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Absolutely spot on. There are some who would still have Xisco back, despite him being ridiculed in Spain in recent weeks. Aside from the age 17 point, which is like 'well of course, thats obvious' I don't think that's true. He'd just get a different kind of stick, more the Xisco kind of stick. No, theres a definite section of our support who believe foreign kids must be world beaters in the making and local lads must be s****.

they will have to be shrewd if the reported wage levels are anything to go by, do you think the recent signings are good enough for the premiership, do you know the length of their contracts ? Bob, we wont actually know until we see the likes of Routledge, Williamson etc play in the EPL. What I will say is that the likes of Dann, Johnson at Birmingham, Lescott at City, Baines at Everton and quite a few others, have come from lower divisions and done well in the PL so it is not beyond the realm of mpossibility that our signings will also succeed. Furthermore, if you look at the teams near the bottom of the PL, I dont think any of them are that much better than us, if at all. Also, there are plenty of good quality players around who would more than likely jump at the chance of coming to NUFC at realistic prices and whilst most peoplke on here would like to see Arsenal type football played, realism says that workmanlike performances are the order of the day under Hughton and that hasnt done the likes of Birmingham, Villa, Everton any harm this season at all. Maybe we can see a sim ilar response next season. I've seen these players, I'm not going to watch the smoggies or anybody else, as you are telling people to do, but I don't think they are as good as the players he has sold. What do you think of them ? You are probably right there, to a certain extent. However, the players who left, no doubt, with the undoubted skill they had, failed miserably to mput that skill to good use for the club. Ask yourself, how many have suceeded since they moved! Given, Milner are the only ones I can think of. Viduka retired, Owen spent most of the season benched as did Beye, Martins at Wolfsburg? What has he done there? Even Edgar at Burnley cant get a game there. So, as for their undoubted skill, yes, they were skillful but only when they felt like it which wasnt very bloody often, was it? The players coming in have substantially less salaries, points to prove and who knows yet, maybe huge successes in the PL. I would much rather be top of the CCC at the moment than bottom of the PL. Your comment about managers was very relevant and certainly a major mistake by Ashley last year, which so far, he has learned in his backing of Hughton. I actually think CH will do well next year and believe he deserves a great deal of credit for this season's success. Ashley put his faith in him and he has rewarded that faith, so far. Lets look ahead and not back. Ashley got lucky with Hughton, end of. If he had so much faith in him, why wait until the end of October to give him the permanent job? It's Hughton and the players who stayed who have "steered" us back in the right direction. Yes, Ashley has probably kept us on course by coming up with sensible money in January, but he would have been a complete moron not to see that minor investment in our squad would result in promotion and all its benefits.

Love?

Get Xisco back.

You'll soon find that sensible, sober reflection has no place on this board.

He's only recently had a run of form, for the first and most part of the season he's been s***, as well as in his previous first team performances. IfWhen his form runs out he'll once again be useless. Nonsense. I know it would be expensive, but you really need to get to more games.

What happens if we finish in a decent postition in the league and somehow manage to win a cup? Get real

Dorrans would be at least £6-7m, and McGeady would be offered far bigger money elsewhere.

There's no way he'll be back here very long and it's unfortunately that almost everyone is so against him already. I think he's got a bit of class about him and could really come good but we won't be the club to help him with that I am almost positive. Christ, here we go again... Two league goals all season, and he's a world-beater. Tell me this: what does he do well?

The Chron know the names of both players, according to my mate. Can't get them out of him ("you'll have to buy the paper") but he says they aren't Taylor and Fox.

Danny Welbeck to Preston on loan for the rest of the season. Would have been a decent shout for us, but nepotism wins the day....

According to his dad, he's out a couple of months.

So the club always lie, and the Sunday Sun always get it right even though they've admitted the story was incorrect? No, they don't always get it right, but they haven't admitted the story was wrong.

Llambias WAS in Vegas - on holiday. Ashley may well have been too - or do you swallow everything this mob of self-confessed liars (NUFC - not the press) throw at you?

Er, the follow-up piece confirmed Llambias WAS in Vegas and Ashley was also on holiday. So how was it "all b*****cks"?

There would be no journalists at Press Conferences if club banned them for publishing inaccurate stories. Should have just let it go. Tomorrow's chip wrappers and all that. It's the all new 100% honest Newcastle United board. Having been (rightly) hammered by the press for lying to the fans, there's a certain irony in the Sunday Sun printing something which misleads the fans. How do you know the article was misleading? I don't, that's why the very first word of my post was 'Assuming' I didn't read that far back. The follow-up piece that did go in the paper this Sunday just gone said the club (ie Llambias) told the paper (in the wake of the original piece) that Llambias HAD been in Vegas on holiday, while Ashley had also been away abroad. So the paper's been banned, why?

Just back - and wondered whether it looked on the telly like Carroll was completely wiped out in the box late on. Looked a certain pen to me...

Incredible how any NUFC fan can rubbish Gerrard considering how often he has destroyed us over the years.

We're still paying for half our signings over the last 4-5 years and only now have miniscule TV money and a relatively modest parachute payment to fall back on, so the talk of £7m profit a month is straight from La La Land. But if anything marks NUST as doomed from the off, it is the semi-literacy of their press releases. If they can't be arsed to a) look through their stuff to make sure it reads properly or b) use a spellchecker, what the f**k would they do when it came to running the club?

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I was in the Leazes that day too. Has anyone ever found footage of that Gazza goal? I'm sick of telling every f***er it's the best I've ever seen without evidence to back it up. Beating Chelsea qualified us for the Mercantile Credit Classic tournament at Wembley, otherwise known as the meeting of the mobs...

Had a better record than Hughton last season. Fact. So did Tony Adams, Sammy Lee and everyone else who's managed in the Premiership. He had a worse record than one of our worst managers ever . And yet Hughton, having cleared out the shite who did most to get us relegated, is now doing pretty well. There's nothing to suggest Shearer wouldn't be doing the same, or better.

Had a better record than Hughton last season. Fact.

Bellamy a better servant for Newcastle than Given? Now I've heard everything. Anyone fancy pushing a pregnant lass down a flight of stairs or throwing a chair at the assistant manager?

I'll just wait to see if the Given haters have the courage to jeer him amid the appreciative reception he'll receive from the vast majority of fans whenever he returns to SJP. But I won't hold my breath...