Dr Gloom

where's danny b when you need him?

and liverpool

that'll learn ya!

If only we hadn't fucked up against Wigan, Stoke, Blackburn, Hull and (to some extent) Man City..... 12 points there we should have had we should be in the champions league places tbf

could go either way tbf. the table is looking as tight as a gnat's chuff

we're now sitting in the dizzy heights of 12th! onwards and upwards

HAIL DUFF!!!!!!! back to back wins - when did we last manage that? and against everyone's least favourite other team to boot. superb stuff :-)

you called it!

DUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sounds like it's all spurs tbf

viduka could do with getting himself in shape like. can't see why shola would keep him on the bench otherwise. not a lot of pace in that side with martins out. we're going to need jonas and nzogbia to get forward and support the front men if we're going to win this

i would love it....love it if we beat them

why on earth would owen sign a new contract? i wouldn't blame him for walking. in fact, if i were him i'd probably jump ship too. he'll probably get a move somewhere like villa, spurs or everton. i can't see any of the top 4 going for him. it's just a question of whether he'll take a cut in wages to join one of that lot.

he'd keep them up, i'm sure.

i think it was a crazy decision personally. said so at the time and stick by it. we've never been the same since he was booted out. in fact, following the club has been pretty miserable ever since the sbr days

Sad thing is, the press at the time wanted rid of him - they reckoned he was absolute shite and started a witch-hunt in the run up to Italia 90 IIRC. Graham Taylor was such a 'more attractive prospect' in their eyes Same fucking scum who have since have reported that he was the best manager this country has seen since Ramsey and that a knighthood is 'long overdue'. even more of a tragedy was all the fact that a majority of toon fans forced him out of nufc when he was doing a grand job. we've never recovered from fat fred sacking sir bobby - we've been a downward spiral ever since he left.

how good would a 12th place finish be at this stage? you'd take it with bells on tbf. anything for a nice boring mid table finish

I actually think that might just be enough. It'll be fucking tight like. as tight as a nun's cunt tbf

ashley would be a total moron not to give jfk a decent wedge to spend in the january sales like. he's not going to get much return on his investment if he ends up trying to flog a championship club. i would like to see no players sold and at least three new ones bought in.

we're the draw specialists like. if we keep this ratio up we'll finish with 38 points, probably not enough to stay up his year

that's what i thought about our recent run of games. that's why i'm worried. we should have picked up a least a couple more wins than we have done over the recent run of games. to be fair, if we can't dispatch the likes of stoke and wigan at home, i'm not sure we are good enough to stay up

that's always been the case in recent years. this year, i'm not so sure

i live in london. all my mates down here, who don't have the misfortune of having to watch us every week, keep telling me stuff like: "you'll be alright. you're too good to go down." "any team with owen, martins and viduka will be alright" "there are worse sides in the division than you" i used to agree. on paper, it's hard to fathom why we quite so crap. i never expected us to have a good season but i always thought we had a bit too much class to be quite so in the shit. but in reality we can't beat stoke, wigan or hull at home and the home ties are not going to get any easier. i thought we were too good to go down but it's starting to look like we're not good enough to stay up.

i'd forgive him if he started doing his job seriously. ie get rid if wise and don't appoint another director of football. give kinnear enough money to spend in january and stop flogging decent players like milner and replacing them with donkeys like xisco. i think the majority of us would forgive him too. no one expects us to be world beaters, but the only way we're going to improve is by keeping our better players and only selling players we can replace with them with better quality.