Kitman

So so true and a wasted opportunity to boot

If change comes, embrace it fella. Spoken like a true silver-spooner. Not at all mate, my company had some financial challenges that looked quite bad back in Nov. I had to dig quite deep for new ideas and look at other things I was good at and work on those which I probably would have neglected normally. Do you mean do some proper work instead of spending all day on message boards? It took ages to work out how to do two things at once. That technically makes you a woman, unless one of the two things is

If change comes, embrace it fella. Spoken like a true silver-spooner. Not at all mate, my company had some financial challenges that looked quite bad back in Nov. I had to dig quite deep for new ideas and look at other things I was good at and work on those which I probably would have neglected normally. Do you mean do some proper work instead of spending all day on message boards?

hmmmm I think it depends on the circumstances. If I'm out at a bar, the default is beer - cold lager usually. When I was in the UK I used to like heavier beer like Old Speckled Hen and Guinness but I've gone off that now If I'm in - I'll probably have wine - cold white in summer, red wine rest of the year At a restaurant - I'd probably have a G&T or VAT and then switch to wine 'cos beer is too filling Out late - bottled beer, JD & coke or tequila Nightcap - I used to like a nice smooth single malt like Glenmorangie but it's too pricey here. Probably just as well Looking at the above I realise I just like drinking. I need to cut down.

Could a mod please delete this post, I view it as incitement to violence!!! It's not perfect. Sometimes it drizzles in winter.

Cancelled due to lack of funding

5 minute walk to ferry, 12 minute ferry ride across Waitamata harbour, 2 minute walk to work in Auckland CBD. Very civilised commute. Have a cold beer on the ferry home most Fridays.

Statement just in from NUFC: The Directors wish to advise members of the Platinum Club that in the interests of stabilising the club's finances, all platinum in the Platinum Club has been liquidated and replaced with an equivalent cost effective substitute. Henceforward The Platinum Club will be renamed The Chrome Effect Club. Prices will not be affected by these measures.

But have we seen uglier directors?

A rise in sales of Prozac has been noted in Newcastle.

I'm on the fence. Would you rather have your plums gnawed off by a giant rat or your eyeballs gouged out with a screwdriver? It's really that sort of question...... On the assumption we weren't going to "do a Leeds", I'd rather have Shepherd because the club was a more interesting place.

It'll be just like a new signing

Absolutely. The fat lad needs an incentive, he always has.

Llambias and Ashley combined can only aspire to one day know as much as fuck all about football. The problem is that Ashley doesn't know that he knows fuck all about football. He's aware of the known unknowns, but he knows fuck all about the unknown unknowns.

I can't say I approve of that. Michael Jackson's penchant for back filling developing youngsters is what got him prosecuted in the United States. I'll set 'em up, and you knock 'em down.

Llambias and Ashley combined can only aspire to one day know as much as fuck all about football. But they have a five year plan to compensate, don't forget.

Not to mention a manager whose name looks like a bad Scrabble hand and sounds like a sneeze

I can't say I approve of that. Michael Jackson's penchant for back filling developing youngsters is what got him prosecuted in the United States.

pack of umbro socks. Shrank after first wash and fluff keeps falling off them. Cheap shite. Typical. Ages ago, I may add. Ashley's m.o seems to be buying up well known brands that aren't as shiny as they used to be, then replacing the content with cheaper, lower-quality goods. Why should his football club be any different? I wonder if next season's first team will be made up of low piad 8 year old piece workers from the third world? When they're not playing football they can sew shirts, now that's value for money Mr Llambias! (They'd still be better than Shola, mind.) Which cheapskate chairman saw us send out the likes of Ramage, Huntington and Pattison during his final seasons as Newcastle Chairman? We must have been flying high in the league on a regular basis with that lot starting. Yes, because I wasn't making a joke

pack of umbro socks. Shrank after first wash and fluff keeps falling off them. Cheap shite. Typical. Ages ago, I may add. Ashley's m.o seems to be buying up well known brands that aren't as shiny as they used to be, then replacing the content with cheaper, lower-quality goods. Why should his football club be any different? I wonder if next season's first team will be made up of low piad 8 year old piece workers from the third world? When they're not playing football they can sew shirts, now that's value for money Mr Llambias! (They'd still be better than Shola, mind.)

Could have been a great player for us if he'd ever been able to haul his fat lardy-ass off the treatment table. Shame.

Can't say I'm surprised by any of it tbh.

Welcome. For Mike Ashley read Doug Ellis. Some fans (as far as I can tell, a vocal handful of internet addicts) seem quite happy that we are plunging headlong towards relegation 'as long as we keep a tight ship'. I think the hospital allows them a computer in their room if they take their medication and they can type well enough with their toes. However according to my matchgoing relatives most toon fans range from angry to apathetic, with support for Ashley very thin on the ground. People are utterly fed up with the shite on view, which has been the case for several years now, and the Board's contemptuous attitude. Attendances will probably fall next season as a result. The Board don't seem to have clue. They've cited Arsenal and (lately) Villa as role models, but won't invest in the first team to any significant degree and think poor old washed up Joe is the man to take us forward. All our hopes seem to be pinned on surviving from year to year until a crop of Fabregas-alikes magically appear from our youth ranks. They have a 5 year plan they assure us and waggle their eyebrows, like latter day Stalinists. I'm told the atmosphere is generally dreadful at SJP in comparison to years gone by. The thing is, expectation is so low now, if someone with some managerial talent could come in and make us mediocre, with some decent football and the prospect of competing, I think most toon fans would be happy. Villa have shown how it's done and good luck to you. I envy you your manager and owner, you deserve it after the years of Ellis. I hope you knock Arsenal or Chelsea out of the Champions League places, now that would be funny.

Cynical folks have long suggested he only rises from his sick bed when he has to negotiate a new contract or there's a tournament involving the 'Roos. Certainly hasn't started enough games for us.