Happy Face

"You never count your money, when you're sittin' at the table. There'll be time enough for countin', when the dealin's done." Fuck some days I wish you'd just fold'em! Forget all this attractive football shite, we haven't played attractive football consistantly since SBR took the team to third. How are people going to react when at home against Derby Allardyce sets his team to stiffle the opposition? If it works and we win, I'll be over the moon. If Allardyce finishes us higher year on year for (say) 3 years running, getting us back into Europe long term but with some dull football, i'll be more than happy. You seriously want us to appoint a fifth manager in the space of three years, just to avoid the odd bit of boredom, even if there's some fun (like Arsenal) mixed in there. We're already a laughing stock man. Even the mackems accept their lot in life with more dignity than this. Were you a Shepherd fan? Serious question because he was also keen on getting rid of any manager that looked like they might not finish top 5, and that's why most fans can't stand the fat fuck. For sacking people at the wrong time and making the Newcastle job about as appealing as England, though it was very appealing when he took charge. I personally hate him for being a fat arrogant prick who could not see when he made a mistake and had the footballing management judgement of a dead rat. Oh and for using NUFC as his own personal cash cow and shitting on the fans. QFT and I also feel fat Freddy employed Allardyce for all the wrong reasons. He like Shepherd isn't (wasn't) adverse to a few dodgy transfers, Allardyce is know to get the best out of cheap and bargain players, etc. Then everything changed. Most of those traits don't really impact the clubs success, the only one that does is management selection and as I recall it 99% of people on here were in favour of Allardyce. I ask the question because I thought Shepherd's high turnover of managers was a bugbear among fans. Perhaps it was just me. But to lambaste Shepherd because he never learned from his mistakes, and then to advocate ANOTHER sacking without a better replacement lined up smacks to me of contradiction. Also, if you don't have time to explain why I'm wrong, best not to condescend to me, when you're the one in the minority on this one mate.

I got a PM about that too and I don't think I've posted on the footy forum there since the split. I'm more interested in crisp flavours tbh

Are you banned from there like Stevie? Would seem to be the place to ask about it if not.

They did out the whole of Goose after the smoking ban but left in the same nasty bogs. Stink of piss.

Are we really talking down about nerds on a web forum??? IRONY!! Yes. It would have been irony in 1992. Now that 70% of people are interneted up there are degrees of nerd that can be categorised the same as real life. There's categories of nerds? Are they heirachical like the fuedal system? Inter-web nerds at top, LARPers at the bottom? LARPers?

Are we really talking down about nerds on a web forum??? IRONY!! Yes. It would have been irony in 1992. Now that 70% of people are interneted up there are degrees of nerd that can be categorised the same as real life.

I always thought people that read his books were the type that read Star Trek books and those ones where you make a decision at the end of each page. "You've decided to join forces with the elves - turn to page 124" How shit were they?

Blatantly backing big red up Am I wrong though? He does as much as any of the other players imo, but like the rest of the team it's wasted because they're all playing out of position and frankly for me don't look like they know what they should be doing, this is what worries me about Allardyce. Organised, defensive, a team with a plan.....fuck off. A team thats scraping through each game as it comes in my eyes. The players who're being played out of position are the ones who've been our best performers (Martins, Milner, Zoggy), they've been able to do the job required wherever they've played. We should really be blaming the players HAVE looked lost and can't even perform where they're supposed to.

"I felt I had to change things. Then I saw that I couldn't win this fight, but 10 years later they are struggling in the same position. So I was right." It's not like we didn't improve after he left.

I don't buy into the whole football is life, getting married at the stadium, queueing for the new strip shite. Nor do I go to the match expecting to be entertained outside of the banter of the people I sit with. Football is a pain in the arse for 90% of fans 90% of the time. We go for the 10% when it's not. Which Newcastle got far too much of under Keegan/Robson and have been spoiled by. If I sat on my todd in the library that is the East Stand without a pint before or after, I might choose not to go if the football was this bad, but for me football is far more about the the camaraderie than the glory to be honest with you.

"You never count your money, when you're sittin' at the table. There'll be time enough for countin', when the dealin's done." Fuck some days I wish you'd just fold'em! Forget all this attractive football shite, we haven't played attractive football consistantly since SBR took the team to third. How are people going to react when at home against Derby Allardyce sets his team to stiffle the opposition? If it works and we win, I'll be over the moon. If Allardyce finishes us higher year on year for (say) 3 years running, getting us back into Europe long term but with some dull football, i'll be more than happy. You seriously want us to appoint a fifth manager in the space of three years, just to avoid the odd bit of boredom, even if there's some fun (like Arsenal) mixed in there. We're already a laughing stock man. Even the mackems accept their lot in life with more dignity than this. Were you a Shepherd fan? Serious question because he was also keen on getting rid of any manager that looked like they might not finish top 5, and that's why most fans can't stand the fat fuck. For sacking people at the wrong time and making the Newcastle job about as appealing as England, though it was very appealing when he took charge.

"You never count your money, when you're sittin' at the table. There'll be time enough for countin', when the dealin's done." I knew you'd know it. Only thanks to Wyclef Jean

"You never count your money, when you're sittin' at the table. There'll be time enough for countin', when the dealin's done."

I'd say we're sniffing, but not going so far as to piss on them yet. We're only 5 points off fiifth pace with games against Derby and Wigan coming up. People are still vehemently complaining. Sorry to repeat the point from earlier but after those two games the fixtures get infinitely harder. I'd be very surprised if we're in such a promising position at the end of Jamuary on current form. And again you're talking about where we might be, I'm talking about where we ARE.

I'd say we're sniffing, but not going so far as to piss on them yet. We're only 5 points off fiifth pace with games against Derby and Wigan coming up. People are still vehemently complaining.

Red Road A CCTV camera operator in Glasgow abuses her position to track a man from her past. I'm meant to be catching up on 2007, but this was supposed to be one of the best films of 2006 so I gave it a whirl. It is superb at telling a story without characters telling the story. Hitchcock always said that's what pure cinema is, the camera expolaining to the viewer what's going on. Here, that's the way it goes all the way until the finale when it all starts to come out in the wash and characters emotion allows them to speak of the terrible events that were barely hinted at. For that alone it deserves a lot of credit.

So thats a thumbs up then? Ive seen planet terror for £6.99 but cant decide if i should buy it. As high as thumbs can go. Gets everything right that Death Proof gets wrong. Apparently Tarantino had a lot of input on Planet Terror and it looks like Rodriguez and he really went to town on it recreating the 'Grindhouse' thing. It looks nastier than DP, it's got more skin, more violence, more gore, more explosions and funnier dialogue. The edit points are more jarring, the missing reel is hilarious and it's just a more enjoyable all round realisation of making a bad film well. With DP Tarantino seemed frightened to put his name to something that wasn't well composed. So you get shots that don't fit at all (in the first few minutes alone there's a shot of Jungle Julia lying on the sofa to match her poster which looks too well thought out, then another of the camera climbing her leg, over her back-side and out of the window she's looking through to see her friends arrive, and another tight on the lasses crotch as she runs for a pee - none of them 'fit' the grindhopuse ideal they were chasing) and as I recall it the filmstock looked barely aged (there were a few minutes where it went black and white, there were cracks and the colour was always saturated, but compared to PT it looked like a big budget, shiny hollywood production). Todd Haynes has got a lot of credit for his last couple of films (Far From Heaven and I'm Not There), they perfectly recreate the era they're portraying, most importantly as cinema of that era would have portrayed them. This is what I thought the Grindhouse double bill was attempting, Planet Terror gets it spot on, Death Proof falls short.

Did we? Fucking hell HF, which way are you going? Pro? Or against? You're like a fucking wind sock! You see this is the problem with our support. They think like George "You're either with us, or against us" Bush. It's not as straightforward as "we're not top of the league so sack him". Yes, there's been some shit, yes Allardyce spouts some shit, that's no reason to go for a 5th manager in 3 years for christs sake! See I'd argue that your attitude is synonymous of the problems with our supporters. It's obvious to all but the blind and the ostrich that there are problems but at least the blind have an excuse, what's yours? Two very lucky, though not as "lucky" as NI it wasn't a penalty Lawrie would have you believe, wins and immediately we're safer than the twin towers against a jet aircraft. My excuse is that I never wanted him here in the first place. How could anyone have seen us playing any different under him, did you ever see Bolton play? In our haste to get rid of Roeder without any forethought whatsoever as to having a BETTER manager lined up we brought this on ourselves. Do you want to make the same mistake again? Anyway, I didn't want to get into a sacking debate, it's been done to death. Just to point out I'm not a flakey, flip-flopper, who's opinion changes with the weather as you suggest, but just someone with a bit of common who can see through the bullshit BOTH sides spout.

Did we? Fucking hell HF, which way are you going? Pro? Or against? You're like a fucking wind sock! You see this is the problem with our support. They think like George "You're either with us, or against us" Bush. It's not as straightforward as "we're not top of the league so sack him". Yes, there's been some shit, yes Allardyce spouts some shit, that's no reason to go for a 5th manager in 3 years for christs sake!

To come: Chelsea x2 Man U x2 Liverpool away Arsenal away Pompey away Villa away Everton away Spurs (false position) away. Blackburn and Man City only teams above us played away. I'd say that was skewed list of fixtures compared with whats gone. Those are our future fixtures, we can only judge the past ones which haven't really been "easy". And in which we've performed better than last year. Judging by the performances so far I expect about 6 points from those games if we're lucky. We'd better not start losing against garbage at home. The same as we took from them last year then. You're hardly winning us over ! He expects us to do as well as we did last year against teams that are better than us, I expect us to get more than 6 points from those games. Either way we wouldn't have gone backwards.

Planet Terror Work of absoloute genius. Easy the best of 2007 I've seen so far. Shit's on Death Proof from a significant altitude.

To come: Chelsea x2 Man U x2 Liverpool away Arsenal away Pompey away Villa away Everton away Spurs (false position) away. Blackburn and Man City only teams above us played away. I'd say that was skewed list of fixtures compared with whats gone. Those are our future fixtures, we can only judge the past ones which haven't really been "easy". And in which we've performed better than last year. Judging by the performances so far I expect about 6 points from those games if we're lucky. We'd better not start losing against garbage at home. The same as we took from them last year then.

Cheating bastard. [/obvious]

Some mistakes, some lessons learnt... Geremi hasn't had a great start like, but 4-4-3 is what Allardyce knows. It's what brought him success at Bolton and it's not like the football is a whole lot better when he plays 4-4-2. He seems to have realised that Smith belongs further forward and Smith had looked better over the last few games as a result. Butt was maybe rushed back, worth a punt when he's been our best midfielder. Some of his changes have been met with incredulity from the fans, but those were games that were pretty much lost. When Butt went off injured last week he put Viduka on. Yesterday Emre came on for Geremi. So he's getting more rather than less creative. Martins is highest scorer so he knows how to utilise him. Milners been one of our best performers, if it's not his best position he's doing very well there. There's a couple of examples of learning above, and the last four performances have been infinitely better than the previous four before that.

To come: Chelsea x2 Man U x2 Liverpool away Arsenal away Pompey away Villa away Everton away Spurs (false position) away. Blackburn and Man City only teams above us played away. I'd say that was skewed list of fixtures compared with whats gone. Those are our future fixtures, we can only judge the past ones which haven't really been "easy". And in which we've performed better than last year.