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Point is its a hugely expensive one off event, by its very nature any earnings or benefit to the NE or anywhere else in the UK will be temporary and passing. Nothing long term. Its really very little to crow about in the week when hundreds on Tyneside are losing their jobs....ok "Jack"?

Yeah, its a good read. Think Ashley may have read the chapter on the rise of Lyon.

It amounts to the same thing though...he's going to have input into who comes in and who is sold, but possibly not the final word. Same as here. It's called "the wisdom of crowds"......according to that book Leazes keeps banging on about it is anyway....and its very common in clubs across Europe.

Great photos, canardly stop laughing at them...

123 league appearances at 21 year old means that he is immensley more experianced than Tavernier who is the same age....I think theyve got it wrong in the journal and I think this lad will be Simpson's replacement should he leave. The Debuchy thing sounds too good to be true tbh, and manu need a right back.

Am at work, but at a guess is it CT?...

i work for a major defence contractor in manufacturing who may or may not be the parent company of what used to be Armstrong Vickers.... Been around a long time....built the first ever British tanks which appeared in the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

Aye... Global Combat Systems Re-structuring Page Content In March, I announced a revised organisation structure for GCS and I am now in a position to update you on our re-structuring proposals. I have been analysing how we can work to establish the right footprint for our business and to size it to match the current and future projected workload. We need to be more agile and adapt to very challenging market conditions and it is essential that we look to further reduce our overheads to become more cost-effective. A thorough review of possible work for Newcastle has concluded that there are no potential prospects of any new vehicle manufacturing work after the current Terrier programme is complete. We will, therefore, now begin consultation with the Trade Unions on the potential closure of the Newcastle site at the end of 2013, with the potential reduction of up to 330 roles (including 27 contractors). While I appreciate that this is difficult news, Terrier remains an important programme for the British Army and we must ensure that we continue to meet our programme milestones and deliver the 60 vehicles on time. As part of the consultation with the Trade Unions we intend to propose the retention of a small specialist team in the North East of England to provide on-going support to customers of our heavy tracked vehicles. The size and location of that team will form part of the consultation, but ultimately it will be dependent on the anticipated workload from customers, principally the UK MoD. In this challenging business environment we need to ensure that our Head Office is lean and cost-effective. We will now enter into consultation with employees at Farnborough over a proposal to move out of the Chester House offices by 31 December 2012 and relocate to Telford. This will potentially affect up to 27 employees with up to ten job losses. In Munitions the transformation programme is delivering year on year efficiency improvements and changes in current market conditions have also led to a reduction in volumes of products required by our UK customer. To ensure that the Munitions business remains cost-effective we will now begin consultation with the Trade Unions on the potential need to reduce the headcount in the business by up to 280 roles (100 employees and 180 contractors). I appreciate that any announcement of this nature is difficult and I can assure you that we will, of course, support all of our employees affected by this announcement and will seek to mitigate the proposed job losses where possible. In the meantime, I know I can trust you all to continue to focus on delivering quality products and services to our customers. Charlie Blakemore Managing Director Global Combat Systems Theyve cut loads in aviation in the last year and after the our part of the 2nd carrier is done in a couple of years it'll be our turn here in Pompey. All these lads can possibly look forward to is getting jobs on the Carrier project up in Rosyth if theyre lucky, probably through an employment agency. The team I was on last year had a lad from the Terrier project on it, he's from Washington and had been with Vickers/BAE since he left school.He took redundancy at 60 2 years ago and got a massive payout and now earns half decent money down here. Some may be in the same boat but unless you want to move from Newcastle I'd imagine a lot of his old muckers will never work again,not to mention lads with young families who need to put bread on the table every week.

He's got a flat in Bournemouth but attends his rehab centre every day apparently. Does a lot of fishing. The father and brother in law saw him one day on the Avon near Christchurch and said he was very chatty but they couldnt understand a word he said He had someone with him and they reckoned he was sober but just sort of frazzled, poor fucker. Still the best player I've ever seen...maybe...

oh dear The "outstanding candidiate" for this job hasnt been mentioned in the press at all.....and am pleased he and his team are staying at SJP ... For the players recruited and the league placings acheived on the given budget in the last 18 months Pardew,Carr and Carver have shown themselves to be fuckin geniuses. Is it fair to say we've signed 3 top class international players in that time?...Cisse,Ben Arfa and Cabaye?...can Demba be mentioned in that company? how many have Liverpool signed in that time?.... What are those yanks watching ffs?

Commolli hasnt been replaced has he?...did Rogers agree to someone coming in above him after Martinez told them he wanted to do the gig on his own?....

Brenda's going to Liverpool apparently..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18235961

Why not?

Is he likely to be playing in the semi finals this summer?....which sort of proves my point. He's unplayable on his day, but his days have been few and far between lately, mostly because he doesnt get the service at Liverpool and I cant see it being much better next month tbh. Gazza,Pedro and Waddle were from a generation who played off the cuff, todays players need a fuckin road map and a session with a sports psychlogist to find the opposisitoins half sometimes.

I wouldnt put it as strongly as that but theres a strong element of truth to what you say. The two best strikers the UK produced in that period are Dennis Law and Kenny Dalglish. Some good judges would tell you best right back is Danny McGrain. Theres good arguments for Hansen and Souness in that time too. As you say, the communities these lads came from have all gone, for various reasons. Sadly, I dont think the Newcastle area will ever have 2 brothers playing in a World Cup final or 3 players playing in a World Cup semi again because the North East is going the same way as Scotland as far as producing players is concerned. Carrick couldnt give a fuck and is bog standard at top level and Johnson is at the wrong club. Wonder if he'd take a pay cut?....and apart from those 2 who is there?....sad times.

Johnny Heitinga fans' player of the year, Sylvain Distan players' player of the year....both announced with much fanfare via tannoy at Goodison during the last game of the season. Says it all really. So is Woy always this decisive about the make up of his squad or is he really not too sure on that one?......

Jagielka couldnt get in the Everton side as a defender for most of the season let alone play in midfield.....

thethe had some "rocky" stuff but rock?...naah. These were ROCK though...in a 90s indie-schmindie sort of way...

He sent troops to Sierra Leone and troops + bombers to Kosovo and you dont hear a lot of complaints about those. I dont think the findings of the Macpherson report will either clear or condemn him either, it will be a textbook fudge iyam.

Since when has it been up to YOU to decide who the BIG hitters are around here?

Dull fact of the day....... Serge was in the same youth team at Forest as Jenas...he's also guitarist with baggy throwbacks Kasabian.

From Burundi......is it as many under 21s as you like in the Europa League squad?....

Smith's career was built on a good 6 month spell for Leeds in the champions league. He's done fuck all to speak of since then. Unlucky with his injury whilst at manu, but what had he actually done before then? Poor finisher for a centre forward and incapable of passing it more than ten yards as a midfielder. Don't know how he can look himself in the mirror.