Ted Maul

Sounds fucking class. Get him signed up.

Modified my team quite a lot since a week or two ago and it's still subject to further changes due to a couple of my players coming up potentially unfit. Wary of transferring out to transfer them back in because I just know some other bastard is going to break his leg on the first day Think it's mostly sorted now save for possible changes to those injured players.

Really hard to predict who will play for them and Man Utd currently. Our team is nailed on, full back positions aside. It's possible Young could start over Shaw in the first game, and I'm not sure who will start as right wing back either. Probably Valencia though. Yeah I've got Shaw in my team at the moment but I'm not sure whether to maybe stick him on the bench for the first game and play a three in defence for the first week. Has Shaw looked good in preseason? More advanced position under Van Gaal I take it? He's been alright. Expect him to be a lot better in the league. More advanced position though aye. If pre-season is anything to go by, Herrera should be in all your teams, but then again so should Young. Aye, I'll usually go mostly for players who are established in the league or at their teams but will go for the odd wildcard every now and then. Herrera was one I was looking at but I don't feel I know enough about his game and Christian Eriksen was only .5mill more. Think I will sub Shaw out for the first week then (or maybe stick someone else in the squad and use the transfer), although knowing my luck the fucker will play, score one and set two up.

Really hard to predict who will play for them and Man Utd currently. Our team is nailed on, full back positions aside. It's possible Young could start over Shaw in the first game, and I'm not sure who will start as right wing back either. Probably Valencia though. Yeah I've got Shaw in my team at the moment but I'm not sure whether to maybe stick him on the bench for the first game and play a three in defence for the first week. Has Shaw looked good in preseason? More advanced position under Van Gaal I take it?

Ive toyed with the idea but cant bring myself to use him. Then who would be a cheap good mid other than Sigurdsson? Shelvey perhaps, only 5.5 but I can see him playing a less advanced role what with Sigurdsson coming back. I went for Mark Noble who should be pretty good value for 5.5 and a benchwarmer for my squad that I can always rely on getting a game should my first choices get injured.

Very surprised people are going near Sagna given he plays the same position as Zabaleta.

the fact that somebody else has nearly always made the same unrelentingly negative points I was going to make is the only thing keeping me chipper at the moment.

Yup. Pardew doesn't know any other way of playing, which is why it's pointless bringing in players like cabella who are then forced to either submit to playing the grinding dirge or end up made a pariah like Ben Arfa.

We wuz tired after a tough preseason. Still trying to get some new faces over the line.

Hopefully we may focus our attention on the part of the squad that is most deficient - the defence.

Be quite interesting to see what dickface does now that Tiote may be out. Anita and Colback in together?

This year our last with Puma?

Aye it's fucking sickening. Why oh why.

The only halfway decent home kit we've had from Puma was when we came 5th. My opinion may have been swayed by the fact that we did so well but I'd like to think not. All the rest have been dog shit.

Probably not the best and still needs a little bit of work, but here's a provisional lineup...

:lol:

What a disgusting, cheap and nasty looking effort on that hanger. Puma are fucking awful.

"John Carver, I think his name is" :lol:

Don't think this commentator's pronounced a single one of our players' names correctly

Honestly I would laugh my tits off.

Unusually shrewd from the club to replace satisfactorily as soon as an important first-teamer leaves. Something really, really shit around the corner like.

We will still sell players IMO, so we need to keep buying. If we got Janmaat, a good striker and a good centre back and didn't sell anyone else I'd be quite happy. We could definitely do with adding two strikers though.

Last week was a fantasy. It's good that he gets used to the reality of Newcastle life. While I understand your point, it is my opinion that he was hung out to dry today by Pardew.

Feel proper sorry for Dummett, like. Lad will be crushed by what happened out there.