Author Profile - Alan Clay ( 29 Posts )

I can’t get my head around the bizarre possibility that for a match that could decide our Premiership survival, we could end up playing a player who the club have washed their hands of and made next to no effort to keep, instead of an international high profile signing who a major investment has been made in, at least in part to help ensure we stay up this season!

Hatem Ben Arfa; “I’m very happy now, they’re very good players and will really strengthen the team. I was pleased because they’re good players and not just because they’re French”.

This England call-up is just another step up the ladder for Fraser making it to the very top and Newcastle United will be the losers.

More than any other position on the pitch, strikers will have good, and not so good, spells. Players of the calibre of Ba and Cisse need the fans behind them and be allowed to play through their lean spell.

Yes, I also want to ‘tick off my list’ playing for England, similarly I also have the occasional daydream involving Cheryl Cole, Bill Gates’ bank balance and curing world poverty!

They aren’t getting my £45, are they getting yours?

I like Simpson as a player but I think the club missed a massive opportunity with Debuchy as I believe it would have given Newcastle the best pair of full-backs in the country.

Especially with Shola picking up an injury during the warm up on Saturday, maybe the most intriguing possibility is whether Alan Pardew would throw Adam Campbell straight into the firing line.

Alan Pardew: “There’s me telling my players to behave themselves and follow the Olympic spirit and be humble, and they did it except for me.

I’m sure Alan Pardew was anything but relaxed that he didn’t have the likes of Ben Arfa, Cisse, Ba and Cabaye on the pitch and it appears the rest of the players weren’t too impressed either.