Segun Oluwaniyi

It's something of an indictment of our attacking options that we have to play 3 strikers so that each one can make up for the weaknesses of the others. Not to mention compensating the lack of goals coming from midfield. I think you're wrong about that. The travesty is that the strikers have to make and take their own chances since no one willl create any for them.

I have a funny feeling Oba will leave in the summer. I don't know why, but I think it may be happening. Also, before I am attacked, I did not claim this as fact or say I was "In The Know", I just think it might happen. Don't know about that, he genuinely seems to love the place and dare I say it the club. Everyone thinks Oba loves them, he's just that kind of guy. He "loved" Inter but when Ibra came he put in his request. He displays great passion towards Nigeria, but still he skips town when it suits him. Don't forget he has already pulled shady things a few times here as well. If the club is still in chaos come June, I think he'll be out. Players just as fans will tire of the "mild excitement-epic fail-mild excitement-epic fail" cycle that NUFC seems to follow. I think N'Zog may leave for similar reasons.

I have a funny feeling Oba will leave in the summer. I don't know why, but I think it may be happening. Also, before I am attacked, I did not claim this as fact or say I was "In The Know", I just think it might happen.

Ruud is out for the season...so they go and buy Huntelaar? Good Lord.

Newcastle is the club fullbacks come to die. Stephen Carr, Olly Bernard, and Celestine Babayaro all had alot of talent (especially the last two). I have seen it. I have borne witness to the wonderous exploits of these three rampaging up and down the right and left sides of the pitch. And I have also borne witness to the decay and death of that talent that has hit these players in the North-East of England. What hath cursed us in this cruel fashion? These days when I see Enrique, once full of so much promise, giving the ball back to attackers, I shudder, and pray, that this one does not fall into the abyss which has claimed Baba, Olly, and Stevie.

Yakubu, yes, brilliant player IMO. Ashton, if fit is a quality player, but keeping him fit is the problem & we dont exactly have a good record of keeping injury prone players fit. Similar to Owen in some respects, does nothing for 90 minutes but can still score the all important goals that win games. His problem is his work ethic really. Very true. Just think that he would be a good signing for us, especially under JFK because he is strong and good in the air, just an all round better player than Ameobi, seeing as though he doesnt look like changing his style of play now. Not like Everton are going to sell him like!! No, Yakubu is not brilliant. He scores a lot of goals wherever he goes, but his other contributions are just too little. He doesn't even try to assist in other areas. So when he's not scoring goals or n form, he becomes a massive liability really.

On the same note in all our many seasons in the Waffa since 94 the biggest team i think we played would be Marseille. Played a hell of a lot of mediocre teams Edit: Probably AS Roma PSV, Sporting Lisbon & Fenerbahce aren't bad mind. We played probably the strongest PSV side in years. Those teams are the class of the UEFA Cup in all honesty. I don't really know what people are expecting.

You should be much more jealous because of your performance in 2005-2006.

Pompey are playing Both Peter Crouch and King Kanu upfront. One of the tallest and most physically awkward pairings I've seen.

Like Villa?

Yes, I remember him doing very well against Villa. The consensus is that he is suppossed to be better than Alex.

What squad number do you think we should give to Clinton Morrison?

No point in "clogging the midfield". Teams have been doing that to Chelsea since Mourinho arrived. I guarante that Lampard, Deco, Mikel and Ballack will walk right through the center midfield you put out anyway. Also, if Ameobi starts with Oba and Owen both fit on the bench, then I'm not watching the f***** match.

Assuming it has something to do with this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1085762/Injury-prone-Newcastle-striker-Martins-criticised-Nigeria-boss-Amodu.html?ITO=1490 He wasn't invited though. Neither were the likes of Joseph Yobo or John Obi Mikel. In fact, I questioned what the hell Yakubu and Kanu were doing there, It was a friendly, I thought the purpose was to look at NEW players? I will see if Oba is there for the next qualifier.

Hasn't he been s*** recently for you lot too? Great goal scorer, but he'll never win anything because of his lack of effort. He is the anti-Oba for Nigeria. Oba hardly ever shows up, but when he does he always runs his socks off and is full of movement. Meanwhile, the Yak shows up for EVERY bloody match and stands like a statue.

I think: 1.Owen 2.Duff/Viduka 3.Barton/Smith/Coloccini Martins will probably move up with Duff/Viduka when he signs a new contract. I meant who would be our highest earners...if we weren't paying bit part players and cripples incredibly inflated wages. Like a perfect world.

Who do you all think should be our highest earners by the way. I'm guessing, Owen, Martins, Barton, and Jonas.

Which of are biggest wage earners won't be playing? Geremi? Viduka? Smith? I'd rather not pay to say Viduka and Smith limp around, though I'd prefer Geremi to start over Butt anyway. It's actually quite comical that those three you mentioned could be amongst our biggest wage earners. Then we wonder why we are struggling. I agree with this. Instead of blaming Keegan/Ashley/Wise/The wrath of God, we should look to our incredibly wasteful and inefficent habit of signing out of favor players from bigger clubs, and putting them on long contract with astronomical wages. This started with Shepard and continued into Allardyce's first window.

Which of are biggest wage earners won't be playing? Geremi? Viduka? Smith? I'd rather not pay to say Viduka and Smith limp around, though I'd prefer Geremi to start over Butt anyway.

KK wasn't a great manager last season? We may well have went down if he hadn't have taken over from SA. We may go down this season, and no doubt some will try and blame that on Keegan for leaving. The true reason for his departure will come out one day, but i know who i think was in the right, and that's KK. I'll hold my hands up and admit it if i'm proved otherwise too. Ya I'm not going to omit the horrid start because we began to win when Oba and Viduka returned. Both Allardyce and Keegan had the team playing well in stint last year, but the teams mostly played nonsense under both managers.

I thought Ashley Cole and Rio Ferdinand had some white about them. Ashley Cole has a white cock warmer His mum?

I thought Ashley Cole and Rio Ferdinand had some white about them.

Ah f*** it. Much higher chance of Owen leaving than Given anyway.

The man has been a fantastic servant to Newcastle United. However, he wasn't particularly great as a manager last season and he has been destructive to the teams goal this season. I think that is it really. I don't think anyone should be absolved from questioning because of what they accomplished in the past. Although, I do wonder what the purpose of starting this thread was besides starting another tiresome argument.

Someone can chekc my statistics, and I'll accept it if I'm wrong, but from what I can gather Oba has scored 31 goals for the club (competitive) while Michael has scored 25, whilst being here for one more season than Oba. Injuries, International duties, whatever, these are the facts. How can Owen be world class when he is being out produced by this "neanderthal". I actually like both of these players alot, but I just think Owen's career has been like this too long for us to be calling him world class. This is his fourth year here, so his lack of production is not an abberation.