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Away team special tonight £1 on Brage Chaves RKC Waalwijk Lens Barrow Grays Colchester Stockport Wycombe Hereford Lincoln Histon Would return just shy of 2.8 billion pounds. Fingers crossed.

"Aye he's pretty shit, was a terrible purchase but hopefully we'll get rid of him in the summer without taking too much of a hit." Would have been some answer to give, in all fairness.

Do people really feel we need 2 central midfielders more than we need another striker?

Also Lovenkrands is shite out wide and Jonas doesn't score or create anywhere near enough goals to be played in a wide role in a 4-3-3.

This monstrosity? http://www.designfootball.com/components/com_joomgallery/img_pictures/fantasy_football_shirts_1/puma-newcastle_v2_20100103_1802052287.jpg Away jerseys are fine and good for experimenting and trying to do something a bit different. But we play in plain black and white stripes, and that's the way it should be. Leave the amazing technicolor shoulder cape bullshit firmly out.

That's awful you tossers.

Their commitment to ensuring people don't have to walk home alone is commendable though, it must be said.

I have to scroll down immediately to get that fucking avatar off my screen.

Well boo you and your face then.

Tremendous choice of words that.

Delighted. God I hope Arsenal somehow win the league.

People bemoaning the fact that Man U have had their title hopes seriously dented. Money hungry cunts, you've lost your perspective on things. Michael Owen will get a Premier League medal if they win the league, people.

1 - A Striker We desperately need someone who can play the channels/drop a bit deep and offer a link between midfield and attack. Yes we need a CM, but unless we have someone up front who can take advantage of some better distribution from the middle then we're as well off having Nolan there because there'll be nobody up front offering us any sort of movement. At the moment our attempts to play good football are entirely dependent on Peter Lovenkrands and, as much a I love the lad, if we're depending on him to keep us up next season we're fucked. 2 - A Central Midfielder Ideally I'd like to see us get rid of Barton and Nolan and bring in two CM's. Realistically I think we'll see one of them moved on with the other staying. I'd love to see us go out and get a really good young ball-playing talent and build the midfield around him. Let Guthrie, Smith and Barton/Nolan battle it out for the other starting spot, with the other two then being backups. 3 - A Right Back Simpson and Taylor aren't good enough, basically. Good squad players, but I'd love us to find some sort of right-footed Enrique and give us a good pair of FB's for the first time in years. 4 - A Right Winger Routledge and Jonas are good options, but after them we've got nothing on the flanks. I'd like to see us bring in someone who could start on the right side, with Jonas on the left. Routledge has looked pretty decent on both sides, I think he'd be great to have as an impact sub and he'd be a capable starter when one of the starting wingers gets injured/needs a rest/has a dip in form.

Know what you mean, he seems to be one of these guys that looks a bit rubbish but is likely to get a goal at some point nonetheless. 24 goals in 24 games in La Liga isn't bad tbf.

Think that's a hard one for the ref to give a sending off for. He doesn't really leave the ground, and it's not two footed. Bit hefty though like, such a cunt he is though to be whinging to the ref about getting booked.

Thought Guardiola got it spot on like. Set up very defensively to nullify Madrid, knew they'd nick one with Madrid's dodgy defense. Doesn't do any harm having the players he has at his disposal, but he's some manager tbf.

Could get ugly this. Which would be nice.

Some pass by Xavi that. Reckon Barca could pick them apart on the break in the second half here.

Barca really setting up to counter. Might detract from the spectacle a bit, but a good idea IMO.

Just seen the highlights, looks like Ross played them off the park. What a cunt Neil Lennon is, that interview was such self-serving bullshit.

I'll miss this division you know.

Do you keep your brother locked in a basement and force him to do a new mock-up every time there's a bit of new info in this thread or something?

If that's the shirt I'd buy it. Been fucking yonks since we had a really nice jersey. As for a name on the back, I'm gonna be embracing the whole concept of just getting the name of a club legend on the back of the modern shirt. Reckon I'll get Beardsley on there next time I buy a Newcastle shirt. Solves a host of problems that way. Not only is there the worry that whoever you get on there will leave, but there's also the problem that not many of our players are very good. Having the name of someone who is younger than me (Enrique for example) on my short would seem a bit weird to me, for some reason.

Good god this is fabulous. Was watching the game at the airport before getting my flight home last night, gave up in a huff and stopped watching when it went 3-0. Spent 4 hours on a floor in London airport waiting for connecting flight, then finally arrive in the door 16 hours after beginning my journey home and go to have a cup of tea before fucking off to bed. Turn on the TV to see Ferguson whinging, the realisation that Man U were out sinking in is amazing.