Pilko

Good luck to him

As well as Jonas, Ben Arfa, Marveaux and Obertan; Amalfitano looks like he'll be used wide, as well as Sammy and Ferguson who can be played on the left and Ryan Taylor on the right. We've even used Shola as a right-wing player to shut the flank down later in a game. We have fucktonnes of options wide.

Obertan's ball retention is what pissed me off most. He's up there with Martins for constantly squandering possession.

Who watches a dead duck? Not even it's mother, she just flies off, depressed.

Premiership Winners: Manchester United Runners Up: Manchester City 3rd-6th: Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool Relegation: Stoke, West Ham, Wigan Overachievers: Everton, Swansea Underperformers: West Brom, Fulham Top Goal Scorer: Rooney Break Out Year: Seamus Coleman, James Tavernier, Sammy Ameobi, Raheem Sterling Season to Forget: Fabio Borini, Kevin Nolan, Andy Johnson, Rickie Lambert PFA Player of the Year: Frank Lampard PFA Young Player of the Year: David de Gea Manager of the Year: AVB First manager to quite/be sacked/'mutual consent': Steve Clarke Newcastle United Where will we finish?: 8th Top Goalscorer?: Papiss Cisse with 18 How will we do in the cup competitions?: Europa League quarter finals, FA Cup 4th round, League Cup losing finalists Domestic Championship Promotion: Bolton, Wolves, Cardiff Championship Relegation: Derby, Bristol City, Nottingham Forest League One Promotion: Coventry, Carlisle, Sheff Utd League One Relegation: Bury, Leyton Orient, Portsmouth League Two Promotion: Plymouth, Fleetwood, Bristol Rovers League Two Relegation: Wimbledon, Barnet FA Cup: Chelsea League Cup: Manchester City Johnstone's Paint Trophy: Carlisle Europe La Liga winner: Barcelona Serie A winner: Inter Bundesliga winner: Dortmund Champions League winner: Manchester City Europa League winner: FC Twente World Player of the Year: Messi Other Will Stewart Downing finally get a league assist/goal for Liverplol? Yes Will Fernando Torres score 15+ goals? Yes, 17 How many points will Rangers win Scots Div 3 by? 21 On what date will Fat Sam get that top job he deserves? He won't, he'll be sacked in February with West Ham bottom Tiote or Cattermole? Catts not for me like Mario Balotelli - what insane stuff will he do? Grow a beard like Ian Beale

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Transfer moves are on as quick as they're off and suddenly back the other way around, it means very little imo.

You can fuck right off tarring me with that brush. The window is still open and we've not lost anyone, I said that in one of my other posts. Learn to read before you peddle such shite. In terms of making first team signings SO FAR it has been incredibly grim, that could well change before the end of the window. I've not 'whinged' or said 'I want everything now' about the transfer situation in this thread or any other, so why be such a dickhead?

The emergence of Tav and signing of Good probably means a centre back is on the back burner for the moment.

chill the fuck out. In terms of first team signings, you can't call this summer anything else at the moment. It's great there's been no high profile departures, sure.

As frustrating as this summer has been, if we made a quality signing this week then I'd suddenly feel so much more optimistic. It's because we've added precisely 0 to our pool of our best 14 or 15 players that the situation feels so incredibly grim at this moment in time.

Might be a bit morbid/negative but I find it's best not to get your hopes up.

I'm resigned to us signing nobody of note this summer anyway, so if we do get this guy it's a bonus, if not then it's precisely what I expect anyway.

Yes, definitely over the course of last season. Who can blame him though? Lots of people wouldn't have gone if you paid them last season.

When Hibbo scores we riot It's blatantly going to be like Stuart Pearce when he was on 99 league goals in that meaningless end of season fixture in 2002, where he was basically playing up front and taking every single set piece, with his team mates trying to set him up so he could get to a hundred before he retired. So, when Pearce got the chance to take a penalty late in the game, and Dave Beasant even seemed to indicate where he should place the ball, he accurately whipped the ball just over the crossbar.

I smell a transfer request brewing.

Revolution not evolution. No, actually it was the other way around. Evolution not revolution. Yeah well, whatever.

I like Matt Holland as well but the BBC seem to use him very sparingly. Don't care what anyone else says either, I still think Savage is a good pundit.

Everyone used to shout OBSTRUCTION in the yard when I was little like, despite no-one really getting the rule.

Not football related but at a certain point every week when watching Bruce's Play Your Cards Right I'd always ask "Mam, what's a pykrie?" and she'd never know what I was on about. It was when Bruce was showing us the car the contestants could win - the registration was always PYCR1 I was a reet stupid child.

Public address system.

there's a porn thread in GC man madras.

Oh, and my dad sometimes used to listen to the match on his hi-fi with a massive pair of headphones. I'd always ask to listen for a few minutes (which I now appreciate must have been really irritating for him) and I'd always think that if I shouted into the headphones something like 'Howay Newcastle we want to see a performance out of ya!' or whatever that the commentators could hear me.

Example: I used to ask my dad what half time was for, and he used to say it was so the players could all go for a wee. I used to imagine that at the other end of the tunnel to where the players came out that there was a corridor split in two with a lone toilet at the end of either side, and that all the players queued up in their teams for a tinkle before coming back out for the second half. I also used to think that the goalkeeping coach (whoever he was in about 1997) was Steve Harper's dad for some reason. I'm sure you all thought wackier things than that when you were in short pants, and I want to hear all about them.

Heh heh heh, look at this country. You Are Gay.