James

Wingers have always played an important role in good attacking teams, especially Newcastle United. I'm interested to see which clubs others feel possess top class wingers. Personally, I would say Blackburn Rovers, judging on form over this season.

Tevez has really earned my respect. After a couple games when he failed to produce in a an appalling team (dominated by centre back Peter Ramage at one point), he was first moved out of position, and was then dropped, and was then initially ignored by the new manager. Many players would have just sulked, put their feet up until the end of the season, and then secured a move to numerous willing suitors. He will probably still do the latter, and he may have upset a few with some harmless Robert-esque comments to the Argentine media, but otherwise, he has just got his head down, and tried his best at playing football, forcing his way back to being a starter in his regular position, and finally showing some real quality.

I disagree that Rossi is shite. Just cos he didn't do much for us while sat on the bench, doesn't mean he's a bad player. I liked what I saw of him tbh. Technically, he was excellent, and he was always getting into good positions. However, he never played witha striker with who he could form an effective partnership.

Ink isn't yet dry, so don't get too happy.

This theory should be confirmed when we sign Anthony Le Tallec, Florent Sinama-Pongolle, Djibril Cisse, and Djimi Traore during the summer. Why the fuck are you talking to yourself? Dissertation getting to my brains.

I voted the same as you, as it was a shit poll, and the best thing to do would be to ruin it.

I'd be against getting Houllier as a Director of Football. In my opinion, a DOF needs to be in that position for a long period to build an effective scouting/youth network. Roeder may be happy to work with Houllier, they are known to have strong respect for one another, but when Roeder goes, we'd want the DOF to remain a DOF. Managers probably wont want to work under Houllier because he is too much of a manager himself. So the only option would be to make Houllier manager, or to sack Houllier, which would bring us back to square one in terms of improving the club structure. I'm all for Houllier as manager, but a DOF position seems a waste of time to me, especially considering the inevitable.

All just down to whats available, plus the prefences of clubs and players, which is dictated by tradition.

This theory should be confirmed when we sign Anthony Le Tallec, Florent Sinama-Pongolle, Djibril Cisse, and Djimi Traore during the summer.

I'm wondering if Houllier is Roeder's unnamed foreign source whom he consults whenever he wants to find out how good a player he knows nothing about is...

Wind turbines are likely to be quite efficient in smogland due to the density of the air.

On the plus side, they must now realise how some of us are feeling about their newspaper.

I wouldn't be suprised if Oliver got sacked ahead of Roeder, given the overwhelming success of the Chronicle forum.

Young Player is Rooney, Ronaldo, Fabregas, Richards, Doyle, Lennon.

Could Martins or Milner ger a PFA Young Player nomination?

Duff is out for the season says .cock What a great season our bargain top international double championship winning left winger has had. And to think that we could have wasted the money on the defence instead...

I can accept injuries as an excuse for a slightly lower league position. However, I cannot accept such excuses when we are playing badly now that we have the majority of our players available to us.

Mirror as well: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/tm_headline=singing-same-old-toon%2D--%26method=full%26objectid=18910977%26siteid=89520-name_page.html

I notice that that forum has the old-skool smilies this site had. Any chance of getting them back on here?

He's been offerred a new contract, Roeder said a couple of weeks ago. Roeder also said that Edgar, Huntington, Krul, Pattisson and Carroll will all get periods off on loan next season if they cant get near the first team due to new arrivals. Thes people only get near the first team if 12+ players get injured, so I see no problem with this. They could probably be recalled too in emergencies.

Its not even NOTW, its the People, according to BBC anyway...

How many times do I tell people that there is only one use for The People - wiping your arse (but even then, I'd still prefer Asda Smart Price)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/4309136.stm

But, in the long run, what would be more valuable. 25 goals a season from Owen for the next 5 years, or a 5million loss? 25 goals a season (or whatever he scores) for the next 5 years, without any doubt. But that's the nub of the problem. Owen's contract only runs for another 2 years and under the new Uefa rules, he could buy out his contract at the end of next season for approximately £5m (assuming he's on around £100k pw). Don't sell him for £12m this summer and he could be gone for £5m next summer, gone for nothing the summer after that. Newcastle have to get him to sign a new contract this summer or sell him imo. Rules state that you can only buy out your contract to move to a club in another country. Owen has no intention of playing abroad ever again. Where/when did he state this? http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=all&edition=d&q=owen+real+madrid&go=Search Radio Interview there, but he has said the same in even more certain terms pretty regularly over the past 18 months.