Dr Gloom

you're right, it's probably not a fair comparison as in the 80s i was young, still living up north and not taking a train to work every day. i still find it hard to believe though that they were as bad as they are now. perhaps they were just as shite down here in london but surely turning the network private hasn't improved it? i'm a firm believer that priviatising public services rarely work. i just don't see how it can be in the national interest to have a whole bunch of different companies, all with one eye on their individual bottom lines, operating the various train lines

Look at the trains how? An industry that the government neglected for decades then when it was dropping to bits didn't have the cash to fix it up. Same with the water industry (although it was well undersold). Look at what has happened with NI Water. Stamp prices are regulated and this would remain in place should anyone come in for it. More concerned about the impact on Post Offices. Tories will tell you that if you don't like not having a post office, you should just move nearer one. You can imagine it- drop your mail off or buy postage from automated kiosks in your nearest supermarket, everyone come move to dismal orbital towns. they're fucking shite man. far worse now than before they were privatised Apart from the shocking price of the train that's complete bollocks. Were you actually a regular user of BR in the 80s? yes. i remember them not ALWAYS being delayed. i remember not having to buy a number of different tickets when changing stations because you're getting a train run by a rival operator making your ticket invalid. i remember being referred to by the train staff as a passenger, not a customer. i remember the trains being affordable - £300 from london to newcastle? for the service offered, they can fuck right off with that shit. my train in to work is delayed EVERY day. and on the way home, it's never announced which platform it's going to be on the big screen until literally a minute before it's due to leave so you get this farcical situation where hundreds of people are legging it the the platform and inevitably, most end up missing it. and on the inter city trains the food is shit - £8 for a nescafe and a stale egg mayo sandwich with a bit of wilted iceburg lettuce? no i'm alright dear. plus you've got carriages that generally look like were last cleaned in the 80s.

meh

After I took the piss that it's the only thing they have that we don't one of them comes out with that pmsl mackems man honestly you could not make them up, at least 40 years behind us in everyway development wise and I don't just mean the bricks and mortar of buildings, attitudes, everything. you're actually talking genetics here aren't you? and i'm not sure you're even joking

anyone? he must be champing at the bit to play again. is his injury that bad?

I can verify it. He was at the ground at 6pm according to my sources. Not the leighton baines source i trust? He'd do a decent job. He's got that priceless commodity we lack - pace. Better option than larsson

Without tiote and Carroll, i make them masive favourites

did al qaeda terrorists fly a plane into joplings or something?

he's obviously a good influence in the dressing room and his goals this season and last have been a god send but i still worry about his legs. we often need to play him off caroll up top with the protection of two behind him and that leaves us lacking in pace up front. i don't think he's got the engine to play centre mid in a 442 alongside any of our midfielders other than tiote. none of the others cover enough ground to allow nolan to be effective. agree he's done a great job. i doubted he would carry last season's form into the top flight. shame he isn't quicker as he's a right old fox in the box with his finishing.

tbf a lot of them are acknowledging that our city centre is miles better than theirs but they rightly point out that we have plenty of rough areas just outside the centre....as do they

sunderland skyline

newcastle has its fair share but sunderland is wall to wall charv

Stevie, you have possibly created the best thread ever. The possibilities are endless

I said end of thread children. Don't make me come over there!

Why is this thread still rumbling on? It was a blatant red card and was never going to be rescinded in a million years. End of thread tbh

Top man. I was a Blackpool fc presser a few months back. He's as charming as he is funny

quailty thread parky. What's you take on the 9/11 conspiracy theories?

Look at the trains how? An industry that the government neglected for decades then when it was dropping to bits didn't have the cash to fix it up. Same with the water industry (although it was well undersold). Look at what has happened with NI Water. Stamp prices are regulated and this would remain in place should anyone come in for it. More concerned about the impact on Post Offices. Tories will tell you that if you don't like not having a post office, you should just move nearer one. You can imagine it- drop your mail off or buy postage from automated kiosks in your nearest supermarket, everyone come move to dismal orbital towns. they're fucking shite man. far worse now than before they were privatised

Some dodgy fuckers in vegas, and no mistake. the prossies are fucking everywhere in that town.

shit news. privatisation rarely works. just look at the trains ffs

that's a ghetto booty here's another example, on a larger scale. it is the huge thread after all

i kicked an empty bottle of beer in the street on a stag do in berlin in the air like a football. it came down with snow on it, smashing in the road then some local meathead walks past and lamps my friend thinking it was him that did it

Having an ego isn't dependant on other peoples having big egos, shirley. Came across wrong. I don't think it's unfair for a player like Larsson to want 20k when there's wasters in the side on much more. Asking for 20k as a fairly decent Premier League footballer is basically the average as well so there's no ego involved at all. Like someone said, how many bullets will we dodge until we realise there's no fucker coming in. Surely it's a sign of progression though? People complain about how we've handed average players inflated wages over recent years, this shows that we aren't willing to hand anymore mediocre players contracts with stupid fucking salaries. i don't really rate larsson but if the manager wanted him you'd like to think the chairman would back him by paying the going rate. 20 grand a week and a £1m deal is hardly breaking the bank

bentley would have been a quality signing, even on a loan deal