John P

Fully fit squad (including Jonas) according to Caulkin. I think we've solved the full back mystery then.

Quite depressing that Andre fucking Wisdom can afford a £100,000 Porsche

its on youtube. Just seen it. Incredible.

What is this header that people are going on about?

Check out who's in the stand on the second picture of the match on .co.uk (the one with Mapou sliding in on Negredo). Just look at those gnashers

Wheeling out the old 'we was tired' excuse even before the Chelsea game has begun. Great motivational talk for the team to feed off, we must be the only team in the country that physically can't cope with 2 games in a week

Someone who is passionate and inspires confidence in the players and who you know is a great manager just from his interviews, like Klopp or Bobby. And someone with an attacking mentality who will look to be positive with the players at our disposal. I don't know if someone like this who is attainable for us exists, but if he does, get the bugger in and get this oaf out.

The audio quality on his latest NUFC TV interview really is an experience

So, Harry claiming that all the senior players texted him with their support before Hodgson was appointed. I thought Harry didn't know how to text?

He was limping when he went off at full time by the way, looked like a groin problem, fingers crossed he's ok for Saturday

Hats off to anyone who got Oldham as well

I forgot about Ronaldo, was driving me mad trying to think of Man Utd strikers that weren't Andy Cole, Dwight York, van Persie, van Nistelrooy Got 33 in the 10 mins

Anything particularly juicy about us?

More great stuff from NUFC TV, now they have the players saying 'you're watching NUFC TV' at the start of each piece. Also, the video 'behind the scenes' of the team photo has a song in the background which says 'fucking' at one point. Instead of using a different song or missing it out, they just turn the volume down a bit, but you can still hear it. Who the hell is behind this rubbish?

Not happy with Hazard, anyone got a recommendation for a midfielder up to £9.7m? Already got Walcott, Ben Arfa, Moses and Barkley.

He looks more and more like Tom from WHQ by the day like. Not as much as this fella http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4960228750460424&pid=1.7

We always add the cost of the wages to the fee since this regime came in. Although they seem to forget that matchday income probably covers a fair bit of that. And also conveniently ignore the wages of players that leave in their calculations

From the BBC Sportsday updates. Just say that we tried and couldn't get someone in, don't give us the overdraft bullshit.

I'm normally supportive of Pardew, but from those quotes he must think we're absolute imbeciles.

Newcastle manager Alan Pardew on the club's lack of activity during the summer transfer window: "I'll standby on what I said on the eve and after the Fulham game that we wanted one more offensive player. "Although we spent £30m in the January window and perhaps a marquee signing would have put us into our overdraft - which it would have for sure - I felt the fans wanted that. "I think it would have been good for mentality if we could have got that player." £30m in January? Were we paying wages up front for the players like? And I don't believe for one second that we couldn't afford £10m this summer. The lies are just infuriating.

What's the proper refereeing for this? IIRC the ref can't do nothing if external objects/people disturb the match (like that beach ball in the Sunderland-Liverpool game) since he can't send them off or award a penalty. The article says that the physio's intervention kept the score at 2-2 and they went through to the semi on away goals! So it would appear the ref did nothing.

The Danny Simpson of physios: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24029055

This loveable little chubster is one of the very few reasons why I still enjoy going to the match. I'm going to be heartbroken when he leaves

NUFC TV was much better last season with Rob doing the presenting than the current bloke. So amateurish now it's unbelievable.

Probably been mentioned already but would Victor Moses not be available for loan? So many players ahead of him in the pecking order now, especially if Chelsea manage to steal Willian and I think he'd be a great replacement for Jonas on the left.