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Not been to one of the giveaways so I'm thinking about buying a scarf when I go up for the Watford match tomorow. Is there any piont though, since the giveaway have people actually been taking them to matches? Don't want to shell out £5 if nobody else in the ground brings theirs.

Luque is also gone in January. I think we've seen him for the last time in a black and white shirt tbh.

Winning the Intertoto is hardly an achievment, more of a novelty.

Ajax aint as good as they use to be. Anyways Az aren't great and we will win just like we beat Palermo. We beat Palermo reserves. If Palermo had put our there first team we would have been beaten.

Zulte should be fairly straight forward although Fener or AZ will be a totally different proposition and may cause us some real problems.

It's a shame it's not true, then again I'm not that surprised.

Can't sack Roeder now, he's won us a cup.

OB go thorugh on goal difference according to UEFA. http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/Standings/index.html

Don't rate him tbh. All speed and nothing else.

Should of got Kompany when he left Anderlecht in the summer. The only problem with AVB is he is another midget.

Can't see a bad turnout tbh. There won't be many travelling from the north east but there will be a lot of London mags there I would imagine.

Owners have very little to do with team performance. In America it is usually the general managers who control the buying/selling of players, the owners have very little to do with it.

It's common practice for younger players 14/15 to have a couple of trials. It's generally not good practice to bring foreign youngsters over until they are about 16. You have to remember they are still kids and may not speak English and will almost definetly miss there parents and family if they are way for any extended period of time.

Link Newcastle have invited Ersboda SK teenager Seif Kadhim for a third trial. The 15-year-old has made a positive impression on Newcastle's academy coaches during two trials earlier in the year and it is believed they want to take a final look at the winger before making a decision whether to offer him a contract. Kadhim admits he has been impressed with the facilities on offer at Newcastle and feels it could be too good an opportunity to pass up. "It is a big step, but maybe you only get one chance," Kadhim told Vasterbottens Folkblad. "It actually went really well. I played two matches and there were six players who were there for a trial. "Of us six, Newcastle just wanted me to come back. "They have got a terrific sporting complex with a great school and everything."

Well you must have Parkinson's or something if you do that much damage shaving. It was a brutal cut, you could see bone.

Completely false. He's had nowhere near the money Souness had and he's only been in charge half a season and already people are writing him off.

How old is he?

Emre was very good last night but AGAIN we saw how poor he is defensively. He had two chances to tackle Harper before he struck the 2nd goal but instead just poked his leg in and failed to make the tackle. As I say he was very good overall but the defensive errors must stop.

Woodcock apparently.

Yawn...It's an old story. Roeder isn't the one who usually does the barking, it's Pearson. People need to stop trying to pick faults with Roeder.

That is rubbish. Over a run of 5-6 games, Babayaro is much better than Ramage. Ramage was in his favoured position tonight and I saw him win very few headers or blocks. Babayaro is a joke. People here bash the hell out of Carr but in my opinion Babayaro is far worse than Carr. You pay attention to Babayaro and just watch how many mistakles he makes.

Ramage can't defend at LB, he hasn't got a clue. He's totally shit at LB. Ramage is not a LB but I still think he does a better job defending. Ramage does make mistakes but he knows the basics of defending and you rarely see his mistakes lead to a goal.

To be fair to Roeder he's not exactly gonna to say Babayaro is shit. Probably said that to try and lift the lads confidence, obviously didn't work like.

Ramage may not be great going forward and may not look comfortable but he looks a LOT better at LB than Babayaro did tonight. He was fucking woeful, one of if not the worst individual defensive performance I've seen this season.

My money is on 1-1. Martins with our goal.