Tiresias

Wow what a dick

never going to settle best ever, certainly up there in contention, and that's enough

Harsh red, however no doubt dagliesh will claim an international conspiracy

"this is newcastle" is his code for I have bastards above who would sell my best players for a cheap buck. I want him to say money will be swiftly reinvested smartly though. If we want to not just be raiding a bit above ourselves the top 4 next season we need a thicker squad, we can't operate a 1 in 1 out policy.

If we keep bringing players in of good quality and fight to keep players as much as possible I'll be happy, I don't want us to be caught short by losing a player to a huge bid and have no replacement again. I desperately hope though we fight tooth and nail to keep the core of our team together.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6202/obertan.jpg

by the look on his and all the kids faces not sure it was on target

Yeah I was at the hospital, he's now just a head in a jar

if we're doing that Krul Santon Colo Colo Santon Tiote Tiote HBA HBA HBA Ba

I think sticking Tiote and Cabaye and tell them to protect defence will be alright, baring in mind our defence has been better than everyone elses so far this season, a worse defence may just bring us down to average. (which is a low standard in teh league). I say pack midfield, but make sure not too defensively, keep ball further up, before we could be reasonably happy letting defense soak up attacks, now we should be a bit more proactive in getting it back sooner. Tiote back will help.

Krul Simpson Kadar Perch Santon Tiote Cabaye Guthrie HBA Jonas BA

The important thing is to be making progress, because then at end of season we can say, we're getting there. Assuming we hold onto him (it's ridiculous that these days there's panic over a player we've JUST SIGNED) I imagine he'll be happy to be part of an improving project, this is the beginnings, the squad is thin, we've been playing out of our skins, and next season with a further strengthened squad we should start being more than just underdogs raiding into the european places and expecting to be up there. If we didn't and just did a sunderland and sat in the area then dropped off could understand him being p*ssed off, he did after all leave a club that was in the champions league for us. Those quotes do not indicate he is in anyway p*ssed off, and eveyrthing he's ever said about us seems to indicate he is a top bloke who has fallen for the club, though I do think some kind of hypnotism must have been involved bringing him here Himself, he had a bad game against chelsea, but think he's basically deputising for Tiote, he was playign deeper than Guthrie. I think Guthrie has been very good, I do think that people should consider that when Tiote is doing the defensive role Cabaye should pick up and be much stronger going forward, but do wonder if we should be playign a 3 man midfield while need to protect a new backline.

don't mind him aiming high at all, as long as no drama when we don't make europe

Definately needs to be stuck out on wing once Best is fit again. Hasn't done enough to nail down that spot, done enough to be in the squad still.

Feels a bit intrusive really What really got me was thinking he should have seen how much everyone thought of him :'(

I thought he'd provide goals when we signed him and reckoned he was a good signing, but presumed a) that he would get injured and b) he was mainly just a good poacher He has not got injured, and has been far better than just getting goals in the box has contributed very well

My mates mocked me when I put him in my fantasy footy team. They mock no more.

The price was low because he was nearly out of contract and wanted to go, Krul has longer on his contract iirc, though dunno really if he wants to go. He has a long time in his career to go, and Spurs isn't a massive step up, I'd hope he'd wait and see how far he can go with this club.

well that makes sense now :|

I watched a bit, amazing!

What game were you watching?

Just looked at the table and saw us 6th, and felt a twinge of disappointment If someone told me by now I'd be disappointed at 6th at start of season I would have slapped them...or probably just laughed my head off

http://www.zonalmarking.net/2011/12/03/newcastle-0-3-chelsea-tactics-mata-sturridge/ Pretty accurate summary of the tactics of the match imo. Noting Chelsea defending deeper than they have been making them better...had to do it for our match didn't they?

Feel so sorry for him, no-one will forget what he's done for the team this season up till now