Shearergol

And play who instead? A midfield 4 of Geremi RM, Butt CM, N'Zogbia CM and Duff LM. Barton on the bench, or in the stands. That works until the point where Butt is still in the team. Probably our worst player IMO. Actually, I continued reading and saw you put N'Zogbia in the middle too. I'm struggling to think of a worse central midfield pairing.

Scunny winning

Reading beating Liverpool.

And play who instead?

£19.6million in one night. That's about 32pence per person right across the country. Stick that on the price of petrol per litre. Sorted.

no doubt the clowns who applauded him a few years back would agree. He's not a great player, he's a poor mans Rob Lee in actual fact, a strong player with a big fat arse and a good shot. Yeah, righto.

You get my point then? By the way, thought you were awful when you came to Glanford Park. Has the football improved?

Cheers mate, tar us all with the same brush. Even though you have said some of our fans(at the start) by the end of your post you have labelled us all heartless bastards, cheers! You're only a heartless bastard when it comes to Michael Owen.

Give me a minute, I'll photoshop that picture and make it a bit bigger.

He was last season, and would be this season if Sheff United realised he has to be in the box. Nice to see 3 former Scunny strikers in that last - can't really work out why Martin Paterson isn't in that list though (or Jack Cork, though strictly he's a Chelsea player). Thinking even further, Joe Murphy is regarded as one of the best keepers outside the Premiership yet still doesn't make the list. They've basically missed any player out who doesn't play for a fashionable club. Stupid list. Because Watford are really 'flavour of the month'. Looking again, am shocked at the exclusion of Joe Mattock and Richard Chaplow amongst others. Maybe not flavour of the month, but a massive club compared to the likes of Scunny. Kris Commons has been shite this season; why's he in there? Forest are a big club....

Do you not think it might then be more than just luck? It's a combination of have a manager who knows how to win 2 legged ties, and a hell of a lot of luck (oh, and at the moment having a goal machine)

He was last season, and would be this season if Sheff United realised he has to be in the box. Nice to see 3 former Scunny strikers in that last - can't really work out why Martin Paterson isn't in that list though (or Jack Cork, though strictly he's a Chelsea player). Thinking even further, Joe Murphy is regarded as one of the best keepers outside the Premiership yet still doesn't make the list. They've basically missed any player out who doesn't play for a fashionable club. Stupid list.

I'd pay £5m for Lampard myself. Sod him playing for Newcastle; he can come live at my place

Why on earth would they fix the draw?

Whoosh? Aye, fly him in. Seriously? Couldn't see him making the step down tbh. It is a possibility, but I wouldn't say it was realistic. He loved Shearer and said he would love to walk out wearing the number 9 at St James IIRC. So he might, but I seriously doubt it. Quality striker though. Please don't bring up this debate again

1st/2nd April then 9th/10th

Man United were awesome against Roma in the 7-1. Can't see them repeating it this year, but still got to fancy them. I can only see an English winner tbh.

Yep, a big congratulations to all of the English teams, which contain about 2 English players. Yay!

still better than owen tbh the fucking little prick The last line in your post makes the first line pointless. Don't know why people have to get personal about players, as it detracts from their views of them as a player. However, there is no way that Viduka is better than Owen.

Love the way they draw the final. Can't they work it out by whoever wins the semi finals, or is it just to work out which dressing room each team uses?

They'll be playing Chelsea in the semi, again.

Honestly? He's very close to signing for Burnley from what I've heard. Certainly building up a youth/reserve team aren't we. Aye here is the link http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2008/03/13/united-swoop-for-young-gun-vokes-72703-20617218/ Surely that wouldn't be allowed? signs a contract but wont transfer till next season He can sign now because Burnley are in administration and need the money, similar to Ipswich when we signed Ambrose. Bournemouth you mean? Thought they'd found a buyer to bring them out of administration now? Their manager was on SSN quite a bit yesterday and he said something about not selling any players.

Maybe it coincides with newcastles worst season in the premiership. Sorry for speaking out against a club I have supported since 1970 But Im afraid our future in the top flight of football is ending this season. Be positive I think he's fairly positive we're going down.

Joey Barton could be our Steven Gerrard too.

He signed some very good players for us. He should've we were the 2nd best team in the country, one of the richest in the world and in the Champion's League. and those players still took us from that position to mid-table. given time i'm sure he'd have done better but he did a poor job short-term. The football we played under Dalglish was atrocious. He did make some good signings in Given, Solano, Hamman (for that 1 season) but made some equally bad signings like the jobs for the boys (Rush, Barnes, his son etc), Des Hamilton, Andreas Andersson, Lionel Perez...... falling out with Ginola,selling Ferdinand and replacing them sub standard players. Everyone goes on about him taking us to 2nd place in the CL, but that was with Keegans team. The season after was his team......the one where we performed so miserably, playing largely boring negative football and finishing 13th. Hardly his fault Ferdinand was sold though. i'm no apologist for dalglish but to underestimate the effect losing shearer had is to do him a massive disservice - was the best striker in europe at the time and would have affected everything maassively agreed. The point about Dalglish is that, at the time, he had a winning record better than even Alex Ferguson, he appeared to be a top, top appointment, of the calibre of Fergie, Wenger, Mourhinho etc now. He had also taken a great team on at Liverpool and improved them, and with flair players too. Exactly what we wanted here at the time. Then won the title with another club, a feat few have equalled. Won 3 manager of the year awards, and 4 titles in all. Saying he was crap or anything like questioning why he got the job, well the reason he got the job is for the reasons above. These hindsight merchants really make me laugh. Dalglish was an excellent appointment at the time, which is why I've never slagged Fat Fred for it. You are right in highlighting just why he looked such an attractive option back then. But his limitations became pretty apparent the longer he was away from Anfield. I think the dissent only set in with the consecutive appointments of Souness and Roeder, both terrible decisions from any angle. I hardly think a manager with all those honours could be termed as "limited" however I'm pleased that you acknowledge that for 7 out of 10 years you were quite happy. By the way, Roeder also came 7th in the league so make it 8 years out of 10. Hardly the sort of figures you would associate with a shite board. They say that Greggs pies are especially nice these days. I wonder how many company chairman buy them with company funds, despicable practice. Truly only shit chairman do such things. You know you're the only one who mentions pies these days Leazes? If you dropped that side of your attack I'm sure a lot more people would agree with your posts.