Hughesy

Not sure if anyone has posted this already and it's probably a load of rubbish...but thought I might as well post the link. http://www.newcastleunited-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/carroll_and_taylor__the_inside_info_509851/index.shtml

Hilarious Skrg, you do this for every 'story of shame' that comes out of Barrack Road, but strangely enough, your crusade for morale superiority and human decency goes unnoticed by the king-makers in the glass tower. When will you accept that the life of a Premiership professional footballer is riddled with the type of immoral and indecent activity that has plagued our society for the last twenty years? Carroll and Taylor had some sort of fight, it's not up to the fans to be judge and jury, nor should we really be bothered about what goes on at Longbenton, so long as the 'culprits' are putting their shift in at SJP. Those of you joining Skrg on his crusade should take a step back and some of your posts. It's like reading the Daily Mail. Especially Hakka. What are you on about??? I have never read such a load of rubbish in one post. Are you struggling to understand the joined up sentences? I can break it down if you like... Chris Hughton is the manager, he makes the decisions as he sees fit in order to manage his squad. Coming down hard on Carroll, as many on here are suggesting, could be detrimental to the squad or certain key players. We don't know this, only Hughton knows. If you don't like Andy Carroll, or any of our other players, feel free not to get his name printed on your shirt, or sing his name when he next plays and scores. No trouble with joined up sentences here. Essentially what you are saying is that this kind of behaviour can be tolerated as long as the team is doing ok. I'll keep this simple for you. No, it can't be tolerated.

Hilarious Skrg, you do this for every 'story of shame' that comes out of Barrack Road, but strangely enough, your crusade for morale superiority and human decency goes unnoticed by the king-makers in the glass tower. When will you accept that the life of a Premiership professional footballer is riddled with the type of immoral and indecent activity that has plagued our society for the last twenty years? Carroll and Taylor had some sort of fight, it's not up to the fans to be judge and jury, nor should we really be bothered about what goes on at Longbenton, so long as the 'culprits' are putting their shift in at SJP. Those of you joining Skrg on his crusade should take a step back and some of your posts. It's like reading the Daily Mail. Especially Hakka. What are you on about??? I have never read such a load of rubbish in one post.

Love the way how people have seen the odd highlight of Pele and Maradona, or at best a few full matches, can make remarks about Messi.

As everyone on here knows I am a massive fan of Messi and I think he is brilliant and there's no doubt he's the best player in the world. However I find that statement absolutely incredible. Why won't he be? Explain why Pele, Maradona et al are better than him.

Always love the inevitable ' the Newcastle fans were really quiet' comments...

Was staying at the same hotel as the team on Friday night - quite interesting to see Butt come down for breakfast and sit down with Hughton and Calderwood. None of the other players were down, just backroom staff - was wondering if some sort of coaching role for Butt is in the offing? Or maybe he just wanted his full English breakfast too much and couldn't sleep for the excitement.

Definitely Inter as my 1st choice to win. Mainly because of Mourinho being awesome.

I think even when he first starting playing in the 1st team, he clearly had the potential. His technical ability, whilst not great, has been massively underplayed by some on here.

Was just going to say - every single team seems to have a Zidane story. The Blackburn one is the one that usually gets trotted out.

I can't now remember when Robson wanted to sell Shearer, but bearing in mind Shearer scored 22 league goals in 37 league games in 2003/04, I would suggest that any reports of his demise at this point were somewhat wrong. Bearing in mind, we had no-one to replace within the club (no... Kluivert should not have been playing instead of Shearer...), it would have been madness to have sold Shearer then.

I think O'Hara or Kevin Prince Boateng would be good signings. Is there a list accessible on the Internet of players who are out of contract this summer?

Absolute rubbish that Kaka is overrated.

If only we could unearth a Beardsley now.

If we are just fantasising about dream scenarios, I'd like to buy Torres from Liverpool for around £2m and a princely wage of around 22k. Ideally after scoring against the scousers he'd race to the the Kop end lifting his shirt to reveal an "UP YOURS BIN-DIPPERS" vest on his debut. Because that's what I said...

Has anyone said that we should sell Ranger??? I don't think they have. I think people have pointed out, rightly so, that a strikeforce of Carroll, Ameobi, Best, Lovenkrands and Ranger isn't going to keep us up. I don't want to buy overpriced players on high wages, especially players on the wrong side of 30 - the only basis on which I would buy Keane was if it was an amazing deal for us (ie low fee and relatively low wages), which is unlikely to happen. But anyone who is sitting here thinking that Ranger can be part of a Premiership strikeforce NEXT SEASON is a complete loon.

Yes. That's priceless.

Not actually read all this thread - but are people genuinely suggesting that Ranger should be one of our main strikers if we go up? Seriously...? Rather than buying someone like Keane?

anyone else think this sounded a lot like a Michael Owen transfer? I'll level with you I'm a huge fan of Robbie Keane and have been suggesting to mates and alike before we signed Owen that we tried to sign him when spurs had 47 striking options, could have probably got him for about £7-£8m at the time and got away with paying him about £40k a week. My biggest worry is we end up with Michael Owen again in the summer, and as ridiculous as that might sound, I wouldn't write it off straight away. Not really - Keane is a far more 'technical' player who doesn't/didn't rely on pace in the way Owen did. Not necessarily saying I'd buy Keane mind you.

Signing the likes of him is a better transfer policy according to you. Two can play this game... Signing Viana was better than Speed? Signing Owen better than Bellamy? Signing Luque better than Rob Lee? Signing Duff was better than Solano? Signing Coloccini/Boumsong better than Dabizas/Woodgate?

Yeah, cos I said Routledge was better than Robert. :clap2:

From the official Premier league website. Dodgy as.

Name me a more effectice midfielder at SJP in the last 30 years. Goals/assists he has no peers. I agree with you. For one season. Maybe one season and a half. In terms of consistency, Solano. Which season and a half? In his third season, he was unstoppable for the majority. Robert official stats: 2004/05 5 assists (33rd in the league) and 3 goals (115th in the league) 2003/04 7 assists (14th in the league) and 6 goals (50th in the league) 2002/03 5 assists (36th in the league) and 5 goals (69th in the league) 2001/02 16 assists (1st in the league) and 8 goals (40th in the league) Not sure he was unstoppable for the majority of the 3rd season you know... If he was, a fair few others were unstoppable as well.

Name me a more effectice midfielder at SJP in the last 30 years. Goals/assists he has no peers. I agree with you. For one season. Maybe one season and a half. In terms of consistency, Solano.

I knew people would pick up on Robert. Yes he was a decent player. He was amazing for 1 and a half seasons. He never maintained that form - that's why he was not a consistent top 4 player.