Toondave

He knows he's shit, he knows the fans will be on his back and consequently Pardew's back as soon as he puts his foot wrong, which he inevitably will. He's come to rid us of Pards. A true geordie hero.

As far as these undercover pro videos go the Jeff Gordon one will never be beaten.

Why are we hooked on someone being Gosling's replacement? When you put out a fire what do you replace it with?

Massimo bruno? beaten

mapou, ben arfa and bigi all in there. such a tease

Who's playing upfront for them? whoever it is they want to pull their finger out

I wouldn't bother.

I don't rate him but he'll probably look like a genius by 3.30pm. http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/Smileys/Newcastle-Online/yao.png

Terrible replacement. Absolute joke

saying nearly while at a lyon award ceremony is as good as saying j'adore le toon. will be getting the shirt tomorrow.

Lukakus phantom assit sends me crashing out of the cup. Robbed

are we even sure there are two nicollins

How? It will do exactly the opposite. Proper restrictions on not just loans, but squad sizes and the size of the youth squads will stop players being hoarded and then lent out to be improved as assets by smaller clubs. Proper restrictions, no cop outs and if clubs go over the limits they're forced to sell at an agreed undervalue price to somebody else instead of being able to loan them. Players are being spread out then instead of monpolised and ruined because there's small chance they might one day be backup left back for Chelsea. Also stops clubs that overspend like QPR being able to take the copout of loaning out all the players they can't sell or afford to keep on the wagebill to save money and 'cheat death' in the sense of avoiding the repercussions of their financial carelessness. Remy, Park, Granero, Taarabt, Mbia etc. The loan system is to the power of the wealthy and the get out clause for the wreckless. Its an invention that has unsurprisingly turned up and prospered over the last 20 years. Football survived 100 years without it and there's nothing to stop it doing so again, it just means harder restrictions have to be made in its place. Of course it will. Clubs will just turn into feeder clubs in everything but technicality. For example we'd just sell our young kid who may or may not make it to Gateshead with a pre agreed buy back clause. It'd essentially be a loan. Unless you want to ban the players right to make contractual agreements. In fact if anything it would become more prevalent if the loan limit is effectively lifted. How is that worse? At least then the smaller club can get a financial stake in a player and benefit from it and it stops them wasting their time hanging around at a club where they won't make it. But they'd become more dependent on talent from bigger clubs and I thought that was the issue here. If it's about remuneration then why don't we televise more lower league games. Alas people don't like television coverage either

How? It will do exactly the opposite. Proper restrictions on not just loans, but squad sizes and the size of the youth squads will stop players being hoarded and then lent out to be improved as assets by smaller clubs. Proper restrictions, no cop outs and if clubs go over the limits they're forced to sell at an agreed undervalue price to somebody else instead of being able to loan them. Players are being spread out then instead of monpolised and ruined because there's small chance they might one day be backup left back for Chelsea. Also stops clubs that overspend like QPR being able to take the copout of loaning out all the players they can't sell or afford to keep on the wagebill to save money and 'cheat death' in the sense of avoiding the repercussions of their financial carelessness. Remy, Park, Granero, Taarabt, Mbia etc. The loan system is to the power of the wealthy and the get out clause for the wreckless. Its an invention that has unsurprisingly turned up and prospered over the last 20 years. Football survived 100 years without it and there's nothing to stop it doing so again, it just means harder restrictions have to be made in its place. Of course it will. Clubs will just turn into feeder clubs in everything but technicality. For example we'd just sell our young kid who may or may not make it to Gateshead with a pre agreed buy back clause. It'd essentially be a loan. Unless you want to ban the players right to make contractual agreements. In fact if anything it would become more prevalent if the loan limit is effectively lifted.

Like I say I don't watch reserve football so I'll take your word on the Spanish system. But if we are getting rid of the loan system in its entirety then we need to do something with youth/reserve teams, otherwise these clubs who you champion will invariably become B teams to the larger teams under a different name.

Talks about salary caps, transfer caps and sort of limiting on expenditure is nonsense.We need more billionaires not less, preferably of the Mansour mould not the Ashley one. There's a reason we're the most watched league in the world. If we start telling owners what they can and cant do they'll just bugger off to France and Spain and I'd rather watch the likes of Aguero, Ozil and Suarez every week even if not for Newcastle thank you very much. I bet there are thousands who plod along to shitty leagues in god knows where to watch the local butcher trip himself up who wish they had some filthy oil money destroying their beautiful game. Lot of it seems to boil down to jealousy, I wonder how many City/Chelsea fans complain about foreign money buying their trophies, I know I'd take an arab or russian here tomorrow. If we are to abolish the loan system we need a serious overhaul of the reserve system. Something like Spains is good imo. I don't know how the reserve system works inside out and obviously people aren't going to turn up in their thousands to watch them but making it a bit more competitive would reduce the need to loan out players. Agree completely about EL/CL. Get rid of the europa league and make the Champions League bigger. In conjunction with banning loans would spread out the top players to more clubs.

At first it was just Parky's lamentations, but I'm starting to get a bit unnerved by the pointed aggression at Arab owners in particular. As if they're any different than any other wealthy people. In particular?

It isn't a suarez thing though really, any player in the league would've gone down there rightly or wrongly

Worked out I could get szcz with the latter too. between wanting yaya or aguero really. will probably replace AJ soon enough just want to capitalise on his inevitable price rise

pantillimon/ozil/negredo -> szczezny/yaya/giroud or mig/AJ/aguero?

they forgot to change the charlie adam pic

nope. good in the first 15mins or so, then faded like the rest of the team, again poor off the ball (not his defending but f*** me if he had half debuchys movement!!!!), then like the rest of the team looked good against 9 men. I wouldn't start him against Arsenal. Dog s*** post, sorry man but that's utter drivel because he looked so dangerous through most of the first half ? because he was always open and creating space ? don't get me wrong, he didn't have a bad game, just he only turned it on when they were down to 9 and stretched. Created the only opportunities we had with two good balls, had a shot. Who was good in the first half? I can not believe after today people are picking holes in his performance. Ludicrous Nobody's picking holes in his performance anymore than people are rewriting history. He did go quiet most of the first half, along with the rest of them. But he was shit hot after the sending offs

Thought it was a simon and garfunkel number when I saw it typed out