Craig

Some of his (Pennant's) performances in the Champions League last year were pretty awesome. He was the energy in their team and if he turns it on in the Premiership next season, I think he could be the difference between them being challengers for the title and remaining where they are.

Surely worth highlighting....? Don't know what you mean ! How did you manage THAT?? Time machine.... 1.21 gigawatts??

Farewell the rest of you, unban me when he signs. Are you leaving us then?

Smells of someone trying to justify his vastly over-inflated price tag if you ask me....

I think he'll do well personally, reckon he'll team up well with Crouch and if Pennant is on form, will benefit from his awesome wing work. Loss of Luis Garcia may hit them harder than they realise though.

Nice.... If we had a policy on here for banning someone for having an ITK story that didn't materialise, we'd be banning people all the time! I think Stevie genuinely believed whoever it was who told him this was going to happen before July 1st. If it proved to be true, you'd be all back-patting him like you did to that bloke 'Akabusi' ages ago. Sometimes his attitude might have been a bit off but again, that's hardly unprecedented is it?

Which 6 are they on about?? Owen, Martins, Viduka & Ameobi obviously and then it's take your pick from Carroll, LuaLua, Troisi & Luque. If it meant the arrival of Gudjohnsen, I'd happily pack the bags of Ameobi, LuaLua, Troisi or Luque

yet I suppose you would have sauntered over to it, looked inside, and declared the all clear? Not at all and you're missing my point. A carrier bag of clothes dumped in a street in East London is not that rare. 99% of the time it gets ignored yet yesterday, they set the bomb squad on it.

it went overboard as per usual. I was at one of our sites near Old Street today and couldn't get to the office for nearly 30 mins because someone had left an Argos carrier full of clothes in the street and it was a 'suspicious package' Full bomb squad turned up

You sure about that sunshine??

Give him some credit though, he's offering some back...

More money than sense....

Working at Gateshead Housing Company as an admin assistant?? Can't say I have either....

"Bring out your dead.......!"

Remember the guy who had the Andy Cole tattoo on his leg just as he was sold Aye, I think it was either the day he was sold or the day before. I remember the local news pixking up on some smart-arse Manc fan who'd gone into Dixon Sports in town and bought a Man Utd shirt with Cole 9 on the back.... Until someone pointed out Brian McClair had that shirt!

Cheerio Stephen.......don't let the door smack your arse on the way out - you might damage it!

That's more your point..... trying to avoid a Hamman situation again? Could be worse, you could have done the same as one of these fellas..... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Newcastle-United-200...1QQcmdZViewItem http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/199...and-p-3119.html

I'd keep him..... And Owen as well. We need a pool of decent strikers, if we sell one of them and the other one gets injured, we'll be cursing the fact they've gone. A top side in the Premiership needs 4 decent strikers. Can we not flog them the Sholanator instead?

That's more your point..... trying to avoid a Hamman situation again?

That's gotta be one of the loosest pieces of journalism I've ever read. Reporter: Mark, is Michael Owen staying at Newcastle? Viduka: I'm not sure, I've not seen him yet. Fucking hell!

This is Newcastle, not Middlesbrough... Precisely....... we don't have as many empty seats!

Twas a joke tbh, don't let that spoil your fun though, eh? Like you couldn't spot my posting style a mile off ffs anyways So was mine. Stevie's more or less resigned to leaving anyway I think. You're right about your posting style too <----- That's so you know this is a joke. I know, cringeworthy I'm fucked really if he doesn't sign. Ip banned on Newcastle Online, Ip banned on here, NE5's board I was abused on the first day by StevieH because I referred to him as "dense" about 10 months ago. Skunkers is shite. Talk of The Tyne is the only option - oh dear. Not like him to bear long grudges like....

Rob D - Clubbed to Death (theme from The Matrix)

Cup of tea or a smoothie

Quality player.... Just the comparison of free transfers between last summer (Sibierski & Bernard) to this year (Viduka & Geremi) outlines the turnaround we've made. For so long now we've been looking into the past wishing we did things like we have done previous, now we're doing the opposite and are glad to be changing.