Kitman

Can't say I'm surprised by any of it tbh.

Welcome. For Mike Ashley read Doug Ellis. Some fans (as far as I can tell, a vocal handful of internet addicts) seem quite happy that we are plunging headlong towards relegation 'as long as we keep a tight ship'. I think the hospital allows them a computer in their room if they take their medication and they can type well enough with their toes. However according to my matchgoing relatives most toon fans range from angry to apathetic, with support for Ashley very thin on the ground. People are utterly fed up with the shite on view, which has been the case for several years now, and the Board's contemptuous attitude. Attendances will probably fall next season as a result. The Board don't seem to have clue. They've cited Arsenal and (lately) Villa as role models, but won't invest in the first team to any significant degree and think poor old washed up Joe is the man to take us forward. All our hopes seem to be pinned on surviving from year to year until a crop of Fabregas-alikes magically appear from our youth ranks. They have a 5 year plan they assure us and waggle their eyebrows, like latter day Stalinists. I'm told the atmosphere is generally dreadful at SJP in comparison to years gone by. The thing is, expectation is so low now, if someone with some managerial talent could come in and make us mediocre, with some decent football and the prospect of competing, I think most toon fans would be happy. Villa have shown how it's done and good luck to you. I envy you your manager and owner, you deserve it after the years of Ellis. I hope you knock Arsenal or Chelsea out of the Champions League places, now that would be funny.

Cynical folks have long suggested he only rises from his sick bed when he has to negotiate a new contract or there's a tournament involving the 'Roos. Certainly hasn't started enough games for us.

Yes, a lucky escape. Instead you chose the toon, where misery comes as standard.

To be fair he doesn't deserve a new contract. The question is whether he'll be replaced.

Well done to the lot of you, keep the faith, we will rise again * * although that might not be for another 20 years, the position of your club may go down as well as up, the possibility of relegation cannot be discounted and bankruptcy/liquidation remains a possibility (if you believe certain posters on Newcastle-Online.Org).

The sad truth is they won't even be considering the manager's job, they'll be hoping against all common sense that Kinnear can come back and stay for the next 2-3 years giving "stability". Anybody with any sense and vision would be busy searching hard for a replacement with an appointment if not now in the summer. But imo they won't do it until they're forced to and right at the last minute, presumably when Kinnear has another 'episode' and is forced into retirement by his doctors. It's the one area that could make a massive difference and needn't cost them lots of extra money. It would be the most important appointment since Sir Bobby. On current form I expect them to balls this up totally, due to their lack of football experience and nous. Cretins * flounces off and slams some doors *

That's the one for me. Duff on for the Duke of Fatness when his legs stop moving, with Lovenkrands moved upfront. Or S Taylor on for R Taylor at right back, R Taylor moved up to RM or LM, and Lovenkrands upfront. Or something.

Well we wouldn't want any old prole buying it The vineyards here are quite small by world standards I think, so it's a case of quality not quantity (no pun intended)

Funnily enough you probably get a better choice of wine over there than we do here because the better stuff is either exported or too expensive. Seems mad that it's cheaper to buy after it's been half way round the world but the exchange rate does that. I've drunk a lot of pinot noirs since I've been here but it's mostly been supermarket plonk or Aussie stuff which is better value. We sometimes go to this place for lunch http://www.brickbay.co.nz/information.html but it's typical of the sort of vineyard in the Auckland area alone and most of them are set up for food. We're spoilt for choice really

Known as the secretaries wine. There's a lush NZ Pinot Gris I sometimes get. Matakana Estate. It might please you as you sip your wine to know Matakana is a cracking little town - brilliant farmers market, great pottery and artists' studios, a really cool little cinema & shops, also a 10 minute drive from several beaches and Goat Island a marine reserve where you can snorkel with reef fish. But then again you probably won't give a fuck

Known as the secretaries wine. There's a lush NZ Pinot Gris I sometimes get. Matakana Estate. Matakana Estate Pinot Gris Matakana Auckland "Description: This graceful wine has a light lemon hue. The bouquet offers delicate, sensuous aromas of sun-ripened pears, soft peach, subtle quince and a whisper of cloves. Rich and luscious flavours of ripe melon, succulent apple and lychee are wrapped seductively in a soft creamy texture. The full, stylish palate surrenders to a long smooth finish." Mmmmm... Good choice. But tbh there are so many good white wines here, from the Marlborough region (South Island) especially. I prefer red wine mind, and judging from the colour of my piss, I've tried too much of that already.

I hope we get something. Going to be tough against a team that's organised and knows their business.

Bravo!

He saw that the other teams were catching us up in the injury league table, and therefore selflessly signed himself off for 8 weeks to ensure we stayed ahead the pack. That is the quality of the man.

I avoid anything with Ross Kemp in tbh. He always looks like he has a stocking pulled over his head.

Slumdog Millionaire. Very good. Can't recommend the Mike Ashley spinoff, Scumbag Billionaire however. Not worth the entrance money.

Story?

For non-existent dentist bills?

That's a million we could have spent on Dean Windass. Disgusting.

It's the way I roll baby. Does that mean you were serving the sausage rolls?

Just as long as THEY'RE ok though eh? * sob * Will no-one think of the children?!

Shame that a great love affair ends in a quickie divorce and a cash settlement, with no explanation to the children as to who was fucking around.

An upgrade on Nicky Butt then

One of the many wonderful things about living in New Zealand is that I'd be spared the nauseating "coming home" interviews with Bruce, as he talks about there only being one club in the world he'd have left Wigan for * * with his fingers and toes crossed, obviously