Wullie

Every time I go to a home game, I notice an advertising board that used to be bringing money in but is now his company. The mind boggles at the amount of money no longer coming in.

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Interesting definition of optimism. I've said that if we improve our ball retention and create more chances then we can qualify for the Champions League. The "optimists" are the ones delighted with 6th and who don't seem to think we can improve on it. Fair enough if that's your opinion but how is that optimism? Strikes me as quite defeatist actually.

At the end of the day, I don't know why people come on here to discuss football if all they can say is "we're sixth". Just set that as your signature and post a blank space. There's always room for improvement, no matter what team you are. Why people get in such a tizz about people discussing tactics I don't know.

Parker won Fans Player of the Season here Jon so that's just bollocks isn't it?

Do I expect "free flowing football", "beautiful passing moves", "Barcelona of the North" or any of the other ridiculous phrases that people like to come with to argue against an argument nobody made? No. Do I expect to have more than 50% of the ball against Wolves at home when 2-0 up? Yes. Keep making up tedious "buzz words", as Jon would no doubt put it, to justify some really dire stuff of late. Our ball retention is the worst post of our game, it is horrendous.

Why does it have to be the "overriding tactic" to be a problem? We play far too much long ball stuff in general, that's not even a matter for debate from what I can see on the field. Guess I've just jumped on the bandwagon. I notice you stopped at Liverpool, the two games before that, Bolton and West Brom were horrendously direct, I was absolutely tearing my hair out.

Bit insulting to suggest it's to do with "going along with the crowd". Every week at home I find myself bellowing at Krul and the back four to keep it on the ground but again and again, I just see it pumped at the front pair.

Only takes into account Premier League, so 3 wins and a draw including a couple of heavy home wins.

Need much better movement from the wide players to see the best of him, main reason that we should absolutely not play Taylor there.

Funny definition of depressing - thinking that we've got a potentially astonishing footballer on our books who can rip the bastards apart if we let him. I would prefer Demba Ba to play ahead of Lovenkrands too because he's fucking brilliant. Is that negative too?

Not a chance on Earth that he'll start. They'll be starting Sessegnon of course, that renowned workhorse.

Is it even heard of for a Newcastle player to live in Sunderland? I'd be very surprised. There are actually some really nice areas and houses in parts of South Tyneside, parts of Boldon and Cleadon and they can't even bear to live there, too close to sunderland for them where there's fuck all of any interest. They live their entire lives in and around Newcastle, they're little different to the players that play for that Russian club (Anzhi?) and live 1000 miles away in Moscow.

Newcastle is the only reason they're even in the Premier League. If Newcastle weren't there, no player worth his salt would dream of playing for them because they'd have to live there. If I were one of them, I'd be royally pissed off that more or less the entire squad lives on Tyneside. Guess they put up with it because they know it's the only way they can attract players.

Don't know how he can keep a straight face coming out with that. I'm more than prepared to give him credit for results but that is just unbelievable.

'playing what the manager describes as a "fast brand of front-foot football"' Is he taking the piss?

Has everyone else had a letter regarding their payments for next year? I've not had one but the missus has, hers came a coupe of weeks ago now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/faq/

FYP.

Jesus.

Results aren't copyrighted. So I posted the fixture from years gone by, but didn't include the result, would that have been a 3 Alarm Warning in Dave's terminal or not? Nope. Once the game has been played, do what you like with it.

Results aren't copyrighted.

Think the difference is that Robson rated Bellamy and bought him because of that. We got Ba because he was free and no other reason. If he'd cost us a penny in transfer fees, I don't think he'd be here so from that point of view you could say Pardew lucked out that the cheap option turned out to be good but you've still got to give a manager some credit for any player's performances if they're consistently good as much as you would blame him for someone else being consistently poor.

Pissed off Tim isn't playing. Couldn't give a shiny shit otherwise.