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He's nothing on Ferdinand. How dare you even mention them in the same sentence.

The Liverpool match is setting up perfectly for both Allardyce and Owen to shut up their critics.

I flew to Korea for that. It'll be another decade or more until the WC returns to Asia again so my dad flew the 4 of us there. Had a great time. Was able to watch 4 matches, one was the Korea v Italy - fucking great atmosphere, never been in a more 'electric' place in my whole life.

Someone should just email this link to Allardyce. http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php?action=profile;u=110;sa=showPosts

Just don't give it to anyone...

Berbatov. Looked good today. Class player.

Why did he just fall to the ground like a retarded monkey?

Why should he? "What about the next manager" How about looking at it like this: Big Sam sorts 4-3-3 out, wins a cup and thus buries that noose around the club's neck, finishes in the top 5 a few times. What kind of club would he leave behind? A successful one and that's all that is important. If he's able to do that he won't go

The same can be said of Owen man. Did you see how fucking hard his hug was on Milner? Swear it could have broken a few ribs. Maybe it was just the derby day.. or maybe he just cares as well?

The obvious thing to do is bring in another manager who also prefers the 4-3-3 formation. Who? Mourinho? None of the managers we were linked with after Roeder left and who we could possibly attract prefers the 4-3-3. Not Houllier, Eriksson, Van Gaal, Koeman etc. If Ashley gives Sam the cash to spend and SA decides to go with the 4-3-3, there's little room for failure. We'll be left with a squad bereft of players who excel in a 4-4-2 and would struggle to attract a good manager presuming that Allardyce left when we were in the shits.

One thing to note, if we give SA the time to buy all the players he wants for a 4-3-3 and then he fails, we're royally fucked. The next manager will have to have ANOTHER overhaul of the squad because he'll most likely be wanting to play a 4-4-2 (as most managers do). On the other hand, if SA can change his mindset and continue with the 4-4-2 then even if he fails, the players will be there for the next manager.

Speccy makes a great point. Our defence has to be settled. No more chopping and changing.

Trial by media for us again then. It was his own stupid fault. If he received a red card for it I don't think any of us could actually complain. You know, it's funny that Barton is now being excused because he's lacking fitness. I seem to remember a certain Spaniard also desperately lacking fitness

Tbf to Barton, he looked better today than he did last week or the in the 30 mins he had against Spurs. At least his form/fitness is improving eh?

Btw, what the fuck was Barton doing with the kung fu kick? He did better in the second half but I still can't get over that, what a moron. Needs to freaking control his temper or channel it into his performances.

Have to say, enrique seemed quite anonymous from what i saw. He seemed to spend quite a bit of time on his arse tbh. yes he did Nyt, he didn't even come on man, what you on about?!

Firstly, what a game of football. So tense, so exciting. Fucking Anthony Stokes you fucking diving cunt fuck off and go back to Arsenal you cunt. Now that that's out of the way, it was a really really exciting game, loved it myself. Bad goal to lose again, we're too slow to react but it started with Faye not really thinking before passing so when he saw that no one was actually there he just, it was weird, I dunno what he did but it wasn't good. Apart from that he was a rock and from what I've seen, he's our best CB. What the fuck was Taylor doing after Faye went off? All I say was loads of shouting and pointing but whenever he had to defend, he messed up. Misjudged the ball on more than a few occasions and just generally nervous defending and tackling. Needs to learn to calm the fuck down. However, after losing the goal I thought we dominated. It was a lucky goal from Milner. Great cross! Then after that we had a really good 10 minute spell. I thought Emre was class in the second half. Everything we did went through him. Seriously. Did anyone else notice that we did not have one single good attack after he went off? Sure there was like 6 or 7 mins left but our attack disappeared when Emre went off. He was the link between the defenders and the strikers. He was what most of us probably envisioned him doing in every game for us. Great game from the little Turk. Viduka was class as well; his holdup play was up to his usual standard but today he was actually getting to those balls hoofed up to him and flicking them on to Owen - who also had a good game. Overall I think it was a deserved draw (okay I'm biased). We were shit in the first half, very lucky to get in at 0-0 but in the second half the performance probably merited a draw. Anyway, for those who used to complain about Shay's kicking, did they see how fucking poor Harper's is? Even if you forget the lackadaisal manner in which he takes his goal kicks, you're still left with the fact that he cannot kick the ball straight when one of our defenders passes it back to him; slices the ball everytime like a spaz because he's too nervous. Had a decent game otherwise, and so did the rest of the defence. At least we seem to be over the lifeless performances in the past few weeks and we can start again now, looking forward to the Liverpool game I am.

It's a really good sign that Viduka's 3 out of 3 for flick-ons.

1 Craig Gordon (G) 3 Ian Harte (D) 14 Danny Higginbotham (D) 6 Paul McShane (D) 5 Nyron Nosworthy (D) 7 Carlos Edwards (M) 4 Dickson Etuhu (M) 18 Grant Leadbitter (M) 33 Ross Wallace (M) 16 Michael Chopra (S) 17 Kenwyne Jones (S) So here's their team. Chopra starts then. Look at their defence man, so fucking slow. We should be looking to drive at them right from the off, put them on the backfoot and watch them all fold under the pressure of playing in a derby. Wasn't Nosworthy part of the team which got whooped 4-1? A repeat would be nice

It is a really negative team. He's up to his old tricks again - sticking players in the wrong positions. We have no width, just bite, which means this is setting up to be a very gritty football game. Whoever wants it most will win this one. I don't think one team will be passing the other team off the pitch with the way we're both set up today. Jesus man, Barton on the right!? Milner on the left?! Fuck me, our hopes lie with Emre and Viduka today. If they can somehow make sure we keep hold of the ball and pressure them, we should be able to nick a goal or two because their defence is shite. However, if not, we're in trouble because we have absolutely no other attacking outlet (except Zoggy but then our defence will be exposed whenever he comes up). Saying all that, we're still going to win

What five attacking players and one semi-attacking player? Believe, Parky, just believe. [/You]

Okay just woke up, same team as the bloke posted yesterday then - which is a very shite and negative one. Whatever, we'll win this! Come on!!

U should see the odds i've got aye, because its clinically insane just had a quick look and i could get 8-1 on just toon and derby. how much did you bet? anything more than 10p is a waste i'd say betting on all 3 english clubs to lose could be quite a fun little bet to have, bearing in mind all are away, bolton travel to munich to play the best team in jormany, spurs have to mission it all the way to fucking israel and everton have nurenburg, another good jorman team. also bolton and everton are relitive novices when it comes to european footie, and spurs are out of form in a big way. may stear clear of spurs but everton and bolton i cant see either winning. Nyt trying his best Nostradamus act.. ...and failing miserably

this game just got a lot more interesting I'm not only excited about the game but now also excited to find out whether Kev will survive his encounter with the inbreds. Good luck kiddo - don't do anything daft when we score!

I'm getting excited now