Colos Short and Curlies

Of course there's no way the current squad can get 4th on the face of it..... but its right to target it. We should be looking to compete for 5th place, we'll need a good run with injuries but the quality is there in the first 11 to challenge. Then you hope for Liverpool to implode, leaving one of the top 4 spots open. A club will break into the top 4 in the next season or 2, as history has shown though getting 4th is relatively easy - its repeating it and becoming established there that is difficult

Keegan picks a pair of jeans, Wise suggests a newer pair Jimmenez suggests a nice pair of shorts Ashley complains the shorts are too expensive NE5 complains that under Shepherd we had the 5th best pair of jeans in the history of the premiership

But its Newcastle and Keegan hasn't a clue whats going on. He doesn't know Smith is leaving, he doesn't know Coloccino is signing. He never speaks to Ashley. He probably doesn't even know he is the manager

Was integral to the best bit of commentary ever imo. Leeds Utd in the FA Cup two seasons ago (replay but can't remember who against..) Healy scores a volley from about 6 yards out. Cue Kamara 'David Healy scores goals like that for breakfast' Cue replay of goal and Kamara 'Bacon, Sausage, 2 eggs......Goal!'

Seen it repeated a few times but he wore 17 because that's his lucky number, had fuck all to do with Smith. I'm fairly sure he debunked that story as well, I'll see if I can find the story - may be wrong like

The mirror are running a piece on Ashley saying he loves the club blah blah blah. The Star are saying he is desperate to sell and Keegan is on the brink yadda yadda The Sun are saying that Stacey (22) from Brighton likes reading, writing and algebra - and is up to her 3 time table now

If that was aimed at my post, read it again and point out where I compared Nugent and Bellamy as players

Like Bellamy wasn't good enough for Coventry. Sometimes its the wrong club for the wrong player. Haven't seen enough of Nugent to say whether he would stand a chance up here, or be a 'Bellamy type catlyst' for us, just making the point that sometimes a club and player just aint good for eachother

So we've gone from privacy clauses in takeover talks to openly flouting the (different) takeoveree at match days. All in the space of a month

But he blatantly said batman in the interview

Was talking about this with my boss earlier. Fair enough if it was Barca, Man U or similar. But this guy is on strike over a move to SPURS! Nuttier than David Blaine

Rather Nugent than Healy (if its a straight choice)

He hasn't had his medical mate, no transfer can be completed without that. has anyone failed a medical with newcastle? NO this after, babayaro, owen, woodgate etc Salako

Sums the man up nicely

Whoever he is, if he is a new signing lets all hope that he ends his first interview with the immortal word... Awooga!

I think you'll find that Left Back (in the changing room) is his least worst position

No disrespect to Sir Bobby but there's plenty of people who deserve something named after them at this club before the great man. Our current manager for example. are you being serious??? Yes. Why? I just think Robson is on an another level all together than keegan, both in footballing terms and as a person. That may be, but in terms of contribution to the club Keegan comes above Robson

Was it this guy perchance http://www.cuatro.com/multimedia/recorte.php?id=XLCO&type=Ies&xref=20061113ctoultnot_14

Reckon Harper gets 90 minutes this time around

Thought Refs were on a retainer of £33k and could make about £15k in match fees?

Who was it before Boumsong? Woodgate?

Any association between him and the club is frightening. Given? Solano? Mutual association between Kenny and NUFC

I think so too. No too good to be true would be a double swoop involving Duff and Smith

Not bad for once.... F365 Odds on championship: 300-1. Odds on relegation: 16-1 Manager: Kevin Keegan (since January). Odds on first out the job: 4-1 Last season: 12th, 43 points; FA Cup fourth round; Carling Cup third round Ins: Danny Guthrie (Liverpool, undisclosed), Jonas Gutierrez (Real Mallorca, undisclosed). Outs: David Rozehnal (Lazio, £2.9m), Emre (Fenerbahce, undisclosed), Peter Ramage (QPR, free). The biggest mistake with Newcastle fans is to assume that the handful who gurn for the cameras on the sports news - who seem to spend their lives outside St Jamies' Park, to judge by the pictures - are the only kind of supporters the club have. Newcastle may be mad, but not all their fans are, by a long chalk. The image of Newcastle as a club was transformed in the first Keegan era. KK took the club from the brink of Division Three to the brink of the title in four years. No one can seriously deny that this was an achievement worth getting excited about. The biggest Newcastle cheerleaders are not those in the stands, but those in the media who were along for the ride. Keegan is an amazingly charismatic figure in person, by all accounts, too; their fervour may be irritating to outsiders, but we have not been subject to that spell. The euphoria that greeted Keegan's return was made the greater by the God-awful experiment with Sam Allardyce that preceded it. Yet despite Keegan's second coming, despite the joy that greeted Mike Ashley's earlier arrival after the Fletcher-Shepherd years, there is a lot to be downbeat about at St James'. Keegan's words about the impossibility of breaking into the top four sounded odd coming from such an optimist, but were as effective a douser of hype as the earlier struggles to secure his first win. Joey Barton's stupidity continues to leave the club in a dilemma and a source of unwanted headlines. The weird structure and geography, with Dennis Wise based in London, is a source of disquiet. Ashley's brand of populism is wearing thin and Last season's chairman, Chris Mort, is gone. The personnel are little changed and there are not enough of them. They kick off away to opponents that the old Newcastle famously hit five against in Keegan's first spell, but Manchester United humiliated his second side last season. So, too, did Arsenal, who are the hosts for Newcastle's last game of August. In between is an eminently winnable match at home to Bolton, though. Hull and Blackburn are visitors in September, games separated by a trip to West Ham. Newcastle have goals in them, as you would expect from a Keegan side - it was once he had the courage of his attacking convictions that the climb to safety began. KK has a reputation as psychologically weak after his serial resignations and outbursts, but handled the potentially awkward relationship with Michael Owen well, bringing out goals and leadership. His problem has always been with dealing with a downturn. The fixtures have been unkind, with those two heavyweights to face in what is an unusually brief opening before the international break. But if he can avoid or dismiss any sense of early-season crisis - say by beating Bolton and avoiding humiliation at Old Trafford and the Emirates - then there is enough quality to challenge all but the best of the mid-table sides. The glory days on a nationwide scale will be as elusive as ever - but at the very least Newcastle should be north-east champions again and by a much bigger margin. Fifty points achieved in as attractive a manner as possible won't be riches but would be a step in the right direction.