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I made an account over there to have a look just out of pure nosiness. Seemed troubled. Very sad.

His shirt number should be 3.141

RIP

We won't sign him, no scope for profit.

Aye they make all the decisions, think it's by law as well. I remember that documentary on Ryanair where basically it was up to the pilot how much fuel to carry, but they exposed the worst offenders in a league table for overfuelling. Something like that anyway, sketchy memory.

No idea what our team's going to look like next season, a striker, a centre half and an 'engine room' type midfielder should be our priorities if we're still i the market, in that order. If we could revive HBA we could move Sissoko to the middle, but it won't happen. He's tidy sometimes but I think Anita's a duff.

For me it says a lot about our corner of the world, genuinely heartwarming

Lads on readytogo have raised over a grand for some flowers via a donation page. Nice one fellas, genuinely classy ( overpaying for borini btw )

I read on his twitter he's doing a special i think, as to not leave it as a loose end I suppose.

I thought it was gash like, and I like Gervais. I liked Merchant's series Hello Ladies though. Not genius but thoroughly enjoyable

Mike says fight it Stevie!

Get well, Stevie. Having to wait days to find out what the score is is a bastard. Keep us posted.

2k isn't a massive fine in terms of a footballing fine, it's in swear-jar territory. Contesting it has probably done HBA no favours. Sometimes you've got to just take it on the chin and get off the pies.

tragic Rip lads

Aye, it was borderline softcore porn with some of the camerawork A bit seedy as well as being shit!

This Bloody Mary Is The Last Thing I Own. Watched the 3 part documentary The Gambler last year, it was rebroadcast after the lad who was in it died, in pretty grim circumstances apparently. Enjoyed it, and this book by the same guy is class so far. Talented writer.

Aye but is he good in training?

Thought ewerk posting all of those pictures in this thread was him outing himself as Mike Ashley for a moment!

Spring Breakers. Awful

I'm not convinced about MYM, but we haven't given him much of a chance. We really need someone who's ready and reliable though. You'd think to replace one of the other two, but we're only noocarsle we can't afford to have a purple on the bench.

His accepting and making excuses for defeats before games is probably as much to blame as his coaching/tactics. I've no data to prove this

Shit will hit the fan over this.

Where's he been talked as as "one for development"? We 'tried' to sign those players, failed (shock) and then signed alternatives. Reviere is our alternative striker, imo. Time will tell though. Edit: Also, not getting any of that list of 'priority' targets should answer your 'skimping or bargain' question too

What noises? If they had a priority 'senior' striker lined up you'd think they'd have already moved for him. Pardew's quotes to me translate to him being happy with his forward options, I'm not saying that they definitely translate to not getting one. I'm saying I've seen us fail to sufficiently strengthen our strikeforce in many windows because they're expensive and we're tight, and I'm fairly confident we won't see a decent one come in. I might be wrong but that's my prediction. I've seen it all before. If we haven't signed a proper striker because we're replying on goals from midfield then we're in trouble.

Skimping. Because otherwise we'd occasionally pay the going rate for a forward that would improve us. Skimping, because often when we need more than one, we only get one. Like the summer we signed Ba when we needed at least one more. We skimped and played the long game until January when we signed Cisse. It worked out because Ba carried us. They won't always be so lucky. Skimping because when we sold Carroll we didn't buy anybody because there was no 'bargains' about. Skimping because when we sold Ba, we didn't sign anyone because there was no 'bargains' about. We hadn't signed a striker last summer and we didn't get Remy till August. If he'd gone somewhere else what would have happened? Would we have gone and paid the going rate for an equally capable player? No. I agree, I don't mind getting bargains when they're available. It's the not signing anyone when there's no bargains available that pisses me off. And one of these days we'll need a couple of forwards, only sign one, and he'll be a De Jong instead of a Remy or Ba. And we'll be fucked.