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What the henry thomas is that kit? Utter crap! ...What the henry thomas is this team? Utter crap! Lap of honour? You must be taking the mickey like. Piss off Roeder and most of this shit squad.

We have a new crisis... The crisis is all our players are back and they're still terrible.

Bit of a wankfest over Owen on the Sky commentary. Nice to hear them making a fuss over a NUFC player for once though. Been an entertaining game so far.

Without a doubt, the best post I have ever seen on this forum. Howay man!

Aye a northeastern conspiracy. We bribed all the refs from here to Lancashire just to keep Man U and Chelsea at the same points difference. What a goddamn clown.

0-0 Full time. Carroll did the right thing, most of our superstars would've gone for goal. If someone had made the run we would've scored. Good game. Taylor, Bramble, Butt, all storming. Dyer couldn't have been worse.

It'll be 4 minutes added on. Commentators have given up on us practically. But I don't think the breakthrough is coming.

Dive and a half from Ferreira, linesman doesn't even flag but ref still gives it. Pathetic really. We're looking decent in the mid, Carr looking especially weak though.

Oh lord, what was that? Carr, wake the hell up, we're playing football here! Big scuff by Chelsea, big escape for us.

Oh aye, Butt, let's have more of that. Chelsea are such cheaters. Their player goes down, everyone's looking at him, and they hoof it up to Drogba trying to catch us unawares.

Impending doom settling upon St. James's now. We know we're going to bottle it.

Legitimate appeal tbh, Sibs was holding. Still a wanker though.

We've been good so far. Actually look like we belong on a pitch with them for once. Their offence has been eerily quiet though.

Load of absolute rubbish tbh. What kind of sycophantic nonsense are you talking? Our players are ours, they don't belong to the FA because we are a member club. It is only by consent that the FA uses NUFC players for the England team, and if those players are injured while so used, it is the FA's responsibility. As for "we can only afford Owen because we're FA members, we should be removed from the League because we can't pay", I have no idea what you're on about. If we can't exist without the FA, they can't exist without their member clubs either. That's the relationship between us, not this vassal --> ruler business you describe. When the FA buys Owen's contract, they can use him when and where they wish. Until then, they pay for the contract they caused him to break.

From ESPNsoccernet: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story...os2&cc=5901 He really has got some nerve to talk about the FA doing us a favour. If Chelsea had lost Drogba or Man U Rooney at the World Cup we'd hear absolutely nae end of whinging about it and the FA'd be falling over themselves to shower money in Rooney's case. As it is, FFS is doing a great job of destroying this club but I'm behind him on this issue 100%. In a nutshell, Owen got injured on international duty. His international association won't pay for his bills. Simple solution - don't release him again and tell them to pay up or piss off.

Shearer redux anyone? I can see him joining Man U, but history repeats itself and I would not be surprised if he told them to fuck off.

Arse and a half. Another spiteful pissant hopping on the anti-NUFC bandwagon. I wonder if there's any publication in the country that can resist taking a swipe at us whenever possible.

The way things are going I felt sure he would bottle it. GET IN NEWCASTLE! We've never lost in the top flight to these clowns, let's not start now.

Uncanny resemblance tbh Sorry, just saw this episode (we get doctor who very slowly over here) and wanted to share.

From soccernet.com, http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story...os1&cc=5901 : Pretty honest assessment for once.

Now don't say that, plenty of time for us to bottle it yet...

Keep Onyewu or Bramble? If I had to pick one or the other I'd say... ...both piss off. Ship Onyewu back to Belgium (not up to par for the Premiership) and sell Shambles for 50p or whatever we can get for him (better defenders in League Two tbh).

I bet you 40 cents, atp, that Bramble will be no longer at NUFC come the summer. Any reason it's 40 cents specifically?

Yeah, you lot are definitely right about the Taylor thing. Sorry. I must've been thinking of another needless tackle from him - there are so bloody many. Problem with all our defenders really. Consider Onyewu's foul on Baines in the Wigan match. Sack sack sack. Promote Huntington and Edgar to the first team and start looking for people with real fire in their bellies, who want to play for our club, not wankers like Bramble and Carr who are looking to get paid and go home.

I don't want to retain Parker as captain, but hang on to him, yes. I see a little more quality out of him than out of the rest of our superstars. As for Taylor, he doesn't have a clue. Deserved a red in the second leg, needless tackle in the first leg.