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Aren't we as bad for that in almost every position?

Baba bulldozing the nonsense.

"King Kenny"?

Laddie.

Be nice if they were decent next summer, looks like they will be. Prefer a shit Brazil, tbh. One more team in the way of our trophy. "Your" You're not Irish man, give it up. Is Ireland allowed at the World Cup? I mean, you have a team and everything? You don't just send the field hockey players or some shit? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland_national_football_team#FIFA_World_Cup_record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_men's_national_soccer_team#World_Cup_record Pipe down, Mike.

http://www.football.co.uk/newcastle_united/kinnear_to_bring_cattermole_to_newcastle__rss4318613.shtml?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Absolutely. Crazy how complacent some people still are.

Same. Fine as a squad player but should never play out wide for us ever again.

Steven Taylor is more than good enough as one of a midtable team's best 3 centre halves.

Probably just hammers it home that we've just employed a fucking bell end in a senior position when he can't get anyone's name right in an interview with a national radio station before said bell end has even been officially announced as head NUFC bell end. Any right-minded player who gets what's happening should want away.

I had this conversation on Facebook for months on end, I'm not doing it again. I'm fine having debates on any number of topics on here, I'm just saying I'm not interested in having this one, with you, again.

Meh, can't be arsed whatsoever.

You're definitely not determined to defend Ashley no matter what, yet you're on here defending the Kinnear appointment. I thought it was the first move of Ashley's that you couldn't in any way defend, but you've managed it pretty sharpish. You couldn't make it up. I've said time and time again that I think bringing in Kinnear is very daft indeed. What I did there was to try to make some sense of the rationale behind it, which I've so far failed to do, but in the light of this stuff about Pardew vs Carr, some new possibilities emerge and it's interesting to discuss them. The idea that he's there solely to act as a buffer and isn't actually here to run the football club is about the most positive spin you can put on it. It *could* be that bringing in some clod to fulfill that role is the most efficient way of getting manager and scout to work together - that doesn't translate to "right, I've decided that bringing Joe Kinnear in was the right decision". Does it. No. Again, you seem desperate to maintain your image of me as someone who will defend everything Ashley does. So let me recap just to be clear: - I would sooner have Joe Kinnear nowhere near NUFC. He is a buffoon. Appointing him is a bad idea and I've found it impossible to make sense of. - If he is here purely to stop Pardew and Carr's disagreements bringing the club to a grinding standstill rather than to function as a true Director of Football, that is the best case scenario under these circumstances, and it is just about possible that bringing in some token 3rd guy (though ideally not Kinnear) might be the easiest/best way to sort out the Pardew / Carr thing. Is that clear? There's no need to be patronising, I'm saying that everything I've read from you is excessively pro-Ashley and you trying to find any sense or justification in this appointment in an attempt to give him the benefit of the doubt just cements that. That clear?

Dr Know (Vocal Chords).

Maybe they thought Colo was off then because there isn't a hope in hell we can go into next season without buying 2 wide players and a centre forward. We have 3 good first team centre halves now and a few that could step in.

That tells you everything you need to know.

We can get away with it at centre half whereas the forward positions need serious investment. Need at least 2 or 3 in to stop us being toothless going forward.

So they told Shearer what they were doing by email then claimed he had been consulted on it, surprise surprise.

I think Bigi will end up being one of the better ones if he keeps developing as you'd hope.

Possibly, it doesn't really matter to me what the number is as long as the players coming in are of the right standard. Which in general they have been. Not going to get into this tbh but we've left ourselves way too short in various transfer windows, therefore the point I'm making about balancing the books being paramount should matter to you and to every NUFC supporter. You can't argue with the quality we've brought in, I agree. However a good example of the thriftiness is how ridiculously hard we've pushed our luck in the forward and wide positions. People moaned about Cisse last year but if he got injured we'd have went down.

The net transfer spend since Ashley came in must be around zero, if that. It'll always hover around that level at best IMO.

Bloody hell.

You're definitely not determined to defend Ashley no matter what, yet you're on here defending the Kinnear appointment. I thought it was the first move of Ashley's that you couldn't in any way defend, but you've managed it pretty sharpish. You couldn't make it up.

What were they doing like, just generally being obnoxious pricks?