Newcastle Thread

He's just been admitted to hospital in the US with his life in danger apparently.

Going to live sporting events is great. The addition of slides for fans would make it at least 1000 times better.

Newcastle may be having a less than stellar season in the Premier League but somebody inside the walls of the city’s development board deserves an Alan Pardew-esque contract.

According to the Journal Live website, NE1 Ltd have lodged a planning application to install slides behind the Gallowgate end of St James’ Ground.

The idea would be fans could use these slides to move quickly from to the underground train station and car park rather than the long flight of stairs.

According to the report, Utrecht in the Netherlands already have the slides installed where they are known as travel accelerators.

If the council gives them the nod, the slides will be built in the summer.

A spokesperson for the city centre development company, Adrian Waddell said: “The slides are intended to inject some fun into the city centre and we hope people in suits will feel as comfortable using them as youngsters in casual gear. The slides, like our pocket parks, are designed to attract attention and get people talking.”

Quite how the famously shirtless fans will get on when they hit the slide remains to be seen but if it gets the go ahead we want these put in at Croker too.

No doubt some stupid club will give him a second undeserved chance.

Nile Ranger is fucking awful.

The 3 goals he scored for us were all tap in's into empty nets too, in the 50-odd games he played.

He's not that bad. If he could ever sort his life out and actually concentrate on being a professional footballer he could probably be a decent PL forward, but not one that will ever score many goals. Big if though.

His goal against Palace was pretty good.

It appears Ben Arfa's playing as the focal point of the attack tonight, I assume it's to give us a more defensive approach tonight. Great to see him back in the side regardless.

Unfortunately Coloccini's apparently out for anywhere between 3 and 7 weeks after he broke bones in his back! Good job we bought Yanga-Mbiwa.

Served him right for trying to do such a flashy clearance tbf.