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Why? You can still sign players, they just cannot play until January.

Stop talking shit and make the big man open his account so we can bring in some players that we desperately need. Why is everyone at the club hell bent on spouting off their mouth and never backing it with action? Back him or sack him, its not difficult.

3 defensive midfielders? Why exactly? 1st post syndrome. You spend 4 years lurking, then you sign up and when you finally get to post any old shit comes flying out. Welcome to the forums though mate!

I thought it would take longer than that for Enrique to settle in the Prem.

Didn;t we have a similar incident before SA came in?

He'll come back claiming he's the ANC top goalscorer, when in reality he didn't even get a game as he got lost on his way out of the airport.

Unfortunately he's probably right. We in here are only a small % of toon fans, and the uneducated majority would love to see Shearer back, and would even be their first choice. Loads of people you speak to hold that opinion, its crazy.

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Aye, you'd have at least thought he would of deleted his post by now after seeing i'd got there first!

He really really does. I get the feeling the rest of them don't quite listen to what he says either, feels like a right outsider trying to butt in most of the time.

Don't know if this has been posted either but: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/2007/12/29/stan-let-me-help-you-joey-89520-20268315/ Stan: Let me help you, Joey Mirror Sport columnist Stan Collymore last night made a dramatic plea to Joey Barton not to throw his football career away. The Newcastle and England bad boy is spending the rest of the Christmas and New Year period in jail after being charged with affray and common assault. Collymore failed to realise his own potential during his career. And the former Liverpool star was beaten up himself in a fastfood restaurant in Dublin by rugby players in October 2004. Now Collymore has offered to meet Barton to help him exorcise his demons following his latest controversial incident: Dear Joey Right now, while you are sitting in a cell as everyone else enjoys their Christmas holiday, a lot of people won't want to give you the time of day. The same happened to me a few years ago. And rightly so, because sooner or later we have to try to do the right thing by our family, our friends and the football club that employs us. I saw your interview on the BBC's Inside Sport the other week and I saw a young guy with everything. A great ability to play the beautiful game but more importantly a brain. You also had an understanding of yourself that a lot of young men don't have. But if you aren't careful, it will mean nothing in a year 's time. Whatever the result of the trial, you have to do something about your situation NOW. You have to do something about your situation right now. Everyone knows my story. Ulrika, the dogging, the fights, everything. I was touting myself to clubs like Bradford and Real Oviedo when in truth I should have been challenging at the top for a few more years. So if you want to see how things can go wrong, read my story and read it carefully. Everyone makes mistakes, don't get me wrong. In fact, I defend anyone's right not to enjoy life and to make the odd ricket. But at the moment you seem to want to damage yourself time after time. Why, Joey?! You are at a great club where you can be a hero. You are young and should be looking at getting yourself into Fabio Capello's England squad. But instead you are in a lonely police cell wondering 'Why me?' Forget the numpties who are out on the town. They will try to wind you up, fight you, spit at you, call you names and then run to the papers when you react. That's what happened to me. But the solution is to leave them where they belong, jump in a motor and get the hell out of there. Easy isn't it? Sometimes it's not and I know all too well the temptation to stand and fight back but what good does it do? Today, Joe Bloggs from Manchester isn't in that cell. You are, with your family upset, your manager under pressure and everyone else in pubs and at other clubs saying 'I told you so!'. If you want someone who has been there and done it to have a chat with you, I'll be there. Why? Because like a lot of lads in our game, you don't have a 'how to' guide to being a footballer, with someone to go to when it all goes wrong. So if you can be open-minded enough to have a chat, I can guarantee you a genuine desire to help you get to where you want to go in your career and maybe - in a much wider context - in your life. The next couple of months will be tough for you on and off the pitch, and I know what you're going through, believe me. But once you are out of jail, get yourself home to your family, invite Big Sam and anyone else that you regard as important in your life and just apologise. It doesn't matter how much provocation you had the other night. That will sort itself out in time. Just get your nearest and dearest together and build some bridges. You've got the talent Joey, everyone knows that. And in my opinion, you've got the brain to live a happy life on and off the pitch. The offer from me is genuine. The rest is up to you... All the best, Stan

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Why change then? Sam is experienced. He's experienced one club in the prem before coming here, thats not really that much is it? A silly argument -- how many prem clubs have Wenger and Ferguson "experienced" ? Not really, that's all he's done, Fergie won thing with Aberdeen, Wenger also had a career before coming to the league. Not really relevant though because your statement was "in the prem". If you want to talk career outside of prem prior, then Sam has quite the CV too. All academic though. The man won't be sacked any time soon. You really have picked up the wrong end of the stick there mate. I meant that was his highlight of his career, one club in the prem, its pretty obvious when you look at what i said, that's what i meant.

Why change then? Sam is experienced. He's experienced one club in the prem before coming here, thats not really that much is it? A silly argument -- how many prem clubs have Wenger and Ferguson "experienced" ? Not really, that's all he's done, Fergie won thing with Aberdeen, Wenger also had a career before coming to the league.

Why change then? Sam is experienced. He's experienced one club in the prem before coming here, thats not really that much is it?

It might be what the club needs, but i'd prefer an experience man coming in. If we did go for Shearer, then if we could get someone like Houillier as a DOF (or similar role) to help guide him through his early days then i'd be more than happy with the change right now. We'd at least know he'd get time from the fans, a link and bond straight off the belt, and hopefully backing from the board appointing their own man. It might not be a bad thing overall as a backed Shearer is better than a SA getting nowt in terms of cash or support from the players, fans and board.

Not yet, but step by step he gets closer to the end.

Would just about sum up his commonness.

Lets just hope some big fukers take a shining to his knee caps so we can claim insurance money. I bet the Citeh fans are laughing their tits off.

Interesting post. I agree that financially it makes sense to keep the key backroom staff. Doesn't mean we have to keep to organ grinder though. Incidentally, what does ludacris mean? I can't find it on dictionary.com. is it not actually a word like? Me mother uses it all the time! Means rediculous It's probably spelt wrongly, but i'm not the person to ask how to spell it right. Back on topic, keep his staff. Lets hope there's a clause in his contract that if he doesn't finish about a certain place we can sack him for nowt.

What an utter prick. Fuk waiting for evidence, keeping him in till next year says it all. We should sue him for his transfer fee.

mmmm. very dubious about stories such as these Yep, they make far too much sense to be true,.

It's actually the reverse, something like 75% mental, the rest ability. Really. You think? I would be hard pushed to believe that only 25% of what gazza did was natural ability. Still, if its the case then we are fucked as the 75% our guys are using amounts to nothing Depends what position. If a defender with 25% talent has 75% solid mental ability, then yuo get Nesta, Terry etc... If you get a defender with 25% talent and only 5% mental abilty then you get Bramble...who keeps a clean sheet against some utter shite opposition called NUFC.

I fear we will never know. 96 was the best chance i can see us ever having in my lifetime (I am 36) We've had chances, and we'll have more. One day, we'll do it. Think how close we've come to the FA Cup or even the UEFA Cup. We'll get one of those bastards one of these days. Humiliated? Aye...Very close mate. Well, making it to the final is as close as you can get to winning without actually, well, winning. I'd rather go out in the 3rd round than see what i saw in both our recent FA cup finals. Well, I don't agree with that, though I see your point. Tbh, I thought we were going to win the UEFA Cup. Certain, in fact. I got a ticket for the pissing final. Fucking Drogba, the twat. Yeah, even though we wern't in the final for me thats the closest in my lifetime of breaking the curse. Say he was injured for the month?