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Sidwell - Free Baines - £5mil Luke Young (maybe, havent seen him in a while - any quality RB)- £3mil a good CB, possibly a kid - £5mil young striker for the future - £2mil

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We didnt let the title slip, manu gained it. We didnt do bad, they just did exceptionally well.

The times did say the toon would deny it...

I dunno. I only know about his England time, and i was never impressed. Bad reports from the players, and never seemed to get the best out of them.

I remember NTL buying shares in our club, the papers reported that they were only allowed 10% maximum (ie they bought 9.99%) because of PL rules since they already had a similar amount in another PL club (cant remember who) as well as Celtic. Villa? Correct, they had 9.9% in Newcastle, Villa and someone else in the Prem I think. Possibly West Ham? And there are rules about ownership of more than one club in the Premiership. Plus, why would RA bother buying an English club at some stupid inflated price, he'd just buy some cheapo French team or something and farm the players out there. I think it was leeds. But they didnt have the name on their shirt.

bollicks really. the whole game would have changed.

I think MON is a good manager, but highly overrated. But i'm glad villa aren't doing great. After the first couple of games, people were instantly coming out saying "i told you so" to me. And i remember on the radio after they beat us at their place, (the 3rd game of the season) them all talking about how they're going to get in the top 4!!! I'd like to hear them now. They were crap in that game anyway, i dont know what got them so carried away.

I cringe everytime the tannoy guy says this. It's embarrassing. And did you know Rod Stewart is playing on the 25th june. Tickets are on sale now, and apparently, it's an 'unmissable gig'. >

Portsmouth may still yet apply if they finish outside of the europe qualifying league positions, so we'll probably have to finish above them if they don't. Good points but we've still to play pompey next week, so we can close it down to 3 points. A lot will probably boil down to that game. This was discussed yesterday, and i believe our current position will be intertoto if it's a manu chelsea final, since apparently pompy and reading havent applied.

I think i'd like him. I couldnt turn on him, no matter how bad he did

I dont know why pompy havent applied when they're going for europe apparently. I hope we do get in. Whatever yoy say, it means we're in europe next season, and that's got to help with signings.

tbh, i didnt think portsmouth as a place was bad. I liked the area down by the water. Though the water means it gets foggy too. Remember one of the times it started to creep onto the pitch. Paul Merson was even saying it was a dump yesterday, and one of the reasons pompy are in the prem

Honestly, it's a f****** shithole. I totally agree with you about old school grounds, but Fratton has to be seen to be believed. The lack of roof means theres no chance of generating any kind of atmosphere from the away end. The first time I went was in our promotion season, it was absolutely s**** then, but now dear me. I went their last season and literally all they've done is put seats on the terrace, and that's it. I'm not one of these that likes being pampered, going to places like Grimsby in the past and the Baseball Ground, Roker, and even Blackburn pre 1993, absolutely piss on anything in the Premiership now, but Fratton Park oh dear. ONE BOG for 3,000 away fans, there is absolutely no chance of creating an atmosphere, as for their atmosphere being great, twice I've been it was pure s****. Some daft c*** ringing a bell and 1500 giddies monotously singing der der der der der der der der Porstmuff, and that's on a good day. Where do these football myths come from?? They're a s*** club they're 5-1 down to Arsenal, it's their first time in the limelight for decades, so a few of them sing a couple of songs and clueless arseholes (clearly of the SKY generation ilk - no offence Brummie, you're in the majority not the minority), now say they're the best fans in the country. Between 1994 and 1999 they didn't average over 9,000. s*** club, s*** city, s*** ground, s*** fuckin fans, nothing club f*** off to the Championship. Don't think about having a night out there, hand on heart it rivals anywhere I've ever been for charvers, anywhere. It's like one big Ashington, but the people are even uglier. Christ, really? I can imagine the one bog is worth avoiding aswell. I think it's 2 cubicals and 4 urinals for all the men

Been there twice. Crap atmosphere from us both times. I think because it's so far away, alot of the toon fans were from the south, and thus didnt know the songs etc. Bit of a hole. "Shall we build a stand for you" And the bell is very annoying. I iinitially thought it was a spanner being hit against metal. They've never made a good atmosphere when ive been there. Noise, like that bell, but no songs.

As our last 5 games show, he hasn't got out striking department sorted. Take Drogba and Shevchenko away from Chelsea and I don't think they would be scoring that many either. We have spent nearly the whole season without Owen and Amoebi and I'm just amazed it's taken us this long to hit a dry patch. With Owen and Shola back we will have a very solid set of strikers for next season. I held this opinion 'til recently, but the charlton and city performances were such disgraces. There was no desire and they were idealess. Surely this is down to a tactically inept manager.

the annoying thing is, europe is within reach. But you know we'll just collapse again.

Agree with most of that. Though i thought duff was one of our better players, and while far from good, martins tried hard and i didnt think he stood out as bad (considering which team he was playing in)

This was a very bad interview. If you're doing crap and want the fans on your side, you do not blame them, even if it's true. You do not defend the performance either. You tell it how it is and say "that was rubbish, and things need to improve". Bobby, nor souness, nor roeder have had the bottle to do that. Really pisses me off when managers defend clearly abysmal performances.

proper supporters support the team of the place where they come from. Not true, some proper supporters support teams because of family members, my kids were always going to support Newcastle, regardless of where they were born. My nephew was born in the midlands but didnt have a choice in the matter, he was born black & white, we made sure of that. There's an argument that "come from" is a generational thing - but if i moved to Birmingham (as if), had kids, and THEY stayed there, had kids etc, i wouldn't expect my grandkids to be NUFC fans. If you are a brummie (which my grandkids would be) you should support a Birmingham team, in my opinion. You shouldn't necessarily be forced into supporting a team other than that of where you 'come from'. I know what you mean, but...I've been born and raised in Newcastle, but i support scotland as my national team. My dad's been taking me to scotland games since i was 5, so ive no choice in the matter. I'm a scotland fan, like it or not. Naturally, i would bring my son up as a scotland fan, despite him only being 1/4 scottish

Do it to fat fred's favorite restaurant,that will be enough.. Something tells me he's not fussy.

I know people say we've got crap players, and we do have some, but seriously with a great manager, we could do things even with our current squad. We have better players that loads of teams above us, but we lack ideas.

Dickhead. People like you are tumor in football.

With Roeder as manager ? Highly possible. Whats your solution then genius? Sack him now? And then what? I'm not saying it is the solution, but it could be, at least short term. A new manager would probably bring a boost that would at least keep us up. some very very very short memories around here Yours? You can't even remember what was written at the beginning of the said post. :rolls: eh? I wasnt saying it was the solution, i said it may be a short term solution to keep us up. Like Roeder last year had a short term impact.

With Roeder as manager ? Highly possible. Whats your solution then genius? Sack him now? And then what? I'm not saying it is the solution, but it could be, at least short term. A new manager would probably bring a boost that would at least keep us up. some very very very short memories around here Yours? You can't even remember what was written at the beginning of the said post. :rolls: