Nate

Taylor & Huntington were worse, undoubtedly.

I really thought nobody would be thick enough to come out and defend him after that display. Evidently I was wrong.

Seconded, despite expecting it too.

I defy anyone to dispute this now.

Did they? I was virtually told to fuck off last week when i said this would happen. Roeder is utterly, utterly clueless and has proven it once again.

...shame about the starting line-up.

He's certainly one of the most intelligent strikers i've seen, amazing vision. He always appears to try and help other players when they do something wrong too, rather than just shout at them. As someone said, there's not much a trio of Owen, Martins & Berbatov would lack.

I completely agree with the Nut here. I thought they were fairly f****** terrible at SJP and incredibly boring to watch, aye we know you can pass the ball between the defenders and the goalkeeper, well done. Their lack of a right-back was something else I picked up on, one of their centre-halves was always yelling for somebody to track back and cover Duff. They do seem to have pace either side of Arveladze and Dembelele starting will probably make a difference to them, but I'm still confident we'll go through. 2-2 draw or something along those lines, but I favour us to win over them. Hope this doesn't come back to bite me on the tukkus. Op Nut & The Janitor: Just think about the Birmingham game and try rewritting that. Think about the fact that they scored two goals against us, away from home, during what was probaly our best (and their worst) performance of the season too.

Imagine beating them in the final, though.

Quote from Glenn on BBC site. *shudders* Depressing, AZ will have no trouble scoring two. I think we'll need two to progress, nevermind one. if we go through, we HAVE to start at home! Really! Surely it would be an advantage to play the 2nd leg at home?

This is embarrassing, more so that Martins is actually winning.

AZ Alkmaar 3-1 Newcastle Utd Not confident.

Actual worth? £10m. What i'd be happy to let him go for? £20m.

tevez is shit

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I'd go with: Given Solano Taylor Bramble Edgar Dyer Butt Emre Milner Sibierski Martins Glenn will probaly play Parker, Carr & Duff though. Prediction: AZ Alkmaar 3-1 Newcastle United.

quality of manager? - how many of that squad that you judge inferior to us are MJ's buys FFS That helps my point, doesn't it? A marginally inferior team that plays better football than ours, he's put together a good squad. Jol is the better manager in every department in my view, just an opinion.

Given > Robinson Babayaro < Lee Bramble < King Taylor > Dawson Solano = Chimbonda N'Zogbia > Malbranque Butt > Zokora Emre > Tanio/Ghaly Milner < Lennon Martins < Berbatov Owen > Keane/Defoe Newcastle 6 - 4 Tottenham. ...Is how i see it, shame about the huge difference in squad depth and quality of mananger.

SWP was comically poor, he didn't do one good thing all game. Chelsea will be lucky if they see £5m for him. Another good tie, has it been decided which replay BBC will show?

In the last couple of games perhaps, certainly not overall. Personally, i would try and do everything to keep him unless they offered ridiculous money. We're currently struggling to find one top-6-standard central defender to play alongside him, are we really going to find two for just £6-7m?

I'm not so sure. He's bound to be tempted by regular Champions League football, challenging for domestic trophies and probaly more than tripling his weekly wage. And you can never say 'we won't sell him' when Chelsea are involved, we'd probaly accept less than you think.

Second half's been shite. Not particularly. Real have put together a lot of good passing moves.

This has been a great game so far.