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Couple of mackem supporting mates have asked me if I'm worried about Newcastle's poor season. They honestly thought that we should be running away with the league, and it was only after I explained just how well Brighton are doing that they understood that Newcastle are doing fine too. I know a...

Yeah, to the tune of c£30m. This will come to a head in the summer and one of three things will happen; 1. Ashley refuses to cow and Rafa walks 2. Ashley cows and we build for the future 3. One of the rumoured consortiums come in and the lay of the land is unclear for another season or so...

Same power-play he's made at every club with an ******** as an owner. It'll galvanise the fanbase behind him, it'll strengthen his position come transfer time, it may even drag better performances from complacent players. Should Ashley fail to support him satisfactorily in the Summer and Rafa...

You should see the FEWM on twitter and the boards today. Last night's disappointing performance means; we won't go up automatically, we won't go up in the play offs, Rafa is definitely leaving us, Ashley prefers us as a big fish in a small pond and is actively sabotaging out promotion! Before...

Absolutely, Chelsea would sign someone like Sidwell, purely to weaken teams who's actually have played him. Everton and their ilk. I think too many people who play FIFA and Football Manager, think that you have to make a signing every window. As I've said elsewhere, if we were amongst the...

Quite a few kids (and a worrying number of grown men) panicking that Newcastle didn't sign anyone in the window. Specifically that we didn't sign Andros Townsend. Try telling them that buying for buying's sake is a mugs game, especially when we're on course for around 100pts this season and...

Minimum number of recognised 1st team players have to play. All games can be televised (Sky, BT and BBC Red Button could all cope with that) Points deduction for any bellends choosing to field Matz Sels.

Trouble is we play one up front, so when we discuss 11v11 you'd have Gayle & Murray, we'd have Gayle and an attacking midfielder like Mo Diame or Perez and how do you compare Baldock with Diame or Perez. They do very different jobs. That said, Murphy and Mitrovic are both very good strikers at...

Consensus amongst my mates is that Knockaert is class and we were all disappointed we couldn't tempt him to leave, Dunk is probably the best CB in the league, aside from those two and leftback I'm not sure if you stacked 11v11 we'd pick a Brighton player over our own. Partly through ignorance...

Tough set of fixtures, but that's why we bought a load of players. The squad is comfortable with rotation and the lads should be back from AFCON. Hopefully we'll have added a couple of players in the window too. The big test will definitely be you, Hughton deserves so much credit for the unit...

RTG is a decent one, plenty of traffic and once you weather the initial resistance to you there's some decent chats to be had. MOT Forum is canny, but quiet, WACCOE is the busier Leeds forum but suffers for it. Newcastle Online is by far the busiest, and that's great for them, but the...

Toontastic is pretty quiet, but I think that's because we've got a higher average age than the other two, but I couldn't back that up with anything more than gut instinct. Our mods are pretty good at making sure there aren't multiple threads about the same thing and we're also fairly intolerant...

I know sometimes you have to sell your players to keep the lights on, but the sums Barnsley have got for their best players is a pittance. £3m for Bree is bad enough, but Hourihane has been one of the best players in the league thus far, £3m is nothing. Newcastle spent more than that on a 3rd...

What's your financial situation at the moment? Given the inflated prices being bandied about, will you strengthen with permanent signings who can pass muster in the top flight?

Can't really understand rivals who are floundering in their league trying to gloat over teams that are performing well in theirs. Palace are in a shit state, so much so they've put their faith in Sam Allardyce. An unscrupulous manatee who's only capable of setting a team in one system; Get the...

Unfortunately I can't edit my avatar as of yet. I'll pop something in the sig, or member description though.

I'm a Newcastle fan, we beat them both 2-0.

Radrizzani might pump a lot of money into the transfer coffers to push for promotion this year, so it's better there's a good gap between them and the automatic spots. So, I'd prefer a Derby win, that keeps the play-off pack tight, and Leeds 7pts off the automatic spots. For what it's worth, of...

Caulkin is perhaps my favourite football writer, and a really worthwhile follow on twitter too.

The whole big club thing is a nonsense, every fanbase has a specific criteria to describe what constitutes a "big club"; Trophy haul, Recent trophy haul, Leagues not cups, FA cups not League cups, Wealth, Stadium capacity, Average Attendances, Average Away Attendances, Global awareness, social...