James

Ashley still thinks it is 1996

I'll be online, naturally. Running around with my mobile. Don't worry, I'll look after the match thread and stop people asking for streams.

Will there be someone to post score updates? Maybe a live match feed?

Regardless, I'm sure the Batman costume will bring the best out of Gambling Gorilla's goalkeeping.

Except king kev is a goalie so lanky that he is prone to get nutmegged by waist high shots.

shouldnt have exposed the plans on the forum, we now have a week to come up with tactics against your hoofing of the high ball. I'm not playing, I'm just predicting.

Optimistic Nut to bypass Dave playing high long balls onto Pilko's head in the first half, go in at HT in the lead. Second half Rich to run around Nixon in circles for the whole half without getting anywhere in particular. Wullie to call him worse than Duff. So yeah, red win.

The evidence: Redknapp tried to buy Jonas for £8m last January Spurs want to spunk money on a left wing Jonas' best position is left wing We don't play Jonas left wing He's lost his place to Andy Carroll Ashley (supposedly) wants to buy them cheap and spunk the off at profit He'd cost less than Downing. You'd bloody hope not, but if you believe all of the above it does have feasibility.

Jonas to Spurs? Now that would be terrible

Not even I think that.

Xisco speaks english though. Like a load of people have already said, it's got to be personal. You sure? I've never seen him speak.

One more thing, Kinnear spends four days every week coaching defence, so just when exactly is Xisco meant to impress?

I think Kinnear made it pretty clear when he came that non-English speakers were out of the team as he couldn't tell them what to do? NUFC were probably fortunate at that time that there was no proper alternative to Coloccini.

Given that this section is supposed to be an objective report of ex-players playing days (and they often have a right bunch of non-entitities), this is extremely petty.

Terrible.

I just think that Bilic has the personality for Premier League management. There is just something about him, some sort of aura.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7808452.stm Bilic is quitting as Croatia manager, and has chosen a very odd time to do so: next November. So does that mean he's open to working "part time" somewhere else? We should push the boat out tbh, he'd be a great coup.

And how many times do you get told you make yourself look like a fool? Ah ha, no route to go in other than resorting to personal insults I see. Not going to bother rising to that, have much better things to do in my life.

That's a bit rich coming from you, you're the one who is wrong and it's not for the first time. I suggest you read before you type. I'm not in the wrong as the bite came as anticipated. Given that I only get in personal arguments with you, it says more about you tbh.

That wasn't intended to be aimed at him so stop acting like an idiot, I said "quite a few people." If it genuinely wasn't intended, then think before you type.

Stop what? Bear-baiting NE5. Starts the whole boring cycle off all over again. I'd have said the same if it was the other way around btw.

Like quite a few people on here who read what they wanted to read. Stop.

Cheapos can reinforce the squad, but they can rarely replace the club's crown jewels, particularly Dyer (when fit), Owen and Given.

So since Ashley and co. came here, we've had five senior players declare their intention to leave: Dyer - family reasons, really an issue after years in Newcastle? Solano - family reasons, really an issue as he went of to Greece in less than 12 months? Milner - just when it seemed Milner wanted to stay and KK was happy to keep him, Milner wants off to Villa Owen - the club has tried to pre-empt Owen everytime, putting the pressure on the player over his departure Given - we don't know the full story yet, but can't hide from the fact that we've been looking at long term replacements Lets not forget the outward appearance that we tried to palm off Smith and Barton, and Barton used a very unusual method to announce his intention to stay. It is my opinion that it can be perceived that the board might have tried to engineer player departures to cash in and replace with cheapos. Whether that is true or not remains to be seen, but it is how it looks from the outside.

Thing is, whatever you think of Given, he loves the club, and if he feels the need to speak out, he's letting the fans know that there is something wrong. The current board has a reputation for getting its defence in before the event, ie Milner, or Owen's contract, so by doing it this way, he's making it clear who he thinks are in the wrong on all this. Throwing an official transfer request sends out that exact same message. As I've said - if he's unhappy at the club, hoy a request to leave in. Don't be snidey about it and link yourself to other clubs in public. Don't blame him for going but do it properly. Think he'd want to stay though if things would sort themselves out. With a silent transfer request, the club can just imply, a la Milner, that he's been tapped up and that nothing can be done if a player wants out. Given has gone for the kicking and screaming variety that will put pressure on the board rather than on the player.