Leazes1986

For once its good news for us. If he breaks down again i won't be blaming McClaren for picking him. Owen needs games and if he doesn't manage to put a run of games together soon he might as well just give up tbh,

Theres 3 different articles on icnewcastle

Super Sib:

Could you not manage to scrape a ticket for the Villa game ? Nah, wish i could. Start college in September and i'm literally down to a few quid at the minute. Its killing me thinking about missing it. Last home Premiership match i missed was Arsenal May 2000. I relying on them making half season tickets available. Welcome to my life for last year and the next 2 years. Im just going to whatever I can afford this season. Would be good if there were some student schemes on or something. Aye its a twat. I've never understood why there hasn't been category's other Kids, Adult and Senior citizens. How are school leavers supposed to pay such a jump in price the second they leave school cos they are classed as adults? Its ridiculous. Luckily my mam sorted me out when i first left school. I'm gonna get a loan next year though so i'll be able to pay for it by that for 08/09 cos i can borrow the money in June and pay it back later. If i manage to scrape together money for matches in these first 4 and a bit months of this season i think i'll probably try and just get to a few away matches and get back to SJP in January obviously.

Could you not manage to scrape a ticket for the Villa game ? Nah, wish i could. Start college in September and i'm literally down to a few quid at the minute. Its killing me thinking about missing it. Last home Premiership match i missed was Arsenal May 2000. I relying on them making half season tickets available.

I've had to give up my season ticket after 7 seasons cos i can't afford it. I'll be able to get a half one then get one as normal every season after that though. 7 years of loyalty points down the piss. Gutted.

He has got his own computer and his own myspace page Is he the first defender we've had in the squad since Howey? (apart from Woody)

Get in son

Can't wait until we play them and he puts in a man of the match performance "OMG we should have kept him, i always said he had the potential to be world class if we give him a bit longer"

The Liverpool fans certainly didn't think so at Anfield a year and a half back

I think he could get 12-15 goals which wouldn't be a bad return at all.

Nah he didn't. He's got 3 years left on his contract.

Agreed.

Chelsea won't sell SWP Makes me wonder what Milner has got to do tbh. Another assist last weekend i see, and i wouldn't be surprised if he makes or/and scores on Saturday. Still won't be good enough though.

West Ham signing more ex-Newcastle players with no end product and injury problems

Rozenhal, Enrique, Geremi, Barton and Viduka are all going to make a difference in a positive way. The other squad players will as well, but these ones are going to improve us massively from last season.

Well look at it this way. If he ends up proving himself to be a quality goalscorer in the Premiership he will not be at Sunderland for too long. If he can't get in double figures regularly then who gives a shite anyway?

Dyer really does not need replaced imo. Its not as if he had a proper position anyway. We've got enough attacking options now, and if we were to bring in another attacking player it should be a top quality one, not one just for the sake of replacing Dyer.

Nobby can't exactly discuss with his wife where they want to live anymore, he's separated with her. This is a genuine serious situation.

Come on man, Nobby wouldn't leave us for another team in the Premiership if it wasn't for something serious. He's loved by all of us and he loves the club. I'll be gutted if he leaves. He's been such a brilliant player for us.

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Peter Ramage is 25 next year

The main point is though, you need your first team perfect first. If he can get these other couple of experienced plays in he seems to want, then he might be able to think longer term. This experience is what we are crying out for imo. Its only really defensively where he seems to want older players. Look at our defenders: Carr (30), Rozenhal (27), Taylor (21), Cacapa (31), Ramage (23), Huntington (19), Edgar (20), Enrique (21) and Babayaro (28?) I can see why he wants in an experienced right back he can rely on, and an experienced centre back looking at that. Our front 6 are mostly still young.

Would it really matter if we paid slightly over the odds for one player if we could get even 2 years out of him if it would make our starting 11 quality throughout?

Our problem last season was we relied to heavily on youngsters. We needed a few older players. You write down our strongest 11 on paper and look at their age. How many players over 30 are in that team?