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That one people say is a first teamer will do well to displace the players already here as first choice....unless he was bought for after January.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/

You're the one who's bragged about theiving papers aren't you?

Sometimes I feel there's only about 10 of us posting but 2 have a dozen accounts each.

On a long enough timeline you'll be right about everything. I predict man u will be on the Wayne. Bound to happen one year. You were saying they'd sink before last season.....which was one of their best.

Example?

Before my time.

Are you a kept man CT? What cab driver spends the entire weekend on the piss watching casualty and football?

Does the job. I've removed web os and installed android on it. There are just very few apps that offer more on the tablet version than they do on the phone I think.

Long ball, big man lay off to the finisher. The very worst of Allardyce.... Mick McCarthy BBC Radio 5 live "Great goal. That was a bit of British football at its best." Bell.

Not sure about these tablets having had one for a year or so. Since the novelty wore off I'm tending to use my phone or my laptop depending on what I'm doing. Never seems to be many situations where the tablet is best.

Best made 18 appearances last year Chez. Not sure how generous it is to say he'll be a miss if he played half the league games. Cisse's come in, so it's an improvement in that position....but without Lovenkrands for cover the squad is lighter. Steven Taylor played almost a third of the season too. Counting injured players like him and Marveaux as new signings is generous. It assumes we won't get any injuries this year....you haven't included the loss of Raylor for example. Last year was one of the most injury free I remember for Newcastle, we're banking on that again.

10th A window like last summer boosts a squad, keeps existing players on their toes, suggests we want to improve. A window like this one, not so much.

After the window we've had and an injury situation looking ominous I'll be imprerssed if we're top half come christmas.

Foster and Best in this window.

Milner nzogbia given bassong ....

http://www.toontastic.net/board/topic/32807-newcastle-united-season-2012-2013/#entry1074422 You were the one shouting about being title conenders. Think we've done enough to become contenders? If we had that potential is it not disappointing we didn't grasp the opportunity?

If this is it, it highlights the theory that the needs of the first team do not usurp all other considerations. The needs of the club finances and the requirement to buy players with potential, as cheaply as possible, as and when they are available, without being held to ransom, come first. We need a first team CB and RB. We have needed those since we were promoted. Since LB was filled by Santon they've been our most deficient areas. But we still haven't sorted it, preferring instead to only hunt bargains as and when they're available. The alternative isn't necessarily gap-filling on the level of spending £12m on the likes of Fletcher. I think we should occasionally be willing to spend a little more to get in what we need without going mad.

Aye. 10 out of 11 starters against Atromitos away were reserves, and still only one of those lads could get a start, even in that second string. I don't think any of them will figure to any great degree this season.

I keep meaning to look at last years pre/early season threads and pick out some quotes to remind people of the hopes and dreams they had for the likes of Vukic, Kadar, Sammy, Ferguson, Gosling & Marveaux. None of which had any great impact on our season. If we're lucky, one of the young ones will step up and manage 10+ games. It's very rare, but every season people start looking at the reserves hopefully in the face of a disappointing transfer window. I hope the quote from Pardew is just keeping his cards close to his chest.

I don't really. Just quoting the best film set in Bruges. You realize there are no bowling alleys in Bruges? Edit: I think the club does, but the city doesn't

Bruges is a shithole.

If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me but I didn't, so it doesn't.

As someone who always expects the worst of those running the club, I don't expect anyone to leave today. Departures have always been justifiable on the basis of our high wages and our yearly losses. I've not liked the majority of the departures, nor the generally low quality of replacements which mean half the team are still our Championship players, but I have always accepted the reasoning, while not agreeing with it. Neither of those justifications can be applicable any more, so if any of our major players go for big money, having not brought in anyone fit to jump straight into our starting 11. Then there can be no defending such a move.

Obertan was much improved in attitude. He wasn't hiding, he was more aggressive and more enthusiastic to have the ball and to win it than I've ever seen him at Newcastle. As the commentator alluded to, I think that had a great deal to with the quality of his opponent. Obertan knew he had the beating of their LB from early on, and a very picky referee who didn't believe it's a contact sport, so he enjoyed every second of running at him and past him. His delivery though was still woeful. Last night was his peak performance, and it put him on par with an average Guttierez show of endeavour without end product. If he could show that endeavour in the league, where the pace is much faster, and if was winning us corners and free-kicks in the danger areas for other folk to deliver, I'd say he'd be adequate cover.