Northern Monkey

Ah, now there's a thing. If we can GUARANTEE that Owen and Martins can both play 95% of the games, then yes, keep Ameobi as reserve. If that is unlikely, and it is, then Shola MUST be kept away frpm the first team, and be at best 4th choice, behind a new forward.

very much in agreement with you Agreed, if he did hate black people and is a racist why is Oba his best mate/roomate? He can't go round saying what he has been saying, but its accepted in his country and not here, he should be warned and banned/kicked out if he does it again, i hope common sense prevails here because i honestly don't think he realized just how offensive it is in this country, now he does there is no excuse. We also need him back playing at his best ASAP!! Day 1 - Emre in racism charge Day 2 - Emre and balck palyer suddenly bessie mates. Day 3 - Emre seen handing out food and drink to starving black babies in Africa and giving Nelson Mandela a back rub.

I think it does tbh. If you're making the point solely about personal abuse or something then fair enough, but he's an extremely poor player at this level. He's not what I would call competent backup for a Premiership side. His "defending" for West Ham's second goal a few weeks ago is one of the worst fundamental errors of defending I have ever seen at this level. Would have been hilarious if it wasn't us, saying it was schoolboy stuff would be harsh on 9 year olds. He is no worse than Shambles, but the big fella gets defender by people who still incorrectly think he had untapped pitential or something stupid. Ramage is by no means worse than Carr, Babayaro, Bramble, or Moore.

I know this is a cliche, but had that been an EPL game, and a coach was knocked out, FIFA would be having us erased from all records, and sealing the borders, as we speak.

He isn't in his country now. He's in thsi one, and using his own nations famous racist streak to jsutify doing it OUR shirt is a laugh. Would it be ok for an Iraqi man to come here and start waving an AK47 around, like they can back home?

No, it won't. Roeder talks shit all the time. I'm sure that if he actually thought people would hold him to the things that he says, he wouldn't come out with such bullshit (quite so regularly anyway) but the fact is that he doesn't. Bang on. Or if he does think that people beliebve the incredibel shite he comes out with, then he's an even worse judge of the fans than he is a manager.

They've just shown that tomorrows Times is saying that Emre's future at NUFC is in doubt after a "second racism allegation"......i thought we were up to about the 4th by now??? I even checked in case i was somehow watching an inadvertently-recorded show from Sky+!!

Why? Premierleague.com Newcastle Reserve lost 1 in 8 games, score an average of nearly 2 goals per game (2nd behind Boro reserve), but concede a staggering average 1.5 goals per game, only better than Wigan. Who are our regular reserve defenders? David Edgar and Paul Huntington? Who are our regular reserve striker? Andy Carroll? Actually who usually play in our reserve? Is there any website where we can follow reserve news? All in all, I think our reserve have done decently on paper. With our injury crisis I wuold imagine that lots of our reserve players consist of youth players. In addition this is also Lee Clark first managerial job. You are aware that the reserves league has become an absolute mockery, yes? Its no longer abotu second string players, and bringing people through. Its shite, now.

Is he still fat, Fenton?

Its always a risk. If we can't mitigate that risk in any other way (i.e. by signing players who won't be getting a game for their nation, like Le Sib, or Luque), then we have to insure against it. Simple as that. The FA provide part pf the wages, yes? SO we need to insire ourselves against the balance. Its just business - different businesses have different risks to manage, this just happens to be one of the ones in football.

Pass on a message, woudl you? Tell him he looked like a fat-headed tosser.

Were you in the locker room, then? or perhaps on the bench? You can see the bench, yes. Maybe you think that managers shouldn't actually do anything DURING the game itself? Makes you wonder why clever people like Mourinho, Wenger and Ferguson bother even going down there, you can see better from the stand. Or even better, from home on the telly. Shame they don't have your grasp on the right way to manage a team, eh?

He said he's had him watched a few times, and that Pearson had seen him a couple of times when he was at West Brom. On that basis, we got him. Genius. What next, ignoring out terminally shite fullback situation, and instead spend £5m on a player we don't need nearly as much? Oh, hang on.......

Gabbiadini - christ, i'd forgotten about him. He really DID look like a tosser, didn't he.

Can't imagine why anyone would think Zog is our best midfielder right now. He's had one good season and has potential but that's it. I WAS referrign to the Zog, yes. He may not have reached his full potential yet, but he has still shown that he has more than any of the others. For me, anyway. He 'potentially' has more than the others. Last season he was good, this season he's been s****. If that qualifies him as our best midfielder we are in more trouble than I thought. Who do you think is our best midfielder, out of interest? Butt. At what he does. Emre. At what he does. Neither are actually good enough for what I want from the team though. See, i think ZOG is better at what HE does than either of those, overall. But hey, its all about opinions (even them wrong ones about Luque being good). Aye, true enough. But he was s*** this season. You're going by last season but that's the past. Its only last season, mate. Aye, I know. But he's a young player, I expect them to lose form. Nowt against him, man but he's not our best player TODAY!!! Surely. I think he's our most talented midfielder today, yes. Out of form, granted, but still with more talent/ability than the rest of them, who are very average really. Can't disagree with that. But he has to do the business, not potentially do the business. True of all of them, but he's the one i genuinely feel CAN do the business. The others are capable of doing a job in a mid table team, i think he has the talent to be so much more than that. Or become a big pile of shite like some of the other "potentials" did. But thats negative, and i don't do negative, me. Hopefully, now he's coming back, we can drop Duff and get the Zog back up to speed.

Can't imagine why anyone would think Zog is our best midfielder right now. He's had one good season and has potential but that's it. I WAS referrign to the Zog, yes. He may not have reached his full potential yet, but he has still shown that he has more than any of the others. For me, anyway. He 'potentially' has more than the others. Last season he was good, this season he's been s****. If that qualifies him as our best midfielder we are in more trouble than I thought. Who do you think is our best midfielder, out of interest? Butt. At what he does. Emre. At what he does. Neither are actually good enough for what I want from the team though. See, i think ZOG is better at what HE does than either of those, overall. But hey, its all about opinions (even them wrong ones about Luque being good). Aye, true enough. But he was s*** this season. You're going by last season but that's the past. Its only last season, mate. Aye, I know. But he's a young player, I expect them to lose form. Nowt against him, man but he's not our best player TODAY!!! Surely. I think he's our most talented midfielder today, yes. Out of form, granted, but still with more talent/ability than the rest of them, who are very average really.

Can't imagine why anyone would think Zog is our best midfielder right now. He's had one good season and has potential but that's it. I WAS referrign to the Zog, yes. He may not have reached his full potential yet, but he has still shown that he has more than any of the others. For me, anyway. He 'potentially' has more than the others. Last season he was good, this season he's been s****. If that qualifies him as our best midfielder we are in more trouble than I thought. Who do you think is our best midfielder, out of interest? Butt. At what he does. Emre. At what he does. Neither are actually good enough for what I want from the team though. See, i think ZOG is better at what HE does than either of those, overall. But hey, its all about opinions (even them wrong ones about Luque being good). Aye, true enough. But he was shit this season. You're going by last season but that's the past. Its only last season, mate.

Can't imagine why anyone would think Zog is our best midfielder right now. He's had one good season and has potential but that's it. I WAS referrign to the Zog, yes. He may not have reached his full potential yet, but he has still shown that he has more than any of the others. For me, anyway. He 'potentially' has more than the others. Last season he was good, this season he's been s****. If that qualifies him as our best midfielder we are in more trouble than I thought. He's shown himslef to be better than Duff, so is by default our best left winger. He was very good last season for me, better than any of our midfielders have been consistently this season. Remains to be seen actually. Add that for some reason Zog apparently sees himself as a CM and it becomes interesting, especially as he's looked shite whenever he's had a game in CM. Remains to be seen? Not for me - Duff has played like a twat pretty much every game, The Zog has not. As a CM, mind, you're right, he's gash. It winds me up when he gets played in the middle. Its like putting Dyer out on the left, or, even worse, Duff on the right. Waste of sodding time.

Can't imagine why anyone would think Zog is our best midfielder right now. He's had one good season and has potential but that's it. I WAS referrign to the Zog, yes. He may not have reached his full potential yet, but he has still shown that he has more than any of the others. For me, anyway. He 'potentially' has more than the others. Last season he was good, this season he's been s****. If that qualifies him as our best midfielder we are in more trouble than I thought. Who do you think is our best midfielder, out of interest? Butt. At what he does. Emre. At what he does. Neither are actually good enough for what I want from the team though. See, i think ZOG is better at what HE does than either of those, overall. But hey, its all about opinions (even them wrong ones about Luque being good).

Sweet jesus.

Can't imagine why anyone would think Zog is our best midfielder right now. He's had one good season and has potential but that's it. I WAS referrign to the Zog, yes. He may not have reached his full potential yet, but he has still shown that he has more than any of the others. For me, anyway. He 'potentially' has more than the others. Last season he was good, this season he's been shite. If that qualifies him as our best midfielder we are in more trouble than I thought. He's shown himslef to be better than Duff, so is by default our best left winger. He was very good last season for me, better than any of our midfielders have been consistently this season.

Lets face it, we've all wanted to toe a Man Utd fan in the chops at some point......

I really hope so, The pessimist in me says he'll be off, but the rest of me (there's not a lot left by this point, mind) thinks he could be great for us, if he stays fit for a few seasons.

You know when fans say they "kick every ball" with the team, maybe he does too. Linke an annoying passenger in the car who insists on miming braking.

The sensible money would be on this being from a mackem or a dipper......but no a fucking Motherwell fan I quite like being hated, Man Utd built up that siege mentality under Fergie and they've never looked back. At the end of the day if we were so insignificant why do people hold such strong views about us? Anymore.... You know you're in trouble when fucking Scottish people mock you for being fat..