Gemmill

Who's David Icke? Is it mancy?

There's nowt like stereotyping is there? I guess like most accounts, your normal attire includes brown nylon trousers and you're never parted from your tartan thermos... Saturday mornings spend collecting train numbers at the central station? 78750[/snapback] I see the truth is hurting you.

Give more detail in the question and you'll get a more detailed answer. 78722[/snapback] Exactly. We at least need to know what make the MP3 player is etc, although why women can't just read and follow instructions, I'll never know. Oh and babies don't come with instructions.

Agreed. We aren't doing particularly well, and we're doing nowhere near well enough to warrant the sort of dividends that the directors pay themselves, but we're not in any immediate financial danger.

So there's no better achievement in cricket than winning a two horse race. Just about sums the "sport" up. 78613[/snapback] So Ali beating Foreman wasn't a great achievement, on the basis it's a 'two horse race'? 78660[/snapback] Absurd comparison: 1) Boxing is not a team game. 2) He had to earn the right to be in that ring. England vs Oz happens every two years (or whatever), regardless. So once in a blue moon we beat them. Wow. 78677[/snapback] The way I hear it, you've earned the right to be in numerous rings over the years.

Golden rule of being an employee, you NEVER, NEVER go on national TV and call your manager, and by implication, the Chairman of the company you work for, a liar....... 78657[/snapback] The situation was manufactured by Souness in my opinion. We've really done this argument to death though, so let's not bring it up again, please? 78663[/snapback] I've no intention of doing the argument again, but if the lad never wanted to leave NUFC and though that the best way of demonstrating this was by arranging the "liar" interview, he must be monumentally stupid. FACT! 78665[/snapback] But what if Souness was lieing? We all know that Bellamy is not the brightest match in the box, and is likely to speak without thinking. Anyway, regardless, a bigger man than Souness would have sorted something out rather than huffing "he'll never play for me again". Wanker. 78674[/snapback] Will you stop trying to start up the Bellamy argument again, man?

It's not because we can't do it, it's just we like to keep the IT monkeys busy.

You sure she wasn't just the bird that sometimes does the sign language over the top of programmes?

She did it so her skirt wouldn't get in the way, apparently. 78667[/snapback] Do you read "Did you know...?" books from morning to night or what? 78668[/snapback] I know my cricket sunshine 78673[/snapback] There've been other non-cricket related incidents that point me towards the "Did you know...?" book theory. The limelight, for instance!

She did it so her skirt wouldn't get in the way, apparently. 78667[/snapback] Do you read "Did you know...?" books from morning to night or what?

Golden rule of being an employee, you NEVER, NEVER go on national TV and call your manager, and by implication, the Chairman of the company you work for, a liar....... 78657[/snapback] The situation was manufactured by Souness in my opinion. We've really done this argument to death though, so let's not bring it up again, please? 78663[/snapback] I've no intention of doing the argument again, but if the lad never wanted to leave NUFC and though that the best way of demonstrating this was by arranging the "liar" interview, he must be monumentally stupid. FACT!

I.T. staff are never useless but with all the shite we have to put up with day after day from mind numbingly stupid end users, we just don't give a shit anymore! 78655[/snapback] That's right, blame the users for your incompetence.....

Golden rule of being an employee, you NEVER, NEVER go on national TV and call your manager, and by implication, the Chairman of the company you work for, a liar.......

How do you invent something that you're incapable of demonstrating to anyone? She must have had a bloke that actually did it while she shouted out instructions.

Take your MP3 player and your favourite CD. Rub them together vigorously for about 5 minutes. Make sure it's the shiny side of the CD that you rub on the player. That should do it.

Craig, are you sure the reason you didn't build your own machine is because outside of the already-prepared step-by-step instructions that you provide when people tell you they have a particular error number, you are utterly useless. That seems to be the case with most IT departments.

You should concentrate more on popular culture and less on messing about on your unicycle tbh.

Next to Gemmill's Smoothie Maker tbh 78564[/snapback] I've got one actually. I use it to cook me borgas on.

Source? Press conference? Insider? L/M-type certainty? 78603[/snapback] No. FACT!

That was nowt more than a soundbite that he came up with when he crapped himself and realised that he was actually going to be sold for something that he would have got away with with no bother under the previous manager.

Have you ever seen a girl throw something far enough to injure someone, let alone kill? 78310[/snapback] I was the best spin bowler my school ever had I will let you know.... I could knock a gnats gonad off with one eye shut !!! 78317[/snapback] Aye but you discovered this accidentally whilst trying to do your "hardest throw".

If Bellamy scored against us I reckon he would go radio rental, give it the "shhhh" fingers to the lips business to the fans and everything. I don't know why anyone would think he wouldn't absolutely love it tbh.

But only if you could watch.

Did it occur to Rick Parry that the cricketers were rewarded because they were representing the nation, whilst Liverpool were representing a collection of dole-wallers sporting shocking perms and wearing shellsuits?

Leazes - if the club has been financially mismanaged to the degree that you seem to think it has been, whose fault is that? Will you blame Shepherd for anything, I wonder? Mismanagement on the pitch is all down to the manager, financial mismanagement is the fault of the Chairman. So if we really are in the shit to the extent that this article claims and which you clearly believe, are you still blaming Souness for it? Incidentally, the article isn't great - for example, it immediately assumes that player additions were financed by debt. Perhaps not an unfair assumption, but not one that you would want to base an article on, given that the club had just taken in at least £18m in season ticket sales - not ALL player transfers are financed by debt. And whilst arguing (probably incorrectly) that the debt has gone up to £90m since the year end, the writer doesn't bother to add the new player values to the figure of £40m which he quotes (he just took that straight from the accounts without bothering to adjust for the likes of Owen and Luque at a value of around £27m). 78503[/snapback] £40 Million player value seems about right to me really, especially if we had to sell. I can't see us getting our money back on Owen or Luque. We might get some decent money for the likes of Parker, Given (whose approaching the end of his contract) and maybe Emre, and maybe Taylor and N'Zogbia, but the rest probably would struggle to command a 7-figure transfer value. 78508[/snapback] Whether we get our money back is irrelevant. He's talking about the capitalised value of the players in the financial statements - Owen would have been capitalised at his transfer value and then written down over the length of his contract. It's not just a question of him placing a value on what he thinks we could get for our squad. 78513[/snapback] Fair enough, but surely that original £40M figure would have included large values for players like Robert and Bellamy then? I agree the article is pretty lazy, but common sense tells me Newcastle are financially now on extremely shaky ground, especially if we can't even afford to change managers. One of my worries is that next year we will see a slump in season ticket sales - after all, this year we only just sold them after an extensive TV campaign and by buying Owen. If we lose more income, well, things are looking grim indeed. 78516[/snapback] How much value was attributed to Robert and Bellamy would have depended how much time they had remaining on their contracts, and how much had previously been written down. I doubt there was too much value on Robert, not sure on Bellamy. I reckon the biggest thing we're suffering from this season is not being in Europe. The club must have been bringing in about £0.5m for each of those UEFA Cup games when we were half filling the ground. So far this year we've had the FA Cup tie against Mansfield and that's about it outside of league matches. We definitely aren't doing as well as Shepherd would have hoped financially, which to my mind means that no dividend should be declared this year. That's not going to happen though. Him and Hall will take their usual couple of million quid each.