Deckard 13

As long as he gets his wage and plays for England he'll stay. Unless someone offers Europe or more money why bother? Earlier this year he was playing with the bairns, should think himself lucky.

Text book start there...

Unreal how this guy is not held to account like. People should be murdering him for some of the nonsense he talks. He'll win today. Can't see it happening any other way. Nutted a player during a game ffs. Historic winless runs at every club he's been at. His quotes just this week. All brushed aside.

This man must not win a trophy. It's vital to both my personal health and that of a sport I love.

Need a spine of solid players who probably should have a history or knowledge of playing with cloggers. Should just buy a mix of the best youngsters in the league with a bunch of reliable, productive older lads. Leadbitter has been in the team of year the past two seasons so it can't be too hard to find players.

Pretty sure I was looking at the Ballon D'or list once and his name sticks out like a sore thumb. Genuine world class talent and then Owen.

Harsh. I don't see anyone contesting when Leigh Griffiths says he's 25.

I think we are as well, although I'm not sure how much that means these days. I just think if he's willing to come to Newcastle and potentially get relegated, he's willing to spend a season or two with teams like that for an easy life.

Pretty sure he took the ball off Wickham to take the pen himself like. Definitely looked like he wanted to score and then wheel away celebrating like an arsehole.

Even if he wanted to stay on a personal level, professionally he is not going to go into the Championship less than a year after being Madrid manager. He want's to be at home, he can do that at a number of middle of the road clubs if he wants to. Clearly the quality of the team is second to his desire to be back in England otherwise he'd be somewhere else but if we go down, he will leave and get a job at West Brom or Palace or something similar unless the national job comes along.

There's always loads of kids in the Hyena now days, which is why I personally don't go there any more but it's full of families and you shouldn't feel out of place. If you get there early enough you'll get a seat as well. You could also try the Grey.

Statistically 7th best in terms of win percentage in the Prem era from what I read. Admittedly I have no idea who is below him to qualify the headline statistic. Not that it will help him in the Championship.

Holy shit. Is there a local milkman who just goes around the Tyneside area conceiving League 1 standard players for our team?

Read that they haven't won at home in ages. We're the exact right team to get them out of their slump. The Premier Leagues fluffer.

21m for a lad who doesn't want to come and is known to be a tad sulky and a bit Billy big bollocks. Sure to work out well if it goes thru.

Can he create chances on his own, like Remy? Cos he's going to need too.

He's done brilliantly since coming in for Krul there's no doubt about that. He also seems to really care and seems a bit of a leader in the team which is great to see. Those that are at the matches, is he loud on the pitch? Does he organize his defenders better than Krul does? Pretty certain he was the one giving the group talk in their huddle before the game.

He's got 9 league goals like. Could easily end up on 15 This, he's a midfielder and has 9 league goals at just over the half way stage. There are strikers in this league who won't get that this season, disappointingly a few of them play for us. Aye he's got 9 But you can't tell me he's not missed a hat full of really good chances in the last 6 or 7 games. I'm not saying he's doing poorly, I think he's brilliant, just commenting on what I've seen. It's a bit like Hatem, I could never truly criticise him because he was comfortably the best player out there but at the same time that raises the expectations and I've seen enough for Gini to think that he could be in double figures already. I imagine he's the sort of player who probably would agree with that himself. I don't think it's a negative to say someone is playing we'll but I think they can be even better.

I've had the pleasure of watching him crawl around on his hands and knees twice for two matches in a row and yet I'm still reading people defending his ability as a footballer. Amazing. Have we established why he replaced Dummett at left back?

Like nothing I've seen at Newcastle so I don't see the sense in comparing him personally. A wonderful footballer. Should be scoring more goals mind.

12m is probably more than he's worth but who else is available and would come? If you look throughout the midfielders with premier league experience who would dramatically improve us they are few and far between. Jordy Clasie was 8m and I don't think hes played a game. Wasnt Joe Allen 20m? James Mcarther, Charlie Adam, I'm sure there are a few going for fees that hardly make this one outrageous.

Those markers on Steve's board showing the formation he wants to see? pretty much 21 players in our half.

Don't know how we do it but we constantly make it look like we're playing with less players. Short in defence, uncommitted in attack. It's frightening.

Much rather De Jong through the centre than Perez atm. Ayoze has looked far to light weight lately. Needs a wide berth on recent form as far as I'm concerned.

We're the better team and didn't win. People tell me its a positive. I just question how bad it'll be when we start being the worse team. Points dropped in almost every game we've "performed" well in.