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if there is going to be an annoucement i'd rather it was after the derby tbh

was absolutely tearing up the pitch on a counter attack, 3 on 2, 2 players ahead of him, got to the edge of the box and went arse over tit with no-one within 5 yards

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Nowt on North East Tonight Hope this is true really cant see it like too good to be true, is it a wind up by the mackems? I’ll not be buying new tea towels for head wear just yet! I can’t understand the logic of those 2 brothers buying rival clubs, unless they don’t get on. are you joking? do you have a brother? i cant imagine many things being more fun tbh

got a link to the thread? i just like indulging in stuff like this

Maybe next month we'll all see You smack your lass with a Christmas tree haha, this one!

excellent news, fair play to whoever made that decision, now i'm even more positive we'll get a result

when's the decision expected? late afternoon?

They've won 2 games this season. 2. They've managed to score 7 goals in 8 games too. so no great shakes recently, haven't they drawn their last two games aswell? like us. why exactly are they favourites? because we lost our manager and had loads of injuries?

i'm un-decided on this, my first impulse is to sit on the fence and say draw, but thinking about it we've been pretty good in the last two games and our confidence is only going to get better after the man city result. add to that the fact that its a derby and our lot have a lot to prove this season and we might just get a performance out of them and beat the twats. how have the mackems been playing recently?

cant believe some of the excuses for him NOT EVEN RUNNING 5 YARDS TO CLOSE SOMEONE DOWN. midfield? too deep? what are you lot on. HE DIDNT. BOTHER. HIS. ARSE. also got to love the 'carroll only looked shit coz ameobi wasnt shit' theory, jesus christ

you're not allowed to criticise players though, it makes you fickle and means you're looking for a scapegoat, especially if they're young. what the fuck, grow some balls man, that was a shocking display last night.

deserved his standing ovation last night, improved massively on his last year of performances.

no, no, no. we hate sunderland, its eternal, its important, and it needs to be pointed out.

i dont think anyone's trying to find a scapegoat as pretty much everyone's saying they were happy with the result and would've taken it before the match, but if you cant come on and put people under pressure on their half way line for ten minutes, at the LEAST, then either declare yourself unfit, or fuck off. whether you're alan shearer, shola ameobi, carl cort or andy carroll. no?

Well done Habib Beye for being better than Carr, Hughes and Griffin. Picking the bones again, then. Class counter-argument. I can't take seriously what you're saying about him tonight, so i'll just ask: what've you got against him like? The fact that he's not a particularly good crosser of the ball? That for me, is his only real weakness. I've got nothing against him apart from I don't think he's that good. If Steven Taylor made that tackle in the box then reactions would be completely different, fair enough he got a slight touch on the ball but you can't make tackles from behind anywhere on the pitch so to make one in the penalty box is daft. wasn't from behind in that sense wasnt from behind anyway, if we're gonna get technical about it, it was from the side

I'm not winding anyone up. If you attempt to tackle someone from behind in the box when you're the last man then you run the risk of getting yourself sent off, even if you do get the ball. The refs have been clamping down on tackles from behind over the last few years and you usually see a few freekicks given throughout the game for it even if you do win the ball. just because he was 'running the risk' doesnt mean he deserved to have a penalty given and be sent off. that was a good tackle, and he didnt hurt robinho or ever risk hurting him. it takes just as much judgement and timing to to do that as it does to lob the keeper, it should be encouraged and applauded, not punished.

no, sorry. not having that. that was a lazy, dis-interested performance which cost us badly. if he cant run 20 yards to close someone down he should declare himself unfit

Sorry but if it was anyone of uso n here brought on with 10 minutes at 2-1 we'd have worked a lot harder than he did, he didn't chase back or make much effort at all. Wheres the pride of playing for the club, as my Dad rightly put it "Too busy thinking which bird hes going to shag in Tiger after the game". Junkhead I expected him to exert effort, any player can do that. my granda would've put more pressure on the centre halves who were walking into our half with the ball, and he's dead. Carroll wants shot with his own shit on lack of effort alone.

just got back, i'm happy to say i was proud of our players and proud of our support for the entire night tonight. i said on here before i went to the match that i was gonna muster all the passion i could and support ameobi, and he repaid my faith with a very good performance. martins was excellent, looked dangerous every time he had the ball, collocini was in control for the whole game, duff looked like he had a bit of bite, taylor was good, just all round effort was nice to see. 2-2 is a massive result for us tonight having played for 80 minutes with ten men, lets hope the confidence from that carries over to next week just one negative to mention, Carroll, that was fucking embarassing, i could teach a monkey to run at a man in possesion of a football, he never moved his arse once. if he thinks that the only job he needed to do was get on the end of long balls then he shouldnt be anywhere near a football team.

oh god

i'm doing my bit tonight by supporting shola ameobi, and believe me, thats gonna take every ounce of my passion to muster

i take it he doesnt rate them too much then?

sorry i cant be arsed to check, but whats the general consensus on who's gonna be fit for this? beye? jonas? martins 50-50?

says it all about our plight atm that this is the game i'm relying on to give me my weekly dose of football joy