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I'm sure he gave an interview recently where he said his bones were very brittle and they'd never be as strong as they once were.

He's unhappy/lost his place in the team.

Because he did it against top sides in Europe when he was at OM and then made the step up to Premiership and looked even more lethal. Cisse flopped massively at Liverpool, you can blame his leg breaks and whatever else but he wasn't worth half his £14 million transfer fee.

Cisse's best ever goal tally in the Premier League is 7 in 33 games. So far Martins has 11 in 33, 9 in 31 and 1 goal in the one game he has played this season. Both the previous seasons were in terrible Newcastle teams. its unfair to judge cisse on his time at liverpool because of his leg break and he was used on the right wing alot of the time He scored only 5 goals in his first season, before the leg break and when he mostly played up front.

I could score a hatful in the French league, man. In the Premiership Martins has scored more goals in less games than Cisse.

There's nee way Cisse is better than Martins. I hate the hero worship that Martins gets but that's just daft. A few bucknuts on the SMB think that they're going to finish top half and some even think top 5

Made me laugh

Anyone else notice the top class journalism displayed on the Daily Heil website last night/this morning. They'd basically copy and pasted the Ronny Gill article, forgetting to take references to the Chronicle out It's been changed now like, but it did tickle me. They were probably too busy writing stories about baby eating Muslims.

We're never getting rid of the fucker. He's like Banquo's bloody Ghost

Their new striker is David Healy apparently, and the SMB is going into meltdown http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=343851

I was the product of a mixed marriage between my Mam (Geordie) and Dad (Mackem). My Dad went AWOL before I was old enough to show an interest in football so my Grandad on my mothers side brought me up the right way, taking me to games and such. It just so happens my birth/interest coincided with our catapulting up the leagues. I know i'm probably committing some cardinal sin Stevie's eyes and risk his wrath by posting this sort of information here

It kind of dispels the myth that we are the only club who spend a lot and win fuck all. Fair enough we have still spent more than them on shite but surely after £70m in 14 months they can't say a thing. I'm not sure there isn't any aspect of NUFC that isn't surrounded by myth, nor will anything change it (like our defensive record). Do Sunderland have the backing for this though? I know they have a lot of Irish money behind them, but £70m + wages must soon add up. The only people on the board who have a real connection with the club are Quinn (Bugger all money) and that fella who owns Hay's Travel (small amount compared to the others). The others needed to have their balls tickled by Quinn to join the consortium and may well fuck off if success doesn't follow.

What a load of shite

Hasn't McCarthy's form been shit since last Christmas?

Van drivers

It's The Sun, which pretty much renders it complete bollocks, but it's funny to see how we've went from nee money and nee hope to rich as fuck on the back of one decent result

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport...icle1575085.ece If it's true and Ashley is willing to pay it then I suppose it's a good thing £140k a week though!?

Okay. Thanks mate. And welcome

Are you from Belgium J_D? If so do you know if the press in Belgium had said that we'd agreed a fee for him today? A less than reputable source from another board said that they had but I was just wondering if it was true.

To be fair N-O is full of spackers. I tried it again during the Coloccini saga but it was the same shite repeated ad nauseum. Ant would feel at home over there with all the Owen hating that goes on.

Trying to rein it in because I don't want to get too carried away but aye, I am too. Same here. I really hope it's not going to be like last season when we hammered Bolton away, then looked utter chod against Villa.

I get the feeling it's the latter rather than the former. Guthrie does a thankless task so while the press are heaping praise on Jonas, Keegan gives DG a pat on the back. That's the type of stuff which IMO makes Keegan a great man manager.

Beth Tweddle has a face that gives me nightmares

Even if she isn't, I fucking will be