CaliMag

Thread bump is in order.

Agreed Solo won this.

Amazingly good looking Leroux replaced by the super hot Morgan

Megan is awesome

And yeah the women play so much dirtier. And they shrug it off.

This ref is so biased against the U.S. She clearly hates freedom.

Absolutely

I know a few Geordies in the Bay Area. I may have to drive up to the Republic FC game and bring them along. StrangelyI am leaving for The UK (and eventually Newcastle) the following weekend.

As of right now McClaren has zero votes.

I am not sure this was a footballing decision. If Jonas was our best player and had his best years ahead of him I would predict he still would have been released. His public criticism of Ashley and the management of NUFC made him surplus to requirements more than his footballing ability.

Andrea Prlo

That home kit without a sponsor would look great

I predict he will play well tomorrow playing his former club and all. I also think he will play out of his skin as the season comes to an end as he desperately wants to leave. Probably end up being one of our better players.

Glad to hear it. Hopefully this experience will make him paranoid as fuck and stay out of any bother in the future.

more like our reserves now.

I have seen us play much worse this season, but that was a lackluster performance. The crowd and the team were a bit flat. I appreciate that Carver is trying to do something different from Pardew and is actually setting the players for a more attacking formation and play, but we pretty much gave Southampton the middle of the park by letting them have numerical advantage there - again Pardew would have packed the midfield and played to stop Southampton rather than Carver trying to play in on the ground out wide to our perceived strengths, which nearly worked in a few instances. This was all done in an effort to give Cabella freedom in the hole, and I think perhaps part of the problem was lack of experience (for the whole team) playing this way. Soton defended well and they have a great keeper, I wish we could have someone... eerr, yeah. Anyway, that is pretty much the formation and system we should be playing in most games and I hope whomever comes in recognizes that we need to play to the players strengths that we have and not play some stifling long ball game pretending we still had Andy Carroll. Also I hate to say this, but to increase the passion/urgency out there like what we saw in the first half against Chelsea we need a player like Nolan or Barton who is going to demand more and fire up the team on the pitch (De Jong maybe could pull this off?). We are never going to get that from Colocinni or Sissoko. More positives: this game was not totally painful to watch, just disappointing. Thank the gods Pardew is gone.

How bad are we? A friend just pointed out to me that Ladbrokes is offering g 14-1 for a Newcastle win over Chelsea. Very sad.

Yes. I voted for him.

Rather Harper than Pedro... But than that is a very low bar.

nails it.

Good post totally agree. He bolloxed that up. If he was smart he would have said something like that to try to get at least a portion of the fans (that currently loathe him) onside. Also an olive branch would have shown him to be a classy person... he isn't.

Gabby was told during the summer he had no future and was actively looking for a move. He spent the summer training hard and knew if he was stuck at Newcastle he would have to something special to be considered again... maybe he has. He does sincerely want to improve as a player and desperately wants to play for France.

Geordies here, Geordies there... The FCB should have bought Sunderland.

Junkhead well done. It's probably the best response given the circumstances. It could have been much much worse.

Solid 8. It's possible we will stay up but very unlikely.