JonTheMag

May 6th, 2011. The day Deadman stopped caring about spelling

I think it looks lush with the long sleeves tbh

Likewise!

hahaha I agree, it is a funny one. Her tweet about the colostomy bag had me cracking up

I think a picture of his mum is a bit over the line Steve, just my thought.

any chance I could get this super duper top secret PM thats going around? Wait, did Paul Wyn Robbins kill Bin Laden?

www.twitter.com/ghost_osama

Surely Marlon King should be in with a shout

thats what I was thinking

Jon, you forgot to add something, and I've put the sign (......................................) where you forgot to add it. You forgot to add the words 'every season' and I'm not surprised you 'forgot' them. What a round about way of saying that. Also when I say "consistently" that implies every season. Yes, I most certainly would rather support any team in England, rather than support a team who can only get real delight from winning the Champions League, and even that delight is not as great as when Birmingham win the Carling Cup. And I find it strange that you can't believe that. Really? Even when ENTIRELY NO ONE on this board has agreed with you? Once? And Manchester United fans are certainly happy when they win the league, and sad when they don't. I know several Man U fans who were completely crushed when they lost in the Champions League final to Barca a few years ago. As you've said happiness is derived from exceeding expectation. Man U fans don't EXPECT themselves to win the Champions League, just as Birmingham fans don't EXPECT them to win the League Cup. What I'm saying is that its all relative -- if you exceed your expectations you'll be happy, the expectations are just at a different level. And I'd rather have my clubs expectations be at that higher level than what they are currently at, wouldn't you? By the way, I enjoyed the Blyth Spartans comment. But to be honest, if you switched to Blyth Spartans now, you'd be every bit as much of a so-called glory hunter, as if you switched to Man U now. Please explain to me why switching to Blyth Spartans would make me a glory hunter. That makes absolutely no sense. By the way, a curious development has recently happened. 10-12 years ago, you constantly heard Liverpool fans going on about how they hated Man U, whereas Man U fans didn't bother much about that. People all assumed that Liverpool fans were jealous. Now, it's different, and Man U fans keep banging on about Liverpool, whereas the Liverpool fans don't seem that bothered any more. Could it be that Man U fans are actually becoming jealous of Liverpool, because Liverpool fans just have more excitement??? No, thats just fucking stupid. What evidence do you have about Man U fans banging on about Liverpool. Your 'questions' that ask "could this be this" or "should this be this", that you think ask valid questions that we could all consider are exactly not that. They're just stupid, inane remarks that you think are plausible. Please piss with this nonsense. Go to Sunderland where they'll be happy with this attitude of yours.

I can't honestly believe that you'd rather be scrapping for relegation every season, going down and bouncing back up every couple of years, and maybe get lucky and win a Cup every now and again, than consistently be challenging for the title and being in the Champions League. Yes, exceeding expectations is a large portion of happiness. But by that same logic, we should go support Blyth Spartans and abandon Newcastle, because if they miraculously go and win the FA Cup, the world would explode from sheer happiness.

Why. Is this data being passed along to Mike Ashley to determine the financial policy of the next 5 years?

Maybe you should make a poll to figure out this conundrum

Got me last final exam for the semester tomorrow than I'm all clear for the summer

Deadman, Paul Wyn Robbins, and this guy should form an all-conquering triumvirate of stupidity.

Whoosh. 38 Games. ........Win.........Loss........Draw........Total Points...........Ave.PPG (1).....12 ........ 12 .......... 14 ................ 50 .................. 1.32 (2).....15 ........ 18 ........... 5 ................. 50 .................. 1.32 So wots the point in points per game? That's my point. Its in now ways an absolutely perfect statistic for evaluating performance, such a statistic doesn't really exist. PPG does, however, give us the most simple way to evaluate managers who have managed a different number of games. You can use other stats, like wins per game, or introduce other variables such as home games, goals scored, etc., but that is when things start to get incredibly convoluted. So for the purposes of this argument, points per game is a decent way of comparing Hughton to Pardew.

NOOOOOO not the sausage train!!! ;)

You dont have the squad though thats the whole point of this argument isnt it? Not at the moment, but the whole point of what I just said was that given 2-3 quality players, we will be better than Everton. If we had the squad now, we'd be in 7th now, simples. But thats going on the logic that we wont also improve our team with 2-3 quality players, and that Bolton and Villa dont, which isn't realistic. If everyone else improves by 2-3 players you'll be no closer unless they are world class which obviously costs £20m+ per player Well then its a good thing we've got 35 million pounds then! Its not easy to improve by 2-3 players, but Newcastle are in a significantly better position to do this in the offseason than Everton given your financial situation.

You dont have the squad though thats the whole point of this argument isnt it? Not at the moment, but the whole point of what I just said was that given 2-3 quality players, we will be better than Everton. If we had the squad now, we'd be in 7th now, simples.

Oh dear how unbelievable embarrasing for you! Baines - scored 4 goals and created 11 Enrique? - Over to you! If I wanted to sound smart i'd use a much more complex saying than "walk before you can run" which lets face it isn't the most mind blowing of sayings Being a left back isn't about creating goals and scoring, you should know that. Sure, Baines might be more prolific going forward and has better freekicks, but is no match to Jose Enrique defensively. And I'd like my leftback to prevent goals, I have strikers to score them! (Well, not at the moment, but you know what I mean )

Well we usually stuff Man City so thats not a fixture i'm concerned by, but yeah the other 2 will be tricky to say the least. Look i'm not trying to say Everton are the greatest team ever, i've already stated that we have underchieved this season, and i've said the Toon have done well. But its about setting realistic expectations. Finishing 7th just isn't particularly realistic, neither is continually expecting moyes to perform miracles on fuck all budget, but then i'm not saying he can. I wouldn't say Everton should be aiming to finish in the top 4 because its not a realistic expectation, and neither is Newcastle United finishing top 7 next year. Top 12? Now there's something thats achievable, maybe even top 10 if someone wanted to be ambitious, but I just don't get the thinking behind "buy one or two players and we'll be better than Everton, Villa, Bolton etc etc" because it's just not true, and pretty disrespectful to those other teams, who have built up their squads over several seasons and have earned the right to be considered amongst the top 8 or 9 teams in the league. Ha! Spending several seasons cultivating mediocrity doesn't mean you've got a 'right' to be there. Its not disrespect when you have the squad. Bolton have only been decent this year, and have spent most previous years after Allardyce being shit, what gives them the "right" to be considered for the Top 7? I'd rank those three teams youre considering as Aston Villa, Everton, then Bolton, and I firmly believe that right now NUFC are about 1-2 players behind Bolton, 2-3 behind Everton, and 3-4 behind Aston Villa.

Of the Everton side, only Arteta, Howard, Saha, Cahill, and maybe one of Coleman or Heitinga, just because we don't quite have a suitable partner for Coloccini. I wouldn't trade Tiote, Barton, or Nolan for Rodwell or Fellatio in a second. Rodwell is decent and I'd have him at Newcastle as a backup for Coloccini. And don't even start with Baines, Jose Enrique outclasses him by miles. And Beckford is shit. I'm not going to agree all out and say that Newcastle are in an entirely better position to succeed going forward than Everton, I don't have enough (any) faith in the Fat Man to justify that. But what I will say is that given proper investment of the £35 million, it its not outside the realm of believability to think Newcastle could be challenging for the Top 7 next year. Oh, and 'walk before you can run' bit that Chez was alluding to was that its a common phrase that gets bandied about regarding Newcastle, and just because you hear this soundbite you think saying it makes you sound smart. Not the fact that you've heard it before.

simpson and ranger are, and aye thats stevie Jonas is on it as well. Jose Enrique was on it, but deleted his account. And I think Krul had a proper account but stopped updating it entirely

what was that?

ta holden!