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Glad to see there's someone lightening the mood! He is a mental case like, but he cares.

I heard they were planning to move to a new ground on the old North Durham rugby club site next to the Ghead Civic Centre. Any truth?

I'm not showing anyone 'unconditional faith' BTW, they certainly haven't done anything to deserve that. All I'm saying is that the picture of what happened is completely unclear and I'm not going to slag off my club based on rumour and speculation.

Anyone who would say no now is clinically insane.

They like to come across as being completely in charge, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if a lot of them have a whole range of restrictions on them. After all, the manager isn't the head of the football club, he's part of the structure. (Disclaimer: obviously when the club is so successful that you can afford to spend almost anything and never need to sell, the manager's position is a lot stronger. e.g. Fergie)

It's funny now but hopefully it won't end up with the Police accidentally doing a 'Jean Charles de Menezes' on you. Doubt Osama has that bluetooth name TBH! To confuse the CIA he probably chose 'George W Bush' for his.

Plus the likes of Xisco, to be fair. I sort of agree with your fundamental point though. Completely correct, and both the club and Keegan have to take equal blame about it ever getting to the stage it did. Professionals should have been able to sort out such a minor point, if it really was that minor.

Don't ask difficult questions like that man, they make people think! Truth is nobody really knows what went on before Keegan left... and we all pick and choose evidence to suit our own agendas sometimes.

To be fair we don't know exactly when the contact was made between Bassong and the club, or who had the idea, or who gave the go ahead. Doesn't matter anyway, NUFC is what matters and they made a great signing.

There's a big difference between a 'yes man' and a manager who is mature and professional enough to know he's not king of the world and needs to work within a club's structure.

The best thing we can do is forget Alan Shearer as a possibility for manager. He's obviously more interested in the media than in management, or he would have started at a smaller club already. Failing that, we should give him the job ASAP to get it over with and move on.

Was just about to post what Skirge did there. The idea of loans is fine, but not to clubs in the same division. Seems like that was allowed as a sticking plaster to sooth people who were complaining about the transfer window coming in. Allowing premier league teams like Man Utd/Arsenal to loan players within the league just encourages them to buy up too many players, and also prevents players at the 'loanee' club from getting a game. I wonder whether there should be an age restriction on loan players as well, maybe it should only be for U23s or something?

Seems a very level-headed lad, and he knows what is required for the rest of the season.

Saylor, Raylor, Duff and Enrique would probably leave out of that team, and possibly Guthrie as well.

True, but in Reading's case particularly it was the squad that had brought them up in the first place. So they were already prepared for championship football. It'll come down to whether or not Ashley is prepared to take the gamble on us coming straight back up. If he is, which I suspect will be the case, he's bound to ensure those who are good and actually would be prepared to stay will be kept. I would hope. I hope so too, probably will be a very small number of names on that 'prepared to stay' list though, and those might well be the ones who can't find a premiership club to move to.

You're right, but it does suggest that we have the ability to actually play well. Hopefully we can do it another few times before the end of the season.

There aren't many decent chances left for us to pick up points, goes without saying that Hull is one of the best ones. We must beat them.

True, but in Reading's case particularly it was the squad that had brought them up in the first place. So they were already prepared for championship football.

Partly true, but we didn't wait for Man Utd to attack last night. We took the game to them right from the off, that was one of the best things about it. Obviously Martins and Lovenkrands are dangerous on the break, but it was more than just that.

We were 100% right to sell Parker when we did IMO. Just because we now need an energetic holding player doesn't change that.

There are a lot of errors in that original list who would stay and go IMO. You would see an exodus of anyone who is any good. Even the likes of Stephen Taylor is highly rated in England and would probably be signed by someone around Villa level. Bassong would definitely be sold, as would Martins and Enrique. Players like Smith, Geremi and Cacapa on your list of players to leave would in fact be the players we would end up relying on.

I honestly don't see what pundits and football experts see in Butt at the moment. His legs have gone, he vary rarely tackles anyone, and his ability to pass the ball to the opposition is second to none. Maybe he has some mystical football expertise that normal fans can't see?

Immense player, but can be a whinging bastard when things start to go against him.

You have just confirmed what I said - he is NOT effective in this side, whereas some players with slightly less ability on the ball would be...are you suggesting that we can change half the side to accommodate Guttierez, because I think Mr Cashley might disagree with you... Back in 66, Joe Harvey sacrificed such a player(Alan Suddick) so he could buy three others...the changes in the side kept us up, even though NONE of the 3 new guys had Suddick's talent..... No, I'm saying that despite his apparent 'lack of end product' he is actually a great asset to the team. With our geriatric midfield we need someone who puts in the work of 2 players like Jonas does. He's not the cherry on top at all is what I mean - he's one of the few players who actually contributes something worthwhile.

I think we've actually been missing Duff in a weird way, if only because it led to the nightmare of player a left-footed striker at right midfield.