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Are you Guy Mowbray's understudy? Why, s*** joke? Aye. He made the same observation. Him, or that t*** Bright. Didn't hear that, gonna go take my toaster in a bath. Well, just be sure to switch the toaster on man.

Are you Guy Mowbray's understudy? Why, shit joke? Aye. He made the same observation. Him, or that twat Bright.

Are you Guy Mowbray's understudy?

Would have done if we had any decent strikers up front. Unfortunately all we got is pure shite.

I do a great steve Bruce impression....shame it cant be communicated in text Record it on video, upload it to YouTube and give us all good laugh, man.

Or dead beats, even.

I agree with Steve Bruce, like. This referee is fucking atrocious.

Great strike by Guthrie. On comes Pancrate too...

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Men_in_Black/men_in_black_movie_image_tommy_lee_jones_and_will_smith.jpg Forget what you just saw.

It's always good to see Nicky Butt coming on.

Sums it up.

Mark Bright is a thick twat. Saying that there was no need for the referee to call Pogatetz over just to show him the card.

Where are you?

Thank fuck for Guthrie's intervention there, Harper was having a Brad Jones moment...

Ameobi will be straight back on the physio's bench after this match. The Smogs are definitely going all out to get his ankle.

You ain't seen me, right?

Aaron Hughes.

Actually Dave, that was a deadly serious post.

Craig Levein John Toshack Is this thread meant to be serious or what?

Garth Crooks on BBC was fairly sticking the knife in a few moments ago. He's such a bitch.

Boycoutt addidas!!!

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2009/12/14/hands-off-our-stars-warns-boss-chris-hughton-72703-25386773/ Disastrous, that's nothing more than a backhanded invitation for bids...about as good as sticking up the CLEARANCE - EVERYTHING MUST GO! signs in the shop windows...something Ashley's all too good at doing. You just HAVE to be taking the piss, surely? Many a true word spoken in jest.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2009/12/14/hands-off-our-stars-warns-boss-chris-hughton-72703-25386773/ Disastrous, that's nothing more than a backhanded invitation for bids...about as good as sticking up the CLEARANCE - EVERYTHING MUST GO! signs in the shop windows...something Ashley's all too good at doing.

All teams who go up have momentum, because they have just pissed on their own league. And most of them go straight back down. There is a big gulf in class between the Premier League and the Championship. Nolan and Ameobi looked piss poor in the Premier League and dominate here, that tells its own story. We may be top and winning plenty of games but we are scraping a lot of wins against poor opposition. We were relegated with the same squad plus 40m of players. We haven't signed anyone bar Pancrate and loans so it's a much weaker squad than the one which went down. Take out the loan signings and the squad is threadbare again. We need to improve the first team and we need backup - in short we need to invest to stay up. We would struggle to beat the likes of Hull and Wolves with this squad, we'd certainly struggle to rack up 40 points. Sums it up in a nutshell for me. If we don't invest in January, we may as well prepare for a season of struggle next year, regardless of which league we playing in come August 2010. The squad is dogshit in terms of Premier League quality and quantity, but why does the investment need to be made in January rather than the summer? Regardless of whether or not we go up, we'll know then what we have to spend (pfft) and what we need to allow for. My thinking (and it may be flawed, I dunno) is that we need to start investing in January (on the assumption that we're still top of the league, in pole position to win the Championship), because with the tiny squad we have just now, so the risk of injuries in the winter months causing the wheels to come off our push for promotion needs to be dealt with or we could end up tumbling back down the league. So it's partly just simply about needing greater strength in depth, but also a bit about in players who are good enough to help push us back up, but also keep us up. I dread to think what will happen to us if we don't make it back at the first time of trying.

All teams who go up have momentum, because they have just pissed on their own league. And most of them go straight back down. There is a big gulf in class between the Premier League and the Championship. Nolan and Ameobi looked piss poor in the Premier League and dominate here, that tells its own story. We may be top and winning plenty of games but we are scraping a lot of wins against poor opposition. We were relegated with the same squad plus 40m of players. We haven't signed anyone bar Pancrate and loans so it's a much weaker squad than the one which went down. Take out the loan signings and the squad is threadbare again. We need to improve the first team and we need backup - in short we need to invest to stay up. We would struggle to beat the likes of Hull and Wolves with this squad, we'd certainly struggle to rack up 40 points. Sums it up in a nutshell for me. If we don't invest in January, we may as well prepare for a season of struggle next year, regardless of which league we playing in come August 2010.