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It was alright. Bollocks. It was an unbelievably good goal, for those that haven't seen it but got a smartphone, download the free ESPN Premier League app and you can see the highlights and goals 5mins after the final whistle. He made the Bolton players look like 8 year olds in a school playground, he had no right to do that in the PL. He ran straight up the middle of the pitch, getting faster, and faster, and faster, past 3 FOUR men, until his last touch which was absolutely inch perfect to put it between him and the keeper for him to poke it past him in his stride. Edit: Look VERY CLOSELY at his touch to take it between the two central defenders, running at almost FULL SPEED, he clips it up and over the challenge of the advancing centre back, into the the one spot on the whole pitch that was exactly the right distance between him and the keeper where he could knock it past while still in full stride. What a player. My word.

:lol: gan straight in the ace posts thread. Post. Of. The. Year. xD

You're missing the point. Try reading it again. Nope, you have.

Without quoting the over-paragraphed newspaper style formatting from LucaAltieri, Simpson and Obertan were bought from that bottom club called Manchester United. Lovenkrands came from abroad and Sib covered an injury crisis and (I could be wrong) he was either free or cost next to nothing. Carroll? He came from our own youth academy

Obviously I didn't =) In that case, sign him up

Why though? Hoilett is as good as if not better than a lot of players we'll be linked to on the continent. He's only 21 and has been one of the best wingers in the league for a struggling side (6 goals and 6 assists). Great close control and dribbler, can create and score, can play wide or through the middle. Like I said chances are he'll go to somebody like Spurs. Well, for me that's exactly the reason. In a team that he's pretty much the only good creative force for, those are his stats - I would expect more. We could be looking at better players with Champions League experience for the same position he would occupy and for almost certainly less money, as it would be hugely inflated for him being PL-based too. I believe Graham Carr's got a better fit than Hoilett in the pipeline for us should Ba leave.

Fair enough, I can understand that. I'm just of a different opinion to some I guess, see I wouldn't take Hoilett

He was friendly?

According to RTG (yes I know), Sunderland are talking with his agent. http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=690014&page=1

Thats bollocks. See us at how taking players from lower clubs can work if you pick the right players. The reasons these clubs aren't already at bigger clubs, because their clubs at the moment can't afford to lose their players who are going to give them a chance of staying up. I admit theirs not many players I see down there who could add anything to us in terms of first team quality, Hoilett aside, their is though a few decent players there though that would be good squad players and much better than what we have. You tell me I'm speaking bollocks yet agree that there is probably only player a year from those going down to take note of. Your reasoning of players not being allowed to move as the clubs need them is simply incorrect, if a top 6 club wanted any player of the bottom 3, they would have them tomorrow if they could and there wouldn't be anything the selling club could do. See Phil Jones for one. I'm not having a go at people on this forum, and if I somehow came across this way then I apologize, but the lack of replies to what I posted tends to make me feel the silent majority are with me on this one.

Coloccini, Jonas, Saylor, Krul were all relegated with us and (bar Saylor through injury) are ever-present in our side which is currently sitting 3 points from 4th. I'd quite happily sit here and argue that we were, as a club, an exception to the rule. Even in the Championship, we were a bigger club than many in the PL. If you got Arsenal managed by Joe Kinnear and ran by Dennis Wise and they were relegated, RVP et al would still be class.

Can just imagine the thought process to posting that

Sometimes I will want to know, it's curiosity, but for that I go to RTG. As regularly as I go to RAWK, redcafe or gloryglory. I welcome sensible posters from any club here, as it provides a different angle, but preachers are unwanted. And a club as deeply obsessed with us as Sunderland simply don't produce the type of fan that could integrate here. They are the stereotypical angry man of the PL who at the age of 27 is not going to grow any taller than 5ft 4 and is completely in denial at the lot they have been dealt.

Nail on the head. Already noted his username previously on RTG as one of the argumentative and nonsensical hot-heads that epitomize Sunderland fans, by virtue of the fact that everyone on there tends to agree with him. Having started posting here, I don't think he's prepared for the higher level that most of us are on and his attempts at acting smart are swiftly going to result in hilarity on the way to his destiny of resorting to his real RTG persona, and subsequently rage quitting the forum only to re-surface each time we lose in vein attempts to troll us. They still haven't figured out how to not have half their front page on their forum swathed in Newcastle United related topics

Again, No-one. There's a reason they aren't already playing for top clubs. It's very, very easy to stand out in a shower of s***. Of course there are exceptions, but on the scale of perhaps at most one per season, and last season it was Demba Ba. This season I don't see anyone at all. We are a club now, to much of our own surprise and delight, mixing it in the top 6 on merit alone, and we need to alter our perceptions of what sort of player would be of the right calibre to join us, I just don't see bargain-basement buys from the PL's relegated teams to be what we need to kick us on to the next level. Just take a look at Liverpool as to how taking supposed stars from lower teams does not work as a shining example. Aside from Ba, who was a free transfer and who we only signed because he failed a medical at Stoke, it simply wasn't our policy last summer, let alone now with us in such a stronger position to attract good talent. Also, unless the prices were extremely low, there isn't a chance in hell that this club would sign any of them, they have to meet the criteria of our transfer strategy of being young, underpriced, have the right attitude off the pitch and the almost certain chance that they would develop and increase their value. That they are already PL players already inflates the price, regardless of the owning club being relegated, as with clubs coming up and the dross in the bottom half circling like vultures, there will be no shortage of suitors for the better of the cloggers. I know the club knows this already, but it seems a lot of people on here don't =) Not that I'm saying it's bad to discuss the better players from the worst teams in the league, but rather than read threads like this for potential transfers, I would much rather a few threads on some of the better players from the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and the Eridervisie or some of the lesser-known stars of Serie A and La Liga that most of us won't even have heard of before. These are where our players are going to come from this summer, not from Wolves or Blackburn. At the start of last summer this thread would be totally valid, but having seen our transfer strategy subsequent to that summer and our increased position to attract a far better calibre of player, we need to be thinking a little more highly of ourselves. Newcastle is an incredibly attractive proposition to many players right now, across the world.

Having just discovered this by virtue of your kind self, my fondness for the club is also on par with yours right now.

Yeah i don't get this about people not believing it's intentional, at school I couldn't do much at all in a football playground but I was godly at getting the ball to go wherever I wanted off any part of my lower body, ankles, shins, thighs, instep, outstep. Scored many like the Villa goal in jumpers-for-goalposts. Only seems fitting that players 1,000,000 times better than me could do it too.

yes remember it well and we went in for him but was always going to Chelski if memory serves me right . Indeed it does =)

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/sp20120407cd.html? Jesus christ I've never seen so many factual errors in an article before, and one from a supposed national news outlet! Already written a letter to the editor on this

Ferguson did look more involved, but from what I can see he seemed very off the pace, reminds me of how off the pace Viana was in that Euro game before he went.

edit: Apparently I didn't vote. I put down a genuine 12+ vote the moment the poll went up.

Danny Simpson, the marauding fullback who never stops running, whipping in crosses and essentially running the entire wing singlehandedly. And is that what you want him to do behind HBA while HBA tracks back to cover him while he goes up the pitch? Get a brain. Exactly the reason he'd do well for us in this role is because he doesn't have to do that, even though as a RB he has run more miles than any other RB in the league this season.

Knew drogba was class the moment we got ripped apart by him in Europe.

The sort of full back who'd do well in a 4-3-3 tbf

I could feel the reverberations of your hammer striking down the nails that every one of those words represents into his metaphorical coffin. So much passion in the hatred