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Of course it could be that he was never actually coming here in the first place !

No because we still would not have address our striker problem.

Hehe it's not, it could be Carlisle United currently or Berwick Rangers, they've just moved like the Rams did in "Football", you should be familiar with this concept being a yankee doodle dandy and all that ? It would be a difficult one for me because deep down who would you be supporting ? I've fallen off Football so hard, I read that and wondered when Derby moved. That's a question for a Ravens fan, or a Browns fan. They'll have a lot of insight there. God, a Newcastle and Cleveland Browns fan. If that guy exists, he had crows feet at 12. When Arizona come to town to play St Louis, who do the locals support, the rams or the cardinals ? Outside of MK Dons we've not witnessed movement of franchises in football, but there again all major areas of the population are served with local teams, so there has been no need for it.

I haven't seen it yet, won't be able to watch it till I get home from work in about 5 hours. But some of the quotes taken from it sound pretty good. Looking forward to watching it.

Hehe it's not, it could be Carlisle United currently or Berwick Rangers, they've just moved like the Rams did in "Football", you should be familiar with this concept being a yankee doodle dandy and all that ? It would be a difficult one for me because deep down who would you be supporting ?

It's hard though following a sport without rooting for a team. I love sport in general, football in particular. But whatever sport I watch I always like to root for someone or some team. The trouble is for me I'm s**** at picking teams to follow, the Falcons in Rugby, Mariners in Baseball and the Dolphins in American Football are examples of my w*** choices. Yeah, but working in your hypothetical scenario, I'm already a committed Newcastle fan when the club ceases to exist. I'm not local and have never been to the country, but I'd still be unable to wash my hands and move on. I'd check in on the PL and lament our absence, but I'd never be able to follow another English team. Not even one branding itself Newcastle City or AFC Newcastle or Newcastle FC ? One that played at SJP and wore black and white stripes ?

It's hard though following a sport without rooting for a team. I love sport in general, football in particular. But whatever sport I watch I always like to root for someone or some team. The trouble is for me I'm shite at picking teams to follow, the Falcons in Rugby, Mariners in Baseball and the Dolphins in American Football are examples of my wank choices.

I can echo that statement, if anyone picked up the NUFC banner as it were, even if it were branded NCFC or NFC or whatever and they began to play in black and white strips in Newcastle then it would be hard not to start to get behind them.

In a probably vain effort to try to divert a little attention away from the "I can't take it anymore" drama of the transfer window, I thought I would propose this totally hypothetical question: Mike Ashley has said that we were on the brink before he took over, what would you do, if NUFC went into extinction? I know it's highly unlikely and even if it had happened, we would have been reborn, much in the way Boro was but in my hypothetical world we hadn't and Newcastle upon Tyne didn't have a football league club anymore. We are all football fans, would you throw your lot behind the dirty makems or the smoggies or one the smaller localish teams like Carlisle, Hartlepool or Darlo ? Or would you begin to support one of the local non league clubs like Gateshead, Newcastle Blue Star, Dunston Fed or Blyth Spartans ? Even follow Berwick Rangers in the Scottish league ? Or would you still need your PL fix and go on to follow a Manure, Liverpool, Aston Villa or Wigan ? Or would you just swear off football all together or at least English football and go cheer on Real Mallorca or someone else ? Also what do you think would happen if this completely ridiculous situation happened. SJP is one of the biggest and best stadiums in the country, it's inconcievable that a city the size of Newcastle and history does not have a league club. Would another team move in, similar to the movement of teams in US sports or like what MK dons did ? Perhaps Berwick or Hearts or someone moved down and we witnessed scottish league football in Newcastle. Or Boro, Wigan or Blackpool or whoever moved in and rebranded themselves Newcastle City or something ? Or a non league team moved in. Would current Toon fans get behind any of these teams ? Or would SJP just be bulldozed and a set of swanky shops or apartments be put up in it’s place. As I said it's all completely bonkers but I think it would be fun to here how people think the future would be without NUFC.

Lol , that sounds pretty long term though

This could be what he plays, considering some of the comments he's made about Colo: Given Beye Bassong Taylor Enrique Colo Jonas Butt Guthrie Zog Owen I don't like it one bit, but I don't think we have too many options

Duff's not fit is he ?

Geremi's not even in the squad apparently.

Yep and that could be a huge gamble on someone probably weeks away from match fitness. This is the reason I was so flabberghasted at the lunatics posting that if we didn't sign anyone else then it wouldn't be a problem, yesterday.

Like I said how can you expect Barton to be ready to start ? If he's not then who fills that 5th spot in midfield ?

Good call.

I think he's talking about luke young

I'm not sure we can expect someone who has just got back to traininhg after spending some time in the nick, with no pre-season or reserve games to start. He'll be on the bench at best IMO. Swap Barton for Shola and play a 4-4-2 would be my guess at how KK goes.

Why sky have got Smith playing there, is he even fit ? Is it dawning on me that we may have to play him or Shola on Saturday ?

In a similar vein, how much does the contemporary Ginola look like Rik Mayall? I was thinking the same thing. It's amazing how much he's changed, I haven't seen him in a while, but he looks completely different.

I know I've been complaining that we need heads but this is such a meh signing if it comes off for me and at in excess of 4mill seems a bit pricey for a relative unknown. Hopefully he's in the mould of Guthrie and Joans type of signings though. If he augment our priority positions signings then fine no problem, but hopefully the recruitment team's efforts are focussed more on our problems with the attack and creativity in the central midfield area.

Great to see so many smiles on faces, they look a happy bunch, and team spirit is as important as individual talent. What we would give to wind back the clock and have Ginola of 10 years ago back.

Fair enough Dave, you are obviously as nervous as the rest of us right now.

I'm sorry but that's typical un educated, outsider crap. You know fuck all about what NUFC needs and requires, and even less about what AShley wants (as most of ous fans haven't got a clue) Continue to follow the myth of KK being a crap manager, you know fuck all about it, we watch the team every week, we are not stupid, we know when a team and a manager are up to the task and there are partically no true NUFC fans that do not back KK 100%.

Leeds mentioned it the other day not specifically Milner though This could just as easily be Lennon tbh, in fact I would probably be more inclined to believe it was considering that this is a favoured tactic of Levy.