3 brain cells??? What about Steve Highway? And erm...­ Steve Coppell? They both went to college man.­ Footballers aren't stoopid, look how much they get­ paid.
Tony, I'm afraid I agree with Malc D. Your­ comment 7 was pompous, puffed up and just a little bit­ rude. I reckon you either have an ego as big as a­ bankers bonus or as small as NUFCs transfer kitty.­ Which one Tone?
How's the dog muck diet by the way?

not bad buisness that 31 million spent and 19 million­ made of player sales.and you probs wouldnt have used­ the players youve sold anyway and im a newcastle fan.

John Connoly
I wasn't apologising as I have­ nothing to apologise for, As for Sean, He tries, as­ for correcting his grammar and spelling , I think its­ come from his fellow mackems and not from,as you say, ­ the geordie posters. After all you can hardly speak the­ queens english as it is.
Did you see the press­ cuttting yesterday about S Bruce regretting the sale­ of D Collins? Does my statement not ring true that I­ made last week and you were so quick to pick up­ on.?????

Comment 7
you astound me totally. THIS IS A FOOTBALL­ FORUM DISCUSSION BOARD,or hasnt that sunk into your­ pompous, inadequate brain.
I don't proport to know­ all about football,nor the stats, however, I do know­ quite a lot about my team, having watched them for­ nearly 50yrs.
Now when you can match this experience­ and put your "experience" into legible­ discussion on this football forum without being­ insulting, abusive or petty, i may well talk to you on­ a regular basis.

MALCOLM D(oughnut)

You seem obsessed with what people­ know or dont know about football, obviously you would­ consider yourself to "know" a lot about­ football, does this mean you can reel off stats from­ obscure games that took place 25 years ago or do you­ consider yourself to be an expert in the finer points­ of the game? Either is a load of rubbish, anyone can­ learn stats if they are bored enough and as for the­ game itself, not much to know really and anyone who has­ played at any level would tell you that, i bet you are­ one of these people who listen to the pundits on telly­ (who get paid vast sums to analyse a 5 yard pass) and­ you think they are a football genius. Its a­ ridiculously simple game but theres always the morons­ who treat it like rocket science - if theres so much to­ know how come most players have about 3 brain cells?

MALCOLM D, well as long as we got that sorted and I­ accept your apology.

Speaking of snotty nosed kids,­ where's Sean A. He must be tired after his first­ couple of days back at school. I bet his teacher fell­ of her chair when he handed his English in. I don't­ know if anyone can remember how bad it was when he­ first started posting but I think it's improved­ dramatically since then, thanks to us Geordies keeping­ him right.

John can you stop going on about the past as I am­ concentarating on the present with my hopes for the­ future, all you seem to do is harp on about the past. I­ am refering purely to this point in time and nothing­ else.
As i said beefore I do not have a problem­ corresponding with you , but I do take exception to­ your so call football fan experts who know absolutely­ Sweeet bugger all. I am not a snotty nosed kid and have­ been red n white all my life and i am prepaered to­ discuss things rationally, but with some you just cant­ do that. By the way, i do not have any problem­ seperating fact from fiction. You may well come back­ up and may well be a bigger draw than us( then again­ that could be fiction) but at this point in time , you­ are not and we are and thats a fact.

MALCOLM D, you were going ok until the last line.
We­ have signed players in the past that would go nowhere­ near you and if we come back up next season, we will­ once again be a much bigger draw than you could ever­ be.

Comment two
Don't quote facts unless you know­ they are correct. No-one but the board and manager­ Knows how much has been spent exactly.
fact remains­ that we have spent money wisely and a darn site more­ than you lot have spent in this transfer window and­ gotten better players than you could ever hope to sign­ .

So in actual fact SAFC have spent 12­ million.......hardly the warchest promised. Plus the­ players brought in are no better than the ones shipped­ out!!
Harrods indeed........

Even spin doctor Quinn­ cant make these figures sound like serious investment

It's probably the way forward. Cut the squad, cut­ the bills and don't go stupidly into debt. The FA­ should and at sometime will slap a cap on the­ ridiculous amount some teams spend. They should take a­ leaf out of the playstation book. You get a certain­ amount of money and it's up to you to use it­ wisely.