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Good piece, that.

Couldn't give a fuck about the people wetting their pants on either side of this debate, but I just had to bump this:

Plenty of oily fish. Even if they do leave it to rot in a barrel for six months first.

Ah Steve. Big up to you mate. Can't help you on the action photo front just yet, but they've only gone and given me a pink running vest, so I'm sure there'll be some sexy pics on the Facebook group before long.

The better half and I are gradually working out the details of a 5th anniversary trip that needs to take in NYC, San Francisco, Nashville and Dollywood.

You just don't listen. Typical bloke. That reminds me, do you want to come round for Sarnies, beer and football on the weekend? I was going to turn up, invite or no invite. Is it my turn to bring the beer or the granary bread or both? If you like whisky that tastes like burnt bacon, you can help yourself. Hmm. If we soak the bread in it before doing the sausages, does that consitute a farmhouse breakfast?

You just don't listen. Typical bloke. That reminds me, do you want to come round for Sarnies, beer and football on the weekend? I was going to turn up, invite or no invite. Is it my turn to bring the beer or the granary bread or both?

In many ways, this place took a turn for the worse with Lou's departure. Potentially controversial view, I realise.

You just don't listen. Typical bloke.

You wanna hope so. ?

Welcome to the forum, circa now. It's horrible.

I assume he never accepted a Christmas present either.

Fucking hell.

Hamilton is fuming.

Magma son, you're a credit to the human race.

Weren't you a ballboy too? I'm starting to think you're the "insider" we've had to suffer in the press for the last [x] seasons.

....just coming. Shit. First Magma beats me to an obvious punchline, and now this.

Magma beat me to (a variant on) the obvious joke. My Toontastic career is officially over.

I bowled up at the team training session in Katrineholm, Sweden (where my mother's side of the family is from) during the club's pre-season tour in 1988 for the sole purpose of pestering everyone for their autograph. Got me on the front page of the local newspaper and everything. (Hey, it's a small town.) Looking at the book now, apparently I asked some of them several times. Mirandinha's is a particularly pleasing lazy squiggle.

I'm genuinely starting to fear for the non-perpetuity of this place.

A general shoulder-shrug for last night then.

sammynb has been drinking (not me). J. J. Cale - Roll On. Schmooooth.

I like talking about other clubs as much as Newcastle, and I take the point about people having already said what you want to say, but do you never see something and think "is this kid all there?" when you vehemently have to argue a point? Oh totally. And I do get stuck in occasionally. It's partly a by-product of the season we're having though, there's only so many times you can cover the same old ground, even when there's some idiot who needs telling. Besides, I know you'll invariably arrive to take issue with them soon enough.

Depressingly few of the other items have changed much...

I'm much the same really. It's not that I have nowt to say in the Newcastle forum, it's just that usually someone else has already got there or can say what I think far better than I could manage. Besides, sometimes it's better to just sit back and watch the sparks fly.