Crayola Kid

since the match in 1980... brazil have more world cup final wins than sunderland have home wins in this fixture

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/newcastles-wonga-shirt-sponsors-spark-1367970 labour MP with a pair of platinum tickets. what a cunt he sounds, complaining about this deal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19696192 makes garth's team of the weak, despite being technically a dwarf

...and I've just watched all of his goals on youtube thanks to one of our own on here (cheers!), some bobblers early on but the guy can strike a ball. on balance, i'm glad he never moved on. if he had who would have been our third/fourth striker all these years, given some of the third choice left backs/right wingers/etc we have seen in his time? it certainly wouldnt have been someone who could turn the beer flat all over wearside time and again (and he did manage goals against man u, liverpool and barcelona for good measure of course)

He's not on either account, he's a premiership forward with a one goal in every five games record. .com archives have him down as 333 appearances, for 72 goals. they also show that in 140 of those games, he didnt start but came on as a sub. i think for every time he has come on with half an hour to play, there will be a game where he has come on with no real playing time left. it would maybe be reasonable to call it ten mins per sub appearance, but lets say 15 for the sake of argument. that would mean he played the equivalent of 23 full games in those 140 apps, giving 216 games in total, for 72 goals which is 1 in 3. you could also add that he spent long periods (or nearly all of it?) in his career as a squad player, meaning he would get a few games when shearer or whoever was injured/banned, then sent straight back to the bench when they were available again. he has been a 1 in 3 striker as a back up, often in a struggling side. there have been fortunes spent on strikers who would consider 1 in 3 a success, not least by our silly friends down the road. shola's problem is that he is a reasonable striker for the level he has spent his career at, but he has spent it at a club who have had some brilliant players in his position in the time leading up to and during his own career. if he wanted to be a big fish, he'd have done very well in a smaller pond. f***ing love the halloween volley as well, was the best moment for me in that whole match

and at least we were spared the transfer-window-lickers outside our ground this time

we played quite a few games understrength in some way or other last year, and we only really hit on a formula which won games and was also great to watch relatively late in the season. add the hoped for extra contribution of players who will be playing their second season in our side/squad, and i'm getting more confident that we can match last season. todays results, whilst just for one set of games, also give the lie to the idea that spurs/everton/fulham will be stronger this time around. fingers crossed, anyway

quite capable of the same points total as last year, replacing perhaps the points won against man u/chelsea with better results against some of the lower teams, thinking of losses against norwich and wigan, amongst other dropped points. 65 points surely gets 5th or above every year? that said, we rode some great form and picked up some points late in the season when some others had switched off. i think a par score for us would be 59-61 points which should still see us close to 5th, but would stilll be a good points total regardless

exactly. we played better today than we did last week!

Thought we did a lot of things well, against a good side who got their noses in front early. Also thought that the number of times the ball broke to or was passed to Danny Simpson in space was incredible, but he didnt want to try to use it to build an attack so it always ended up being played backwards. Its not Simpsons fault that he isnt the kind of fullback who could dictate a game under those circumstances, but it is a shame we havent been able to bring in a replacement, as this game could have been different with more drive from that area. Midfield matched up well, an extra attacking outlet from right back would have overstretched Chelsea, in my opinion

If only we had a suitable page on the forum where more of his articles could be posted from time to time....

I agree with those who say he would have to wait for injuries/loss of form to get into our side, and so think it unlikely that he'd be coming here. With that in mind, I hope he goes to sunderland as he could be the difference between us finishing ahead of liverpool or tottenham if one of them signed him, but it's much less likely he would do the same thing for the mackems.

I've been far too wary of all new players since Silvio Maric, I still cant completely shake the doubt such was the difference between the expectation and the reality in that instance. Recent events have helped an awful lot of course, mr cisse most recently and most tellingly

arent we just looking for more of the same though? last year we strengthened midfield by replacing, for example, barton with cabaye. we arent looking to upgrade cabaye now, we're just looking to do the same thing to other parts of the existing team, like simpson or williamson, or replace back up players such as best. it shouldnt necessarily be any harder this summer when you look at it like that, should it? there may be an awareness amongst selling clubs that we have made a few shrewd moves recently, you have to wonder whether lille are holding out for more cash for debuchy because we did so well to exploit cabaye's transfer clause and so we owe them one, in their eyes. did twente's chairman tell us to pay top price this summer because he has seen tiote's value soar, and also saw us as owing him one for a transfer which looks, in retrospect, a steal? i think its possible that this sentiment played a part in both cases (debuchy and dejong/douglas), but that doesnt change the market we are looking to exploit. we'll be looking at undervalued players for positions we need to stengthen, or stepping stone players who we can entice with the prospect of playing them in the premier league for a year or two to enhance their own careers. there should be plenty of them about, we dont need to be buying established stars this summer any more than last

As many as you want, 10% max. How does that work with the Pozzo(?) family who own Udinese, Granada and now Watford? no actual idea but could be different family member is down as the "owner" for each club The problem only appears when you own two clubs who enter the same competition, so unless two of Udinese, Granada and Watford both qualified for the Uefa cup, it wouldnt be an issue. If they did, the owner would have to decide which club dropped out and which club played.

If its a loan with a set price, activated by number of appearances (i.e. if he plays 25 times we have to cough up and they must sell, if he doesnt either party can back out) it puts us in a good position for next summer, when all of the premier league clubs will be flush with extra cash and so player prices will go up. it gives us a year to decide whether to buy him at this summers price. a year from now we may need a striker more than we do now, or we may not. the price for 'holding' the sale option is a years wages plus whatever loan fee. this is the only was i can rationalise us going near him at these prices this summer, to hold an option which we may need next year more than we do at the minute

agreed, I dont want to see Carroll come back. But this goal will have done as much to catch the eye of liverpool in the first place, and others, than a dozen headers. Anyone who gets him to use the ball and the space ahead of him like that will have a player on their hands. For the record, I doubt he'll have a stellar career, anywhere. Its the off field stuff that makes me say we shouldnt take him though, why chance it?

The hat-trick goal against villa at st james'? Carroll took the ball down, turned away from a challenge near half way, hit a sweeping long pass to the far side of the pitch and beat his marker to the return pass, which he placed past the keeper from the edge of the box. Outstanding. The kind of attacking play which Duncan Ferguson occasionally threatened, which made it all the more frustrating that Ferguson never had the career he could have had. Carroll will be the same when he is retired, just a bunch of stories about what he could have become but never did

got to be honest and say it's just rtg, most of the mackems i know are nowt like that place (infact most have looked and are embarassed) yeah, i work with a few (and i married into makemdom) and i'd say at best rtg is an exaggerated version of their darkest thoughts towards us. good for a laugh mind

Newcastle are lucky to be up there in the table, they are a poor side and their players aren't as good as ours. Newcastle will sell all of their best players to Real Madrid, Chelsea, Man U, and Arsenal this summer. Its actually quite impressive to hold firmly these two opinions at the same time and not get bogged down in the massive contradiction. Well done, Sunderland fans (or is it just RTG?).

Dalglish also built his own teams that won titles and trophies at clubs other than yours. Our net spend over the last 4 years, according to The Swiss Ramble, is 22 million. You have bought some great players who were bargains, and have done magnificently in the league, but us being behind you, however far away or near is neither here nor there. We're in Europe, have a trophy in the bag, and in the final of another, that's enough gloss for me. swiss ramble also suggests an average wage bill of something like twice the wage bill at nufc over that period, at well over 100m a season. shouldnt be ignored when comparing spending like that

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Certainly sounds promising. So now instead of goat they might serve dogs and cats? cats for me, like

Apart from on here has this sell on been mentioned in the papers? i think it was reported at the time, but it was 25pc of any PROFIT, not of any future deal, so he'd need to be sold for 39m for us to get 1m in sell on fees. unlikley?!

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/football/newcastle/9648961.Newcastle_could_be_close_to_Europe_tonight/ could have saved a lot of wondering if he wrote this a few weeks earlier mind you