Howmanheyman

Alright then, nothing doing, please don't stop posting on your own forum, though.

Does anyone know of any buses/coaches going with two spare places? Me and my pal have just got some tickets but Back page is sold out, toonaway don't seem to be going and some of the lads who we would normally go with are staying back up here for a mates wedding. We could fly down on saturday etc, etc but as Mick Huckle said, 'money's too tight to mention'. I haven't exhausted all ideas just yet but any extra info would be gratefully received.

There's millions of the fuckers in the States, PL, you've just got to know where to look.

All the best.

Wow touched a nerve there.. This is going to be a great game, I expect your midfield to dominate ours if you start with Smith and Barton but your strikers are looking weak, while ours are on fire but Chopra's partner Bothroyd is injured , looks like Ethuhu will start with him who is very fast I think he will do well against Collocinni (clown). Anyway in my opinion if Newcastle were to win this you are going to have to score at least 2 goals against our defence which is looking decent. Some interesting thoughts on the game Doug, I too expect a decent enough game and think it'll be a tough call. The main question, however is, have you thought of any songs for us yet?

Most Welsh lads I've met haven't been too bad actually. They're almost quaint. In the dark world of the 2nd Division, the average fan of most clubs can't help but lift his gaze up to the Gods and the Stars and err.......post about Newcastle Utd. Thats just the way it is.

I think I'll join their forum and think of songs to sing about Cardiff. "Shirley Bassey! Comes from Cardiff, Comes from Cardiff!" Or perhaps........ Erm........ .........Actually, I think I'll give it a miss.

You're welcome, I've been waiting for the right opportunity to use that gif for weeks We're all pleased that opportunity came along.

Mail Chez at the Leazes end, last week.

Eeeeee, thats good to hear!

i think that need to go in your sig Tom seems a good lad, I think he might go for it.

EEEeeeeee! Aaaaaaa!!!! How much did they fleece you for that you get that for?

Craig has also reminded me of this post I made. What can you say? (If my wife see's this little cartoon man, it means his trousers have caught fire and he is desperately trying to put out the flames).

good call.

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you Tom, example number one.......Told you, didn't I?

Aa canna agree wiv ye bonny lad. It maybe spelt 'Howay' but ivvory time aa've hord it said it soonds like 'Haway' an aa've bin aroond a lot langer thin most. The Geordie dialect has always leaned towards a hard 'A' when spoken so it makes sense that a Geordie would say Ha'way as opposed to Ho'way. For instance:- aad - old. aaful - awful. ahad - hold. ahight - high. amang - among. and of course 'aa knaa ye knaa' .......so I believe it's Ha'way the Lads. 'a' and 'ee'. Geordie's favourite sounds.

Lord Percy of the street sayeth...... It's nice to be nice. I think Accadacca has been sniffing glue sometimes and forgets the manhole cover that has been shifted by Llambias and his master FMA, we have luckily avoided the hole so far, but we're going to fall in it sometime soon. But I suppose Accadacca is positive. My neighbour who is part of the crowd I go to the match with, insists we'll beat every team we play, he's been going since the early seventies, I have a laugh at that optimism but would sooner have a night on the piss with Gary Rowell than call him a 'spacca'* to be fair. (He's a 'tidy' fucker so I wouldn't dare as well as being a sound bloke). *Can't stand the phrase.

You didn't sell out you had 2,879 tickets sold, a commendable effort for a club like yourselves of a 4,000 allocation. I don't know why fans of clubs lie about taking more fans places than they actually do. Leeds are also guilty of this. Sunderland and their commentators have been doing this for years, they got relegated at Maine Road, (the season after their flukey promotion after Swindon got done by the FA for illegal betting), anyway, at first there was 12,000 mackems there, then every time they went back for an update there was a thousand added to the figure, also remember hearing Duncan Wood on the radio who must have been moonlighting from Tyne Tees saying that there would be complaints from the locals around Roker Park about the sheer noise that was coming from the old ground. (I think there was 13,000 that night for a league cup tie).

Well I've lived on the west side of the toon all my life and phonetically it's always been "HOWEHHH" to us. It's the closer you get to Wearside from any point the more Sunderland the pronunciation becomes.. Haddaway an' shite, man!!! I feel unclean, now.

Bacon and onion???? That's wrong, surely. Me, probably whitefish and sable, with cream cheese, capers, and onions. fried onion goes lovely with bacon, trust me.

I've a feeling we'll get beat on sunday, obviously hope I'm wrong but we need to start like a house on fire again, put some doubt in both their players and fans minds and we might nick it again, still have a feeling we'll get beat though. (For what it's worth, ha'way/howay the lads should be spelled the way it's pronounced, surely? I've been brought up in Walker and lived in the East end for most of my life, (with a two year spell in Wallsend), I feel like doing a pope and kissing the ground every time I've crossed the Tyne bridge after even just eight hours being south of the River, so no Mackem-ish tendencies here, however, phonetically I say HA'WHERE the lads. So ha'way is closer than howay, does anyone actually pronounce the O? Does it really matter? I once had a cricket style, black & white NUFC hat which spelled 'Ha'way the lads' on it which fell off and was lost the night that the bastards beat us in the play offs, Does NUFC know how its spelled or supposed to be spelled because they obviously didn't know then.

I've just made myself a fried bacon and chopped onion sarnie in pitta bread quickly heated in the pan with mayonnaise added in the middle when made. I'm pleased to report it was very, very nice. Any other sarnies I/we should hear about?

Flash tennis Don't know if anyone's put this on before but it's simple and easy and kills a bit of time. (Play the tournament, it'll take about ten minutes once you're used to it).