Stifler

This thread is going to end up as this seasons Ben Arfa thread.

Sibiereski.

Aye I think so.

Some people reckon it's some lad from Roma, but that is from NUFC blog, so that will be bullshit.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, represented at youth international level, isn't he?

Ignacio Gonzalez

They nicked it off the Sunday Sun, we have a thread about it. No doubt when we sign someone they will claim that they were right and will refer to this article.

To be honest, most of this season he was went unnoticed, which for a defender is good. When Carroll was here I saw him make some good runs and bring a few balls into the box alongside Barton, he also made some decent over lapping runs with Barton as well. Going on that then getting another guy in his position might be welcome but by no means is it a priority for us at the moment.

My friend exchange partner from school ... Is he called Mehdi Abeid by any chance?

So there we have our midfielder then. Highly rated in his own country, played internationals, though it is only u18's, and plays in CM.

Souness was consistant as well. Consistently shit, but consistent.

Surely we have to take a look at O'Hara and see if we can nick him from under the noses of Wolves.

I bet it's fucking Snodgrass.

The match going culture has been diluted because of the price of tickets now. Te cheapest adult ticket at SJP is £25, so if you are a family of 2 adults and 2 kids it would cost the best part of £100 to attend a game. The remaining money that you would save on the child tickets would surely be taken up by just having a bottle of pop and some chips each. £100 on average every fortnight is a lot of money. Going to every home league would cost about £1,900 a season. It's not just the premiership clubs either. In February I went to see Doncaster play at home against Watford. When I first enquired about tickets we were told they were £22 each for the cheapest tickets or £25 for the better tickets. That price put off 3 members of my family from going so it was just left with me and a friend of mine going and we got in for £15 each when we payed at the gate. We didn't know up until then that the tickets would be reduced and no doubt many people who attended the game would have payed full price. People can't afford those prices, especially when you factor in travel costs/parking (which is getting worse with more out of town stadiums popping up), and of course your half time pie and pint then the price goes up even more. That's right, but just one factor. Allowing PL games to be televised at 3pm on Saturday would be another. Thankfully we haven't gone down that route yet. Edit: and your mate would be even less likely to go if the match was on TV in the pub. I don't think it would you know. You can already see 3pm KO's in pus, in fact theirs at least 2 in Whitley Bay that I know of who do it. I wouldn't like to know how many others do in the Newcastle area. Also at home it can be fairly easy to find an online stream. The problem in all honesty lies in the price of a match day ticket.

Babacar.

The match going culture has been diluted because of the price of tickets now. Te cheapest adult ticket at SJP is £25, so if you are a family of 2 adults and 2 kids it would cost the best part of £100 to attend a game. The remaining money that you would save on the child tickets would surely be taken up by just having a bottle of pop and some chips each. £100 on average every fortnight is a lot of money. Going to every home league would cost about £1,900 a season. It's not just the premiership clubs either. In February I went to see Doncaster play at home against Watford. When I first enquired about tickets we were told they were £22 each for the cheapest tickets or £25 for the better tickets. That price put off 3 members of my family from going so it was just left with me and a friend of mine going and we got in for £15 each when we payed at the gate. We didn't know up until then that the tickets would be reduced and no doubt many people who attended the game would have payed full price. People can't afford those prices, especially when you factor in travel costs/parking (which is getting worse with more out of town stadiums popping up), and of course your half time pie and pint then the price goes up even more. Today I asked a friend if he wanted to go to the match with me, he couldn't go because of the price otherwise he would have gladly went instead of sitting in watching it on an internet stream.

Personally, I enjoy being able to watch more than one live game per weekend. Nowt stopping the Premier League from putting Man Utd's, Chelsea's, Liverpool's games on TV at 3pm

I like it when all games KO at the same time, the season should be arranged so that everyone KO's at 3pm on a Saturday.

West Ham will turn into the ultimate yoyo side. It may take Birmingham a few years to get back up, I can see them having to pretty much rebuild a whole squad. Blackpool will obviously be in the best position to come back up, that is if they get a replacement for Adam.

MOTD should do this as it progresses highlights thingy every week. Hopefully it would mean less top club wank fests.

Is that him saying thats as far as he can take them? Getting ready for the Chelsea job?

Replacing Adam will be tough though, he dictates so much play and pick out some bloody good passes. You just don't get that quality of player in the Championship, atleast not for long and I can't see how they will replace him. You did last season. Adam will go for a lot of money this summer though. He was still being looked at last season though, this season has just shown he can cut it in the premiership and has upped his reputation and price.

I wouldn't mind him for a season or two.

Replacing Adam will be tough though, he dictates so much play and pick out some bloody good passes. You just don't get that quality of player in the Championship, atleast not for long and I can't see how they will replace him.

Aside from the fact I don't believe the ship needed steadying, I agree with this. He stopped it from drifting away a few times. The team could easily have dropped moral when Hughton was sacked but he came in and in his first game beat Liverpool 3-1. Andy Carroll was sold and we had no replacement and the team moral could easily have left us again, we continued through to the end of the season and only narrowly missed out on a top 10 finish. We were 4-0 down at half time to Arsenal are were going to get hammered, whatever he said at half time it worked and lead to the biggest comeback in Premiership history and that I believe was the moment when our players turned around and said "Not this time, we aren't going to fail this time". Chris Hughton might have installed that team moral in the first place, but Pardew has kept it there when it could have very easily fucked off.