magorific

Aye, scoring goals from midfield aint a big deal when we've not got a striker capable of hitting a cow's arse with a banjo. Fuck's sake...

no way will man utd be so dumb to fork out 16 million for scott parker. 10 million tops and even thats pushing it. They paid £18m or whatever it was for Carrick and £30m for Veron! The state of the transfer market was very different when they paid £30m for Veron, plus Veron looked a top class player in a strong league so it's a bit different. Let's hope we can rip someone off for Parker, just like we ripped off Spurs over Jenas and Real Madrid over the crocked Woodgate. Well done, Fred. Assuming you would "prioritise" by buying striker(s) and defenders with the Parker cash, who would your centre midfield be once we've sold him? Nicky f***in Butt? Emre? Charles "head down" N'Zogbia?

Hes was defo born and bread in byker matey, his family owned the shepards scrap yard and still do i believe. he was a Byker lad. and his family still own the scrapyard Born in Gilsland, brought up in Byker. His mam was evacuated to Gilsland (there's what used to be called a sanitorium up there) to give birth during the war. Reason I know is because my mam was born at Gilsland after my granny was evacuated from Wallsend. Of christ, me mam and FFS may have been born in the same bed . . .

Parker was shit today - agreed. Parker has been ineffective in recent games - agreed. But there is "no point" to Parker? He does nothing? Get a grip. How many goals has Emre scored this season? What has Nicky Butt EVER done for us other than do okagainst Palermo's reserve midfield? Despite being shit today, Parker forced their keeper into a save. What other fucker in our team did that? If he has had a pop at fans in the East Stand, there's an argument for taking the captaincy off him. But is anyone seriously stupid enough to pick out Parker as the biggest reason for our troubles? What about Craig Moore, who could have got himself sent off twice? Bramble, Carr, Babayaro? All utter, unmitigated shite? What about Damien fuckin Duff? Jesus wept.

I've got nothing to say about their defence other than that's about the only place Palermo had first-choice players tonight. My point is that Butt played most of the game against NONE of Palermo's first-choice midfield. That's a Palermo first choice midfield who have created and scored a lot of goals this season in Serie A. No, youre right, it's a shit argument ...

Kneejerk tbh It was Palermo's reserves, for feck's sake. Umm no... they dropped three of their first teamers, bringing two of them on with half an hour to go. And it was hardly our first team either was it, we left seven of them at home. Umm no, six of the team that twatted West Ham didn't start - one of the five that did was the keeper, three of the other four were in the back four. Corini and Bresciano are comfortably Palermo's best midfielders. Butt didn't face either of em.

Kneejerk tbh It was Palermo's reserves, for feck's sake.

the Chron says the journalists and photographers covering Newcastle have been attacked by locals!

weird, I read that piece today and thought it made sense. It pointed out that Shepherd has f*cked things up but that we look like taking on just another bunch of winkers with none of their own mney to put into the club but looking to take a fortune out of it. i'll get me coat . ..

at left-back tonight, so I'm told. Ramage and Taylor in the centre, Carr still at right-back (not cos there's nobody else, but cos Roeder says "he has done very well for us this season and he has been consistent . . .")

Completely agree with all of the above!!!! However from what I can see of Roeder he knows a good player when he see's one, I don't think he'll have any real trouble in the transfer market!!!!! I think the global name of Newcastle united would be enough to attract the standard of player we will be after! And the fact that we pay silly wages . . .

Spoke to a mate at the Chron, and the job is Roeder's unless the FA insist on him having the Pro Licence. Newcastle have made the case to them, but if they say no, there's a back-up plan to appoint Tommy Craig as manager (officially) and make Roeder DoF until he has the Pro Licence. Surely the FA arent stupid enough to allow a puppet manager to be appointed . . . I've just had a tenner on Craig at 80/1 on betdirect to be safe!

Sounds uncannily similar to the original Jenas transfer involving ProActive, Nott Forest and ourselves. Jenas was under contract with a player agent who was in turn employed by an agency located in Nottingham - an agency that spots & signs up young local talent. At the 11th hour, when we were sniffing around, a week or so before the eventual transfer took place ProActive/Stretford potentially dodged a legal bullet by poaching JJ's agent and in doing so muscled their way in & cashed in resulting transfer deal. I never followed up on the article i read - it was a couple of years ago - but the aggrieved party did lodge an official complaint with the relevant authorities. Aye, I remember that. It turned out the son of Paul Hart (then Forest manager) was working for Proactive!