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Can't stop smiling at the moment, not only a massive result but a more than decent performance to go with it. I'll admit I never thought we could win this one, but the lads did us all proud. Confidence back, players back, winning ways back. Chuffed I'm going to Fulham now. On the minus side, how shit were the commentators on Setanta? Couldn't stop mentioning anything negative to do with Newcastle. Don't care now though!

Saw Martin Keown in Oxford the other day, strange.

I can't see us winning this one, but if we do it will be immense for the confidence.

what do you think of coloccini and gutierrez ? Pair of them are definitely better than we had. Ask me again at the end of February when I see how they handle the winter but they both are OK IMO. As for xisco, pace is not something you switch on and off just because you come on for 20 minutes. You either have it or you don't and from what I've seen so far there is nothing in his game to suggest he is any faster than shambles. I couldn't really give a fuck what deportivo fans think as spanish fans rated the likes of luque and marcelhino. Just about sums them up really. Just about sums some Newcastle fans up that they would right off a promising young lad, who by all accounts has worked hard whenever he's been on, after a tiny number of appearances.

Have to admit I buy all my football stuff at Sports Direct, socks, shorts and trainers. The best value by far... and one of the few sports shops that actually sell sports gear and not just clothes for charvers.

There's only one quote in that (shit) article though, and it doesn't even go close to saying what the headline and introduction imply.

On the OP, it might be tempting to see a positive in being down the bottom that we will get a lot of workers in to replace any 'flair' players, but the last thing we should want as fans is to have 11 cloggers wearing the black and white. If you spend too long down the bottom you start to turn into Bolton. At the moment we're getting by (kind of) on potential and past successes, but it won't last forever.

Very reasoned posts by Tom and peaspud I have to say, if you conduct yourselves like that in future no NUFC fan can have many complaints. Obviously we should have learned to take any media reporting with a massive pinch of salt. All I would say following from that is, if you don't want people to take the papers' reports at face value it is absolutely essential that the NUSC has a credible, professional website that carries clear communications as soon as possible after each meeting. Then we can know what to believe.

Not sure what point you're making there man, surely any set of fans will have their own opinions and debate amongst themselves - that's healthy. And those who don't want to support the protests would be expected to 'not deny themselves a pint', by which I assume you mean continue as normal. I don't get it.

Are other clubs as bad as us though? It gets stupid sometimes IMO. Maybe it's the price we pay for having passionate fans, I mean you don't see it happening at Fulham but then they don't have any atmosphere anyway.

Both right, I've been saying for ages that doing 'anything' isn't always better than doing nothing - in fact this is a prime example of how hasty action can be harmful.

Will there be any minutes of the meeting released or anything like that? Would be very interested to see if anyone raised the moderate point of view or if everyone was completely anti-Ashley.

Bassong and Cacapa are so far ahead of Taylor it's daft man Taylor is in the team as the big stopper. Those two are far better defenders but pair them with Coloccini and we might be vulnerable in the air. We are even with Taylor in there tbh. he stops f*** all and backs off all the time though. Anyone would think he's the sweeper If there is one thing that I find unforgiveable in a defender it is when they continously back off an advancing attacker. I hate it with a passion. It is probably my biggest problem with Taylor. Justin Hoyte is another who specializes in this brainless tactic. Face up to the player, try and time it right and get a challenge in. I have seen Taylor back off till he is literally just outside the 6 yard box. It is criminal. If anything you want to make sure you get your challenge in before the opposing player is in the penalty box for goodness sake. It makes me cry. I've wondered about that for years, but it happens so often I can only think that it must be coached as the best way to defend.

Insane but not that rare.

Shortage of multi-billionaires eager to play Fairy Godmother and splash obscene amounts of money, fractious and quite possibly ungrateful fanbase, global financial meltdown etc etc. Got to face it, we have made ourselves very unattractive with our latest protests etc. In fact, the worst part is that we have made ourselves investable only by exactly the kind of people that we don't want - someone who's only in it for the money.

I hate all the whingers at the match as well for the record, it's the one thing that spoils the experience for me. Also, I can't stand people that react to every refereeing decision that goes against us, even if it's obviously correct.

One thing we shouldn't do is drop Martins to acomodate another midfielder, whichever side Jonas plays on he'll have an impact on our games. Just ask him which he prefers.

Thing is, we haven't been shit for ages have we? We were regularly finishing in the top few in the prem and having decent runs in Europe until a few years ago. It's not like we've been down to the championship or anything - our crowds are impressive but you can feel people's patience getting tested now.

I don't really think the question is about debating whether or not Northern Ireland should be part of Britain. There's a whole other war about that.

yeah, 95 want him back, that leaves about,..erm....50,000ish who dont. Er, that doesn't make sense, we're a representative sample of fans with all sorts of views.

This I'm afraid, some people will always want to have a go about something. If we won the league people would complain we could have done it better with a different manager, dropping Shola or playing Bassong at left back! Nothing wrong in those quotes, obviously if he could get a long contract he would prefer it.

Very suprised that 68% would forgive, after some of the stick us Ashley lovers have taken on here. Encouraging though, maybe our fans aren't beyond help after all!

Did he dive for the pen last night?

Second half was awful but understandable, even though the performance was bad I think the team will take a lot of confidence away from this one, and now we have Barton back in the dressing room nobody will be left in any doubt as to what's expected. Just ecstatic to have a win, and I'm sure the players will feel the same. Yes, they made it hard work for themselves, but they got the job done in the end. And Kinnear isn't the only manager to make inexplicable substitutions - it's normal that Martins gets sacrificied even though he's our only outlet!

Jonas for captain?