James

OK, this thread will either fall flat on its arse or pretty interesting, but is worth a try so be nice You are Glenn Roeder. It is 2006. Alan Shearer has just had his testimonial. You've had a bit to drink and fall into a deep sleep. In your sleep, you dream about the next 3 and a half years. You see whats gone wrong at Newcastle, and you see all the transfers that happen at other clubs. Then you wake up. The challenge, is to use that knowledge from your 'dream' to produce the best 2010 team possible using a transfer pot of £15m (approximate net spend pre-relegation) You can only buy players for the fee they were bought for by a club since Summer 2006. Plus you have to realistically justify that player signing for a UEFA Cup level club. Additionally, you can only sell players for the exact fee you sold them. The squad is: Given Harper Krul Carr Babayaro Bramble Taylor Moore Boumsong Ramage Huntington Elliott Solano N'Zogbia Dyer Parker Emre Patisson Butt Faye Clark O'Brien Bowyer Owen Luque Ameobi Chopra

Obviously we'd prefer to be in the Champions League ourselves due to the money and the prestige, but which tournament is more of a spectacle? I prefer the UEFA Cup personally, more attacking games, worser defences, random teams, random moments and hard to predict.

Well done Fulham. Huge credit to Hodgson who simply has to be the best English manager still in the game. Best since Robson probably. I respect his shrewdness and optimism and style of play.

Gera is an example of a player we should have signed, but were too snooty to.

After Heskey, who else is there in the 'big aerial target man' mould? - Crouch is decent in the air but much more than your standard 'lump it at...' target man. Different sort of player. - Carlton Cole isn't good enough imo and Capello has used him sparingly. - K.Davies is good but a bit old now and doesn't seem to get a look in. Carroll would be right to ignore the Scottish call-up imo. He could easily be challenging for England caps within a few years. Bobby Zamora

simply the worst, worser than all the rest worser than everyone etc

If we don't win 27-0 it will be a disgrace.

We don't really get into the box on the ball much though do we. A lot of our chances are crafted outside the area and our forwards are quick to shoot.

Notable FourFourTwo list: 50. Cian Hughton (Son of Chris) 24. Alan Smith 23. Leon Best 14. Darren Ambrose 13. Steven Taylor 11. Steve Harper 8. Michael Chopra 5. Peter Whittingham 4. Lee Camp 3. Jermaine Beckford 2. Graham Dorrans 1. Kevin Nolan

The FourFourTwo list is completely different and factors in votes from fans, players and managers. Plus they removed a load of Newcastle players 'because they have too many fans' Only printed vote from a pro for Coloccini?

Do we need a new song for when he scores, or is Tina Turner sufficient?

Hi Mrs. Butt

Hi Nicky

Don't really care about Forest to be honest. Can only see West Brom catching us and they won. We'll be promoted, but I want us to go up as Champions. May help us get the upperhand over the other promotion candidates on transfer targets if we win the league.

Who was it who said 2-2?

Cloudy and rainy if we are away.

Who did he touch? Was it appropriate?

3-2 Boro nailed on

What would be amazing would be if Best scored followed by a rendition of Tina Turner.

Raylor is our Beckham.

He's done well enough. Worry is next year really, there are only three and a half players who I'm certain are good enough to regularly start for a team surviving in the Premier League. Colo, Enrique, and Taylor and then Jonas if there are enough other good players in the team to mask his clear weaknesses

Come on, even Butt is more likely to do so. Smith even.

Apart from the obvious, what do you miss about not being a top club? I miss those odd UEFA cup ties against Greek teams where fans would come onto the forum and welcome us to hell, only for them to get in a crazy fight with supporters of a Macedonian team who have nothing to do with the fixture whatsoever. Then we'd win 6-1 and someone would ban them all.

Swindon have lost 5 times this season. 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0. Royal Flush

If point averages of all other teams stay the same come the final game, 4 points will guarantee 3rd, 13 points guarantee promotion, and 14 points guarantee the Title. If we kept our average, we'd get 25 more points to finish on 97.