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I doubt Glenn is in any way aware of the irony of these comments considering how many games Milner has played this year. Moron. Anyway, won't suprise me at all if N'Zogbia is off to Arsenal in the summer and it's all been arranged already. Pre-contract is the wrong word I suppose, but I'm sure it's possible for it all to be aranged by now. Shocking waste, take a fucking bow Glenn.

GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This would be wasting Tevez though in my opinion. What he'd be so good at is dropping off from the front and giving an option to our midfielders, a player to build through. Playing all three would mean Tevez would have to do a lot of work in midfield and play deeper in general, meaning he'd be doing his good work in the wrong places. Playing him up front, just off a partner, he can drag defenders out of position and get at the other team near their own box. Tevez and a fully fit Owen would be a very good partnership in my opinion. I like Martins but with Owen sniffing round the goal and Tevez dropping off and linking with our wingers I think the chemistry would be very good, which I'm not sure it will be with Oba and Owen.

He's just the player we need. Someone with the ability, and desire, to drop deep and get on the ball and make us tick. Neither Owen nor Martins are that type of player, Tevez would improve the quality of football we play immeasureably. Doubt we've even considered it though, sadly.

----------------Harper Nobby -- Taylor -- Bramble -- Baba Milner -- Butt -- Emre -- N'Zogbia -------Martins -- Tha Big A.C Though we'll probably see Dyer, Parker and Sibierski instead of Zoggy, Emre and Tha Big A.C. >

We'll agree to disagree then I suppose. Personally thought his link play was brilliant, always showing for the ball and rarely losing it and moving it on to the next player, the type of player Newcastle need above all IMO. Maybe then we'd keep the ball for more than fifteen seconds at a time.

I'd agree that he isn't the best player in the world, there are a few I'd take ahead of him. However, I really don't see how he went missing last night. He basically ran the show in the first half and was well on his way to doing the same in the second until Gattuso went off. Once that happened Man U were dominating everything in midfield and the only times the ball went near Kaka really were hopeful punts forward towards Gilardino, who inevitably failed to get possesion.

Spurs targetting central midfielders again for some reason. He'd have a better shot of playing more often here so that could be to our advantage, can't say I've seen a lot of him tbh so can't really comment on how useful a signing he'd be.

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Swap Milner for Dyer and that's how I'd want us to play in most away games. For home games, also swap Parker for Emre. We'd get raped in midfield if our four players were Dyer, Duff, Emre and Tevez tbh. You need someone to anchor the midfield and get stuck in defensively, none of those four could do that.

I'm a big fan of Martins actually, just think that Owen and Tevez would easily form the best partnership of the three. That leaves Martins as the odd man out, though we'll need squad depth for sure.

I know that, I'm just ignoring it as it makes me sad. The CM in that line up would be very important someone who really can run the show in the middle. Therefore, he'd probably cost a bit and may be out of reach this summer. Think we could get away with Emre/Sidwell in there for another year, though it's not ideal. Since Tevez would have to be gotten now and we can probably get away with Nobby at RB for one more season my priorities this offseason would be Tevez Quality CB Quality LB ----------------Given Nobby-- Taylor-- Quality CB - Quality LB Milner -- Parker -- Emre/Sidwell -- N'Zogbia -----------Tevez --- Owen Subs: Martins, Dyer, Butt, A cheap experienced CB, Harper Would do me for next year, then the following summer get in a top class RB, top class CM and maybe add some depth and we'd hav a good team IMO.

Tevez isn't a CM though. If he plays CM he'll have to help out defensively quite a bit and be somewhat of a box-to-box player. That'd be a complete waste of his qualities, namely dropping off his strike partner and being the link man between the out and out striker and the midfield. It'd be like playing Bergkamp in CM, basically. ------------Given RB --- Taylor --- CB --- LB Milner - Parker - CM - N'Zogbia -------Tevez ---Owen We could probably build that team with quality players filling in the blanks over the next two summers, and we'd be very good IMO. I think Tevez and Owen would be a match made in heaven tbh.

And you a Geordie? It definitely does show ... Cleverest post ever tbh.

Gloryhunter. I couldn't see myself picking a top club tbh. After years of suffering through Newcastle, it would seem so cheap to switch to a team who would likely win something within a year or two.

Dunno why people are bothering to explain that it's not exactly an easy task for a lot of us to to just pick someone straight away, seeing as most of us have no connection to other teams, seems like you just assume we should all be able to do so... somehow. I assume most people would eventually DEVELOP a liking for another team, but it's impossible to know now who that team is. Come up with an answer yourself yet?

Great thread this Anyway, as unfathomable an idea as this is I wouldn't be able to just switch teams at the drop of the hat and support them with the same passion I support Newcastle, no way. I'd be a neutral, and over time I would probably develop a soft spot for team and start supporting them. Impossible to tell now who that team would be, and even then it would take a long time before I were ever to support them with the same commitment as I do Newcastle. Is this an acceptable answer? If not I can draw teams from a hat and give a clearer and more concise answer? Might be fun, actually.

I'll be at the Blackburn game and if N'Zogbia doesn't start on the left I'll charge the dugout personally and confront Roeder. "Shak doesn't resort to violence, but you about to get knocked the fuck out!"

Ah you crazy Geordies...

I'd like to see that actually. Sounds fun, like. "Please, Glenn, just put the gun down and let them go. Everything will be OK." "Glenn Roeder doesn't believe in using guns, but I have a gun and I'm not afraid to use it"

If we got a top class manager in I'd be happy to trust to his judgement and let him do things how he sees fit and keep the players he wants. Having said that, I doubt such a manager would keep any of the four of those players.

Roeder really seems to be cracking under the pressure more and more. I think he knows he's lost the fans now, and he isn't strong willed enough to deal with it at all. We can only hope that it all ends in some sort of highly dramatic fashion, perhaps with Roeder getting himself some hostages and scaling St. James' Park to make one last desperate stand.

Upwards of 15m and yeah, but not for less. Can't see anyone paying upwards of 15 though, so no I suppose. The poll really lacks an option between the first and second choices tbh.

Can't see how that's possible. Souness was a complete prick, Roeder is just incompetent and losing it a bit with the pressure so he's starting to say stupid things. Souness was a prick from the get-go, who put himself and his own agendas before the good of the team. Roeder hasn't done that. Souness bent over backwards to make sure N'Zogbia was alright after his dad died. Roeder mocked Boumsong in front of a couple of hundred fans at a talk-in while still a player after having a few family problems of his own last year. Aye, he also bent over backwards to ensure that he drove our best player to boiling point so he'd have an excuse to drive him out of the club, just cos he didn't like the guy.

Madness if we don't just let N'Zogbia play on the left if Duff is out, regardless of whether we're flogging him in the summer.