Craig

Over the moon (again!) Was looking through my account on HMRC and spotted I was still paying tax for a company car I handed back 25 months ago. A rebate somewhere in the region of £4.5k heading my way! Seriously, if I grew a brain I'd be fucking dangerous!

Aye it's nothing to do with sitting in a circle and admitting I have an addiction. Heading up IT Service Delivery for them. Very welcome news as I'd just about had all I could take at my current place.

Over the moon. Been offered a role with the AA that means I'm going to finally be able to chip into the debts I've racked up in recent years. The relief is palpable.

That'll be him Saw him casually walking down the sliproad from Grandstand Road about 10 mins before we started, the mad bastard

He was just in the wave before me at the start, the crazy fucker. He was already struggling by the Tyne Bridge. TBF I did get my half marathon PB

It took us 90 minutes longer to get back to Newcastle than it did for us to run the bloody thing! Hugely humbling and emotional experience for me personally. Raised almost £1000 for Blood Cancer UK which is a charity so close to my heart. I appreciate some of you will be saying it's only a half marathon but I'd genuinely never ran more than 5 miles before in my life until the start of last month. Finished it in 2h 44m. Happy with that.

TBF he's going fucking nuts about it as he's trained for it for months. And no worries.

Anyone up for a beer in town on Friday? Looks like it might just be me and the missus. My mate who was also doing the GNR has found out his place wasn't confirmed by the deadline and they're not letting him run. He's raised a shit load of money for charity.

These lot truly are fucking pathetic https://sunderlandglobalmedia.org/high-crown-pub-puts-up-large-safc-logo-as-row-over-newcastle-lingers-on/

I can wear a mankini and be the stripper?! Happy birthday HMHM 👍

Right ladies and Gents, as some of you will know I’m running the GNR next weekend and will be back in the motherland. I’m planning to hit the town on the Friday night with the missus and another mate who’s doing the run with us. Any of you lovely people around/free to meet for drinks? It’d be lovely to see you if you are.

Good enough to be handed the #10 shirt it would appear. Cue LTA's added fume.

He's from Sunderland ... don't they generally keep their ketamine dry?

Pre-empting future RTG narrative? Mag-like behaviour.

I was about to say the fewm must be absolutely honking over there. It's not 2-3 months ago some of them were convinced he'd be heading back there as player manager

"There's somebody on the roof!" Not now, there's not....

Without Stokes we'd have been anihilated in both this test and the previous one. It's he who has kept us in it. Root getting less than 20 in each of the last three innings is woeful by his standards.

It worked last summer and suddenly we think it's the future. I said before this series started that if we dare to dabble with 'Bazball' Australia will teach us a lesson and it seems to be being proven right. The disappointing thing is that without the short moments of madness we stood a chance of taking this series too them.

Boro have had a shocker here, mind

8 wickets from two players who haven't featured in this series before this test. Massive difference.

Carey playing the safety shot and Woakes imitating picking the ball up and about to throw it at his stumps is the level of shithousery I like to see

I was told to ‘curb my enthusiasm’ by an MCC tie wearer … fuck that! P.S. the missus was buying more booze at this point so she’s unaware of this incident 🤫