James

Do you really need someone to answer that for you? Have you never heard of a rhetorical question?

Act the cunt and you go. A warning to all of them. My thoughts. We want to develop good players, but we want to maximise their potential by encouraging high levels of professionalism. Turning a blind eye when he is never going to be amazing spreads a bad message.

What would binning him say to the other kids?

I've heard that Harper has been carrying an injury for years which has badly affected his kicking.

Llambias is on holiday. Authorisation has been given to secure Cabaye, but anything else will only be done over the next week or so if there is an emergency.

Even if we didn't beat the top teams, we had a go at them, and also started turning over teams that were giving us problems at the start of the season.. So the mentality 80 described doesn't really stand true even if the results support his suggestion.

But also we've gotten very good results against the majority of the bigger teams.

I know, but I've got no idea what he's asking Probably who it is, not that I think many of us would know any of them apart from Carr? How do you know, do you know much about this particular scout, if so what... had the scout agreed to leave, is he expecting to leave in the near future... The fullest story you can offer really. Can't tell you the name of the scout. You can find his name on one article online re: Tamas Kadar. I go to uni with his daughter. He's agreed to leave and become chief scout and wherever Hughton goes next. She seemed to think he's definitely on the lookout, but will only really go for it when its right. Mentioned Fulham, but she admitted that wasn't something that had come from Hughton. She said today that whatever you read in the press, the backroom atmosphere that Hughton had built amongst team, staff and personnel is gone, or at least it's not the same. Hence this guy being willing to move after serving the club for over a decade. For a moment I'd started to wonder as the only thing that turned up on icnewcastle was Jeff Vetere... Speaking of the atmosphere behind the scenes, I stumbled onto an article the other day - a load of quotes from Andy Carroll about Hughton and our season a few days before he got sacked. The attitude you could feel coming across was still inspiring, and yes, put simply there's been no sign of anything like that for a long time now. Felt like a completely different era, there's no vibe of writing your own headlines and not letting the media tell you how good you are, now. At best now it's 'be realistic, we won't beat bigger teams with 2nd Division players like Danny Simpson, but we can probably bully some relegation candidates, and with a bit of luck we might buy some better players in the future'. I think the only thing really stopping things become poisonous is Nolan, which is ironic considering some used to say it was Hughton who relied upon him... We've done anything but that under Pardew!

Well maybe you should stop being so confrontational whenever someone says something you don't agree with.

I'm saying that you have a bad habit of overrating foreign players in comparison to their British counterparts.

You're such a massive hypocrite. One post you say you don't want such a high turnover of players because it's important to keep a core of players together, now you're adocating selling key components of our first XI to fund new signings. Make your fucking mind up. I think that of the midfield he's the only truly replaceable one. The rest are integral. Bollocks. Of course, I'm sure if Jonas was John Granger and Nolan was Kaka Nolina you'd be saying differently

You're such a massive hypocrite. One post you say you don't want such a high turnover of players because it's important to keep a core of players together, now you're adocating selling key components of our first XI to fund new signings. Make your fucking mind up. I think that of the midfield he's the only truly replaceable one. The rest are integral.

If we can get a good fee for Jonas and it gets spent on someone else (also including the Carroll money), I'm highly favourable to it.

I've had a feeling Jonas was vulnerable this summer for a few months.

Barton and/or Enrique signed new contracts?

Wayne Rooney has had a hair transplant http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3617800/Wayne-Rooneys-bald-cure.html

Loving the efforts so far guys

Yes, this needs a public inquiry.

BBC's african footbnall expert has him in the African team of the year. Highlights good attacking partnership with Cabaye and the others.

So by Dale Toon: http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/8936/champselysees.jpg

Just for a laugh, as there is nothing really going on at the moment. I saw a decent effort in the Gervinho thread which inspired me. The challenge, is to get any photo of Steven Taylor and photoshop it. Anything you like. Look forward to seeing your efforts.

Park on the left is the most typical example of a hardworking wide player on the left you can get. Granted they have Nani or Valencia on the right, but they are Man Utd.

I don't care that Nolan goes missing, as when he has been found again he's done something that has got us the points to keep us up. I reckon he can do this even better if surrounded by better wingers and strikers so am looking forward to seeing him captain us on the pitch next season.

I would say you don't really get as many wingers in a 442 anymore, you have the hard working wide players like Barton, Jonas, Larsson etc, or you have the wide forwards (slightly less defensive wingers than the tradition) in a three up top formation

Man people bite to a little bit of light humour so easily.