James

They've always been a special club, whereas when we have been at our most special, we have failed to reach the heights of Hamburg.

Some information about Hamburg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SV_Hamburg

Champions League football, massive stadium, Kevin Keegan, great attacking football, many great players. Hamburg are waay bigger than us - in the top 20 European clubs of all time whereas we are only just in the Top 40.

Boo!

Hamburg is a bigger club than Newcastle though.

Leighton Baines (Wigan) Micah Richards (Manchester City) Joseph Yobo (Everton) Shaun Wright-Phillips (Chelsea) Andy Johnson (Everton)

It's not unusual

Wasn't he in goal when Fulham did us up here? Crap, he was, and that kind of contradicts everything I wrote.

Premiership games played by Given this season: Wigan (h) - won 2-1 Villa (a) - lost 0-2 (Best Performance against us this season IMO) West Ham (a) won 2-0 Arsenal (a) drawn 1-1 I've been very critical of Given in the past, but the 7 out of 12 points earned in those games pretty much make up our Premiership season so far, and these are no easy fixtures. Has it been down to great individual performances, or is it the presence of Given both on and off the field which are making his team-mates raise their game, or is it just coincidence? Personally, I will be putting any improvement in form as being down to Given, and not Roeder.

Even ex-convicts are innocent of new crimes unless proven guilty. Lets try and be optimistic about this one.

Nice guy, but for me, two league wins all season is not good enough.

I've said before, 4-2-3-1 is the way forward. No point deploying wingers with the strikers we have available, and this lineup would offer much penetration through the centre without compromising the team defensively: Butt Parker Dyer Emre Milner Martins

Looking at that it reads like we were paying to acquire Souness over the length of his contract, once he was sacked we had to pay the remaining to Blackburn immediately. Could be wrong though. Think you are right, looks like we had to pay £2.4m for him.

One point gained. Credit to Dyer as well on HIS FIRST START FOR MONTHS.

Good point there skirge, but dont forget that Tommy Craig was also playing an important role at the time.

Having had Darren Bent reject a £500k move to Newcastle years back, I would hate us to spend so much.

If the Clark comments are true, he should be sacked. Totally unproffessional comments that do no-one any good, and fully explain our league position.

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Lee Stewart? Fraid not, the incident described on the article would be impossible to photoshop, especially the wife.

If the board wont back a decent foreign manager, I'd say Gary Speed would be my choice.

Sorry, I dont quite understand what you are trying to say?

On the local news earlier, non-league Havant & Waterlooville face massive financial problems caused by being drawn with Millwall at home in the FA Cup. Police decided that they would not allow Havant & Waterlooville to play Millwall without the game being moved to Fratton Park and Havant pay £35,000 to the police so that the police could have a large enough force to prepare for any hooligans, with Millwall being considered an extremely high-risk club. In my opinion, Millwall should either be forced to pay for it (something they are as of now refusing to do), or they should be banned from the FA Cup for as long as their fans are considered high enough risk for the police to impose a financially ruining bill on any non-league club unlucky enough to draw them.

He's a second striker, we need someone who'll lead the line.

He'll cost a bit, but I like Kevin Doyle. Plays how a goalscoring striker should.

How about no-one buys it. Shepherd doesn't deserve the money.