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Can't understand getting so worked up over a presumption that we won't drastically improve the strikeforce during the summer, especially after a win. I'm no Ashley apologist but I'll judge him (and Pardew) when the window is shut, not before it's even open. Forgive me for the pre-judging. Lets hope I haven't jumped the gun.

I was more pissed off today in our win than I was for our 2-0 defeat at home to Blackpool. Anyone who likes a bet with good odds put a tenner on us to get relegated next year. We have the worst top flight strike force I've ever seen us with. The prick in charge will not change things too much other than maybe spendinding £15M on Carlton Cole, (thats including wages, a fact that will have to be taken into account with our owner). What won't be mentioned is what money he would've spent without Carroll's sale. We are royally fucked with this cretin in charge of what is one of the biggest clubs in England. He bought my club for £134M and has made £50M net profit on transfers alone without selling. I am being relieved of my seat next year as I sit in a seat in an area where the pricks motives are questioned publicly. I love my club, we are geniunely one of the untapped powerhouses in this country, ( call me an idiot if you like), but a 2nd division club that averages 44K a season, a club that holds the record average attendance for a relegated team ever is being strung along by this fucking chancer makes my blood boil. Arsenal, Man Utd and Liverpool were sustained by a board with ambition. Were never were, and we are being conditioned to be accepting of a place in the scheme of things that is similar to Blackburn/Bolton etc. Well sorry, Mike, but fuck right off!

2nd last match for who knows how long, (Cheers Mike!). I'm sitting typing this beer in hand awaiting my pal who should be finished graft soon before heading to the Toon. Could any young'uns in L7 if they're going to sing 'we love you Newcastle' get it right please, and please leave that droning song you sometimes sing well alone. I'd tell you what it is but after a couple of years I've still no idea as the young'uns go quiet in parts of it so I guess they've no idea of all the words either, (some catchy tune, eh?). Sing loud and proud otherwise and be as aggressive as poss to Ref etc. Cheers, kids!

I remember one particularly woeful game at home when we only had one shot in the whole game and it was blocked by our very own John Robertson (Mirandinha shot). To be fair to the bloke our side were truly shit that year and we never created much, I think we were the lowest scorers and finished bottom, deservedly. Aye. Andy Thorn was another we thought might be good. He wasnt. My first away game was the Everton 4-0 hiding we had on the first game of that season, should've been 8-0. The season didn't get much better, 1-0 down after 34 seconds. Awful season. And that was us spending every penny on gazza and co's replacements, as well!

I remember one particularly woeful game at home when we only had one shot in the whole game and it was blocked by our very own John Robertson (Mirandinha shot). To be fair to the bloke our side were truly shit that year and we never created much, I think we were the lowest scorers and finished bottom, deservedly.

I don't know about anyone else, but whenever I've had a dream where a dead family member has been it I feel strangely comforted by it.

I liked both of those, 'your swaying arms' is a beautiful song if you listen to the words. As has been said, there is good and bad in every decade, I will say that the eighties produced bands/songs/ideas that wouldn't get a look in today. Like

I'm not going to go for the obvious and say Owen even though he was the worst pound for pound signing we had, the most disappointed I've been for a player we've signed where I expected him to do well was John Robertson. For those that are younger, Robertson had a very good scoring record for Hearts and was bought with some of the proceeds of the Gazza fee. Unfortunately we were never the same side when Gazza went as he and Paul Goddard were missed and our migdet strikeforce of Robertson and Mirandinha struggled to get on the end of the punts upfield from Dave Beasant and our other defenders. We sold him back after relegation to his club and he started scoring again. Typical.

I was brought up watching NUFC have red numbers on their backs, I always thought black numbers, or white numbers were strange on a black & white shirt. When it comes down to it, the SKY league wanted razzamatazz and squad numbers and names on the back to be a bit like the Yanks and also to make more cash. Somewhere, in some boardroom twenty years ago some slimy twat pitched this moneymaking scheme, (and the PL was born of greed don't forget), and our shirts are never going to be the same because of it. Give me a red number any day, and if its 1-11 even better, your number 9 should have to earn the shirt, if he's out someone else gets his chance to wear it, that's how it was and should be now. A big panel on our back is a slur on our club in the name of naked greed and no other reason.

Well it's just a pride in the shirt, y'knaa, tradition plus wanting it to look canny and not like some 4th division clubs cheap kit supplier has came on board. The club wants shot for not making more of an issue with the plain backs we've had to put up with. How can a club be told what their shirt has to be like? We should tell them to fuck off.

At least the front was canny enough on the last adidas one, this one?

I honestly don't think we'll ever have a home shirt that isn't shite anymore. Why nobody at the club has ever questioned or took a stand on why our shirts should be changed with a virtually plain white back on shows me that they don't really care for our heritage or tradition. I'd love to see the reaction if Liverpool, Man U or Arsenal were forced to change half of their home shirt so little Grasshopper in Shanghai can make out who the player is.

There's always good arguments to be made about selling successful players for big fees and replacing them with 'two for one' and getting a bigger squad, but a look through history will tell you big fees get diluted over time by signing sub-standard players and then the fee is gone. Put simply, if Jose's or Carroll's direct replacements are inferior to them then we are worse off as a team. If other players in the club or prospective players see this it doesn't bode well as far as re-negotiating deals go. Generally speaking, when you sell your better players you end up a worse team. It isn't the fucking Krypton Factor.

I missed all this shite last night. Stevie should've put a 'couldn't give a fuck' option on his poll, mind. I would've shook my head at all this and had a good laugh when I first started looking at TT, now I read stuff like this with interest. ARRRGHH!!!!

Those that say they'd like to talk to a younger version of themselves. I can completely relate to that! Wife put a music channel on last night for a bit and they had 1988 on and I was half pissed thinking of the 15 year old me and this thread came to mind.

Pardew.

It's a good job CT can take a joke. Mine would be; KK Alexander the Great Silvia Saint Pericles Julius Caesar

Is Dadoon a poster from here taking the piss? If he's real he's not from these shores. Dadoon, I vote that you're from Slovenia. Please do not "keep on good work".

Are you for real?

So he's clawed back almost 37% of the £134M he paid for the club without selling it through transfers alone. My chest is swelling with pride as I write this. There's nothing wrong with trimming down excessive spending but does this not somehow irritate you that a club with a cash rich owner, with a profile as high as ours, with gates that successful clubs can only imagine getting and everything going for us..............can see us as the lowest spenders? You and your ilk are like wet dreams to AshLlamb.

He'll probably be like KK was back here in his second spell as manager. He'll do ok, is highly respected at his club and it'll show on the pitch but like KK, the really, really good times wont be coming back. Carrying on in that vein it's mightily fucking rich of the scousers with their 'love in' for their messiah when you consider the shite they threw our way about KK. So long as he's financially backed, he'll do a decent job but I agree, it'll be nowt like before. I must have missed the rolling eyed, smirking, tut-tutting by the usual suspects in the media/phone-in shows about Liverpool fans being pleased/wanting Kenny back, for Christ knows they gave it to us! You're forgetting the massive proportion of the media who are Liverpool fans.. Apart from Hansen, Lawrenson, Collymore, Beglin, Thompson, and Alan Green I'm struggling to name one, to be honest. Ray Houghton!

He'll probably be like KK was back here in his second spell as manager. He'll do ok, is highly respected at his club and it'll show on the pitch but like KK, the really, really good times wont be coming back. Carrying on in that vein it's mightily fucking rich of the scousers with their 'love in' for their messiah when you consider the shite they threw our way about KK. So long as he's financially backed, he'll do a decent job but I agree, it'll be nowt like before. I must have missed the rolling eyed, smirking, tut-tutting by the usual suspects in the media/phone-in shows about Liverpool fans being pleased/wanting Kenny back, for Christ knows they gave it to us!

He'll probably be like KK was back here in his second spell as manager. He'll do ok, is highly respected at his club and it'll show on the pitch but like KK, the really, really good times wont be coming back.