Keefaz

You can see on that little shot of the proposal that nothing really gets demolished except that fucking bandstand and some trees.

Aye, that was a bit different as a lot of that's barely used and shitty anyway. A compromise probably could've been reached, I'm sure, if we'd had the time.

The missus studied architechture so she likes point these things out. She gets bloody furious.

Love its current location so wouldn't like to it move for a good long while. Newcastle is a small city and it's important to keep as many of its quality buildings intact as possible, so the idea of demolishing them is ridiculous. It's not so long ago people thought it'd be wise to demolish this: http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/1137/cookspearlhouseoldqt3.jpg In order to fucking build this: http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/9611/cookspearlhouseme0.jpg As Mick said, they should've moved the Milburn closer to Barrack Road during the extension. That would've allowed us to move the pitch further west and allow us to fit in more seats on the East Stand side.

Kieron Dyer.

I thought we were talking about back-up right wingers who can also play fullback OR centre-half? You need to start a best backup right-winger who can also play at fullback AND at centre-half thread.

Solano?

you get a choice? Sure. I'd have thought he'd be a contractor, with his own accountants, as opposed to PAYE - which hardly seems like the most tax-efficient way to earn that sort of money. Maybe it's down to regulations that require him to be an employee of the football club.

Think both these threads are quite difficult to answer. Can't settle on one choice.

For Newcastle, Roeder. In general, Souness, but I'll gladly voted Roeder if it'll stop Souness ever getting another job, the fucking useless shitehawking cunt.

Well, I guess if they're bottom he can only go up. Right? Also, someone change the title.

Jesus Christ. Good luck, Norwich. I mean Glenn.

As far as I can see, Geremi does nowt.

i think it's down to the fact we never mark in midfield,so when we play away the home teams commits more men forward leaving him to do more work (it's called "the gary speed scenario") Agree with that. Don't think it's the whole problem, but it's definitely a big part of it.

Glad I was away this weekend, tbh. It seems we were utterly hopeless on the road, yet again. I said the formation was bizarre and I've honestly no idea what Sam was trying to do. However, even individually, it seems our players just aren't doing the business away from home.

Bizarre team. But not exactly defensive.

Sounds like Barton is starting.

Good post, Parky, can't disagree with much there.

FWIW, I prayed every night for Viana to be a success here. Absolutely, totally wanted him to make it as a Newcastle player... Useless wanker.

Christ! I'm getting destroyed by an innocuous comment! I meant no disrespect to Tony Green, if anything I was just asking for more information and folk's opinions on where his career would've gone had he stayed fit. The Viana thing was simply a way of saying: blimey, he must've been special if people are rating him that highly after having so few opportunities.

The missus is dragging me off to a bloody Halloween party in Lancashire, so I'm not sure I'll catch the match. Praying that we stuff them. There'd better be some hot chicas in skimpy costumes or I'm going to be pissed off.

unless you have some means of measuring you just have to accept that say Billy Wright getting 100+ caps in the 50s/60s has to be fantastic. Never saw him play, may not have fitted now, but he was clearly way ahead of his generation, in England. In Germany, since the 80s their sports paper has rated all their players. So they look at the national team and try and judge how many are world class. World class means if you were picking a World XI then a German woudl be in it. So in 1990 when they won the World Cup, they took the view that only Brehme and Mattaus were truly World class. They then judged how many were interntaional class. Their definition od that was that the player woudl get in any interntional side, or be first choice for Germany. This brought in 3 or 4 more. They do this all the way down through their leagues, for each team. They are very hard in their judgements If they did England now, then I'd guess there would be no English players inthe World XI. Players liek Owen and Rooney may get in the international class, and so on. You can do this with clubs too. How many of our players are international class ? So first choice for theri country .... Owen, Rozenhal, Given, Emre, Viduka. This gts a bit blurred as how many woudl be in the Premeriship Team of the year ? Maybe Owen? How many are Premiership class, or first choice for us ? Well clearly most of them get a game for us, but how many would be in our first XI, clearly only eleven of them, at the most. How many of our cuyrrent side get in out own personal best Newcastle XI. For me none of them !! Are you saying England had more 'world class' players in the 70s/80s than now?

I'm starting to think this Green chap must be over-rated. You hear his name all the time as one of the greatest Newcastle players ever, but he played about the same number of matches as, say, Hugo Viana. Was he really that good? And what would've happened if he'd stayed injury-free?

S'alright! I need to take more care in my sarcastic replies.