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Outside of commentators on the telly I've never heard anybody call a pass sublime. Hell of a pass, canny through ball, fucking great pass but wasted because that useless cunt ameobi couldn't get on the end of it...all of these, but not sublime.

I just reply. Don't look at pyramids. It's easy enough to skip them and just look at the latest post, most other people seem to manage it alright. Some people have made thousands of posts, despite your claim that "it's hard to get a post in". Are you or are you not going to post anything constructive [whatever your point of view] or just post meaningless crap ? Feel free to answer what I said earlier, and put up proof that we have always been superior to West Ham [sadly the Halls and Shepherd only owned the club for 15 years not the last 50 as some people seem to think we have always been obviously superior to them which is not the case] if you can. I'm listening, but take it from me, Pop Robson signed for West Ham because at the time he thought they were a better club than us, end of story, and he told me that in person. seriously... do you not find what i've highlighted above slightly hilarious? also - why are you trying to drag me into an argument you seem intent on having with the whole board? you clearly don't know my viewpoint, so why even attempt to do such a thing? the reason there are many "ashley lovers" is because of people like you. you make it easier for people to stick up for ashley by your inability to: a) construct reasoned and well thought out arguments objectively look at a piece of news/evidence c) entertain or respond to well thought out arguments (with valid points based around financial or entrepreneurial experience/evidence) without reverting to "you're thick and i'm done with you" replies you appear to be the epitome of the ignorant, insular, southern hating, shoe waving, pig headed geordie the media love to portray. Trying to get into the clique,eh? You'll be telling us next you don't read the Mail. Never have, never will blah,blah,blah

I can't say I've ever heard anybody in real life use the word sublime.

I wonder if chelski will look at Tiote now essien is out until next year.

jesus christ Newcastle is the commercial, industrial and footballing/sporting capital of the NorthEast, by far, and you know it. Nobody outside the UK has barely even heard of sunderland, and those that have think - correctly - it is a small town near Newcastle, as do the majority of the UK. Small, dismal town near Newcastle LM. Get it right.

Eh? He's been playing in the champions league for the past 5 years for a start... Also, when you quote do it in it's entirety as you clearly lost the context of my post.

Eh? He's been playing in the champions league for the past 5 years for a start... Eh? You mean you are basing what Ben Arfa can do for Newcastle on what he did in France? I'll start with Guivarch and his prolific goal scoring record in france. Do you want me to go on or do you get the point?

We haven't seen Ben Arfa play yet. In fact, we haven't seen much of him at all and certainly not enough to judge him one way or the other.

So don't watch it then.

I'd rather have Leighton Baines but Enrique is probably the pick of the rest.

Snow clearing. At least 15 mill.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

I think Gerrard will score more goals than cabaye next season. They've signed so many good players, he won't feel he has to carry the team anymore. I might go out on a limb and say he'll score more than cabaye and ameobi together.

Gerd Muller was a great finisher. So was Jimmy Greaves. And Dennis Law. Do you grasp the meaning of the word "great"?

CT is clearly a grandmaster. He was playing MT all along knowing that he could whip that bank statement out any time he wanted once MT had made had backed himself into a corner. Check mate. Well done. You are still seriously deluded though, CT.

Strange, ameobi not being listed. I wonder if the book has been closed on him? He had such a canny season as well.

I think you are wrong. Tiote was recommended to us by McClaren, not scouted and discovered by Carr. I don't know about Carr's involvement in the " discovery" of Ben Arfa, unless "discovery" is the same as reading reports about other premier league clubs watching him. Considering Marveaux was going to sign for Liverpool, I'd have to question Carr's "discovery" of him. So that leaves Cabaye as a player "identified " by the scouting system and as you say, we'lll wait and see. I'd have thought his main role would be in identifying young players which is obviously in the longer term, so the degree of success would be judged in the next few years or so. Like abeid.

Are there many managers who have much more control? I doubt there are many premiership managers with less say. imo we have a contintental system, which was the original idea when Ashely came on board, where the manager coaches/picks the team and the transfers/infrastructure issues are handled by a director of football. Our director of football used to be Wise and is now Derek Llambias. In reality I expect Pardew has an input on what's needed but not much more than that. I expect Graham Carr has a major say but I suspect it's the brains trust of Llambias and Ashley that's shaping the squad and our transfer policy. This is all purely conjecture on my part of course but I just get the feeling about Pardew that he's a bullshitter. He always seems to be catching up on the news - Carroll, Barton, Enrique, Nolan etc - as though he's had no real involvement in decisions. Nailed by Kitman. Thought this when he jumped into Hughton's grave, think it now, seen nothing to make me think otherwise. Re. the continental system , I agree Kitman, the truly worrying thing is that it does appear that the Toxic Twins are acting DOF's. My blood runs cold. Agree almost entirely with you both but for me Graham Carr is now the DoF....in charge of recruitment, which was I think Dennis Wise's title, or at least part of it. Carr is now the most important figure on the football side of the club. He seems to have a good eye for a player, and he'll scout them and perhaps even make the "official" first move for a player, probably by having a word with the player's agent. If the response is positive, I imagine lambchop then tries to sort a deal with the player's club. Whether Pardew has issued a "I want a player for this posistion or who can do this or that for the team" list is pretty much unknowable. I tend to agree though Pardew seems to be dealing with the hand he is being dealt and being a diplomat in return for a shot at the biggest job of his career. Think back to his press conference when he joined to see how much support he enjoys from the upper echelons of the club, even at the start of his tenure here. A puppet in all but name. The system works well on the continent in certain cases, it is the system thet made Lyon go from a nothing 2nd division club in 1989 to being one of the top sides in Europe for almost a decade,from a relatively "poor" league too. And it is undoubtedly the case that rich owners want more control over expenditure. Steve Kean is in a similar positon if you ask me, but Steve Bruce would walk if he couldnt choose his own players and it undoutedly contributed to Alex McLeish leaving Birmingham. I doubt if Grant had much say in who came in last January at West Ham, according to the non-bearded dildo seller's comments on relegation anyway.At West Ham and Blackburn it would appear that the board go straight to the agents and say "who can you get me?" and look at where West Ham ended up and listen to Blackburn's fans fears for the coming season. It appears to be a road we may be heading down too....the only possible saving grace is Graham Carr is a "football man" (so was Kevin Keen at West Ham mind) but it doesn't alter the fact that if we're bottom of the league at xmas Pardew will in all likelyhood be given his cards and he'll not have had much of a say in who is in the team he's picking each week. But he's made his own bed so I guess he and us will all have to fuckin lie in it Refresh my memory. Who has Carr brought in that warrants this?

Ben arfa has scored less than 20 goals in 130 games. Why would you expect him to score 10 next season?

Just because we've had some bad strikers it doesn't mean ameobi isn't also shite. Apart from the extremely rare snatch of skill which mugs think make a canny player, he is fucking useless. He's slow, can't head a ball to save his life, doesn't have a shot in either foot, fouls continually and clearly hasn't grasped the offside rule. Other than that.....

Yes he is. Put him up for transfer and you wouldn't find a taker in the premier league.

There was an interesting interview on HBO aired before the fight where Max Kellerman asked each boxer why they didn't like each other. Klitschko said because Haye was bad for the sport and an embarrasment but quite a well thought out answer as you'd expect. Haye responded that Klitshko is a dickhead. Full stop. I didn't think it get more embarassing for Haye but after watching that fight, Haye shouldn't have been in the ring with Klitschko. As for Adam Booth, Freddie Roache doesn't need to be looking over his shoulder if Booth thought that game plan was going to work. He might as well wrap it in along with Haye. Bad night for British boxing but an even worse night for Haye who showed that he's just an illiterate loud mouth who can't walk the walk.

Would you like to point out where I said I believed any rumours? Also, I don't rate one paper over another in actually getting transfer gossip right.

So, if rumours are to be believed, man city get clichy, arsenal get enriqe and we wind up with a 30 year, over-the-hill player who knocked back the opportunity to come here a few years ago when he might have been able to offer us something. We wind up with the short end of the stick just like the carroll deal.

Could be more creativity, less bottle. Especially if Barton goes.