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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.

There is a lot of blame to be thrown around this season, and you place much of it on the shoulders of Fat Fred and the Board. But so much of it owes to the "big club" mentality that pervades our club and rots it from the inside, on and off the pitch. These overpaid clowns have got to realize that nothing comes for free. All of them expect to be able to sit back on the pitch and win - against Charlton for example, and even Zulte-Waregem - because we are NEWCASTLE UNITED and we are too big to lose to the likes of Charlton. They don't work. They don't hustle. I don't know what goes on at the training ground, but they don't seem to do too much of that either since Taylor still can't tackle for his life. Nothing convinced me of this more than watching our UEFA cup-tie - both rounds - against AZ Alkmaar. As we so often do, we came out to a roaring start and put 2 great goals past the stunned Dutch team, conceding a good goal from their side before going 4-1 up. Geordies worldwide were celebrating. I was sitting at my computer, watching an internet stream of the game, asking myself, "So how will we throw this one away?" Lo and behold, it was Mr. Taylor's completely unnecessary challenge that produced a penalty for AZ to score from - the goal that would put them through. I could already feel a grand Newcastle Collapse (TM.) coming on. "4-2", wor lads were saying, "that's enough to go through on." The same old bollocks every year. The same old assumption that the better, bigger, etc. club will go through. The same old NUFC resting on their laurels, making millions of pounds, playing like shite. And so it came to pass that we lost at AZ. I swear, I could hear the players' thoughts like on a megaphone. "We're 2 goals up," they said, "we'll just pass it around a bit for 90 minutes and go through, nae bother." After AZ scored - the same thing. "We're still 1 up," they said, "if we just don't let them score..." And they did of course, and the rest is history. The history of NUFC, in fact, both ancient and recent. More than any other sin, we commit that of taking it for granted. We're still convinced that because 55000 Geordies show up to our matches, that we're a top six club. And so we score early goals and give up draws, lose matches we could win with a modicum of effort. The rot isn't just in our board. It's in our players. The exceptions only prove the rule - take Edgar's amazing strike at St. James's against Man U. Taking what was probably his first senior shot for NUFC, he drilled a goal to bring us a well-deserved draw. But I can't shake the feeling that he was only able to do it because he is so new - he "hadn't got the memo", so to speak. The memo that NUFC doesn't come from behind. We go behind and stay there, hoping for divine intervention - in the form of an angry God in black and white, drinking Newcastle broon, to smite our opponents and give us an empty net for our superstars to tap-in. Solano. Parker. N'Zogbia. Given. Martins. Hang on to those five and chuck the rest of the undeserving who aren't fit to wear the black and white out on their overpaid arses. (From an email I sent to Marc Duffy, who represents NUFC on soccernet.com. As always open to opinions.)

Unacceptable miss by Martins. As usual NUFC has turned off in the second half.

Oh, howay Solano, howay Martins! 4-1 the Toon!

Why is Carr playing? This really pains me. No reason for that goal to have happened.

MARTIIIIINS! Let the rout continue! Toon 3-0!

HOWAAAAY! Dyer 2-0!

Martins must have had that. Should've been 2-0. Excellent cross by Solano.

We've made the breakthrough! OG Steinsson.

Disgraceful. Honourable bow-out for Celtic, nasty cheating win for Milan. The usual fare, in other words. The ref will watch whatever passes for MOTD in his country tonight and see the penalty that he failed to give, and he'll know his own failure cost the deserving team the match.

Come on the Bhoys! Knock these cheaters out of Europe! Show the world that Scottish football can't be ignored forever.

Gotta say I'm with the scousers tonight. Barcelona aren't the juggernaut they're made out to be. Everyone likes to see a big club go down hard, and I wouldn't be surprised if this loss splintered their club and began a decline for them.