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We'll get badly hammered, but anything will be an improvement on 6-0. It's an ugly feeling to have to write off your season opener, but we must look past it imo.

Someone will mention him eventually: Kuqi, celebration at 1:05

You're not forbidden (unlike being gay for example ), just you're not allowed to in some places, and rightly so. Religion has no place in education for example (although religion will always try to get into education as it's a prime place to brainwash your population and spread), Turkey (like France) is quite right in their beliefs about that. You're having a laugh. Religion has no place in education because religion will brainwash the students and thus spread? So a piece of cloth wrapped around some brown bird's head in front of you in Physics 101 at Northumbria University is going to emit gamma rays that will slowly cause you to shun pork, get circumcised, and give you a strange guilty feeling five times a day? And if that's true, then what about the cross around the neck of the white bird behind you? Christmas trees? Pastrami sandwiches? Cows? Are these all dangerous religious iconography that should be banned from education for fear of brainwashing? They're symbols. Nothing more. And people in free countries should be allowed to wear whatever symbols they should so want, whenever they should so want. Bringing a headscarf into university isn't bringing religion into the schools, end of.

FYP Back to Smith, as I have said before there are occasions when booing is warranted. I know many do not agree with this but there are times when the fans must make their feelings very accessible and a recent example is Fat Sam's awful management, poor substitutions, wacky selections, etc. I don't think a player who has not committed some grave offense (Owen openly talking about how he wants to join Man U, for example, or one of our players abusing Geordies, etc.) should be booed, and Smith falls into this category. He's not done much right in his time here, but he hasn't done owt really wrong and he doesn't deserve that treatment.

Admitting to no specialty in Caucuses affairs, my take on it: South Ossetia is part of Georgia, which is a sovereign nation. This entire incident is therefore a flagrant violation of Georgia's territorial integrity by Russia (whether or not S. Ossetians actually do want to be part of Russia, they are officially Georgians and if they want to secede there are other ways to go about it) which should be condemned. Sadly, these days "territorial integrity" doesn't appear to count for too much. I think this is just a test case for Russia. If there is no major outcry and South Ossetia is absorbed into Russia in the end, I think we'll be finding out about many more "oppressed Russian minorities" who need to be "protected" in places like Latvia, Estonia, Azerbaijan, etc. What precedent does this set? Next we might have Iran invading Iraq to "protect" the "oppressed Shi'a population." As for Turkey, any country where you're actually forbidden to wear the headscarf is no Muslim country. How is forbidding it any better than forcing people to wear it? But one is roundly condemned while the other violation of personal freedom is considered "progressive." I have no time for Turkey.

Er, hang about there. It's only given the world, you know, civilisation. Can't argue with the "won't win medals" though.

Says it all really. Bunch of friends of mine are engineering nerds and they'd probably be in absolute stitches at that joke. How do you like Boston? Freezing cold, shite banter, terrible accent...worst place in the NE states imo

oh, it's that that makes him look a wally. Shh, can't you see I'm trying to not be snobby and perpetual?

Drop the signature lad. Just put it in your real sig like. The best part is when you forget it and edit your post to put it in. Makes you look a right wally.

They have used it: "War Kev." Hilarious stuff. I'm more interested in the McMahon quotes there, liking the sound of that.

Please hurry up, Keegan/Ashley/Wise/whoever and sell sell sell before they change their minds. This might be our one chance to shift him.

Torres can stay, his banter is minimal but it barely passes. The other nobody is long, long past his sell-by date. Tom do the right thing lad.

Agreed.

I like how A) yesterday the figure for Smith was 1.5mil and there's now two (admittedly unreliable) sources running the story. Tomorrow do you think it'll be 6mil and 4 papers?

Presumably he's worried about an Indian takeaway He's either getting into a pickle or this story has been roganjoshing all along. Is he sick of the press having a poppadim? Not being one to curry favour

Mum!! Mum!!! guess what Danny did!! Fucking hell mate, grow up. If you dont like it, dont read it. I have a better idea - you piss off so I'll never have to read it again. Really, nobody wants you here. You contribute nothing. It's time you were on your way. Or maybe you can explain why you would post something about Spurs - a club no-one on here except you supports - winning some friendly cup.

Wow, this looks familiar...Danny posting meaningless Spurs shite on a Newcastle forum. Admins, time to pull the plug I think.

And it has it's good and bad points - more supporters generate cash and so on but they're gloryhunting pricks at the same time. It's just inevitable. I find what you're saying quite funny though because you don't seem to realise that the way you go on here is exactly what defines you as such. Makes you come across as an attention-seeking kid as well. That's absolute twaddle about me and the local thing btw. I seriously doubt you could back it up either. I wouldn't even try ... it's the way your posts come across to a 'non local'. I know by now what is thought of people who are not 'locals' so it isn't a surprise anymore. If 'locals' don't agree with you they call you 'plastic' an 'OTT' or a 'kid' because it makes them feel more secure, more entitled, completely ignoring the fact of course that the club is owned by a 'non local' and most of the best players are 'non local' and one of their biggest objectives is to qualify for a 'non local' competition!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... see the irony. They have no global outlook ... yet expect the club to play in Europe. Never thinking how useful it is to have fans abroad to support you in tricky away games. There's small town cunts forya. Maybe you haven't seen our away support? Take the Inter away game for example. We nearly had more in the stadium than they did. When we talk about "local" we mean the kind of relationship a club should have with its community, the kind of thing that is slowly being killed off by Sky, the "global brand" of the Premier League, and the like. Don't know why I'm bothering to discuss this with you though - you're plastic, but you're just short of being plastic enough to be oblivious. So you've got a huge chip on your shoulder about not being a proper fan, which is why you try to stroke your ego on these boards and spout this shite about us being "small town." It's pathetic.

What. The. Fuck!? If he's worth £7 million i'm worth half of that. Atleast. TBH I thought the lad was under the age of 25! christ I didn't know he was 29...scrap that! That said, I'd still have him if it were on the cheap.

I'd take him all the same. He's bound to be more creative than our current crop of clowns and cloggers. @Besty: Did I get whooshed? Haven't heard any reports about Derdiyok in a while, although I'd like to.

Should we be in for him? I expect the nameless club is in fact West Ham, and we're doing well on the defender front, but he's a decent player and I wouldn't turn my nose up. Thoughts?

Any further word on this yet? Heard some rumbles about Colloccini being on SSN, but nothing else for some time...

Can you believe those neanderthals are serious? Glad some of them have the sense to laugh.

Que? we've signed him for 11million euros plus a potential of 1mil more for something or other Don't know if it's relevant, but the first paragraph of that article claims it's 11 million dollars, and the second, 11mil euros. The comments below are also fairly encouraging, all of them wishing him luck and the latest comment says, "Great for him. Nobody ever had faith in him when selecting and now he's off to the world's greatest league."

You rat bastard.