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That was definitely mine.

Argh!

Given Solano --- Taylor --- Onyewu --- Babayaro Milner --- Emre --- Butt --- N'Zogbia Martins --- Dyer ... I regard that as our best possible team when everybody is fit (excluding Owen and Shola). And it's available to him. Not expecting it at all, though.

Everybody say aww.

COPTER?

Because i'm realistic? Well done, you're the bestest fan in the world. You're just a smart arse mate. Sick of seeing you just write people's posts off with simple, arsey, one-liners. Just ain't good to read. Oh, so now you're the post police? Wind your neck in mate. I don't like some of the drivel you post, but i don't go round crying like a smacked bitch about it. Post police, not quite. I just said you were boring. Smacked bitch, nah. I said you were boring. Two things which i stand by.

1. Alan Shearer. Of my time supporting Newcastle United, Shearer is all i have known. I was old enough only by the age of six, really, to understand the game properly - and i was six in 1997. Shearer has been my God. The ultimate goalscorer and simply one of the very, very best. 2. Nolberto Solano. Nobby is definitely one of my all-time favourites; i thought he was great right from the very off. He was just a bit different, the first ever Peruvian. I don't think there has been a more clever player in the squad for the last ten years, than Nobby Solano. And even though his legs have gone a bit, he's still doing a crucial job for us today. Love the guy. Plus - he loves the club to pieces. 3. Gary Speed. Speed was one of the key factors of our uprising under Bobby. He was a leader, one of the veterans, and he just held the team together. He'd also pop up with a goal or two - he had a great left foot and was a cracking headerer of the ball. You could see that the midfield just fell apart when Speed left - he should never have gone.

Because i'm realistic? Well done, you're the bestest fan in the world. You're just a smart arse mate. Sick of seeing you just write people's posts off with simple, arsey, one-liners. Just ain't good to read.

Would be great to see it happen, but just can't see it myself.

Don't think i've watched an avatar over and over again like i have that one.

No, he really was shit and past it actually Nah mate, he wasn't. 19 goals that season. He said that he thought his performances had continued at a level he was happy with and rightly so. He wasn't particularly good in his last season, but like i say, he still reached 14 goals. He deserved the record. He missed far too many matches - three major career injuries is what he had. Like he said, he's had somebody else's there.

Controversial indeed. You mention that one of your reasons for disliking him was because we just lumped the ball forward to him all the time. I would agree, it's not pretty to watch, but is that Shearer's fault? Did he pick the team and did he define the tactics before each game? Same with this God-like status he acquired. I can't say i'm a big fan of it all, in spite of how much i love Shearer, but he didn't ask for it did he? I'll give you credit for attempting to reason your decision, which one or two people have refrained from doing, and subsequently just looked like idiots, but i think your comment about him being 'selfish' is just daft. In that season that he announced that he would stay on - he scored 19 goals. It was hardly as if he was shit and past it. The legs hadn't compeltely gone had they? Selfish for crying out loud? He was a centre-forward, and he was a Newcastle hero and he wanted the record badly because it was something that he deserved. He wasn't great in his final season, but for all his statuesque nothingness ( ), he still went into double figures. Again. And besides, in playing terms - all good centre-forwards are selfish.

GREAT shout, another one that i considered putting, but thought he was decent enough not to be lumped in there. Plus we acquired a tasty £8m in return for his services.

You genuinely are one of the most sinfully boring posters.

Harsh. He's been poorly. The diseased, overrated, mediocre little shit for brains.......ah, thats better. Unbelievable, tbh. Honestly don't understand some of the slating Dyer gets on here. Really? Oh well. Maybe, when you stop believing he is an international-standard, creative player who actually contributes anything tangible, you'll come to your senses. Good luck with that. Utter bullshit, but agree entirely with The Jan. This has the potential to be a decent thread so i'm not going to go on about something this nonsencial and typically Northern Monkey-like. My dad's happy to help, btw.

Harsh. He's been poorly. The diseased, overrated, mediocre little shit for brains.......ah, thats better. Unbelievable, tbh. Honestly don't understand some of the slating Dyer gets on here.

Actually thought of putting Barton tbh. I can remember, like 97/98 season or something like that, my dad and i thought Barton and Albert were absolutely shite. Albert was class before that, though.

Yes.

I reckon Cort would have been great for us if he'd stayed fit. Great player underneath it all, and Bobby loved him. He could have turned him into a special player.

Cheat.

I reckon Emre's a class player in all honesty, and he could have been so good for us. I'd love to see him in a team like Arsenal - who play good, penetrating football on the floor - short passes, a sheer driving force. That's what Emre's so good at - driving forward and stirring things up. Even if he were to stay, it just won't have worked out for him here. 1, because of the injuries to him, 2, because of the injuries to players around him, 3, because of the general averageness of the team itself, and 4, he's never been used properly. Or very rarely. I really like Emre, but we won't have missed him if he goes.

The first one i'd have to mention, would undoubteldy be Titus Bramble. It's pained me to see him stay at this club for five years, it's beyond belief in fairness, when he was abnormally shit from the very off and has improved only a miniscule amount. Whatever potential he had has oficially extinguished and it's players like him who have held the team, the squad and generally the club, back. I know i'll look back in ten years time, not remembering Bramble's few good runs where he was excellent, i'll look back and think: God. He was shite. Alessandro Pistone. He was just average. He was never really anything, was he? He was average-to-shit and one of the players that epitomised the era. Average-to-shit. We were crap at that time, finishing 13th in back to back seasons, and Pistone was just one of those players that was never, ever, going to do anything for us - despite his big reputation when he came. That attempt at a tackle against Overmars. Oh. Oh! A typical Newcastle wing-back of the modern era, you could say. Finding it difficult to pick out a third one. It would have to be somebody like Jenas, who just couldn't care less come the end of it all and was simply shite. Andreas Andersson might be a decent suggestion. Man. He was crap.

I've always thought Celtic Park looked very similar to the new St James'. Especially photos from inside Parkhead - as if looking at the 'Leazes'. Looked very similar.

What he fuck do you achieve from having 'maybe' as a poll option?

Just aswell anyway i suppose... there's some cracking bosmans available this summer.