ChrisMcQuillan

Sure. Lovenkrands is the answer when we need a goal. He's an option, and he can nip in between people when Ameobi can't. He's the kinda person HBA could feed in the dying seconds. I'm not saying he's a great option, but he's better than not having a striker on the bench.

Glad we have a striking option on the bench in Lovenkrands, if Best and Ameobi both have off-days.

Hoping for Abeid and Guthrie in the middle, but reckon it will be Gosling. Chance for the lad to prove himself. Obertan on the right would be fine for me in this fixture, tbh.

That's a mint kit.

Isn't a medical normally the last thing that's done, after a personal contract?

Someone's drugged Ashley's pies.

SkyGraemeBailey Will be a massive coup for Newcastle to sign Cisse, very good striker. In England now for medical. Deal worth around £10million.

Btw, did Sky really shorten their EPL table so it didn't feature us?

99% sure everyone except Elliot and him warmed up. Poor Shane was warming up for 80 minutes.

2-1 Fulham. Duff, Ruiz. Ameobi

In fairness, today was by far the hardest I'd seen him work. Really good that he's responded to Pardew. Now Pardew has to respond in kind and play him from the off.

Think plaudits have to be given to Ryan Taylor. He had to play CM with Guthrie and did a fine job, just holding his position and ticking things over. Obviously, Santon, Jonas and Guthrie were all great too, and Besty had a decent game.

We're doing that thing. NUFC: "You want £8m? Here, have £4m" Lyon: "£8m, nothing less." NUFC: "£6m." Lyon: "£8m" NUFC: "£7.5m" Lyon: "Okay, fair enough." NUFC: "Actually, we're not interested. But that was fun, wasn't it?"

No way he's been sent off 7 times here. EDIT: That's his Premier League total. Bit sensationalist and sloppy journalism if that's the headline.

If Obertan's estimate was anything to go by, he'll be out for a number of days.

He also put Cabaye one on one with the Keeper and played a couple of lovley balls in the channels for the wingers. Maybe AP should focus his attention on Obtertan and tell him about his wasteful passes. Never said Obertan wasn't completely dross, or that HBA was completely worthless. But he wasn't particularly good in the first half at all. It was only the second he was sublime.

Tbf to Pardew, he was cheap with the ball in the first half. He made a few pointless runs and gave the ball straight to them. Ben Arfa on the wing made his runs far more effective.

Footballer in 'costing money' shocker.

Was Captain for the full 90 minutes.

16-year old at the Milk Cup in Northern Ireland this year had a heart-attack mid-game. Thankfully made it since a doctor was in the (small) crowd. Terrible to hear anything like this.

I can't see Ba going, or Cabaye. Ashley sold Carroll for £35m. That's probably twice to three times what he would really have been worth. Ashley clearly had an agenda getting rid of Barton and Nolan, and Enrique clearly wanted out with less than a year left on his contract. Ba and Cabaye are brand new, they seem happy. They're not causing trouble in the dressing room. They're both worth about £15m IMO. I can't see Ashley selling for less than £30m on either of them. Ashley will sell, but I think he has more sense than to sell on the cheap. If one thing matters to Mike, it's money. EDIT: I know Ba has a release clause, but I assume we'll be drawing up a new contract for him to rectify that now.

Seriously, does no one scout any other teams?

Is it beyond the realms of possibility that 'Arry the wheeler dealer's being paid by Demba's agent to spout this, so that his agent can get a huge cut of the new deal, passing some of it to 'Arry?

He need to give the lad a new contract ASAP, as we did with Tiote. Double his pay, multiply the release clause by ten, and give him massive goal bonuses.