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Re: where to sit... i tried the Milburn for the first time since 1998 on Monday night, and it was quality. Obviously, the situation was ifferent because the atmosphere on the whole was cracking. I don't know the science of it, but i guess if you're somewhere near the very top, the noise doesn't escape as easily. For instance, it was quite deafening when Boro scored, and i was miles away from their fans. Was a really good noise in the Milburn all in all. Plus it's just like watching it on TV. Cracking view of the city aswell. You can get a megabus from London - it should cost you £10-15, although it takes about 6 hours and isn't particularly comfortable. Try and find a bed and breakfast - I was up there for Christmas time and found one for £30 a night for a plush double room, although that is because I cheekily told them I was media and would get them a good review (was on a one month's placement at BBC Radio Newcastle). The further out from the centre, the cheaper, and it's about £1 (I think?) on a bus to get in, or a cab won't be too pricey.

Better than Butt, Nolan, Guthrie, Smith...

If it should be anyone, it has to be Beye. The captain has to be a talented player who is capable of leading on the pitch and vocal. Him and Taylor are probably the only options. We have a dressing room full of overpaid, cowardly hasbeens and no-hopers bought on the cheap by a regime doing their best to turn us into a charva clothing chain. It pains me to see this money whoring, horse owning, past-it fool wear the armband that since childhood many of us have dreamed of wearing. Everybody in this forum is better suited to wearing it, because at least we'd give a shit.

I know Louise Taylor - she's a family friend through my father, and is actually a really nice woman - she would be as devastated as many of us if we go down. I remember when I was doing a sports bulletin for my journalism course and needed an ex-player to comment on the rot at Newcastle, and she put me in touch with Rob Lee. All this stuff about how she's a dick who has no idea what she's talking about is total bollocks. She's well informed about the team, the area and the supporters. Re: Danby, it's a stupid gimmick. Our fans our derided by the London rags for being drunk, overweight and blindly optimistic idiots. That man sums up all the stereotypes they throw at us. I don't care if they swore or not, I guess he got the crowd going, but the fact remains that we shouldn't need him to get up for games like Portsmouth. But the crowd was understandably nervous - sure, we can try and forget about how utterly awful our team has been since Sir Bobby quit, but five years of underacviehement, misguided sigings, false dawns and "heroes" failing to live up to their billing has left us bereft of hope and optimism, and full of common sense - the fact is that right now, our team, for whatever reason, hasn't performed for a long time, it doesn't look like anybody can get the best out of our squad and we have an ownership structure which has provedit does not know what it's doing. My friends, my family, people I know at college and anybody else laughs at me for being a Toon fan. Hell, I went on a date t'other day and the girl almost pitied me when I told her I supported Newcastle. We're a laughting stock. It's fuck all to do with Louise Taylor either.

I am in the States right now - does anyone know any way I can get this game on TV over here?

Reckon he'll get a lot out of Owen.

Mike Ashley, you strange, infuriating lardy maverick.

If Darren Bent can get in the England squad, Owen should.

I never thought I'd see the day when I felt vaguely nostalgic about this man running our club.

We'll storm the Championship with captain Shola bagging the golden boot award. Anyone who doesn't realise we have an ice cube's chance in hell of staying up is deluded. We can't win a game for anything - when we play top teams we put in a decent shift but get inevitably overrun in the end, when we play shit teams we play shitter than them. The two men in charge of first team affairs - one coach who never wanted a manager's job and has the charisma of a shrub and the other who nearly took forest to league 1 - can't do anything about it but are stuck, the owner is a crook and a clueless one at that, the first team lack any direction, there's nobody who can really score or create goals, and on top of it we have our usually squad decimation by injuries. But aye, everything will be fine. Reality check, we're fucked, it's over.

Really hope people lay off Steven Taylor now - should be given man of the match already. For a season when we've been bereft of luck we deserve a 1-0 win with a goal off somebody's arse.

I have more faith in Fritzl being granted early release than Chris fucking Hughton leading this club to safety.

But come one guys! Duff's a match winner! Maybe Steven Taylor will continue his one-man assault to become top scorer.

Yeah that Setanta package about how we're fighting - nothing like a heavyweight champion like Damian Duff fighting in your corner. Jonas was one major reason I thought we still might not go down this year. That team is bereft of pace, flair, creativity and potency. It's effectively Martins v Arsenal.

I hate Chris Hughton. How can you justify playing Duff and Ryan Taylor ahead of Jonas is beyond me. When you need your biggest result of the season you don't leave arguably your best player out. Twat.

Finishing a post with "end of" doesn't mean you're right. End of. Yes it does. Period.

Personally think the flack he's getting is mad - compared with our squad as a whole, he's a useful player, end of.

I'm just bored of it. The only way we're staying up right now is if the teams below us continue to be as shit/a bit shitter. I can't see us beating anybody on current form, we only have two players who interest me at all (Jonas and Oba), our manager is awful, our owner's a crook, our captain has one foot out of the exit and we just got spanked by a team managed by Sam Allardyce.

They did this piece in an NUFC magazine - Viduka asked for world peace.

Went out and bought that strip with his name and number the day after that game... the ex still has it as I bought it when I was well fat and she used it as something to sleep in. You've reminded me to call her and get that back, good work.

what date is it?

If it's before Christmas eve I'm happy to come along - if we have 23 players I could make it 24 and have one sub each or something? Am quite useful, played for my university side.

Don't see why Shola should be dropped, fancied him to at least give their centre halves a physical battle. Our midfield is going to be tumultuously overrun. My tactic would be give the ball to Jonas and hope a lot.

Disagree entirely - Butt looked solid and generally played fine. Held things together nicely. Great free kick too, think he should take more. If Geremi is allowed despite being so awful he shoed he could at least have a go. Butt wins a hell of a lot of tackles for us and, while some of his passes are wasteful, an equal number are good.

Thoroughly enjoyed his booing, his a massive dickhead, always has been, does not deserve the lifestyle he leads. Normally against booing your own players but I don't like him representing my country as he's such a ginormous arsehole. What a pass though...