Doug

I can't believe we still have fans who brag that we will win any game easily.

a draw please

game on again

Game over

3 goal lead, now we can relax for once.

working backwards a tad too much

I hate to say it but in Gooch, Whatmore and that other teenager they brought on second half they have some talent coming through and are obviously doing something right at academy level. They all look to have great potential, sorry.

hey up ho winaway winaway winaway

Playing up the hill and into the wind, where are we playing on open parkland?

We look as though we have bought ourselves a natural goalscorer this year. Bodes well.

Colback & Goufran must be doing something special in training because they don't usually in the match.

Need that third goal otherwise I just know we're going to blow it.

My observations on last night are, Dummet will have to go, Ritchie is top class, and the fools bragging about record points totals etc. obviously have not supported Newcastle for very long, and will have had a wake up call after that.

refs are clamping down on dissent this year and will make an example of players in the early games. Lets hope we can keep 11 on the pitch, we must not screw up the start of this season.

Still at least our fans can't be worse than them from Rumania or Albania. They are all rapists and murderers you know. It must be true because the Daily Mail was banging on about it all last week.

Did I just hear savage say 'flies are tackling in'.

I really didn't think he would stay. I have never been happier to be proved wrong. Liverpool or Manu are probably the only other clubs who could pull this appointment off after the disaster of relegation. Deep down the naysayers who bleat on about us not being a big club will know this and it will upset them massively as well as shut them up. We just need to hope continuous progress and promotion happen now and not brag about not losing a game and crap like that.

Villa have worse problems than us. Take over means f*** all Villa have always had an excellent youth policy. While not ready for the Premiership you can bet they will have a crop of youngsters you have never heard of who will be ready to impress in the championship for next season. I am not sure if that would be the case with our academy structure.

Newspaper speculation running rife leading us on. I would love him to stay as much as anyone. But it is the holidays now, he doesn't have to commit to anything yet. He doesn't know how many of the squad will be up for the scrap in a lower league, why should he be sticking his own neck out yet with other potential offers to be considered. He and we know there is no loyalty in football (apart from fans) and he could be deserted by the very players he has got a tune out of in the last few weeks. I wish our fans would calm down and wait for an official announcement before spouting off all over forums at how we are going to bounce back with record points totals etc. Some of our fans are unbelievably gullible and it seems they will never learn.

Ashley, you have failed in looking after our (not yours) beloved club please go now and never come back.

Is it wrong to want Holland to win being as they have the Newcastle representation?

No football capable of being built from the back with this side will be our undoing tonight I'm afraid.

Has to be Man U & Liverpool still because of their pathetic legions of armchair fans.

Eliot, Janmatt, Taylor, Shelvey, Tiote, Sissoko, Mitrovic. With this lot all likely to start we should at least have a belligerent muscular spine running through the side meaning we are not going to be intimidated out there. As long as there are no red cards we should be able to man up and give them a game I think.

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