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11 yrs so telly said since we did it it's the first time we've won 5 and had 5 clean sheets though.

Where were his smoking hot boots today? He lose them?

Until Taylor moved to RB he looked totally shaky as a CB in the PL, to say he's our only PL standard player is mental.

Terrible performance but happy with result. :colo:

There was nothing wrong with Duff's effort. Yeah, he always looked like wanting to die for the team. you think the player in your avatar was any better than duff last season? You're not Irish are you? No, I just know one or two things about football. Well clearly not.

There was nothing wrong with Duff's effort. Yeah, he always looked like wanting to die for the team. you think the player in your avatar was any better than duff last season? You're not Irish are you?

I know I'm late to the party but quality header by Colo. :colo:

Didn't see him under Keegan then. Aye he played OK when the likes of Owen, Martins and Viduka were on fire. He's still done nowt in the bloody second tier. I'd be chuffed if he did but I don't see the point in defending him when he doesn't.

There was nothing wrong with Duff's effort. Yeah, he always looked like wanting to die for the team.

Our usual tactics I see, go 1-0 and not bother attacking. Still waiting for Barton to do anything in a Newcastle shirt as well.

What was the point in resting Vuckic midweek if he's not even on the bench. Just noticed though...NO BUTT!

Perhaps, I am slightly worried without Shola and Jonas. I still think our midfield will be too good. Or maybe that's hope rather than expectation.

Just a guess I think, teams won't be out till about 13.15, officially at least anyway.

"he has never known a team spirit like that Chelsea side where "you would die for one another and you don't get that very often." Maybe if you put a bit of effort in Damien, players at Newcastle might have felt the same.

Gareth Barry's disease ravaged arms.

You can't claim compensation because the owner didn't bring in players you expected him to. Walk out by all means but £10m because "it's not like the brochure"? So can you claim compensation because players were signed that you didn't want? There's no rule book saying what is and what isn't constructive dismissal. Precedent is obviously used but precedent can also be set. As long as Keegan can show his position was made untenable then he'll win his case. Remember constructive dismissal doesn't just occur in football, Keegan could have said Llambias was touching him up and insulting him ( ) and so he had to resign, that'd also be a case for constructive dismissal

Nah, I did say I know you're not being 100% serious.

I've said it before, but it's not just the players we brought in that tipped Keegan over the edge, but the players we didn't. Everyone keeps saying it was Xisco/Gonzalez that pushed him over the edge but I think the biggest problem was that we still didn't sign a LB, who Keegan wanted for ages.

Rubbish, 30 years in the game and years spent behind the scenes and you think he knows nothing about tactics? The only reason people called him clueless was because he couldn't prevent our demise last season which neither Kinnear nor Shearer could do either. He's not the greatest manager but nor is he the worst. I know you're not being 100% serious (or at least I hope not) but I thought I'd defend him anyway.

Are you negative about everything?

Good post. I think you're right that many sneering at Man City right now really are just doing so because they're being childish and envious. Blackburn had Jack Walker and won the Premiership. Chelsea have had Abramovich, ditto. We had Sir John Hall, he two Freddies, loads of wonga, but we blew it and we've been in gradual decline for a few years now, accelerated by the current Ashley regime. Citeh are one of the few clubs who rival NUFC for recurrent melodrama and intrigue off the pitch. Over the past few years Citeh fans have had to endure various highs and lows including two relegations, the excitement of a Keegan promotion, the lows of Stuart Pearce's amateur hour, the media frenzy around Shinawatra's arrival and the accompanying political farce, Sven coming and going and now they're in total fantasy football territory courtesy of their current Abu Dhabi owners having splashed out silly money this summer. They've spent years feeling like the Premiership's media whipping boys, frequently ridiculed and undermined. If they buy the title, then they won't be the first, and I certainly wouldn't begrudge the fans a bit of joy from that either, but I can't say I feel comfortable with where this scale of spending is taking the game of football more generally. I wouldn't say the situations were comparable, in 95/96 we paid £2.5m for Ginola and £6m for Ferdinand while Liverpool paid £8m(?) for Collymore and Arsenal paid about £7m for Bergkamp. Obviously Shearer a year later was a massive amount of money but he was arguably the best striker in the world at the time, or at least one of them. Man City broke the British transfer fee record for a player who isn't even in the top 10 players in the world, then over £25m for a defender who doesn't even play for his country.

38,000+, I don't blame them, I wouldn't want to sit anywhere near Steve Bruce either.

Slow night Carlito?