Noelie

From your telescope in far off Canada, perhaps you could tell us all the clubs with great directors who have spent mega millions on players more than us at this stage Me telescope's in southern California, Anaheim to be exact, just doon the road from Disneyland. Mebbe ye should change yer name to Goofy fer yer F in geography.

........and if my arithmetic is right that leaves 13 days to bring new players in! Less than a fortnight left which shortens my patience and increases my worry that there's a lot of talk and no substance to it. I think the limitations set by these "windows" increase the worries of the supporters a great deal more than they do the management, after all management are getting well paid for their worries

It's my considered opinion that Damage(Ramage if you will) should be dropped. As bad as we are off for injuries I think someone needs to recognise that damage-control is needed. Edgar did not do too bad at left-back(although I would rather see Babayaro there cos he's the best we've got at the moment). Huntington is not too bad in the middle(although I would rather see Brambleor Moore there for the time being). Ramage(or Damage if you will, is too slow(he's like a tortoise at full speed), he can read a game(like an old blind busker), and he jockeys like a rider who fell at the first hurdle.

I honestly felt we would lose after failing to beat 10 men in the first match. I could just feel it but I wasn't ready for such a hammering and pathetic display from the team. When I read Roeder was going to start the same team with the same substitutes I felt it was like an omen of bad things to come. To start Pattison after his no-impact display against Spurs leaves me now to doubt Roeder's mental awareness of good, mediocre, and no-good players.

I think being a Newcastle supporter is like having a life-long, re-occuring, incurable disease that can lie dormant for periods of time lulling the sufferer into a feeling of false security and well-being that a cure has been found and the disease has been eradicated, only to find that the malaise is indeed incurable and will continue to plague you for the rest of your life. At the St. James' Park hospice for the incurably sick the logo 'Howay the Lads' should be edited and read.... "Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter" cos there's no known cure for the Newcassel Plague.

You sure he didn't mean 'Damage'?

As the commentator said, Pattison's contribution to the game is negligible, and how right he is. I can't believe Roeder started him after his last performance. Ramage is like a cart-horse with apnia. Milner's crosses remain atrocious. Our passes to them are like we're on the same team. Dyer is not stamping his mark on the game. Huntington seems to be lost. Too much is expected of Solano and he can't do it all himself. When they go forward they look dangerous. When we go forward we don't. I've seen pub teams play better than this.

Hoy Sniffer, you been sniffing summat not good for you like glue? GATESHEAD is a lot fucking closer than Blunderland so it would be the most logical, and it's just across the river.

A marra was going to SJP on a Wednesday to get a free blood-pressure test so I tagged along. As we were leaving, Bobby Robson had just parked his car and was walking to the entry door with some clothes on a hanger over his shoulder. Being the pushy person I am I accosted him and introduced myself and we spoke for a couple of minutes. There was a match that night and he asked me if I was going and I said yes I already had tickets. My middle name, my mother's maiden name, is Robson and I used that by way of starting the conversation. Sadly, the following Monday was when he was shamefully sacked.

1982, was playing for a British over 35 team and there was one American playing for us. New Year was coming up and he invited the lads to a new year's eve party he was having at his house. Some of us went and lo and behold Mike Mahoney and his wife were there. For them as don't know, Mick was in goal at Wembly when we lost to Man. City in the League Cup final. The guy throwing the party had got to know Mahoney when Mick was playing for the California Surf in the then NASL, and this guy was a member of the team's Booster Club. For those interested, Mahoney came to the States to play in the NASL and brought his wife, son, and daughter with him. Sadly his son died of leukemia while over here. When his career was over he stayed and got a job driving a beer delivery truck. His daughter went to San Diego College to become a doctor, she finished her schooling at Bristol University while living with her grandmother and decided to stay in England. Eventually Mahoney and his wife decided to return to England as they had no family here and by now their daughter was married and they had a grandchild. Mick is now living in Bristol and working for the post office.

Not so much a strange place but a strange encounter. Was home on holiday and was looking for a shop at the Monument that seemed to have disappeared. Saw two young lads sitting on a seat and asked them if they knew the shop I was looking for. During the conversation I knew I had seen one of them before but didn't know where so I told him I thought I recognised him from somewhere. He told me he was Steve Watson and played for Newcastle and that was probably where I knew him from. NOT TRUE, when he said who he was I realised I had seen him on television in the States playing in Australia for England in a youth tournament. I had never seen him before at any other time but had seen him enough on the telly to know I knew his face.

I AM surprised! I would have thought most of the window shopping had been done before the shops opened for business and it would have been just a question of going to the pick-up window, pay the money and collect the pre-determined merchandise be it either a cash or loan deal.

Perhaps that's true, but then, what did he do that was right! NO, not his turn to be hounded, I've been on his case before as have others.

Keep yer white butt away from me sister, ye heor! (Emre said that, I diddn't)

Out of it totally the kid,overweight and can't pass piss & wobbles like a weeble Going by the commentaor's mention of names during the plays you'd have thought Pattison wasn't even there, I think his name was mentioned once in the second half. He just hasn't got it!

I can't believe we won a match that was totally dominated by the 'other' team. If it hadn't been for Given it would have been 4-1 at half-time. The defense were all asea and we couldn't hold the ball up in their half of the field. Unbelievable

Eeeeyebugger yer a big'un

Some good results for us today, if we can take 3 points from the Spurs game it will move us up the table a bit.

....... can understand why we haven't got someone onboard by now when I see activity all around in one way or another. The transfer-window is open but are the board just window-shopping waiting for the end of month sales. Surely the shopping around has already been done by the powers that be and without much haggling we should be seeing goods in the shopping-bag and on the way home. I hope it's not going to end in last minute panic buys like it has before and we end up with second-rate merchandise.

Read my post #140 and you will see we were thinking along the same lines. He was hardly in the game and when he was he was awful. Hunty was a bit dodgy again.

I believe that a quality striker is a must, even when Owen and Amoeba come back it still leaves us short on strike-power in view of future injuries and heavy schedules. I really believe a quality centre-half/central defender is an absolute must, we have no one in the barracks who can marshall the rank & file troops on the roster. We need a leader/stopper/take no prisoners/authorative reader/controller of the defensive game. I believe we need to bring in a good left full-back with premier league or equivilent experience, what we have in house don't fit the bill for the long haul. I believe a good right full-back wouldn't hurt but maybe we have someone onboard already who could find a home there. I believe we have enough mid-field players who are good enough to get the job done if they learn to play together on a better level.

Pattison's anonimity during the match was heightened by his ineffectedness whenever he surfaced! Perhaps he suffers from the Samson malaise after someone cut off his hair.

To support Newcassel is like inviting the worst case of manic depression to invade your mind But then again, when the Lads are playing against 10 men of the Championship league one should expect the worst and not be surprised or disgusted with the outcome and be delighted that we didn't lose

.......wish ye aal a HAPPY NEW YEAR

Sad part about this match is when you forget about the back-four responsible in part for two goals being leaked by a poor defense you have to look at who was out there! Given. Solano. Taylor. Emre. Parker. Butt. Milner. Dyer. Martins. That was a formidable starting nine who should have been able to get a result and not get hammered 3-0. And, if the truth was recognized Given was partly responsible for the third goal as he was too far off his line and would have stopped it if he hadn't been. Martins penalty miss was a bitter pill to swallow and reminded me of Waddle's in the World Cup.