Rob Elliot (now at Gateshead)

[LooneyToonArmy]

looks like he picked up an injury at the end of the 1st half there....fck

[Dave]

Nowt a couple of chicken drumsticks won't sort out.

[Ronaldo]

Yeah, it's utterly devastating. Worse than Bellamy doing his hamstring against Villa.

[Mick]

Ha had too much weight on his standing foot and done his ankle in. 

[Ryan_Taylor]

Ideally he'll be out until 2 weeks after Krul comes back in

[Flip]

Ha had too much weight on his standing foot and done his ankle in. 

 

[Pilko]

The Oscar overhead kick that went about half a foot wide of the post, he just stood, watched it go past, then put his hands in the air like all "aye safe as houses"

 

I prefer Alnwick already, at least he isn't a cunt.

[Disco]

Hope he falls in a canal when they're in Amsterdam.

[Hughesy]

Aren't fatties more buoyant? Knowing our luck he'd float.

[ujpest doza]

Bill "Fatty" Foulkes carried some serious timber for a keeper from years gone by but apart from Paddy Kenny I can't recall a bigger bloater than Rob the Blob.

Neville Southall was not only brilliant but was fucking huge.

 

[sempuki]

Time off = more chance of him piling on the blubber due to visiting pie shops. Misses some massive games - Arsenal, Spurs in the QF, the mackems and Manure. Hope we peddle him in the Summer.

[BeloEmre]

Any news about how long he will be out?

[Ryan_Taylor]

 

Any news about how long he will be out?

 

Well he's got to get to Greggs on one leg so it'll probably take him a while.

[Stifler]

Any news about how long he will be out?

After the way he spoke about the fans and licked Pardews hoop, I hope he never makes a recovery. It's players like him who are prepared to settle for nothing and never wanting to win things whilst happy to pick up his wages that is wrong with football.

[BottledDog]

Any news about how long he will be out?

After the way he spoke about the fans and licked Pardews hoop, I hope he never makes a recovery. It's players like him who are prepared to settle for nothing and never wanting to win things whilst happy to pick up his wages that is wrong with football.

 

Utter shit.

[ponsaelius]

Actually thats the most accurate post Stifler's ever made.

[BottledDog]

Well it's a sickeningly popular view, granted. Still hurtful and fundamentally bollocks.

[Pilko]

Really hope Alnwick looks mint so we decide to keep him and loan him out next year, Krul and Darlow to battle it out for no.1, Woodman and Woolston at no.3 and no.4 and ditch this fat cunt to Yeovil or suchlike for £100k.

[mickthemagpie]

Really hope Alnwick looks mint so we decide to keep him and loan him out next year, Krul and Darlow to battle it out for no.1, Woodman and Woolston at no.3 and no.4 and ditch this fat c*** to Yeovil or suchlike for £100k.

 

Its a wild guess this but i think we signed Darlow so we can sell Krull next summer.

[geordiesteve710]

Really hope Alnwick looks mint so we decide to keep him and loan him out next year, Krul and Darlow to battle it out for no.1, Woodman and Woolston at no.3 and no.4 and ditch this fat c*** to Yeovil or suchlike for £100k.

 

Its a wild guess this but i think we signed Darlow so we can sell Krull next summer.

 

Nailed on.

[ponsaelius]

Who the fucks gonna buy Krul tho. You need a team out there to need a keeper for starters and generally teams don't go mental spending for keepers. Reckon we'd get £6-8 million for Krul at an absolute maximum tbh even if there was a buyer, maybe after 2012 you'd have got more for him but not right now.

 

Not denying we might sell him, like, just that its not a particularly lucrative position to cash in on.

[loki679]

Yeah, goalkeepers generally don't go for that much.  Think Buffon is still the most expensive at about £30m (?) but after him I can't think of many that have gone for even £20m.  De Gea maybe?  That Chelsea lad?

 

Think we'd be lucky to get £10m for Krul.

[sugoinufc]

Any news about how long he will be out?

After the way he spoke about the fans and licked Pardews hoop, I hope he never makes a recovery. It's players like him who are prepared to settle for nothing and never wanting to win things whilst happy to pick up his wages that is wrong with football.

 

maybe because pardew gave him the chance to play 2 leagues higher then his talent should be allowed...

[maybe_next_year]

Any news about how long he will be out?

After the way he spoke about the fans and licked Pardews hoop, I hope he never makes a recovery. It's players like him who are prepared to settle for nothing and never wanting to win things whilst happy to pick up his wages that is wrong with football.

 

 

Summed up my feelings about Elliot perfectly. Arsehole has no respect for the club he plays for.

[Guest firetotheworks]

So now stories about people having conversations with players in nightclubs are taken as fact word for word....?

 

Well, no-one has said it didn't, and we all know how much the club love to release statements whenever there's a hint of mistruth. At very best, TheGuv has put a wildly inaccurate account of the conversation out there for the evil agenda he obviously holds, and Elliott doesn't even care enough to dispute it or put the record straight. Whatever sand you want to put your head in really.

 

For me, everytime I see him let a soft as s*** goal in down the centre of his goal I just can't get away from the idea that he thinks he's only playing for Newcastle and it's not important. I know that's a bit unfair, but he's let the suggestion get out there and I can't shift it.

Eh I'm not sure if I read the same thing- is there a link? What I read said he thought we should be a top 8/9 team... Which pretty much is what we should be surely with this lack of investment , surely he was being a realist... Do you have a link to the bit that you mean?

 

"His argument was that the Newcastle fans think they deserve to be in the Champions League by rights and we need to know our level. I disagreed.

 

‘Where should we be then?’ he asked.

 

I replied that just a bit of fight, belief and trying to play games with attacking intent could secure a higher PL finish than we’ll ever achieve with cowardly football and tactics.

 

‘Na’, he says. ‘8th or 9th is our level."

 

(copied and pasted, so for the record I have correctly used quotation marks this time!)

 

In isolation I wouldn't disagree that 8th or 9th is our level with this squad. However, to paraphrase Chris Rock It's the context in which it is said which is important. The context being that this is on the back of an appalling run of form which has seen us plummet from a very positive position of 5th to around 10th by getting beat lots to nil every week. The context that the person saying this is a professional footballer in the team, who it seems has decided to use an insulting old-hat cliche about fans expectations to absolve himself and his horrible manager of any responsibility and imply that such a run of results is fine because it's only Newcastle. I'd expect a player of the club to want do do as well as possible, finish as high as they can etc.

 

That's why I find it hard to stomach. By all means feel free to go to the match singing 'Rob Elliotts black and white army', but I won't be joining in.

 

 

Ah right I see now what you mean.... He is probably just making a flippant comment as he's been cornered into this off the cuff conversation and may have had drink taken so maybe wasn't meant to be unprofessional / rude to the fans but you never know.

 

All in all I think the sub keeper is the least of the worrys and any vitriol should be sent to ashley

 

Funny how your benefit of the doubt is always exclusively one-sided.

 

As far as I'm concerned Elliot is Ashley, Pardew is Ashley, Woodman is Ashley, Beardsley is Ashley. Anyone in support of Ashley cannot be excused when they're happy to be a part of it. Fuck them, every single one of them.