Away Toon

Well first of all there are some right wankers posting on here as usual. Constantly criticising individual players, why don't you just fuck off and support the mackems, you know who you are.

Arsenal's weak looking midfield (for them anyhow) are all over us. Tiote is off the pace at the moment, and Cabaye nowhere to be seen. Shola is dropping back in to midfield when they have the ball which is pretty much all the time

mackems by far the better team in the second half

14th

Anybody who thinks that Smith won't play this season is kidding themselves. Tiote will get suspended, go to the ACN etc and Smith will replace him. We're still fucked.

I fucking hope not. Losing Barton will weaken the team and the spirit as well. Stoke of all people are building themselves a strong looking squad with some quality players.

I was in the same class as Gary Rowell at school, obviously he was a mackem and I wasn't. Spoke to Rooney at Tahiti Beach in St. Tropez and asked him to go easy on us the next time he played against us.

He's getting his excuses in early any way you want to interpret it.

.com have Pardew down as saying the following;

Alan Pardew commented after the deluge:

"It’s frustrating but there isn’t a lot you can do about the weather. The rain just wouldn’t stop and we were worried about injuries.

“There was a tackle on Cabaye out there which had my heart in my mouth. It was the right decision to call it off.

“I hope I can get the club unified again. When the ­ownership of the football club is in the forefront of conversation it is a ­problem.

“I want people to be talking about the football team here and what the players do on the football pitch.

“The problem is that where we are now financially means that we can never really fulfill the expectations of the fans. They have memories of European football but the gap is ­getting bigger as the years go by.

“It is becoming difficult to compete with the top clubs, but that is not to say we can’t compete at the level we are at, but we are always vulnerable to the bigger clubs as Andy Carroll’s move proved.

“That makes it very difficult to manage – but not impossible. Mike Ashley and Derek Llambias made it quite clear – the club to a certain extent needs to wipe its nose and therefore we haven’t got ­investment above our income. That is how Mike wants to run the football club.

“Some of the other clubs have that ability to spend more than they earn and Manchester City have been able to break into the top four for that reason.

“They have a sovereign state ­backing them. We can’t ­compete with that. It is very difficult.”

“I am not going to make any predictions about the new ­season until I see what ­players we get in. I am fairly confident that we will get the players in that we need. I would like one or possibly two in before we play Arsenal.

“The fans have had so many ­broken promises in the past not just from this ownership but way before that, but  we have added two or three very good players to the group ­already and we are going to add to that.”

“Once we see the team settle down – and I don’t think it will be in the FIRST THREE OR FOUR GAMES if I am honest – I think we are going to see a very strong side.”

I don't like the sound of the last bit, three or four games would have us losing to Arsenal, the mackems, out of the Carling cup and another league game while they settle down. Settling down is what you do in pre-season. Fucking incompetent beyond belief.

Ils ont plein argent ca c'est certain. Mais avec moins que 5 minutes a le fin ils sont mener pas Lorient et jeux comme les etrangers.

Erding has come on in the 80th minute

We should strengthen the squad I think everyone can agree on that, it's lacked depth for years, and this time we know that there is enough  money there to buy the players we need. Enrique will leave and will need replacing, and there is no back up unless Ferguson gets counted and as he's injured, tiny and better off playing further forward, he shouldn't be. so that's two players for a start. Campbell has left and should be replaced so we have four centre half's like everyone else. Routledge should be replaced as should Barton if he leaves. Who will cover for Tiote, well unless we buy someone it will be Smith.

Up front we have one striker who might get 10 goals and that's Ba if he's not injured. Unless Best has a serious purple patch the rest of the so called strikers we have won't get 10 goals between them. So Ba's out we get Shola. Better start praying unless we do go out and buy a top class striker.

Well you should try asking her, you never know your luck might be in.

I don't think anyone really cares how much the players cost, it's just that most of us thought that the money from selling AC should be used to once and for all strengthen the squad.For the last three or four seasons we have always been a couple of injuries away from fielding a seriously weakened team, once we have 5-6 out, the team we have to select is extremely poor.

We need two left backs if Enrique leaves, an upgrade at right back, another Centre-Half, somebody to cover when Tiote can't get a visa, get's suspended, goes to ACN, a right winger, if Barton leaves someone to replace him, and another forward.  That's up to 8 players depending on who leaves. We have the money, the owner doesn't want to spend it, so rather than competing for a position between 5-7, which with a strengthened squad we probably could, it will be mid table mediocrity or worse.

Newcastle United were the only club of the 104 surveyed in England, Wales and Scotland not to disclose their matchday prices.

Should be in another thread, but at least it will get read in here. It's from a survey of the cost of going to matches throughout all the leagues and on the BBC Sport web site.

I'll tell you what this hypothetical (at the moment) question about Barton's future at the club, hasn't half dragged the Ashley apologists out of the closet. it's always somebody else's fault, AC, Nolan, Jose and now Barton and presumably any other player who actually says what everyone knows already, there is something very seriously wrong with our club and it emanates and stops at the top and has done since Ashley bought the club. Wake up and smell the shit that's wafting around SJP.

Décevants, Erding et Luyindula n'ont pas marqué de points face à New York et pourraient se rapprocher de la sortie avant la fin de la période des transferts.

L'Equipe basically says that Erding and Luyindula were shit and they could well be on their way out before the window closes

I think a temporary ban might be in order

The comments after the article from PSG supporters are interesting. They all would like him to stay, believing that he still has lots of potential to improve. They all agree that he works very hard, is a "warrior" on the pitch, but that his finishing let's him down.

Well Kevin Doyle works hard, hardly scores a goal and doesn't create much, whereas Bellamy works his bollocks off to great affect, scores plenty and with his pace creates chances for the rest of the team.

This has to have been the most boring tournament in recent history, there is not decent team playing. The mexican team that won the Gold Cup against the US would probably have won it if they had turned up.

it is pretty dour so far. Peru look strong and well organised defensively, but nothing else, and Uruguay nice to watch but nothing to show for it so far. Suarez is a right cunt though, diving and farting about all the time.

Come on Peru, or that's what I just told my girlfriend

I don't see what's shit about it. Two players apparently applied for Visa's to go to the States and were refused when a minute on Google will tell you that if they have criminal records it's not going to happen, and Cabaye now get's refused as well. It makes the Club look amateur and stupid.

Well you would think that the club might look at players passports/ID's, birth certificates etc when they bought them, to make sure that everything is order. Maybe as we have no European football they didn't bother. Incompetent anyway you look at it. There was no point Barton, Ranger or anybody else with a criminal record either applying for a Visa as they won't  get one. Would have saved the press getting all gleeful about another NUFC cock up for a start.