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Honestly? The last time he was really good this season was Boro away. Everything since that has been slightly above average~poor Good player, but attitude problems will plague him as long as he stays with us. Wouldn't sell though considering our likely complete inability to buy anyone better.

Was a great player last year, but like everyone, inexplicably turned into s*** once he put on a Toon shirt. To be fair, it probably has something to do with the fact that he's been in and out of prison. Still, just our luck eh?

Glen Roeder is welcome to him.

All we need is for West Ham to pull off a winner and this'll have been a good day. ...Aside from our own game, of course

Something tells me these thread will become far more important than our actual match threads in the coming weeks. Come on you useless Spammers put Brum away please..

Actually we're pretty well sorted in the bruiser department. Fat Sam saw to that. It's actual football players we're lacking in

Well, this game is sorted. So howay West Ham.

What was his alternative? An overweight, unfit Aussie? An overweight, unfit Aussie that scores goals. Really indefensible team selection today, and failure to bring in Viduka or Emre after we got hit for the second goal and started getting played off the pitch

too much quality for us, pure and simple. Some of the decisions from Keegan today have been really difficult to defend

OWENNNN!!!! Header again, but I don't really care.

4 bad passes in 90 seconds from Carr... Uh oh

utterly shocking lineup not playing Faye or Enrique, but I suppose that's the best Keegan could come up with given fitness issues. He's not stupid and he's the one watching the lads in training so I'll trust him for now. Really, really don't think we're winning this though now.

You follow the toon mate you cant be classed as glory hunter. Watching & supporting this lot is not fun, it is painful being Newcastle United fan as there is more pain involved doing this than their is getting on down to your local S & M night. We need a new term for foreign toon fans. "Agony hunters" or something to that effect.

Speaking from the perspective of a Far East "Glory Hunter," I don't want this either. Our domestic leagues are having a hard enough time as it is trying to interest people who just want to watch the Premiership on the telly. What happens when the Premiership now actually comes in for a weekend every year, steals our stadia from our hometown clubs, and start a media circus which will no doubt leave any interest in the domestic league swept up in the dust. I love Newcastle United and the Premier League too, but who do they think they are, saying that they'll just barge in and hold competetive games here with no regard for what we think. It's not like American football which basically isn't played outside of the US, these foreign countries have leageus and tems of their own. And if the Prem thinks that we're goign to drop everything and open up our stadia for them whenever they decide to waltz, in, they are sadly mistaken. We aren't beggars ffs. The Japanese FA has already issued a condemnation of the proposal, and I'd be highly disappointed if the Korean FA didn't soon follow. So English fans don't want it, and foreign fans don't want it. The only ones who want it are the walnut-for-brains glory hunters who follow Man U/Arsenal but would be hard pressed to name a single player from any other Prem team, and the club owners who seek to make money off those unfortunate souls. Bad idea.

Superb midfield? You're having a laugh there. On the evidence of hte last three games, we don't have one. Mate who's a Villa fan thinks you have the best midfield outside the top 4. Perhaps he's just thick. Haven't seen any Villa games recently so I really can't comment.

Do you think Arsene might be kicking himself a bit? Didn't Bentley ask to leave ... in fact from what I remember he pretty much demanded it! Besides is he really better than any of the players in their first team right now? better than Rosicky and Walcott who also play wide midfield roles Agreed. He's also a much more effective player than Hleb. To sum up, Arsenal have a s*** midfield Better than Rosicky or Hleb!?! Rosicky has always been world class and Hleb has had a phenomenaly good season. Bentley is excellent but he's not as good as either of them. Honestly wasn't much between them last season IIRC. Just a matter of one progressing while one stagnates.

Off topic, but Under Pressure would be the perfect background music to any of the last three seasons.

Given Beye Taylor Cacapa Enrique Milner Barton Faye Duff Martins Owen Go out like this and I can somehow concieve us playing decent football. Taylor and Cacapa being outmuscled by Carew will probably still cost us the game, but the alternative is to be completely run over by a superb Aston Villa midfield. At least this way we have some hope on the attack.

Reffing will never be perfect in football because so many decisions are pretty much 50/50 borderline. Depending on the ref's personality, he'll either always give these decisions to the home side, due to influence from the crowd, or always to the away side, in order to appear more "neutral" even though he's being just as unfair. The ref will always be biased to one side or another. The top 4, of course, will always get decisions just by being who they are. In a pardoxical way, I think Uriah Rennie is actually the fairest ref in the league. He'll almost invariably get every borderline decision wrong, regardless of which side is involved.

I found his post insensitive and stupid but it's not the end of the world. I'm guessing that you find "chinkies" offensive. I've never really known the word to be used in a derogatory manner so the use of it doesn't matter to me. I'd hardly bite if you called me a Brit which is very similar. Think you're just misunderstanding things. "Chink" is about as derogatory when describing Asians as the term "N*****" is when describing Africans. Perhaps it's different in British English. Either way, a term the vast majority of Asians would find extremely offensive shouldn't be allowed. and you're right, aside from the unfortunate word usage, the general attitude of his post was pretty stupid too.

What part of his post made you bite? What part of that post seems acceptable to you? I don't even care if it's some kind of sick windup and I'm biting. This sort of thing should not be allowed even in jest.

Don't be daft, you don't get banned for being stupid. So if someone came on here and spouted off the n word that'd be fine too, since they're just being stupid? No reasonably moderated board would allow this sort of thing to happen unpunished. Granted, I've now found out that the t*** is only 14 years old, so my desire to shove sharp metal objects down his dirty throat has abated somewhat. r shut up will you, give yourself a slap man, just taking the piss a little bit, rather sad you trying to get someone banned I just feel sorry for your parents.

Don't be daft, you don't get banned for being stupid. So if someone came on here and spouted off the n word that'd be fine too, since they're just being stupid? No reasonably moderated board would allow this sort of thing to happen unpunished. Granted, I've now found out that the twat is only 14 years old, so my desire to shove sharp metal objects down his dirty throat has abated somewhat.

This lad is not a "chinky" though he is from South Korea. sorry, but admit they all look the same! what is he? a korean, well how many of them have become a top player? hardly any I am going to be furious if this does not result in a ban.

Crumpy should just have his own forum methinks. He can shout at empty air and we can program bots to reply to his windups.