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Well that sums a pretty shit season for us.
Knocked out of the Uefa Cup but we cant really complain as we were out played. Our main player is shearer and where more or less screwed when nobody is supplying him with the ball.
As for Viana, i can see why he never gets his game and if he continues to perform like that i would say a likely candidate for the transfer list.
When you come to think about transfer list, the whole midfield should be put on it. Well apart from Ambrose.
Dyer - Fast, but what do we get out of it? He never creates anything.
Jenas - He had a good season last year, but winning the young PFA or wotever its called got to his head and he thought he was something else and his performances this season have been poor.
Robert - Only performs when he can be bothered.
Bowyer - fair enough he hasnt been give first team football, but when he was given his chance he did nothing special. Reports are that he's been linked with Aston Villa and it wouldnt suprise me at all if he was to leave,
Speed - Too old, what more can i say?
As for bobby robson, he was full of praise for the players after the marseille match? was he watching the same match as me?
In the paper this morning reports are that were gonna be buying danny mills. Is there any need? just wasting money on more shite.
Prediction 2-1 defeat today.
Aston Villa 4th
Liverpool 5th
Newcastle 6th
And i bet you any money we dont sign anyone big in the summer and another poor season will be likely next year.
aston villa wont get 4th
and after your draw today and liverpool brilliant form lately.
well keep the 4th place
Well what a paethetic season. 
Uefa Cup isnt really a consilation.
Winning 2 games away from home all season, isnt very mint is it
id just like to say it was a funny last game of the season, 1-1 and it didnt seem like none of the teams wanted to win the match towards the end.
Our away form has let us down, but the problem doesn't look so serious when you actually analyse our form. With a bit of better luck and commitment until the final whistle we could turn this around.
Newcastle away games since christmas:
Man Utd (a) 0-0. Should have had a penalty, but this is Old Trafford we're talking about. We were narrowly better, but maybe a point was fair.
Birmingham (a) 1-1. Newcastle throw away a 1-0 lead in the 90th minute from a dubious free-kick.
Blackburn Rovers (a) 1-1. Jon Stead equalises for Blackburn in the 85th minute.
Portsmouth (a) 1-1. On-loan LuaLua equaises in the 89th minute for Portsmouth, against his own club.
Tottenham (a) 1-0. O'Brien scores an own goal in the 86th minute to give Tottenham the points in a game Newcastle dominated.
Bolton (a) 1-0. A freak goal from Pederson in the 4th minute gives Bolton the points, though Newcastle were terrible.
Aston Villa (a) 0-0. O'Brien sent off after 8 minutes, and 3 of our players limp off injured missing virtually the rest of the season.
Man City (a) 1-0. A weakened Newcastle side is disgraceful and gives the points to a highly unconvincing City.
Southampton (a) 3-3. Newcastle hit the bar twice and miss a header from a yard out, whilst scoring an own goal to help Southampton to a draw. How we didn't win this is a mystery.
Liverpool (a) 1-1. Bellamy and Dyer back, some improvement.
Out of a possible 30 points, we picked up 7.
Another great Newcastle United video from Pedro on the toontastic forums (right-click save target as):
http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling3.../Local_Hero.wmv
It's 34mb and 7 mins 21 secs, but worth the download if you like your football
This begins with Newcastle's final game of the season, the 1-1 draw at Liverpool, Ameobi's goal and the travelling hordes in the Anfield Road end. Then has Newcastle goals past and present superimposed over images of the city's attractions to the tune of Local Hero. Then it's to the tune of 'Home Newcastle' with plenty of goals and pictures of the fans.
Highlights:
1:35 - Alan Shearer's wondergoal against Leeds
2:40 - Liam O'Brien's free-kick against the Mackems.
3:00 - Asprilla's second goal against Barcelona.
3:28 - Newcastle's Toon Army in the Gallowgate end singing the Blaydon Races.
3:45 - After failing to score in their first three Champions League group games, Newcastle beat Juventus and then Kiev before Bellamy scores a last-minute winner at Feyenoord to put them through. No other side has ever come back from three defeats to qualify.
4:05 - The Jarrow Crusade. Had to give this a mention as it's my hometown 
5:02 - Ketsbaia earns Newcastle a Champions League place before running over and kicking shit out of the advertising boards
5:33 Phillipe Albert scores our 5th goal against Man Utd, lobbing Peter Schmeichel.
Great, I'll have to sign myself up on that board, I have a friend from Sweden that posts there, he is a huge Newcastle fan, he's gonna meet up with me next season and go to a game, he'll be like a little kid, lol!
By the way, you like my new avatar?
I'm just dissapointed in SBR's decision not too bring in any new faces during the season. In the end our inactivity in the transfer market caused our capitulation and when we had up to 6 key players injured during the run in, there was no one with enough quality as those 6 to make a real difference in our performances.
Everyone associated with the club could analyse who what when where why we faltered this season, but everyone agrees on the fact that we need new faces if we are to mount a serious challenge. That should be the clubs no 1 priority. Even, if we are running on a strict budget or have debt to clear.
New players in the off-season is an absolute MUST !
With players like Davids and Kluivert out there on a free transfer, we should at least be negotiating for them! Even if they say no, it's worth a try. Espescially Davids, he's exactly what we need in midfield. Where's our ambition in the transfer market?
We also shouldn't look down on loan deals, Middlesbrough got a good deal out of Mendieta.
We should loan Steven Taylor to a division one side until christmas, see how he performs. West Ham did this with Rio Ferdinand and he came on wonders, and look what a loan spell at Darlington did for Bernard.
I think we are the only club in the Premiership that keeps our transfer dealings close to our chests. It's all discreet and even though we are not linked with many players in the media, I'm more than sure Bobby has his eyes on the likes of Kluivert, Davids and probably more.
Loaning Taylor is an excellent suggestion. The kid has a great deal of potential and it cant be achieved if he is just playing in the reserves. Bernard's loan move to Darlington was more than beneficial for the club, he came back a totally new player.
I saw in the Sunday Sun newcastle are supposedly going to put in an �8 million bid for Samuel Eto'o. But if they go in for him they will try and get a right back for free. They might have been after a right back from Ajax but theyve bottled it supposedly as ajax are asking for �6 million. How can newcastle expect to do well when there not prepared to pay money for players?
I wont be suprised if we get Mills. Yipeeeeeeeeee
I'm not to keen about signing Eto'o. Don't get me wrong he is a fantastically gifted forward, but �8m is a very steep amount for any kind of player in the current financial market. Unless, your a heavyweight club that can afford a transfer fee that large, It just wouldn't be right if we lodged an �8m bid for him, since we have the opportunity to bring in players such as Kezman for less than �4m - who is equally good if not better than Eto'o.
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| How can newcastle expect to do well when there not prepared to pay money for players? |
fingers crossed we have a better season next year
I would go for Reiziger and Davids, both have been released from Barcelona to try and cut their wage bill, but if we get them on a free transfer the millions saved will cover the wages. We might get neither, we might get both, we don't know until we try.
I used to say we need a defensive midfielder, but other than Davids not many cheap players would fit the bill. Bowyer is starting to look his old self which is very promising. If we're going to spend anywhere other than striker, I'd go for a good centre-back to partner Woodgate, and replace him when he's injured, preferably one with a bit of pace because Bramble and O'Brien have none. If we did find a decent CB I'd get rid of Bramble, maybe we'd get a million or two for him.
We need to go shopping in Europe, British players are so overpriced. Birmingham are talking 4M for Savage, Smith cost 7M for Man Utd. Yet in Europe, Barcelona are negotiating figures of 6M for Giuly!
If were to have a better season next year, we have to spend money IMO. Look what happened last year, we bought nobody and what a dissapointing season we had.
Gravesen looks all but set to leave Everton. He would be a perfect bargain buy for Newcastle. Commanding, technically very good, scores goals from midfield, plays regularly at international level, he would provide the 'grit' in midfield that some say we lack.
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| Originally posted by czechstar00 Gravesen looks all but set to leave Everton. He would be a perfect bargain buy for Newcastle. Commanding, technically very good, scores goals from midfield, plays regularly at international level, he would provide the 'grit' in midfield that some say we lack. |
Well, his contract expires at the end of next season and his agent has told the press that he wants to leave Goodison. So the general consensus is that Everton would probably be looking to cash in for him, since Moyes stated that it is highly unlikely Gravesen will be offered a new extension to his current contract.
The CB & DM situation looks very bleak indeed, but im sure SBR will be sending good old Charlie Woods & co to Euro 2004 to see whats on offer.
On another note, Bobby's interest in right-back Miguel has been confirmed, with around 7M to be enough to prize him away from Portugal. However, like I said in an earlier post, we shouldn't be looking to spend that much on just one player.
I wouldn't mind spending 7M on one player if it were a proven CB, DM or striker to reinforce our backbone. I certainly wouldn't spend that much on an unproven right-back such as Miguel.
SBR said yesterday: "We have the opportunity to observe several players we like during Euro 2004 and we'll make some decisions once the tournament is over."
The problem with this is, if these players - whoever they are - have a bad tournament we lose interest. Yet if they have a good tournament the players' value rises, we could be outbid, or we risk buying an average player who happened to hit his best form at just the right time. We should have been sending scouts out months ago, not waiting so we can watch players on BBC along with the rest of the world. But this is a club that loaned out LuaLua, accidentally allowing him to play against us and get a last-minute equaliser, a club that let Bowyer's six-match European ban become a 12 match ban because they forget to register him with UEFA. Anything could happen 
As for kezman, I have no doubts he is a quality player but I don't think he'd be as cheap as 4M. More like 6 or 7M. Also some of the comments he made put me off him, he said he would consider Newcastle but only as a stepping stone to one of the 'big clubs' and said his target in his first season would be 10 goals. Sounds like a mercenary, if we're prepared to tolerate that kind of attitude, why not go for Kluivert - free, more experienced, and a better player.
you guys see Michael Bridges has joined a club on a free? shame, I thought he'd be well suited @ Newcastle :/
and Michael Chopra wants to go on loan somewhere, so that leaves us with 3 strikers, doesnt it? Ameobi, Bellamy and Shearer... hmm :|
If we offload Lua Lua we'll have to go looking for a striker.
A few weeks ago it looked a certainty LuaLua was out, espescially after refusing to come back for the Marseille game. But now Portsmouth are fucking us around refusing to pay 2M for him, after they told him how much they valued him. Now he says he would come back to us. I think he has 2 years left on his contract here, we want 2M for him but I understand Pompey are only offering 1M. If neither side backs down he could still be here next season in which case we probably wouldn't get a new striker.
But if we did sell him for 2M then as you say that leaves Shearer, Bellamy and Ameobi, which would force us into looking for a striker, possibly Shearer's replacement.
Newcastle's Inter-style away strip for next season (04/05):
I like it Better than the plain black we had last season. Let's hope we see a lot more points gained away from home in this!
What do you lot think?
These are the away shorts for next season:
I love the new away strip, I think it looks sick !
On the LuaLua issue, even if he doesn't leave I think it would be a wise idea if we did bring in an extra striker - Shearer's replacement. It gives us a chance to groom the player before he takes the responsibility of being the new no9. It increases the chances of the player adjusting to the clubs playing style, which is very crucial.
Also, not too sure why the club rushed in to offer big nose a new contract. Is he really doing the job at the back efficiently?
wow, very nice away strip! :O I love it...
now to find it in my size
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