Dr Gloom

Its fucking terrible. you're not wrong, i managed about 45 minutes of it before i turned to the laptop. wife not happy because i keep talking through it.

hold the phone... what's wrong with the shawshank redemption ending? pretty much the same as the book iirc The book ends... There's a scene after that in the film. ha, well that's hollywood for you.

hold the phone... what's wrong with the shawshank redemption ending? pretty much the same as the book iirc

the wife is forcing me to watch the proposal this afternoon after the liverpool/gooners match as part of a deal so i could watch sport all weekend. should i be scared? anyone else man enough to admit their missus has forced them to watch it?

the man is a joke. i can't believe for a minute he's in with a chance of the vila job.

wouldn't mind him as a replacement for shola or best but he's not going to walk into our starting 11 is he? we need to sign a striker that will improve the first team

belting atmosphere at white heart lane. game's good too. 100 miles an hour. spurs looking good. city are playing de jong and yaya toure at centre mid and tevez up top on his own. for all the money, you can't take the defensive mindset out of an italian coach. joe hart already made some great saves too so given should be off.

i'd take the uruguay defensive midfielder ahead of smudger smith. if we can get this lad in, ben arfa plus a new striker then we'll have done alright in this window.

i have it on good authority that he was spotted coming out of greggs by the hippy green. btw, isn't racism a bannable offense?

it's literally impossible in london. they're a dying breed

just picked up that xx album. enjoying listening to it while pretending to do work on a quiet friday afternoon in the office

Ooo thats a tough call man. shearer got 37 goals that season for blackburn. sir les managed 29 for us. very difficult call to be fair. i think the team collectively bottled it; i wouldn't want to single out sir les for blame.

well if the shields gazette say so, it must be true

the only signing that came close to generating the same excitement levels in recent years was owen. shame he turned out to be crap for us. there are similarities in both signing for us though. both arrived as england's number 1 striker. neither achieved quite as much as we were hoping for. when shearer signed, i expected him to be the final piece in the jigsaw in our title challenge but of course it never turned out that way. owen signing i thought would guarantee us goals and hopefully get us back into the top four. so slightly lower expectations than when shearer signed because the team he was joining wasn't as good. we were pretty unlucky with both of them when it came to injuries. owen was never the same after he did his knee.

That is a great film. Somewhat underrated I think as it never seems to get the plaudits some of his other stuff has received. i think it's his best film. david thewlis puts in a stellar performance. nice turn from ewen bremner too. "Maggie!"

really? fulham have got more bunce to offer players than us? what a depressing prospect - aspiring to be at fulham's level. sort it out mike ffs

He'll choose us out of them. Look at the options. Sunderland - loads of strikers, a chatty club who aren't attractive. Everton - ramshackle deathtrap stadium stadium no European football this season, 1/4 empty stands for most of the games plus he's a Liverpool fan and he won't want to play for a low profile club. Celtic - SPL. Newcastle - unifinished business, he loved his time he for the most part probably more than any other period in his career, idolised by half the support. he might choose us if we were in for him but i don't think we're in the running, are we? Caulkin says we are really? well i'd i'd love it if we were and i think he might be interested if we are, but i can't see it, sadly. hope i'm wrong like - he'd transform our front line. ideal partner for carroll

his goal returns during that era were different class when you look back at it. only henry has been as consistently around the 30 goal a season mark in recent years. blackburn years 93-94 - 48 games/34 goals 94-95 - 49 games/37 goals 95-96 - 48 games/37 goals newcastle 96-97 40 games/28 goals tbf, his strike rate always stacked up for us when he was fit, even when he was playing in crap sides and even later on in the twilight years. 98-99 - 40 games/21 goals 99/00 - 50 games/30 goals 01/02 - 46 games/27 goals 02/03 - 48 games/25 goals 03/04 - 51 games/28 goals 04/05 - 42 games/19 goals 05/06 - 41 games/14 goals

He'll choose us out of them. Look at the options. Sunderland - loads of strikers, a chatty club who aren't attractive. Everton - ramshackle deathtrap stadium stadium no European football this season, 1/4 empty stands for most of the games plus he's a Liverpool fan and he won't want to play for a low profile club. Celtic - SPL. Newcastle - unifinished business, he loved his time he for the most part probably more than any other period in his career, idolised by half the support. he might choose us if we were in for him but i don't think we're in the running, are we?

i re-watched mike leigh's naked recently too. still dark, still brilliant. 9/10

funny people. i quite enjoyed it. it made me laugh plus it was a bit more grown up compared with most of apatow's films. 6/10.

i often wondered along those lines. he was never quite the same player after that injury after his first year with us. we had to build the team to play around his strengths in the end. he almost became bigger than the club at one point too. having said all that, he's still our record goal scorer, and was class those seasons he had bellas alongside him. he was still the best finisher in the game, even after he lost all his pace. he was also unlucky not to have played in many great newcastle sides. we probably peaked the season before he arrived. he was feeding off scraps for most of his time with us. He peaked two seasons before he arrived. Turned down a move here to go to Blackburn too btw. he was still shit hot before he joined us though. was averaging over 30 goals a season at blackburn and got about 30 in his first season with us before he got injured. he only played in one really great newcastle side mind, and it was for only one season. the only side that came close to that one was when sbr was in charge and i'd say that was a good side, rather than a great one. I didn't say otherwise did I? You said he was unlucky not to play in a great Newcastle side though whereas it was actually down to his own choosing. well yeah, but he was also unlucky we were only title contenders for one season after he joined. when he signed we looked like being the main challengers to man u for some time. he ended up playing in sides that were mostly gash. EDIT - you said he peaked two seasons before he arrived. i'm not sure that's right. he was considered one of the best strikers in the world after euro 96 and had one season for us at his highest level i'd say

i often wondered along those lines. he was never quite the same player after that injury after his first year with us. we had to build the team to play around his strengths in the end. he almost became bigger than the club at one point too. having said all that, he's still our record goal scorer, and was class those seasons he had bellas alongside him. he was still the best finisher in the game, even after he lost all his pace. he was also unlucky not to have played in many great newcastle sides. we probably peaked the season before he arrived. he was feeding off scraps for most of his time with us. He peaked two seasons before he arrived. Turned down a move here to go to Blackburn too btw. he was still shit hot before he joined us though. was averaging over 30 goals a season at blackburn and got about 30 in his first season with us before he got injured. he only played in one really great newcastle side mind, and it was for only one season. the only side that came close to that one was when sbr was in charge and i'd say that was a good side, rather than a great one.

i often wondered along those lines. he was never quite the same player after that injury after his first year with us. we had to build the team to play around his strengths in the end. he almost became bigger than the club at one point too. having said all that, he's still our record goal scorer, and was class those seasons he had bellas alongside him. he was still the best finisher in the game, even after he lost all his pace. he was also unlucky not to have played in many great newcastle sides. we probably peaked the season before he arrived. he was feeding off scraps for most of his time with us.