themanupstairs

Fuck off with the Liverpool wankfest on ESPN ffs!! Barnes and Keegan in the studio. Absolutely nauseating. Fuck off.

Keegan on Carroll: "When you move to a big club, you have to deliver, and understand what it takes to play for a big club".

His worst performance for us since he joined. Fully expect him to take it on the chin and learn from it. As has been said, Pardew should have had them play deeper to contain Johnson.

Difficult to swallow this result. Could not see Fulham scoring in the first half, nevermind putting 5 past us. Refereeing decision turned the game on its head, yet again, but we never showed the resilience we've displayed in recent times. Heads dropped at 1-1, and that was that. Fulham were nothing special at all, and that's what hurts even more. Despicable show from Ameobi who should not have stayed on the pitch. "Surprisingly" Ben Arfa tried to take it to them, but was on his own in his endeavor. We scored a couple of lovely goals, maybe that's the one positive we can take, but nowt else. Meh

Woeful. Absolutely woeful. No application, no dedication, no urgency, nothing! For a senior player who is meant to be leading the line after years of experience, he offers absolutely fuck all! Would much rather have kept Best on instead.

Smith's wages should be divvied up on new improved contracts for Coloccini, Krul, Ba and Guthrie. Make it happen Ashley, and bring home a trophy!

winner so far

Hughton

You're on a slippery slope with jokes like that my man

how did you explain this one to the bairn?

Throw in Vuckic, Abeid-ish, Ferguson and Edmundsson into that pool of internationals

Sadly, remarks like that will be made by people from every part of the world. I was mildly amused when I was "racially insulted" in a foreign language, it's probably happened to almost everyone without them even knowing about it. I'm involved in 4th division football here in Cyprus (not as a player), and our team has a few Africans and Arabs in it, who constantly get racist abuse from opposition Greek players, even when their own teams have foreigners. It's disgusting, but as you say, happens all over the world. Find it amusing when our Afrian players get told to go back to Gaza

can't get enough of "first I've heard of this" posts!

That's really sad, and puts the whole Suarez/Evra saga into perspective. In some ways I refuse to believe it. I've only ever been in Newcastle and St James' once in my life, and had such a wonderful experience, that hearing about this sort of thing makes me want to block it out, as to me it's still the most beautiful city I have ever been in, and want nothing to tarnish that experience/memory.

Some pretty vile stuff aimed at Newcastle and it's black players. Was posted in Sunderland thread yesterday - not sure if it's still there. Bluestar posted it in the Sunderland thread me thinks

Don't think it matters what we paid, and I'm pretty sure it's there or thereabouts as far as the figures that have been mentioned. What does matter is that we moved in quickly, and picked this fella up from under the noses of clubs more financially capable than we are. What matters most, potentially, is that we are building on top of what we already have, rather than simply trying to stay afloat.

Leon Best must be kept at the football club! I can't fathom what we'd gain from selling him whatsoever! He's proved himself at this level as a capable, skillful and decent finisher. Personally never thought he'd defy the odds in the top division, but he has done it, and done it very well. Obviously with Ba and Cisse, he's slipped down the pecking order, but he's not far behind in terms of playing his part as an excellent squad player over the period of an entire season. Have a huge amount of respect for the lad, and I really hope he stays with us, as he can play an important part, along with Ba and Cisse, hopefully for years to come.

Exhausting reading the last 30 odd pages, fuck me though what a signing! Not sure if I'm happier with the player or with the intent we have signalled with his signature. Cannot wait till February 1st, and as has been put so eloquently by someone else already: "please Ashley don't kick us in the balls after this!" Special mention to KD who started the ball rolling when the news first broke. Immense thread

safe flight mate "Excuse me sir, you can't go in there, the captain's busy flying the plane" "But Papissssss "

Oh wow!! That is brand new information!!

the wank train!

You're absolutely right, but I'm sure you can understand why we're terrified that it could be a case of "too good to be true". Of course, and I'm not saying positive stuff means you can't have big, big questions about how you've got to this point. But as I say, the bottom line is you're arguably the club progressing the most in the whole league at the moment, maybe alongside Spurs. Ashley has to take a great deal of credit for that. Of course he does. But will the credit due be the same if we end up losing Ba, Krul, Tiote or Coloccini? All credit will be given to the man if he can keep the group of lads together. Start selling, and we're in a precarious situation again. Thin line between love and hate.

wrong thread much?

Well done sir :lol:

You're absolutely right, but I'm sure you can understand why we're terrified that it could be a case of "too good to be true".