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...Didn't see you then ...Tis all good.. I've added a bunch of you. Anyone keen for after the game?

Tiote has been executing the pirouette to perfection in this match. Makes Parker look like they forgot to wind up him up.

Christmas Tree, the forum joke.

0-0 at half time. We were clearly the better team, but they had one extremely good chance that they should have scored off, and we look disorganised at the back for their set pieces. We should have scored off at least one of Enrique's great balls into the area.

...Just needed the slightest touch from Lovenkrands and it was in. 7 odd minutes to make this dominance count.

Another peach from Jose! .. and the commentators still creaming themselves.

All over them.... Come on.. make it count!

Chance there for Best on the boot as well. Not an easy one mind. SHould be his lucky day cause it looks like a bird has shat on his head.

And Enrique's at it again. Lovely ball after good link up play with Jonas.

oooh errr

Yep, entertaining match thus far. In stark contrast to the earlier match this season.

Don't know if it's a tactic or what, but balls over the top of Samba are looking a decent option. He turns like a... Sol Campbell.

Commentators creaming themselves over Jose. Williamson just felt up Kalinac and got away with it

Cross fade on Enrique's ball.. he's pulling them all out tonight

Man.. Lovenkrands just had to knock the pass to Best who made a good run. Would have been a tap in. His chip wasn't far off.. but man.. that would have been a brilliant goal.

What a fucking ball from ENrique! Lovenkrands too heavy on the chip.

Mighty lucky there... good knock down from Samba, Santa Cruz fluffed his lined big time. He's going to be a real handful (Samba). Noone in our side who's decently tall will be able to match it with him physically.

Tiote will have a yellow by half time it seems...

Enrique's clearly taken CT's thread to heart.... fantastic run into tjhe box and great ball.

Would consider going to a Newcastle jets game with a Newcastle United shirt... hang around afterwards and pretend to want Owen to sign it, then to grab it back and say on second thoughts you didn't care for this shirt when you were paid 100k a week to wear it, so why bother now? This won't happen though.

Online now...

Definitely beatable, they've lost four on the trot in the league haven't they? Inexperiended manager. We should be up for some revenge... Tiote in particular.

Ok just to confirm are others keen to play before the Blackburn game? I'm definitely down for it and will be on from more than an hour before the game.

Grounds with running tracks blow. Unless they're packed to the brim you lose the cauldron atmosphere that you get from a custom built football ground. The biggest ground we have in Sydney is the Olympic stadium and it's painfully shit watching anything there without a packed stadium. Australia beating Uruguay in a shootout to qualify for the 2006 World Cup was absolutely amazing, seeing a Rugby League game there with 20k not so much (capacity 80,000+ down from 110,000 for the Olympics). Seeing Beckahm Galaxy vs Sydney FC despite the big crowd was not that special. Having a better atmosphere from the sidelines can make a huge difference in the match, so expect to see boring insipid gutless low intencity matches there.

Maybe he's trying to make a point about how little they're paying Kuqi after copping some criticism about the move. At least he didn't say: "We was looking to get someone in for the rest of the season we was. And we told him that's that what we was doing, we done."