Mick

Souness is by far the worst manager mentioned in this thread, I don't know how people can doubt it.

It's hard to believe that less than 12 months ago he hardly looked capable of making it in the Championship and now he's one of the brightest prospects in England. I can’t remember a player ever making so much good progress in such a short space of time at Newcastle.

I can't comment on him as a pundit as I've never listened to him out of choice.

Routledge gave us good width that we only get when we play 2 wingers, Chelsea had to defend the full width of the pitch and we might have made more of it if we'd had 2 forwards attacking through the middle instead of 1 and a bit. Too often we have a massive gap on our right side when we don't play him, the same as when we were playing him and not Jonas, we had a massive gap on our left.

Campbell could get done for pace but his reading of the game is first class and that will help him, he's not slow anyway as we'll see once he's had a few more games. Campbell and Taylor have at least another 2 games to show what they can do together, at least we'll finally find out if Taylor has struggled because of his partners in the past because he's got no excuse now. Taylor did one thing today which I didn't expect and liked, he was running towards the by-line to win the ball. He got it and just hoofed it high into the stands when he could have tried to play the ball up front when we had nobody in any space. It was simple and the most effective thing that he could have done as it gave us time to re-group.

The point is that he fell out with players, including Keith Gillespie, Graham Roberts and David Dunn who I can't remember having problems with other managers, I could be wrong though.

Bellamy and Robert loved him, he had massive fall outs with players at every club he's managed. He was a prick here and engineered our most effective player out of the club because of his ego, he had to be the tough guy.

Ranger did more in 13 minutes than Shola managed in the previous 77. I couldn’t understand why he wasn’t on at half time as Shola spent most of the game strolling around the centre circle. He'll never improve if he's not given enough game time in which to work with the players around him.

Again, I don't really see an argument about it, as for "I also think you're getting on like spastics." I hope that's a whoosh.

I didn't see much of an argument but thanks for giving us your permission to discuss it.

You're the only one with a problem with what has been said so the smiley is fitting.

Somebody asked a question and I remembered an article posted on here so replied, even though it was a slightly misleading answer. You seem to have a problem with it, tough shit really as I don't think anybody was trying to make too much out of it. If you can't deal with it then I think you have major issues.

We’ll you’ve just improved it, not.

4th last paragraph. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/oct/30/cheik-tiote-newcastle-united

Should we pretend that Keegan didn't just to make you happy?

Keegan spotted him and sent Hughton out to have a look at him.

No idea how that happened, it's not even close on the keyboard.

I don't know if this is true as nothing has been reported but a friend told me today that Ben Arfa ia ahead of schedule with his recovery.

£12 million.

We've touched the ball twice, Krull made a save and we scored, nothing else.

I've just had a look, one lad said they should sign Tiote, another said we played like Chelsea (page 12 of the match thread).

He's actually worse with his shirt on as he's got two lumps of fat off his belly which hang out of the bottom of the shirt.

It's his song, he hasn't had a bad game since we started to sing it.

Is that the day before or after Wednesday?

This week has been as good as when Bobby took us to Arsenal and Leeds in the same week.