Pilko

Same here. Even on appearance alone, taking all actual ability and putting it to one side: Pardew is a decent-looking, well groomed silver fox who wears a full suit on matchdays. Bruce looks like a 60-year old lesbian who's had a frying pan to the nose wearing a shell suit two sizes too small. I reckon Brucey's got the biggest kite in the public eye, like. It's growing at a rate even exceeding Ian Beale's.

They've spent about £2m getting El-Mohammady on a permanent transfer as well. Another decent but not amazing one.

Watched the highlights last night, some hilarious parallels with the mens team. First World Cup game ends in a draw; a 1-1 draw. Against a team that they are widely expected to beat. England take the lead. The other team equalises through a speculative punt and a goalkeeping error (was it Green's lass in nets?) The rest of the performance is insipid and a big black striker misses some good chances. Oh, and the only female footballer I could name was Kelly Smith and she was still class last night, she actually looked like she'd compete in the mens game. Better than her namesake Alan, for sure.

It's very similar to when Ashley first arrived, actually. We brought in quite a few players in the first window under Allardyce but in reality all he was doing was recycling the Parker, Dyer and Solano fees. We only spent net like £30,000 or something.

Yes, but they should be excluded from everything but the hottest, loudest and most dangerous jobs.

Shane Ferguson. I have high hopes for Tavernier too.

Great signing for them. Can only just hope Ipswich squeeze them for a high fee. If not then not to worry, Bruce will spend it on pies/shit players anyway.

http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/76352_166543960035177_166540096702230_390702_8018915_s.jpg Clinton knew.

What a load of noncesense.

He could sell Crouch, Jenas, Gomes and Palacios and it would barely de-strengthen their squad at all imo.

It's a bit like Danny Baker's goals and gaffes

He's a clown always has been. http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/files/3/8/6/7/pot-kettle.jpg

This is no more or less mental than Nolan wanting 5 years. It's blatantly a negotiating stance; he'll have told them he wants to go and they'll want as high a fee as possible.

Duff was by and large an abject failure during his time at Newcastle but blaming him for the defeat at Villa Park is bordering upon laughable.

Pity Duff didn't make more of an effort when he put the ball in his own net against Villa. yeah, that happened because he wasn't trying.

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/football/tamas_kadar_ready_for_the_challenges_ahead_at_newcastle_1_3514058

Keith Curle is the biggest cunt in the world.

He wouldn't be much of a fret.

They'll have seen that we're in for wingers, that so far we've paid minimal fees for players (Cabaye's being relative) and that this lad's played in the Premier League before.

No quotes, The Mirror. Even if we do get him, he's not going to be playing every week. He'll be replacing LuaLua/Routledge as wing cover.

Khizanishvili played in that as well, I think.

Lovenkrands did have poor games in the Championship but so did Carroll, he was by and large shite up until about late December (the WBA cup game and Cardiff Friday night game being the turning points). It's poor criteria to base everything on, really. I'd group Routledge along with Lovenkrands and Guthrie that he's useful against the bottom 6 or 7 sides but other than that he'll struggle in the majority of games at Premier League level. I say majority because Ronaldo will say he did well against A.Cole, which he did tbf.

agree with JH there. I was absolutely livid with him after the Stevenage performance, that was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. However, watching Simpson on the wing and loads of square pegs being forced into round holes during uninspiring draws/defeats made it obvious we shouldn't have let him go so fast without a replacement.