Holden McGroin

I voted skidmark. Mainly because most of his posts involve trying to wind Leazes Mag up. Tedious after a while.

I think i'll go to the game if he/Nolan/Simpson/Barton get in the squad.

Fishcakes. Tuna, potatoes, a lemon (for juice) & spring onions mixed together and have a load of salad with it.

Skidmark needs to stop following Leazes's around like a lost puppy.

Smudgers contract must be up at the end of the season, no? I wonder where he will go. Championship team surely. Edit: Just checked. 2012. Dammit.

It makes me proud when one of our own make it into the England squad. Who was the last homegrown player to do that? Steve Howey ?

But there's been no shot goals from outside the box, no runs and goals from outside the box, it's all being about headers and knock downs. When you are talking England or good newcastle strikers you have to think of the Shearers ferdinands, andy cole, lineker etc etc. I just don't think he is anywhere near any of them. Hopefully it will come but I don't see a lot yet to suggest he's not just going to be a Carew or that ilk. When did Lineker or Andy Cole ever score from outside the box?

He should have gone against Stoke as well (ableit just a handball on the line)

I dont think Colo would have had many takers considering the fee we paid and wages he is on. Fair play to him though. I love the guy now.

I dont want to tempt fate here but I wonder about previous injury crisises (is that even a word?). Was it down to players just not wanting to play at the time? The amount of muscle injuries was unreal at certain points.

Oh yeah. Nah, you can keep him. We can have a spare seat on the bench.

We could actually field a decent team of 11 englishmen (+ a subs bench) --------------Harper Simpson-Sol-Willo-Saylor Routledge-Barton-Nolan-Guthrie ---------Caroll-Ameobi Subs: Forster, Perch, Raylor, Smith, Best, Ranger

When you expect us to win is generally where they will let us down. Time to change that. Starting tonight.

I dont think he is doing to well at spuds. He cant get a game when Dawson, King and Woody are injured so he must be doing something wrong.

Not sure about that.

Homophobe

This thread is getting pretty gay.

I dont think Pennant has been anywhere near an England squad on ability alone. Its interesting to see the media wanting him to play though despite being a bad boy. I suppose they will just use it against him when he has bad game. Barton should be in contention as well but I think he has too much of a past.

The joke is blatantly on him with that. The biggest failure of his career and he names something after it as a kind of desperate and pitiful 'aha, but I had the last laugh' gesture. Really though, if someone wanted to get rid of you so badly that they'd spend several million pounds to do so, you'd hardly want the constant reminder unless you were as deluded as Sam Allardyce. He blatantly thinks being a good manager is about crunching numbers, performing clinical analysis and pretending that you have a well conditioned squad - under his stewardship our team were obviously far from well conditioned despite him harping on about the opposite with his team of sports physicians, conditioning coaches, nutritionalists and whatnot. Anti-football Allardyce, whom in reality we were all glad to see the back of after the dross he subjected us to. Casa St. James indeed. You go girl.

It would have been goal of the season if that went in.

Shit ref. As is Styles. What happened to Uriah Rennie?

When does the England squad get announced? He must be in with a chance this time around.

Manc-Mag has gone all soft and gooey eyed.

Sagna was quicker and stronger than him. The Arsenal forums are saying that he had a tough game. If only Jonas had an end product. He'd genuinely (no joke) be a world class player.

I can actually see this being really tight. I think Carroll will have his hands full with Samba and Nelson who are both big & strong. Good test for him and the team.