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If doom and gloom means: a. seeing last season for what it was, during the season itself, leading to b. not being overly surprised at whats happened this season, especailly after correctly predicting that Ashley wouldnt strengthen the squad suffciently for a European season, which means c. not carrying on like a bigs girls blouse on here "wah! sack Pardew hes shit this season...btw forget all the good stuff I said about him and the club last season,pretty please" for the past 5 months Then I'm happy to be "doom and gloom"...

If you tell me its got the umbro diamonds on the sleeves am buying it.....always wanted a shirt with them, but by the time I could afford to buy one theyd dropped them from the design The Bukta one is a classic too, but the first game I saw at SJP they were wearing the umbro one....got to have it, which, lets face facts, is sad as fuck ....don't care!!

We play them in their close season....its generally why Russian and former Soviet clubs have never won the European Cup/Champions League, despite having some cracking sides over the years. This gives us a fair bit of hope of getting through iyam.

Seeing as thousands of Engalnd fans were there in the summer and got along fine with the locals I think I'll save my cash and just drink the local grog, shouting loudly at the natives v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-i-y when I want another beer

Speak for yourself mate http://www.toontastic.net/board/topic/32493-nufc-summer-transfer-activity-thread/page__hl__%2Btransfer+%2Bactivity

Why no real criticism of last summer then CT?.... because what you've posted is unmitigated fuckin shit tbh, seeing as a lot of the mess this season is as a result of last summer's chronic mis management. How the fuck can you honestly say that it's impossible for Pardew to fail when you think he's spent the whole season fuckin failing???!!!! He's no time to blend the new players into the side and you personally know less then fuck all about them. And yet you're sat theyre saying Pardew can't fail with players you've never seen to be able to make a judgement on in the first place. Fuck me, I try to give you the benefit of the doubt but I swear you're on the wind up because even you cant be that stupid as to completely contradict yourself yet again. Its the same as "sack Pardew, dont ask me who to replace him with though"...how do you know if any given manager or player is any good to make the statement that things will improve? You may say "time to move on" but posting unremitting praise of the regime has about as much point as completely annhilating them for their every move. This isnt Football Manager, anyone wanking themsleves off about the players we've signed this week needs a good look at the league table. One of the dildo sellers at West Ham said in May 2011 that he'd thought he'd spent enough in Janauary for them to stay up. Demba Ba was one of the siginings and he got 7 goals in 12 games. Still not enough to keep them up. They signed Wayne Bridge and Thomas Hitzelsperger too, experienced international players. Still not enough. See what I mean? its very, very tricky what we're attempting here for the remainder of this season and nobody should underestimate the size of the task. So if you want to praise the board would it not be better to wait until May and see if we're still in the division? Its certainly not a foregone conclusion that we will be.

http://www.toffs.com/Newcastle-United-1980-1983-Home-Shirt/productinfo/1596/ Did you get one of these in the end Davey?.....a month of night shift is leaving me with a slighlty surprising cash surplus in late January....

Someone on a blog has done a comparison of the signiture on the letter and an authenticated autograph from him and lets just say its enough to cast doubt on the letter itself. Fuck knows whats gone on really but he'll likely be off in the summer iyam.

Welcome to the forum btw musty, I'm a miserable bastard. Have your kegs dried out from the formation thread yet? In the words of The Wolf "I don't think we should be sucking each other's dicks just yet".... no one knows how this is going to pan out so a premature build up of over confidence, although to be expected, may be mispaced. Chill the fuck out, no one has seen these new lads cross a white line in anger with a black and white shirt on.

Aye, both. Good point about the team having about 10 minutes to learn how to play together. So fuckin short sighted all this. I'd honestly love it if we pulled clear of the bottom in the league and did well in Europe now this season but when the world and his wife knew this was all required in the summer and 4 months later it appears we do have the money for good solid investment then it just shows yet again the way Ashley will go out of his way to try to save a few quid. He completley failed to build on last seasons good work. If he cares about NUFC as a "project" then he has a funny way of showing it, even if he has, eventually.

Including wages for 4 new contracts its got to be a 20mill+ window......fuckin hell....was Ashley on drugs and forgot to do all this in the summer?....

Is the fellah on the right also a TT poster then?

Is/was Rafa a doper?...is he suffering for it now?...

Won the last set 6-2. The final will be epic. Great to see him starting to fulfill his potential as a player.

I see your quote, fair one. But normally you cant be suspended from your graft for being charged with an offence. Possibly something footballers have in their contracts to stop the err "good name of the club" being tarnished. I think thats rocky ground legally mind.

If you're charged with an offence it doesnt automatically mean you're suspended from your job though. See Titus Bramble for details.

Fed wins 4th set tie break....hell of a match!

why? he's been charged with nothing. Unless the lass works for the club why would he be suspended?.... Am not denying he's a waste of fuckin space as a footballer. No club is going to take him on his wages though so it looks like we're stuck with him. But he's also a human being with the same legal rights as the rest of us.

Murray about to serve for the match....he's beasted Fed tbh, so much power despite a couple of lapses in concentration.

Such as what?....he was found not guilty of assault a couple of months back and, whilst this is undoubtedly an unsavoury incident by the sounds of it, it should be noted he's not been charged with anything and woman+hotel room+footballer = no doubt one persons word against the other. And a whole load of women "at it", see the present court case involving Brighton players. Hes been capreted for being late for training...thats about it iirc.

This may be concentrating his mind on us...from the Guardian... Florian Thauvin, Bastia's 19-year-old attacking midfielder is another player on Newcastle's shopping list and is likely to arrive at either St James' Park or Arsenal for around £4m before the end of next week.

Ignore me. A week of nights, got in at 5, cant get back to sleep. But crowd chanting at Tennis is just wrong, they sound fuckin ridiculous. Meenzer, ask David Kelly about the Cabaye song in Bruges. Him and his mates invented it and sang for 6 hours non stop. Bastards. I told him at the time Billy Ray Cyrus was about as cool as wearing a mullet. Murray breaks Federer....if he wins this service game he does anyway...

So how long did Goufran have left on his Bordeaux deal? is that why he was cheap? We wouldnt have signed Goufran if the Remy deal hadnt fallen through iyam.If we were that keen why try to spend 8 mill on Remy? Definetly a second choice. The Remy deal wasnt cheap, so in bringing in a striker the first thought wasnt "who can we get on the cheap?" Good money was avalable for Remy but I doubt if it is now seeing as weve spent over 15 million this window. We paid the same money or very similar to what we were quoted in the summer for Debuchy. We didnt get 3 or 4 million knocked off a for a player with 5 months left on his contract. I think it was just another roll of the dice for Ashley in the summer and it failed spectacularly. He tried to wing it and it blew up in his face. Thats why we've signed 5 players this month rather than trying to be canny about players' contracts at the selling club. The only one you could have possibly said that about is Sissoko but weve ended up paying money even for him becauae his club told him to fuck off for trying to sign a pre contract so he could walk away for nowt in the summer.

Crowd chanting players' names at tennis.....why don't they all go and fuck off? Its just embarassing. "lets go murray lets go" lame as fuck.