Keefaz

I wonder if, when you're having a chat with your mates, you ever reach over, grab each one of them by the neck and try to shit down their throats? Cos' that's what you do in every discussion on this fucking board.

Maybe tactically weak was a bit strong, but his tactics are limited. How about that?

Wenger doesn't find them, most were found by Damien Comolli who was his chief European scout. I don't think there are many of us who seriously pictured Wenger popping off to Belgium to take in an under 18 match on his days off, like.

a whole 2 places lower? how many points between 8th and 15th right now? What? There was 12 points difference at the end of last season if you want to talk about something that makes sense.

That's such a weak argument it's barely worth replying to. Given how limited Allerdyce is tactically, the fact that a lot of their players are actually B-list, 8th is a good finish for them. Take away these facilities and they could well be lower half of the table.

Not really. But it did make me laugh. It's nowt to do with the style of football is about giving the player everything they need so they are 100% able to perform to their best ability. In fact, the title of thread sums it up, really.

Everybody needs to make their black stripes wider.

What? That looks ridiculous.

Perhaps if he spent a bit less time at his parties and more time concentrating on improving his game he'd have actually come on a bit by now.

I bet it's another leg tonight.

That was one thing I was mulling when I was researching this, but you see their turnover is now £121m, that is some £40m a season more than us, althought they are carrying more debt (figures hard to find on PL debt). Arsenal have stayed competitive purely by an insanely successful scouting structure and also hoovering up the 2nd tier of talent in Europe. That option was available to us once upon a time. Now it's a bit late.

I agree with this but I have absolutely no confidence or hope that its what we'll get. Clubs like Bolton and Blackburn are able to improve on a shoestring as they have pretty astute managers who can see a decent player who will improve the team and fetch him in. Ben Haim, Benny McCarthy, David Bentley etc etc... Can NUFC improve on a shoestring? The answer is no in my opinion because I feel the people who have the chance to get things right are totally incompetent Because we're always looking for a quick fix. If we had the scouting network in place ten, fifteen years ago that was half as good as Wenger's, we'd be laughing. Our only policy regarding youth has been buying mediocre players from Ipswich and buying foreigners based on videos.

I don't see Arsenal there and I still think they're in the running for the PL next season. It's not all about the dough.

I think we 3 top players and we'll be looking much better: a genuine attacking CM in the mould of Scholes, Cahill, etc.: late arrivers in the box with good finishing but are also willing to work for the team; a top quality centre-half with the required organisational qualities; a good left-back, e.g. Bridge.

Emre: shut up and play football. The last thing we need a bloody court case over this. He as much admitted to using racist language when he said 'in Turkey, it's OK to use those words' so he should be relieved to be found unguilty.

I don't think the mackems did it unless they have some inside scoop. You can see the part that start Ad133... is the unique code for this advert. There's no way of getting that code, as far as I can see, without being able to gain access to the ad people's database itself.

Pele or Ambrose

True. I for one wish we had more threads dedicated to how shit things were in the 70s and 80s and how we don't know we're born nowadays.

Pele or Madonna

Not just our fans, tbf, loads of commentators, particularly Irish ones, praise him to the heavens.

Not again!!! Not being all that regular on here I didn't realise that this has been done to death before, sorry gents. I was only interested as a genuine question as to whether anyone remembers anything good in their supporting lives. I can remember the Div 1 championship, we went up with the highest points and goals scored in the history (up until that season anyway). I also remember (as a child) the Texaco Trophy in 1973. I just think that I am going to go through my whole life not seeing Newcastle win anything that is really significant and it is very sad!! We couldn't even win the Gateshead Shield a couple of years ago and since then we looked odds on for some pre season cup in Asia (was it the Asia Cup?) until Jenas (I think) tried the most stupid penalty I have ever seen and we lost to Chelsea. Don't worry about it, mate, 9 out of 10 seemingly innocent threads turn into a mud-sligning shit-fest after five posts or less.

When Alex Ferguson won it with Aberdeen by any chance?

What do we think was the more depressing cup final: Arsenal or Man Utd?

Christ. That isn't sexy football.

Scottish football is shite, but it wasn't that bad back then and Aberdeen won league titles from out of nowhere, sfa cups, Cup Winners Cup, etc. and Ferguson had been part of the national team set-up.