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Frankly I think the only reason it might look like an over-reaction to some, is because of the complete under-reaction by many. I still don't understand why so many people just shrug their shoulders and say, "That's Newcastle for you", when we are a club who's financial and supporter strength is as good as or better than most clubs in the world who dominate their respective leagues. If you accept mediocrity, mediocrity is what you will receive.

Shay Given, by a country mile!!!!

Club Owners and/or Directors who use their club as their personal fame wagon, line their pockets, run their club in to the ground, disrespect their supporters and who are generally fat b-st-rds who should be run over by their own Jaguar(s).

Whaddaya talkin' about. We only ever have one striker fit. If he does insist on a one-striker system as you say (I don't know) it seems its the only system we -are- perfectly suited for right now.

Have you guys got written permission from the knee jerk police for this thread?

I hereby formally request permission to knee-jerk. So come on, is it socially acceptable to knee-jerk yet? No, keep the faith. Whatever happens it is all part of the clubs grand plan. Grand plan to achieve what tho? To quote two of the world's greatest minds: Brain: Brilliant, Pinky! Oh, no, wait. What if we want to use a plan that works?" ...or... Brain: "Pinky are you pondering.. you know.. " Pinky: "I think so Brain but.. something about a duck.. " Brain: "You're probably an idiot Pinky. Tonight's plan is.. aw who cares, five will get you ten its a stinker like all the others." Pinky: "I'm not listening Brain"

I repeat... I hereby formally request permission to knee-jerk. So come on, is it socially acceptable to knee-jerk yet?

Anyone know what the goals-against statistics are for Standard Liège? Surely that would be an indication as to whether he's any good, or at least a contributor to a defensive line-up that can be any good.

Sorry, but I think this is Shepherd trying to deflect blame from himself for the sale falling through. It's clear what Hall's position is, he wants to sell his stake in the club. It wasn't SJH who wanted more money it was Shepherd. It's Shepherd who has been recruiting and selling players without consultation with the team manager. It's Shepherd who creates all of the uncertainty within the club. I call bollocks on this article.

The best place I can see the match from is the TV. It's too expensive for me to get to the stadium for matches.

Take 10mil for Parker? The only question would I'd have is whether to give the purchaser's hand back.

My left testicle is itchy, we're getting Rooney! smeeagain.gif

(Working with the funny assumption that this thread is based on some modicum of fact...) I think Freddy may have the meaning of "mid field" wrong. He obviously thinks that by having a team full of midfielders we will finish mid table at the end of the year. At least we won't be relegated. :winking:

If there was a smiley for that, i'd use it!

“Sewell man, we're going nicking, nicking things to sell. So how much do you think people are going to give us for something that's nicked from a shop that's called Everything's A Pound?” Classic!!!!

Who are these? Albert Luque Martos Obafemi Akinwunmi Martins Andrew Carroll Carl John Finnigan James Troisi Now, note, I only said 2 of the 7 were of a suitable standard. Of the 5 available, only 1 of them would be up to EPL standards at the moment. But that's more than we have in Defenders, even if we had a fully fit defensive squad.

We need to focus on defenders. There are three primary reasons for this: 1) Defenders stop you loosing games, where as attackers can only give you a chance of winning. I say this based on the fact that if the opposition can't score then they can't win (the worst result being a draw), but if our attackers score the opposition can always score the same or more. 2) NUFC has concentrated on "sexy", "exciting", "attacking" football for almost as long as living memory. Yet, it has been 30 years since we last won a league cup. 30 years of little/no success says we have been doing something fundamentally wrong, and I think this is the blind focus on the teams attacking strength. 3) Based on data from the nufc.com site our squad breakdown is like this (in my opinion): Forwards: 7 players, 2 injured, 5 available, 2 genuine quality. Midfielders: 12 players, 3 Injured, 9 Available, 8 or 9 genuine quality. Defenders: 11 Players, 7 Injured, 4 available, 0 genuine quality, but a few squad acceptable. So essentially, we have some squad forwards and a couple of genuine quality guys to score goals. But we only just have enough defenders to put on the field, and those that are coming back from injury are at best squad players for a Premier League side who has ambitions for European qualification. Based on these 3 points I believe we -must- concentrate on getting in genuine quality defenders. From this we can stop the opposition getting goals, hence meaning we won't loose matches, which after all is the problem, the opposition is getting more past our defence on average than we're getting past theirs and that by-and-large is because our defence is worse than their defence, not because our attack is worse than their attack.

But if you're from CND they all end in 'a'... :-P

I know I am going to get slapped for this comment, but ....... We're also so worn down by crap results over the past decade that we have less expectation of Glenn. With Bobby the expectation was top 5~ish; With Souness it was top 10; With Glenn it's don't get relegated. Despite the fact we're in 14th, again, I don't feel anywhere near as much hostility towards Roeder as I did towards Souness at the same time. Yeah we've won the Intertoto this time, but :lazy:. My best explanation is I don't expect as much, so I can't be as disappointed.

Do we get another player introduction? Perhaps a parade through the centre of town this time?

What we're seeing in this thread, from some, is an inverse knee-jerk with a twist. Difficulty of 3.2 under current circumstance, and overall execution has rated a 6.

Why does anyone believe any articles that come out describing the great things we are planning for the upcoming transfer window? I find it particularly hard to give any credence to any statement from NUFC regarding transfer plans, and even less credibility exists when Fatty opens his yap. Time and time again, each transfer window, the fans get restless lamenting the state of the team and the positions we need. Time and time again the fans grow in to a crescendo of "Freddy Out!" cries. Time and time again NUFC leak details of grandiose transfer plans, backed up by statements from Chairman and Manager, messages like "we can't disclose who, but we think fans will be pleasantly surprised. We have 4 or 5 top flight, champions league quality players all lined up." Then time and time again we end up with utter crap who do nothing to improve our capability. I mean, I would genuinely love to be excited about the upcoming transfer window. Indeed in all past windows I have got myself all worked up with the prospect of who we might get in. Well no more. Until the players brought in prove themselves I will not accept that they were worth bringing in. Until NUFC develops a track record (3 or more windows) of bringing in quality I will not get excited again. I'm sick of it. The fans scream for quality, they even help the scouts and management by doing research for them, yet time and time again we end up with either glitter-boy signings who achieve nothing or crap that are talentless wasters. </end rant>

Or it has been completed already. "is not happening" just means at this instance of time it is not occurring. It makes no statement about what has already occurred or what is yet to occur.

Wrong, offer can come in subject to DD But for an offer to become official and "live" all conditions need to have been removed. This is done by the club satisfying their requirements, hence if the offer has become live/unconditional due-diligence would have to have been completed.

The club has come out and said that the club has not yet been sold. But I find the language to be very interesting. The statement on the official website reads: I find this language very interesting however. It says that an offer has not been accepted, but it does not say that an offer has not been received. This suggests that an offer has been received. It also says that no due-diligence is underway, but it does not say that due-diligence hasn't already been done, which it would have been if an offer had been received. The final sentence only says that there can be no certainty about an offer, which is accurate because they have neither confirmed nor denied an offer has been received. My interpretation of this is that the Mirror is bang on. Informal negotiations have been completed, due-diligence has been satisfied and a formal offer has now been received by the Board.