CleeToonFan

Can international football go rot for a minute? The most interesting ending to a premier league season for years, and we miss it for a week so England can play Wales of all people. This just proves that the home nations with England is pointless, 9 out of 10 times we'll win it. And the other 1 maybe Scotland or the Republic (who shouldn't be in it anyway due to not being a home nation) would win. Boring

Hopefully not, this article made me feel good about the future, scout Ligue 1 now Pardew!

Pissing into the wind....

May only be an outside chance, but it doesn't stop the threat of relegation worrying the fuck out of me like. On the topic of Gervinho, I think there's heaps of better players out there, and hopefully we get better links soon, with the likes of Dempsey much better options

People have been saying this for years on these boards NO here other boards, and I've been contradicting them. People said when we went 28000 would be the norm, I knew for a FACT, we wouldnt get less than 42000 on a regular basis. Our average turn oot of 44,000 is unparalleled in the modern era by any club on earth largely speaking, and to be honestly. I would say without question that is OUTSTANDING. A club nobheads class almost as big as us Leeds United get 20,000 less than that, and most of their support can remember them being English champions in 1992. Newcastle are phenomenon by any standards in any sport, in any country, in any walk of life. This season and I'm repeating myself we will average 48,000 people, that is OUTSTANDING, with a bastard owner who will sell when the price is right, who makes decisions so bad it appears his sole aim is to wind the supporters up, and still we fuckin turn out. You are saying for some unknown reason our attendances will go down? I can't understand the logic, we have 40,000 daft cunts like me who have said fuck you Ashley the toon are part of our lives we're not gonna stop going. That number won't go down. The club has been in decline for 7 years since we sacked Robson and replaced him with the biggest arsehole in world football. Shepherd made his mistakes, potentially could've rectified them, but the rug was taken from underneath him by that over celebrated arsehole Hall (and his son) while he was lying cabbaged in hospital with pneumonia. I don't agree that the club is in decline I think we hit rock bottom losing at Scunthorpe last season, and since then people like Kevin Nolan have helped drive the club slowly forward. We're stagnating in some regards but if you'd told me we'd have Ben Arfa here, and £35m in the bank from the sale of Carroll, 12 month ago, I'd have been questioning your sanity. Our attendances will go up next season and I'm prepared to bet £200 now on that. Couldn't agree any more with you mate, that entire post is spot on there. I'm the biggest optimist that follows Newcastle United, so i'm probably being stupidly over the top, but I can see the top 10 beckoning next season... provided we don't fuck up this year like

Terry> Rio, Terry is a better player AND captain, but then again Rio plays for Man United... so the media must hate that he's been replaced

Without Barton... enjoy a bottom 3 finish

Loved this one, same design but silver. Used to wear it in European aways. Yeah agreed, wasn't it nice having european shirts like. http://www.flickr.com/photos/umbrofootball/3272776320/ Now if that doesn't make you want to go to umbro what will , that's brilliant.

Based on yesterday's performance presumably. You think we'll come below them then? Our team as a whole is better than theirs, with or without Carroll. Besides, we can't go down! We're 4 star on fifa...

On todays performance, I can see the mackems being hurled into our situation of "near the relegation battle", I think we'll come above them tbh

Nostalgia aint what it used to be

I never the "The players are paid loads of money so should win" argument. They're playing against players who are paid loads of money too, so wages are irrelevent, the players have no drive, that's the bloody problem

Time to book the away trip to Ipswich

I watched the first half on a stream, it went down, i'm just gonna turn everything off and hope for the best watching MOTD later today... if I can go that long

For God sake, can't the transfer window just come now

Footballs changing, it's more popular, atmospheres are still good, more people turned up last season than any season, get with it and stop sounding like you're all 80 :')

And in what league precisely are they going to be playing in that shirt?? 2013 return to MLS is on the cards, see that as the death of the bloody Red Bulls tbh, even if they do have a new stadium

Fuck off you twat. Rangers fans are pure scum, simple as. Twat. So are many Celtic fans. You can't say they're not just because you're catholic, it makes you just as dense as the bigots on both sides. However back to Clee's post. "Englishmen saying Celtic are better than Rangers". What difference does it make if I say they are or they're not, what baring does being English have on it. Regardless what their beliefs are, they're a foreign club to English people so why as an Englishmen should I allign myself to one or the other? Because a tiny minority of arseholes disrespect the memory of our fallen war heroes? Fuck that. In my experience, and I've known a lot, Celtic fans can be fuckin complete pricks, but a majority in my experience understand what common decency is, whereas Rangers - a majority of their support, even watching an European tie in a pub in London, can't help but expose their ingrained hate and bigotry on a regular basis. What my Englishness has to do with this escapes me. You say you're a Newcastle fan, possibly one of the Keegan generation which is fair enough, but if you know your history* it's enough to make your heart go woah, woah, woah, when you think of what Rangers fans did to this city in 1969, people who saw the events first hand will take the memories to their grave. Aye, I am Keegan generation. As for the English thing, i'm not even particularly some sort of nationalist Brit/Englishman spitting shit about other nations. I just don't like seeing any club disrespect my own nation, especially when a club trashes up Lincoln town center for a friendly, a bloody friendly! As if Lincoln City have ever done anything bad! Similarly, if Rangers had a banner slagging off the Irish army close to their equivalent of poppy day (Obviously this is a hypothetical, I know they have no army other than a defence force or poppy day) i'd be equally mad. Especially when Celtic fans want to play in the Premier League, that's the best. These people tend to hate the English (some are even anti-Scottish) but as soon as the chance to use our Premier League comes about, they want to jump on the oppurtunity!

Narh, I agreed with you, Rangers fans are bad, but i've heard of Celtic fans going to Lincoln for a pre season friendly, where an Army stand was trying to raise funds for something, they then come, taunt the soldiers, and wreck Lincoln city center. Celtic are just the worst of a bad bunch.

Englishmen saying Celtic are better than Rangers? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IsIVb_6uIco/TN_b...remembrance.jpg Not remember that? Celtic are scum, Rangers are bad, not as bad though, the rest of the SPL are saints for putting up with them

Puma Home, Adidas away, some sort of Herzogenaurach alliance, that'd be epic, adidas always do good aways and bad homes.

Surely the old European black and light blue shirt sold well? That shirt was brilliant! A colour scheme they should go back to!

Get Krul starting, he's the most impressive of our keepers in the long run, Forster has made an average job as Celtic keeper... and we all know how hard it is going up against Inverness Caledonian Thistle 4 times a season.

Well, to be fair I have the third shirt (but only because my away shirt had Carroll on the back ) . But you never actually see anyone wearing it do you? Surely they don't actually sell that many third shirts? We've worn it once (against Wolves away) as far as I can remember too.