Begbie

Krul must be better kicking the ball than harper is? Harper is one of the worst kickers of the ball i have ever seen...

If Krul had been in goal, each time it was shown on TV it would be described as a fantastic save Just had to

could well be the case like. he might work out well for them and be awesome but £13m is a hell of a gamble on a player who most of the fans only saw in the world cup scoring penalties and missing the important one, especially in this day and age of clubs tightening belts He sounds like the new Guivarch

Coloccini can play defensive midfielder also. I dont know how good he is in that position, but he cant be worse than smith? We also have taylor who can play right back.. but as someone says then he would prob. not sign a new contract and leave for free at the end of the season. Sign him up on a new contract, find out which cb's are best together, then put either coloccini in dmc, taylor on the RB or sol on the bench. I voted Colo. Think its more likely for them to succeed together..

So much for our "youth" signing policy...

I think Man City will be selling some players, and we should really be ready to make offers for some of their players. I would take Bellamy back, him and Big Andy might work well together. S.Irland might also be a good addition to our squad.

I think Mourinho will be sacked just like Capello was if he goes to Real Madrid. They will expect to see attacking football, not just win trophies.

I havent really seen Kadar played, how is he? what is his strenght and weeknesses? lot of pace, good tackler etc?

For me Danny Simpson is a naturally backup player... he lacks the skill to be considered a first team player for a top premiership side...

Phil Younghusband

LOL carroll

Get Carroll and Guthrie out.... we must have some better players on the bench..

The one and only Ameobi

Stephane Guiv'arch, JD Thomasson, keith gillespie, Boumsong, and almost every player we have bought for 5M+ Rebrov, Winston Bogarde, Thomas brolin

i dont think huseklepp will ever make it in the premiership.

Shearer's goal in 2002 against Everton for me.

Alan Smith or Barton seems to be the discussion in this thread. For me, as long as a player perform he really should keep his place, we should stop picking players because of their name... thats what got us to the championship in the first place. Atm Smith seems to be performing very well, so why shouldnt he keep on playing? I'm no fan of Smith, but he seems to be less injury prone than Barton, so he should be playing more games= he should start ahead of Barton. Like some say: Never change a winning team.

Just got back from the game, my first visit to St. James'Park. The player that impressed me most was Jose Enrique, he will soon be sold if he keep performing. The only thing is that he needs to learn how to pass while he is running. The game it self wasnt a good game, the ref. stopped the play to often imho. But what are we doing on freekicks on our own half? We put all the team on the left side, leaving he right side open with no players? Is it a tactic we are using? The second half we were like 3 times on the right hand side, just put a man out there... It was a good atmosphere today

If Hughton is still here, I think the lineup will be Krul, but only if harper is still injured. R.Taylor S.Taylor Coloccini Enrique Jonas Smith Barton, If Barton doesnt pull any stunts... Duff Nolan Ameobi. Might be Carroll but i dont think Hughton rate him as highly as he rates shola.

Harper 6 Doesnt do anything special, needs to be more vocal from what i have seen. R.Taylor 4 He is our weakest link. WBA looked like they tried to play as much as the could on his side. S.Taylor 7 Did his job, nice cover for colo and ryan. Colocini 5 Can he even head a ball? was often out of position. He did better in the second half. Enrique 6 Good defensivly, but needs to be better offensive. Good linkup with jonas, shite long balls Duff 6 Nice taken goal. Feels it doesnt help to have R.Taylor behind him. Nolan 5 Nolan is only playing on the name he made for himself in bolton. Nice assist, and nice tecnique Smith 7 Did very well in the defensive part Gutierrez 5 Needs to learn how to pass the ball, and needs to learn a thing or two from ronaldo. Shola 4 Why is he still a newcastle player... damn Joe F*cking Kinnear Carroll 6 Won headers like shearer did in the old days, to bad Bellamy wasnt there to run instead of Ameobi. Krul 8 What a game!! Is this the new Given? He have the potential to get better than given. Barton 7 The guy is a class footballer, to bad he is mental unstable. Ranger 10 - For the gangstah look.

Krul was very good today... Thank god that we had him in the second half

nice free kick from barton...

Which chan ??

DUFF!!!! YES

Nolan is strugling with the Geremi syndrom... grandpa legs