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As long as Smith gets shipped out I'll be happy. What a mong.

Don't think Rozehnal has a glittering future here to be honest. Want Barton gone just to get shot of the embarrassment factor, also think Ameobi is pointless.

Keep everyone else as football is a SQAUD GAME nowadays and they're all, at least, competent players. Except Smith. Sell sell sell sell sell sell.........

Swap him for Shola anyday like....

Toughie, but the pragmatic answer is both because Iwen's always injured. You can't deny he'll pop up to score and is a way better finisher than Martins, but I think Martins is far more of a threat by himself and Owen relies on us giving him service, which we haven't been doing of recently (and here's hoping KK will solve that). Would like to answer this question when I've seen if KK can sort out the supply line to Owen, but until then I'd have to pick Martins because he's not horribly injury prone, scores from nothing quite often and can improve his finishing I reckon. I don't think Owen is necessarily going to get any better, although it will be intersting to see if he stays fit for the reast of the season how he'll do.

Joey Barton would have been done for doing the same thing.

Ran out of toilet roll so will request at work that we get Peterborough-based local papers in. What a douchebag. Jimmy and Timmy from South Park have chatted more sense between them.

All this media hatred just increases my desire to will us to win, so I can sit back and laugh as they all proclaim "Keegan returns Newcastle to glory, as we predicted" or something along those lines.

On another note, the most annoying thing is that if Keegan's return works out and we become the Entertainers again, they'll once again adore us as everybody's second favourite team again. Problem with having a London-based media. Why don't they ever get onto Ferguson who doesn't even speak to the papers?

Personally think Martin Samuel's broadsheet pieces are very good. Frustrating journalist as seems to dumb down his evident intellect and pander to the masses in his tabloid pieces. What he said about us being a circus and all that isn't a ridiculous criticism from an outsider's point of view, although can't agree about us believing we are due some glory imminently. Obviously more that we know the potential of our club and just want to see a sign it is being achieved. However, one disagreement doesn't take away from the fact that he's normally pretty accurate in the broadsheets.

Would like to drop a piano on Louise Taylor's head.

Hate this stuff about him being the leading goalscorer at the club with 46 overall. Yes, in what, 8 years?! One good spell under Roeder and an acceptable stand-in under Robson. He has no touch, balance, real power, can't hold up the ball efficiently.... just plain not bothered enough to dislike him. Although blatantly at another club would score a goal off his arse which denied us a place in Europe or knocked us out of a cup or something. Problem is to be good he needs a long-run of games (that he got under Roeder and Robson when Bellamy was injured), and he's never going to get it if and when Viduka et al are fit. I would say happy as a stand-in but him playing a bit-part role is counter-productive as he'll never get enough games to improve. We're rotting his career by keeping him here, and he's rotting our patience with his occasional stand-in under-par performance. No future at the club. I couldn't care less if he's from Newcastle, so is my mate's dog, donesn't mean he earns a contract.

Think there's a lot of unfair press about Emre. I don't think it was a red, intent was there but Rennie would have been better just calming him down and a booking. Didn't really connect with Eustace too badly, should have kept in mind Eustace's horrible challenge (just as cynical) and could have kept the matter cooled. That said it was daft. I think, however, that Emre coul dbe a majestic player under Keegan- I think all of our players have suffered under poor management. He's been given Souness, Roeder and Allardyce, none of whom tried to play the kind of football that Emre thrives under. While he was on the pitch on Wednesday he was brilliant. Sure he's inconsistent but he's our best player in that position by country miles. Given the right backing, a good run in the team and licence to play the way he wants to (which I think Keegan may give him), I think he'll finally be the asset we all want him to be. TBH all this criticism of "what has he done since he's been here" could be applied to every member of our team save Milner and The Zog at the minute. In conclusion: bad challenge, good player.

Also, I work at the England Cricket Board and I know these "I spoke tot hings" are useless, but for what  it's worth we all just rang Steve Harmison (most people to laugh at him, me to speak to him) and he's spoken to Shearer and thinks that Shearer is going to come in with him. He may just be talking complete knackers but they are quite close apparently.

I think Beardsley will be promoted into the management structure, and maybe we'll bring Rob Lee back. Hell, let's see if we can get Darren Peacock involved for the fuck of it.

This is just complete proof that our club has literally gone nowhere since he last left us. We've basically just accepted that the running, management and playing style have not improved one iota and instead of looking for an appropriate solution, nostalgia had led us to this insane appointment. If they wanted us to stop  being a joke club (one can only hope), they can forget that now. I'm not going to lie that I am cheerful as I love the man but every bit of common sense and proper judgement stands against this. It only happens at Newcastle United. At least everyone might actually be happy and excited again...

My main concern is the players he had then were awesome, what we have now is tat by comparison. I can't see Viduka doing a Sir Les, Duff doing a Ginola, Barton doing a Rob Lee... I could go on all day. Oh well, at least if it goes to shit they can genuinely say they listened to the fans and gave us what a lot of people wanted. WWAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!! KKKEEEEEGGGGAAANN!!!!!!

He and Warren Barton are the most infuriatingly stupid pundits/co-commentators I have come across. Niether can pronounce anything, frequently forget what they're sayiing halfway through a sentence and only use the word "quality" to describe anything positive.

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I would emigrate if that happened.

Jeff Winter anyone? He is, after all, a "refereeing legend and top media personality". Loves us "Brown ale-addled Geordie dickheads" after all. Inbred gobshite.

I hate Alan Smith, and I genuinely belive he's one of the worst players I've watched represent us in 15 odd years of supporting this team. His entire ability consists of receiving the ball, losing it or giving it away, and then fouling somebody in a dangerous position. That's it. He can't/doesn't shoot, can't pass, can't cross, can't actually tackle without conceding a free kick or notching up a booking/red card, and is clearly thick as a lumerjack's stockpile. The man has no talent. He was an alright forward at Leeds, where a goalscoring burden was one him, but failed at Man United where the main reason he was held in such regard was because he had a nasty injury and so everyone felt sorry for him because he was a "nice lad", which he isn't anyway, he's a dispicable, fouling, foul-mouthed tosser. I hate this argument that because he "gives 100% every game" and "gets stuck in" he merits a regular starting berth. FFS every play should give 100% and get stuck in as a minimum requirement, for me it goes without saying. The man for me is a useless waste of transfer fee and wages and isn't good enough to sit in the bench, let alone be captain, as he literally offers nothing to our team. Furthermore, he has not looked that good in attack. To be a striker you must score goals, simple as. He can't and doesn't. Viduka, while lazier than him, will at least fashion himself a chance/stick away a goal or two given the service. Smith has somehow blagged his way to being an England squad regular and an undisputed starter here without any merit whatsoever, so I congratulate him on his ability to dupe everyone. Maybe he sends out nice Christmas cards or is actually the bastard child of Brian Barwick or something. I can't figure out any other reason why he plays.

Not as bad as Smith tbh.

Owen has 37 goals in about 80 games for England, so giving him the generous side of inaccuracy, if he needs 13 to become England's top scorer, he's going to need another 26 games. Based on that record, if he stays fit, it should be a fairly attainable target you'd hope.

That said he'd do it a lot quicker if his rate of ocnverting chances wasn't so diabolical at the minute should have had a hat-trick on Saturday, missed a hatful against Wigan), so if this improves, as it probably will with match sharpness, then it may come a lot quicker.

Really don't think he's up to much tbh. Would like to see him look more interested/show more urgency and desire. Nonetheless, he can turn the game in a second with his good skill and awareness, like that chance he set up against Villa or goal against Boro.

However, would like 4-3-3 to perhaps have Martins or Owen up top and play it around on the deck, or 4-4-2 Shola and Martins/Owen as Ameobi has shown more thus far this season imo.

However, Big Sam isn't going to be leaving him out anytime soon, unless his hamstring injury is more serious than described so far.

I think our best midfield three in a 4-3-3 would be

-----------------------------Geremi--------------------------

---------Barton--------------------------------Emre---------

Each brings something different and in combination there is tough tackling, creativity, vision, power, drive etc., although lacking a bit in pace (not sure how quick Barton is but the other 2 aren't up to much).

It's bordering on insantiy/insulting to say Dyer has done more than Emre, especially using Emre's injuries as an argument to back this up. Yes, it's a shame he's been brittle thus far in his Toon career but how many players haven't been injured in the last 2 years? As much down to the crap fitness and training standards of the last 2 regimes, surely?

Yeah he should score more goals but he's notched up a fair few assists (anyone have the Rothman's or SkySports guide? I'll fish mine out when I get back from work if needs be), has an eye for a pass that nobody else in our squad matches and usually puts in a hard shift. His free-kicks and corners are mostly useful if not dangerous. With him in the team we may se less of a long punt forward to Viduka and more through balls for Owen and Martins to latch on to. At the very least he's a handy squad asset. There's a reason they rave about him in Turkey and that's because, imo, he is their bst player. Now Owen's back from injury he's looking good, maybe we could be optimistic and say that Emre could be a similar asset once properly fit.

Or we could sell him and re-buy Dyer, Parker and Bowyer and have the midfield that Toon's Taylor craves. Howay.

To be fair I'd select him over Robinson any day. Can actually goalkeep, isn't overweight and doesn't stand 10 yards too far off his line at every set piece.

they're just bitter man.  Met 3 in Magaluf in July, they came out with stuff like "who's gonna be in jail first? Lee or Allardyce? Oh yeah, Allardyce! He's a corrupt fat fucker!" Although the best conversation was.....

 

Bolton fan: "Allardyce just signs unknown s****, don't get your hopes up"

Me: "Fair enough, but he makes them perform, who have you signed?"

 

*Pause*

 

Me: "Howay, who?"

Bolton fan: *in a quiet voice* "Erm, Gavin McCann".

 

arguement won.

Unknown players like Okocha, Djourkaeff, Hierro, Speed, Anelka, Diouf etc. who have shaped Bolton for the best part of the last decade? Oh, OK.

They signed Andy O'Brien, that there is the fact upon which all sanity is restored and arguments won in our favour.

Only seen us lose on the road once, way back under Keegan when Wimbledon beat us 3-2. Every other time I've seen us play in London we've won or drawn.

That said, a lot of times I see them somebody seems to get sent off. I was at Charlton in 2001/2 when Rennie sent Shearer off for no apparent reason. Was in the press room afterwards and Robson was going apeshit like.

Maybe it's one of those things where he wants to sort it out at the end of the season or at a later stage? Think of the logistics, we've bought five defenders in during this window, Rozehnal looks to be a regular already and Cacapa looks pretty awesome, Beye will probably become first-chocie RB and Faye is knocking around too. Maybe he wants to see if he still gets enough action to justify him committing to the club for that long.

It's common knowledge that Taylor loves the club and the area, people who knock him can go watch videotapes of Boumsong and the like.

Have to say I'm far more into England cricket now McClaren has taken over, so obviously much more up for Newcastle. That said, still feel gutted when we're shit. Feel no connection as no Newcastle players except Owen ever make the team, and it annoys me that they don't even seem to consider Milner when Gareth Barry and Ashley Young can make the squad. I think Taylor is there more as a symbolic incentive to show the Under 21s that their level is actually relevant.

However, never on at the same time so it's not like you have to choose.

Can't we just sack him/rip up his contract? Surely there's a notion somewhere that to earn money you have to do work unless actually injured? Even if he tried to take us to court over it I don't think he'd get anywhere.