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I'm not disputing that we could do with strengthening in most departments on the pitch but to suggest we've got a "glaring lack of cutting edge" is a blatant distortion. Because it's not perfect it doesn't meant that its total shit either. We're the highest scorers in England ffs.

Sadly no job stateside for niggsy, instead he's going to a the new James Whale.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38517624

Fuckin Jim Morrison would do a better job tbh

My father in law gave me a load of his vinyl a while back and out of that lot I played led zep II last night, hadn't heard the whole thing all the way through for over a decade. Had completely forgot about "thank you", it just sort of popped up at the end of side one. I did a bit of reading up on the album and realised it was released the same week I was born....it still sounds brilliant...not sure if I'm wearing as well

Prancing gallic show pony cunt.....not keen on Giroud either...

Fuckin 3-3...6 mins of injury time..

If his Bournemouth concede in the next 10!mins he'll have cost me 70 quid...some game, afcb winning 3-2 after being 3 nowt up, they're down to 10 men (soft red) and Gosling has just done a cruyff turn in the box and almost chipped Cech

Nope, want a replay so Brighton stays a Saturday, Brighton away is a belting day out

Fans following the media a couple of months ago claiming Goufran had had "an amazing comeback" under Rafa etc etc As we've said on this board more than once; "narrative"

How many first choice premier league players did we sign? Ritchie?...the squad is decent at this level but ffs let's look at things objectively and not just with a hugely positive slant when we win a few, nor the with the corresponding utterly fuckin ridiculous revisionism when things aren't going well.

Well the last bit is possibly because we're in the second tier with a second tier squad. Let's not forget who's responsible for that; clue: he's not Spanish. No one is saying Rafa is above criticism. What pisses me off is the "WE'RE GONNA PISS THE LEAGUE/WE'RE SHITE, RAFAS A CUNT" nature of the criticism. There was a thread in late October on here when me and DK were virtually the only ones saying we'd achieved fuck all and there was still a long way to go, versus a few that were saying "this leagues shite we're going to piss it" That remains the same, the season has been generally very good but there are issues that need to be addressed.

No exotic substances needed my dear old thing, unbelievably I've seen us have bad runs of form in amongst generally very good seasons before. I'm used to the ups and downs of a season. I just don't start calling the eminently well qualified manager a cunt because we're in a bad run. If you start that sort of shit you leave yourself open to every prejudice,criticism and cliche about Newcastle United supporters in general that circulate around like a bad smell. But it's a free country so go ahead

Yes, I disagree. Saying he needs to adapt to the league is knicker wetting knee jerk bollocks and misses the point hugely given our league position. Not suggesting there aren't issues or things that need sorting. But hasn't the preceading 3 months given the manager a bit of fuckin leeway seeing as we've been top of the league for most of that time and he's shown that he adapted pretty fuckin quickly? We're about as consistent as the rest of the league, biizzarrely we're going 6 matches or so and winning them all then losing rather than drawing a couple. If teams sit deep we don't seem to be able to break them down. If we can see these things am fuckin sure the man who won the champions league can. We're not managed by Pardew or Carver or McLaren any more. I'm suggesting we try to show a bit of faith in Rafa. That means not calling him a cunt.

Enjoyed rogue 1 today, not a "massive SW fanboy" ( not seen any of the 3 prequels Lucas did) so can't really compare it to much other than last years effort, which it is miles better than. The thing that got me about them both though is how massively fuckin derivative they both are in different ways. Hardly needs anything said about last years nostalgia fest but today in the first half hour they were stealing scenes from Bladerunner (virtually the first scene of the film is fuckin identical to the first scene in Bladerunner where the spacecraft is coming into land in the futuristic city) and then there's the homages to all the classic westerns filmed at Monument Valley in the sweeping "planetscape" shots. Disney are throwing a fuck ton of money at SW now so I was expecting something a bit more original than blatant theft tbh (there were a couple more that crossed my mind in that first half hour but they escape me now)

Laptop breathalyser malfunction alert

Bournemouth would want stupid money for Wilson, especially in January when it would be tricky to sign a replacement.He's still not fully fit after injury but is a pretty good player, I'd have in front of Mitrovich, if we sign him it would mean Mitro is off iyam. Don't fancy the Chelsea lad, Chelsea have basically a full youth squad out on loan and in the past virtually none of them end up being even bog standard premier league players,especially the English ones, McEachran and Mancienne etc. Obviously we're not in the prem but ffs why should Rafa help Chelsea with their bullshit youth policy? They harvest kids just so other clubs can't sign them, and in a lot of cases the kids never really recover after being loaned out four or five times. I'd like to think Rafa may be principled enough not to get involved with helping them do that. Am not sure Delph fits the bill if we're looking for someone to replace Shelvey, good player though.

Cleverly on loan isn't a risk at this level, he's frankly ideal. Not sure what people's expectations are for this window but I'd be a bit surprised if we're looking to do better...we may have a champions league standard manager but we still have a barrow boy owner.

Cleverly would be among the best players in this division if he were to drop down, think people are forgetting how err "good" Shelvey was last season..Ckeverly has also played for Watford for a season when the got promoted on loan from man utd

They're both better than mkhitaryan's as Robert and Giroud weren't offside. Wouldn't say one was better than the other tbh, regardless of whether Giroud meant it or not; the point is they both improvised in the same way to situation they were in. Giroud had also just run 2/3rds of the length of the pitch and was still travelling at a fair rate of knots when the ball came in behind him. Robert was a bit more static and closer to goal but had to twist more and reach further. https://www.facebook.com/ballsdotie/videos/10155015429876042/ https://youtu.be/GOlAKtGCqEc

Your post at 1am in this thread suggests you weren't on best form anyway Under the (dubiously positive; "it's not your fault it was cancelled!!") encouragement of the current Mrs PL I've applied to flybe for a refund. I tried to explain the concept of "an act of God" but she wasn't having that, the laptop was out and the flight number was entered

Isn't what they've been up to just highly immoral and completely unethical, rather than illegal?...

The only reason am lurking on here tonight is my 1340 flight from Southampton to Newcastle was cancelled for the same fuckin reason

Anyone seen @@Rayvin and dear old Noam in the same room? A: There are many factors but there are some that are pretty common, certainly for the United States and Europe from which I have just returned, incidentally. One factor that is common and which is very significant is the Neo Liberal programme that was instituted globally, roughly around 35 years ago, around 1980 or a little before and picking up afterwards. These are programmes that were designed in such a way that they marginalize and cast aside a considerable majority of the population. So in the United States if you take a look at say the Trump voters, they are not the poorest people. They have homes, they have jobs, and they have small businesses. They may not have the jobs they like but they are not starving and are not living on US$ 2 a day. These are people who have been stuck for 30 years. Their history and their own image of life and history and the country is- that they have worked hard all their lives, they have done all the right things. They have families, they go to Church and they have done everything right just as their parents did. They’ve been moving forward, which they expected to continue: that their children would be better off than they are, but it hasn’t happened. It stopped. As if they are in a line, in which they were moving forward and it stopped. Ahead of them in the line are people who have just shot up into the stratosphere: that is Neo Liberalism. It concentrates wealth in tiny sectors. They don’t mind that, because part of the American mythology is that you work hard and you get rewards. It is not what happens but that fits the picture, the mythology. The people behind them are the ones they resent. This is not untypical; scapegoating. Blame your problems on those who are even worse off than you. And their conception is that the Federal Government is their enemy, which works for the people behind them. That the Federal Government gives Food Stamps to people who don’t want to work, that it gives welfare payments to women who drive in rich cars to welfare offices. (These are) images that Ronald Reagan concocted. Their thinking is that, ‘the Federal Government is helping to put them in line ahead of me, but nobody is working for me’. That picture is all over the West. A large part of it was behind the Brexit vote, in the United States they would blame Mexican immigrants, or Afro Americans, in the UK they would blame the Polish immigrants, in France the North Africans and in Austria the Syrian immigrants. The choice of target depends on the society, but the phenomenon is pretty similar. The general nature is pretty similar. There are streaks of racism, xenophobia, sexism, and opposition to gay rights and all sorts of things. And they coalesce when economic and social policies have been designed in such a way which essentially ignores these people and their concerns and doesn’t work for them -- and seems to them to work against them. - See more at: http://www.dailymirror.lk/120620/EXCLUSIVE-Neo-Liberal-policies-are-the-cause-for-world-strife-Prof-Noam-Chomsky#sthash.89JbItlP.dpuf

He's got a tattoo of it. On his arse. I've seen it.