Bonamental

Thank fuck for Damien Duff!

Sky say its a definite broken cheekbone.

Fucking harsh booking for Guthrie there. Willo needs to watch out with the shirt pulling as well.

Fucking hell, I forgot about Routledge. Utterly fucking nonsensical unless we were bringing in a replacement. What a fucking shower that window was. I'm guessing their "logic" was that they could stick Barton on the right and then have Ireland in the middle with Tiote. Who cares about pace anyway?

We need to not let Dempsey have even the slightest amount of space. God, how depressing is it to be worried about someone like Dempsey?

Sent and sent

Same, going to have to just give up now. I just hope I don't wake up tomorrow to find out we've gone and signed insomnia or some other piece of overpriced bowel movement of ashley's. That would just rub our noses in it.

Who the fuck is Steve Wraith?

Aye, send one this way as well please. Cheers

Fair post, I don't think "forced into it" was fundamentally what I meant. Influenced by the club? Yes, I could see that. Not for a minute do I honestly think he desperately wants to stay and is only going because he was somehow made to hand in a request. Neither do I. I think he wanted to go. And honestly, I don't fucking blame him. He knows there's a ceiling on wages here, and that he'll have his work cut out negotiating contracts etc. And what's that? Fucking Liverpool will double my wage tomorrow?! (I wouldn't be surprised if they've more than doubled his money) And I get a cut of this fucking ludicrous transfer fee too? You can't blame him for wanting to go man. We are going nowhere under this bloke. Don't forget it's only a month or two ago that these twats completely destabilised the club by sacking the manager for no good reason and replaced him with one that's mediocre at best. If I was Andy Carroll's adviser, I couldn't do anything other than tell him to GTFO of Newcastle. This. Immensely, this (and can see the bit with the transfer request). Or fatboy has just been trying to delay it as long as possible so he gets to sit on £35m or whatever and not have to spend it cos its too late in the window to bring anyone else in.

I went to Australia and New Zealand for nearly 4 months between Sept-Dec in 2008, and it was brilliant. Probably wherever you go there will be a great holiday, but here's my view on it (for what its worth). Port Douglas is much nicer than Cairns and (I think) better for the GBR, but its not particularly big. But Cairns is where more backpackers go, and so it has more of a night life, net cafes, etc (which you dont get a huge amount of in Port). But on the other hand, this means theres a lot of complete twats there, and you get the typical wankers trying to fleece you and tell you their boat is the best blah blah fucking blah. It felt a bit brits abroad, irish theme pubs kinda shite for the admittedly short period of time I was there. Might not be giving it a fair go, but I much prefered Port. Plus the guy who ran the hostel we were at was incredibly helpful and recommended the boat trip we did in the Whits which was brilliant and we hadnt found it online before that. If you are going to do the GBR from the mainland, do NOT go on a tour to a pontoon type thing. Go on a smaller boat (less than 50 people), cos they will take you to places away from the crowds and you get a much better time of it (at least for snorkelling, no idea about diving). But wear a wet suit, cos you will be face down for fucking hours and you will miss bits with the sun tan cream and end up with some interesting looking burns! Hamo is meant to be brilliant, but only went there to fly out of the Whits, which are probably one of the nicest places on the planet. If you are going to that part of Oz and don't go to the Whits you want shooting. When I went, didn't stay on the islands, but went on a boat tour type thing in a tallship, which was mint. But I know people who have stayed on Hamo and it is supposed to be excellent. If it is a choice between Whits and Port, Whits win. Although, not sure what you really get staying on Hamo, whether you can get around to the other islands and in particular Whitehaven beach, which is one of those places you think can't be as good in reality, but is. The Whits are still sorta in the GBR (I think. This was all explained to me when we were on board the boat but I was drunk), but its not quite the same as if you were doing it off the coast further north as you won't be far enough out to sea. We did snorkelling from the boat in the whits as well as from Port, and it was better snorkelling from Port but still pretty good around the Whits. Blue Mountains definitely worth doing. If you are prepared for a bit of a trek, theres a good walk you can do from the touristy place with the cable car and the train thing along the cliff edge for quite a way (you can give up at several points along and head back to relative civilization). If you get lucky with the weather and its clear blue skies it is incredible. Sydney is pretty cool, but not that big a city, and quite expensive for Australia, as you'd probably expect. Depends on the pace of your holiday really, 6 days if you are going out to the vineyards and blue mountains could be ok, if you are then going to say go across the harbour to the likes of Manly etc. But you could probably scrape the main Sydney highlights into one organised sightseeing day, just about. Go on trip advisor etc and look up Sydney in rough guide or whatever to see what else appeals, but do the bridge climb even though its quite expensive. Brilliant view. Don't bother with their stupid tower thing, complete rip off. Don't know anything about Adelaide, but the great ocean road to Melbourne is meant to be spectacular. Parents have done it and their pics/vids do look pretty damn good. Not done myself, but would like to. Again, no idea on Melbourne. Think Brisbane is (maybe that should be was) meant to be a decent city, but maybe not spectacular. Think thats where Steve Irwin's zoo is. But should be a good enough place to go for a bit. Might be worth considering whether you can stretch (money and time) to going to the Northern Territories. Uluru and the Olgas are nice, but one of the best things we did was a 5 day tour (there are 3 day tours as well) in Kakadu, Litchfield and Katherine National Parks, which if you are looking for some impressive scenery are hard to beat. Stick Kakadu, jim jim falls, twin falls, florence falls in google images to get the idea. But when you are going it'll be dry and hot (v hot), so don't expect all of the waterfalls to be going, but it will still be awesome. You get to swim in most of these pools in these canyons, under the waterfalls etc. Its brilliant. And if you want to see ozzie wildlife, its fantastic for that too. We got a boat cruise (I say boat, was basically a tin can with seats and an outboard) on the Mary River, and after all of 5 seconds the guide pointed out our first salt water croc, which was nearly as big as the frickin boat. In three hours saw wallabies, jabirus, sea eagles, kites and several big crocs. Really was an awesome few days. The food is great in the cities as has already been said, a lot of asian influence (and good variety) and some really nice restaurants in nice settings. People are generally pretty decent, basically happy english people in a warm country. Basically, whatever you do will probably be great, and your current trip looks pretty great, so have a decent look at a few websites, see what you like the look of and go for it.

WTF was that Shola? Seriously, explain.

He's not having his best game, but his ball through for Lover earlier was class.

Goal saving tackle to el scorchio! Happy birthday/100 games Colo! (shit keeping mind)

Almost hit the fucking corner flag.

Nice chant for him though whilst he's getting booked there. Be one of those "you cant tackle like that these days" on MOTD2.

Shop window! (we can but hope)

Why the fuck does he keep doing that? Would have been a harsh hand ball, but still, no need to act the twat.

Maybe he tweets too much. jajajajajaja

Didn't even recognise him when he was stood on the touchline waiting to come on. But why not the lil' gangster?

Didn't want to be the one to tempt fate, but now you guys have already done so, its crazy how many chances we have missed so far. Oh good, Routledge is coming on. Nolan in support then? Apparently to match Wigan going to 5 in midfield. Depressing reacting to Wigan really.

Possible hang over from the injury that kept him out of the spurs game?

What a great goal that would have been. Unlucky.

Never in doubt!