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Don't agree he was solid today, both full backs were.

They couldn't even see his face barely, nobody saw him what was the point in turning himself in. I think its fair that they get a ban, and perhaps some games behind closed doors. To be honest though Dida went down like he'd been hit by a grizzly bear, how embaressing if his kids see that. No doubt he will have the piss taken out of him at training for being such a wuss.

Of that often quoted 17 goals there were alot against poor sides I'm shocked at this thread he was canny in the first half and took his goal very very well but was poor in the second as was the team but he misplaced several easy passes in the second half and his touch was shocking Really doesn't matter who you score against they all count, and about 3/4 of his goals were against decent sides. I wonder how many Michael Owen has scored against shit teams in the Fa cup etc to get to some of his goal tally's.

they have ruined the point of football with it though, wtf is a blue card?

I think the touch thing is a little unfair now as i think he has improved it quite alot, its not like he miscontrols a lot compared to other players, now its nowhere near as good as vidukas but its a lot better this season than last season. It looks like he has worked alot harder over the summer to improve many things and i think he deserves praise for what he has done.

I'm not worried about City beating us at this time of the season but i think we are better than them so i am a little disappointed that we lost, we will have the last laugh at the end of the season, and i don't think that they are the team to challenge the top 4, i actually think that we have a better chance of breaking into the top 4. I doubt that city will be able to hold this run of form, and its highly probable that their season will fade out, Sven has been lucky that his team has hit the ground running, Big Sam hasn't been so fortunate. I think that we have a better team than City overall, the only player that they have that is better than ours is Elano. Petrov isn't really that good, he was lucky to be against Beye, a playing settling in to a new league etc. Also their strikers aren't as high class as ours. Mpenza is certainly not as good as Martins, Viduka is better than Bianchi and Owen is certainly better than samaras, in fact even Ameobi is better than Samaras. The defence is evenly matched but individually we have better defenders Cacapa being the perfect example. In midfield they lack alot of steel but they make up for it in sheer creativity, our team is currently very powerful but very uninspiring this is the difference between us and them atm. Sam will figure it out, when we get the midfield back then we'll see how good we really are, and how good sam is. Can't wait for them to come to SJP, get some revenge.

i think that allardyce sees Butt like Gary Speed, thing is Butt isn't Gary Speed and now Butt needs to be dropped.

I think Beye needs more of a chance really.

God bless you dude. Yet another person who sees things clearly. are you turning into a preacher?

Allardyce is to blame for tha lineup but he's still a good manager, Enrique has now had enough time to intergrate and has to be brought in, he must know now after the end of the West Ham game that when we have width we are a threat. Also Faye should start not Taylor, he's an arrogant young player who has to earn his place in the team not be ahead of a much more experienced defender like Faye. Finally Butt is 32/33 now Speed may have been a revolution under Allardyce, but Butt isn't Gary Speed and Nicky is way past his best now. Still fickle footy fans need a kick up the arse, its fantastic to see how the attitudes of many on this forum change within a few days. One day its Big Sam you are a god next week its Sam knows nothing about football, and he should be tossed out SJP. ffs get real.

What a ridiculous statement, sorry have you forgotten that we are 7 games into the season?

Geremi wouldn't have done that, Nicky Butt past his best tbh, absolutely mockery to our team i think. Has had 1 good game this season but has been crap the rest of the season, if anyone needs to be dropped its Butt.

absolutely class player.

bit of an over-reaction wouldn't you say, by stats we have the 6th best defence in the league so far.

I was convinced of this about 5 years ago, tbh. Can't believe we haven't won it or even made the final. The teams in it are normally utterly s*** until the semis. in our case the quarters

Either 6th or 5th will be success to me, re-establishes newcastle as a top side, 'to be feared' as some might say. Then we can go on to win a cup, i would like the UEFA cup tbh gets us noticed throughout the country.

Yes definately, we will have won a cup by 2010 imo either Carling cup or UEFA

Oba's apologised on the official website.

I'd rather we got someone better in and people stopped trying to kid themselves that this lad is anything special. Seriously, there are people that think that this kid is a TOP talent. It's f****** ludicrous. Not having a go at you btw Dave, it just astounds me when I watch this kid play, the reputation he has with some of our fans. Were his 17 goals last seasona fluke then? Playing alongside Sibierski and Dyer? God gove me strength. You go and have a look over the goals he has scored for Newcastle and come back and tell me he can't finish. His situation reminds me of Adebayor's situation at Arsenal. All my friends who support Arsenal kept telling me he was crap and just like Shola and I kept telling them he just needed to play regularly and I would happily swap Shola for him anyday. They always laughed at me about it. This season they're wetting themselves over him the twats. Pisses me off something propa. I don't need to hear about the conversations you have with your mates at the back of the special bus tbh. Funny guy. I just don't like fickle people. Had either Drogba or Adebayor come to Newcastle you would have been the sort to run them out after their first season. Both similar players to Martins. Speed, athletic ability and power, but not the best touch or awareness. Surround them with the right players and play them often enough and they will be very productive though. Simple as that. We have no choice but to play Martins everygame now. Let's see what happens with him playing alongside Viduka regularly then. We'll talk about this again in aaround four weeks. So now he's as good as Drogba or Adebayor, it's just that he's playing with the wrong team mates? By the way, Adebayor's touch pisses all over Martins'. Please don't embarrass yourself by trying to say that Adebayor and Drogba "don't have the best touch or awareness" in an attempt to defend Martins. you have to be kidding me if we ask Ash now how good adebayors touch is, he would say absolutely shite, his touch is fucking awful as is drogbas who knees it everywhere. also last season adebayor was absolutely awful he missed plenty of sitters, coincedence that he was on the bench last season alot (apart from when henry was injured), like martins, i think not.

Martins should have got the first one i thought, but the second one was a very good clearance off the line, no fault of martins it was going in, just class defending. Everyone goes on about Owen needing games and this shit, but martins has played less than Owen this season (scored more goals too) but nobody ever goes on about martins needing games to get his sharpness back, quite unfair really, and i'd rather have a striker that gets these chances than others that don't a la Ameobi.

His preferred postition is fullback

depends on who we put out there tbh, if we put out our best side then there is a good chance we can win but home advantage for them might just see them edge ahead, 2-1 either way.

west ham

its on a website (not sure if i can name it), but theres no links to the actual match as of yet.

With that squad, I can only see Song pairing Sendoros at centreback. Game's looking a sitter for Newcastle. Fabianski Eboue - Diarra - Senderos - Traore Denilson - Song - Diaby Eduardo - Bendtner - Walcott Probably swap diarra for song and then you have their line up.