Mowen

I thought Upson was shite in the first half. Kept putting james under pressure. Didn't inspire any conifdence at all. Second half he was a bit better. Agbonlahor had a decent game. He's becoming the player Oba should be. He's quick but still bright enough to make some good runs and get on the end of things. Shame his finishing wasn't a touch better. I mainly had them down as very good because they were much better than I expected. I think Gabby is very much like Oba. Don't think either of them will quite go on to be the player they could be, but both will be very exciting and score a lot of goals.

mackems.gif I'm stealing that. In that his contribution this evening was that he "ran". He didn't do much else tbh, so 'a bit of a Duff' is warranted imo. He pinned the defence back a lot, gave them something to be worried about all game, but didn't get round to contributing to a goal. Isn't that more Jonas like?

I'd accept that, but given the need for greater club/fan communication I'd like to see LBW installed as Chairman. He'd be a step up on Dereck Llambias.

Any newcastle fan who can't love keegan needs to take a look at themselves. There's only one person who's been associated with the club in my lifetime I love more, and even he didn't get us playing football as well as we did under King Kev.

They were wank at the Euros as well, a complete travesty they made it to the final. Had a very easy route, and an illegitimate win against Portugal.

Terry scoring a goal that shouldn't have counted, to win a game. Well I never. Not complaining mind, I was impressed by what I saw today - Upson and SWP were both very good, as was Gabby A. Downing was better than I expected, but not as good as Young would have been. Very watchable match.

They'll keep Sturridge and Johnson imo. Elano might be worth a shot, don't reckon we'll spend that sort of money though, as his price will have gone up since arrival.

Darren Bent, John Terry and Scotty Carson. Fucking hell. All as shit as each other.

I'd be tempted to start Onuoha alongside Colo, not the most composed but excellent no-nonsense defender. Gelson has looked a very classy CM from the little I've seen of him at Citeh and Swiss. Don't think either will be getting much of a look in post-Jan there.

It's good to know we're not the only nation with shit fans who boo when you're not winning at half time.

My offer still stands.

Saw that today, Benayoun would be excellent. I'd try for Gelson and Onuoha from Citeh as well, they seem to fit the youngsters bill and both would improve our team.

You'd better be fucking kidding. I'd lay on the floor next to him clutching his cock if it would mean he was OK.

Belfast Boy, your last two posts have genuinely made me laugh. One more in a row and you'll have set an all time N-O record.

We should get John Sitton in.

Unfortunately I'm loyal to my freeview roots!

Is it on TV? On another note.... James drops a cross he should easily have caught and gets away with it. We look quite sprightly mind, imagine the pace in the team with Young picked ahead of Downing (as he clearly should be) - SWP, Johnson, Defoe, Gabby.

Mowen seconds that motion.

I know, he's not the biggest but he'd knock seven shades out of me. I'd love to see one of the many who regularly calls our jailbird a wanker on here go within a hundred metres of him in real life.

Massively. Fair play to JB mind, he's come out and said the exact same thing.

I'd be very surprised.

It wasn't a foul though. Fucking fuming about this. No chance of seeing that little ginger twat out of the team any time soon now.

its just a dream for us at the mo, and as for the nicest stadium, ...half of it maybe. Man U, Liverpool and the Mackems will all sell out comfortably. What will the Mackems sell out comfortably?

the crowd against Bolton was more indicative of the fact that people were not so happy with soopa mike as what it appears to be in comparison to a few hundred people who post on a message board. I have no doubt whatsoever that if we were now in among the top clubs, or looking like we were going there, the entire allocation of NUFC seats would be sold out virtually every home game. Ashley has not shown the ambition to cultivate that. That is why they are now going down, and they will continue to go down until supporters see grounds for new optimism. My reference to your age was because I thought initially you were maybe a longer term supporter, but as is already obvious, that guarantees nothing anyway in the knowledge/denial stakes, and you could also be telling porkies even if you said you were. Not that I'm bothered either way. Fair enough really. I agree if we were challenging with the top 4 we'd be sold out. I guess where the blame for the attendances lies all comes down why you don't believe we're in such as a position. As it stands though, I still think we'd be selling more tickets if the country wasn't in such an economic mess. I think the same is true for almost every club in England.

My age has nothing to do with it. Why did we get a shit crowd against Bolton? Who was in charge then? Did we look like we were going to have our best season (at least) since we finished 7th under Roeder/Shearer? For what it's worth, I agree that our crowds would be better if we were doing better and KK was still around. I don't think they'd sell out every game though, because of other factors that are particularly prevalent at the moment (and reflected in dropping attendances around the country - even in clubs on the up like MCity and Villa). The board and situation are a factor in decreasing crowds, but not the only one.