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Guthrie is not the answer on the right. The problem with him is he is not as good as he thinks he is. Too many times he gets caught in possession. His work rate is not up to scratch and he goes missing in games. I can't remember the last time he took the game by the scruff of the neck, and that includes last season.

Lets be honest, this season was always going to erratic in terms of form. We do need to sort out the home form though True .

We've got to try and look at the positive. Win on Saturday and we're guaranteed to be fifth. Some consolation for tonight like i know, but hay ho, just another typical night of being a Newcastle supporter. I know a lot of us are born into it, but i still think we're all a bit .

It's funny that, nearly every new England manager says when he takes over that "i'll pick players based on form not reputation". Then goes out and does exactly the opposite.

De Jong and Man City are just ripping the piss out of everyone now, especially the FA. They know that the FA will do nothing to punish him so they are rubbing their faces in it. Whether De Jong is acting out the actual Ben Arfa incident or not, him and the rest of the Man City players and, more importantly staff, see the whole situation as funny. Yeah, breaking peoples legs is funny. Unbelievable.

Spawny gets.

The whole argument of Fifa being money grabbing bastards for NOT introducing video technology is IMO entirely false. It seems the people at FIFA pushing the video technology, are the ones who see what a massive amount of money there is to be made on the commercial breaks, that would necessarily go along with refs consulting video footage (as in American football). As for the red card for ANY holding in the penalty area it seems extremely harsh and in no way realistic, even with video footage. I don't know how much football you've played, but with corners there will always be a lot of fighting when you do the tight marking that is necessary in modern football, and this isn't usually where players get hurt anyway. It is of course the refs responsibility to make sure it doesn't get excessive, but I think they do a fine job of that today. The whole goalpost system for automatically saying when the ball is in the net, is of course an entirely different discussion, but I don't think that is the one the OP tried to start. Yeah maybe i wasn't totally clear. What i meant was just a penalty for the holding in the area, not a red card.

There's been a lot of talk recently about players tackling and referees performances. You get ex-professionals saying that the physical side of the game should be protected, and others saying certain players should be hanged by the neck until they are dead (okay a slight exaggeration ). Of course Fifa could solve a lot of problems by introducing video technology, but because they are arrogant money grabbing suits, this is at the moment a non starter. The FA could though help by informing all referees that ANY tackle deemed excessively hard or dangerous, should be shown a red card. This could also apply to ANY holding in the penalty area at corners or free kicks as a penalty kick. I know a lot of people will be up in arms at this suggestion, saying "we'll end up with 7 aside and 8 penalties per match". Ok, maybe. But after a few weeks of ridiculous scorelines and player suspensions, managers will soon start clamping down on players behaviour on the pitch. Would the De Jongs of this world have their managers blessing (or indeed support after the game) if they still went out and flew into tackles, knowing fine well they would be sent off? This might also force Fifa's hand on the video technology front (unlikely i know). But hey, you never know. Just to set the record straight, i don't want the good honest hard tackle outlawed. Just the dangerous career threatening one. The problem is, a lot of professionals in today's game don't know the difference. So what do you think, would a few weeks (maybe more) of madness be worth it.

You would have thought, instead of wasting millions on the likes of Santa Cruz (18m) and Adebayor (25m ish) who can't get in the team. They would have splashed as much money as it would take to get a real world-class manager in. Instead they've got, in my opinion, an average manager, playing boring negative football.

Dutch manager with more bottle that the whole FA put together.... Pathetic.

Aye like the fact when we went down, a lot of the media couldn't wait to point a lot of the blame at our fans for protesting over Ashley. Typical press, double standards.

The problem in this country is that the FA have got no bollocks. They won't crack down on anything because that would mean cracking down on the so-called "big" clubs as well. The FA won't do this because they are shit scared in case the bigger teams go off and form a "Euro League". Which will never happen as who can afford 14-18 away trips to Europe every season? It just won't work. But as long as the greedy owners of these clubs keep hinting at it the FA will always fall back in line. Just look at Ferguson at Man Utd. The FA instruct ALL managers they have to speak with the media after games, Ferguson says no and Man Utd are allowed to pay his fine. It makes the FA look weak (which they are). The FA is the other problem. A bunch of weak willed suits with no real knowledge of the game. And no direction, no plan. Just sit back at rake in the money from the "richest and best league in the world." Look at the BBC, their pundits criticize the England team, so the FA sells the broadcasting rights to ITV. I know the BBC pundits aren't the best, but to be honest they're not allowed to criticize anyone from the England team to the "big clubs" for fear of retribution from either the FA or the "big clubs."

Cappello is looking for the sack here like. Get out of his cantract early with a nice big payoff.

Wasn't there talk of maybe Lua Lua returning early from his loan. At least that's what he in said in the Ronnie or Journal. Not saying he's the answer mind. Just that it might give Routledge a bit of competition. Especially with Ben Arfa out.

We could do with someone quick with a bit of skill to link the midfield and attack. A role i thought Ben Arfa would perfectly fill..... until yesterday (fucking De Jong ).

Fair enough. The Villa game though we would still have won in my opinion. Forgot about the pen in the Wolves game to be honest.

Man Utd 3-0 To be fair, we were well beaten. No complaints. Aston Villa 6-0 Deserved victory. Wolves 1-1 Unlucky not to get the win. Blackpool 0-2 Not at our best. But made enough chances and but for a goalkeeper who'll never play as well, we should have won. Everton 0-1 Deserved victory. Should've had a blatant pen. Stoke 1-2 Dominated the first half against one of the worst footballing teams we are likely to see at SJP, without creating to many chances. Absolutely clueless in the second half. Man City 2-1 Deserved at least a point, and maybe even more. Definite pen, should've been playing against 10 men, never a pen against us. Oh, and playing against the referee as well. New signing out for 6 months and our centreback out injured. If the old cliche that luck levels itself out over the season is true, then we are due a shitload at some point in the season. So to be honest, the Stoke game aside, i don't think we've done to badly so far. Luck definitely hasn't been on our side as of yet and hopefully, the Man City game with galvanise the team together.

To be fair, Nolan is not good enough to warrent a start. He may be a good influence in the dressing room, but on the pitch he is just to slow. Play him in midfield and we get overrun because he simply can't keep pace with other players. And play him in "the hole" as he has been, and as we've seen the game just passes him by. Not quick enough to get back and help the midfield and not quick enough to support Carroll. We HAVE to play Ben Arfa in Nolans postition. Bring Nolan on with 15mins left, when the rest of the players are tired and at his pace.

Ooooohhhhhh!!!! (Reeves and Mortimer handbags waving smiley thingy).

To be honest, i would love him to stay and become our regular right back. He was quite good at bombing forward when he's played there before. Plus it gives us extra height at set pieces.

I wouldn't hold you breath matey!!

Why aren't we in for him? For fucks sake

From Ronnie. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2010/04/22/vuckic-playing-down-talk-of-world-cup-call-up-72703-26294529/ I have to admit as to not seeing much of him (bar the few minutes first team action). To anyone who as see a bit of him, is all the hype surrounding him warranted?

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I'm bored, so i've done the bbc predictor thingy... GD Pts 1st. Newcastle 56 100 2nd. West Brom 45 95 3rd. Forest 24 81 4th. Cardiff 23 77 5th. Swansea 12 77 6th. Leicester 7 68 Smogs are in 10th with Peterborough, Palace and Plymouth down.