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The Fiorentina thing would have played a part in the attendance, was it the first game it could have been used? Were Blackburn & Fulham not category C also

Marveaux needs to start

The pre match buzz in the city seems to be back

They really are the gift that keeps on giving

Any spaces on any coaches for this?

Best - Lovenkrands

wonder what the odds on that were

looked more like a knock rather than a twist or strain, give him a week he should be ok

he's coming off, limping badly

1 NUFC related thread on first page of RTG, must be some kind of record low

being on the wind up seems to be the only way to go on RTG, generally most with a valid point get shot down by the mong force

Bent's best mate that 'Elsey' character was registered and used to post on there and relayed everything to Bent and he lost it when people were slating Bent towards the end of his Sunderland career. That, his mam getting racially abused and him wanting more money kind of made up his mind to leave

100% correct. I know for a fact that our ex PR woman Lesley Callaghan tried to get RTG shut down on at least one occasion and most clubs will monitor fans messageboards. RTG is arguably the biggest and busiest supporter forum going and it's virtually impossible for them to keep track of every thread that gets posted. All the more reason for it to have a single thread for each topic, if it means it would get shut down quicker

surely must have one of the better pitches in the league at the minute

wa ganna win tha leeeeeeeg

We probably played our best football of the season and played the ball along the ground for most of the time. We did go route one a couple of times and so we should, just not all of the time. Cabaye could have had 3 and we didn't have a poor player, unlike against QPR when most were poor. Think about how bad we were against QPR, we were as good against Villa as we were bad against them. No idea if they were poor or if we just made them look that way, I guess we were just that good and they couldn't get the better of our midfield. It's easy to say they were s**** but we deserve credit for that, if they were. after a number of beers that last paragraph is difficult to read, lets settle on they were poor and we played well

Don't really see what the difference between giving him 20 mins against Villa or waiting till 3 days later would be, might aswell include him on the bench on Saturday

nah don't think he's on here but he's a mate of mine

one thread per player, see no reason to have a number of threads about the same subject

Playing for the reserves today

Barton said he was looking for long term security when he asked for his new deal but surely a move to QPR is the exact opposite of that, yes they may give him a long term contract but come May he may find himself a championship player. The fact no other team seems to have made him a concrete offer seems to show he's going for the same things as Nolan. Surely if he stayed for a season here and played which he would do, he may have better offers and even more money on the table come when his contract expires.

Surely if he gave a little more info it would increase sales of the paper which he is obviously trying to protect by not giving out all the info before it's on sale, don't think I know anyone who would buy the Journal who either has bought it for years anyway or gets it delivered.

Neville Southall on a deal till January

Can't knock an extra Bodde

Just hope if he does sign he's not heerenveen if cissokho signs also