thewellander

Massive game, with a chance to go six points clear of third place. I don't care if we win the league or not, so long as we finish in 2nd. My heart can't handle a playoff.

I would say any time that one of our academy lads score makes me proud.

Particularly, though, when David Edgar got his goal against Manchester United. Partly because he's a fellow Canadian and partly because it obviously meant so much to him. It was a stand out feel-good moment from the past few years.

Ferguson dips into this side of football too i would hardly class the following as dynamic athletes in the old age yet they all contributed to Man Uniteds title successes

 

Sheringham

Cantona

Laurent Blanc

Henrik Larsson

 

Even Andy Goram FFS

 

Cantona wasn't that old when he retired though, Blanc was finished by the time he went to Man Utd and Larsson hardly set the world alight but was a canny stop gap.

I don't know about that. He was a good signing for them at the time, and as I recall, Ferguson wanted to extend his stay.

This is getting unreal media attention in Canada for some reason. Nobody ever talks about "soccer" over here, but it's all over the mainstream media.

Is it true simpson is out of contract in the summer?

I think he's on loan until January.

Just woke up to 2-0....and Jonas!!!!! Gonna be a good day.

If we got rid of him in January and brought in a replacement, I wouldn't be too upset.

 

This is it though. Every chance that players going out the door won't be replaced. It'll just leave us even weaker.

 

We saw that in the summer. Take out the loan signings and look at our squad. 2 centre backs, 1 player for the right hand side. Ashley is more than capable of leaving us without cover or even first team players and the last thing I want to see is Hughton scrapping around in February for a winger on loan - anyone he can get.

I agree with you 100%.

Call me optimistic, naive, or stupid, but I feel that this relegation will be seen in a few years as the best thing that happened to us.

I think we'll win promotion this year and will have cleared out a lot of the rot (ie, Owen, Duff, etc.), get sold to a better owner, and have the opportunity to build the team that the fans deserve.

Surely we are a well-enough supported club to move forward from this, learn from our mistakes, and have the financial stability to secure a permanent place in the EPL.

Right?

He definitely hasn't fit in well with English football. If we got rid of him in January and brought in a replacement, I wouldn't be too upset.

But, f***, did we ever have high hopes for him when he got here. He has been a disappointment, no matter how you look at it. Even Colo has come through better than Jonas, which seems shocking in hindsight.

Le Coq Sportif have had some really nice kits. Manchester City's home kit a few years back stands out.

But, Nike kits are always nice, as is their training gear. I don't think Nike are a great company, but I love their kits. I voted for them.

I'm glad he's coming good for us. You can't doubt his effort.

I was just happy to watch NUFC live and see them put in a hard-fought performance. We were away from home against a team that was desperately in need of a win and we pulled it out. That makes for a good day in my books.

Or selling and moving franchises.

Yeah, I was going to mention that as well but I'm still not over the Quebec Nordiques moving to America.

Also, it seems like Major League Soccer is going to allow the Vancouver Whitecaps to join their league from another league in the 2012 expansion, but I'm not sure on the details.

How's it work in NFL? I honestly have no idea. It's possible for another team to get accepted into a conference?

No. There's no such thing as relegation in any North American sport that I know of. You can finish in dead last every single year and still be in the NFL, NHL, MLB, NBA, etc.

The only way to have new teams in the leagues is if they simply allow a new team to exist out of nowhere and enter the league as an expansion team.

i doubt ashley would name it sports direct, he'd want the £ from someone else

I agree totally with this. It's not in Ashley's best interests to name the stadium after Sports Direct. He will find another company willing to pay him for it.

Relegation is one of the things that make footy so much more interesting to watch than North American sports.

It seems like a long while since I've been able to watch a game live, so can't wait.

I think we'll win comfortably at 2-0. I'll boldly predict that Allan Smith will finally score a goal for us. It's got to be coming.

It really stung when he left. I wish him all the best. One of my favorite players over the last decade.

This any good to you http://www.football4africa.org/

Thanks for that link. I had never thought of anything like this before. Now I know what to do with my kid's shirts as they get outgrown.

Cheers.

Speaking solely about this Nacho Fonzalez deal. It was supposedly a shady deal designed to get us in the good books of two, presumably prominent, agents in South America, with the aim of getting first refusal on up and coming players.

 

Well the Nacho deal went ahead, so where are these other South American players? Gonzalez was signed well over a year ago, two transfer windows have passed since and there's been no activity. Does anyone expect us to start signing these other players any time soon?

 

For the sake of losing a manager it was hardly done for "the greater good" as Wise put it. The fallout from this episode has ended up in relegation.

These people are clueless. It's a wonder that we all still marvel over it. Even after the fact, Ashley, Wise, et al, still have their heads up their own arses.

I haven't read this whole thread, so sorry if this has been mentioned (and I'm sure it has), but this verdict and Wise's explanation makes me really feel bad for young Nacho. He was basically treated like a piece of property by the agents and Ashley and co., and he ended up wasting a year at NUFC when he could have been playing regular football somewhere else. I wonder if he was aware of the nature of his loan deal.

I just went through the whole kidney stones leading to kidney infection thing. I wouldn't wish it on Mike Ashley. Painful stuff.

I miss Emre.

Didn't see the game, but I'm happy to be three points clear at the top of the league. We're not going to win every game and I never imagined this is where we'd be sitting after ten games.

Boots suggest it's Steven Taylor.

 

THIS

That's exactly what I was about to write. Definitely Steven Taylor.

I'm actually quite glad we played a reserve team and we're losing. Being able to play another round in the CC was not worth losing Shola and Jonas, and it wasn't worth the risk tonight to have more injuries.

We're never realistically going to win this competition, so I'm happier to only worry about our league games and focus on promotion. Just my opinion.