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Aye, just checked, Sky reported two weeks on 31st Jan when we signed him then 23rd Feb it was a reported setback which was another two weeks. Two week injury has turned into two months ffs.

He was only meant to be out for a couple of weeks initially I think so maybe they thought he'd be fit enough to at least play some part (even if just as a sub) in their games but in typical NUFC style his injury seems to be dragging on and on.

Properly done gravy costs hundreds of billions. That's why they're so stingy with it.

Indeed. Rafa Benitez is everything I have ever wished a Newcastle manager to be and more. When I talk to Liverpool fans about our love for Rafa, the little things he's changed and the big things, I always get this smile back from them. They totally see the love for Rafa that they had too, and seem genuinely happy for us and Rafa. Just hope the fat one doesn't fuck this up. We're looking close to defying the odds with staying up despite a lack of investment. I hope we are sold or Rafa is backed with reasonable funds early in to the summer. Next season could be really positive for us. Haven't we said this pretty much every transfer window since he arrived? Never seems to happen. A sale once our PL survival is confirmed might be the only chance we have to push on from here.

Still injured apparently. Already been ruled out of their game with Iran on Tuesday.

:lol: :lol: "My best teams play on the front foot and try and put teams under pressure," said Pardew "Sometimes they get a bloody nose doing that and that's what I'll deliver here at West Brom. And ultimately, hopefully along that line, we can get up to sort of 1.5, 1.7 points a game" Is that real? 1.7 points a game would get you 5th or 6th......

Why did they tell Tom Heardman?

From the replies, how is this not a smiley already?

There's been far worse said about Sunderland on here before Is that the same working class folk who voted to overwhelmingly leave the EU, who get called racists and uneducated by posters on here and pretty much get derided all the time? The hypocrisy honks on here at times. :lol: Aye, that's cos they're dicks though. Nowt wrong with being working class.

The fuck is the story behind this? A bunch of sportsmen got to meet Boris from hells kitchen season 8.

Harsh? Come onto a Newcastle forum and start slagging working class folk? Just jamming your nob into a wasps nest would probably be a bit less painful.

Not being Ashley Cole is a plus point for me.

Paying

Scotland:

Can't forgive even Big Al for that spelling.

Birds of a feather

Inochi or Bubbles were pretty bad, like.

Jon Dahl Tomasson? Scored 52 goals for Denmark.

I thought the whole technology debate was to ensure that decisions were all made to ensure 100% accuracy anyway. I'd be absolutely furious if we had a goal disallowed because a piece of technology like an electronic chip wrongly thought it was offside when it should have been onside. Much more furious than if a linesman made a human error in giving it offside. The alternate could just be to leave things as it is without VAR, which would be my preference If the trade-off for 100% accuracy is stopping and starting the game like this then i'd rather not have it at all. The system I described could improve decision making without harming the flow of the game. Yeah, it probably wouldn't be 100% accurate but for me it's better than the current system and doesn't result in long delays and a stop-start game.

You're talking about complete edge cases, how often is an offside called or missed because of a knee? The alternative is stopping the game for a couple of minutes, I like this way better.

How do they rule things out for offside now? They rely on the linesman, but with the Mata decision a few weeks ago, neither the ref or linesman saw that his knee was offside and an electric chip in his boot wouldn't have got to a correct decision either Well, that probably wouldn't get caught then but on the other hand a lot of other decisions would and it'd be instant so no waiting around or a few minutes for a review. I'd imagine it as and aid to the officials, not a replacement. If a player's offside then the ref gets a notification, maybe a buzzer on his wrist or a sound though his earpiece or something, and he uses his judgement to make the call. Keeps the flow of the game and the human aspect but improves the decision making.

How do they rule things out for offside now?

Well, a lino isn't gonna spot that anyway so makes no odds really. If they do spot it they can call offside anyway. Surely it would be a bit daft to have electric chips only if your shirt collar or boots are offside and then just allow wrong decisions to be made if any other goalscoring part of your body is offside. Mata had a goal ruled out a few weeks ago through VAR because his knee was offside, an electric chip in his boot would have said he was onside The ref could still rule it out for offside. It's to assist decisions, not replace the ref and linesmen.

Well, a lino isn't gonna spot that anyway so makes no odds really. If they do spot it they can call offside anyway.

Reconsidered that post five seconds after making it and it still got quoted twice @Mbemba - One in each boot, one in the shirt collar.