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Like I said, no reason to believe we'd get a thrashing, you bunch of pessimistic bastards Though I certainly didn't expect a draw.

Which of are biggest wage earners won't be playing? Geremi? Viduka? Smith? I'd rather not pay to say Viduka and Smith limp around, though I'd prefer Geremi to start over Butt anyway. It's actually quite comical that those three you mentioned could be amongst our biggest wage earners. Then we wonder why we are struggling. I agree with this. Instead of blaming Keegan/Ashley/Wise/The wrath of God, we should look to our incredibly wasteful and inefficent habit of signing out of favor players from bigger clubs, and putting them on long contract with astronomical wages. This started with Shepard and continued into Allardyce's first window. Agreed, apart from the depiction of Chelsea as a bigger club when in fact all they are is a smaller club with a sugar daddy

I think Viduka is our second highest earner.

Agree with this.

Shut up man, this was all said before Man U away, just go along with it. Yep same bollocks was said back then, and I said the same as I am now. If Football was that easy to predict nobody would watch it. We've shown in quite a few games recently that we don't collapse when we lose a goal, so I don't see any reason to predict a thrashing.

We don't have a single point at Stamford Bridge in the last 8 seasons. Even when we deserve a point we get ripped off with offside goals so I'm not expecting any points this time. But all this thrashing talk is just getting on my tits, there's no reason to expect anything of the kind.

People do believe certain stories to fit there agenda. But people also believe things that they think sound believable given the situation. Just because certain things going on behind the scenes at Newcastle have been correct in the papers doesn't mean I have to believe it was all true.

I remember it being "We've got this lad called Spiderman". It could certainly be construed as Jimenez saying that the player is available and willing to sign rather then he's already signed.

Shearer had brilliant technique, passing, shooting, first touch were all flawless. He didn't show much flair, but that's another thing entirely.

What happened to Owen like?

Hmm so are you.

Maybe if there was no buyer lined up, but with someone already doing due diligence it just wouldn't be acceptable to go around selling assets from under them.

Baffling isn't it, not only would it make no sense at all for Ashley to sell players, but any potential buyer wouldn't stand for it either.

I missed that comment, do you have a link for those quotes?

Duff played well today. I can't see how anyone could objectively argue with that. I can argue it, I think most people would. I won't argue that he does a hell of a job of making it look like he's doing something though. He runs about a lot, but he never really achieves anything.

We're not going to get relegated.. As for who we have to be beating, Fulham have lost one game at home this season, they're not as bad as you're making out.

Tactical, he had a pretty poor game today tbh, gave the ball away far too often. He had a poor game by his standards but he was still better than Duff.

Yeah hilarious that like.

When Dyer was fit he was many times the player Duff is. But that's a big when.

Nah you're wrong

Playing Cacapa today was a big mistake by Kinnear. He's barely played and he's weak at the best of times, Bassong might not be the most experienced but he's big strong and quick, why on earth didn't he start??

Now they're saying on Sky that the incident at the start with Anelka was a penalty. Because despite the fact that Robinson didn't make any contact with Anelka his presence made him lose his balance. So now you no longer have to actually foul someone to have a penalty given against you

He could have stopped it crossing the line had he not stood with his hand in the air. I really hope it starts raining again now and keeps going so the games called off.

Mike Ashley won't be getting any guarantees, but I'm sure Keith Harris will. He's the man doing the majority of the deal after all. Which I'm fairly happy with, because he has no malice towards the club or fans and has his own reputation on the line if we end up in the wrong hands.

FWIW, I think Newcastle are genuine contenders for relegation until a permanent manager is appointed and Ashley is gone. I thought Spurs would suffer the same fate whilst Ramos was in charge and Bent 'Arry is the best possible appointment in our current situation. So you're saying that we're genuine contenders for relegation but you lot aren't now? How does that work? Or have I misunderstood you?