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Doesn't come across as bitter at all. Says what a great club NUFC is but that it should be doing a lot better but is being held back by Ashley's mentality. What bit of that don't you agree with?

The thing is Cabaye is just the latest in a long line of ex players (plus Keegan) to come out and say this and these are the people on the inside at the club so it's not just speculation. No doubt the idiots who can see no wrong in anything at the club will be along to slate him on twitter/Facebook.

Also they're away in Europe on Thursday and have sold out their allocation for that. Most of them would have chosen a trip to Holland ahead of the trip up here for the novelty factor.

47,000 max on Sunday. There'll be 2k empty seats in the away end for a start and there's still loads of empty seats in the Gallowgate, Leazes and Milburn. Only the East Stand has only a few empty seats. We only just scraped 50k for our opening home game last season and that was against the Champions who brought 3,000 fans with them and we had around 8,000 more season ticket holders then as well.

People can boycott in whichever way they see fit though. I didn't renew my season ticket, haven't bought any club merchandise for years and very much doubt I'll go to any home games this season but I took my little lad with me today and he enjoyed himself. Went on some of the rides they had set up behind the Gallowgate and then went in to watch the training. Didn't visit the club shop and it cost nowt to get in so Mike Ashley didn't get a penny off me. However I won't be bothering with the Southampton match on Sunday.

Perez has earned his place in the side, it will be a poor decision if he isn't in the team that plays Southampton. Agree. However I always think he seems like the easy target when the manager is looking for a player to leave out.

Don't think we signed him, loaned him out for a season then brought him back to be 6th choice. Coloccini and Mbemba you would expect will be the first choice pairing but after those 2 it's anyone from Lascelles, Taylor and Williamson. With Coloccini being another year older and picking up a few injuries these days it's perfectly reasonable to suggest Lascelles could feature in 10 or more first team games this season.

Front 4 will, the rest won't. Lascelles and Gouffran will both play more than 10 games for us next season. McClaren clearly loves Gouffran and Taylor will be injured most of the season so Lascelles will be vying with Williamson to play alongside Coloccini.

Never read too much into friendlies but by my reckoning 6 of those players will get into double figures in PL appearances for us next season (plus Abeid who I didn't include). Still desperately need 3 more in who can walk straight into the starting XI but I think Ashley will be thinking this group are good enough for 14-17th place.

Tbf he struggled in the Championship last season.

They do it to pander to the knuckledraggers on wearside. After all they need them to buy their paper/listen to their radio programme but we're a bit more sophisticated up here and our local papers/radio don't need to stoop to those levels. Walk around Newcastle and then jump on a metro to Sunderland for any further proof of what I'm saying. They're about half an hour away but it's like going back 30 years. A bizarre, non entity of a place and that's what fuels their bitterness and bile.

This new keeper must be shite.

I use readytogo every day to keep up to date with all the latest NUFC news. Seriously.

They should have anticipated the demand and made more than 10 of them mind.

Don't think that's the case at all. Remember an interview with him a few years ago and he actually said he couldn't believe a player like him was at a club the size of Newcastle. He'll know he's not good enough, and he isn't, but as long as they keep putting his name down on the teamsheet he's hardly going to refuse to play (like others have in the past). It's entirely the fault of the club that he's still here, not his and anyone booing him needs to give their head a shake. Hopefully he's moved on to a Championship club for a nominal fee but I've got a feeling he'll still be here this time next year.

Our crowds are on the decline. Presently we have 52,000 seats to fill and approximately 25,000 season ticket holders. I'd be amazed if we get more than 2 or 3 50k crowds next season. Couldn't even get 50,000 in against Man Utd last season due to their ridiculous ticketing policy. Probably only the mackems and Villa will have a lower occupancy % than us in 15/16.

James McClean has his Maserati vandalised. To be fair it's from January but it's just gone to court now and he's been in the news a bit recently. Culprit has to pay him back at a fiver a week; http://www.u.tv/News/2015/07/24/Derry-man-fined-over-McClean-car-attack-41718

Still can't get his performance down at Everton 3 years ago out of my head. A more gutless and cowardly performance you could not find. I wrote him off after that because although he has some talent (not enough to be playing at a top half PL club) he has a heart the size of a pea.

Only 5ft 11". Not very big for a centre half mind.

After 8 years of gross mismanagement under that fat tit it'll take a lot more than a handful of signings (assuming we get a few more in) to get me to take the plunge and get another season ticket and considering I can't go to away games any more because of their ridiculous no general sale policy I won't be turning up for any home games either so it's the pub for me.

Tbf for the combined fees we paid for Ba, Cabaye and Santon we could have bought them and kept Carroll. Bringing in them needn't have been a result of selling him. I hate Ashley but can understand why he was happy to take £35m for Carroll. Just a shame he trousered the lot instead of reinvesting it back in the team.

So after waiting around no decent teams wanted him and he's decided to sign for us after all.

I remember when the summers used to drag and I couldn't wait for it all to start again. Seems like no time at all since the West Ham game and it's back again in 3 weeks.

Just been watching this. Great memories and my first season as a season ticket holder. The most I've ever celebrated a goal and possibly the best atmosphere I've experienced.

Cracking result for Aberdeen.