The Roeder Hokey Cokey

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The Premier League board have rejected the bid for dispensation from Newcastle to allow Glenn Roeder to become permanent manager.

In a statement issued on Thursday evening the Premier League board stated:

The Premier League Board has considered Newcastle United's inquiry regarding the potential appointment of Glenn Roeder as their Manager.

Premier League Rules require that Managers hold the UEFA Pro License and do not provide for any dispensation.

The only way the Board would be prepared to allow Newcastle Untied to appoint Glenn Roeder as Manager without the Pro License is if so directed by member Clubs.

In the event of permission being sought, sufficient support from Clubs would have to be obtained and a formal resolution tabled at the forthcoming Premier League AGM.

The AGM is June 3rd and if 14 clubs vote in favour of dispensation then Roeder could still take charge.

The background to the whole sorry mess is that we got dispensation to keep Roeder until the end of the season on the grounds that the FA were hindering our chances of appointing a manager.
To me that means we were interested in the same people.
Now the dust is begining to settle on the England carry on , Shepherd now wants Roeder full time.
This means that what he said after sacking Souness was a lie.
He lied about interviewing world class managers , he lied about waiting for England to appoint their man and the idiot cant even put someone in charge who is already in full time employment by the club!

Any pre season plans we may have are now knackered , meaning we have to wait until June to get the inevitable knock back by the rest of the league.
Meanwhile we have nobody scouting players , trying to sell players , arranging friendlies or doing anything of note to help.

Its an embarrasing and shambolic farce.

 

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I still wouldn't allow him to be manager. The rules are there for everyone and everyone else has followed them (as far as I know!). He was given permission to carry on till the end of the season so Newcastle have found plenty of time to find an able replacement. I'm sure there are plenty better managers around that Roeder too.

Correct!
However , it appears that none of them will take the job on knowing full well that as soon as he can be bothered / gets bored of playing golf / gets the chop from the beeb , Alan Shearer will waltz right back into the club and take up whichever position he feels like.
And this is so wrong.

10 great years , thanks for the goals and the memories now please **** off - this is a proffesional football club , not a pantomime.

I cant think why else , we pay huge wages and good compensation and amongst the rubbish have some great players to work with.

As a bit of a side note , I counted up the number of points won by a few clubs since Roeder took over on the 4th Feb.

Liverpool - 34
Man Utd - 32
Newcastle - 29
Chelsea - 28
Arsenal - 24

 

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Half the managers in the league dont have the qualification anyway and its not as if you can fail the stupid course either. Basically you turn up and stop for the duration and thats it you get it

Some , like Fergie , have been given special dispensation but I think they all need it by 2010.
The point isnt that its a non fail course , the point is that its the rules and as a Premier League club not only should we have been aware of these rules we should also follow them.
The joker in charge is trying to get round it to minimise the damage his lack of foresight and planning have done.

I hope all the other prem managers vote against it.

 

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/4757085.stm

The LMA (who were dead against the employment of Roeder) have been overuled by the chairman of the premier league football clubs.
Makes a farce of the LMA and their chairman Howard Wilkinson.

The rest of the teams in the legue obviously see us as no threat to them with Roeder in charge.

I love the quote from Freddy : "Should we wish to appoint Glenn as our next manager it is nice to know we have the support of our fellow clubs."

Whos he trying to kid?

 

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I think it was Harry Redknapp that helped Cole in the early days

Who was the one club that vetoed the Roeder appointment then?

I have no idea how many voted , how do you know there was only 1?
We only needed 14 of the 20 to vote yes.
I can imagine Bolton voting no after Allardyces shameful bitter bile spouting after England turned him dow.

 

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I expect Bolton to be one of them. Allardyce said in no uncertain terms he should have all his badges.

Yep and Curbishley - another scorned England candidate.

 

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Which chairmen got to vote? The ones who are have just been relegated presumably as we don't know the third promoted team?

I would guess so , Aye.