Andrew

Competition for places is important. Lot of supposition in this thread. Given is good but he certainly isn't world class IMO. Cech and Buffon are world class unreservedly. Petr 'Uncharacteristic Mistake' Cech is overrated IMO. On his day there's no one better but he's prone to making some fairly costly errors. I think its unfair he has to wear that downs syndrome hat tbf. He doesn't have to, he chooses to

Joe cole Robin Van Persie

I'd quite like to see that given a shot, defence would have to sit deep to deal with owens style and obas pace but in that event, milner oba zog and barton are all pretty good at shooting from outside the box

Competition for places is important. Lot of supposition in this thread. Given is good but he certainly isn't world class IMO. Cech and Buffon are world class unreservedly. Cech is certainly a better keeper than Given and I haven't seen much of Buffon for a while but I would say he was a better keeper a few years ago. But beyond those two I can't really think of much better. Look at all of the major footballing nations (England, Spain, France, Germany, Holland, Argentina, Brazil and so on) and non of them have a keeper to match Given. So in that respect I would have to class him as world class even if he's not the very best in the world. And as Craig says, his importance has become even more apparent when we became a much poorer side! He is very good don't get me wrong but he also has serious flaws, he doesn't come for crosses well and his communication with the def is also poor at times. As a shot stopper he is world class imo. These two also are as good and better in some dept than Given.. Iker Casillias (can't remember how old he is).. Reina Casillias is 26

they got 1mil for rose

Same here, I get frustrated by england and its "true fans" who are deluded and still believe we're one of the best in the world despite proving many times we aren't Newcastle Fans? Spins around on wanking chair looking confused. ------------------------- Most things you can put up for not supporting England you can also do the same for Newcastle? what's the difference? Country > Club All the time for me I don't have people 'round me constantly telling me that no one is better than Newcastle

Same here, I get frustrated by england and its "true fans" who are deluded and still believe we're one of the best in the world despite proving many times we aren't

Aye, definitely. Next two games are Latvia and Iceland away - potential banana skins, but if they could get 4 or even 6 points out of them, they'll be looking really good. Excellent, I have double loyalty where they're concerned, I'm half NIish and half their team plays for burnley

Great how people can dislike him for saying "I'd like to come back some day"

Northern Ireland, can they still qualify?

Agree it'll be good to see what difference Barton makes to the attacking drive of the team whenhe makes his return from injury, also the option of Zog playing in midfield once Enrique is match fit and playing at LB. And whilst its early days, i've never been this impressed with the potential of a toon defence with Beye and Enrique to come! I think N'Zogbia could slot in the midfield and be that "creative midfielder" some of us wanted to sign in the transfer window. I don't think he has the vision ...that is all I have to say right now. I agree, he's the kind of player the creative midfielder finds in space to finish moves rather than the one who starts them

Rozenhal is of slight build too, though. I see him as the ball player of our defence

Agreed, I thought this at the time in fact, as I recall, I made this exact point in a thread regarding the choosing

they did choose scolari didn't they? They should've chose harder

they'd struggle to get someone at the moment without going foreign which I don't think they're going to do for a while despite calling a few foreign managers up last time for interview I always doubted the FA were doing it for anything more than show should've chosen scolari

I'd be happy with liverpool winning the league this season, 3 different title winners in 3 seasons before chelsea looked like really dominating and the league was stagnating, the same clubs getting the same spots every year, it's looking like being the compete opposite this season and its great

There's a joke in there somewhere, but I'm not allowed to tell it. Something about bombs in his shoes perhaps? pipeline...

what the hell? has this always been happening and were just noticing now or what?

love the " around defender there

I'd shit myself if we got juninho, exactly the kind of creative midfielder we want we won't get him though

I don't think he'll get put in as DMC when you consider the depth we have there with geremi and faye coming in soon also

I love this thread

I'd be happy getting those 2 in, can't see this takeover happening at all with the money Ashley has invested in us so far

Good luck to him. He'l probably do ok at that level tbh He nearly got burnley relegated when they were in what's now league 1 I don't think roeder is manager material, he's a good coach but not tactically aware enough

He doesn't look anything. That's just his face. Exactly...