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Few weeks old like. Craig Hope. Ah, he's sunk to the depths of the Daily Mail now? Shame.

Really don't like playing West Brom, they've become one of those teams that seem to play well against us home and away (2011/2012 season at the Hawthorns aside). We fluked a win at St. James' last season but our confidence is high atm so I'm expecting better things this time round (insert Yao smiley as appropriate).

Has someone had a few bevvies tonight?

Wouldn't be us if we didn't.

Would you put it past us?

Mike has ruined a moment of history.

Hang on, Shola's scored against Italy?! Never thought I'd see the day, he's blatantly going to the World Cup like.

One of the signs of the apocalypse surely?

I can see the thread title change already...Shola Ameobi: World Cup goalscorer.

What was going through Taylor's fucking mind when he decided to post that?! Fucking idiot. Personally think he needs to be punished for that as he's essentially given the club the wrong sort of publicity (especially when he's pretty much has it in his head that he's some sort of "Super Geordie"). Pretty sure he's not racist but what he is is a thick cunt

Which game was it when he pretty much took the ball out from defence and into the opposition's half with a Messi-esque run?

Was talking about Santon today with my mate and we both agreed that Santon's performances of late have been a bit underwhelming. Whilst his positioning and overall defending has improved compared to last season, there is still that hint of naivety there on his part (that is, losing the ball when he has it much too easily when he has it and his one-on-one defending against wingers). Don't get me wrong, he still remains my first choice LB and I have no doubt that with some further coaching, he'll be one of the best LBs in the PL and his mistakes will be cut out to a minimum but as it stands he is lagging behind the others in defence and needs to step it up a bit.

Because he's a cunt. Not surprised by that celebration at all.

A MOTM peformance indeed. His superhuman reflexes are what pretty much assured the 3 points for us. Immense goalkeeping performance.

Fantastic result considering our recent history at White Hart Lane. To put it simply, we were great in the first half and deserved our half time lead. One thing I really liked this week and last was our counterattacking - it was simple yet effective especially when you have the likes of Remy/Gouffran being the ones to drive us forward. Second half was forgettable like on our part (attacking-wise anyway) but we held firm and defended very well as a unit. Krul's performance is what arguably won us the points though - superhuman reflexes and essentially a brickwall in goal.

I don't approve of this at all. Sure, they're shitting on Sky and all that but the disappearance of Champions League football from free-to-air television is going to be a sad day.

Lennon headbutted Shearer's boot tbf...

I may do this this time round considering I let yous down the last time...

What? Really? Biggest laugh of the night so far (sad I know).

Continuing mediocrity for the Republic then, shame.

Will most certainly be buying the calendar and the book if/when it comes out. Top job geordie_b Also, did you decide on a name for your Lego model?

For me, there has been that hint of increased positivity this season and that's basically down to us playing some decent football here and there (well, compared to at this point last season anyway). However, our inconsistency is really letting us down - you just never know which Newcastle United is going to turn up on the day. We're now 10 games in and we still haven't got an established formation/style to play to and that really is the primary contributing factor to our inconsistency and that is down to the man in charge - Pardew seems to know who our best players are but it has really looked the case that he doesn't know how to use them and gel them into a cohesive team - the fact that he admitted a few days ago that he doesn't know where to fit Ben Arfa, our most technically gifted player, into the team after working with him for the best part of 2 years speaks volumes like... All in all, an indifferent start to the season but if the current trend in our results/performances continue, it'll be mid-table with us pushing for 10th.

it was almost perfect too to Remy iirc. Indeed. BT expert co-commentator Gary McAllister was adamant he was trying to chip the keeper Imagine if he did chip Cech

Rather cliché saying but we really are like Jekyl and Hyde.

I found Shola's Messi-esque run rather amusing.