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Duff was very good against AZ and Zog is only young and I'm sure will bounce back.

Very tricky question. He's been good as a striker this season but I thought he was absolutely superb against AZ on the right wing, his work rate was fantastic and he linked really well with the front 2. I'd say at the moment accomadate him where you can.

Kieron? What you on about?

Yep, it will be at SJP.

Still wouldn't want him here.

According to Shepherd on Saturday we have already declined to take part in this in favour of having a boot camp in Denmark.

The Mirror (it might have been the People actually, can't remember) says that we are close to agreeing a £2m fee with Leeds for 16-year old Daniel Rose. If you remember he was the 3rd kid that Chelsea tried to poach last year but opted to stay with Leeds instead.

Any score update yet?

Live in the Midlands so I can't get up there but I hope we manage to get a win today.

I'm not getting ahead of myself. We still have to beat Alkmaar and there are a few good teams left in this competition.

Is that the same AZ Alkmaar we beat 4-2 last inght and outplayed them virtually the whole game.

Spoke to Alan Oliver last night at half time and he said Glenn's main target for striker is Ryan Babel. Take that with the neccessary pinch of salt.

Went up to get our tickets yesterday morning from the box office, my ticket says 7:30 KO also Probably was the earlier tickets that said 7:45 7:30 just seems a strange KO time, its usually 7:45 or 8pm It's a 7:30 KO because Five are also showing the Spurs/Brage game which doesn't start until 9:35.

We already have a manager.

From ITV: Newcastle United plc have named Steve Walton, a relationship director with Barclays Large Corporate Banking, as their new chief executive. A statement said the appointment has been "designed to strengthen the existing management team in view of a number of proposed future developments in and around St James' Park". Walton has been with Barclays for many years in a variety of roles including sales and marketing, corporate finance and retail banking. For the past 12 years he has been responsible for Barclays' football operations, particularly with Premiership clubs. His relationship with Newcastle goes back more than 10 years and he has been heavily involved in all aspects of the club's financing over that period.

Full announcement to the stock exchange

Link Anyone know anything about him?

We don't need another midget striker. We already have Martins and Owen.

Not bad if you ask me and it leaves us with a real chance of qualifying for Europe, even with us playing shit.

Just found out we lost 3-1.

Had a big game against Forest at Little Benton today, anyone know how they got on.

That is totally kneejerk. Has he not has several lengthy abscences this season? It always seems to be a different thing with him, groin, hamstring, flu. He will never develop any sort of consistancy if he keeps missing games.

Has a bug this time apparently. I'm getting sick of him missing so many games for us, he's becoming the new Dyer tbh.

You must finish no lower than 4 places behind the autmatic Euro spots to get into the Intertoto. So if 7th is the an automatic spot the lowest we could finish would be 11th.