Geordie Ahmed

Get in - loved seeing that Was so one sided it was comical

Bardsley better than Enrique :mackems: :mackems: :mackems:

Really? I havnt read anything as mental as that - then again I havnt read every single post in the realistic targets thread

Class - I love how he suggests Sturridge will be a backup to Gyan and Gameiro

Likeable guy and runs around a lot BUT he just isn't good enough Would be worried if he is near the first team come the start of next season

I agree it is not an urgent priority BUT we can certainly do better I like Simpson and do think he has improved a lot, also did better than expected BUT he is somewhat limited, certainly going forward and defensively he backs off far too much

Ryan Taylor is shit, Simpson is comfortably better than him

I think 5-1 ensures we still retain the bragging rights

He backs off way too much, has been doing it all season

It has been a brilliant season, a sour end BUT overall there have been more positives than negatives Would have been nice to finish ahead of the Mackems BUT it isn't the be all and end all

The last 30 mins were horrible, we got way too relaxed - still it has been a good season so I won't let this get me too down

He is BUT he suddenly becomes world class when playing us

What do you mean 1 more goal? Before yesterday's brace, he's ahead by 7 goals in La Liga (38 vs 31).How may headers have Messi scored and compare that with Ronaldo, the numbers speak for themselves man. Put it this way, if money was no objection and I could get either Messi or Ronaldo. If I was Guardiola managing Barcelona, I'd take Messi hands down, he fits into Barcelona like hands to glove. But if I was any other manager and I was looking for a player to individually improve my team immediately (with say other midfielders being above average), then I'd go with Ronaldo hands down. Messi relies on the team playing in a certain way to excel (and of course when that happens, he is the best), whereas Ronaldo will be more influential in an average team due to his "physique, power and practiced technique" Clearly not as shown in the matches between the 2 sides when Ronaldo did fuck all because his team was more concerned with sitting back and kicking the shit out of the Barca players As for 1 more goal, he was talking about overall - and you want to talk about headers (not really sure why) what about assists?

Where's it say that? Considering he was at SJP yesterday I'd have thought he'd stuck about for Sunday before going back off for the summer. I am basing it on the Pardew comments in the journal article Though I guess it depends when Pardew made these comments I hope he is there

so he isnt going to be here for the lap of honour?

Braga should have scored

the slight difference is that we are basing our idea of the player on what he has shown throughout his career as opposed to the last 3 games. Yes, but again playing devil's advocate, given his rather bitter departures from his previous 2 clubs I can see why some outside NUFC wouldn't be fully convinced on him. How many are genuinely basing their opinion of him on what he did for Lyon and Marseille? I think a lot are basing it on what he did before joining us, why else was this place about to explode when we were linked with him and then eventually signed him?

June 2012 according nufc.com

The worrying thing for the Mackems is there does not appear to be any light at the end of the tunnel Their team is shite, they have a lot of loan players, their manager is hated by the fans and the fans are not turning up in the numbers that Quinny so desperately wants They are making a loss every year and there will come a point when Short thinks fuck it We on the other hand are at least looking a bit more positive, the next accounts of ours should show a profit

I don't think anyone really classes him as worth £35m, the fee was just a result of the crazy Torres transfer. Dalglish and the Liverpool board did. Only because they got £50m for Torres. Still deemed it worthy of spending £35m on it on a striker who'd only had one half season performing well. The Liverpool owners craic was the Torres deal had to be £15m more than what we were asking for Carroll (meaning they could buy Carroll and Suarez for £0 investment). It wasn't Liverpool that paid the £35m it was Chelsea, via Torres. How do you work that? They paid 26.5m for Suarez. It was £22.8m they paid for Suarez, plus they got money for Ryan Babel, so they pretty much broke even

Probably one of the healthiest clubs in the league financially,our owner swallows all of our debts and we are virtually debt free. BUT how much longer is he going to keep swallowing your debts? Sunderland are losing money every season and it does not look like that will change any time soon (especially if you want to sign 5-7 players this summer)

Think we should give him a contract extension - think he certainly has the potential to make it, just needs a run of games as he has been unlucky with injuries

Well they are convinced Ellis Short is the bestest owner in the whole world

About 2 and a half years. So it would cost a few quid to get rid of him and then more money on a replacement, leaving less for signings Sunderland are in a shit position right now

How long does Steve Bruce have left on his contract?