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Many birds rave about Turkish men. Looks like Parky Jnr will just have an advantage over her lesser, non-Turkish speaking sistren when it comes to the Middle-Eastern-European meat market. What's the issue? Or maybe it's more on-topic if I ask you "sorun nedir?" You can get her to translate that for you in a couple of weeks, it would seem

Harsh on Duff, he certainly did care. Nolan could be in there.

He's no Kakha Kaladze, but he'll do.

Brought back down to earth, it seems. This was one of the games I feared the lads wouldn't really be up for, coming in midweek after a (fairly tepid) Sunday match, and away at a shithole like Blackpool. Better that we get this loss while it's still early doors, especially with one of our outstanding players suspended, and that we regroup and push on for the weekend game.

SSH was RICO too? News to me, though it makes sense, both utter tossers.

"I'll get on with it." You do that, then, you bastard little dwarf. He'll just be happy to be back on the telly no doubt.

Let's have him in.

Gash game but this is the kind of result we will need to get day in and day out if we're to escape this league. Well done to Hughton.

Losing 3-0 to Boro. Roy Keane out?

Not need to close anything like. You'll never make a mod at this rate. It will disspear soon enough. Gutted

Any reason this is still open besides some pretty flagrant mod-baiting?

I usually try to keep out of Toontastic internal politics, but I'll stick my oar in just this once. Fish seems a fine lad if a little pretentious and I doubt he'll be lording his mod status over the masses like some others on here might. So I've no problems with it.

Don't care about him or his confession as he's a total nothing, but Healy on loan? Say it ain't so.

I work Mondays and can't see any of our games that day, so this is a blow for me.

You sure it wasn't Ade Akinbiyi?

This division is woeful, and even with a squad of 15 first teamers backed up with another 6/7 young hopefuls, promotion will be achieved very very comfortably. This is not arrogance or delusion - this is based on knowledge of the fact that we have far too much quality in a veritable sea of mediocrity. Your right ofcourse but the crowd outweigh the crowd. How is baseless optimism any better than baseless pessimism? All the signs point to our inability to compete in the long term in this league and you're still wanting a parade for winning a handful of games as the season opens. Wait until we've got 6 or 7 injuries to first-team players and we're out at Blackpool in the pissing cold fielding the likes of Ngo Baheng and Tozer and then try to tell me we have 'far too much quality.' We've played 5 league games. There are 46 in this league. Let's not break out the champagne yet. Do we have a first XI that is better than any other first XI in this league? We do and I have said it many times. But NUFC's continued success depends on too many factors to assume as blithely as the two of you are doing. You both direly need a reality check and I hope for our sake it doesn't come in the form of a 4-0 humping off Sheff U because Danny Simpson and Nile Ranger weren't up to it.

Get fucked.

To be blunt my Owl friend, although I have plenty of respect for your club this is the attitude of a club who has given up and accepted becoming a "fallen giant", never making promotion pushes, never in contention to return to the top flight. We cannot allow ourselves to feel this complacency. Complacency is what sent us down in the first place.

Were you formerly known as 'I R Toon Fan?' What happened? Forgot your password?

Are you trying to be a fucking idiot or does it just come naturally? I was trying to have a reasonable debate about it, theres plenty of proper fans of newcastle and other clubs who dont see the premier league as the be all and end all - give me a cup and a day out at wembley any day. I will continue to criticise whenever a weakened team is played in any of the cups I think your above response shows who the fucking idiot is and by the look of it it comes quite naturally to you Listen, given the choice, yes, I would choose to win a cup. But we need to be realistic here. In cups, we will face top-flight opposition, and if we get far enough, almost certainly a top four team who will simply take us to pieces and it will all have been for nowt. If we focus on the league, we set ourselves a realistic task that, once achieved, will put us in a better position to make cup runs in the future. I wouldn't mind beating P'boro and advancing in the cup, of course, but only if we send out a significantly weakened side for any cup games.

Wenger certainly had some balls to pull that stunt, I have to say he went up in my estimation. I watched that game and never has it been more apparent that that Dean is the biggest cheater on two legs. Stonewall penalty appeal from Arshavin bluntly ignored, very soft penalty given after Rooney went down (but the ball was already bouncing out of play - he would never have reached it!), calls going Man U's way again and again.

Tuncay to Stoke for 5m. Excellent deal for them. Strange to think that in the age of 28mil for Lescott and whatever stupid amount it was for Glen Johnson, there are class players like Tuncay (5mil) and Chamakh (7mil) on the move for bargain prices.

Don't see it mentioned anywhere else - Everton have signed Distin from Portsmouth. Hopefully that will put paid to the Taylor - Everton links we've all had enough of.

Tramps the both of them, sickening groups of fans. How about the tumour chants for Roeder? Scum.

"We will not win automatic promotion." You don't say? Can't wait to see him stage his latest walk-out. Nice to see some mackems are finally realising what a serial bottler he is.