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Not based on this year. With a good solid partner in midfield, Nolan can be effective. See Tiote.

How does Lampard get in the England team ahead of Nolan btw. It's ridiculous based on this years form. How can any of us say Nolan wouldn't be good for England when he's not been given a chance? Don't get me wrong, Nolan isn't the be all end all, but how come so many shit players have constantly been given a chance at international level and yet he hasn't yet? Nolan is fucking quality, and he is part of the balanced midfield we have. Jonas, Barton and Tiote cover all the ground required to contribute to our defensive needs, and as a result this gives Nolan the chance to be a target man/playmaker and focus on talking and organizing the team. If the one thing people can complain about it lack of mobility, I think they need to look at previous Newcastle greats - Robert (did fuck all defensively), Ginola was the same, Nobby wasn't the most mobile towards the end but ending on Nobby he had a footballing mind that would beat any of the Kieron Dyers or Obafemi Martins of this world. Nolan is of a similar type. I personally don't believe there's many better (available) players for this club than Nolan atm, especially not when to get someone better it would cost at least £20million or some sort of miracle signing.

It's canny funny how people were slating him, questionning his level of ability and commitment and now everyone complains he's being loaned out.

Nah actually, not got a particular dislike towards them. Just generally can't think of much positive about the club, not even much negative. They're just.. there. Fwiw I can see where you're coming from but I'm just laughing when you say you don't have a dislike towards them, then label them a "ridiculously pointless, non-entity of a club." TBF Bolton, Stoke, Blackburn and Wigan are all this type of club for me and all are from a similar region.

Done the BBC predictor, my findings are as follows: 1. Man United 2. Arsenal 3. Tottenham 4. Chelsea 5. Man CIty 6. Liverpool 7. Everton 8. Newcastle 9. Bolton 10. Stoke 11. Sunderland 12. Aston Villa 13. Blackburn 14. Blackpool 15. Fulham 16. Birmingham 17. West Ham 18. Wolves 19. West Brom 20. Wigan We were one point ahead of Sunderland and four behind Liverpool in 6th. ManUre win the title by 6 points and a single win keeps West Ham up.

It is unbelievably close, isn't it? However, honestly, after yesterday I fancy Blackburn to go down. They're utterly, utterly wretched. With all due respect, I hope your lot go down. Can't see it happening though.

This dance thing, belter.

Nice one John!

Shocking.

...and he's got away with it.

Rooneys elbow is disgraceful. Must be banned.

Made something out of nothing and looked a tit imo. Was shit of Mancini but fucking hell.

Mark Hughes

People want there to be something to whinge about, and are looking into things a little too much, imo.

Was the defenders fault, end of.

We all know the job that Tiote does aids Nolans ability to score goals as well, but which midfield doesn't? Lampard had Makelele when he was probably at his best and Gerrard had Mascherano. Even the likes of Scholes had Roy Keane. I don't understand the need to replace him. He loves it here, he leads by example and he's productive.

Bad news when you have a Welshman doing punditry.

Wayne Bridge got Robert'ed :lol:

Alright, so having the highest scoring midfielder in the Premiership (11, the same as Carroll, and furthermore 3rd top scorer all round) isn't good enough and we should aspire to more. Don't understand that logic tbh.

3-2 for me like...

Felt like being random...

Reported. Thats rich Blacks. Init Reported my arse - I'd rather spoon a duck.

Reported. Thats rich Blacks.

Reported.