Nyff

I am thinking something more along the lines of: "You know, it has been tough, but I am happy to have been able to bring in Folan, Schmolan, Volvo, urgh...Kevin and Nail-her, Jail-her, urgh, Bail-'er, urgh...Ryan to the club who will really fill some gaps"

How the hell did you manage that? lol

I'm sure there will be. Ashley is probably using the profit to play some roulette as we speak.

Guess that is Ashley's big announcement down the drain then?

Ssh, Holden. Don't blow my cover.

1611: "Denilson on his way to Newcastle on loan for rest of season - was already a done deal, pending Arshavin deal." Lameduck at SJP, via text on 81111 You heard it here first

Anyone know if Arsenal's Denilson has been spotted anywhere? If rumour is true that Arsenal are printing out shirts for Arshavin at number 15 then it could mean Denilson is on his way out. I know Bolton were after him at a point (and may still be, as he could replace Nolan), but I wouldn't mind a cheeky bid for him. That is if he hasn't been sold already.

Welcome to 3 pages ago! Welcome to having more to do than sat at the computer refreshing every 2 minutes

Oh, btw, has Fat Mikes 'big announcement' come yet? I thought he had something big to fill up SSN's Yellow ticker bar? If it is that Ryan Taylor coming here then he is having a laugh...

"Update: Skysports reported on Monday that Newcastle had made an unsuccessful attempt to swap Obafemi Martins for the Spurs striker Darren Bent." What a piss take. So glad that didn't go through.

I really do love deadline day. If only we had a journo that posted here like Bburn do...It is days like this that make me want to become a journalist, so give me a few years and maybe we will be able to get the inside scoop as well

I've got to admit that my only experience of Fred is on Football Manager, where he was bloody awesome. Might be worth a cheeky bid, esepcially as we could do with a decent striker.

Going to be some bad news for Burnley today supposedly (from that guy at the Blackburn forums). Weren't we rumoured to be interested in one of their midfielders at some point?

Rumour has it the deadline might be extended because of the trouble the snow is causing. Not that you didn't know that, as all you all sit by your computers refreshing the BBC site as I am

Hope this aint true. He is still young and could yet turn into a decent player for us (that said, he could just as easily turn into Luque #2).

His Harper senses knew it wasn't going in.

Ashley has hit the big time and is investing 200M into the Newcastle transfer kitty. Kinnear and Wise are going to be sacked with Keegan brought back with Shearer as his assistant. Kaka, C. Ronaldo and Messi will be joining us and Ashley has made sure all clubs below us are docked points. Thats the big news he is on about

High-Res Oba Martins Widescreen Wallpaper I did a few edits to the original, but nothing too major.

You need to start watching Setanta. I swear they mention Newcastle in nearly every game on there... "Man United attack down the left flank now." "Ah, yes, Newcastle have also been known to attack using the flanks. Interesting to see United do that!"

Don't go dissing Nile Ranger The guy is an original gangsta' through 'n' through! I honestly think there is some talent there, though.

Nile Ranger ftw

Too bad we have already played City home and away. If Given wants to 'do a Chopra' because of the club he loves then I would have welcomed a thrashing of City with some questionable 'keeping!

"There's haggling going on at the moment. We're still waiting to hear the fee," said the Magpies manager. "We haven't received an official offer for Shay (Given) and we're still waiting for Charles (N'Zogbia). "The chairman is speaking to their representatives, so hopefully something can be done so that we can move on and get two more decent players into the club. "I'm confident that we'll get those. But I'm not sure about the outgoing deals at the moment." So there is the possibility (however unlikely this may be) of getting two in and none out? I'm not going to lie when I say that I wouldn't mind too much keeping Given (even if it was to bench warm while Harper plays), but assuming Ryan Taylor was only an option as part of the Zoggy deal, I would quite like to see Ryan Taylor plus two others in and Zoggy out.

We didn't play too bad. If we didn't have the lumbering idiot that was Ameobi upfront and instead had the likes of Martins back then I could have seen us winning it. Jonas made some good runs but the delivery was never great, but maybe if we had someone willing to run a little upfront then there could have been someone near Jonas to take a little flick back off. Just got to look to the future now, I guess...

Seems to show JFK's tactical inadequacy. You can imagine him thinking "Player + Player Scores Goal = Player stays on".