Tiburon

Ginola was sexy and so different (today I’d try and convert him into a Ronaldo type CF role, playing through the middle with his left and right foot capabilities), HBA was undoubtedly the most talented and exciting of all, Robert the most productive, but Sellars for me was the man! We’ve been blessed with talented wingers and wide players over the years on both flanks.

Scottish managerial royalty, RIP!

Can we not just 3D print a new stadium and have it shipped over while SJP gets demolished during pre-season?

Newcastle fans queuing for tickets for an FA Cup quarter-final vs Sunderland in 1956

I’d rather we went for Walker-Peters, he can cover both right and left back roles.

I guess such titles for players are all about which player from our past is part of someone’s greatest memories and times following their team. I mean my fave all-time NUFC player would probably be Andy Cole, yet Shearer IS the legend, the better player and did more for us. It’s about fan favourites too. I just don’t consider the likes of Robert a legend here. He’d probably be GOD himself if he had of played for the mackems mind who reserve legend status for absolute no-bodies like Ball which again goes back to how such titles are awarded to players based more on what they mean to someone the most than what they actually merit in the annal’s of the club’s history overall.

All true, but again I like that brutalist architectural look. I’d demolish half (most?) of the buildings that were built during the T. Dan Smith era and a few from the later 70s and 80s, but a lot of people I know who aren’t originally from here note how contrasting our city is in terms of architecture and layout in that you have a good mix of the brutal grim grey concrete buildings, lovely Georgian and Edwardian buildings and then the more modern. Having said that almost all of the modern buildings that have been built and are being built are an eyesore too and look cheap and nasty and will date massively in the coming years.

He was part of a defence that did keep a clean sheet there… And isn’t that what team-work is about, everyone helping each other out when one of the players is being overran or beaten by someone who holds all the aces which Saka did that game and still would mostly in a 1v1 even against someone infinitely better than Burn.

Any top quality attacker should (every now and again) get the better of a full-back regardless of how good that full-back is. We’ve seen Shearer absolutely smash some of the best Centre-back’s in our game, does that mean the likes of Terry getting rinsed every now and again mean Chelsea should have got rid for a much better centre-back? Of course our own Dan Burn is not of that level and ideally we’d have a top-class LB, but talk of selling him is madness, replace in the first-team yes, but not just get shot of him. He’s a very solid defender, even out of position at LB and is integral behind the scenes off the pitch in terms of what he brings to the squad. He does get forward, but isn’t a smooth footballer or particularly quick which makes him stand out like a sore thumb. It doesn’t help that when he does get forward beyond whoever is playing on the left, that player rarely makes use of him or the space he’s taken an opposition player away from. I will add, I’m not exactly keen on having a CB play LB just because he’s tall and left footed so as to give us extra defensive solidity back there based on that. We can have a LB who is also a good defender as well as being a good attacker who isn’t a giant. Trippier for me isn’t particularly great at defending and he’s small, but he reads the game so well and he sniffs out danger and has a great leap on him for his height too so that helps negate any defensive weakness in his game. We all know how good he is on the ball and getting forward. I’d like us to sign Walker-Peters for LB who can also play RB and wouldn’t cost the earth. The more pressing need in terms of defensive reinforcements, however, is a quick, mobile, ball playing CB to cover for Schar and eventually replace him.

Is Bellamy, who did just as much if not more in a NUFC shirt? Robert for me goes down as a classic former hero/icon in the way Dabizas, Nobby et al are. Obviously the likes of Robert and Nobby especially are the bigger club icons/heroes. Legend status should be reserved for the likes of Shearer et al only. IMO anyway!

I’ll be keeping a close eye on Celta Vigo now that Rafa is their gaffer.

I wouldn’t go so far as say he was a Newcastle legend and a Geordie twang? Where? Monsieur Robert is looking good though

A friend of mine who is a born and bred Milanista, but now lives here in Newcastle, is absolutely gutted about this and likened his sale to us selling Shearer under Sir Bobby to say Villa or Spurs when we were finishing 3rd and looking to challenge for the title. I asked him who in comparison is he similar to in our game and he said our Bruno, but quicker and not as good a passer, but he’s still decent at passing. His best position is box to box and that he is a born winner, will come here to be the best he can be for us and and to win big honours. He won’t flop because he has all the attributes and a monster mentality. He also said the Barella links were likely a smokescreen and if we were seriously in for him, other bigger clubs would have outbid us. I’m wondering if Inter got wind of our interest in the AC player and leaked stuff to their media that we were in for Barella to try and create a bidding war for their man given how cash strapped they are… Either way, I must say I’ve not seen anything of Tonali and if I have, he never caught my eye, but I’m very excited about this deal and what it demonstrates going forward in terms of our ambition and intent. We are in it to win it - the lot!

Just been to the hoppings, not a mackem top in sight, full of Saudi Mag tops though, and all gravy stained marra!

I quite like the brutalistic external concrete design of the East Stand which sits nicely with the beautiful architecture of Leazes Terrace and the cobbled brick lane towards the Strawberry, it’s very unique. We can’t lose Leazes Terrace just for the sake of a few extra thousand seats, but we can’t loose St.James’ Park for that either. A compromise will have to be found in order to modernise and increase the capacity without losing what’s special about the stadium and Leazes Terrace. I’d be against relocation and a new stadium.