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Me too.

I would be interested to see what he has spent, always thought he had spent a fair bit there... I think they gave him a decent amount to spend when they first got promoted to the Premiership and after getting relegated last year to make sure they bounced back straight away. Apart from that they haven't give him much. If you look at his transfer dealings this summer he did pretty well for both numbers and quality on a small budget. He'd get double his money back on Kapo now. De Ridder and Palacios were good finds on a free transfer and nominal fee respectively, good technical footballers. Djourou was an astute loan signing and if Borja Oubina hadn't got a season ending injury he would have done the business for them on loan too. The lad has got a couple of Spain caps. Bit of a poor mans Xabi Alonso. Although he did sign Liam Ridgewell for some reason and Maik Taylor still gets a game so it wasn't all good. wow, looking at that list what would that man do without his wenger connection? last year he had 3 arsenal loanees. this year he gets djourou on loan. palacios had a trial with arsenal and wenger didn't have room for him so he called bruce and told him about palacios. and arsenal have a technical relationship with celta vigo and what do you know de ridder and oubina both played for vigo. look for wigan to have a similar arsenal influence. Not a bad influence to have tbf.

That's because we were in the shits before his arrival. He didn't have to come, remember? No one fucking forced him to. Yet he did come, we did get better and he did revive the club. He wasn't on the 'downslide' - I suppose you mean to say 'downside' but you never know with you. If he was, why was he nearly offered the England job whilst in charge of us? Just because he was old doesn't mean that he lost it - Fergie will confirm this view. End of. He's a legend and like Wullie, every time I see a thread about him I fear the worst.

It really does That's why I love seeing names like Quaresma, Deco, Diego, VdV et al being mentioned by our fans.

A touch of class is what I'd prefer; players with technique who also have a good 'football brain'.

Touche oml, this thread (link below) shows that you've made a good point. http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=39644.0;viewResults Still, we must give him time. He deserves it, and the new owners have a right to expect that we show some patience. A lot of things have changed in about 6 months, yet somehow I get the feeling that some people are still as unhappy as they were during the last couple of seasons. Mort deserves the chance to show that him and Ashley will back Sam, and Sam deserves at least this season and the next to show that he can a) bring in the right players, and b) change his attitude regarding away games. A season is really not enough time imo, so unless we're staring at relegation, a top 10 finish this season will hopefully mean SA will get the next season to truly show that he's changed the club. PS. This thread (link below) shows that there have been a certain group of fans who have already changed their minds about BS. http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=39373.0;viewResults

I'd rather give Krul a chance in the unlikely event that both Harper and Given continue to concede soft goals before actually spending any cash which would be best served spent elsewhere.

It is representative to a point though, isn't it? Obviously there will be a margin of error, but if I'm thinking about the right model, this data is statistically significant. That was my point.

our fans? are you saying that the people that voted on that poll are the equivelant of our enitre worldide fanbase? It's not even that small of a sample size; more than 50 people have answered so you can actually generalize this data to the whole population because it would be normally distributed now. So yes, what I said still stands.

KD sorta deserves a break. He's been a decent poster of late, hasn't been a WUM, but actually as an intellgent (ish) poster.

It's worrying that 27% of our fans already deem him to be not 'the man'. And all this after only 12 games. Have some faith!

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?