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I think WBA will be champions. Boro will be in the top 6, Sheff U will not make automatic promotion and will fail again in the playoffs, Reading won't make top 6, Sheff Wed will never be near promotion again, QPR's owners are as stupid as ours is and I don't think they will ever have the stability to go along with their cash, Ipswich will not make the top 6, Forest are a good shout, and Palace might be a surprise. That's mystic ATP's evaluation of our opponents.

http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?...st&p=650065 Just as applicable here as there. They don't care. I am of the belief, should things go on as they are, that we will be lucky to finish top half.

Used to happen to us all the time. Now our club starts spreading rumours about players instead of the other way round - see Lucas Neill in January.

Some of the kits in this thread have got to be among the worst in living memory. That Everton thing is shocking. Worse than ours by several degrees of shit.

Ryder is an idiot with a typewriter and a degree. His articles aren't even fit to put down on the floor while painting. At least Oliver could write, even if he was full of shit almost 100% of the time, as well as a propaganda machine for FFS.

The kid's certainly interested. Mind, that scruffy bewigged fucker wants shot. With al-Fahim's new megabucks they can finally afford a sniper to take him out.

Not a fan of the Vidal, looks like a space station, football stadia should conform to certain standards of design imo and the USS Enterprise isn't one of them. Foster's is gorgeous.

They will all raise their games against us. And I doubt the players we've got now will be up for it. Barring a few, none of them looked like they cared against PL opposition. How about when it's January 22nd in the pissing cold away at Peterborough in a half-empty stadium and some thuggish Lincolnshire-born "defensive midfielder" they've absolutely never heard of is kicking the shit out of them at every possible opportunity. These wasters just aren't good enough. Maybe on paper they are, but we've been a good side "on paper" for years and it has never materialised.

The Premier League in 5 years? He'd be better off hoping for Joey Barton to become a ballerina. They must be paying him a fortune.

You think appointing another Director of Football would be sensible? Especially a randy old goat like him, even the tea lady would be nervous. We'd also have to pay him through the nose, although that's of course the NUFC way. You sure this ME consortium didn't take over the wrong Magpies? EDIT: Bastard, AP made the same reference.

He can head the ball to be fair to him. Although my enduring memory of him will not be goals at the Camp Nou, but being called offside on a free kick taken from within our own half at Derby in 2007. I do think Carroll is better.

What do you do once you've scored 10 in the first half hour? Kick it around for the next 60 minutes? Isn't that more humiliating? I see your point though.

Since when can Shola do things like that? He really must be quality in training after all, too bad it never shows in the first team.

Jonas back in the squad, but still no sign of Bassong/Martins? This mean we'll be keeping him, or just that there's less interest in him?

The Big Sam way. But seriously, he's class. Doubt you will get him however. Or Chamakh, he'll surely go to Arsenal now that Adebayor's on his bike.

Beat me to it like. The bitch would include her dreamboat, that tramp.

I wonder if they're considering relegation is a possibility yet.

The trouble is that your manager actually rates him, so he might well sign him to 'improve the first eleven.' Scary stuff. You'd best pray there's no legs in this rather than dismissing it out of hand.

That's a piss-take surely? Who are Lazio's rivals? One of them, it has to be...

Truly laughable stuff. Sign on, Joe, sign on...

You think we don't know all of this already? Nobody here thinks we get the third most TV games because we're great and everyone loves us. We know it's because people want to see our downfall. The reason Stevie and others bring it up is because it contradicts the other view of Newcastle, which is that we're a small club that's not really important. So which is it? In short, get fucked you tiresome, bitter mackem.

Diouf's certainly filthy enough.

So you hate him more because he went to Man U than if he'd gone to Everton?

Actually the video provided here (I know I'm giving the Post website hits...ugh) shows he's not having an eyeful. Sarkozy on the other hand... http://www.nypost.com/seven/07102009/news/...hief_178552.htm