McCormick

we were all over wigan and shouldve gotten atleast 8! didn't see the match as i was at my dad's house... when somebody told us that it took us til the 80 min (was it? i cant remember..) to score against a 10-man wigan. the usual "bloody hell, same old newcastle- can hardly beat 10 men" grumbles ensued (my dad obviously). good to know that we were that dominant though, restores a bit of faith really.. that said i think it'll be tough season with us coming 8th-6th with it being very close.. disappointed with anything less than 8th and as much as i hate them, i think liverpool look very solid and i didnt fall asleep watching them play aswell- they could produce a few surprises...

Don't rate reina at all> horrible at collecting crosses. cech is very good though.. i must admit i'd rather have no player in the world than given between the sticks- whether thats solely on his keeping skills i don't know...

Taylor thing: wrong. taylor's a good player no doubt about it, but faye is more experienced and less liable to make silly errors. Taylor will one day become a clas defender but right now he isn't as good as a well-established cb like faye. lets face it though, faye would skip happily into our team last year; its a testament to big sam that a player of fayes calibre is being labelled as not good enough for first team action.. best defence i've ever seen tbh- even our midfielders are defenders

better than butt at dm. better than taylor at cb. better than ramage at everything. better than carr at rb. sorry.. what was the question again? do we need him?... naaah

prpblem is, how often does he have "his day". He's a good player, but goes missing too often. i agree, 'his day' is often on every other match but a consistent emre will be needed to sort out our visionless midfield.

they got their act together in the first game where they tied with a very good portsmouth team but against the scouse they were terrible- intimidation playing a role perhaps? doubt we'll hammer them (2 nil i think) but it should be certain 3 points; especially since villa, one of our serious competition for europe, beat chelski yesterday.

emre when fit, and on his day, is a class player. vision, skill on the ball, unafraid to take on defenders; i think he's what we're missing right now.

if given's fully fit, no doubt he'd be on the field.

eh? noooo beye.. right i'm off to bed. when i wake up i wanna see beye in an nufc top.. night-night (i gotta wake up at 5)

..... i guess deco is out of the question then..

Just get"Anto and" tattooed next to it and you can say you're old school pals with the Byker Grove duo. bit gay though isn't it..?

naah..

you got a point there

we know mate

had my heart set on deco... even got his name tatooed on my arm along with "nufc 4eva".. fucking rumours

mackems.gif .. i come back after half an hour.. and look what this thread's become.. oh dear

no hint of that 3rd signing yet then.. c'mon sam surprise us with a playmaker done well so far though.. oi, ashley wheres that galactico?

young isn't good enough at the moment, but i guess the way england have been playing........

is deco there?

do we need another striker?.. who cares..

never rated bent at all.. rubbish iyam

could use him down here

This. butt's passing is atrocious.. i would put butt last in the pecking order of geremi and faye

sad to see a player like him go, especially to a scummy side like west ham