Lenny

We were fucking class leading up to our second goal. Been a long time since I've said that.

58 a piece!

It wasn't Lawrenson it was the other guy, to which Lawrenson followed up with a cracker like "That's just Krul".

Nope, i did hear one of them say 'and this is why he's so highly thought of by the Newcastle fans' when making a spectacular save. Commentators contradicting themselves?? Well I never.

Did anyone notice the commentator the other day say that half the Newcastle fans at game had probably never heard of Krul before....

Probably because of yesterday's training ground incident during which he allegedly walked off, take it you haven't heard about it Nope, didn't know about that, barely been online since work yesterday. Same old same old then...

Probably not, I just found it strange that Barton didn't start.

Well, my thoughts for today: Colocinni was awful, looked really nervy on the ball, seemed to dwell on things and just generally cause unnecessary shit at the back. I think our whole defence other than Steven Taylor was guilty of this. I was very impressed with Smith, I thought he put in a great shift, won so many tackles and actually led by example, if he can carry on like this, he might actually turn out to be alright for us. Nolan offered absolutely fuck all, slow as hell, seems to be oblivious to the fact that people are closing him down at times. Barton did alright when he came on. I'm surprised he didn't start, perhaps Shearer is having some input? I've always been a fan of Jonas', he usually works hard, and runs at defenders, but I can't defend his delivery anymore. His crossing is absolutely shocking, 0 end product. He faded as the game went on as well. Carroll did well, won a lot of headers and shouldn't have been the one to come off for Barton, it should have been either Ameobi (who was his usual self), or Nolan. Krul looks like a very good shot stopper, and very eager to make a claim for the ball, almost to a fault, but I was more impressed with him than Harper. I'm pretty certain Harper wouldn't have got down to that first save Krul made. Performance wise as a team, I thought our goal was a very well worked goal and we showed decent signs of ball retention, but we caused unnecessary trouble for ourselves, as we always do. Over the 90 I thought we were slightly the better, but a draw is a fair result. This game had 1-1 written all over it IMO anyway.

Chopra again.

Well thats my 3 favourite players gone.

Proof that supporting Newcastle sends you insane.

I am actually looking forward to watching us play rather than worrying about all the other shit.

Where would freddy find the other 80 million tho. He probably wouldn't worry about that, he has a year before he needs to start thinking about that sort of thing....

Er... I don't think it does, I think it says that Ashley is desperate to get £100m, so to attract more interest he will offer the club for £20m now and £80m in a year.

Hull?? Christ.

If this is a goer, some form of announcement tomorrow would probably do the (committed) players a world of good ahead of our first game.

Liverpool paying £20 million for Aquillani.

This has gotta be bullshit.

I hope he does well for them, he'll have a decent team around him with stability so he should do better than he did for us.

The Sheff Wed and Feyenoord games amongst many others. The Arsenal game stands out as well.

Sad to see him go tbh. Hope he does well over there since Wolfsburg have no impact on us. He's shown some moments of brilliance in an ultimately shite period for us, I for one won't be saying good riddance etc.

RIP, legend.

Someone has copied that off my old man: http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,60874.msg1742625.html#msg1742625