Kanji

his interviews crack me up. sign him up - hes def one of my fav players at the club.

We have been crying for a striker of this type since Big Al left...maybe even before. Pace, Strength, etc. Hopefully he can continue to grow and build upon what hes already improved on. Love the comment earlier about Adebayor's development, would love to see this to this guy if we could sign him.

I'd love Carrick to join. Who knows who Man Utd will sign in the summer, it may just push Carrick out. With the right display of ambition by the club, some top players come in, you'd have to think it would tempt the boy. It's his hometown club, hes still a Geordie, he would relish it I'd hope. Any top striker from the ANC we could look at? A Drogba style striker? For the first time, I haven't a clue of who we could sign - b/c quite frankly I thought the lads we signed last summer would be excellent players. 1 Drogba Style Striker 1 Attacking Creative Midfielder - Van Der Vaart mold. 1 Right Winger with blistering pace - Hell i'd even take Routledge, at least he can beat a man. 1 Defensive Midfielder OR play Faye there. 1 Commanding Center Back - Van Buyten perhaps? 2-4 BETTER Squad players. Hell the more i think of it, we do need a 7-10 new players...is that even possible? Oh and we needa hitman, to take out the only player in the EPL who thinks a Mohawk/Bleaching part of his hair is still the cool thing to do....Alan Useless Smith.

If we only had an Anelka/Drogba style striker to scare the bollocks off of the defenders...a tall, pacy lad with strength, eye for goal. but I digress - The thing is, we notice all the bad that Martins does without the simple fact that every single defender in the land, despite knowing Martins has a terribly weak footballing mind and a donkey's first touch - can with a drop of a dime, rip them to shreds with his pace, or his rifle shot. If hes back in the lineup, hell bag a few goals, its very simple. Defenders may know whath is weaknesses are, but they are scared to death of those strengths - Oba, makes me laugh. Burning a defender 1 minute, deciding to not beat one the next, losing the ball after that. Then that silly little grin comes on his face, cracks me up. But jesus me, do you lot not remember what he did to attack when in the lineup, and this was with Sibierski supporting him. Oba has so much to his game that he never uses. I pray that KK can get it out of him. The fact of the matter is, we NEED him to play. We NEED him on the field, if anything - like whats been said before he causes defences to worry about him in addition to Micky Owen. Viduka is managable, Smith bloody useless, Ameobi is a clumsy bambi - Martins is the only who can consisently cause a problem (for us too) whilst still having a shiter.

that def made me happy reading that. hearing about that injury and seeing the pics and reading all of the reactions, i was worried for him and felt absolutly terrible for him. For him, he's going to have a long, tough recovery and hopefully can be the player he was prior to the injury - its gong to be one helluva mountain to climb. But good luck to him...

i never commented about alan smith - but officially today. i go on record for saying... alan smith, get lost. you are a useless footballer. go back to leeds.

He played on the left in the first half if i recall correctly...had a stinging shot saved well too... He looked very good to be honest, and I thoguht taylor played very well too... on a side note, huddlestone has a nice array of passes...

was going to say the same as well...that was one of the most painful misses...what a tourney though. wow.

I'd welcome Geremi in the holding role....think he would actually be quite good there behind Barton or Emre playing the more advanced role... Anybody think he could possibly play at left back? Moving Zogs up field and rotating Milner/Duff/Zog as our widemen?

played the sport my whole life and studied the game. lived in the usa my whole life and fell in love with team - despite each season that ends in dissapointment i still look forward to every single match, every single news snippet, every single moment the team is mentioned I get excited. call me a plastic fan if you want, but i've supported the team best i can from florida every season and will continue to no matter what happens. i may not be a geordie, but i love the black and white...shoot me if you want, but i'll never leave and never lose hope and faith that a trophy can be brought to this club one day... and one day i'll have enough personal money to make a trip to newcastle and watch a match in the stands and live a dream i've had since i fell in love with the club.

Aye, I think you all were mentioning the person who speculated about Emre and an injury...I was the one who wrote it and I heard it on Setanta by the match commentator if I am correct..."..and we are being told Emre may have been withdrawn b/c of an injury to his hamstring..." or something like that. It was early in the morning after a night out but I'm sorry if I confused anyone! My bad all...hope I'm wrong and my mind played a trick on me...

Carr and Butt were repeatedly wasteful with time and space. Beye will solve that issue with RB and Barton needs to play for Butt, full stop. Emre was breath of fresh air. He kept the ball moving, passed it about, and will hopefully stay out of trouble and (injury - proving all is right, heard he had a hamstring problem? can anyone confirm?) Owen looked to have a major bounce in his step after he scored. He had one chance where he muffed it wide, signs of an extremely rusty finisher, but no doubt will put that away when given a similar chance. His leap for the header was amazing - his positioning in those situations are immense. Would love Martins to come back and add a bit of pace and fire to our front line, with Keegan, he will only get better. I've kept quiet about these parts for long enough, and I'm looking forward to joining the banter.

Since when Shearer signed...He was my fav. player since his title season at Blackburn and his England success...didn't care much for any clubs until he signed for Newcastle. I fell in love with the club and it hasn't died or faltered since. Born and raised in the states, used to catch the odd match on the backyard satellite that was HUGE. The matches started coming on ESPN during the week nights so I was lucky enough to see quite a decent amount. I've visited England and wasn't able to make it up to Newcastle, but I plan on it very soon - esp now since I have a great job and some $$$ for a trip and a match.

pretty good read about Martinez. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/raiseyourgame/pages/roberto_martinez.shtml

i worked front desk at a ritz-carlton in the states 2 years ago- Mind you, this interaction with him was AFTER he was sacked.. he came in with his family. lovely family, wife was class and he was, not going to lie, one of hte nicest people i;d ever met while working therte. He asked me If i watched the world cup at all, told him I watch the sport more than anyone I know over here and he laughed, asked who I supported, club wise. I told him to guess, he smiled and said "MAN United" and I laughed and so No - and then I told him, "Mr Souness, I know who you are- my uncle used to travel to Liverpool to watch you play." So then he said, Liverpool? I said No....NEWCASTLE United. Kid you not, the man was smiling, lost his smile, and his head sunk. Looked down, almost embarresed, as he knew I knew who he was and what he did to the club. He then said, You know, the Chairman wasn't a football chairman, he was a businessman. He got involved too much, and made too many rash decisions. Said Mickey was a fantastic player, but was hurt. Said Shearer was a great man as well, but closer to ending his career. Said you lot were the greatest supporters, but things didn't work out right for him. But he continued to mouth off about Shepherd for a good 3-4 minutes. Basically saying the same stuff. I sensed he was throwing excuses at me...but hey, at least I know my sudden encounter with GS was priceless, I right told him i was a Newcastle Supporter and he looked as embarressed as hell.

Perfect Opportunity for Harry to have Big Al as an assistant and learn the ropes. that would be something i'd like- but highly doubt it. To be honest, I don't even know if I care who it is anymore, just want it resolved and want transfers in.

geremi looks well shocked with martins effort! haha!

Screens for you all... Martins walking off at half-time... http://www.cypressridgeoffice.com/shamir/martins-setanta.jpg Match view... http://www.cypressridgeoffice.com/shamir/45mins-setanta.jpg Sound is great, the picture sometimes will pause for a few seconds and I've had to click the different feeds a few times. NOT as smooth as I would like it, but no true complaints. I thought Martins missed that bicycle btw, haha. I went nuts after!

i had choice from 300k and 450k for the bitrate....

So I bought it today and decided to watch whatever was on there... I must say it was pretty sharp to be honest. The picture quality is decent, it does the trick. I was happy with the sound quality and at 450k and 300k the picture and sound were fine. I had 0, yes 0 buffering problems on my terrible internet connection, but maybe thats due to the fact that not many people will be viewing wigan play rugby? don't know. But I am welll looking forward to the match tomorrow, it should be great to watch. Let me know if you all have any questions..

Yah, sadly my appt complex has internet "provided" for us - in other words its prob included in the rent. Its about 350-400k speed. Sad I know, so my internet won't support ITVN's speeds. Paying 30 more for cable-internet then 15 a month for ITVN wouldnt be smart for me. I bought the setanta broadband, watched a bit of the on-demand programming it did just fine for me. I'm used to never seeing the matches and just listening to them, if I can just get a tad bit of picture Ill be happy. I'll be watching the Bolton match tomorrow and I will try and snap a few screenshots and review for you all who are on the fence for it. Madness, what we do, to get a chance to watch some of these matches.

Don;t know if this has been posted, can't be arsed to check all the pages... but after a quick google search and wiki link... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geremi_Njitap "Geremi Sorele Njitap Fotso, usually known simply as Geremi (born December 20, 1978 in Bafoussam, Cameroon) is a Cameroonian footballer contracted to Chelsea in the English Premier League. However a transfer to Newcastle United is immenent.So the media reckon but then again, what do they know? Oh by the way it is imminent" I laughed pretty hard when i read that...wikipedia is usually good at editing these back and making them look decent...or so i thought?

and you lot said he didnt have pace...man can outrun gunmen/bullets...too soon? all jokes aside, thank god hes okay - thats terribly scary. He needs to turn his back on the nigerian team, cant say id play for my country after i was shot at in my home town.

despite some of our poor signings from back in the day, i did like hearing about players ive never heard before either. it made it a little more exciting, but hey, heres to hoping his guy is worth it. finally get some solid defenders in.

Keep Oba Martins. He has the heart and WANTS to play here. 17 goals in his first season, sporadic play, wasteful sometimes, sometimes bloody brilliant. with some proper coaching and better system/tactics/teammates he will only continue to get better. hes cheaper than owen, and wants to be our no.9 and wants to succeed. hes got heart, determination and he does it with some pride. you can tell when you see him on the pitch, no matter how bad hes playing, he never looks like he doenst care.