PaddockLad

We're selling to buy, so some will go. Other clubs know its open season on our players...pay enough and a deal will be done. We're not the only ones by any means in this situation though. FFP may save us to an extent as well... although if we're looking for top dollar we may price oursleves out of the market. Which will have a knock on effect as to what we can spend. Interesting times, but am encouraged by our recent moves in the market & re-signing off Colo etc.

Got to say, that piece is a bit premature. Away fans can sometimes be a bit dry and ironic.....from the club's site I take it?

Aye, picking on fans, hotel staff and journos is just bullying. Its needs some hulking great stage hand to fuckin beat some common sense into him. Wouldnt be good for the hand's career mind, so thats probably what saves him, power.

Are clubs like Liverpool or Chelsea likely to come in for him on what he's done this season?...I dare say that their cheerleaders in the media would say his natural home would be Arsenal, but if Wenger was going to take a chance on him theyd have been in for him when we were. Wenger wont pay huge money for him now I wouldnt have thought.

Ann Hathaway just breezed past our office in a blue jag without blacked out windows....not sure if shed been in "make up" yet but she looked tidy..theres been a huge black merc with blacked out windows yesterday and today and thats apparently Russel Crowe, although some folk nabbed him for a photo and he was, almost unbeleiveably, hugely rude to them. The phrase "no shit?!" sprang immediately to mind.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(2012_film)

One canny game doesn't make him the new Pedro....still a lot to do in my eyes. The greatest players do it 7/8 games in 10. Not a couple of good cameos and a brilliant 45mins in 7 months. I do understand there have been injury issues and he's been in and out the side. He's got the ability to be among the best players we've seen in this country. Can't decide if Pardew's "played" him as some are claiming or he's found his true place in a 4 3 3 or he was just in a good mood on Sunday. We'll see. But aye, a huge talent. If he has a good end to the season and gets in the French squad for the summer and does well in Poland/Ukraine we'll be lucky to hang on to him.

The sun is shining on the stars here in Pompey this afternoon....Just seen Hugh Jackman..... Principal photography of the film began on 8 March 2012 in France. Filming locations also include the Naval base at Portsmouth, Oxford and Pinewood Studios in England http://en.wikipedia....bles_(2012_film)

Two days before Christmas in 1995, Jocky Wilson, one of the most colourful characters ever to play darts, twice world champion and a working-class hero to millions, said farewell to the sport. On a wet Tyneside morning, he and his wife, Malvina, left their home in Wallsend with a couple of suitcases and got a bus to Kirkcaldy, Fife, where Jocky was born. Ill with diabetes and pulmonary problems, he then lived as a recluse, seeing a few friends and granting a handful of interviews. In these, he always said that he had brought most of his problems on himself. http://www.guardian....wilson-obituary

People in the media are regularly ridiculed for being fuckin tossers. For that reason, am out. I can get abuse like that at home.

From the Guardian comments section on the WBA game: Big props to Alfredo Di Perchano - the Mansfield Zanetti is having a great time of it of late and long may it continue.

Everton last game I think....Chelsea will depend on their champs league commitments.

There were lots of lads and lasses with smiles upon there faces, Carrying him up the Annie Road..to play with Kenny's aces Never heard a scouse version before, oh dear.

Media whores failing to to give his excellency Shola any credit on motd2. Cunts, both of them.

Who said he was shite?

Happy birthday, oh wise seed of the Flambearer's loins!

I watched that edition of top of the pops He was interviewed once and was asked what he does to control his nerves. He replied "I drink pints of vodka".When they banned drinking from live televised tournaments he, along with most of the greats Cat mentions, was finsihed in the erm "sport". He's dead at 62, and as somebody else said its a fuckin miracle he got to that age. RIP Jocky, Lang Toun legend.

Fat Sham's West Hahahahaham Apparently the dildo sellers + their evil henchwoman will oversee the demise of the club if they don't go up.....Leyton Orient for the Olympic Stadium!

Its happend so many times this season Not so many times as last season....before Stevie Taylor's injury we were beating every team we conceiveably could be beating. Last week and tomorrow could be very important. We go level on points with Chelsea...wonder if their bunch of bell ends will down tools in the league and concentrate on the FA cup?.....

yeah but you're implying that he's physically not up to what in all likelyhood will be a one off appearance in the first team. I don't know how your judgement of him at your work can compare to my having seen him put a decent shift in at Stoke last season in similar circumstances. Unless you're secretly a squad member at NUFC yourself and you've seen Demba and Colo have been kicking the shit out of him in training. I happen to agree with you btw, he's not outstandingly gifted so will struggle with his size long term at the top level. But theres no point in condenming him and not suggesting we could have a better squad with more experianced back up.If we're all on Mike's happy bus and are all supposed to be singing from the same hymnsheet then I'd suggest he's the sort of backup we can expect of where we are in Ashley's "project"...young and relatively untried.

So we're having a dig at a young lad who may be getting his big premier league chance tomorrow and not criticisng the club itself for not having a left footed left back at the club. Strange way of seeing the game iyam. Of course if we had a lflb at the club, he could be injured too but this is a squad game. Shane Ferguson is a squad player and did ok in an awful performance at Stoke last season.Plainly Stoke are a big physical side but he wasnt overawed and he didnt look out of place. He's not going to be the next Ryan Giggs or Stuart Pearce but he's part of the squad and should get the same support as anyone else.

Evidence for that?....

We could have a "Toon Idol" type poll.....vote for your favourite poster on here to go on...Howman did a poll earlier, he's an obvious candidate...to set the poll up...I wouldnt let him near a mic in a studio, he's not called "Smirnoff Dave" for nothing If you ask me, you want a fellah called Leazes Mag on there. Am sure this board would unite in support for him as the best poster to represent the general concensus of opinion on here. No need to thank me.

Classic Fergie geeing Man City up....from the beeb... Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has dismissed criticism from Manchester City over his decision to bring Paul Scholes out of retirement. Ex-City midfielder Patrick Vieira said the move showed "weakness". But Ferguson warned he "had plenty of ammunition" if United's title rivals wanted to engage in mind games. "If it's desperation bringing back the best midfielder in Britain for the last 20 years then I think we can accept that," said Ferguson. Vieira, City's football development executive, told the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday: "For him [scholes] to come back just shows a little bit of weakness in United, because they had to bring a player back who was 37." Title run-in Man Utd Man City Fulham (h) 26/24 Mar Stoke (a) Blackburn (a) 2 Apr/31 Mar Sunderland (h) QPR (h) 8 Apr Arsenal (a) Wigan (a) 11 Apr West Brom (h) Aston Villa (h) 15/14 Apr Norwich (a) Everton (h) 22 Apr Wolves (a) Man City (a) 30 Apr Man Utd (h) Swansea (h) 6 May Newcastle (a) Sun'land (a) 13 May QPR (h) United have won nine Premier League games and drawn one with Scholes in the team, and Ferguson responded in the week when City boss Roberto Mancini controversially recalled striker Carlos Tevez. "I think he [Vieira] was programmed for that," said Ferguson. "Roberto had a wee dig a couple of weeks back. We're all going to play our hand that way. There will be plenty of ammunition for that. "If you talk about desperation, they played a player the other night who refused to go on the pitch. The manager said he'd never play again and he takes a five-month holiday in Argentina. What is that? Could that come under the description of desperation?" Tevez denied that he refused to come on as a substitute in a Champions League game against Bayern Munich in September, blaming "confusion on the bench" for the "misunderstanding" which led to a major falling-out with Mancini. The Argentine returned for the first time in six months in Wednesday's 2-1 victory over Chelsea which leaves City one point behind leaders United with nine games of the season remaining. Ferguson also rejected Vieira's assertion that a further sign of United struggling was their inability to keep Ravel Morrison, who joined West Ham during the January transfer window, and their ongoing fight to retain fellow midfielder Paul Pogba. "The point he made about Ravel Morrison and losing our young players - we wanted to sell him (Morrison) let's be clear about that, for obvious reasons," said Ferguson. "But we want Pogba to stay because we think he's going to be a fantastic Manchester United player and hopefully that's the case." Since moving to London, Morrison has been fined £7,000 by the FA and warned about his future conduct after a homophobic post on social networking site Twitter. Ferguson's comments come after United defender Rio Ferdinand suggested City fans are only more visible now the club is tasting success. "Walking around in town, you see more and more blue shirts than you probably ever would have seen over the last 10 years," the defender told BBC Sport. "Success sometimes brings people out of the woodwork."

Not as shit as Dunga.... I'll get me coat I think Hulk is worse iyam though

wait till sloopjohn reads that....reckon he's a bit of a "trendy vicar"....like the bloke from Rev, or Simon Mayo etc etc...