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Kevin Keegan, Peter Beardsley, Temuri Ketsbaia, Alan Shearer, Wyn Davies, Pop Robson, Chris Waddle, Paul Gascoigne, David Ginola and Laurent Robert, Tino Asprilla, Hughie Gallacher, Jorge 'George' Robledo, Malcolm MacDonald, Terry McDermott, Jackie Milburn, Sir Bobby Robson, Kenny Wharton, Jock Rutherford, Jackie Charlton, Philippe Albert Newcastle 5-0 Man United never forget, Shay Given, Nobby Solano, Bobby Mitchell, Shola Ameobi, Glenn Roeder - legend, Steven Taylor - hero, Mark Knopfler - local hero.

St James's Park forever! Howay the lads!

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I never thought I'd say it but - Ashley Out. So-called Sports Direct so-called Arena, I ask you.

These clowns in the boardroom are making a laughing stock out of this club. We need new investment to take this club to the next level.

What a bunch of clowns

Sorry for OT but there's this lass at work and I'm thinking about asking her out at the weekend. Does anyone know a nice Chinese restaurant I could take her to? Not too pricey, like, I was thinking about ten, twelve pounds a head.

She stays in Blyth so I was thinking maybe Jesmond area? So she can get home easy if things don't work out if you know what I mean?

I've been jamming Outlandos d'Amour tonight. There's some great stuff on there - obviously everyone knows 'Roxanne' and 'Can't Stand Losing You', but deeper cuts like 'Next To You' or 'Truth Hits Everybody' are such total jams. Then there's the closer 'Masoko Tanga', totally epic. It's like world music, years before Peter Gabriel invented it.

There hasn't been a better album since, I'm calling it.

Can I have my Spender DVDs back yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXeMontXSTI

Never forget:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1urq4Vb0XM

Tyno AsPOLLia: Songs of the Great River

that ketsbaia celebration. so strange.

"He can't see man! He can't see!"

poor PJ & Duncan ;_;

They died so Ant and Dec could live

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Good work, mods.

Just popped in to say one thing - MASSIVE club

Only Tino has ever redeemed these

ilf is better than this unseemly whorish display

you overestimate us

no, i believe in us

#oscarbaitrobinwilliamsshite

Llambias said: “Shearer was my choice and I have to hold up my hands — the wrong choice.” Referring to the relegation battle and the managerial team of Shearer and Iain Dowie, he claimed: “Shearer, for this, destroys us. He gave all the responsibility to Dowie. Rubbish!”

A supporter suggests “It wasn’t the right time” for Shearer. Llambias responded brusquely, and said: “It would never be the right time. Shearer? There would never be a right time in football.”

Llambias explained: “It is about control. We had the control. We knew the Torres deal was there. We drew that f****** deal, perhaps the ultimate. So £30m? F*** off! Don’t waste my time and I slammed the phone down.

“£35m? Everybody including Pardew [manager Alan Pardew] all agreed. “But the £35m they wanted to pay over four years. It was rubbish. Mike (Ashley) said — and he is a brave boy Mike I promise you — get all the £35m up front.

“We got it all up front and then they never paid us on time and we charged them 12 grand f****** interest.”

Roflmao! I've said it before and I'll say it again - wor club is in safe hands with these guys in charge.

Shearer? There would never be a right time in football.

Derek Llambias, if you want to marry me you can contact me via the board.

The 10 word definitive verdict on Shearer there. Indisputable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_sJmIQrH54

I've just got home from Manchester. I knew I shouldn't've walked.

How were Newcastle yesterdat? From what I've heard... they might not collapse even with a tough schedule for the next month?

They were pretty good, I was impressed. Nothing spectacular, but well organised, committed and made half-a-dozen chances - scored one, unlucky not to score one which hit the post, and not quite sharp enough to take the others.

Not in the same league as City ultimately, but who is?

Have we discussed how fucking dominating City are yet? Somehow it seems to have crept on me that they aren't joining in with the lol 5-3s and 8-2s the rest of the top 6 are having with each other and instead are just steam-rolling teams, aside from O'Shea being a dick.

They really are. If they don't have a slump they could win this by twenty points.

Still have yet to face the best player in the league though.

Best player who doesn't already play for City, maybe.

tbrr i'd take him over aguero or silva atm.

City will have him in front of Silva and Agüero too, next season.

tbf we only signed him after playing them

City will have their slump. I have to believe this

Have we discussed how fucking dominating City are yet?

this team is fucking legit.

if chelsea knock them out of europe i'm gonna be so pissed. i want to see them against the best.

It is written in the thread title I'm afraid

def their best team since the mid-late 90s

so i presume they'll be happy enough to let Ba go now

they bought cisse so as not to rely on one striker, tbf

is there certainty about ba's release clause?

You're forgetting Carl Cort, I mean Shola Ameobe.

what happened pardew that last while at west ham?

He's had quite a tidy career, built two very good pl teams cheaply that play/ed good football along simple lines.

But i couldn't see him moving upwards from newcastle, for some reason?

yr bobby robson ref works better if you spell ameobi right imo

Burn

But i couldn't see him moving upwards from newcastle, for some reason?

So... Spurs then?

well i figured we'd be the next job up, tbh, below lfc and certainly below chelsea, city, utd.

And i couldn't see us taking him on this summer were harry to leave.

In truth I probably agree: Spurs is probably a small step up from Newcastle in terms of desirability for Pardew - for being in London if nothing else.

Harry leaving doesn't seem that much less likely now than before, right? But presumably Spurs would rather offer the job to Moyes?

this is the quandary, i don't see anything in moyes's having kept everton pinging around the epl with various budgets to suggest he'd be a sustained success at a top five club.

I think he deserves that chance, and indeed when you look at what hiring ramos cost us, the epl managers in the running at that time (hughes, o'neill, maybe curbishley and pardew at that time?) were far safer choices.

But there's this glass ceiling of 'winners' and pardew, moyes, arry imself aren't ever gonna be hired by a top five club, it seems?

if we finish top four arry's safe imo

top five club

acceptance of slight fall from bigness noted

point probably refers to any club with expectations of top four, tbh.

expectations
So there are at least six top five clubs :)

I don't think Manchesters City and United would call themselves top five clubs, they're Big Clubs Challenging For Honours.

that's a subset

and idk how many 'big clubs' there are, no! i think that realistic cl qualifying hope is prob as good a definition as can be found, tho obv it leaves lfc a bit of a quandary for now.

The old big four didn't have city, we're putting a few good seasos together, i think six teams for now.

Newcastle, everton, villa are two very good seasons away from being there. Dunno who else could break in to bigness in the short term, really.

point is that if newcastle finished fifth this season and lost pardew somehow, they wouldn't hire pardew, iykwhim

Yes, big difference in perception of get you there managers vs keep you there managers (RIP Big Mick McC).

exactly, but even more than that there's the curious reluctance to consider a 'keep you there' manager from the epl level for any 'keep you there' cl-qualification teams.

I mean, moyes is probably considered almost as likely a candidate in many quarters to succeed ferguson as he is redknapp, or am i way off there?

city are a "massive club"

think pardew's probably mellowed out a bit having been humbled in his earler slide from grace and possibly a more foreign squad is more professional and receptive to his man management (think i read him saying the club's been a lot more together since coloccini became captain). i suppose if the players are good enough he only needs a gentle hand on the tiller.

or maybe just none of the lads have wives fit enough for him to shag.

I think Moyes has spent so long at Everton that big/massive/top five teams consider him to lack the ambition and drive for the job(s). They may be right.

Managing every club is p much getting the best out of what you have and what you can spend. Moyes seems very good at it. Questions seem to be raised about whether giving him extra spendies would find him out - like he can find a £4m Jelavic who looks like a £12m Berbz-lite but couldn't find a £12m Berbz to turn into a £30m Berbz.

massive is a different measurement, it practically smarts of fear of inadequacy tbh

well yeah

rtc spill them! i agree with yr first analysis tbh, but when it starts to go wrong we'll find out i guess.

onimo- have often said that moyes is better ekeing survival then building momentum into overachieving than he is with money/expectations. istr his getting and spending a ball of cash the year they 'qualified' for the cl and it went tits-up because he bought what were essentially in-form championship players.....

still, Fellaini is their record signing isn't he? he worked out alright (once they got Gibbo in to do the grunt work)

what the wives thing? that's commonish knowledge, swygart probably knows better than i do

jose fonte and carl fletcher supposedly, possibly a club secretary of something somewhere along the line iirc but i might be misremembering

also some stuff about turning up to the training ground pissed (keith curle doing this was part of warnock getting the qpr sack btw) and rucking with players

Why is "qualified" in quotes? Because we didn't make it past Villareal in the qualies? The first half of 2005-06 was an abject disaster on all fronts in ways I still don't quite understand.

And why "survival"? Everton tend to find as high as they can considering the expenditure above them; so, four top six finishes in five seasons before the arrival of the New Man City.

xp

fellaini spent quite a while as an almost-flop, tho? more reds than performances and didn't really get much momentum for a year or so?

I could see pardew being a bit of an effing c, is the thing, he comes off as having an ego alright. All well and good if it's matched with professionalism as opposed to shagging.

beattie 6m, johnson 10m, yakubu 12m, bilyaletdinov 8m

silly to say anything went tits up cos of buying "in form championship players" though - cahill, jagielka, lescott?

i have said this many times before after originally stealing it from barney ronay but the only thing to know about pardew is he has the exact same voice as super hans

i know he's bought and done very well out of in-form championship players- just seems to be a running situation where him spending money on them doesn't work out...

iirc Fellaini has somehow never been sent off. He's a marvellous player imo.

moyes big failing (besides the reverse-curbishley poor start every year which should be unforgiveable at this point) is not knowing how to play to win sometimes - some of the strikers he's had have been maybe not the best or good value but still capable and he could have extracted better from them imo rather than continually relying on a solid platform and cahill nipping in

(4-5-1 doesnt automatically mean defensive, i know i know)

i say this with no spite cos it's unfortunate but fellaini is stagnant and really needs a move

Fellaini has definitely been sent off

Rooney hasn't gotten a card in the league this season

You're right, sent off in Nov 2010 for kicking Paul Robinson. I didn't realise that was a red card offence now, game's gone mad, etc.

fellaini elbow
About 469,000 results (0.29 seconds)

i like fellaini but he only intermittently looked like a 15m player until lately imo

this is the newcastle united thread

no content except honest northumbrian working man's content

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Big club status and ancillary matters are perfectly appropriate nowadays. Hubris to follow shortly.

is that mike williamson, and isnt he a total WEAK LINK IN THE GEORDIE REARGUARD?

aguero tevez et al will have their tongues impishly poking out of the sides of their mouths when they're running at him on sunday

But there's this glass ceiling of 'winners' and pardew, moyes, arry imself aren't ever gonna be hired by a top five club, it seems?

― underleg aeroboots i have smithed (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 May 2012 11:51 (3 hours ago)

Well of the 'trad' top 4, Arsenal and Utd haven't looked at hiring someone new for 15+ years, Rafa spent 6 years at Liverpool and then they hired 'Woy from midtable and Chelsea chases lights and colours. I don't see why in the next five years, when Wenger and Fergie finally have to be replaced it can't be by the guys bubbling underneath them? I also wouldn't be surprised if City are less crazy (than Chelsea that is) replacing Mancini when he goes. All three will def. try for Pep and Jose first but if that fails, then Pardew could be more attractive than the next Juande from the continent.

woy is an experienced international manager with big names and silverware on his cv.

There are other clubs than arsenal and liverpool in the big clubs, which we've already expanded out to include liverpool and spurs.

The talk was of lambert, rodgers and moyes for spurs were harry to leave. Do you think any of them would be likely to get it? I doubt the first two would even be considered, tbh. 442 managerial merrygoround feature this month has mourinho as dream candidate (pointless to even wish tbh) and concludes that tim sherwood is as likely as anyone.

There just seems to be serious gaps in the managerial assembly line in england atm, idk.

shit this is still the newcastle thread, sorry

I think Rodgers is trendy enough to be the most in demand manager *in* England.

you are getting thrown the fuck out of this thread like so many feckless boyfriends on byker grove

So that Cabaye, huh?

> tiote

tiote is great but i think cabaye was necessary for them to become legit contenders, he has the nous, quick feet and sly dangerous tackling of prime era paul scholes

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All the talk has been about Papiss Cisse, Demba Ba and Yohan Cabaye. But above that they have got the best bunch of squad players in the league: such as Danny Simpson, Mike Williamson, James Perch, Danny Guthrie, Ryan Taylor and Shola Ameobi.

Andy Townsend says so anyone believe that?

i dont think newcastle have been on itv this year so that means you must have read an andy townsend article? lol @ you.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/david-conn-inside-sport-blog/2012/may/01/newcastle-united-cockney-mafia-order

Steve Harper’s Newcastle XI squad: Steve Harper, Pavel Srnicek, Shay Given, John Beresford, Olivier Bernard, Nikos Dabizas, Brian Kilcline, Darren Peacock, Alessandro Pistone, Steve Watson, Joey Barton, Lee Bowyer, Nicky Butt, Lee Clark, Kieron Dyer, Ruel Fox, Keith Gillespie, David Ginola, Rob Lee, Liam O’Brien, Scott Sellars, Nolberto Solano, Steve Stone, Alan Thompson, Tino Asprilla, Peter Beardsley, Andy Cole, Les Ferdinand, Paul Kitson, Alan Shearer.

Milan Glorie squad: Sebastiano Rossi, Massimo Taibi, Franco Baresi, Alessandro Costacurta, Roberto Favalli, Paolo Maldini, Roberto Mussi, Massimo Oddo, Giuseppe Pancaro, Pietro Vierchowod, Ibrahim Ba, Zvonimir Boban, Angelo Carbone, Federico Giunti, Christian Lantignotti, Gianluigi Lentini, Mark van Bommel, Daniele Massaro, Christian Vieri, Paolo Di Canio.

That is possibly the flakiest all time Premiership squad ever assembled. Love how Barton's in there.

I would imagine it would be quite a task to try and compile a non-flaky Necastle XI. Lovely mixture of beauty (Baresi, Maldini, Costacurta, Boban, Ginola, Beardsley) and beast (Barton, Bowyer, Shearer, van Bommel) on display here.

heart's no in it (onimo) wrote this on thread A club-by-club best XI during the Premier League era on board I Love Football on 04-Feb-2011

Christmas Tree Toon
			Given
Venison		Albert		Hughes		Beresford
	Solano		Batty		Ketsbaia
		Beardsley	Gascoigne
			Shearer
Bench: Asprilla, Ginola, Srnicek, Lee, Cole

leaving laurent robert out of the squad = hating fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfyty0_9Iyo

and like idnr ketsbaia being anything but shite

He kicked that advert that one time. It's things like that that make TBLITW what is today.