David Kelly

There's no one who is high level at NUFC.

It's becoming more and more of a chore to support Newcastle United. This deal gave hope of something special that could have happened to the club and the city. Even a credible new owner (which Mauriss doesn't seem to be even if he is really interested) is unlikely to have the resources to give us a chance of competing.

I think we put ourselves under too much pressure batting first in those conditions and given the small amount of practice the batsmen had. I can understand why they did it but I think it was inevitable that we'd struggle to get a score. I wouldn't expect the same type of struggles in the next series with the practice we've had with this. Could be the same for Pakistan though as they don't seem to be getting much time out in the middle.

Isn't he a mackem?

The Windies batting line up isn't great tbf. We should have been beating them 3-0 really. Mistake by Stokes to bat first in the first test and the lack of time in the middle before hand for our batters cost us there. You'd expect our batsmen to be better set for the Pakistan series. Superb from Broad though.

Looking at the forecast for Manchester over the next few days, I'm not massively confident of getting to see much of Stokes or anyone else batting in the third test.

If the Saudi's were that firm on wanting us, you would have thought they would have at least held off on banning Bein until after everything was completed. It certainly must have caused more issues. I do agree with Fish that it seems they should have foreseen this all before agreeing the deal with Ashley and probably went at it with just Staveley and the Reubins to begin with with. The Reubens would surely have no problems convincing the premier league that they have the finances to fund us and then the Saudi's could come in (bit by bit if necessary) when they have tidied up the piracy issue and are in a position for Arabsat to bid for the rights.

Aye I have no doubt about that.

The premier league are shafting us completely now and it shows exactly what they think of the fans. They should have a duty to look after their members and they are clearly not doing that with us. It's impossible for us to plan for next season. We keep being told that Bruce has done a fantastic job securing our premier league position for next season with so many games to go, but it's impossible to take the advantage that other teams in the same position are taking while we have an owner who has absolutely no interest in us. I'm now certain that they're just hoping the Saudi's will go away so I can't see this being resolved before next season starts.

Smith is still the best batsman around but when you factor in the bowling and fielding (both area's in which Smith is no mug), you'd have Stokes picked ahead of anyone at the moment.

Our expectations were so high after him we welcomed Roeder as his replacement with open arms.

It's noticeable that's it's all players who's career he ended somewhat badly that spout shit. You never hear Ferdinand, Lee or Given say anything other than positive things about us. That's because they got on with their football as oppose to acting like fucking children down the quayside and getting up to unsavoury things in hotel rooms like these twats.

I think the sheer boredom of the game made everyone forget that Carroll had actually had that chance. It's hard to pay any attention to the matches now. Absolute dross football being played by a club that has no interest in doing anything in a sporting sense playing in front of no fans. I went to the pub to watch it with my mates and ended up discussing strikers from 90's Italian football for about half of the match. It was difficult to even turn my head to watch the match.

Stokes up to number one in the all rounder rankings and three in the batting. Admittedly there's no one else playing at the moment but it shows just how good he's been since his trial has been over.

Edwards being the chief example of one of those who can't admit they are wrong.

And they call us deluded.

I think the don just went off the song. The fans were pissed off about losing Maja and had for the first time started to question him and tory boy. He wanted something to get them onside and thought the unwashed singing along to that while shitting in the seats would do it. Mind our signing of Joelinton is just as staggering. God knows why we signed a player who has never played as a number 9 to replace Rondon is a mystery to me.

Uncut Gems. For a while it just seemed to be Adam Sandler shouting but it got better as it went on and the end was excellent I thought.

Quite enjoyed the first episode of Perry Mason. I dread to think what my mother thought about the sex scenes and all the effing and jeffing mind.

I can only imagine he's doing it on purpose now. He's managed to take an action that every other journalist seems to be either completely indifferent about, or see's it as a positive and turned it into a massive negative. It's absolutely impossible to take his opinion on anything seriously now.

I've been a bit worried from the start that he was just another Lualua but he seems to be having much more influence on games as the season has gone on. His decision making seems to have improved too (a surprising positive for our coaching staff there?). I thought he was by far the best player on the pitch on Sunday. I'm looking for him and Almiron to really use their pace and go at players for the rest of the season. I think defenders will really struggle against that after the long lay off.

He'd have a hell of a lot more credibility if he just said, It's Newcastle United so some massive fuck up will probably happen to stop it going through. I mean I'm still at that stage despite all logic saying that there's surely no way the Premier League are going to want to face up to the legal batter with SA if they stop this. Trying to come up with a reason including massive leaps and non existent contract law knowledge make him look ridiculous.

Aye maybe this yank has the don and Tony Coton negotiating for him.

I assumed it was just Lee Ryder's lack of brain cells when I first read his £350m tweet. I was quite surprised to see Sky go with the same amount. You would have to be seriously backwards to pay more at this stage surely.

It's actually ridiculous what the premier league bloke has been saying that there is no timescale on it. How can they justify that? This is clearly effecting the fans with the refunds issue, it's effecting players in that contracts are running out and it will be effecting the staff with them not knowing who they will be working for or if they will have a job. Not that I care but it's also effecting Ashley too as he no doubt has plans for the money for the sale. Surely they can't be allowed to just drag this on and on with the hope that it will just go away.