Neil

........it's been a long day.

Why? You'd want someone like Dave Jones at your club long term? If we do ever get promoted he's hardly gonna storm the PL. At least with Shearer we don't know if he'll be good or bad yet, with Jones we already know he's not a great manager. God help us for wanting a manager to be proud of. I never said anything about him being a 5 year appointment. IMO he'd do a pretty good job for you this season, a better one than Hughton put it that way. If he was a manager with no experience at all then perhaps but I fail to understand this 'we're better than Jones and Strachan' mentality.

Are the people who don't want Jones, Strachan etc not wanting them because of things to do with the structure and how they'd fit in, or are they flat-out not wanting them? If it's the latter I despair.

Not forgetting Shola 'Alan Shearer' Ameobi! Shearer can only look back on what could have been. He could have been his generation's Shola.

Literally. Just, a collection of boats recommended by Shola. I'm not arguing with him.

1-1 draw away to a title favourite followed by a clean sheet home victory. 3-0 Sheffield Wednesday is nailed on.

and what river is durham on ? i believe they are going to be installing ticket barriers at the central soon. that should be fun on a match day. They've done it at Darlington now, they always break! An absolutely diabolical waste of money they are; infuriatingly pointless.

Games tend to get going after 26 minutes.

I'd love to play.

12-2. Shola to score all 14.

Even wor Habib? He didnt have much to do, everything from them came down the other side. The entire day was thoroughly, thoroughly horrible. You could have at least lost spectacularly.

The pointless bizarre camera angles swooping in from all directions probably sums up the amateurish nature of the show. Trying far too hard.

Not having access to a PC does tend to have that result, I agree. And for the record, you're scratching far too deep. I come on here primarily because I like Newcastle, and are my second team. Plus you tend to get less mongs than Everton forums. Bitetastic.

Great to be home. ................ First time I'm having serious doubts about Moyes. He hasn't handled this Lescott saga well IMO. I couldn't give a fuck if he wants to go for the money, how the hell can you play him when he doesn't want to play for the club anymore? It's all well and good sounding big and hard by going "I make the decisions round here", etc etc; but it's getting us nowhere. Get rid ASAP (like we should have a couple weeks of ago) and invest the money. How much of a part the whole story played in our defeat I doubt will ever be known. We were shocking, and the hardest thing to take is that in recent years we are very very rarely ever like that - defensively shambolic. As soon as they got the 2nd, even the 1st, our heads dropped and it was a foregone conclusion from there. Yes we still don't have our best 3 players fit but that's a side story - I'm just hoping this was a one off. I can cling to blind hope by going back to 2004, as has perhaps been mentioned, where we finished 4th after getting tonked at home by Arsenal on the opening day, and in our next game went to a promoted side (Crystal Place; our next league game is at Burnley) and won 3-1. Hmm.

I sincerely hope this mentality doesn't develop within the coaching staff. I hope it does develop. Half decent management by Hughton would be a massive improvement. Touche. With one of those accents.

I sincerely hope this mentality doesn't develop within the coaching staff.

Exactly what I've been saying. The league is shit. Caldwell and Carr were first choice in promoted sides last year FFS. Sunderland came up with a load of Irish rejects after losing their first 4 games and appointing Keane on August 28th. Not only did they come up, they romped it. I don't believe it when anyone says this league is competitive. West Brom seem to make a good go of coming and going back down consistently. Smith and Barton will be the best partnership in the league. Enrique will be the best left back in the league. Harper will be the best keeper in the league. Steven Taylor will be in the top 3 centre halves in the league. If we can supplement the above with 2 or 3 good signings and then pad the squad out a bit, we could win the league. Could is the operative word of course as we'll need a fuckin manager and owner! I don't think anyone's said the league is anywhere near the quality of the PL, but it is competitive I'd say. Competitive in the sense of anyone being able to beat anyone - which is completely different to the Premiership.

I sometimes get that. It feels a bit more 'real' when the sides aren't quite as good. I sometimes feel detached when watching Real Madrid, for example.

Time to see if this lad is actually any good. If he gets played, that is.

Why are people pissed off he's left? Genuine question btw.

This new system is ridiculous. Sporting are playing Fiorentina as well. Interesting how they want more actual champions in the draw though. From what I've seen of it, I like it. Gives a chance for champions of relatively smaller countries a chance to compete.

Out of administration! And won't start the season with a points deduction. :clap2:

Kevin Nolan is blates ITK.

Nope, I'm staying well away from accies for 2 or 3 weeks to let the season settle down slightly. Gay. Ooo err.