Dr Gloom

sounded mint on the telly. wish i'd been there to sample it

i would be amazed if nolan got a call up, but if kevin davies can, why not?

he's had some shocking games over the years. he looks stronger on the ball these days though. i don't know if i'm just getting caught up in yesterday's result but his overall play looks more assured now too. some of his link up play and distribution yesterday was class, and you can't argue with the two finishes. if he can keep it up and stay injury free, he might finally get a proper run in the team. he's got to realise that his age, it's now or never. it's up to him as to whether he wants to be remembered as a nearly man and perennial substitute or a late developer who finally came good.

destroyed, annihilated, humiliated - take your pick

i wouldn't be too surprised if he reverted to 4-5-1 for that but would be nice to see him stick to the winning side. you have to wonder whether this 4-4-2 will be strong enough to mix it with the top sides but on this form, we should stick with it against the rest. tiote is the player that makes it work. you need a defensive midfielder of his class to get away with playing one fewer int he middle of the park than most teams put out these days.

great performance and overall this season has been by far his best for us already. nolan man of the match for me though today.

I wouldn't go that far. He's had matches where he's just lazy and utterly anonymous, then he has matches like today when he puts a decent shift in and is rightly rewarded with goals. he was injured a lot of last season. when he played, he looked sharp albeit against some pretty piss poor teams. this season, he's looked good when he's started. he was sharp against chelsea, last week against everton and again today. he showed some nice touches and dribbles today as well as good vision in some of the passes he played out to the flanks to start moves and the two goals. i'd say for this season it's a case of sho far, so good

give him a new contract and hire whoever he wants as his no 2

aye, fair play to barton this season - he's impressed, finally. can't see routledge getting back into the side anytime soon.

respect to the fenham pele. he's looked good the last couple of seasons now tbf to him

now, we've all had our criticisms to make but fair play to him, he was excellent today. he arguably still doesn't do enough off the ball but with tiote mopping up next to him, he's less of a passenger. and you can't argue when he keeps popping up with goals. keep it up skipper!

chris. big up yourself. fully deserved the hughton wonderland chorus. give the man a new contract. what more does he need to do? big name managers aren't always the answer.

don't change a winning side... first rule of management. nice to see us go for it with two up front.

my flatmate said she looked like a cabbage patch doll. She had a pet lip on when they were rowing on the step of the t-shirt shop. Liz is the front-runner now I would say, very successful task for her. she has all the natural confidence of a fit bird. the dyke was awful and deserved to walk, though her unique vocabulary was amusing.

i'm 4 weeks without a snout now. best run i've had in a while. real test will be the christmas pissup season, which is just around the corner.

sounds like a right loser tbh. the only game i play these days in pro evo - and only when the boys are over and the wives are all busy. i always found video games more of a group social thing. a few beers/smokes and a few games with the lad. can't imagine playing any games on my own these days. even if i wanted to, the wife wouldn't allow it. i used to quite like champ man back in the day mind.

i didn't fancy the dark tower books at first. i've never really been into sci-fi books that much. are they worth a go then?

send him a dossier. don't forget to flag all the best golf courses in the area

i only just discovered his books relatively recently. bloody brilliant writer. misery scared the shit out of me; i couldn't sleep after reading the axe and blow torch chapter - so savage that it was toned down for the film. the shining, carrie, the long walk, the stand, the running man, low men in yellow coats, rita hayworth and the shawshank redemption, the body, it - all brilliant. i'm on a mission to read all his best works. any fans out there? what do you think is his best effort?

green zone. good - 7/10 iron man 2. meh - 4/10 it's complicated. wife's choice. better than i thought it'd be - 6/10

roy of the rovers was mint like. hot shot hamish and mighty mouse, the goalkeeper and billy's boots. class

you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

Was definitely Bonkers in 95, and did you have a PJ paintballing incident in Byker Grove, because as JAWD rightly pointed out it always had strippers on a weekend. well perhaps it was before your time but when i started going to saturdays, it wasn't called bonkers and there definitely weren't any titties on display on the thursday indy night i used to go to. i would remembered that given i was only a bairn at the time. never went there on a weekend though. it was the shindig at the riverside for us in those days.

i used to go the saturday then upstairs to planet earth for the indy night on thursdays around 95-97. there were never any strippers around in them days. it definitely changed its name to bonkers stevie. i thought you would have known that being the board's resident uber geordie

Saturdays and bonkers was the same place wasn't it? The bar under planet earth. Can't remember either having strippers. Is this match going to sell out?