James

You aren't Lee Stewart are you?

My guess is a Spurs fan all bitter about our match being shown instead of theirs.

He was doing it during set-pieces. He should be watching and following his man, not running over towards the dugout and tapping his wrist. It really does make me wonder given the goals we have conceded just before half/full time this season. Having a scoreboard would be a good idea so that the player would just have to glance up to know what time it was.

Sorry, this has just been really, really, really bothering me since the end of the match.

Sorry Wullie, I just dont get why a player needs to know how long there is left to play, every single player should be turned on right until the final whistle. This is no criticism of taylor, I think the same applies for many players in the team.

Steven Taylor, eye off the game, looking at Roeder, pleading to be told how much longer left to play. Roeder initially refuses to say anything, but with Taylor still not with the game, Roeder sticks two fingers at him (to signify two minutes, not rude gesture) with an immensely frustrated look on his face. Are our players mentally turning themselves off towards the end of the game as they think it is just a case of running the clock down?

Maybe Dixon pushes him close, but anyone who laughs at people selecting Gary neville obviously know nothing about football.

You cant play a player just to prove to the fans that he's shit.

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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.

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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.