James

Like Ian Pearce up front all over again. Then again, the movement of Steve Watson from striker to right back worked...

Roeder has already said that Huntington and Carroll aren't playing, and that Luque is playing left back. One of the above player confirmations is made up, which could it be?

One for GeJon here: Will the presence of Pearson at the club: a) Increase the chance of us wanting Curtis davies and b) Increase the chance of Davies wanting to sign?

Notice how Oliver is offerring excuses for any decent Luque performance by stating how it would be a one off, and is in the same article offering excuses for a poor N'Zogbia performance. Does suggest the Zog at left back theory may be accurate.

Strong indication that Roeder is going to start Luque in that article.

Did you get an A* in the Freddy Shepherd School of True Newcastle Fans? Or was it just an A?

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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.