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What a cracking atmosphere. Bob Ryan is an idiot for having any opinion on that. The fans sang the national anthem, it showed some pride. I loved it. Portland and Seattle are wonderful cities for embracing the teams in he manner they do. Thumbs up to them, I'd have season tickets to either if I lived out there.

LOL Shearer

You got the skits? Looking at it on HBA in that FIFA pic, its def changed and looks good to me. I've def changed my tune now - I'd love to see a fully striped back for next season.

haha, is there a story behind this one?

this forum is going to explode when he gets back and scores a winner for us. total meltdown

Celt? We should talk to the owners and give them a heads up - see what they can do...

Basically.. no. There aren't any. Good ladies t-shirts, that is. Thanks!

Thanks... but looking for t-shirts or tank tops of some kind...hmmm guess not!

Anyone know of an online store that isnt the official that sells good ladies t-shirts? I want to order one for my lady before we head to the NUFC v Orlando City match

looks pirate-esque

surely the club has final say on the kit design too!

I live in Orlando, will def be there - thanks to Cubaricho for hte heads up on this news!

Worst NUFC home kit i've ever seen...hope its just a terrible mock-up of some rumors someone heard and failed to do justice with...

If only football was as simple as stats. Nolan has a fantastic ability to find himself in the right place at the right time, its a product of being a player who is more than happy to make late runs in the box making him difficult to mark and track. He's very much like Lampard in his willingness to support the strikers from a centralised position. There aren't many other central midfielders like that and that is a credit to him, my main bug with him is his contributions both directly and indirectly in our play, he isnt very mobile and doesnt attack space when he has the ball, rather holds it up and plays the simple ball, which is fine to a point but makes him relavtively innaffective up to a certain point on the field, he has no real incisiveness with his passing which doesnt put oppisiton under pressure, for me an attacking player needs to have that incivness whether it be his passing or the diretcness of his play. Its a bit like comparing Owen to someone like Bellamy, Owen may score the goals but he'll largely contribute f*** all to the team whereas Bellamy is the opposite, he'll not score bag loads but his general play is far more important to the function of the team. Personally id rather have a bellamy than an Owen and thats how i fell about Nolan. Owen was class in his overall play under Keegan, don't forget that. He played that role in the hole brilliantly.

ugh, reminded of that 2002 season and that 2004 UEFA cup 2nd leg....

I thought this exactly, I figured we would sign a short contract with Puma with the view to to look at an Umbro/Nike deal after this. Can't see us going back to Adidas - or am I wrong? I guess the money talks though.

Valid point, i see waht you mean.

Nike or "Tailored by Umbro" for me.

I could tell his body language is rather poor right now. Selling AC and the talk of Man Utd and other large clubs will no doubt have him looking elsewhere. Patrick Van Aanholt please if we do have to sell Jose.

I loved him at times...but if he scores and does the backflip, I'll be right pissed. Anyone recall that joy of a celebration in the relegation season when he scored that goal after coming on for Owen in the match vs Boro? I went mental as well... He never lived up to what we all blv'd he could do... And his pace, he was a world class sprinter but my god he couldn't dribble with pace to save his life!

When i heard this injury, i was confused as to why it would take so long for him to come back when he could wear the mask Rick Hamilton wears from the Detroit Pistons in the NBA. Glad to see we are going that route. Hamilton is fine now btw, he just wears that mask b/c hes now used to playing with it...Donno how that would affect a man heading the ball though.

Wasn't Martins just unstoppable in the home leg? I remmeber that 1 run he had where he nearly beat the whole defense on his own.

Wish he would have quoted some Drake lyrics, would have been mint. He's not bad, not great either - but hes scored 4 goals. 3 of which contribued to 3 pts and 1 which contributed to 1 pt. I'm not complaining. He is actually a pretty good finisher with his feet, pretty woeful in the air. Those finishes in his hat trick were class though, and that is something that can't be overlooked.

All Dogleesh had to do was buy a proper defense, he toyed with the attacking side far too much. Get a grip people - we had John Barnes and Ian Rush in attack at 1 pt. That alone is a new level of rock bottom.

Time for the leaders of the dressing room to stand-up and be counted. Looking at Barton, Nolan, Smudge (even if hes sidelined), yes, even Shola, and Stevie Harper to keep everyone focused and going. If the 2-3 hes saying are of real quality, then I will be happy with that. Whats truly crazy to me is that if we continue to play with will and intent and passion on the pitch even with all the absolute crap that the players have gone through in the past year, then it just continues to make me smile that this is the club I love and support. Very hard to see any thing positive from this at the moment, but Pardew sounded quality in that interview and I just hope the squad will leave it all on the pitch. Howay the Lads.