BottledDog

Great to see it come together. Congrats Alan, hopefully puts a sock in some of the more ridiculous assumptions about your preferred style for a few days at least.

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KK's coaching is more... fun and varied™?

Under 18's and down don't either from what I've seen.

Well, he's not injured... I spoke to Alan Smith last night prior to the game, he was sitting in the Club Gold Bar having a brew. The conversation went like this: Welldon : Hi Alan, good to have you at the club, why aren't you playing tonight,being rested ? Smiffy : Nah. Welldon : Oh right, so your injured ? Smiffy : Nah. Welldon : Oh ok, I was just asking as it said you were a doubt tonight on the OCS. Smiffy : Nah, I ain't been injured for ages. Welldon : Oh ok, thought you might have picked up a niggle at the Chesterfield game, that was some second half don't you think, you looked knackered at the end ? Smiffy : That was like a F**king kids game ! Welldon : Bye Alan. I think Luke Ashmeads job is safe for a while yet !!! Now in case anyone thinks he was pissed with me because i was talking to him, when I walked in he had a face like a smacked arse, he looked more than pissed off, now it says on the OCS he was injured....but not according to Smiffy. My guess is words were exchanged after the Chesterfield game.

Llambias basically confirmed he wants offers for him in the summer recently. Would that be the interview where he said we were in a much better position now and if we made Europe to convince the likes of Tiote to stay? /Yes. Yes it was.

Yeah, awful player. Get rid.

Good stuff.

Ha, nice one Glyn.

Oh do fuck off.

Oddly enough Norwich go a goal down and switch to start pressing us a lot harder. No shit we're having difficulty knocking it around.

FFS, you saw a cut away to Pardew when he rightly had a go at HBA. Who in the flying fuck are we to say he didn't have an even greater go at Williamson when the cameras wern't pointed at him?

IF that is where they play, then to be fair Guti has effectively been not far from a left back all season, and it'd take some convincing to make me think that Perch has been a better utility defender than a defensive midfielder for us.

Give over. Apropos of nothing, our bench looks weak as piss.

Attacking!?!!?!? Don't be daft.

Despite more than 40 years of service at Newcastle United, long-serving tea lady Kath Cassidy has never seen a Magpies match. But that will all change on Sunday, when the 85-year-old will be given one of the best seats in the house for the clash with Norwich City.... But this weekend she will be in the directors box at the Sports Direct Arena, along with her family, after the club gave her Mother's Day off so she could finally watch her heroes in action. http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20120318/toon-tea-lady-to-watch-first-match_2281670_2664257?

Ben Arfa added: “It took me time. It is a different league here. It is a 90-minute energy that you need. “The coach and the staff put that philosophy into us all the time, it helps. “After a year of injuries, I always knew it would be very hard to be 100 per cent again. “But I never worried that I would not play again. “I always felt and hoped that I would get back to 100 per cent fitness. “It wasn’t easy. When you are out for that long you can feel that you might lose a bit of your game. When you come back, you have to start all over again. “But the manager told me to keep training hard. He insisted I was here for training all the time – the more you train and the better you train, the more likely it is that you will be better on the pitch.’’ Seems the coaching staff are happy, and Hatem himself is happy and buys into the the hard work and the time it has taken to get back from the injury and adapt. Great stuff.

You're kidding right?

Who the fuck said that? Sky bloke heavily implied it was still a possibility. As I've said before, mongtastic as their fans are I can certainly understand why they continue to believe they're a big hitter in this league. They're spoon-fed it on a daily basis by the entire media. Alan Green was peddling it on 5Live as well. Alan Green is a cunt. /just needed to be said... again.

That's as maybe, but it doesn't half sound like the quarterback role that attracted him to the club in the first place.

Yup. The closest to a decent through ball against Liverpool was from Perch.

Moment of our first half performance was arguably him skinning Enrique. Chin up, you'll get a win here, I'd put money on it. /£2 @ 22-1 You must be on something. A winning streak. If there's anyone who can end a winning streak, it's me. Well, not directly me in this case. You know what I mean. I think. Not you. Gerrard.

Moment of our first half performance was arguably him skinning Enrique. Chin up, you'll get a win here, I'd put money on it. /£2 @ 22-1 You must be on something. A winning streak.

Chin up, you'll get a win here, I'd put money on it. /£2 @ 22-1