Dr Venkman

fair enough, no need to laugh at me though dave, you should be setting a better example tbh

No. dont rate him?

judging by the youtube video, impeccable first touch and close control, some good measured through balls and what i want most of all in our midfield signing, he goes straight for the heart of the defence when he gets the ball looks a great player but as others have already said, its a youtube video so you cant really tell

jason roberts, probably wouldnt cost much, quick, strong, good finisher, squad player.

i was confident of getting a result, was even thinking about putting a tenner on us to win at 10/1, but with no martins, beye and geremi, i cant see it like, i expect a defeat here, but as long as we put in a good performance thats the least i expect from this.

crouch in the air

are they gonna pay for a new pair of legs?

how mint is keegan man, 'we've got a small squad, but that means we've got no deadwood' 'we've got injuries, but that happens at every club, it means other people get a chance' pure positivity from the master, again

you mean because keegan said he wanted to keep milner? just like when he said alan smith would come good, and since then he's had how many minutes on the pitch?

£8 million. there are a lot of things said about how much money there is in football these days, but if we get 12 million for james milner i'll be utterly lost for words, and almost as smug as when we sold jenas, people really need to get over the buying english thing.

12 million for milner? how much was deco?

sounds like a dig in the ribs to the lads in charge of the money to me, in the same way the post chelsea rant was

thought a bit of selective editing wouldnt go a miss this morning

keegan saying he'll put out the strongest team available and they're a bit cautious about starting owen

"At the moment we’ve got a chance of winning the league" Now that's what i'm fucking talking about!

he's certainly looked happy and relaxed recently, but i suppose that could be down to results as much as anything. i like how sure he is we'll be bringing in more players, thats cause for optimism.

i know exactly what you're talking about, but didnt he play it off to the un-marked butt who went on to toe punt it out of play for a throw in?

have to say it was nice to see owen getting applauded when warming up and getting a good reception when he came on against bolton, seemed a lot warmer than any reception he got last year, hopefully most of the idiots that booed him are now gone and not coming back

that'll be the difference between someone looking at positives and someone looking for negatives

Good spot on the little brush off of defenders he does before the ball even comes in. Very clever, and not something you'd always associate with a player like Owen. I don't think its somehting he always did though, he has added it to his game after being called a one dimensional striker and after losing a yard or two of pace its served him very well. Smaller strikers can benefit from defenders not expecting them to get their head onto crosses but with Owens timing he is very very adapt at it. owen,despite the physical differences, is very similar to shearer. lots of players go through a spell where they are in the right position and score but those that do it year in year out are few and far between, hard to get off the ball,plays the game simply and is very consistent in finding his teams players. a little alarmed with the lack of good movement from martins. i hiope its just down to not having the chance to build up a rapport with a strike partner Martins movement isn't as clever as Owen's, but then Owen's movement is slower and more restricted. It isn't always black and white even for Newcastle. dunno bout that. martins never seems to use his pace. We don't play the ball in front of him, beyond the last defender enough for him IMO. thats as much down to him because of his movement (this is a re-enactment of an hours longargument in the pub last night) I think its as much down to the lack of a ball player as well though. maybe,but yesterday it was strange how much we went wide when martins was on yet had much more options through the middle when owen came on. thats because owen's got link up play in his game, martins just hasnt, his first touch is too un-reliable. if you watch owen he very very rarely wastes the ball. Martins link up play is better than Owen's tbh, look at the link up play between him and Jonas at Old Trafford where he dropped deep and played him through twice, or yesterday where he dropped deep to play him through when he got chopped down by Joey O'Brien. Owen doesn't give the ball because he's has better control than Martins, but he also plays it safe the majority of the time rather than playing team mates in. i like both players so i dont want to turn this into owen against oba, again. but imo his link up play just isnt anywhere near owen, how can it be when he loses it so much? and not trying to do anything particularly hard either. you've provided a couple of examples but i could provide many many more from the bolton game where we needed him to keep it or pass and he just turned and ran into a defender or his first touch went ten feet away. again, different players, different talents, but i dont see oba with the touch, composure, or awareness to be an effective link up player.

Good spot on the little brush off of defenders he does before the ball even comes in. Very clever, and not something you'd always associate with a player like Owen. I don't think its somehting he always did though, he has added it to his game after being called a one dimensional striker and after losing a yard or two of pace its served him very well. Smaller strikers can benefit from defenders not expecting them to get their head onto crosses but with Owens timing he is very very adapt at it. owen,despite the physical differences, is very similar to shearer. lots of players go through a spell where they are in the right position and score but those that do it year in year out are few and far between, hard to get off the ball,plays the game simply and is very consistent in finding his teams players. a little alarmed with the lack of good movement from martins. i hiope its just down to not having the chance to build up a rapport with a strike partner Martins movement isn't as clever as Owen's, but then Owen's movement is slower and more restricted. It isn't always black and white even for Newcastle. dunno bout that. martins never seems to use his pace. We don't play the ball in front of him, beyond the last defender enough for him IMO. thats as much down to him because of his movement (this is a re-enactment of an hours longargument in the pub last night) I think its as much down to the lack of a ball player as well though. maybe,but yesterday it was strange how much we went wide when martins was on yet had much more options through the middle when owen came on. thats because owen's got link up play in his game, martins just hasnt, his first touch is too un-reliable. if you watch owen he very very rarely wastes the ball.

And Barca winning the CL with Eto'o, Ronaldinho and Messi up top. ..and Man U winning the ultimate physical Premier league with midgets like Ronaldo, Rooney and Tevez for that matter? Rooney's a fucking battering ram though. for all his diving ronaldo is a very physical player, he can more than hold his own

And you make that out of his first year in the PL or what? Have you every seen him before he came to Chelsea? Still feel like there is some class left in him, and none of the managers tactics has suited him in Chelsea, maybe Keegans freeflow football will get him back were he used to be? watching him for chelsea and france, i dont rate him at all, as someone has already said jonas is better, 12 million could be spent better elsewhere if you ask me, but then i'm not the manager and i trust KK so i'll back him whatever happens. oh and i cant watch the interview on the bbc site coz its been down for about 12 hours now! anywhere else i can see it?

i thought it was great, i sit at the other end of the ground and it improved the atmosphere for me

for an answer thats supposed to be 'simple', thats extremely complicated, evasive and convoluted, and not really an answer at all.