, George Graham, Peter Reid usual suspects would be linked (n/m) (NCFC) - South_West_Canary, Dec 28, 19:34:39
  - mike bassett (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Dec 28, 19:35:25
- Mark Bowen was in the running last time (NCFC) - yarmyyarmy, Dec 28, 19:32:21
  - I think Bowen would be a good shout (n/m) (NCFC) - Ben, Dec 28, 19:35:54
    - Would you want to risk another rookie? (NCFC) - South_West_Canary, Dec 28, 19:39:30
    - Not sure - seems like a good assistant (NCFC) - duke of york, Dec 28, 19:38:02
- Huckerby as player manager (NCFC) - Ben, Dec 28, 19:27:43
  - Big iwan with Huck's as assistant. Jubbly Bubbly. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Dec 28, 19:29:51
- Malky (NCFC) - duke of york, Dec 28, 19:26:04
  - i just can't understand those who rate roeder (NCFC) - SCC 28, Dec 28, 19:27:49
  - Gie the bloke SOME credit, he certainly didn't fail last season (NCFC) - South_West_Canary, Dec 28, 19:27:09
    - OK, ultimately failed (NCFC) - duke of york, Dec 28, 19:30:35
      - The most disapointing thing is that no improvement seems to have (NCFC) - South_West_Canary, Dec 28, 19:33:56
    - a miracle? (NCFC) - SCC 28, Dec 28, 19:29:13
      - Given where we were, how we were playing then yes, in football terms (NCFC) - South_West_Canary, Dec 28, 19:31:07
        
        it was still early in the season (NCFC) - SCC 28, Dec 28, 19:32:41
        
        Yeah, we were playing triffic. Real champagne footy. (NCFC) - South_West_Canary, Dec 28, 19:37:32
        
        Duffy was just unlucky (NCFC) - Reg Presley, Dec 28, 19:42:36
        
        do you watch us much? (NCFC) - SCC 28, Dec 28, 19:39:57
        
        Duffy was shit too (NCFC) - duke of york, Dec 28, 19:38:59
- there will be loads of applicants (NCFC) - SCC 28, Dec 28, 19:25:22
  - you're clueless, rob newman applied last time, would you prefer him to glenn? (n/m) (NCFC) - samcd84, Dec 28, 19:41:19
    - i said most you fucktard (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Dec 28, 19:51:49
      - who did you want in when roeder was appointed? (n/m) (NCFC) - samcd84, Dec 28, 19:56:08
        
        somebody competent (NCFC) - SCC 28, Dec 28, 19:57:10
        
        roeder's first season at newcastle (NCFC) - samcd84, Dec 28, 20:02:08
        
        the thing is (NCFC) - SCC 28, Dec 28, 20:08:18
    - So he was the only one who applied? (NCFC) - duke of york, Dec 28, 19:42:03
      - i'm just saying there will have been plenty of his ilk also, (NCFC) - samcd84, Dec 28, 19:47:38
        
        Bet you wouldn't have taken Phil Brown either (n/m) (NCFC) - duke of york, Dec 28, 19:48:38
        
        never heard his name mentioned (n/m) (NCFC) - samcd84, Dec 28, 19:55:27
        
        I was using it as an example of how (NCFC) - duke of york, Dec 28, 19:56:53
- ?ge Hareide (NCFC) - Hank the swede, Dec 28, 19:24:56
- No way Curbishley would come here, so can scrub his name off list. (NCFC) - South_West_Canary, Dec 28, 19:24:28
- Prince Edward (NCFC) - Tombs, Dec 28, 19:23:31

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