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He's been reading Louise and reporting her rambling questions as some sort of agreed Geordie policy. Newspapers are great at reporting on their own media led stories ("the clamour to sack wossy is growing....evidenced by the 8 more pages we've written on it today compared to yesterday"). No-one thinks for a second there's any basis in relaity.

Put him on the naughty step and ignore him until he apologises chaps.

I'll be worried if this becomes a recurring action. Why ?? IF we spent say £20 mill, and he also takes back £20mill thus reducing the club indebtedness (to him) that'd be OK by me tbh Which Premier League clubs run a £40m profit? None after the adjustment period but thats not the point. Which premier league club is about to experience a minimum of 40m additional revenue next season? The club is in debt. The club reduces costs. The club gets significantly more revenue. Ergo, some of the debt gets paid back. Has everyone forgotten why we wanted to be promoted? The premiership IS the prize. If they were bank loans they'd HAVE to be repaid with interest, so i've no problem with that. Shepherd would go on a spending spree, then he was frugal the to pay off some debt (we ran transfer profits in 1997, 2000 and 2004) you can't buy year on year. I just don't expect us to be spending £20 million on players AND paying off £20m of loans AND retaining our best players AND running a balanced book. I dont see why not. Thats the value of the prize. If he managed to get running costs in line with revenues + parachute this season, then thats about the scenario he is looking at. Apart from the balanced book thing, i think we'll still have large debts. For me, the financial side of things is beyond question, the only variable is how much fatty wants to put in. Are we forgetting the richest game of football on the planet is the championship play off? People are right to suspect whether he will invest at all but the jump up to the prem (given a level of prudency in the level below) does lead to a massive increase in income. Past experience? I see where you're coming from. It would make us very much an average Premier League club (the average spend last summer was £22.5m per club and the average debt across the Premier League is reported to be £170m per club - about exactly the size of our debt). But in the last 4 seasons we were only in the championship one of them and we've never reached a £10m net spend in any year.

Or ignore it so it goes away.

Bugs Bunny looking bastard.

Poor fella. Best of luck to him.

I'll be worried if this becomes a recurring action. Why ?? IF we spent say £20 mill, and he also takes back £20mill thus reducing the club indebtedness (to him) that'd be OK by me tbh Which Premier League clubs run a £40m profit? None after the adjustment period but thats not the point. Which premier league club is about to experience a minimum of 40m additional revenue next season? The club is in debt. The club reduces costs. The club gets significantly more revenue. Ergo, some of the debt gets paid back. Has everyone forgotten why we wanted to be promoted? The premiership IS the prize. If they were bank loans they'd HAVE to be repaid with interest, so i've no problem with that. Shepherd would go on a spending spree, then he was frugal the to pay off some debt (we ran transfer profits in 1997, 2000 and 2004) you can't buy year on year. I just don't expect us to be spending £20 million on players AND paying off £20m of loans AND retaining our best players AND running a balanced book.

Depends on his current salary. As his move to us was from a premier league club to a premier league club I imagine they're above what many championship clubs would be willing to pay and we're stuck with him for another 3 years. Why he got a four and a half year contract from Ashley is anyone's guess, given all the noises Ashley made prior to that window about players on long term, high paying contracts.

I hope this is more along the lines of Pancrate/Ryan Taylor rather than Enrique. Pancrate's out of contract so can't be sold (along with Butt and One Size). What with Ryan Taylor being shite I can't see many takers there. I'd hope it's just Taylor, Xisco and Ameobi. I fear it'll be more.

I'll be worried if this becomes a recurring action. Why ?? IF we spent say £20 mill, and he also takes back £20mill thus reducing the club indebtedness (to him) that'd be OK by me tbh Which Premier League clubs run a £40m profit?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...et=0&page=1

A politician posturing himself according to public (anti-American) opinion? Surely not. He's playing a blinder to tell the truth. It's not like the US can bomb the shit out of the country to get rid of a leadership they disapprove of, install their own guy and run a puppet regime.....not a second time anyway. Why would it work any better than it has with old Kahzy this time around?

I was in Harrogate for the Leicester match. Nowt much about the place. Had a fantastic Filet mignon at Biscaya Bay, afterwards though. And there's Betty's Tea Rooms

looking forward to it. Just listening to it for the first time. Halfway through and so far nowt's grabbed me as instantly as some of the stuff on the first album. Also got the new albums from MGMT and Caribou to try today.

du du du du du du du du du du du du du du STATMAN Canny little page on Wiki all about the derby.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyne%E2%80%93Wear_derby

Cos Harper made a mistake on Saturday so he must be shit.

Coloccini: "We wanted to win even though we knew it was already confirmed that we were promoted. The fans were brilliant and we couldn’t go out there and let them down – we had to win the game against Sheffield as well. They want us to be in the Premier League next season. Now we have delivered that. They are possibly the best fans in the world and I have a lot of affection for them - to hear them sing my name is amazing. "It just makes you want to win every game for them, every tackle and get every pass right. My aim is to stay at the club and help us climb up the Premier League next season, even if there are a going to be some tough battles ahead." Possibly? The cheeky Kelsey Grammar voiced twat.

More tragic is the fact they've never won more than 3 in a row....and they only managed that over a century ago.... Most Consecutive Wins Newcastle 5 games: 24 February 2002 - 17 April 2006 Sunderland 3 games: 24 December 1904 - 2 September 1905

Not since '67 Sunderland Doubles 1904-1905 3-1 3-1 1908-1909 9-1 3-1 1919-1920 3-2 2-0 1923-1924 2-0 3-2 1954-1955 2-1 4-2 1966-1967 3-0 3-0 Newcastle Doubles 1909-1910 1-0 2-0 1911-1912 3-1 2-1 1913-1914 2-1 2-1 1920-1921 6-1 2-0 1955-1956 3-1 6-1 1956-1957 6-2 2-1 1992-1993 1-0 2-1 2002-2003 2-0 1-0 2005-2006 3-2 4-1 Wiki says we've done the double over them 11 times, but only lists those 9. Can anyone clarify?

Is that really true? The UK taxpayer has spent... £280bn to Agree in principle to provide insurance for selection of bank assets £250bn to Guarantee wholesale borrowing by banks to strengthen liquidity in the banking system £200bn to Indemnify Bank of England against losses incurred in providing over £200bn of liquidity support £76bn To purchase shares in RBS and Lloyds Banking Group £40bn to Provide loans and other funding to Bradford & Bingley and the Financial Services compensation Scheme Have we got all that back?

You don't half peddle some absolute bullshit... Was the full quote craig Laugh away but to me watching him get interviewed he comes across in that nice decent way that gives you a warm glow. Tends to choose his words carefully. Maybe its just the fact that he's one of those managers that you "like" rather than the Souness, Roeder, Allardyce, Kinnear type of manager who are either full of themselves or full of shite. I always new is we won under Allardyce he would sort of claim all the credit himself, he did this , he did that.....yet if we lost it was always blaming a player etc... Anyway fuck yas all except Tecato (strange name that like) I think the question mark over Hughton is if he can be as ruthless as Robson.

Isn't there more drugs in the MLB than in the NFL and IAAF combined?

From the reviews i've read and the trailers I've seen, it seems horrifically religious. Says the world is destined to be destroyed, but it's a good thing because the righteous will survive (the only major character to die is the unmarried adulterer, right?) and build arks with two of each animal to start over. It sounds like they started by trying to do a modern tale of Noah's ark (that infers global warming is gods will), but end literally with two giraffes getting on the boat, as if they can re-populate the earth. Watched it over the weekend and it wasn't offensively shite. Just shite. I normally get wrong for pointing out the stupid bits in films, but there were so many happening so frequently i couldn't get in quick enough. Everyone else was piping up with things, like wondering aloud why the air-traffic controllers didn't finish their shift early given it's their last day on earth.

Rounders? Not for me.