(“if you don't want to know the score…look away now..”) That alone brought back untold memories.

Agree - difficult to see how he can come back from this or at least have a good career. The lad must be so gutted, he had a fantastic future in my opinion and was easily Championship level. There is banter and then there is full-on idiocy. No football player from any club (even our rivals) should be laughed at when they have potentially seen their career in tatters due to injury.

Someone ban this troll

Really feel for the guy..such a promising careerahead and it looks like it might be blighted by injury.

Agree - Dont like Newcastle but hope they stay up for this reason alone.

Players get picked based on form for their clubs - always has been and always will be. This notion that stats are useless is just another Chaddyism.

This guy is quality and will be a big reason for us going up automatically if we manage it. Would be great if we could somehow get him on the books permanently.

Mostly fringe players being asked to play for the youths - doesnt bode well if their attitude stinks. Suck it up and put yourself back into the managers plans. Whittingham is a prime example - marquee signing from the Championship who is now playing for the reserves in L1. Samuel too hasnt taken well to being bought and dropped

Wow - that side would be a decent L1 side.

It's in the game

Now you're snookered Chaddy.

Potential is there but not sure he has the hunger. 23 now and despite making his professional debut in the PL, he is looking more and more like a L2 player. Good at social media though.

Still my favourite player of all time - and thats ahead of any of our title winning team.

So are we to assume that the four players who wanted out are Graham, Lenihan, Mulgrew and one other?

That really is crazy - shouldnt it be the feet that determine whether someone is offside? That's how I have always judged it anyway.

Far too sensible for that lot. Would be ideal though...TM can spot a player I give him that and this is one side we are not sure too much about with Johnno and Dunn - let them get on with the pitch side of things with TM guiding them.

Yeah heard that it is more his physical attributes rather than his technical ability that is holding him back at the moment. Seems quite lightweight and not particularly fast - as you say, if he can address those we would certainly have an excellent prospect.

Think Costello can play anywhere in an attacking sense. Up front, behind or on the wing.

What a goal that was, absolutely superb. If Man City has scored that you would not hear the end of it.

He looked a really handy player a few seasons back..wanted us to sign him..wonder whats happened there.

If Skip says it i believe it. Our man on the ground at academy level.

Decent playtr in his day - what is he now 47?

Thats pretty much what I meant in a round about way - its far too contentious and there are different opinions. In some cases you would not be able to say for sure if it was an intentional dive or not - yes some are obvious but even then there might be a small chance it was not a dive. Start throwing around huge fines like that would end up with players in the courts I would expect. Stick to non-monetary punishments that will hurt the team such as instant 3-match bans and the likes of Morata would not be doing it anymore .

Isnt there another live game for us before those?

There will be ways around that