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Pleased there's no Gardner more like. Could see him getting properly stuck into the derby, he's a decent player

Pleased about Obertan starting. Loven shouldn't be anywhere near our bench. Think Gosling could definitely give us something in the last thirty mins. I'll never understand this nonsense about Shola. will be amazed if he plays really well today

What a load of crap. You're very reasonable when you're arguing with a straw man. Of course, everyone who's complaining must lack objectivity. And we all believe in racking up debt and paying big money for unproven or joke players. f*** off. Absurdly defensive and needlessly aggressive. I never made the claim that everyone complaining lacks objectivity I merely said I was trying to see things objectively. I never even made the claim that I was seeing them objectively, just that I was trying. I also never made the claim that anyone was suggesting we rack up debt or pay big money for unproven/joke players. I made the point we've done so in the past and must avoid this in the future. If you don't like what I have to say, make some points, don't just tell me to fuck off

Bottle it or bottle him. Either one would do the job for me

Personally, I think we'll have a good season. We've been tight and twats in the transfer market and it's fucked us over on incomings but the business we've done has been decent. Ever since Hughton went Enrique was odds on to go and even if Hughton had stayed we really don't know what Enrique would have done. The barton business has pissed me off as it seems like we've had no idea what we're doing from the get go, we look as amateurish as always. However, if we sign a decent LB and striker then I'll go into the season positive. As for Pardew, I think he's done a good enough job, he can hardly stick two fingers up to the board, Hughton couldn't do it. The only person who did it was KK and we know where that got him and us. I'm crying out for someone who cares about the club to be in charge like you HTT but in spite of that, I'm willing to judge things as objectively as I can at present. In terms of Ashley's long-term plan, I honestly believe cutting the wage bill, getting rid of ridiculous contracts for joke players and not paying big money for players who are completely unproven at PL level is the only way to move forward. I don't want to see ridiculous investment and see us just racking up the debt. As long as we invest enough to get in quality at LB and a striker's position, whether that's £10M or up to £15 (no way will we go over) then I'm not complaining, it's sustainable and every signing so far has been promising. In spite of this, if they honestly think they can go into the new season without a new LB or striker come the end of the window or they get rid of Tiote, Colo or to a lesser extent Barton, I will lose it as will the vast majority

Tayls is absolute comedy like, he's becoming an indispensable source of jokes. Want to see him stick around, improve and become a geordie legend

I'm not one of these overhyping the lad, I like him but think he's got a lot to prove. I just think for this game against Sunderland he can definitely make a big impact

Fair point, if there's not a new LB in, we will need Guti there

We'll see who has the biggest impact on the day. I'd be surprised if Cabaye imposes himself and I like Guti, he runs all day, has good work rate and holds the ball up so well but I still think Obes is more likely to create goalscoring opportunities than him

I'd drop either Guti or Cabaye for the game. I'd play Obertan on the left if Guti was out of the team and Obes on the right if Cabaye was out of the team. I'm really looking forward to seeing Cabaye develop but I think in this game the pace will be too much for him to impose his passing game. Obertan is the perfect player in this game for counterattacks

Don't think that's fair to be honest, think Colocho gets hounded a bit too much. I'm sure he watches loads of football just sometimes puts his point across in a way people don't like.

No question about it, Obertan should be starting, Best and Ba up front. If Shola gets more than thirty minutes It's a joke. People can enjoy their Shola love-in about how well he's played against Sunderland in the past but really it means fuck all. Both Best and Ba are better players

His decision making has greatly improved, so has his composure. He's still just a bit fragile on confidence sometimes. He's quite obviously a quality player tho

Can see Demba getting fired up for this and getting his first goal, alongside that I'd love to see Colo nick a goal or Tayls. Can see us leading for most of the game and being shafted again for a draw but I'm going for 2-1 to us

The way he said sorry, sounded like a little kid that's been caught with his hands in the cookie jar

In reply to some of the posts above, one of the best things about NUFC which fills me with pride is the way people from around the world embrace the club and dedicate themselves to it. Who gives a shit whether you're able to go to every match or have a flat in Leazes/tattoos of the club on your ass, none of that matters in how well you rate a player or understand football. Obviously it can make a difference if you go to games and can see every player at any one time but not as much as people make out. I'm from Whitley Bay but I'm always grateful that people see something special in this club.

In fairness to Shola, the lad makes me sick in general but I've seen him do some decent touches today. Fair play to the lad and if he continues like this I'll slacken off my abuse. However, I've thought this before and been made a fool of too many times

Best will score if he gets twenty five mins or more, my prediction

I rate Pards but Ameobi over Best is a bad decision. Would much rather have Vuckic than Loven on the bench. Hope to see Gosling and Obes on the pitch.

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8th, would absolutely love 8th. I'd be disappointed with anything lower than 11th

Shola and Lovenkrands make me nauseous, not sure Cunterkrands and Shita are the right way of describing them though. I like Punk's posts in general, uses detail and thinks things through but the Lovenkrands argument is just a no goer for me. Lovenkrands should have done us all a favour and burnt a couple of bins over the past few days, stole a few packets of crisps from Poundland and disappeared never to be seen again

Football commentators and pundits outside this club invariably seem to think we're nailed on to perform badly. I just wonder how much they follow football otuside of the games they watch and the stuff they read in the news, time and again they make embarrassingly naive comments. If they were to actually look at the first team squad we have available and compare it with the other teams in the premiership, we're quite obviously nowhere near bottom four. We're going to surprise a lot of people this year and I'm looking forward to them reeling in their crap for a while. There are so few football pundts/comms out there who do zero studying of other leagues, other players apart from the ones who keep appearing on MOTD every week. Fools

We'll win this 2-1 with about five minutes to go. Genuinely think we've got a great chance at points here. We just need to come out of the blocks and get physical, time and again, Arsenal choke when people bring the game to them

No fan should ever want to see a player who doesn't want to be at their club still there but this one hurts. Those sick fucks have done it again, I didn't think I could hate them anymore than I did on 31st Jan/1st Feb but this will do it. Seeing both Carroll and Enrique against us will hurt a hell of a lot