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Thought Sissoko and Cabaye were pretty poor but we still carried the greater threat up to half-time and into second half. Krull mare for their first (and should have done better for the third)less said about Webb the better. We were poor, but not 3 goals worse by any stretch IMO N-O is in meltdown :-) Wish I owned a cyber pitchfork and torches store.

Thought we looked the more dangerous myself like, still reckon we'll score

Aye but he's obviously got some dodgy photo's of the editor

Yet the Sunderland Echo published him

Alreet Jerome, no need to show off !!

Meenzer is !!!! the corrupt bastard !!!!!

In a similar vein, Steve Bruce, we wouldn't pay the £300K (or whatever it was) for him

Lot more tense that it needed to be but if Cisse's goal had stood (as it should have) we'd have been very comfortable despite the fall off in performance second half and no last 10 minute nerves to get through.

But our "profitability" has risen and you said profit not commercial income

What profitability have we ever had to half, with or without TV money ???? Other organisations have always made money through our shirts, it all comes down to the margin the club makes on a shirt irrespective of who sells it. I understand the distrust bit but £500K to SD is peanuts. You never know he could be saving the club a load of money, SD may be doing all the stuff for NUFC at cost, then again they may not. We'll likely never know but just because there's money going that way doesn't mean it's a "new" or bad cost tbh.

Doesn't matter so long as the club are not worse off: As an illustrative made up example, maybe all the merchandise storage/distribution/logistics etc used to cost NUFC around £700K a year, if they outsourced that to SD (who will have a huge distribution network) for £500K, the club would pay SD £500K (or 498K) but actually be £200K better off.

I appreciate that, but I'd simply get someone else to play RB, I wouldn't shuffle the whole back line to use one of those players as temporary RB.

No no no !!! The back four have kept two clean sheets against good sides, one piece of that four will be missing, replace only that player, don't change 3 pieces of the 4 for the sake of the one, IMO of course.

They're nowt without Silva tbh

Just rejoin or use your old one, you're not banned

Fun and games at Cardiff http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24454963

So since 1950 they're 95% certain, yet: "It adds that a pause in warming over the past 15 years is too short to reflect long-term trends." The pause is too short to have any meaning, yet, said pause is 20% of the period over which they are 95% certain..................... Aye OK

Up the Arsenal HIV Eindhoven

I do, for the first 10 years of my working life, I worked in debt collection dept of one of the major utilities, I very well know the difference between the can't payers and won't payers. I strongly suspect it's the latter who get into trouble with Wonga and their ilk, I also suspect many of the former actually benefit from having the likes of Wonga around in getting over short term hurdles because a lot of those folks aren't thick and actually would know what they're getting into and would do it based on a rationalised decision. As for "no fault of their own" I absolutely know that happens, was almost at the brink myself many many years ago during a legal case as the plaintiff, which I've described on here before, and the "institutions" were less than fucking sympathetic (despite preceding years of exemplary track record). To be honest, a Wonga back then would have been a godsend, on a couple of occasions, and would have been used properly and would have saved a lot of the shit and stress we went through for a period.

And yet Wonga make HUGE profits, which means most folks can, and do, pay them back. For many they provide a useful service because the mainstream banks (many of which dwarf Wonga's profits) won't step into the breach. If there wasn't a Wonga who would put food on the kids table when cash has run out. Far less misery/lives destroyed by the likes of Wonga (if indeed any are) than booze and bookies and that's indisputable IMO.

Great stuff MF, spent loads of time down the fish quay when a nipper, remember some of those boats, especially the bigger trawlers, there were two of them almost identical, green hulls, cream upper-works and red funnels and lots of rust, I all but saw that particular photo in colour when it came up, mental old git !!! Oh Aye, Brimms cranes were red

Eyebrows! EYEBROWS! think of poor Duncan Goodhew (that said he probably had a cock)

You were lucky

Yes, if you take it out of the context in which it was meant.

Was bound to, the only vestige of any influence in the middle east/med that they have left.