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Fuck me, this is really becoming intolerable. CT is a troll, same as Nick, and you morons keep giving them what they want - endless attention. The board is going to complete shit. Every thread turns into a CT-fest where he unveils his latest idiotic know-nowt/wind-up combo and people line up to prove him wrong. The joke is on you, though, because you think you're 'scoring points' when in reality you're just feeding his attention-seeking behaviour. There's no points to score. He will never admit he's wrong, and meantime you are dragged down to his level. Ignore him. This isn't even a NUFC board any more, it's a Christmas Tree board. Just what he's wanted from the start. [cue him quoting 1-2 sentences of this post and making some kind of 'witty quip' complete with a safety wink. I don't give a shit, he's on ignore, but reading all of your replies to him when I'm trying to read about NUFC is soul-destroying.]

Seriously are you a Newcastle fan? Everything thats gone on in the last week and in one full week you manage two posts, both about me. The one above and....... "I'm honestly dying here! What a mentalist! CT man, get help". Both in this thread ffs Get a life man and join in the discussions, the comings the goings, Barton etc etc Rather than stalking, start a few threads yourself, chip in, keep the place going. You and people as fucking stupid as you are causing me to gain little to no enjoyment from this board, which is why I hardly read or post at the moment. I don't look forward to a summer full of your crowing that every insignificant link to a player who you have never seen and know nothing about vindicates both Fat Mike and your unending, illogical support of him. You are either incredibly stupid or just a WUM but either way you are a cancer on this board. You prate on about Alex and the 'negs' being the ones who are ruining it, but I look to them to provide actual rational debate based on facts, whereas you prate endlessly about how right you are despite the fact that you have never been able to back up anything you say. Baseless optimism is just as idiotic as the baseless negativity you're always banging on about. Unlike you and also unlike the people forecasting a terminal summer, I'm going to actually wait and see before making a judgment. I think that our summer will be a poor one with several core players leaving and some replacements coming in who are either of equivalent or lesser quality, while major weaknesses of the squad (full-back cover, strikers) will not be adequately addressed - but none of that is set in stone. Nothing is in the history books yet. This summer could go either way and I'm going to wait and see. So I'll be back in August. In the meantime, don't pat yourself on the back too hard, you insufferable cock.

The 'pozzy's' and the 'negs'! ;) What a complete and utter lunatic!

:D I'm honestly dying here! What a mentalist! CT man, get help!

Why does he have to be brought in to replace Carroll? We need two strikers, he's supposed to be good and we've been linked with him for quite some time. He can be the new (better) Lovenkrands, while we move for someone else to take the big man role.

Best wasn't fit and should never have come on. That was a job for Ranger, with the perfect benefit of hindsight (although I said so at the time as well.) I haven't seen almost any WBA matches aside from the two against us, but that Tchoyi did a number on us at the Hawthornes and he always looked WBA's best player yesterday too, even before scoring any goals. Seemed to have a bit of trickery and guile about him and could play others in as well as have a powerful shot himself. I think the commentators mentioned his last 18 or so appearances had been as a sub? Wouldn't mind going in for him if he's looking for more playing time...

Yeah, bringing on Smith was nothing less than a kick in the balls. He hadn't played in months, he was fucking shit to start with, and we took off one of our best-performing players to put him on. LuaLua was shit too compared to Ferguson. All around, the subs were brainless and we remain unable to preserve leads (Mackems away, Spurs home, this game), which cost us a place in the top half.

Heaven to hell in 45 minutes. They should tape the second half and show it to our youth players as how to throw away a game. Fuck off Pardew.

I'm using the link TN posted, works fine in Firefox, fix your shit. Christ, that kit looks horrendous.

They're absolutely everywhere in New York. Their signs are plastered all over the subway, they're at all major street corners standing around in sandwich boards, they're handing out leaflets everywhere you look. Even the local media are taking the piss out of them now. Some news station ran an ad that said "Watch Eyewitness News at 5 on Saturday if it's the last thing you do!" Etc etc.

I really hope we don't go back in for him. He's a good player and better than Jonas, for example, but he's moody as hell, caused problems during his first stint here, would probably cost an arm and a leg as Wigan's best player (and we all know how Dave Whelan gets on with Fat Mike) and generally is not worth it.

He's shit but his attacking headers are nothing to be sneezed at. I was ready to say ship him out, but we may as well keep. He won't be on mega money, probably at the same level as Williamson, good squad player to have.

Less than 10m net, I would say. We will buy this summer - even Ashley knows he'll never get away with spending nothing this time, what with the Carroll windfall - but it will be poorly spent and in positions not needed. And yes, I'm a humongous pessimist, we're going to get walloped 8-0 on Sunday, we'll go down dead last next season and we'll sell everyone until Sammy Ameobi and James Tavernier are our only senior players left.

The clause didn't start with 'when'. 'When' is the conjunction. 'We already know that Pardew would win hands down' is an independent clause and can't be joined to the previous clause with a comma whether or not you include 'when.' I still don't see the point in working it out to the pound when we already know that Pardew would win hands down. Both of the red clauses are independent. 'When' can join them, but a comma cannot. That's a comma splice. I wonder if this is just more of your trolling or if you genuinely don't know grammar but think you do. (What may be pedantry to you is the stuff of life and death to my students, Chez. I am infamous for the brutal strokes of red that cut a swath through the hazy constructions and usage of passive voice that they offer me, hoping I will 'go easy' this time because their English teachers don't even cover grammar any more. )

TN man, we have seen what happens in the summer, and in January, and in summer and January and summer and January and on and on and on. I just don't understand what signs you think there are that indicate that this summer is going to be any different. I've never understood it. I like to think that I'm not a doom and gloom type as far as NUFC is concerned. I don't think we're doomed to failure next season. But I have absolutely no faith in the fat wanker who owns us and holds the purse strings and I have no faith in the puppet who picks the team either, and with that unholy combination I just don't see how we will press on from the position we attained this year. We do have a solid foundation. It's the other two that are the problem. I don't believe that we will spend any substantive amount of money, and that's not based on my being 'miserable', but on the evidence of all the past transfer windows. I believe we are more likely to see parts of the 'solid foundation' sold off than to see upgrades brought in. And I do believe we can attract quality players - Fulham, Birmingham, WBA, even West Ham brought in decent players and they're in similar situations to us. But I don't think that we fork out the required amounts to attract quality, and that we will continue to gamble on unproven players for low fees and wages and to hope that some of them come good. When enough of our new recruits do turn out to be decent, we will attain moderate success, as we did this season. When it doesn't happen, we will flounder. We gambled on our Premier League status in '09 and lost, and we gambled again this January. We won this time. What's to say we'll win next time Fat Mike or whichever of his cronies actually makes the decisions thinks we're safe/good enough? If all of that makes me miserable or my outlook on NUFC shitty, so be it. I want to believe we will succeed, as opposed to some who I genuinely believe are pleased that we are unlikely to, as it vindicates their beliefs. But I see no evidence to indicate that we will push on from here, and plenty of evidence that indicates we may regress.

And most importantly...wait for it...he wanted to leave us because we were always playing him at LB! Why would he ever come back here to play LB for us again? It boggles the mind what these morons will come up with. It's fair enough wanting to be optimistic about our club, God knows we could use some optimism (you know, like the optimistic feeling most of us on here had around November before we sacked our best manager in 6-7 years and sold our best striker without replacing him) but fuck me, you've got to have absolutely no sense of pattern recognition not to see what's going on here. See you on September 2nd. Watch your mouth you little bitch. You're a moron who thinks FM is reality, your posts are cringeworthy, and you're an embarrassment. Up to this point, I've not joined in with the group of people who always have a go at you for your idiotic predictions and constant berating of people who are 'overly pessimistic' (i.e. they live in the real world whereas you live in cloud cuckoo land) because I felt sorry for you, but your increasing arrogance (as though there's anything to be arrogant about when you're predicting we'll sign or even go after Huntelaar, Derdiyok and van der Wiel) is really not attractive or endearing.

You really have to work on your comma use, mate. It's driving me crazy. Look, two independent clauses (that is, parts of a sentence that could grammatically stand on their own) cannot be joined by a comma. A comma is used to join a dependent clause to an independent clause if the def. comes first. For two independent clauses, you have to use conjunctions or a semicolon. Considering we already know that Pardew would win hands down, I don't see the point in working it out to the pound. OR I still don't see the point in working it out to the pound when we already know that Pardew would win hands down. OR I still don't see the point in working it out to the pound; we already know that Pardew would win hands down. The content of your posts is bad enough without having to look at those awful superfluous commas staring out at me like tiny wisdom teeth and tearing into my cerebral cortex. Sort it out.

And most importantly...wait for it...he wanted to leave us because we were always playing him at LB! Why would he ever come back here to play LB for us again? It boggles the mind what these morons will come up with. It's fair enough wanting to be optimistic about our club, God knows we could use some optimism (you know, like the optimistic feeling most of us on here had around November before we sacked our best manager in 6-7 years and sold our best striker without replacing him) but fuck me, you've got to have absolutely no sense of pattern recognition not to see what's going on here. See you on September 2nd.

He looked raw as hell too (as should be expected for his first appearance), but if he can keep the enthusiasm he might develop into a player, unlike his brother who has always lacked the proper attitude. Very pleased with that result and performance. Obviously it was a howler from Krul but I'm not ready to give up on him yet.

I thought we were quite good, all things considered. Jonas and Ferguson both excelling. I like Jonas in the sort of floating forward-ish role he's playing at the moment. Defence is looking shaky however, Torres looks feeble but Anelka always scores against us and he worries me. Put Ranger on for Lovenkrands, Ranger is shit but he truly cannot be worse than Lov was in the first half.

Its not an alias of Leazes but it is an alias That's a deep alias, September '05. Long time to cultivate a fake account just to pull it out for some Leazes-baiting. Some people.

FYP. Nick-Kielce-Poland, Do you like coconuts? :icon_lol: :icon_lol:

This is Fat Mike's 4th year here, so the previous 6 seasons were under Shepherd. Let's say we do finish in the top 10 this season. That's 1 top ten finish (not even confirmed yet) in four seasons for Fat Mike and 4 top ten finishes out of 6 seasons for Shepherd. You do the maths on that one and let me know if you really think that's a 'fact' in Fat Mike's favour or not. EDIT: I see Leazes already beat me to that one.

Can't say he's not done a good job. Of course, it makes a huge difference when you're backed to the tune of 50m in January. Hate him and hate Liverpool, hope they crash and burn, but they won't.

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