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Are we doing lookalikes based on someone's hairstyle now then? How does Henderson look like Hulk?

I've heard that Boro are linked with him.

I've watched him play 3 or 4 times now, and I honestly can't even remember him being on the pitch. Is that a good or a bad thing?

Agreed, except that I do rate Milner. I honestly don't understand why so many people don't, but I won't get into it. Its easy really isn't it, we sell him and we buy his replacement who will be better but cheaper. Then we sign all the other players we need for the squad, we only need about 6. Never played Football Manager have you!? Loser! They're offering double what he's worth. It's good business sense to let him go. I honestly can't see why you rate him so highly. Is it something to do with your love of Amdy Faye? Good young versatile player who won't let us down when we need him. They may be offering double what he is worth but the squad is low and we could end up replacing someone who costs us double what they are worth. What does that actually mean? You mean he'll turn up to matches on time? We've needed him on plenty of occasions to put a decent cross in. Generally, he lets us down. If "not letting the club down" is all you need to do nowadays, we may as well give Dave a contract.

From the stats ... Modric has been the far better player. You can't even compare the two. How have you worked that out? Without comparing the two, clearly.

I might be able to sort you something in way of tolls mate, leave it with me. I'm with you on the second part though, I'd rather pay the £5.40. Do tell. I pay £5.40 a day just to get across to work, so if you know where I can get some free tickets I'm all ears A mate of mine used to be able to get them off his Dad as he had been doing work on the bridge. I'll see if he still gets them. If he can, should be able to sort you out with some, not sure on how many though. Just spoken to him, he reckons he will be able to sort me out with some for you. Nice one. I'll be looking at humber bridge for pick up anyway. I'll confirm how many of us there are by the end of the week.

Richard Money is an absolute legend. He's a friend of my dad from the time he was at scunthorpe. Top bloke.

I might be able to sort you something in way of tolls mate, leave it with me. I'm with you on the second part though, I'd rather pay the £5.40. Do tell. I pay £5.40 a day just to get across to work, so if you know where I can get some free tickets I'm all ears

Agreed, except that I do rate Milner. I honestly don't understand why so many people don't, but I won't get into it. Its easy really isn't it, we sell him and we buy his replacement who will be better but cheaper. Then we sign all the other players we need for the squad, we only need about 6. Never played Football Manager have you!? Loser! They're offering double what he's worth. It's good business sense to let him go. I honestly can't see why you rate him so highly. Is it something to do with your love of Amdy Faye?

Interesting one this. If I travel to Hull, which was the original plan, I end up paying £5.40 in bridge toll, as well as petrol. I could however drive to Donny, but I wouldn't want to leave my car there

Newcastle's league position during the last season of the previous board: 13 Newcastle's league position during the first season if the new board: 12 That's an improvement, despite having to put up with Allardyce for half a season. Like most realistic Newcastle supporters, I realise that we're unlikely to challenge for the top 4/5 for a long long time. This is nothing to do with the board, or who is managing the team. It's to do with the fact that football has changed considerably since Keegan last managed us. Even he has admitted that. His point about not breaking the top 4 had nothing to do with who owned the club. NE5 - you're a big fan of Keegan, yet you seem to disagree with him about this "little" point. Do you think that secretly Keegan would rather be managing the club under the old board? I seem to remember the reason for him leaving in the first place was something to do with a certain decision they made.....

Or not... Had a few requests from people hoping for a pick up at Doncaster Station and after a bit of research, it's quite possible without adding a great deal of time onto the journey. What I'm going to do is compile another route and see how popular that proves before confirming things. Hmm. By the end you're gonna end up taking 9 hours to get to the game. I see your point of keeping everyone happy, but I think if I was setting off from Hull I wouldn't want to go back to Doncaster before starting up through Leeds. Whilst you're at it though, rather than me travelling to Hull, how about popping through Scunthorpe to pick a few of us up? I do see your point. It's difficult, I really don't know what is best. I've found a route that would add about 25 minutes on but allow us to go via Doncaster. If this is to pick say 10 people up for example, to me that 25 minutes would be worth it. I remember earlier on in the thread Doncaster being touted as a pick up point but it didn't really seem like it would work. I'll look into some options now. Which way are you planning on going to Newcastle from Hull which involves a 25 minute detour to Doncaster?? Even Leeds is 45 minutes away from Doncaster. This route you've planned - what time have you got it down to?

What?

Exactly. Hull to Doncaster takes about an hour, and it's in the wrong direction!

Or not... Had a few requests from people hoping for a pick up at Doncaster Station and after a bit of research, it's quite possible without adding a great deal of time onto the journey. What I'm going to do is compile another route and see how popular that proves before confirming things. Hmm. By the end you're gonna end up taking 9 hours to get to the game. I see your point of keeping everyone happy, but I think if I was setting off from Hull I wouldn't want to go back to Doncaster before starting up through Leeds. Whilst you're at it though, rather than me travelling to Hull, how about popping through Scunthorpe to pick a few of us up?

In the event of a draw, a randomly selected team that was eliminated earlier in the tournament then gets through, or even crowned champions. Well it'd stop the Italy tactics anyway

I still don't understand why HTL leaving this board has any relevance to the current regime. He quit the forum before Ashley was around tbh.

If neither team wins after extra time, they both lose. Works until the final really. Or the semi. Hmm. Flawed.

Toontastic.com has been shit. Toontastic.net is where it's at though

The point Dave was making I believe was that you have a tendency to lump in anyone who criticises the old board in any way at all with the few, and its a very small few from what I've seen, who do fail to give them any credit whatsoever for anything. My opinion of the old board/Shepherd was that their hearts were in the right place, they were genuinely trying to take the club forward, but their decision making at key times in their latter years of power seemed to indicate that they were always likely to struggle to get us there. I reckon quite a few share this opinion, and its very unfair to lump in anyone who does with the very few who fail to give them any credit whatsoever. Given the size of the club, it's reasonable to argue that there's nothing really stopping us from getting up among the top teams in the country again. Except, of course, how the club is run by those in charge. So for that reason I think people were happy to see a change at board level. Is the new board in any way gauranteed to be better? Not at all. But my feeling was that Shepherd's reign had run its course, and while nobody is denying there were some good times in there I do believe we'd gone as far as we were ever going to under him. So people are generally optimistic about having someone new in charge, and are waiting to see what happens. If they do a shite job and in a couple of years we're still stranded in mid-table, then you can bet that they won't be popular on here. But surely the deserve a fair chance first? And surely people don't deserve to be attacked for giving them that chance? Good post. The bit in bold is EXACTLY what I meant. The previous board did several things excellently. I don't have a problem with acknowledging what they did well. They quite obviously weren't 'the worst board ever', what a ridiculous thing that would be to say. They did, however, also screw some things up royally and we were due for a change. Will it 'automatically be an improvement'? Of course not. But who has actually said they thought it would be better by default? Nobody that I can remember, it's a strawman argument used time and time again. To wit: Old board - did well most of the time, fucked some key things up. New board - barely had a chance yet, let's see in a few years how well they're fairing. complete tripe. Lots of people said they just wanted rid of them, and anytime at all any names were mentioned, even that hedge fund, they were all in favour. Lots of people. Selective memory or what. Anyway, it doesn't matter. It seems that some people are now coming over to what some of the better posters used to tell you, you know those that have gone from the board, for one reason or another. Gemmill and Alex? i didn't mean you Well, clearly. That wouldn't make sense, seeing as I've gone nowhere.

The point Dave was making I believe was that you have a tendency to lump in anyone who criticises the old board in any way at all with the few, and its a very small few from what I've seen, who do fail to give them any credit whatsoever for anything. My opinion of the old board/Shepherd was that their hearts were in the right place, they were genuinely trying to take the club forward, but their decision making at key times in their latter years of power seemed to indicate that they were always likely to struggle to get us there. I reckon quite a few share this opinion, and its very unfair to lump in anyone who does with the very few who fail to give them any credit whatsoever. Given the size of the club, it's reasonable to argue that there's nothing really stopping us from getting up among the top teams in the country again. Except, of course, how the club is run by those in charge. So for that reason I think people were happy to see a change at board level. Is the new board in any way gauranteed to be better? Not at all. But my feeling was that Shepherd's reign had run its course, and while nobody is denying there were some good times in there I do believe we'd gone as far as we were ever going to under him. So people are generally optimistic about having someone new in charge, and are waiting to see what happens. If they do a shite job and in a couple of years we're still stranded in mid-table, then you can bet that they won't be popular on here. But surely the deserve a fair chance first? And surely people don't deserve to be attacked for giving them that chance? Good post. The bit in bold is EXACTLY what I meant. The previous board did several things excellently. I don't have a problem with acknowledging what they did well. They quite obviously weren't 'the worst board ever', what a ridiculous thing that would be to say. They did, however, also screw some things up royally and we were due for a change. Will it 'automatically be an improvement'? Of course not. But who has actually said they thought it would be better by default? Nobody that I can remember, it's a strawman argument used time and time again. To wit: Old board - did well most of the time, fucked some key things up. New board - barely had a chance yet, let's see in a few years how well they're fairing. complete tripe. Lots of people said they just wanted rid of them, and anytime at all any names were mentioned, even that hedge fund, they were all in favour. Lots of people. Selective memory or what. Anyway, it doesn't matter. It seems that some people are now coming over to what some of the better posters used to tell you, you know those that have gone from the board, for one reason or another. Gemmill and Alex?

Where did you hear that? mackems.gif

Why? We needed forwards, we signed two.

Funny really. I probably hate "rival" posters more than anyone, but I quite like Brummie.

So Lampards certainly gone then. I'd be happy with that if i was a chelsea fan! In the same way that Arsenal fans would be happy if Fabregas leaves?