Dr Gloom

who's going to fill that ground every week after the world cup? (assuming we get it) might not be a bad time to try and get some government money to extend the gallowgate so it matches the level 7 parts of the ground.

plymouth? milton keynes? bristol? fair play that notts is a big town with rich football history from clough's days at forrest but there's a lot of work to be done on the stadium if they're to host a game.

nice touch from ratm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8415750.stm

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first single - do they know it's christmas? by band aid...on 7" first album - no jacket required by phil collins.....on cassete

i just bought it. despite the fact that ratm are signed to sony's epic, cowell's x factor act not being number 1 would surely piss him off....which has to be good thing if you ask me. the smug git. that said, i don't really blame cowell for pumping out the x factor every year. it's the cretins that keep watching the shows and buying the songs. he's feeding the nation banality and the nation is lapping it up. ratm getting to number one might won't mean there are any less morons in the country but knowing that killing in the name is getting airplay on xmas day when people are turking into their turkey instead of more manufactured rubbish will make me giggle. worth the 99p for that alone

to be fair, scoring goals in scotland is probably about the same level required to score goals in the championship. whether he could do it in the top flight is another questions

maybe. he did as well as most other english managers recently. i think we were robbed against the argies like in france 98. that campbell goal should have stood

i didn't mind hoddle as a manager until he went all weird. there definitely aren't any english managers out there right now that could manage the national side. shame, but you only have to see what capello's done with the same players mcclaren had.

it is surprising how well we're doing despite hardly bossing game from start to finish all season. the football we've played has never looked that convincing and yet we're walking it....touch wood it continues i agree with those that say it's more a case of the rest of the league being crap than us being anything special.

has to be schmeichal for that performance that basically won the title for man u the year we blew the ten point lead. it felt like injustice at the time but that was one performance that stands out for me - us losing the title that year was more to do to his performance than keegan's mental implosion. nothing was getting past him. i would have applauded him off the field if i hadn't been so gutted. i think everyone knew the title was man u's after that match

Nail on the head there imo. When we play Harper with Simpson, Taylor, Colo and Enrique ahead of him and Smith ahead of them teams in this division just can't break us down. it's almost enough to make you wonder if that back 4 would do a job in the top flight with the right players in front of them. taylor and enrique certainly seem good enough for the top flight. collocini wasn't the greatest last year though and simpson is unproven at that level.

this, with guthrie moved infield. Top marks to Hughton if he does this (whether it works or not). You're kidding aren't you? It's the obvious move. Since when has that mattered? What I meant was I wouldn't give Hughton much credit for playing people in their proper positions (were he to do so). However, I actually expect him to play Butt and shove Guthrie out to the right again. Hope I'm wrong though. Its what i'd do, its what you'd do but am not sure its what Hughton will do. If he does, then i think it will be significant since it means firstly, that he isnt playing to sneak a 0-1 result (which he shouldnt do) and secondly that he realises that Butt is more of a liability over 90 minutes (he can put a 30 minute shift in at best nowadays imo) than giving Guthrie the central role. If we start with Jonas, Guthrie, Smith and Pancrate then we are starting with one of our best midfield combinations. I think Hughton has been erring on the side of caution a few times with his midfield (or feels pressured to play senior players?). Not doing so is a good sign, no? Fair enough, but like I said, I wouldn't say 'well fucking done Chris' when it's that obvious to most of us. And I think it's probably a combination of the bit in bold that has led to his selections so far. I reckon chris h deserves a bit of credit for what he's done this season. Fair play

is training with arsenal at the moment. wenger told a mate of mine that he's off to newcastle. what are everyone's thoughts - good news? bad news? i guess it opens the way to get collocini's massive wages off our books. but surely sol will command a hefty bunce too? and isn't this signing about 5 years too late? he'll probably do a job in the championship

fair play tim lad. the more anti ashley banners/chants etc around the ground, the better....if you ask me.

Don't matter as long as we get up. I must be the only one that firmly believes West Brom are pure shite. We'll do them here no bother at all. Seem to be a bit more free-scoring than us...We've become proper grinders.

There's no long term plan, I think that's a given, the attitude is if we go up we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. When it does happen I think we'll be called Bosman City FC. To be fair some canny potential bosmans next season: Kuranyi, Hitzlsperger, Scharner, Kallstrom, Adam Johnson etc... bosman freebies@st james park stadium

jonas is a weird one. his pace and dribbling is a great outlet and he scares fullbacks when he runs at them but whenever he gets into the final third he either gives it away cheaply with a powder puff cross/pass or balloons it into row z.

great result but another shocking game of football. i worry that we're going to get found out, we're a very average side. says it all about the quality of the rest of the league. one thing for sure is that we're going to need massive investment in the summer if we're not going to come straight back down. final word - harewood should not start another game all season.

piece of piss - 2 nowt easy have you been watching this shite? there's been nothing easy about it. we seem to find finding a man more than 5 yards away difficult.

what another shite spectacle. this league is awful. i'm going to give up football if we don't go up next year i've already given up the premiership since we went down and don't miss it much tbh.

harewood is fucking woeful like. dunno if he's lacking match fitness or what but he offers nowt. no movement. totally static when the ball's played up.

US v N Korea could be interesting

good news if you ask me. he looks good enough at this level and we're not exactly well stocked with defenders

absolute shocker that we went down tbh when you look at some of the dross in the premier league now. it'll be even worse if we don't go up when you look at some of the shite in the premiership.