Theregulars

"I ran naked across the pitch for you and you chose HER?"

Ou est le shola?

I love the broke black and white hearts bit and they don't even show how the goal was scored, admitting their recognition that it was one of the toshest goals ever.

How did ferguson do?

Arsenal have been pretty good under Wenger for a while with no local players - although if "local" covers players brought in from your youth set up I guess this point's pretty much a nullity! It's an interesting point though - when we were awesome under Keegan, we did have quite a few Geordies in the side with Shearer, Beardsley, Clark, Howey... probably others I'm forgetting. I still think it's tenuous to say you need them though - when Chelsea won the league twice the only real local was Terry - don't forget that Lamps is from the East End and grew up a Hammer. Their team was based almost exclusively on expensive investment (Lamps included). I think Terry was the only local to come through for that team, although doubtless he was pretty important.

Agree. Quite simply we sold one of our best players and didn't get anyone, leaving us with an extremely average strike force. To the extent that our squad is significantly worse for the move we come off badly.

My hero. In a world of Andy Carrolls his genuine love for this club is even more sorely missed.

badly and painfully, with at least one more mega fuck-up from Ashley.

Play colo up front man.

Imagine if Carroll wasn't a money-grabbing whore who actually meant what he said about his local pride.

Lovenkrands is making some great runs, to be fair.

It's Jose v at the minute

My cat is a better striker (to be fair Mr. Worf's got a good eye on him like).

i am out from football until April with a knee injury, so no time before then. An NO match can't happen without the Ginger Pirlo.

COOL! What's Rob Lee up to these days?

Really?

I am incredibly proud to be a fan of Newcastle United right now.

0-7

Surely he's not a million miles away from a cardiac arrest?! Fingers crossed, like.

There's more chance of me being Carroll's replacement than Ashley and Llambias reinvesting that money into the squad. I sincerely believe that.

As if Kenny Dalglish didn't fuck this club over once before by selling our best players and turning us from champions league material to mid-table dickrot. Fucking hate that guy.

Without a fucking shadow of a doubt, yes. I detest him.

I've tried to take a bit of time to weigh up the merits, ie to convince myself it's a great amount of money, to think that if he wanted to go we should get rid... but I only think one thing, and that's how heartbroken and gutted I am. I really, seriously and honestly believed, like a naive little kid when I loved Alan Shearer and Kevin Keegan, that this guy was the talisman of our rebuilding process, that despite it all, Ashley, the relegation, Michael fucking Owen, Souness, sacking Bobby and all that... at least there was still a Geordie number 9 who would do anything for the shirt and only ever wanted to play for our club. As far as I'm concerned, he could have said no. This is one of my lowest days as a sports fan, and to think Shola Ameobi is to score the goals to save us from relegation frightens me. I'll say it again: gutted and heartbroken.

He wanted games. He's not good enough?

Anyone know what Pardew's record with malcontented yet talented players is like? I've not a clue. Would have been more confident if we signed him under Hughton - reckon he could have had a go at sorting his head out. That said, I'm still pretty excited, as I always am when we sign a player.