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I see he's blaming the ball boys again. Desperate.

If it was up to me, I'd drop Cisse, Sissoko and Colback, moving Wijnaldum in to the middle with Ayoze and Thauvin on the wings and Mitrovic up front for Villa. Never going to happen though. Glad it's not up to you.

In typical Newcastle fashion we will lose this.

Two brilliant and unexpected wins but Villa is the big one. Beat them and that's us 13 points clear of them and they won't be making that ground up on us meaning we only have to finish above 2 others. This team still need to prove they can get up for the games against the smaller clubs like Villa and a good performance (and a win) on Saturday would be a canny start.

The first page is canny funny mind.

Found this to be a canny read; http://www.thefightingcock.co.uk/forum/forums/tottenham-hotspur.4/

Quite happy with that. Would probably have taken 6 points from the Liverpool and Spurs games if offered beforehand.

Someone donated 2 grand there. A very generous gesture.

Ridiculous. Even Man Utd fans don't like watching them now so why inflict them on the rest of the country.

Been offered a free ticket for Watford and Chelsea this season and knocked them both back.

Exactly. Our standard season tickets are very expensive. £579 to sit behind the goals or a minimum of £710 to sit alongside the pitch. I'm sure it was proven last season that it's actually cheaper to pay match by match than to have a season ticket.

Disagree. Need the 3 points v Villa.

Could be hosting Carlisle v Hartlepool on December 28th. Might make my first appearance of the season at SJP for that one.

Maybe deserved more against Sunderland and Stoke though. Swings and roundabouts and all that.

Thought it was the opposite and we like to attack the Gallowgate 2nd half with it not only being our "home end" but also because of the 6ft slope down to that end of the pitch which comes into play more as the legs get tired.

On the contrary. I certainly wouldn't sign up to a Mackem forum to slag us off with them though.

Dear me. He's so far up the mackems @rses I'm actually embarrassed for him.

I'd say we're looking like a pub team here but that would be disrespectful to pub teams everywhere.

And succeeding.

Mackems have got a good chance of getting something today. Same ref as they had against us when he literally let them do what they wanted whilst wrongly sending off one of our players.

I'm hearing Celtic have applied to take their place in the next round.

Carr simply does as he's told which is to buy young, Foreign players for as little an outlay as possible, from smaller leagues who will then in turn make the club a tidy profit 2-3 years down the line. You simply can't run a football club in this way when this is your only transfer strategy. It's just not flexible at all and has left us in a position where we have a young squad, devoid of any leadership which regularly goes on ridiculous losing runs because there's no figurehead(s) in the dressing room to get the players back on track. You can see it on the pitch. We go a goal down, heads drop and there's not a single player on that pitch who is capable of getting a reaction from his teammates and taking the game by the scruff of the neck. The fundamental problem is that NUFC is not run like a football club and decisions are not made for footballing reasons. It's always going to be a recipe for disaster.

Why pointless ? Because the wider fanbase won't bother to get themselves involved and support them.

Decent enough read if rather pointless; http://ashleyout.com/articles/deja-vu/

Wor lass was wanting to enrol the bairn in that Field House nursery over the road from the training ground in January. I'll be putting a stop to that now.