You know it, I know it and I'm pretty sure Bobby Robson knows it, we have a problem with our left flank.

If Domi leaves which looks likely we will be forced to play either Gallagher, Dyer, Gavilan or Solano on the left. Liverpool look like they have signed Diomede, a former Toon target in the TDO era.

Last year we played 4-3-1-2 for most of the season but that drags Speed to the left midfield and leaves Lee exposed, or we don't have a left midfielder and we predictably forage down the right.

What about that Powell from Oxford, no news of him. This is an area where we will suffer all season IMHO.

-- Anonymous, June 07, 2000

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and yer right flank...oh and yer central midfield...and err, yer defence and not forgetting yer attack :-) Wow...yer bolloxed really :-)

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2000

Cheap, marginally funny but realistically we should hope for bigger and brighter things from you LR Must try harder, a bit like your defence.

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2000

Lee flicks ball out to Shearer, he nods it onto Big Dunc. Stam is showing Dunc goal-side, 'knowing' that he can't control the ball with his feet. The moment the ball is in the air everything goes into slow motion: the light gets clearer, there is a rushing in your ears. The huge Scot's face sets in a picture of concentration. He swivels as though hinged, his left leg kicking up and accross his body. Perfect connection with the ball. It's soaring straight and true towards the top right corner. A despairing Bosnich desperately tries to carry all those extra pounds accross the intervening gap. He's not going to make it. The net billows. Life suddenly switches back to real-time. An expolosion of black and white shirts and tattoed arms launches skywards. A rolling wall of bestial roars billows accross the turf to the huge, gurning beserker in front of the adoring Leazes end. It simply doesn't get any sweeter than this. A glorious volley. One of the best defenders in the world fooled. Utter bedlam in the stands. The Blaydon Races starts up and crowd and team are fused together by that master-welder with the white hair beaming at us all.

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2000

Brilliant Softie, when does the season start again?! Not soon enough.

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2000

DB....I KNEW without a doubt as I was "penning" that scouse-like witty response that someone would mention our defence. :-)

Isn't it scary that we pissed the league in 2nd gear with THAT defence and Andy Cole:-)

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2000

Softie.....you weren't talking about that fluke were ya. I watched it....every slow motion second of it and from where I was sat it was a 100% fluke. The Jock git wasn't even looking where he whacked it...and you know it :-)

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2000

Didn't need to: the goals don't move. Played for and richly deserved. All those piddling arguments about 'it could have gone anywhere' are like farts in a wind tunnel; it went in. Goodnight Vienna. :-)

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2000

Oi LR....same as the little Ginger git when he hit one from a Poshpuff corner.......peach of a strike....peach of a goal....gola of the month contender, if not winner if memery serves, but of course, he measured it precisely and hit it with slide rule precision didn't he!.....no possibilty of getting into row Z that time was there.

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2000

But the "little Ginger Git" does it all the time....Wor Fergus doesn't :-)

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2000

LR are you still talking about fluking the ball into the net?

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2000

'But the "little Ginger Git" does it all the time....Wor Fergus doesn't :-) '

He has to: Andy Cole misses so many that someone has to hide your blushes. Dunc just stays out of the way and lets Shearer score his 30 a season. :-)

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2000

How nmany did he put past U lot last term?...Didn't miss many then did he Softus:-)

And Wor Fergus fluked it..ya could tell by his celebrations :-)

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2000

We were just feeling sorry for him; ex-Mag and all that, trying to get his confidence up.

Nowt wrong with Dunc's celebration; raised fist, teammate on his back, Shearer saying, "What a f***ing beauty!" (even though he doesn't celebrate other people scoring as everybody knows); he was a bit more restrained than usual because it hadn't been much of a challenge. Donkey of a defender, fat, slow keeper...get it on target and it's in ;-) Scoring against Tranmere on a ploughed field, now, that one he was pleasantly surprised to tuck away. :-)

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2000

I used to have quite a lot of respect for LR when he first joined the BBS,but since he has rejoined the new BBS,he seems to have become a typical,crowing Scum tit! LR if you want to be given any respect on this BBS then you need to get back your previous sense of fairness and objectivity.otherwise he should stay with his own kind ps.--my term above-ie TCST is of course a 'fair and objective' comment

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2000

LR, You are foolish in the extreme to remind us that 4 of Andy's Premiership goals came from a match when we'd had a defender sent off and had no manager. How many has Andy put in against the Arse this season? 0.As opposed to Big's Al's one. How many against Leeds? 1 to my knowledge (possibly 2) to Big Al's four. How many against Liverpool? 1. As opposed to Big Al's 2. So, one can only assume that he got hsi goals against Derby etc.

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2000