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Fantastic save, Harper wouldn't have gotten near that. Be very interesting to see what happens if he keeps playing like this, could you really drop him when Harper gets back?

Fucking awesome. Heroes, the lot of them.

http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,52060.0.html

How did you feel about the move Wullie? Can't remember you saying anything at the time.

Love how he complains about how low class a move it was, and then says he hopes to do the same to us in return. Stupid melted Halloween mask face on him, he can fuck off.

Pisses me off to this day. Luckily N'Zogbia turned out to be a complete tosser so it's a bit more bareable, but signing Duff was a fucking travesty of a move.

I'm not that arsed about how we fare against the likes of Arsenal, Man United and Chelsea tbh. Just go out there and have a go and see what happens, any points we get are a bonus. But we need to start beating the lesser teams in the league, and I really think we'll do quite well with this system. It's basically three big lads up top and a very solid 3 man engine room behind them, we'll cause some problems to most sides with that.

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I kno what you mean about Jonas, I've always supported his inclusion in the team, but I meant more so in terms of being a threat in terms of assists and putting in good crosses. Point is I think he'll do well now that he's playing a little bit more of a box-to-box role and not being asked to be as much of a tradiotional winger. The thing that the system does need though if full backs who can get forward and get in crosses from wide areas. Need to have a great engine for it and a bit of quality to put in crosses when necesssary. Enrique I'm confident can do it, our selection of RB's I'm not so sure about. Simpson did put in a cracking ball against Sunderland, hopefully that can become a habit.

Or we could ship in and pay for him to have some ribs removed so he can bend over and put his penis in his mouth and piss directly into it.

Don't think there's any question whatsoever over where the title is going tbh, if anyone manages to finish within 10 points of Chelsea I'll be surprised. As for us, I'd be disappointed with 17th place tbh. No reason we shouldn't do better, but a few injuries to the wrong players and that could all change, so I guess I'd take it as another relegation would be a right bastard to deal with.

Same team, have a go at them and try and rough them up a bit, see if they fancy it after their long trip during the week. One thing we do have right now is a very big team, not a single player in our team from last Sunday I'd class as being slight.

Really think we might have stumbled upon something here, the players we've got are pretty much perfect for it. It actually reminds me quite a bit of the way we played under Keegan when he played with Owen in the hole behind Viduka and Martins, more of a 4-3-1-2 than a 4-4-2. Tiote is just an absolute boss in the centre of midfield, there's not really much to be said about it. Then either side of him you've got Barton and Jonas who provide the legs for us. Barton looks better playing as more of a box to box partial-winger type as his biggest issue is that his short range passing can be a bit to erratic at times for him to be in a more static CM role. Playing a bit wider allows him to play in space a bit more, and it would appear that he's thriving in it. He's got the quality to put in a cracking ball or two as well, as we've seen. Jonas has never been a tremendous threat as an out and out winger, but one thing he's always been great at is providing a ballcarrier for the team, and he's not afraid to get stuck in at all centrally. Between those three, we've got enough to stand up to most teams in a physical battle. Then there's Nolan, who looks a completely different player with two strikers to play off instead of one. The fact that he generally doesn't do a whole lot in open play isn't so much of an issue in his role at the moment, as he's got Tiote to win the ball in CM, Barton and Jonas doing a lot of the work in our build up play and two big strikers up there for us to play off. This allows Nolan to do what he does best, lurk just off the front and find space in the box and get on the end of chances. And as much as I haven't really rated him at all since he's been here, it's hard to argue that he's pretty damn good at that. With the fact that we don't have any genuine wingers of any sort of quality at the club, this system is surely here to stay, and I think it could serve us very nicely. A new RB, one who can get forward and overlap Barton, would be something we'd want to add long term, and the fact that we've no replacement for Shola or Carroll in the system is obviously a concern. Hopefully we can add a striker in the January window. Feeling really good about us right now, bring on Arsenal!

Has he commented on this, like?

Zidane against Portugal in Euro 2000 is one I always remember. Semi-final, golden goal. Just lashed it into the top corner like he was farting about in training, magic. The chipped ones look class, but I'd never be happy if I was a manager and someone did that. Zidane almost made a tit of himself in the WC final with his one that went in off the bar. (He did manage to correct that later on though, tbf to him). Favourite one that worked was the winner for Uruguay in the QF of the last World Cup. As one of my friends remarked at the time, "the weight of his balls" to do that was insane.

The thought of Ryan Taylor dancing like that is awesome. Just this devastated looking man prancing around flapping his arms like a chicken.

Looks like a character from the Beano or something.

Cracking photo.

Made a right tit of himself for the goal, to be honest.

Oh yeah, scissor!!

Nah. Shame, some other cynical young man enjoying his day anyway.

Pretty sure I saw Wullie on TV like, does he sit near the right-back corner flag at the Leazes end?

Really think this 4 man midfield looks good. It's really more of a 4-3-1-2 we're playing IMO, with two genuine strikers up there Nolan looks a lot better as he's much harder to pick up in the hole.

Barton was class today like though.

Few dodgy moments early on, miles better than Perch though tbh.