Bimpy474

Kante is £5m, that's a squad filler price, straight in.

But didn't those in the know on TV said that Rafa wouldn't know anything about the Championship, and what players it would take to get out of it. Wankers.

I'll go with whatever Rafa does, but imo it's time for Tiote to go. With us going down it's a Rafa top to bottom rebuild and i can't see Tiote bring part of the future. And while keeping might help us go up, i don't think we need him to do that. His time with us is up for me.

true value times about 5? Extracting the Michael or Abstracting the Ashley? The Paper had a misprint obviously but when LFEE noted they corrected it, it now says £4m, i was expecting it to say £3m if it was just a printing error. £3-4m would be about right, anymore would mad for him like.

The concern I have had all summer, it's only a pre season game but I do believe there's not enough creativity in the team. Especially considering we'll probably see 11 men behind the ball against most teams. I think Shelvey and whoever plays as the number are supposed to bring that creativity, Shelvey doesn't and it seems Perez is playing as the 10 and he's a tad bit individual to play that role in a 4-2-3-1. You're right the lack of creativity is a little concerning, but i still think we have enough to go up as it stands now. And we're going to buy another midfieler imo, a creative one hopefully.

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/newcastle-united/latest-nufc-news/rafa-benitez-says-newcastle-close-to-breakthrough-as-cheick-tiote-nears-exit-1-8035537 But the Abu Dhabi side is yet to agree a fee with Newcastle, who rate the 30-year-old in the £30million bracket

Another thing, the ref was terrible, for both sides to be fair but he was utterly hopeless.

http://i.imgur.com/u2GF9gP.png

For all the 4-3-3 talk, it still looked like 4-2-3-1 to me, just Vurn played on the right of the three in behind Gayle up top. We created not a lot, passed it around ok, Shelvey on the ball lots, Hayden putting in tackles, Perez our most lively player, Gayle couldn't get involved, great save at the end from Darlow, who's lush up close, i would. Lass who takes Newcastle photos pitchside has a big arse, Armstrong was decent when he came on, was on a great run until Mitro got in his way. Lascelles is a mountain, won every header and looks a pure leader to me. I went to a Londis on the way home and bought some fruit gums and a pack of minstrels, bit peckish.

Right behind that shot, very good hit, Vurn won the tackle too.

What is the formation? 4-3-3? Where is Shelvey playing? Formation wise I'm not sure as Anita seems to be down our right but tucked in, Shelvey has been in the middle on the ball a lot, dropping very deep.

Cheerleaders are on, they also sold the raffle tickets beforehand....god I'm bored.

Utterly dreadful stuff, Hayden loves a tackle like. Neither team created nowt of note. Lovely evening like.

Oh for heaven's sake.

I played at Roots Hall last year in charity game, and the pitch was like a carpet. Although it's been relaid for this season, they called off the friendly against West Ham and relocated that game to a non league ground up the road, because they were worried about playing too many games straight away on it.

FFS i didn't wait because i thought that wouldn't happen, and got told as much by Southend and told definitely wouldn't by Newcastle

You will be periscoping it yeah ? Not with my piece of shit tesco phone no

Also the Newcastle tickets are cheaper by a couple of quid.

I far as i could tell 4 days ago that how it was, i phoned Newcastle's box office to get told no i couldn't get two more tickets from them. And Southend told me that away end tickets on the night was unlikely, i just checked and you can't get them online from Southend right now. So it looks like Newcastle still refuse to allow on gate in away games. While i understand it, the trouble in that Darlington game a few years back has really messed things up for fan like us, who are far away from Newcastle but want to take someone with them. I could have registered my kids as Newcastle members but at the moment their interest in football isn't exactly off the radar. Newcastle have all my details and when you enter the stadium (Southend's) and you've purchased kids ticket and take an adult instead, they won't let you in. It's not as if it's anonymous buying.

I'm going to this but our daft away fan 1 ticket rule has meant i have to go in the Southend end. I'm taking both my boys with me and Newcastle wouldn't sell me tickets for them, despite the away end i've no doubt not being sold out as it's a Tuesday evening down in my bellend of a town. And Southend couldn't tell me if the away end would have pay on the gate tonight, so i got tickets to sit with a load of players from my Saturday team and their kids in the Southend end. Hope we thrash the shit out them.

Colback in those highlights He really is fucking awful, loses the player he's marking, turning his back on shots, not seeing the ball out. Pahahahaha

Zeus Arnie Stallone The bloke that dead lifted half a ton and nearly blew up the inside of his head Hercules Venus Williams Colback Geoff Capes The Mountain Akinfenwa Mr Muscle

If you want to follow the game.

Steve Guppy made only one sub appearance i think.

Aye. Will he be eligible to play for the reserve side while he serves his suspension for the first team? Yeah, If they banned him from U21 games they'd have to actually deplete a match from his ban everyone time we played one At least he'll still be getting run outs with the U21's for the first few weeks then. FA website says he's banned from both, fwiw. Edit : Read that wrong, says he isn't but it's a competitive match scenario which makes xLiaaamx right. It's not exactly clear from the wording they use. Hope he does get some game time though, keep him up to fitness.