Mistle17

Well, quite a lot of people, clearly. You're cool though, so keep rocking. It's just a f***ing sign. That makes our stadium look absolutely awful....

wigan had the JJB for years I know but there situation is a bit different to ours, and I think Whelan went about things with a bit more class/consideration.

We can all go on about everything and anything as to why he's not in the team, but to put it simply there's no reason why he shouldn't be playing ahead of Raylor or Obertan or whoever else Pardew elects. He's a magnificent player and how demonstrated that in the minimal time he's had on the pitch for us. No excuse not to play him.

This has just left my enthusiasm for NUFC completely deflated. So much about our club (off the pitch, at least) is just wrong, and completely disregards and vandalises the heritage and tradition of this great club. The Sports Direct Arena? Fuck off. The only saving grace for Ashley as it stands is our league standing. Should that deteriorate then, as the nature of Newcastle United is, things could get quite restless imo. Christ sake even clubs like Wigan and Blackburn have more class than us when it comes to this..

This time he's taken it far, far too fucking far. I hate that horrible despicable cunt. I honestly couldn't give a shit if we are 5th, 1st or 20th in the league, that goes out the window. This is him destroying our stadium, our heritage and everything attractive that NUFC stands for. It's just not acceptable. I've absolutely had enough.

FUCK OFF YOU FUCKING HORRIBLE FAT CUNT!!!!!!!!!!

I getcha.

One of the best footballing teams in La Liga against an average bunch of cloggers at the Britania? Plus, it gets cold in Spain too. So don't see why not

Valencia -1 @ 4/1 tonight against Stoke. Definitely worth a punt, imo.

Wish he'd just leave, tbh. I'm absolutely sick of this crap.

Oh fuck off Carlisle! Only match in the whole division not to score. Cunts.

Leverkusen 11/2 dnb on PaddyPower

Cowdenbeath, Carlisle, Morecambe treble.

Saying he thought he'd be at Man Utd forever

I think to say he would never have played professionally is overstating it but he's an incredibly poor footballer in terms of what he can do with the ball at his feet, which is surprising when you consider which academy he came up through, and right to the top of it too. I honestly don't think it is. Like I said in my last post, had he been born in any other decent footballing nation he wouldn't have made it, he'd have been laughed at for his ability on the ball. You can get away with lack of pace, size, whatever you want to name, if you're good on the ball. If you're not, there's nowhere to hide and not a lot you can fall back on. I was at a coaching event a few weeks back with the England U17 manager who gave a presentation on how they are trying to change the footballing philosophy in this country. Whilst listening to him speak, the first player that came into my head that would be redundant if the FA can implement the change in philosophy was Simpson. They want every player on the pitch to be capable of actually playing football. They want the fullbacks to become more attack minded but still be able to defend. They're the two things that related most to Simpson. If he was coming through the ranks in 10-15 years time, again if the FA can get everything into place and develop their ideas properly, he wouldn't stand a chance. On the ball, he's woefully inept. He's s*** scared of the ball being anywhere near him and his distribution is embarrassing. He adds nothing going forward and his crossing is farcical. His control and first touch are poor. It genuinely makes you feel like there's a bomb in the ball when he has it at his feet. You can actually see the panic appear across his face when he's placed under the tiniest bit of pressure. Off the ball he isn't much better either. Everyone knows his backing off is terrible. His positional awareness for someone who's played in that position all of his life is awful. His lack of nous and footballing brain doesn't help his cause either. He just generally doesn't seem to think about what he's doing. Then to top it all off, his attitude stinks. If you make an error or are out of position, fine, it happens, but work your bollocks off to get back into position and make up for it. The amount of time I've seen Simpson just jogging back to get back into position this season has been embarrassing. That's before the constant whinging on the pitch and the pointing and blaming of team mates, even when it's quite clearly his own fault. To fit right in with the current national set up, he's got a massive ego and an overinflated opinion of himself too. Rather than bleating about players who are better than him and for an England call up that is a million miles away, why not try and improve as a player to then actually have a right to clamour for that call up. He does for me sum up what's wrong with football in this country and I'm glad that with a bit of work, a player with his limited ability should become a thing of the past over the next decade or so. I don't think it's that bad wanting a professional footballer to be capable of actually playing football, do you? Couldn't agree more. Covered everything about that pathetic little wank stain The sooner Pardew comes to his sense and drops the lad then the better off our whole team will be. Beyond useless.

It really is like Springfield-Shelbyville rivalry/competition from the Simpsons

Dortmund -2, Brum, Swindon, Kilmarnock dnb.

Like Shola? What a fucking idiot.

We probably had a squad on par with them when we were in the Championship! And in our relegation season we, on paper, had a squad easily superior to theirs. Wait...on paper? Shit, I'm starting to sound like one of them now

Good points in there. I think that our high line is a big problem at times- especially against teams like WBA, Villa and potential SMB's. O'Neil sets all of teams up with the intention to counter attack and generally they do that well. Players like Sessegnon and McClean could take advantage of that, especially against Simpson. However, they aren't exactly all that. If we're on top our game and have the likes of Cabaye and Tiote back, and Pards decides to play Ben Arfa then there are definitely goals there for us- if we're on form I think we could potentially batter the horrible cunts. What does give me comfort is that we are a 'big game' side it seems, have an excellent record against this lot and we're currently on great form. Agreed. He's got to be dropped, he struggled enough against N'Zogbia and that lad wears blinkers.

Quite a unique player. I really like him, though. His cross for Cisse's goal yesterday was top class!

Good post, agree with that

Bale up against Simpson just isn't worth thinking about. I think it'll be one of the toughest games of the season, as I think Spurs are excellent, but I don't think we'll be any pushovers* *Providing that Pardew is sensible with his selection

Me too!!!! I literally wont sleep a wink that night!