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Mag hypocrisy ?

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Sima said:
Not true like, we wanted him moving upstairs into a DOF role as in the 2004/05 season it was clear that a certain group of players weren't listening to him anymore (Bramble, Dyer, Bellamy, Jenas being the key culprits) after Shephard undermined him massively in the following pre-season by saying that this was his last season.
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Still trying to airbrush the fact that a respected football man was thrown out of Newcastle in an ignominious way and the fans at that time were right behind the decision
 

Well this thread has been somewhat sidetracked! For what it's worth, which is not a lot I think @Sima is actually a relatively sensible poster who is usually fairly balanced. He's sticking up for his club which we'd all do (other than @Mrjardine of course). However, I still find it odd to spend so much time on your rivals board and as for the original topic of this thread, the hypocrisy of bobby is embarrassing. Be sad, be respectful and remember the contribution he made but don't rewrite history and have mock up pictures etc making out he's some kind of Matt busby figure. When the time comes and Reid goes I'd find similar behaviour cringeworthy.
 
What A Waster said:
In the season we finished 5th we W13 D17 L8 and scored 52 goals and finished on 56 points.
The two previous seasons we won 21 games in each season scoring 74 goals in the 4th placed season and getting 71 points, and in the 3rd place season scored 63 goals and got 69 points.
There was definitely a sense that things had gone as far as they could with Bobby Robson. We finished 5th and were 4 points off Liverpool in 4th place. Aston Villa in 6th place had the same points but inferior goal difference. We were only 4 points clear of 9th placed Fulham.

A lot of the 03/04 season was dull with so many draws and lethargic football. Obviously 5th place looks good in hindsight but based on the previous two seasons we were going backwards.
In the summer of 04 Shepherd undermined Robson selling woodgate against his wishes, and singing Nicky Butt when he wanted Carrick from west ham. The players didn't help either, the self styled "young guns" all getting a bit complacent.
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to the KC & The Sunshine Band tune?
 
Personally, I think Robson should have been moved upstairs at the end of 03-04, as the team was definitely going backwards. I felt his tactics/motivation weren't working with a lot of the squad, and certain players had stopped playing for him. There was no mass dissention in the ranks but unrest was certainly growing culminating in the Wolves game where the players got slaughtered, and the traditional end of season lap of honour where two thirds of the crowd fucked off. It was probably worst at Villa away in August and Robson certainly got some flak thst day.
Shepherd in his usual ham-fisted way, allowed him to continue into the new season before pulling the plug early on (as he had done with Dalglish) and then inexplicably appointing f***ing Souness much to the delight of Blackburn fans everywhere....the grass certainly always isn't greener.

I went to the ground not long after his death, and while I found it very moving, I also found it all a bit cringey and certainly hypocritical by some of our fans. Sadly, the mourning sickness has carried on and the 17 minutes applause, and whatever this week's special clap is for does my f***ing head in. STOP IT YOU *****.

To be fair, I do love a good Bobby cloud picture, especially if it's got Alan Barnes in there as well.
 
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