Mick

FYP

Comical.

We'll probably leave holes at the back if we push on too much, that mightn't be a bad thing.

Will the crowd turn on the manager?

2-0

Oh shit.

You're in the upper-f******-tier as well I got wet in the Milburn level 7 against Everton, it was raining lightly and the wind was blowing from the East.

I didn't think Cacapa was that bad against Derby, Rozenhal had a stinker that day, probably his worst game for us. He started OK then turned to shit, his passing was as bad as I've seen from any of our players this season. Every ball he played out of defence seemed to go to a white shirt and then came straight back at us.

I wouldn't mind finding out if that was the case, the same could have been said of quite a few players that we've brought in.

He wouldn't be much of a risk at £3 million.

Ashleys company will make the money not him unless he's on some kind of performance ralated pay or his dividend goes up because of it.

I think we'll need to score first to win, I'm not sure how the players would react to going a goal down although we came back well against the Mackems.

Looking at those two sets of figures for the two players, it's half of the debt that we've just paid off. We really wouldn't have missed either player if they had decided not to come here and we could have extended the ground with the money we've spent on them, level 7 cost something like £44 million to build, scary.

dont forget the good big spanish goalscorer Mr.Luque,he is even bigger waste of money,how much did we get for him???nothing??? We don't know how much Luque went for or if we have had anything yet and I doubt that he was on anything like the wages that Owen is reported to be on, my guess is that Luque cost the club something like £15,000,000 to £20,000,000 in fee and wages. Owen has cost this club over £28 million in transfer fee and wages minus whatever we got back in compensation.

No it's not, it's an argument about Owen.

There's no way Owen's worth less than Dyer. Was Dyer worth £7 million?

I'm not surprised that you didn't see the prediction regarding Owen but I know quite a few were against Owen coming here, I'm sure Wullie was as strongly against it as I was. I'm sure we both felt that Owen was a very good player but one with injury problems and a player whose transfer fee could have been spent better. Yes we do have to buy quality players in order to qualify for the CL, players like Owen are too risky and should be avoided, he's no good to us when he's sitting in the stands or at Chester Races while the rest of the team are in training for a game in which Owen is injured. It was the same with Woodgate while he was here, a brilliant player but no good in the stands on match day. Newcastle having Owen at the club is as much use as one of us having a Ferrari with only 3 wheels, totally useless.

I wanted Anelka when we bought Owen and I'd have him now, not that we'd get enough money from the sale of Owen to but Anelka. I'd be amazed if we could get £5 million for Owen, no matter how good he is when at his best, he's a liability because of his injuries.

Owen has been a total waste of money and it was predictable, £17 million for a player with a terrible injury record wasn't money well spent. I seem to remember chants of sack the board just before we splashed that money on Owen, I wonder if it had anything to do with the purchase, I wonder if it had anything to do with us out-bidding Liverpool by £9 million. Liverpool were supposed to have bid £8 million so we go and offer £17 million, it just doesn't make sense.

Michael Owen must be the worst signing in the history of our football club, £17 may as well have been flushed down the toilet.

The ref also cost us 3 points against Boro in our first game when the ball was handled into the net. I didn't shed any tears either, I was angry about it because I felt it was the wrong decision, it was a knee-jerk decision which didn't need making at that time. It was a poor decision and we've paid for it ever since, the fans lost out while those who made that rash decision have prospered financially, we're the only losers, the fans and Bobby.

At least it will allow him time to work out how to spend close to £500,000 that he'll earn while doing nothing except for visiting the races.

I'm sure Owen doesn't go out to get injured.

It was well under way by then. I completely utterly STRONGLY disagree. ON the contrary he should have been allowed to manage the season he was sacked in till the end of it and I'm sure he would have got us in much much much better shape than SouMess got us into (14th in the table). From what I remember SBR saying that he wanted to leave NUFC at the end of that season with AS. Bobby was sacked after 4 games with us in 16th, the season before after 4 games we were 17th and finished 5th, he was sacked by two people who knew nothing about football. Edit. The season before we were 19th after 4 games and finished 3rd.