maggiespaws

The idea of Slash sat in the corner of my office hacking away at some php just made me smile

He has to say something just so he's not forgotten - shame it makes him look like a tit

Seems canny on Safari. Love the error page, made me lol in the office

Just set the Owen one as my desktop! Good stuff! Cheers

You got em ess en? 25416[/snapback] Didn't get a message, it just stopped. Quicktime tried to open the file but said it was f'd. I wasn't surprised as I'd only got 43mb. Now when I click on the link to start again, all I get is File Transfer: Invalid Link. Does anyone else get this message?

died.......

Im downloading it now, say's it will take about an hour or so. I'll then upload it to my server - which will now take a while as I'm at home after the power cut at work. I'll post a link when it's up. Feck...... 3hrs now

Jesus wept. 24946[/snapback] 24950[/snapback] Christ on a bike! 24960[/snapback] That's just made me laugh in the office when I'm supposed to be in the middle of a system upgrade.

Jesus wept. 24946[/snapback] The poor bastid's done a lot of that over the past few days. I hope his mam bought him an extra value box of kleenex.

There is a third camp. The one that I'm in. Souness sceptics. I don't hate him. I don't slag him. I just don't see him turning us around. 24732[/snapback] *Pitches his tent next to Snakehips* I've said before, at this stage it's a bad idea to get rid. I seem to recall many people saying that he needed a full season, we've had a bad start and now he should go? It's the same situation as letting SBR go this time last year we didn't get what we wanted, so there is little to believe we can do differently now. I don't rate him, but it's counter-productive to constantly slate him. He is what we have, so I plan to at least give him a crack. The results will speak volumes. I'm not saying we should be happy with failure or poor form, but constant negativity is not the answer. I think that many of the player's he's brought in are good choices, especially this summer, so let see what happens over the coming months eh? 24844[/snapback] No - that's too sensible! You have to decide he's shit and always going to be shit and stamp your feet til someone takes him away and brings us Peyter Reid on a silver platter! 24849[/snapback] Aye, I'm having a good day today. Got lots of serious stuff going on at work today, so I'm on form EDIT: Cath pet, that huff smiley is so you!

There is a third camp. The one that I'm in. Souness sceptics. I don't hate him. I don't slag him. I just don't see him turning us around. 24732[/snapback] *Pitches his tent next to Snakehips* I've said before, at this stage it's a bad idea to get rid. I seem to recall many people saying that he needed a full season, we've had a bad start and now he should go? It's the same situation as letting SBR go this time last year we didn't get what we wanted, so there is little to believe we can do differently now. I don't rate him, but it's counter-productive to constantly slate him. He is what we have, so I plan to at least give him a crack. The results will speak volumes. I'm not saying we should be happy with failure or poor form, but constant negativity is not the answer. I think that many of the player's he's brought in are good choices, especially this summer, so let see what happens over the coming months eh?

I'll cancel mine tbh, it's 150MB 24820[/snapback] Divvent cancel man! If you've got this far, you may as well keep going. We dont know yet if chip has the full thing or not. Besides, people with broadband may prefer the bigger, higher quality one. I'll host both.

When it's up, PM me and I'll download it. I'm at work so the connection is fast. I also upload at the same speed, so I can get it on my server pretty quickly. Unlike, free hosting, my hosting doesn't have a tiny little allocation of bandwidth - it's my server!

No problem. How long was the conference?

You divvent want much like do you? 24771[/snapback] Na, dead easy to please me like ;-) Never ask for much

I've not got my video streaming server on line yet otherwise that would have been perfect. When you say 'not broadband friendly' do you mean that it's just gonna be big?

I have plenty of hosting space, so I'm happy to host the pics and the conference. If the people with the pics etc want to pm me with a link to download them from, I'll upload them ASAP. I know we're all clamouring!!!!! I know I am. I want a decent quality pic of owen in his shirt to be my new wallpaper!, Preferably hi-res as my mac is hi-res and widescreen!...... yeah, I know, I'm getting picky ;-) My firewall at work is picky about video files etc, so if you put stuff in a zip file I'll be able to get it. Paws

I believe that promise has been fulfilled. Check the 'Owen signs' thread

That's not even remotly funny (sadly because it's true........) Still, you know how to ruin the moment you pesimistic bastid ;-)

I agree, he's obviously done everything he can to sway, lie to and threaten Owen until he agreed to sign! So well played Big Al. 22490[/snapback] Aye. He's made no secret of how he rates Owen in the past, and I have no doubt he will have played a big part in all of this. As for those who look at the £15/16/17m or whatever we have paid for him, 7yrs ago we paid almost that for Shearer. Owen is a proven goal scorer and should we sort our supply out in the team, I've had no doubt we will get our money back, just as we have with big Al, although I agree it looks excessive when you consider he only cost RM £8mil and he's only been a bit part player for the last season (and still scoring 16 goals I might add - compare that to Bellars). We need a 'bare your arse in the window smily' adding as some of us are a bit far from Fenwicks to fullfill our promises. I'm not sure if I can do it as my drawing skills are not that good and my designers are on their holidays/stag week. Fair play to FS and GS for their parts in pulling this off. Regardless of our situation, now is not the time to sack the manager. Lets take this news, and the spare footy weekend to regroup and come out fighting. Howay the f----n lads!

I'm not sure he has a choice.... What would Real Madrid get out of a loan deal? I can't see that being attractive to them at all. 17780[/snapback] Someone else paying the wages of a player that they don't want? 17784[/snapback] On that same logic though isnt Souness right to say this? If Liverpool dont come in for Owen then what would Owen get out of not moving to us permanently? being stuck in the reserves of a club that dont want him, with the World Cup a season away? By saying this hes forcing Liverpools hand, he knows that if 2 loan deals are on the table then he'll go Scouse, this way Madrid wouldnt let him go on loan when the other options 17 million spondooleees. 17946[/snapback] I see Gemmils point and agree but I also agree with Peasepud. It's a gamble but I think Peasepub might just have the logic right. If there is an option for Own to go to Scouseland, then he'll take it. I even think he'd accept the pay cut to complete the move. We're trying to narrow the options. If we can remove the Liverpool option from him, we can then concentrate on offering him an attractive package. By that, I dont necessarily mean pots of cash. The point is, Owen needs matches in world cup year which is something he will definitly get from us. However, he is only 25 and will no doubtedly be looking beyond this as well. He turned Everton down point blank as they aren't established enough yet as a top 4 team to be a good move. I think the idea of offering him a 12month get out clause if we finish outside CL/UEFA that may make the package more attractive as this would fullfill his world cup concerns and beyond. So, worst case is, he moves on in 12months and he may get his move to liverpool. Long-term this is maybe not so good for us, but it may at least help to get us out of the hole we seem to be digging ourselves into. The ideal scenario is that at the end of next season Owen has helped catapult us back into the top 4 and is happy to stay. I don't begrudge him thinking about us in this way as tbh, we aren't the attractive club we once were, that's not to say we can't be, but I don't think anyone on here can refute that (I'm sure someone will ;-) ).

Just to change the subject slightly, it makes you wonder if the boys at .com do read this forum...... Alex's point has just been added to the story at the top of the page.

Brock, you need to take smaller tokes or add more water to it

Aye, and I'm just waiting for Parker to get an ankle re-occurence just to set everything right in the world of newcastle