Pavels Travels

Agreed i think we played our best football with two over lapping full backs and two out and out wingers hence hughes and Solano (who linked up well together) with Robert and Bernard down the left. Milner and Solano is an interesting pairing think it could work out well for us , they seem to get better the more they play together. We either need Bernard back to his best or another left back to play with Duff/ N'Zogbia. Still think Duff has a lot more to offer

I thought las night was alright, i would have took it at the start . No bookings , no injuries and a clean sheet. It was hardly a massive work out so hopefully all the lads should be fully fit for Sunday. They had no intention of going for it , we might as well have sat back in our own half and played triangles. Not the greatest of games to sit through but im looking at the bigger picture.

I think hes been our best left back in the last 10 years although i've got a lot of respect for Babyaro after recent events hes just not good enough. Hopefully Bernard will sort himself out and get somewhere close to where he was before to left. Having said that I watched him in the reserves a couple of months ago and he was shocking, still it was only one game.

I see they've got their own little thread on the SMB (am i the only one who has a giggle at their forum name?) Anyway its managed to get my name and email address on it so i'm not best pleased. Just waiting for the mackem onslaught

Rather have a fit owen and martins TBH.

Perhaps you only get half a season ticket - good for the environment aswell. I can tell why its capital of culture .

Didnt think of that, wonder if i could have used my old flight ticket to get back home after i missed my flight.

Yeah he just couldnt spell zulte waregem but now he has the scarf he finds it fairly easy.

Got in alright lads i met a few Belgian lads who agreed to buy me a few tickets if i give them my newcastle top. Sat in the home end behind the goal (even got to bang on the drum). Shame i missed my flight back home.

Does anyone have any tickets for the match im after three and fly tonight (fly 10.30 to dublin). Am i also right in thinking its not sold out and i can buy tickets from their proper stadium tomorrow? Any help would be appreciated as i dont speak much Dutch and struggle with their website. Is anyone else flying from Dublin early tomorrow morning?

Agreed with the above i was nearly on the field at anfield last time round. 3-0 to the lads the mora its the start of the european push . BTW if anyone has a spare ticket for Belgium (as in match ticket) i'd be very happy to invite them for a pint at my expense before the game tomorrow.

He chucks it geet miles

"He was about 20 at the time and had been playing on the US U-17's and earned a place in the FIFA World Youth Championships" RINGER!

WubbleUC do you think they'll let us in with flags this time?

Cheers lads i'll do a bit research we land 10am on the wednesday so if worst comes to worst we've got plenty time to sort it out when we get there. Failing that it'll be the old phone call to keith barrett HELP!

Spot on you've obviously seen one before. You wouldnt happen to know if i can get one from Brussels second airport (the small one) to Gent would you?

Looking to book a hotel in Gent for three people for the match anybody found out quite cheap? Anybody have any idea about trains etc in belguim ? I'm lost.

I think there’s two questions that need to be answered: 1 . Has the club moved forward under Shepherd? 2. Is the club in decline or are we moving forward? I think its fair to say we're going backwards under Shepherd and i'm sick to death of his empty promises and condescending speeches. Take a club like Arsenal they have half the support we have spend half the money we do and yet year after year they push for the title. How does that happen? I'd say they are better structured as a business from top to bottom (chairman , manager, coaching staff). I dont see any reason why with our resources we shouldn’t be a bigger club than the likes of them. Instead we see the likes of bolton and blackburn leap frog us and we face the prospect of competing with the wigans, boros and portsmouths of the league. For me it starts at the top its time for a full re-structuring of the club. He may back every manger with money but in truth its money the club make and he makes sure he gets his hands on a fair bit of that and even when he backs managers he backs the wrong ones. The club make fundamental mistakes time and time again its time for change.