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I'd love Taylor to be good and time is on his side he's still very young. My only worry is the last couple of seasons he seems to have stayed pretty much the same. Hopefully putting him in there with a good defender will improve him.

Bang goes that theory

Ahh I see, must have been a bit daft yesterday

http://www.nufc.co.uk NEWCASTLE United have confirmed the playing squad numbers for the 2008/09 season. New Argentine duo Fabricio Coloccini and Jonas Gutierrez will wear numbers two and 18 respectively. Danny Guthrie will wear number eight, while the fourth of our summer recruits - French defender Sebastien Bassong, who joined from Metz on a three-year deal - will take the number 12 jersey. The official 2008/09 squad numbers are: 1 Shay GIVEN 2 Fabricio COLOCCINI 3 JOSE ENRIQUE 4 5 6 Claudio CACAPA 7 Joey BARTON 8 Danny GUTHRIE 9 Obafemi MARTINS 10 Michael OWEN 11 Damien DUFF 12 Sebastien BASSONG 13 Steve HARPER 14 Charles N'ZOGBIA 15 16 James MILNER 17 Alan SMITH 18 Jonas GUTIERREZ 19 20 GEREMI 21 Habib BEYE 22 Nicky BUTT 23 Shola AMEOBI 24 25 Abdoulaye FAYE 26 27 Steven TAYLOR 28 Tamas KADAR 29 Fabio ZAMBLERA 30 David EDGAR 31 Frank Wiafe DANQUAH 32 Wesley NGO BAHENG 33 Ole SODERBERG 34 Fraser FORSTER 35 Ben TOZER 36 Mark VIDUKA 37 Callum MORRIS 38 Kazenga LUALUA 39 Andy CARROLL 40 Tim KRUL 41 Mark DONINGER 42 Ryan DONALDSON 43 Jonny GODSMARK 44 James MARWOOD 45 Darren LOUGH

He's been given a squad number for us if that makes any difference

He's back and 'keen to play' according to .com. Emphasises our lack of fit and available options up front which is no surprise. If Martins is ok then we should be alright. If not we haven't got a prayer. Martins doesn't really do well up front on his own though anyway does he ? It's a game for me where any point we get is a bonus so I wouldn't risk him. The whole season is more important than 1 game against Man Utd. If we go down that route again we'll end up like we were under Souness where he rushed people back and we were stuck without them for even longer.

He's back and 'keen to play' according to .com. Will have to be keener than the last match he played again Man U. If he's not 100% I wouldn't risk him against Man U no point. Fair point. Depends on whether KK thinks there's any point considering the fixture. Glad you could understand what I wrote

Grammar there was crap lol I mean he'll have to play better than the last match he played in cause he wasn't very good. If he plays like that against Man Utd he'll be a waste. He might as well get 100% fit for Bolton then be poor against Man U. We've not won there before have we ? So might as well go for the true and hope to hit them on the break. Play the usual KK way and we lose big.

He's back and 'keen to play' according to .com. Will have to be keener than the last match he played again Man U. If he's not 100% I wouldn't risk him against Man U no point.

You do know Martins is meant to be injured don't you ?

Bonus points are awarded for games where TT gets the correct score Have I messed up again ?

* 2 Points for predicting the correct number of goals by at least one team. * 1 Points for predicting the correct number of goals for the home team. * 1 Points for predicting the correct number of goals for the away team. * 4 Points for a correct score. i.e. you predict 3-1 and the result is 3-1. * 3 Point for a correct result. You predict 1-1, the score is 2-2. * 0 Points for a incorrect result. i.e. you predict 3-1 and the result is 1-3. Bonus points are given on a match by match basis (as in some may have them others won't and points vary ) but you have to get the exact score right to get the bonus points. Simple

Bugger forgot one match, all update now though with a 5 point bonus for the Man U games.

Duff head goal

Don't forget people: http://www.justgiving.com/thesirbobbyrobsonfoundation

remember and get your predictions in for this weekends games URL in the first post.

All up to date after my holidays league table now has me sitting at the top where I plan to stay for the whole season http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcpredictionleague

It's that time of year already. With the first friendly of the season to be played this Saturday you can make your predictions already for the 2008-2009 Prediction league at http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcpredictionleague anyone who is already a user from previous season can continue with the same login details otherwise just sign up and start predicting. I will update the "Can't find what your looking for" thread so that it points to this so you can keep up to date with your predictions. http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcpredictionleague

LOL just been reading the BBC forums view of this they make entertaining reading nothing else though.

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/4845/jonased3.jpg Good physical stats, not so good technical stats. age 29? In 2012 (at the bottom) Cheat to win eh

I couldn't be bothered to defend my title, couldn't get motivated under Roeder and Allardyce. I have to admit it was a wonderful feeling when we beat Chelsea last game of the season and I hit the top for the first time all year and nicked the title Didn't you beat me that year to the title ?

For the Newcastle-Online prediction league on the Newacastle-Online board ? No.

You made me get my finger out so I've updated it now for the new season.

Yeah when he signed wasn't he saying he was innocent and then he changed his plea to guilty. I'm sure the club could get shot of him very legally on this point alone, bringing the club into disrepute or something. I'm no lawyer but I hope there is a way to get rid of him.

But I don't remember KK ever going and talking to the press until the deals were done. Granted the deals were usually done quickly but still he usually signed a group of players then took them all to the press. We have nobody signed therefore he has nothing to talk about, seems a waste of his time talking to the chronicle and such like when he's busy sorting transfers and training for the new year. More or less my thoughts. There does seem to be an eerie silence from KK though. Thought there would be some PR when he 'got back to his desk'.