Souness to take over toon job

Well Blackburn arent really a world class team lol

yeah agreed

and neither are you lot

Confirmation

SkySports.com

"Newcastle United have confirmed that Graeme Souness has agreed to replace Sir Bobby Robson as their new manager after quitting his job at Blackburn Rovers."

thats because im not a team

A promotion, a trophy and european football is a cracking record for a smallish club like Blackburn.

He revived Rangers when he was there and had only one bad season at Blackburn and as Spence has said his record at Blackburn is pretty good.

It pisses me off when people who claim they support the toon have no optimism and can only see the club doing bad, If your a true toon fan you'd stop your whinging and get behind him and the team. People say we should have got him or should of got him but at the end of the day you can only give the job to some one who wants it.

Get your fingers out your arses and show your support for Souness and the team instead of being armchair managers.

Rant over

Walter Smith also won plenty of titles in Scotland

Remember folks Trancetwit is a Liverpool fan & his sidekick 20Benson is Spurs fan.

Dont rise to the bait

Only because he took over after Souey & during that time Celtic had fooking Lou Macrai in charge at 1 point.

i think he'll do quite well for newcastle, atleast we wont have no players thinking they can pick the team, maybe an arse kicking into gear is what the players needed, now they'll get it

defo, souness will take no shit, and thats what will hopefully get the team back to winning ways

It is. But he has had more negatives then minuses. Torino, Benfica, Liverpool (albeit an FA Cup win) have all been rather large scale failures.

I'm certainly not questioning his ability to coach but the question here seems to be, from a Newcastle fans point of view, is can he bring success to such a "big" club? He won't. It's that simple. He's a bad man-manager and a pretty bad decision-maker when it comes to buying players and bar the Blackburn trophy he's won nothing significant in the last 10 years.

Hands up though cos I'm gonna watch and wait to see how it unfolds. I hope I'm wrong.

Definatley and Souness is probs the one to do it, fair enough he fell out with Yorke, Cole and Dunn but there were all prima donna's as well and he didnt take any shit from them and look where they are now.

Got a feeling this could potentially turn our season around, fingers crossed.

Who do you support? Liverpool?

How can you see it from a Newcastle fans point of view

In 1996 Graeme Souness immortalised himself in football folklore by falling for an amazing scam that resulted in him signing a player, so bad, that it made Gerard Houllier’s decision to buy Bruno Cheyrou look inspirational.

It all started when Ali Dia, a desperate 30 year-old nobody, convinced his agent to phone the Southampton boss pretending to be World Footballer of the Year George Weah recommending ‘his cousin’ (Ali Dia) as the next big thing.

Souness fell for it quicker than Robert Pires looking for a penalty and Dia was instantly signed up on a month’s loan. As you can imagine, Souness was eager to see what his new acquisition could do, but the Gods of Football Humour were smiling down on the Dell and a proposed reserve game, and Dia’s debut, against *Ars#nil* was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.

That close shave didn’t deter the ‘striker’ who tried to build up his credentials by saying, “I feel I have a bit of pace and I can dribble well. Hopefully I can now show enough of that to the manager and maybe get a place in his squad.”

Once again, Souness took the bait and Dia suddenly found himself on the bench in Southampton’s next game against Leeds. But the unthinkable was to follow.
Despite Souness never seeing Dia kick a ball, he brought him off the bench.

After one minute the whole crowd had to pinch themselves, trying not to believe that Coco The Clown was playing. Dia had the touch of an elephant and the deadliness of a fly. He couldn’t control a ball to save his life and after 14 minutes of 'Bambi on ice' the substitute was substituted, and his loan rapidly terminated.

After such a humiliation, you would expect that Souness would have learnt his lesson about taking on a player who clearly can’t play football. I guess this wouldn’t be the right time to mention the £7m he spent on Corrado Grabbi then… oops!