Mick

It's got to be the same team, changing things while we're on a good run would be crazy, the players are just starting to look like a team so the last thing we want is to upset that.

I'm up for this game already.

If we can't hammer them I'd settle for 5 or 6 nil.

Exactly.

These games are usually far too hard to call, I'll never forget going out of the League Cup at home and in a penalty shoot out to these bastards or losing at home in the play-off's. Still, they've never been at St James to see us get relegated to the third, I've been at Joker Park to see it happen to them.

Nobody knows for sure what would have happened if he'd stayed, I think we'd have gone down. I wasn't calling for his head but I think it was the right thing to do at the wrong time which we've got away with. I think we're in much better hands now that we've got Keegan.

Owen did nothing, I'm sure he went off injured.

Who picked Shola ahead of Martins? We also sat back for long periods and that gave them the bottle to come at us. The Derby players and fans had no confidence, the longer the game went on with us sitting back the louder the Derby fans got and the more they came at us. Allardyce tried to contain a s*** team and it back-fired, that was a habit that he also repeated at Reading and Wigan, no excuses, he was s**** while here.

The most excitement at Derby was a black & white ball getting knocked about by our fans. :-[

OK.

It's not harsh at all, we gifted them alomst 50% of the points they've gained so far this season.

Almost out-Sounessing Souness.

You can fuck off with that one.

If we beat the mackems we'll have more points than last season, who would have thought that a few weeks ago? We've had quite a good day today, a draw isn't a bad result, I'm happy enough to come away with a point.

I found the idea of a Newcastle fan not knowing Kelly Dalglish a bit funny.

I'd add Geremi to those two, replace them with quality and things should be looking good for us next season.

Going back to page 6 would suit you wouldn't it, what about page 5 and post #123? mackems.gif Shame you make things up as you go, and ignore factual information, you've done it for a long time now.

True but I went like for like, you could have used Harper instead of Faye.

Lose the goals scored by N'Zogbia this season and we're three points worse off, do the same with Duff and we still have 38 points.

Who is better should matter and if we really want to keep N'Zogbia then pissing him off isn't likely to change his opinion about wanting to leave.

I'd rather see N'Zogbia coming off the bench than Duff, Duff isn't good enough and doesn't look like regaining the form that he had at Blackburn, that fact that he might want to be here is matterless as he's not good enough on current form, by current form I mean since he joined us.

He's got nothing to retract, I think you should read thruogh the thread again and see where the thread was taken off topic. PS. I was never part of any argument in this thread, you managed that on your own.

I started to answer.

Interesting, a rule change part way through a season.