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Newcastle are now just three days away from kicking off their Premier League campaign, but expectations on Tyneside have never been lower. I think most Newcastle fans will be happy to survive this season, although lack of investment in the playing squad means that will be a massive gamble, and it appears that it is [...]

I’ve was just picking through some of the older articles on this site, and very good they were too, so credit where it is due. Then something struck me as I heard an advert on the TV in the background. The new Championship season starts tonight. Remember that? You know, that thing we were in [...]

Thoughts on Tyneside are beginning to turn towards the start of the Premier League season and the return of real football, not this World Cup malarkey. That task at hand is simple, survival is the minimum target. That’s not to say we can’t finish higher up the table than 17th place, but let’s just say [...]

The Newcastle captaincy is still up for grabs for this season, but who will be the likely heir to the captains armband? The full-time club captain is yet to be named although it seems likely that either Alan Smith or Kevin Nolan will get the honour of the captaincy this season. The next captain won’t [...]

It’s an easy thing to say, especially when your view is a little biased, like mine for example, but Newcastle do seem to still have a bit of pulling power about them. It would have been easy to lose it after our season out of the top flight. It would have been easy to lose [...]

Newcastle United’s return to the big time has coincided with the launch of a new set of rules that all clubs in the top flight must adhere to. I am of course talking about the new ‘home-grown’ and ’25 man squad’ rules that come into force this season. But how does it affect Newcastle? Well [...]

In amongst the realistic speculation there have been some pearlers over the course of the summer, and that doesn’t look like it is going to end soon as silly season really does begin to swing into action. Earlier I wrote about Sol Campbell, which seems like a pefectly reasonable acquisition and wouldn’t be out of [...]

After a brief flurry of transfer activity and rumour on the Newcastle front, things seem to have settled down a bit. Dan Gosling, as yet, hasn’t signed, and our players have been away for a week training in Ireland. Obviously this has meant that Chris Hughton has been away with them as he tries to [...]

At the moment, all the rumours seem to be surrounding players such as Dan Gosling and Tom Cleverley. The problem for me is that both of those are midfield players, and in my opinion we should be making signing a striker a priority. Now it’s only speculation surrounding those two players, but they are both [...]

The one thing I missed about being in the Premier League was the lack of TV coverage of Newcastle matches, but now we are back I don’t have to worry about that anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I realise we had our fair share of matches on TV last season, probably more than our fair [...]