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I like thetournament idea but i think we'd be setting ourselves up for a hiding season after season, personally the acamdemy is by faw and away the best idea, saving a seat for him is a little bit too sad for my liking, i'd rather we had something positve and not too overstated, SBR is a legend in the game, but not quite a legend for newcastel, sad to say but its true. The academy would summarise everything he stood for, bringing in talented youth into the game, it would be related to the club he loved and wont be ridiculed for being too grand a gesture. I'm sure its all been said before but this is the idea that makes most sense to me!!!

Sean Wright Phillips ? For example. Why not? Although i dont think Allardyce would have him, too inflexible, not really adept at playing different positions. On the flip side though, you'd be paying an extortiate price for him, i personally dont think that right wing is the essential position to fill, but is very high up on the list, i'd honestly like to see a DM, then a right winger. Then the "final" piece to the jigsaw, an AM.

Bytheway, where has Mort actually said that we wont be signing any players this jan? I've heard him say he's not looking to sign replacement players for the ANC, and ive also heard that he's looking to sign younger players for the future, i also heard him say that as of yet SA hasnt "pitched" anything to him. I'm struggling to see any definitive negatives from that article. In fact it makes complete sense to me, and people with a bit of intelligence will see the same thing. The january transfer period is such a silly idea, it automatically adds a premium to players prices because it is slap bang in the middle of the season, i think that Mort realises this and has come out and openely said he's not looking to try and sign more defender because (and rightly so) he believes the ones we have at our disposal are more than adequate to do an excellent job. There can be no arguments there, all have shown glimpses of being excellent players. He's also come out and said that he doesnt intend to replace the players he's losing to the ANC, which i agree with as well. If that position is adequately filled then just because you are going to lose the player for a few weeks it doesnt make business sense to try and fill that position at premium prices. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that if a player is required because the position he plays is a weakness for the side, then Mort will release funds for the transfer.

Rose tinted glassestastic. I remeber numerous times Shearer screaming at him as yet another ball was retrieved from row zz. Hardly surprising, when would shearer ever of been happy if the oppurtunity for him to get some glory was 'wasted'. Its not like you could even say that a Robert effort was a wasted oppurtunity, you always knew that there was a decent chance of something happening. Probably the same odds of something happening if he just plopped a free kick into the box. Knowone argued when Roberto Carlso lined up from 40 yards out, he's been milking that one freekick he's scored in 98 for years, the same cant be said for Robert because he was definitely capable.

No. wouldnt have him here although i would like to see any improvment on our DM situation, i happen to think that DM is actually the key position to fill with the type of football we're aiming to play. People seem to think (and i was one of them) that what we need mainly is an AM who's gonna create things, and therefore make a lot of chances, but having looked at the team play i dont think that this will be effective. The reason fo this is that i dont think our wingers get into very penetrtive positions, rarely do you see Milner or Zog trying to get behind the full back, an attacking midfielder is gonna need these types of options in order to be effective. However, i do believe that one of our weaknesses and it shows in a lot of performancs, is the protection of the defense, which at times is non existent, i find that when Butt has a good game, we play reasonably well and when he has a stinker, so do we. I think that thas more than coincedence. We often sit back as a team, and if the protection isnt good enough, then teams invariably find there way through, which is why finding a player who breaks up there attacks is imperative.

To be honest i completely agree with the policy, and the reason you gave of reserving funds is spot on. I dont think its too wrong to believe that 90%of the managers out there think that the January transfer window is a terrible idea, and quite frankly i think it is as well. It's already a foregone conclusion that you will be buying average plyers at inflated prices, its a complete waste of money. Imagine buying 3 players worth £5m in the summer, how much do you think they'd go for in Januaray? Off the top of my head it wouldnt be unrealistic to say that each of them would get another £2m added to there tag. Cumulatively thats an extra £6m we're paying. I mean obviuosly its all assumption but i dont think its too innaccurate. Too right they're protecting there funds. The only use really would be to try and snap up the cheaper younger players who have potential but wont be able to demand an inflated transfer fee because of there lack of impact on the selling team. Giving them more time to develop at there club in the latter stages of there season may increase the price tag, plus whilst most clubs are universally looking to strengthen there squad, we're snapping up the youngster who are getting snapped up in the summer by bigger clubs.

I like the idea of having a the youth building being named after him, its not too understated as its integral to the club, but is also not too overstated such as having a stand named after him, to be fair, his name is actually more syonmonous with Ipswich than it is with nufc, and respectively speaking he cant be remembered in the same vain as Milburn because his achievements for the club cant be compared with Milburn.

Am i reading right? Signing a loads of top class players is a bad idea? Parky was intimating that if we could sign a top class player in January we should. We arent going to have 8 top class players all wanting to sign for us. We might catch the odd one if the market is in our favour. Ruling out bringing in a player like Arshavin during January isnt good business if someone else signs him. We're struggling to stay in touch with the top 8. The defence needs to settle down, i think we have a good set of players back there and it will take a bit of time. An attacking player of high quality can make a pretty quick impact. Elano for example. Yeh, you're reading it right, if you read my first post i say that i dont think that Mort is ruling out signing players which are needed, but is trying to restrict the idea of signing players to replace the ones we're gonna lose in Jan. I think that its excellent that he's being pro-active rather than reactive. Also im sayin that its not a great idea trying to sign lots of players in January, not only would we be paying premium (do we as nufc fans never learn) on avergae players but also its at the key point of the season when we get to the business end of the season, the last thing we need as a club is to have to try and intergrate foriegn stars into a new league and a new culture, its notoriously difficult to try and intergrate new players into your club, something that a lot of clubs struggle with (including ourselves) and generally effects there performances as a team. Parky said that we should sign as many top quality players as soon as possible, ie the Jan transfer period whic i disagreed with. Does any think that Elano would of had the same impact on City if he dint have the likes of Petrov, Geovanni, etc surrounding him and providing great support. I personally dont think he would of had the same impact at nufc with the likes of milner and Geremi either side of him.

Dont know if ya being ironic or not but thats not what id call a good idea, only the truly world class managers have that knack of being able to intergrate many new top class players in a short time. Signing loads of players would be a terrible idea, for a start it would colectively destroy the morale of the current team who are having potential replacements signed right in front of them. It needs to be done slowly, filling in the weaknesses of the 1st team, then the squad, once the first team and squad is amply filled, then you start trying to improve the overall quality of the squad. Singing 5-6 top quality players sounds like a good idea,but i would bet the last £23.37 of my overdraft that it would fail miserably, Tottenham and Man U a few years back are shining examples of this.

To be honest, i think it was a great article, the guy sounds like he has his feet firmly planted on the ground, its nice having stability right the wa through the club and if its steadying progerss that this club makes then i am more than happy. To be fair to him, he's not ruled out making any first team signings, he's just stated 2 things: (i) he doesnt intend trying the replace the first teamers he's losing in ANC as a sort of stop gap way of an immediate fix, which is a good thing, it doesnt make business sense to go and splash decent money on temporary replacements, i mean, would we be buying these players anyway even if the players werent leaving? The chances are that we wouldnt so whats the need now?? Makes complete sense to me. (ii)Our defence seems to need addressing but the answer isnt trying to find more players who could improve the defense, he seems to acknowlege that the defense has excellent personnel but its a matter of getting them to play better together which is the issue.

Thought about it a bit more and ive changed things around a bit, i want to say Zidane but the fact that he didnt really do anything of note before the age of 25 is working against him, in my opinion he's not THE greatest but extremely close. Romario is a player who been overlooked, has done it in all leagues he's played, and has been consistenlty brilliant to the present day, bit of a footballing genius. Ronaldo is another one who was a talent like no other, the definitive unplayable striker, brilliant at all the teams he's played for and has done well and adapted to every league well that he's played in, also aplayer who's done it at all levels. I think it really goes against a player when they apply there trade in only one league throughout they're careers, thats why i'm steering clear of the likes of Batistuta, and Del Piero and many others, while they are all excellent players there achievements can be matched (roughly) to those of say Andy Cole. if that makes sense. Bergkamp was excellent, as was Kluivert, Clarence Seedorf is an excellent playuer as well, very difficult to choose.

That was horrible to watch, the man is absolutely deserved of the label legend and more. The round of applause at the beginnning of the speech sounding like it could of gone on for years. An absolute hero of mine. Was so sad to see him go, anyone who says he should of gone, was and still is wrong in my opinion. I thought his era as manager of nufc was better than Keegans.

I'd have Robert, his productivity can be rivalled with that of Beckham, and in the end you want your wingers to create and score.

my feeling is that they're pretty intimidated by our potential, if ashley and mort get things right we could be an absolute juggernaut of a club Why would a journo be threatened by the possibilty of nufc reaching its potential? The only thing that i can think of is that nufc in recent years has been a cash cow for the number of negative incedent and has got a lot of interest from the media about it, maybe they're trying to flog a dead horse, its kinda a soap opera up here. But that doesnt really explain they're motivation to actively disrupt us. I cant think of a single club bar Chelsea that has had so much negative stuff written about them, in fact id go as far as saying no team has had more negative press in the entire history of the prem than nufc. Is that a bit OTT?

I dont get it, aside from this supposed 'north' 'south' divide we have, why do journos have such a vendetta against us? Am i wrong calling it a vendetta? its really unsteadying stuff to have so much negative and disruptive stuff written about us?

Tell me about it, i always loved seeing him pound them from 50yards out, i think he was the only player ive ever seen who i genuinely believed would score from every frreekick he got. I would much rather have Robert taking my free kicks than Beckham. It was great seeing the opposition set up a 3 man wall 35yards out from goal when he was lining up!! Great times

Played really well recently, i prefer him on the left, like the way he can beat a man without pace, and actually does try to beat a man, looks very dangerous when he on the edge of the box but completely flacid when he's a abit further out, the lack of pace really shows when he's too far out. Is currently our best player and is playing the best but by by no means does he have the ability or talent to be the best player in our team, theres a lot fo misfiring talented players in our squad. Deserves the credit he's gettin but i dont think he's a player we can build on.

Ronaldo was unplayable, truly a gret player who should be catergorized with the greatest, I'm torn between choosing Ronaldihno and Zidane. Ronaldihno on form is probably the best player i have ever seen full stop, Zidane was consistently brilliant and has given some of the greatest perfomrances ever, but when you see some of the things that Ronaldihno pulls off in a game you cant help but think your witnessing something special. To be fair to him, he's gettin a lot of flak lately but even when he's not on form his stats are still brilliant. Mind you Zidane has done it consistently at all levels....dammit i dunno As for the third, im completely stumped.....maldini? Cantona? Giggs? Henry? Figo? C.Ronaldo? Desailly? Nesta? Cannavaro? Ferdinand??? I dunno

Just watched that vid, brought a tear to my eye, cant believe how good he actually was and how good we were. Some amazing goals he scored for us, in fact i bet he scored more spectacular goals for us than any other nufc player in recent history, those 2 against tottenham were of the highest order, its a shame he went because its sort of marked the beginning of the end for us. i wish we brought some real exciting flair back into the side, as it stands we only have Zog. i know am admitting the cardinal sin of all football beliefs but i would honestly prefer an exillarating 4-3 win than an efficient 1-0 win. That sounds stupidly obvious but footballing wise its a terrible 'ambition'

To be honest im not sure we need him, if we play 433, then we dont need the link man we need the 2 grafting forwards who get back to defend, and i think we have some superb combinations, if we were to play with 2 upfront, to be honest i dont think SA will go for a striker this jan or even summer providing nothing changes, im praying he'll stick to trying to boost up the midfiled, which isnt looking very dynamic.

The thing is, is that Taylor and Roz started brillliantly together, really complemented each other well but the partnership got brokn up when Taylor made a mistake, Allardyce sort of condemend him in the media 'constructively' and Roz hasnt looked the same since. I actually thought that Roz and Tayl have looked the best partnership so far, Faye andCacapa individually are very good but as a partner i dont think they've gelled as well as Roz and Tayl did. Does anyone have the partnership stats, i can imiagine that Roz and Tayl have conceeded far less then Cacapa Faye.

Would just like to know, what are peoples reasons for wanting shearer? I dont understand why people would want him? Could any one of the pro shearer group explain why you'd want him at here? And for what reasons you have come to this judgement?

i'm hoping that people dont actually believe what is written in these papers and in actual fact use the article as an incentive to show a united front againt the doom mongers down south. it was really good seeing the team being supported when the performance was quite decent, its what nufc is about and its someting that has been missing for a few years now. Hopefully support against blackbrn replicates itself throughout this season through thick and thin. Also i hope the guy who's shouting abuse at SA from the crowds on the SSN stories and all the national media backpages really takes a good hard look at himself and thinks how much of a prick he's made of himself. what a toss pot

id have to go for the old firm,it epitomises everything that is good, and bad about a derby. There aint a another derby in britiain which genuinely has so much on it, both competivtely and regrettablly religious. Its also the only derby which has 2 genuinely big teams with absolute equal aspirations. Cant say that about any other single derby in britian.

If SA was to get sacked it would be an embarressment for this club, for one season i would like nothing more than us in the news for good reasons or no reason at all. Another sacking is not the answer, and i dont think that the board would get all the blame if it were the case, the fans that boo non stop need to take a look at themselves. I genuinely belive that the fans are the most important and influential people at this club, and it would be us not SA perfomance as a manger that would force Morts hand. End of. I cant believe people are after his blood after so little time, surely there isnt a single person who can thoroughly justify his sacking after just 15 game