Dr Gloom

the proposal - 1/10

i'd be apprehensive about signing a lad that would turn down playing for milan to come to us. he'd clearly be mentally unstable if that was the case

no news is bad news here. who the fuck are we going to sign if this falls through? i'm predicting a last minute panic buy a'la sibierski/rossi

agree about ryan taylor but at least he can occasionally put a decent ball in the box. i honestly can't see this perch kid offering a lot based on last night's performance. knee-jerk-tastic?

surprised you haven't reacted to three at the back suggestion

might not be a bad time to play villa. decent run of home games coming up after that too. we didn't learn too much from last night's match, let's reassess in a month or two

At least 6. The cup semi-final in 2005 was no better than yesterday's performance. Last time we were competing with them was under Robson (probably the game where Keane was sent off having tried to lamp Shearer) and even then they always just had the edge. We have had a few beatings by them, but the difference was that we had a quality enough to have a go and think we had a chance to give as good as we got. The worst thing of all is just to sit back and accept inferiority and be happy to keep the score down. Which is pretty much what Hughton said before the game too. Nice guy, but is this the attitude infiltrating out of the club these days. We are Newcastle, not Stoke or Blackburn or Bolton. We have to play these teams at their own game and we must have players in the team that they themselves would want to have. i agree, but that's not going to happen as long as the fat cockney twat is in charge

obviously it depends on the investor. i'd be excited if i was a blackburn fan about whether the rumours about this bloke are to be believed. that said, i was excited about ashley taking over too. who'd have known we'd be getting the country's most incompetent billioanaire?

I thought they were average at best by their standards. Average is the wrong way to describe the performance -it was more like they were playing an exhibition. They looked like they could step it up 2 or 3 gears at any point. Its probably a good job we didnt score-they might have got angry. yes. And the fact that they only had to play it like an exhibition match, makes it even worse. Cobblers tbf. Chelsea won 6-0 at the weekend. If we were as bad as 6-0 then Man U would have scored 6 against us cos thats the business they're in. Chelsea didn't let West Brom off the hook, but Manu let us off the hook last night. You're talking shite. It was an absolute stroll for them. 3-0 is a stroll in anyone's book, I don't disagree with that, but that owed mainly to the fact we didnt trouble them at the other end for any period of the game so they were never 'in a game' It wasn't a 6-niller tho. If it was, they would have scored 6. We'd have had to have been much worse and we weren't. Which is a good thing, I choose to take that as a positive. They won't have many easier games than last night. We got off lightly. They passed us off the park, completely. As has been said, if Carrol had had the audacity to have scored that header, they may actually have got angry. aye, you've got to wonder actually whether keeping the score relatively respectable was due to our organisation and team spirit or them taking their foot off the gas. there were some pleasing things to come out of last night's games. we did keep our shape and we defended well at times but you're right in that they had almost all of the ball. our midfield was pedestrian, our ball retention pathetic and carrol was way too isolated up front. nolan doesn't look like he'll be able to continue the role he was use din last year at this level. doesn't bode well given he'd been made our skipper.

Taking the black and white specs off for a second and they're on a pretty equal footing to us to be honest. You might find that a bitter pill to swallow but ultimately it's true. Both were 'up there' in the early days of the Premiership, both have been relegated and come back up. Both are relatively struggling buy comparison of their recent past. The comparative differences are that we have a bigger fan base/stadium and they've won something in recent years (League and League Cup). I might be in the minority here but I'd swap our stadium/fan base for the success they've had. in order for blackburn to fill their ground, one in every three people that live in the town have to turn up. they're nowhere near us in terms of the kind of revenue they can generate on match day. they have had the success with trophies that we haven't - and i agree, i'd sooner that than a full house of 50k every week - but if you were looking at the two clubs as an investor, newcastle is a much bigger global brand and we have a lot more potential then them.

I think £ 90 k a week is a deciding factor......... cardiff aren't going to be paying that though are they? i'm sure we could match the percentage of his weekly wage that cardiff are paying him....if the club had any ambition to stay in the top flight. completely nuts that he's available, exactly the type of player we need and we haven't even tried to see if he fancies coming back here. I think Bellamy himself has patently made his desires clear. For one reason or another he wants to be located in close proximity to his family and friends in Cardiff. And how do you know we haven't enquired? if we did enquire, which i doubt, the media would probably have got hold of it. it was common knowledge that fulham, spurs and cardiff were all in for him.

I think £ 90 k a week is a deciding factor......... cardiff aren't going to be paying that though are they? i'm sure we could match the percentage of his weekly wage that cardiff are paying him....if the club had any ambition to stay in the top flight. completely nuts that he's available, exactly the type of player we need and we haven't even tried to see if he fancies coming back here.

blackburn? ffs - what's wrong with us? surely we've more potential (stadium/support base/facilities) for any prospective buyer than sodding blackburn

i'd be surprised if cardiff don't go up now. massive coup for them

he is a trier, i'll give you that

mad isn't it. he's available; he'd probably come if we were in for him and and exactly the sort of player that would transform our team. yet there's no sign of an offer.

we could do with guthrie back. he's the one of our central midfielders who can keep and distribute the ball a bit.

get him signed. we could do with three new central midfielders on last night's evidence

You must be happy as a pig in shit now you can revert to type tbh i love a moan as much as the next man, but honestly, i'd rather we had players suited to this division and less to moan about. what's worrying for me is that nolan has been made captain. on last night's evidence he looks far from an automatic starter at this level. i'd walk him for guthrie when he's fit again.

i think they're both crap. nolan doesn't look up to the pace of this league either does he to be fair.

was he worse than barton though? there's a head scratcher for you Yes, comfortably. barton seemed to give the ball away every time he tried to play a pass.

was he worse than barton though? there's a head scratcher for you

big willy was definitely the pick of our defenders bar the odd dodgy clearance. it was alarming to see colo and enrique to revert to type but hopefully it was just the occasion of playing at old trafford. they looked a lot more assured last season. i don't think we're going to be able to get away with playing our way out of trouble from the back this year. some of enrique's short passes around our own penalty box were suicidal.

how was that his big chance? he was always on a hiding to nothing playing up top on hi own with no one getting forward to support him. fat pig should stick to eating pies and write about carrol in a few months time

didn't get one interview with our lot. FUCK OFF YOU SKY CUNTS