Christmas Tree

Just a word of advice to all. Ok, so in your 20's or early 30's, the idea of an allotment might seem shall we say dull. However as you get older, get married, kids come along, you might suddenly decide that it would be a great idea. Grow some organic veg and fruit, keep a few chickens and some rabbits for the bairns to play with......etc etc etc Anyway, a lot of councils have a 5 to 15 year waiting list so log on to your council NOW, apply online and then in years to come when you are ready you will be top of the list. Go on. its FREE and takes 3 minutes to apply.

This Leaving Goalkeeper to one side, everyone is agreed on the back four, but the remaining six is a headache to put together. With goals coming from all over the park, the need to have two strikers is less important. Tough job.

Don't think Messrs Cshley and Co. want a big court action where they are made to look evil. I read that an OOC settlement failed a few months ago. If Ashley thought he would lose (and surely he can afford a lawyer to tell him what will happen), then he would have settled and am sure Keegan would have taken it, since this could be damaging to him too. Normally, you'd look at this and think Ashley must have a strong hand but given what we know about him, anything could be possible. The hearing today is not in public, right? The hearing is behind large oak doors deep in the forest, in a land far far away. The elves are on high alert. This is where I imagine you live with your little pointy ears.

How so? Thats a hard question to answer. Reported money troubles tied with his persona never quite seemed right. Given his history he should have got lots of things sorted and written down as guarantees. Just think he jumped a little too quickly. We'll never know and tbh i would rather they settled out of court. So in other words, it IS in doubt?

The FUCKING question was "what should our starting 11 Be???????????????????????????????????????????????????? Lets see some money where the mouths are.

How so? Thats a hard question to answer. Reported money troubles tied with his persona never quite seemed right. Given his history he should have got lots of things sorted and written down as guarantees. Just think he jumped a little too quickly. We'll never know and tbh i would rather they settled out of court.

Some of us will never "be able" to move on. First love and all that. Even now i know i would be like a silly little kid if it broke on Sky News that he was back. (with the right owners ofcourse).

Still have him back tomorrow btw

Based on a season of watching Jonas

Not in my team

Love Keegan, wish it had worked, all Ashleys fault. But Did Keegan come back for the Money? Without a doubt.

So, we are on a roll with a team that is already not what we would have described as our first choice starting 11. We have already had our fair share of injuries yet we are still winning and still top of the league. Do we look more in control with the midfield packed and only one striker? Can Hughton resist starting Butt? Bearing all this in mind, what should be our starting 11. Heres the one I would like to see start. Yes no Jonas, no Shola and not even a place for Nolan or Lovenkrands. Think Ranger has done better to win and hold the ball than any other striker at the club and would love to see his partnership with Carol given a go. If only one striker then Nolan would get the nod. Personally I think Hughton has some very difficult choices to make.

Alan Oliver

Wonder where we would be if Shearer had got the job and got rid of Smith, Nolan and Barton as planned? Not for a minute suggesting Hughton gets the job full time, but the "groove" is definately right at the minute between staff and players.

Possibly, but better still our new yank owners re-instate him to his throne.

This could get really juicy. Wonder which court its at? / protests

Guardian Newcastle's caretaker manager Chris Hughton addressing his players during training, has made a great start to the season. Photograph: Ian Horrocks/Newcastle Utd via Getty Images Newcastle United visit Cardiff City with their somewhat astonished fans "walking in a Chrissy Hughton Wonderland". After opening the League campaign by unexpectedly leading his side to the Championship summit courtesy of four wins and a draw, Hughton arrives in South Wales as the division's newly anointed manager of the month. Considering he is merely in caretaker charge of a Newcastle team which dropped out of the Premier League so supinely last May that represents a decent achievement. Throw in the elephant in the room – otherwise known as Alan Shearer – and it is nothing less than stunning. While there have been a few, slightly diffident, chants of "Only One Chris Hughton" from some Toon Army foot soldiers, the former long-serving Tottenham Hotspur right-back and coach still frequently conducts his choreography against a soundtrack of "Shearer, Shearer". Indeed if the Tyneside property developer Barry Moat finally succeeds in a long-running quest to buy the club from Mike Ashley, Hughton will be instantly returned to the backroom shadows and Shearer re-appointed in his stead. Should such a scenario unfold, any flies on the wall would be guaranteed some compelling drama, especially as, along with Kevin Nolan and Alan Smith, Joey Barton is one of a trio of players tacitly acknowledged as "running the dressing room". Barton, of course, was suspended indefinitely and told he would never play for Newcastle again in the wake of a row with Shearer following his sending-off at Liverpool last spring. Having controversially returned him to the fold, Hughton then demoted Barton to the bench after the midfielder criticised his tactics before last month's opening day draw at West Bromwich Albion. Subsequently, though, the pair have reached a rapprochement and Barton received a standing ovation for his recent home performance against Leicester. Meanwhile Nolan and Smith are also impressing. How ironic then that both could well have been sold had Shearer been granted his wish to overhaul the playing staff. The former England captain cut a commanding public figure during his eight-game managerial tenure at the end of last season but conjured only one win and it has since become apparent that certain players were not overly taken with the input of his influential assistant, Iain Dowie, particularly the stipulation that they took regular ice baths. In mitigation, Shearer and Dowie inherited a deeply-divided dressing room. Significantly, Nolan today revealed being "astounded" by a schism which badly undermined performances after joining from Bolton last January. Assisted by Colin Calderwood, Hughton has cleverly reunited that locker room while working against a backdrop of swingeing financial cuts which have led to nine players departing, thereby more than halving the old annual wage bill of close to £70m. Although such economies have left the squad dangerously thin they have, more positively, fostered new-found harmony among players who have adopted Deacon Blue's Dignity as their new pre-kick-off anthem. "We've built and rebuilt relationships and got tighter and closer as a unit," explained Hughton. "And certainly the senior players, although not necessarily senior age-wise, are now very much to the fore. We've got a few leaders." Hughton said of his manager of the month prize: "I'm delighted but thanks must go to the staff, especially Colin Calderwood and Paul Barron, and most importantly the players. They have been magnificent and this award is for them." This youthful, cinema-loving 50-year-old – surely one of the youngest-looking grandfathers around – has quietly made it clear he would relish managing Newcastle on a permanent basis and has already had his candidature endorsed by several first-teamers including Shola Ameobi and Nolan. "Chrissy has done extremely well because caretakers can't tell awkward players where to go," said someone who knows Hughton well. "He's a very good coach who never did that brilliantly during his previous caretaker spells at Spurs and Newcastle but, this time, he's had a whole pre-season to establish himself and his tactics. Unlike most managers he's not really a political animal but he is an extremely charming man who can use that charm to get people onside and doing what he wants." It may not endure but, right now, that amounts to a recipe for success.

Yawn.......

Fuck me are you really this gullible? The sad thing is I do get the impression he is... Gullible about what. Hughton said last week that he expected to bring some loan players in once the window opened. The window is now open. Explain yourselves. Are you saying Hughton was bullshitting?

Having had a weeks to make phone calls etc etc I thought we would have been quick off the mark.

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Shhhh.

Its so fucking quiet on here this week which leads me to believe that the majority of posters are either Teachers or school kids.

As the window has now re-opened, Hughton hinted that we may be getting some players in this week. If they sign today or tomorrow, can they play on Sunday. Anyone know the deadline? We are also loosely been linked with Wolves Sam Vokes today, 19 year old striker.