Keefaz

There'll be bloody no one there. £20 to watch a load of Belgian part-timers when it's on telly?

I think SJP would look best with the 3 sides. I've seen the four-sided mock-up and it looks really clunky.

McCarthy is 29?

Arf! This thread is comedy gold.

Actually, I did read it, and my response... terracotta?

'Do a Gullit'? No, ta.

I swear I don't ever need to hear Shearer speak ever again. I can just imagine what he's going to say about 99% of the time I'll be spot on.

This post was too big to even conside reading.

I rate him, but not for us.

Thought that Man Utd match was alright, actually. Good on Redding. If we were that organised we'd be champions of the universe.

Shoo-in, mate.

I dunno. I saw this after the England match and he was banging on about how, in the past, the England team had plenty of players from the North-East: Gazza, Waddle, Beardsley, etc. and how there's none now. I look at the England team sheet and two North-East players started the match--Woodgate and Carrick: 22% of the team! And another, Downing, came on in the second half! Once Shola and Taylor get called up we'll pwn the national team.

He's an entertaining maniac, but I remember when he was in the frame for the Toon job people were pretty wary.

Tevez hasn't even feckin scored! HE'S MINT!

We should get 15, but I think--given how inconsistent we are--10 would be an excellent return. However, I suspect we'll get 8: points dropped at all our away fixtures.

Kuyt seems quite old-school in style to me. Works hard but doesn't have much class about him. Seems to miss plenty of chances too.

Rooney better than Henry? Johnson better than Martins? I'm looking at this thinking: in order of what?

What? What feckin logic is that? Remember Clive Woodward?

I think that's a good shout, kingdawson. Seems to happen a lot with your nippy type of player.

I rate him and he's saved our bacon this season: we'd be utterly, utterly fucked if he turned out to be a Tevez. I wish his first touch wasn't so shit sometimes: sometimes it's excellent but other times he'd be laughed off a Sunday league pitch.

Too many feckin London clubs as it is: dump Watford, Charlton and West Ham.

Aye, maybe it's easier to bump up your win/loss ratio when you pick and choose your matches, like.

This is the problem having Shearer in the studio as they always glance over Newcastle fixtures now. Reading etc. got some decent analysis, but now all we get is 'Oh, Alan, your team won/lost/drew you must be overjoyed/disappointed/puzzled' and that's it. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but Shearer has never once mentioned Bellamy since doing MOTD even when discussing Liverpool fixtures. Petty?

Bwahaha! Worth watching just for the commentary. Cappello actually looked a bit pissed off.

His general play. His control, technique, linkup, passing, vision, dribbling, etc, on a consistent basis. Its often poor. Similar to Milner. Good player when hes producing something, but general play can be poor, eg in comparison to the likes of Nobby, Dyer etc. Too many players like this and the team will get nowhere near top 4 imo. Not sure I'd agree with that. His link-up play and vision have both seemed excellent whenever I've seen him.