maggiespaws

Excellent match last night. Wawrinka was playing out of his skin and Murrey still kept plugging away. I have more confidence in Murrey than I ever did in Henman. Henman lacked the cutting edge for me. Not enough bite. I dont care if Murrey's boring or miserable. He plays good tennis and his attitude is of a 'never-say-die' mould. He plays to win and it's those sorts of players who achieve. Hell, Sampras was cold, calculating, miserable and boring and the best of his generation by a mile. The fact Murrey kept his head last night and kept Wawrinka at arms length shows just how much he's matured in the last 12 months. Will he win it? Who knows. Is he in with a decent shout, hell yes.

Where'd you get that from, mate? Looking to put my Wii in HD but it seems like you've got a canny deal. Same could be said for the battery pack. Wii Fit Battery pack - £4.55 from ebay seller (uk) edigitalelectronicsuk6. However, I think I have a duff one. Waiting to hear back from the seller about next step. HD cable - $5.09 from Hong Kong seller bobowaytoway. I think it was about £3 or so. Ordered it a little over a week ago. Not got mine yet but my brothers arrived today and we ordered at the same time.

A few accessories for the Wii and Xbox: Xbox 360: - DVD/multimedia remote - Wired headset Wii: - Dual charging station and 2x 2800mh batteries - HD Cable (480p) - 2x Gun controllers - Wii Fit rechargable battery pack - 2nd Nunchuck Works out at about £100 or so's worth of accessories but thanks to our industrious Asian cousins in Hong Kong, and the power of eBay I think I've spent a little over £30.

I was about to post this too. Top, top, top album. The sheer diversity on it makes this album a cut above if nothing else. Such a shame they were forced to endure a 4yr recording hiatus. John Squire is one of my guitar heroes too.

Just managed to get 2x tickets for the Thunder gig in Manchester next friday after they were sold out. My Dad is suitably impressed as he really wanted to go

Mint. I think I might order a pair form play then when payday comes

Are they any good? I've been looking at them 'cos they've been on special at play.com. I'm hoping the noise cancelling will make them good for train journeys to/from work.

Never had you down as a Knorks man Meenz. I always thought you appreciated more manly attributes.....

Son of mongoose could understand

It's really not. It's an abomination. A chav shirt for a chav owned club.

10/10 to the designer. He really met his brief (assuming it was) - "I want you to come up with a shirt design that will take the club one step further down. Give everyone one more reason to laugh at the fuckers. I want something people can take the piss out of for the whole season, just in case they don't give us anything else on the pitch to laugh about" FFS

My brother is taking part in the Stick it to MS world record attempt. Basically, the US currently hold the record for getting 533 drummers playing simultaneously in one room in 2005. This year, the UK will attempt 600 drummers at the Birmingham NIA all in aid of MS. All 600 drummers have registered and the event happens in a couple of weeks. If anyone can spare a couple of quid to sponsor him it would be really appreciated His just giving page is http://www.justgiving.com/geordieboystu Cheers, Steve

paws, I'd disagree. As long as the next owner can get rid of all stench Ashley the cunt has left behind, they'll get a pat on the back and a pint from me. Don't get me wrong, I'm not about to get the "Ashley In" banners out but nor am I about to burst into "Ding Dong the Witch is dead" either. All I'm saying is that this has the potential to go from bad to worse. MA is not going to give a shit who he sells to, as long as they stump up the cash. This could mean that a wealthy investor can get us at a knock down price leaving greater funds for investment. Or it could mean that someone with much less can buy us and we struggle to get out of the Championship because we can't afford to buy that extra mile (PNE for example). It will ruin the summer break because no-one can plan for anything. We can't even sort out our manager until the future is sorted because a) he's not likely to sign a deal and this might influence who buys the club (ie the new owner might be put off if they dont like AS and would have to pay him off like we did with Fat Sam). All in all, same NUFC shit, just a different day.

Not read the whole thread, so apologies if this has already been said but, one of my first thoughts when reading this is that we are too cheap. £80-£100mil opens the field to a whole new level of investor - which I think is bad (stick with me - it'll make sense). For that kind of money, we could end up with a owner who can buy the club but cannot invest heavily, unlike a billionaire owner. Even if we do bounce back up (and that's a big fucking if) we could end up like Everton - no pot to piss in and bouncing around mid-table hoping to catch a lucky run. At least Everton have a good manager in Moyes.

Yesterday, whilst at the George Thorogood gig in Manchester; I pre-ordered a hangover. It arrived at 07:00 this morning along with my alarm call Work sucks today

Kate in leather. Hell yeah! .... and Van Helsing too /pants

Got some invoices done, and awaiting the money coming in so....... 1 - Some girl's brother where my brother's fiance works (keep up!) was selling their supposedly near-new Wii. Wii, 2x controllers, wii sports, wii play, mario karts, 2x wheels, CoD5, Tiger Woods 09 - £150. Bit her hand off, traded the CoD and Tigerwoods at game for £32 (I have both for the 360). Therefore, £118 for the rest of the above - bargain! 2 - Used aforementioned £32 plus some cash already on a gift card and bought a wii fit Mrs Paws loves me now, oh yes 3 - Red Steel for the Wii 4 - A Saracen Element 2 bike for me 5 - Saracen Diva 2 bike for Mrs Paws

Play him from the beginning and see how long he lasts. If he's immobile though, he's no use. Raylor at RB then

well so have hull and sunderland, but we've played man u and chelsea mid season when they we're both still playing for the league and earned the 2 draws we've had against them if hull and sunderland pick up points against those 2 with weakened sides then it is genuinely not fair considering how much is at stake, we aren't talking a mid table place and a difference of 1000000 prize money or whatever Aye but we've thrown away games we should have won. As Alex said elsewhere, it's swings and roundabouts and tough shit and if it were happening to any other club than Newcastle you wouldn't blink an eyelid. Agreed. SAF has every right to field a weaker team to 'rest' his star players. Clubs rotate squads all the time. Would be a massive embarrassment if we even considered suing. As for us playing bigger clubs when they fielded stronger teams - it's luck of the draw. Does that mean it's not fair if we play ManU and Ronaldo or Rooney for example are injured and yet someone else plays them the week after when they are back? Imo, SAF will play a side which won't risk any of his major players which is exactly what we'd all do if we were in that position. My only hope is that he plays some players who will feel they are playing for a place in the squad for the CL game.

You can change itunes to rip things as mp3 rather than aac. Goto Edit > Preferences > on the General tab select Import settings. From there select mp3 encoder, chose custom setting and put the quality up to 320. You can burn mp3's to cd from within itunes too.

I'll be in my local watching this. Surrounded by Manu fans. It will be intolerable, but fuck it, I'll be there. Shirt on and everything (as usual). Ideally, I want us to win and hull to lose. I'd honestly rather Hull went down than the mackems.

I dont mind the badge being in the middle. I quite like it in fact. I hate the collar on the new shirt as well as the aforementioned panel. I really like the collar on the AC 3rd kit above though. If we had that template as our home kit it would be niiiiice. As it stands I hate the new kit and will definitely not be buying one.

Not heard that yet. Is it as epic as Noel made it out to be? Currently listenign to Know your Enemy from GD's new album. Got the whole album on, loud in my office. Good job all the guys in the office like rock

There is an extra bass drum beat in Know you enemy but I know what you mean, it's literally exactly the same without that extra drum beat, I wonder if that's what it's for? To be honest though a lot of drum introductions probably clash. I'm not sure there is an extra beat. It sounds identical to me. Still not 100% sure about the album yet. I stand by my original statement - seems a bit soft for them. Agree with the earlier comment about it missing an epic song. I'd be interested to see what the new stuff sounds like live though. Also agree with LM. I don't think this is as good as AI. Mind you, it was always going to be difficult to top. Did anyone catch them on T4 on Sunday? I missed the 1st 12mins before recording the rest. Now playing the album in the office - loud

fuck me. the ref is shite. he must have eagle eyes to spot the nolan incident, and bassong tugged his shirt, but the player took a while to go down after. fucking dive.