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0.858 3.9x average. I rock

Worked out well last time - what could possibly go wrong?

I see. I've nothing against spending big on the right player, but it's the wasted millions on dross that has to stop. I'm pretty confident that spending too much money on players is something we aren't going to be worried about any time soon

OH GOD MY EYES

That was superb.

Your daughter is a particle physicist? Does she know Brian Cox? Astrophysicist - still a student like. She doesnt know the Cox (hopefully) but there was a Horizon on dark matter recently, the featured expert of which has not only offered her research placement to study neutrino stars, but is also a Newcastle fan from Whitley Bay. Current update- managed to get train to Paris - now caught in french rail strike - staying in nearest available hotel in Rouen. Ferry booked from Dieppe Monday. Sounds like she's having a blast.

Just had a phone call from my daughter who is in Switzerland at the Large Hadron Collider in Cern - She was due to leave tonight(friday) at 9pm, they have been told thursday is the first available flight, and thats not guarenteed. Trains are all full - Currently trying to rent a car for the long drive home.

yep -me too

I agree - much more culpable than Souness imo

I quite like the Shola, but I will be saying this from now on

He sorted Rangers out a treat in the late 80s by basically being a complete arsehole. SJH saw his value and got him on board - without a doubt IMO SJH's best action of all related to NUFC. Aye I remembering saying Newcastle will be double the commercial size of Rangers in 10 years, and he was proved right, from 1992 to 1996 he increased our turnoevr from £4m to £40m. It makes me laugh when people say Ashley is so much of a better businessman than FFS. FFS made a fortune and transformed the turnover, Ashley lost a fortune and fucked the turnover

Plainly an argument about who was top Geordie gone too far. ST plainly loves the whole from the terraces to the pitch, Geordie boy done good schtick, and never misses achance to peddle a cliche(I reckon he would be a right soopafan if confined to the internet) He must be sickened by Carrol being from Newcastle and a centre forward, especially now that Carrol is banging them in on a regular basis. Shame Carrol is living up/down to his stereotype quite so much though.

police release picture of suspect - looking bad for gemmill

General consensus seems to be that Hughton is doing nothing special, and that just about any manager would have yielded the same or similar results with the gulf in the class of players in this league. With that in mind if we're promoted the fear is that once the results don't come so easy the players heads will drop and Hughton won't be able to motivate them, or make the necessary tactical adjustments required. its frightening to think the frenzy that would have been generated had Shearer been in charge and acheived exactly the same results. I admit I would have probably lost all perspective and be considering him some sort of management god, rather than Hughton who is being shrugged off as a innefectual bloke who got lucky.

Its going to be interesting to see how many players we get into the team of the season - especially as all your pundits /opposition players and managers are always going on about how much quality weve got. Ironic really considering how much flack our support has always got for its unrealistic expectations, and even though we are accadaccering the League we seem to have a worse opinion of our players than everyone else

Jan1st 1985 beat Sunderland 3-1, I vaguely remember we had a few players out through injury and was really worried we would get turned over. Beardsley hat trick - Garry Bennet sent off -marvelous. I saw us put 5 past ManU Pop Robson hat trick -but that was when I was young enough to think that was just expected

I understand why the way leazes puts his point and frustrates and annoys people, but for me it all boils down to the above which is indisputably true

you need your bumps felt

not really true though - lets look at the top 6 west brom drew away drew at home cardiff beat home and away leicester won at home drew away swansea beat at home drew away I'll give you we lost away at Forest thats not struggling in my book

Sorry like but a "good" Premiership team? GOOD? put Smith/guthrie/Barton in midfield and lovelyhands/Fenham Pele up front and you have a team who might be good enough to stay up, cetainly good enough to get back up if relegated. More than good enough and cheap enough to line Ashleys pockets. We are top of the Championship but as far as I am concered the future has never been so depressing

I dont disagree about the shiteness of the league, and I dont think the team is anything special, and I think Ashley is a cunt, but I dont think the team is any worse than last seasons bunch of shite - and they only got relegated because they really tried hard to. I think the current bunch might just be able to eke out enough points to stay up. The are probably better than Burnley and on a level with Bolton/Blackburn/Wolves /Portsmouth and certainly no worse tahn the other two teams who get promotion. We might stay up we might not, we will probably end up up yoyoing (?) between the prem and the championship with stupidly big crowds and Ashley pocketing a fortune. I almost hope we dont go up see what I mean

That's why i mentioned the other things, like you said in the players awards/teams of the year etc his name comes up, hes regarded as one of the best in one of the top leagues, which sort places him in the "one of the best in the world" list. Put it this way, there's not many teams in the world he wouldn't be the first choice keeper in.. Why mention it then? The other two things you mentioned don't make you world class either imo although it's a definition which is largely down to the individual so it's a bit moot. I really don't see how anyone could argue with the limitations Barney mentions though. This has been done to death anyway and I couldn't really give a fuck about Given's career any more. Given is like Hoddle or Owen, the absolute best shotstopper (passer - finisher) in the game, which obscures the lack of ability in the rest of his game which stops him from becoming anywhere near a great. I think we are a better team with Harper in goal

I can't speak for Rob W, but I must state in all honesty that I've always had difficulty in understanding the verbiage of mentally challenged people who should seek professional help in dealing with their infirmities. Suffice to say LeazesMag, I'm dreadfully sorry I have difficulty understanding you. what?1!??

I dont disagree about the shiteness of the league, and I dont think the team is anything special, and I think Ashley is a cunt, but I dont think the team is any worse than last seasons bunch of shite - and they only got relegated because they really tried hard to. I think the current bunch might just be able to eke out enough points to stay up. The are probably better than Burnley and on a level with Bolton/Blackburn/Wolves /Portsmouth and certainly no worse tahn the other two teams who get promotion. We might stay up we might not, we will probably end up up yoyoing (?) between the prem and the championship with stupidly big crowds and Ashley pocketing a fortune. I almost hope we dont go up