Gallowgate Toon

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.

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

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

obviously quite possible

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'.

Emre and Butt is decent starting central midfield, they worked well last season. Owen and Ameobi will be fit for the new season as will Taylor, not sure what this sudden gloominess is about its only Barton and Duff that will miss the seasons beginning.

agreed

Ronaldo

if he carried on playing, then it can't have been his fifth or fourth, might have been the 3rd one though as they take aoound 5 weeks to heal.

hes quite a quick healer is he not?? i reckon he might be out for 4 weeks

absolutely gutted, really lookin forward to seein him play as well.

Great keeping ? Take it you wern't at the match and realised that he never really had one decent save to make wasn't there, however he made 2 fantastic saves apparently

From what i read and listened to, sounds like we played alright had some good moments, with Barton and Martins linking well on some occasions. Comical marking from Carr and Ramage (i think) all todays game showed is how we need 2 more defenders at least.