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He's only been available for the last 6 matches, I'm sure he'll get his chance under Benitez and we'll see what he can do at this level.

Yeah one looked very difficult, behind him and he did well to get good contact and on target, dragged one wide but it was far from a sitter. The header he definitely should have done better with. But listening to the radio you'd have thought he'd missed three sitters.

How exactly do you decide who is or isn't thinking about things properly? Someone has the opinion he'll rip this league up, you obviously disagree, lets wait until he's actually played a few games to see who's right eh?

Blanking out last season then? You're banging on about how you heard he was going to tear up this league though, suggesting that's proven wrong, fact is he hasn't yet played enough minutes to make up two full games in this league..

Aye but man this just shows the problem with the game, its so high profile you just aren't allowed to be dodgy as fuck and completely corrupt in private anymore. Its all made public, and thats just wrong! If something dodgy happens it should be sent only to the FA and never released to anyone else, that way the FA can sweep it under the carpet and keep the gravy train running at peak efficiency. That's pretty much what Mclaren just said anyway

Even worse, the player would pay tax on the £8000, so he'd be left with about £5000 after tax, then the manager gets £4000 of it tax free under the table..

Ok, here's hoping it gets out from police inviestigations or someone leaks some of those videos unedited eventually

Didn't the Telegraph say they've given these managers a certain amount of time to respond before going any further? No doubt there are legal discussions going on right now, but I don't think that means the full videos or more specific info will never be released.

If you watch the video's released so far they've hidden the names of clubs/managers that the agents and managers (so far only Allardyce) talk about. No doubt so they can keep them for later revelations. They can back them up by simply removing the bleeps from the names. Maybe they haven't released anymore so far because everyone not actually shown in the videos directly will be doing everything they can to stop it coming out.

Well Huddersfield have less points from their last 4 games than we do and that's been our bad spell. Villa are 2 wins from us, but we're 2 wins from top. They also have significantly less points from their last 4 games than we do (their points total so far is the same as the points we've got from just our last 4 games), so they're hardly catching us.

Aye win tonight and we're third, 1 point off second. A lot of new players bedding in as well so its far from silly to suggest we still need time to gel, so yeah far too early to worry.

Just watching SSN on this, Dowie is just as thick as he looks "If its fact you can get around FA rules like that then whats Allardyce done wrong talking about it?"

What fucking fans

Hmm why do Newcastle fans idolise Shearer and hate Pardew? Lets see, Shearers their record scorer, signed for them ahead of some of the biggest clubs in the world at a time when he was the best goal scorer on the planet, and ended his playing days at the club. Pardew had them languishing near the bottom of the table, played horrendous soul destroying Football, gave them massive record breaking losses and lied constantly. Hmm just can't figure it out, must be that one is a "good looking cockney" (is he fuck the big lipped saggy faced cunt) while the others a gritty Geordie. Barton man, he's thick as fuck. Not even sure the stupid prick ever has a genuine opinion, he just throws out whatever nonsense first comes to mind without thinking about it, only explanation for some of the bollocks he spouts.

Ah right cheers for the info, knew it'd be on sale at the ground just was confused when it was listed online but not available online. Must be selling well then if they're increasing the price today..

Can't seem to buy tickets for this online. Its listed on .co.uk as being on general sale online but not actually listed on the event page where you choose which tickets you want.

The good performances in that run were after Mitrovic came on. Our best performance this season by far was his first and only start.

Aye don't fancy eating somewhere that has you sticking to the floor and chairs like, might as well eat at Gotham Town

But when the mackems talk about border controls they mean not allowing any foreigners in at all, rather than having the power to check passports.

But why? Hes been poor all season. He hasn't played on the left all season though, perhaps he wants to see him in a position where he'll get more of the ball at his feet.

I thought he looked ok in the small amount of playing time he had under McClaren, but only very fleeting showing before Benitez even arrived. I think Rafa was trying to pick a side that had plenty of Premier League experience and players who he could drill the basics into to form a solid unit, taking no risks in the very small amount of games we had left. Hence why the likes of Shelvey didn't play much, that was my feeling at the time anyway.

Howay.. you don't need to be his mate to know how the guy works, what his mentality is. Go and read some articles about him, its clear the kind of manager he is. Its also not as if he needed our job desperately enough to bend over backwards for us, we needed him far more than he needed us. Honestly this guy picking his team based on orders from Mike Ashley or Charnley is about as believable as Colback having a "must play every game" clause in his contract. As far as why Saivet has said that. Like others have said could be lost in translation. Or could be the fact that its much easier to pass off the opinion of some owner than a big name like Benitez "wasn't Rafa that didn't want to play me, nah he was forced not to by the people above because they're English and want more English players". Or he might even have heard it, still doesn't make it true.

As long as he's given full control why should he have any issue with what's happened here in the past? Its nowt to do with principles anyway, the fact is Benitez is a control freak (in a good way). He's not going to spend all week working out the best way to win a match only for Mike Ashley to tell him he has to change his plans because he fancies some English players for some bizarre reason. Its nowt but excuses from Saivet. Aye that was pretty funny, no idea how anyone believed it really, obviously rubbish even before it was proven beyond all doubt as rubbish this season.

As if Benitez lets anyone tell him who to play, silly boy Henri..

I had little doubt he'd got for £30m+, he absolutely isn't worth that though and will fail in the long run, simply because he's thick as mince. You had little doubt he'd go for £30m+ yet consider him as thick as mince. I don't really want to equate you with the daft fucker who wanted rid of him for £3m but how does this compute? Would have thought that would be obvious really. He's a match of the day player, looks great in highlight reels and looked good at the Euro's which is always the perfect way to increase a players value. I've made it clear every time I discuss him that I think he's generally a shite Footballer, athletic and powerful but absolutely nothing between the ears. But I also said all along that I thought we'd get a good fee, because the market is insane and he's been hyped up so much by people outside of this club.