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Artie's bought a new tracksuit for this.

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HOOOOOWWWWAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!

Pre-match show just started, HOWAY!

This is going to be the worst game of football this season.

Just home from work, day off tomorrow, plenty of beers cooling in the fridge, just need 3 points now. HBA hattrick, Shola to lob their keeper from our own penalty area and Krul to score an overhead kick after playing a one two off Artie Ziff's face.

Better than the generic anodyne rubbish footballers usually come out with anyway.

Tomorrow. It's fucking tomorrow, can't wait. 8:30pm kick off here so perfect, just hope we bloody stuff them. HOWAY!

Weird thing, I was watching some old Auf Wiedersehen Pet episodes last night and the one where Sunderland are playing in Belgium against Liege came on. Dennis and Oz went along to cheer them on and got on well with the Sunderland fans there and even wore Sunderland scarves. My dad when I was growing up displayed none of the animosity towards them we see now, he used to say he wanted all the north east teams to do well. I just wonder how much the hatred and bitterness has been stoked by the sky hype and how much was genuinely there pre 92. A little before my time so maybe some of our elder brethren can enlighten us.

I totally disagree with that tbh. Carroll has good technique for a big man , and whether we like it or not, there'll always be less technical players in the game..workhorses have as much use in the game as the flair players I think his technique is quite average myself which is the whole point of updating our coaching and development methods, practices and indeed philosophies so that we start producing technically good players and hopefully technically great players rather than technically average players like Carroll who lets face it wouldn't have cut the grade in say Italy or Spain as a youngster. His size, strength and power made him stand out as a young player by all accounts, especially over others, and those are attributes our game are built on or were, from Grassroots all the way to the National side. To be fair to the lad, he's done well enough to make the break-through given his limited ability in footballing terms. But that to me says more about our game and how we play it. Players like Carroll thrive in our set-up, be it as a 7 year-old or playing for England at Wembley. Strength, power, physical attributes in general, bravery, passion and all that other bull-s*** rank high in our footballing pyramid, whereas technical skills and flair are an after thought. I don't want to sound like a snob but I hope in say ten years time, we won't see the likes of Carroll coming through the youth ranks of our clubs. I'd rather we produced more rounded forwards. Yes like Wellbeck who I will say here and now will have a much better career than Carroll simply because he's a better footballer with more attributes. He wouldn't be at Man Utd otherwise. I agree there will of course always be average and limited players and workhorses but for me, all footballers at the highest level should be technically competent and have some degree of skill like most do on the continent. A huge number of English players can't even pass the ball or take a shot with their 'other' foot which for me is a national footballing disgrace and an embarrassment to be honest. Things are changing and just as well, it will take a long time though and although I fear we are doomed at grassroots level due to thick dads and win at all cost coaches, plus poor facilities, at academy level at least, finally people are seeing sense and looking beyond your Carroll types when scouting/developing youngsters and looking more towards technical ability and skill level. I bet you get through a lot of keyboards. Good post though, agree with the great majority of it. Strength and power has been rated over skill and technique at youth levels for far too long. Hopefully the switch to smaller pitches and fewer players per side will aid the transition.

Derby week is getting to Bimpy, he said something nice about Mrs Bimpy :frantic:

He keeps on saying this stuff though and it doesn't seem to happen. More action, fewer words please.

Quite sad that police protection is needed to go and watch a sporting event though. That goes for when they come up here and most other derbies around the country too.

If it's a conditional discharge then doesn't that mean the sentence gets activated if he gets found guilty of the criminal damage?

Pardew talks a fantastic game, doesn't he? Often a tad too much for my liking though and, rather unhelpfully, it's probably his best strength as a manager. Exactly, I hang off every word he says, but i'd much prefer it if he talked a bit less and actually put out a side that plays to our strengths from the off a bit more frequently. I've found i've gone the other way as time has gone by and what he says barely registers with me anymore. His quotes are generally just too disconnected from what we actually see happening for me to take them seriously anymore. He'll say we're going out to attack a team from the off then we'll set up in a defensive 442 from KO. He'll say we want to play a slick, fluid passing game then we go out and hoof the ball at Ba's head for 90 minutes.

Posting fixture lists which could get the site shutdown and locking threads and eliminating discussion because someone said something the resident gestapo fuckwits don't agree with are very different. Those morons want a happy happy joy club to ferment the cult of the chosen liverpool to ascend to the heights granted to them by almighty unintelligble glaswegian fuckwit some scottish bloke and the b****** love child of the bowl haircut and those scousers of the harry enfield show steeeeevie g. f*** off liverpool and don't come back until you've learned some humility and intelligence.

You need to stop that shit.

About four people then, including Ronaldo.

Yeah, that shit always ends well.

Come to the States ffs. you fly to England to watch a game. Nah, better they come to the center of the world than me fly to the periphery. Seriously though, sure to be loads more support for NUFC in the States than in Brazil. That's why we're going to Brazil isnt it? Can't really see the point myself, Brazilian football is terrible and I very much doubt many people will switch allegiance to us.

This 'obssessed' stuff is rubbish from both sides. We have a rivalry that's not only rooted in sport but in history. Both sides want to do better than the other and are interested in what the other is doing. That's what a local rivalry is.

I don't care how or why it was done, i'm just delighted it was. St James' Park

Just four of our five best players then. Bet Wonga will be chuffed with that.

watch how they hunt in packs when defending, our guy on the ball is always swamped

I would say because Ba is more suited to the role. Cisse plays better up front leading the line, getting in the box whereas Ba has the ability to drop deeper and still create chances and score.