Neil

Better week. All my players have played and have 44 points, however Silva's points will be doubled (VC due to Rooney not playing), and I'm expecting some bonus points for my players. Although knowing Fantasy's bonus points decision so far this season, I shouldn't be too hopeful.

Do they not realise he obviously wanted to be anywhere other than Sunderland, and when a cash-rich club offered huge personal terms, there was no way he was going to reject it?

You'll win by a single goal I reckon.

A man can dream. I don't actually expect us to go there and win, let me make this perfectly clear. I'm just feeling confident more in a "no real pressure on us" sense, and we've gone there and won on multiple occasions when we were expected to be defeated easily. I'm probably just giddy we've accumulated 7 points from 4 games - usually have to wait to late October to have that many points. My prematch views and predictions are fucking wank though so I therefore expect a comfortable victory for you lot. Early goal for them and yeah it'll be a long, long afternoon for us. Love watching Silva and Aguero but a, er, rugged challenge or 2 early on wouldn't be an awful thing. Or, they'll get pissed off by that and tear us a new one.

A man can dream. I don't actually expect us to go there and win, let me make this perfectly clear. I'm just feeling confident more in a "no real pressure on us" sense, and we've gone there and won on multiple occasions when we were expected to be defeated easily. I'm probably just giddy we've accumulated 7 points from 4 games - usually have to wait to late October to have that many points.

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Get in there. Just casting my mind back to last year. Man City unbeaten at home, we're in awful form. 2-0 up in 20 minutes. We even went down to 10 men and we still won. You have been warned, Dinho!

CoM. Won our last 4 there, usually when we weren't expected to.

I'm starting to feel strangely confident about tomorrow. Possibly because of our excellent record against Man City, or the fact we'll have pretty much no pressure on us and they'll be expected to go and win the game comfortably. We'll see. And yes, I know they have the ability to brutally penetrate us but you never know.

Marcus Hahnemann.

He said to me he couldn't be arsed about Newcastle and "modern football" anymore. Every other update I see on Facebook from him is him talking about NUFC and football. I guess it was just this forum. Will try to get him along to the October get together.

mattis "doesn't have the time" to post... yet still continuously lurks. Think KI's doing some cool shit somewhere.

You reading my mind? Was thinking that not half an hour ago. Enjoyed his posts.

Already got him.

My main dilemma currently is whether to stick with Suarez. I dunno, I just think he's got too much quality not to start scoring plenty of points... but Adebayor is about 1.5 cheaper.

Word of warning: we've won 7 of our last 8 against Man City, including the last 4 in a row at their stadium. That said, I'd be very surprised if we got owt tomorrow.

Makes Betis' promotion and great start to this season all the more remarkable.

Nice changing of the subject, but it's good to know even a Liverpool supporter knows he's a twat.

A personal thing? A personal thing he openly talked about in public? He's a twat, plain and simple.

Hopefully no-one's surprised by this, like. Twat on the pitch, twat off the pitch, and will continue to be a twat. Twat.

Forum's been on and off for me the past couple of days. Quite a few times it's briefly not loaded (web page available), and then worked fine a minute later. Nothing major but irritating nonetheless and thought I'd mention it anyway. Background work still going on I think Rich said? Example: I clicked to post this post, and it was 'loading' and doing nothing, eventually just refusing to load at all. Refresh about 60 seconds later and it's fine. Edit: actually, might just be my net having a bad day. Did something similar with another site. But the above sort of thing happen still happens on occasion even if other sites are working fine. But today just looks like it's my net being a knob.

I thought he looked really classy up here against us a few weeks ago, but as you say his goal record doesn't exactly blow you away. He certainly appears to have ability, though. I mean, I'm not saying he's not that good purely because of his stats, but you would expect someone who's been playing up front and had a fair amount of game time to get more than 3 goals in 25ish games.

The same Dembele who has scored 3 league goals for Fulham since joining last summer? He's alright, not seen much from him in this league to suggest he's going to be much more than that.

He's still in Scott Minto's basement presumably.