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F***ing hell, if the Daily Mail wrote that article I'd understand but the Independent? Inexcusable.

So no one is to blame apart from wham offering mad money. Still they've just offed dyer on £75kpw who offered nothing in 4 years, bar injury Nolan at that level will nail promotion for you. Fair play Nolan, anyone else with his ability would have done the same. seriously??

that probably what swayed him.

I think you're missing something, aye, a measly 4m for our club captain. He might as well have bloody stayed or the board give him a longer f***ing contract for that much Yeah, I can see your point - should have held out for more imo. But then again we got our money back (doesn't mean I'm happy about the transfer mind, I'm still totally against it )

£4 million, not really too happy about that. What happened to the £6 million asking price?

So where does that put England in the group?

http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport/newcastle-united/nufc-news/2011/05/22/kevin-nolan-insists-nufc-will-keep-pushing-79310-28739291/2/ A Douglas article from a few weeks ago.

Nah, been terrible. Ball over the top, or in behind the fullbacks everytime. oh wait, Welbeck just missed a decent chance from a ball over the top. That's good to hear

Before even wearing the black & white shirt once? Before even speaking English? Geremi was captain before wearing the black and white? Okay, not the best example... but it has been done! Geremi could speak English, French and Spanish so logically he could communicate with everyone. Terrible captain mind.

Kris Boyd was hyped up to be the key man for Boro, after all his SPL record spoke for itself

carrolls knockdowns ? outside the box he won everything in the air but had not a clue where it was going, the defender may aswell have won them. inside the box different altogether. knockdowns, knock on's etc. Most of our football was route one and when they cleared up what was coming off his head we struggled to break teams down in open play. thats what i was getting at, they cleared easily because his headers further out were directionless. The point I'm making is that with a static team with little movement it's much easier to clean those up. Aye, when Carroll was playing for us, there were loads of occasions when he would win the header but there would be no-one near him to take advantage. This frustrated the hell out of me. If we are playing a generic 4-4-2, Erdinç would be perfect for those knock-ons/knockdowns whatever (that's if we have that big target man playing alongside him). EDIT: though I still reckon Erdinç can do a job as a lone striker too - just needs proper service.

Not going well again I gather?

I reckon Ba is the imminent one.

Douglas is s***-stirring

You're supposed to build on a good core of players/of a team, not get it to take you to one goal, immediately dismantled it, replace them all and start again. yeah....

When was this?

Plus he admitted he dosen't hold much love for football. Mercenary. No thanks. In that case, yeah no thanks.

Haven't seen him play in ages like, that's why I put it out there. Was decent-ish a few years back iirc.

But in all seriousness, I can still see Barton getting it. Don't know how that could possibly happen after today's comments, but I just have an inkling it might happen.

Sidney Govou worth a punt?

He was the perfect signing at the time. Aye, it is unfortunate that his level is the Championship. Hoped he would come good in the PL eventually.

Nice post