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A good point well made. Better to have a striker who looks lazy, but has the energy to score a goal when required that one who expends loads of energy chasing down impossible balls, and heading on to noone ( ) who is then buggered when they get the ball in a good scoring position. People will scoff, but if we go up and someone could convince Mark Viduka to sign on a pay as you play style arrangement he'd be a good aquisition. He knows the area and the team, plus in terms of ability on the ball he's a class above anyone we've got or could realistically hope to get. Obviously in some kind of mid-retirement limbo at the moment, but I'd dare say he could be convinced to play some sort of bit part. /pipedreams Just how far have we dropped when the extent of our pipedreams is to tempt a fat bloke away from retirement and the pie shop? As for Harewood, hes far too soft, too easily beaten to a ball and even if he gets there first hes knocked off it with a subbutteo flick. At the same time, we cant afford to be too choosy, in the next day or so Carroll is in court and could be the next jailbird on our books. Shola looks like hes down and out everytime he goes to tie his laces and personally, Im yet to be convinced by Ranger, he runs a lot but not shown anything of real substance during his first team stints.

The up side being a shortage of Marmite :getin:

RIP A truly great scout responsible for the legend that is Big Al.

There is one plus point to going for it, somewhere down the line, be it next round or the Final. We'll meet up with proper opposition and be given a lesson in football. Maybe, just maybe that will bring some people down to earth.

Jesus cunting wept indeed, what makes grown men want to become Admins on a x-factor winners forum?

The voices in his head. There has been no noises to say anything of the sort. Lets see what happens next month, a few sales to struggling Premiership clubs who "turn the heads of players" and we'll be totally different. As for Ranger proving he can do a job at this level, when did he do that?

Im still trying to come to terms with just how shite this league is, it beggars belief, we've just played a team which at the start of the season were predicted to finish higher than us. We pissed over them while still managing to show sustained periods of total shitness. Boro? Should have stuck with Southgate, they were dismal, insignificant is too meaningful a word for just how little they and their toss fans interest me.

Oh thats ok then we've got lady luck on our side. Drop out now and concentrate on this pissing of the league, something which now looks increasingly likely, I cant quite get over just how shit this league is.

Seriously? who the fuck authorised sending out that kind of shit to everyone? luckily I didnt get it like.

It started with a bang with 40,000 e-mails sent to toon fans letting them know about how the campaign would work towards bringing interested parties in a fans led consortium to buy the club. 6 weeks of hard campaigning with 18 roadshows attracting over 1000 people, regular e-mail newsletters, stories about ‘local achievers’, 30,000 postcards distributed in pubs and clubs across the city and numerous meetings between the Trust and interested parties. The 1st phase ended with the huge 60ft by 20ft Alan Shearer shirt which last made an outing draped over the Angel of the North being unfurled over the Castle Keep in Newcastle. Yes We Can has also launched a number of collaborative events with charities including a single by the Steady Boys available on download by itunes and in the shops in over Christmas. Its called Yes We Can – the terrace song and half the proceeds of the song go to the Royal British Legion. Mark Jensen, Spokesperson and link with exetrnal partners for the Trust said ‘Its been a hard but rewarding 6 week campaign and we’ve made a fantastic start to what could be a real fans led buy out of the club. We now have in place all of our commercial partners and are already planning phase 2 of the campaign commencing 6 Jan 2010. Fans have been frustrated by the lack of visible progress but a lot has happened, relationships have been cemented and there is real and tangible interest from the city in what we’re doing. We’ll get one chance at doing this and we’ve a duty to make sure its correct and remember it took the Magpie group over 2 years to acquire control of the club. I can make this promise, the proposal we’re now working on with partners won’t take that long’.

That sounds the same as what happened to mine earlier this year. Was terrible to watch, just no energy at all and at the end the other cat (who used to plague the life out of her) dragged her bed through the room to take her to the cat litter tray. When there though Ellie had to lift her up and hold her over it so she could go. Sorry to hear that Cath

hmmm it looks like there may be a light dusting of snow around, shouldnt be a problem though, what do you think Jeff?

Late Birthday greetings T00nraider

Ahhh the old "wrap up some weighted boxes and they'll not realise for two weeks" trick Li3nz What was that again? was it a box full of mobile phones from a bloke in a car park or summat?

Ahhh the old "wrap up some weighted boxes and they'll not realise for two weeks" trick

http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/bear_balls

How do you know he's not? because he's currently locked in my basement in a Marcellus Wallace Pulp Fiction stylee

But you are a year closer! Happy Birthday you twat!

Happy Birthday Grandad have a Werthers to celebrate

Not yet, will be watching it tonight so from now I refuse to read this thread.

After Angelus posted Safety Dance in the youtube thread I went hunting for more. Safety Dance is still the best Ive seen but Tears for Fears, Head over Heels is up there, along with James Blunts Your Beautiful and Enrique Iglesias - Hero >

We've just been to Royal Quays at North Shields, theres a Puma shop, Reebok and others but no Adidas, walked away in disgust tbh, I'll be making the trip down the A19 to Dalton Park from now on. I wouldn't like, it's fucking awful. However it has a fuck off big Adidas shop with everything about half price.

We've just been to Royal Quays at North Shields, theres a Puma shop, Reebok and others but no Adidas, walked away in disgust tbh, I'll be making the trip down the A19 to Dalton Park from now on.

No no, we didnt expect anyone to pay their deposits yet tbh, its like Ive been saying all along, the first stage (which has gone on longer than we originally wanted or expected) was just to get people an understanding of the plan and the potential cost. No deposits are expected until after the business plan has been released and people have had a chance to take it in and make their own minds up.