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Other mid-table and lower teams can confidently expect a result against us at the moment.

It was hit well, it wasn't right in the corner by any means though.

Statto Sam hasn't been looking at it that way though, he's been referring to the more positive sounding "unbeaten in four games" stat.

On the plus side, the fact we've given them more than half their points this season means they've got more of a chance of beating the mackems record-breaking point total.

Crap game, the fight outside the Gate afterwards was entertaining though.

Sigh. How about you give it a go, ey Sam? Go on, humour us. Play Zog on the left and Milner on the right for a few matches. Se what happens.

They must have made a fortune from Barbie, they should have gone for a bigger club.

"Presenting himself to police" sounds like another sexual offence to me.

I like to see us take the odd risk by buying promising 17 year olds, rather than paying millions for them 10 years later when Man U have already got the best out of them...

My stupid bets £2 on Milner to score and Newcastle to win @ 9/1 £2 on Martins to scrore from outside the box @ 14/1 £2 on Zog last scorer @ 16/1 £4 on Newcastle to score first and fail to win @ 4/1

I have to say, their list of "10 great matches" at the side is a bit uninspiring. Chris Kamara's going to be sent to cover most of them.

Saw a pic of Gerrard leaving his house in one of the tabloids today and he looked like Ian Huntley.

And Redknapp would have struck me as another McClaren appointment

Certainly a favourite amongst my mates. We entertain ourselves on the way to matches by inventing chuck norris style facts about his greatness.

Looks like he's in the middle of a mid-air haka.

Be interested to see the Sun back page tomorrow after what utter fucking shitcunts they were about us today, wont hold my breath though! Great performance, we were the better team overall for 90 minutes, although it could have gone either way. Smith was great and I was disappointed when he was dropped into midfield because it gave the impression Sam was wanting to slow the game down and go for the point when we'd looked perfectly comfortable attacking and going forward - although taking of Geremi was probably the right choice. After the match I bumped into an Arsenal mate of mine who was very complimentary about us. Even after going 1-0 down the crowd got behind the lads because we were looking hungry and playing well, which should be noted by people who think we just boo and sit in silence unless we're 2-0 up in the first 20 minutes. At full time everyone looked fucking knackered and I think that's the first time I've seen that all season - long may it continue! Bring on the fucking brum, reckon we're going to stuff those little cunts, howay!

For some reason I think a win or a loss is more likely than a draw.

If we lose this Sam becomes the first Newcastle manager to lose three straight home matches in the Premier League.

Can't overstate what an unusually high contingent of knuckle dragging arseholes Stoke have got. When I was living there you'd sometimes go into town on a Saturday afternoon and find the shutters down on all the shops and their version of Eldon Square in lockdown because Stoke had lost an away match and the dickheads who'd been watching it in the pubs had gone on the rampage.

Just got back, watched it on dodgy satellite in a pub then went out drinking all night. I have to say, even though we lost we showed something that's been missing recently, fucking bite. Even after we'd conceded, we looked like we might get something, which is a change. I fully expected us to fold after they went ahead. But we went down to two Bentley goals that were unstoppable and one soft goal that was understandable cos we were trying to get back into the match. Even though it was another nil point, I feel much more positive than I did after the last match.

If Arsenal go out there and are greeted by those sort of tactics they'll put 7 or 8 past us.

Fabregas is doubtful for today, but he's got two games this gameweek. Seeing as the second one is against us, I'm going to leave him in. If he's out for both games it doesn't matter, my reading defender will come in with his Boro clean sheet points.

Or we might be the backlash For years now when a team has been having a tough time of things and need a boost we seem to be the ones to come along and give it to them.

Redknapp reckons the events of the past week have damaged his chances of getting the Eng;and job. I think events of the last decade have probably had more of an impact...

£5m. Wait, are we talking transfer funds or payoff?