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but Glenn Johnson a right back, we don't need him.

Ashley out. If that fucker don't give us at least 15m this summer, he's worse than Shepherd.

 

Shepherd in, Ashley out!

Sheperd was broke, so i don't think we would have got 15 million

I think Ashley wants to sort out our massive debts and big problems with the clubs foundations before giving out silly money to Sam.

5'11 is 180 cm

haha, the only consolation, 'we ootsang there fans'  why sing, when you can enjoy a perfect display from a real footballing side.

twats, they think they are some innocent little fuckers they deserved to get ripped by our fans, judging from their pathetic showing from their team.

How does NUFC get their money to pay these wages???

TV rights mostly

How was Martins overall play? as it seems to have improved a bit over pre-season so far.

did boumsong play?

piennar was seen as the next big thing a few years back, not sure why he has fallen back so much, but he has got some fantastic skills and hes a clever playmaker.

i agree the booing is fucking shocking, whether a cock or not hes still one of our players.

Should have stopped local hero when shearer reitred.

Anderson, will be interesting to see how he copes with PL life

Hes been pretty good for juve hasn't he?

which ever is the best defender that we can have.

They are a load of twats, i had a chuckle when the guy behind me chanted, 'ooooooh its great to be a protestant!' i was sitting near them and i could hear what they were saying back at him, was along the lines of 'oooooo fack off, we piss on the queen' or something to that effect, he was so drunk he was slurring his words, couldnt quite catch it.

Depends if we can stay fit, we have a much better forward line than any of those teams apart from Spurs who i see as equal, Man City have shit strikers like, diabolical so they wont finish above us. Villa are too inexperienced so they won't finish off games well, probably draw too many games. Everton are a fluctuating team and do well one year and are crap the next so im not expecting them to be brilliant plus with the same players eventhough they lost one of their best in Fernandes i think people know what to expect of them, i say they will finish around 10th. As for West Ham and Pompy both will do crap, neither teams have signed decent enough players for Europe but Pompy have a good defence its other areas they lack in, but both of these teams have been too desperate in the market and i dont think harry has the tactics or nouse to pull off another high finish. i expect Blackburn to finish 9th. If we sign 2/3 more defenders we are challenging for 5th, no doubt, one midfielder wouldnt be too bad either, but defence is the priority.

Well this could be the 'BIG SIGNING' Mort and Ashley have been banging on about, he says we're going to shock the football world or something to that effect, he might go for someone like Aimar or D'Allessandro but id like to see him go for someone with a bit more pace than either of those 2.

SWP maybe, but i don't think he and Dyer are the same, SWP being a winger, whereas Dyer preferred to burst through the middle of the park, and running into the box taking away other defenders.

the third guy that fell over, he was in front of me, the steward didn't see him. he was absolutely hammered though, its a wonder that he got past the railings without falling over.

I live in Newcastle and I stayed at home cos I wanted to see The Bill. Is that ok?

 

Oh. My. God.

 

Don't ever talk to me about NUFC again.

Really good first half, played some really good football. Roz looked class and really composed but the defence fell apart when he left, those 10 mins with taylor looked good too. Geremi, Solano, Milner, Martins and Butt were awesome. Martins held up play beautifully and showed real flair, and for some reason his touch was absolutely flawless he looked in great shape. Butt was getting stuck in and Nobby's and Geremi's vision were brilliant. Once again Milner was a warhorse battling away and put in some decent crosses. Have to hand it to Luque did well to score the goals and did some good things, his confidence still needs rebuilding though. i liked the way he kissed the badge and saluted the fans, was really good thing to do.

their fans were total twats too. singing KEANO every 3 fucking seconds, when they scored it was like they had won the Champions League they didn't care they were still losing. found it funny when the guy behind me chanted God save the queen, and 'i'm protestant till i die' at them 

Martins as neither Owen or Viduka can maintain their fitness for the season to score enough i think

He'll be back mid-Sept it's only a fracture.

if its a partial fracture it should be the beginning of september when someone recovers

Well, our central midfield cover is poor, and my suggestion is to get 1 defencive midfielder, 2 left backs, 1 right back and at least 1 more central defender.

5 new players before September 1st.

 

I think we can conclude with the fact that Newcastle United is cursed. Joey Barton plays one and a half match and gets a broken metatarsal from a friendly game against Carlisle. How is tat possible?

 

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obviously quite possible

We can already see the effect of Big Sam.usually our injuries were at least 4 months on average and now its just 6 weeks.

or 10 days

Sams new system of play is being learned by the players at the moment, it will take a few games for the system to pay real dividends, this is what the pre-seasons are about, especially for new managers getting used to the players and the players getting used to the new styles of coaching and play, if this match was 3 months into the future (FA Cup for example) it doesn't matter which team we would have put on the pitch we would have beaten Carlisle 4-0 probably. Also pre-seasons aren't competitive really and as Sam said we have the skill but yesterday we were a bit 'misguided'.