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"Picking you off"! Are there going to be Mackem snipers deployed around the SOL? If they can work out which end the bullets come out we might be in danger.

Aye, with Tiote we could have had a real go at Man Utd and Chelsea, but without him it's much more of a struggle.

They still probably earned a good bonus and salary increase though. Football-wise you're right, but they still might think they made the right moves financially.

Kadar is in those photos! He's alive!

It is, just like CL having down to 4th place teams in it. G14 safety nets. Yep, the whole thing is a farce really. IMO the CL should only be the top 2 max, and even that is too many. Still, easy to argue against it when you haven't participated for so long!

A big money move to a Champions League club is almost impossible to turn down, but ideally for his career he would have had one or two more seasons of regular football before it happened. Still, it is satisfying to see him not doing well. He has plenty of time to put it right though I suppose, he hasn't suddenly become totally useless.

What a post!

I've heard of this new scheme in schools, it's to find out which ones of you are gay and which are paedos. I would take in a photo of Kelly Brook just to be safe.

Probably fair, everything was set up for him to become a Newcastle legend, the only snag was a crazy-money bid by Liverpool.

Mad idea having the FA Cup final during the league season, totally devalues it. Horrible idea.

If Santon can play both fullback positions at once.

Ah right, because assuming a player is leaving based on absolutely no evidence is the sensible way to behave.

Aye, that's what I meant. I was saying that if we are going to play HBA, it should be up front with Ba. Because to fit all three means tinkering with our system too much. I didn't mean that Best and Ba couldn't work, I've said many times that I rate Best and he's done a great job.

Same, I also think we need both Cabaye and Tiote in fairly deep positions, so I don't think anything other than Ba/HBA as a front 2 can really work.

What bollox.

Suppose there's always the risk of this when there's a week between games. If we were in the Champions League people wouldn't have time to talk shite about absolutely nothing. yeah at least we wont have that problem next season. Yep, Ben Arfa will fire us into the Champions League with a string of world-class performances, he's that innovative. Guaranteed.

Once HBA has proved he is up to speed (which you could argue he has already) there will be no decision to make. Against teams who will probably beat us, IMO we should play him anyway as he represents our best chance of hurting them.

Suppose there's always the risk of this when there's a week between games. If we were in the Champions League people wouldn't have time to talk shite about absolutely nothing.

We can't debate the meaning of world-class and innovative in the same thread, my head starts to hurt.

Are you just on the wind-up this morning Ronaldo? What's the deal?

Christ man, nobody is guaranteeing he's going to fire us into the Champions League with an endless string of hattricks. We're just excited to see a genuinely world-class player in our team again.

I thought this thread had reached its peak of pointlessness - how wrong could I be. It's innovating in terms of futility.

Cool, I'm in Archway at the moment, not sure what I'm doing on Sat but I might check it out. Might watch through other means if my new broadband is installed mind (wink wink). cockney mafia! Eh? It's in north London. Nearer to the East End than Buckinghamshire admittedly!

Oh, that was a waste of about 50 pages then.