Craig

Was it me or was she actually chanting "get your tits out for the lads!" ???

They always film the hooligans for use in identifying them. Shouldn't be too hard - as they're getting down to opposite where the National Express bus station used to be there's a clear shot of a fat ginger kid.... I'd be expecting a knock on the door anytime soon if I was you Gemmill!

"dead funny this man...... this is gannin' on YouTube for definite......." What a fucking mong! Something I did notice though was there was a policeman stood in the middle of Barrack Road between our fans and theirs with a camcorder recording our fans - what the fuck was that all about?

I'm reading Richard Hammond's autobiography. Not surprisingly the majority of the book concentrates on his accident and the recovery afterwards. Well written though and it's part written by his missus who accounts for how she dealt with things - alternates between the two of them and often they're cover the same point in time but obviously from two very different perspectives.

That's what I was thinking - particularly following that article she just did on Mido... Don't see the mentality of video this stuff and then uploading it - there's no humour in it and all it serves to do is paint us in a bad light.

Was there aggro after the match?

Would agree with this - I use Specsavers mind and they're fucking shite, they always make my glasses wrong first time so they need to be taken back and done again. Really should go elsewhere. Some of them piss me right off like, a lass from work (a young, slightly naive type) went to get her eyes tested for the first time and needed glasses. She came back and proudly announced that she'd paid £250 or something and only realised this wasn't normal when everyone started laughing - they'd gone and sold her scratch resistant lenses and every other possible 'extra' on top of designer glasses. Obviously seen her coming a mile off, no need for that like. Last time I went for an eye test, I asked them for my pupilary distance (PD). Got some shitty comment along the lines of "you're not considering buying them off the internet are you, they're a right bunch of cowboys and you'll end up with more eye problems that enough!" Anyway they gave me the details and I ordered a pair off http://googles4u.com/ for £15.... Best pair of glasses I've ever had

If you use a PC as part of you job, your employers are obliged to pay for your tests...

Not especially. Our company has many, many offices and I could be working in a different one at any point given the work I do. I do have a permanent place of work though and a desk and docking station installed there. I'd rather access a laptop through a docking station if i have the choice. Also means that others with the same laptop can 'dock in' on my desk when i'm not there.

Keegan's technique left him well placed in the phantom box carrying competition....

Why the fuck does she have to drag all that back up again? She made a massive deal about it and everyone else passed it off and forgot about it. Egotistical witch!

micky quinn did didn't he? might even have been four i think ( against Leeds iirc) He most certainly did score 4 on his debut... Len Shackleton beat them both though - scored 6 on his debut - then went and played for some 'other' team and became a bit of a hit

Depends on the laptop and the performance of the graphics card you have in it. Matrox do some little box that plugs into the RGB port on the back of your laptop and you can hang two monitors off it but the quality of it is shit - doesn't allow for windows to 'snap' into each screen and you find that the start bar cascades across both screens (rather than just sit on the left hand one) and rather than the dialog boxes appear in the centre of one screen, the appear half and half across the pair of them. It's as though you have one massive monitor cut in two. Don't know about other manufacturers, but Dell do a port replicator which has both an RGB and DVI input on the back and you can hang one analog and one digital monitor off the back of it with great picture quality. It's what I use at work.

Did going down help Man City in ANY way whatsoever? After Keegan got them back up they yo-yo'd a few years and have only had a bit of a run this season due to a new owner and a new world class manager. We've already got that without going down. Well they're serving up football that is a damned sight better than the dross that they were showing when they were relegated from the Premiership... Dross that isn't uncomparable to what we're showing now tttt Took them time, but they've got there...

Who says we weren't?

Glad to see you bothered to read it in full...

Along the same lines as my train of thought.....

And getting relegated is going to solve that? Depends on levels of realism I guess... If anyone thinks we're going to attract some of the names that have been banded around in the press this month, they're living in cloud cuckoo land tbh.

Fuck off he's dead

OK... so what will work? I'm not saying relegation is the answer but, save a couple of players, this squad is rotten to the core. We are bordering, but not on qualification for Europe - it's bordering on relegation. We can't attract anyone, the players we've got are not good enough and neither are the kids coming through...

OK, instant reaction from most (me included if i'm totally honest) is that I'd be totally against Newcastle United being relegated from the Premiership but thinking out of the box, would it really be such a bad thing? Many of you have commented recently how we don't seem to be able to attract the players we need because we're playing so shit and that we're playing shit because we don't have the quality of players we need. So how do we get out of the vicious circle? It might look like a massive step backwards but relegation could offer the opportunity to erradicate the dead-wood, the high wage-earners who, lets face it, aren't earning anywhere near what they're being paid. They'd almost certainly be the first to fuck off citing that there's no way they'd play in the 2nd tier of the English league. But the silver lining to that cloud is that we can start afresh - go back to the days when we had dross and young, ehthusiastic, almost unknown players were drafted in and formed a 'team' that became unstoppable. The last time NUFC has a 'team' of any recognition IMO was during the Robson era and even then there were obvious gaps and the 'team' began to break-up before SBR was relieved of his duties. Since then all we've ever had is a bunch of players who have show potential or talent at other clubs but who have never gelled as a team at Newcastle United. What about the financial aspect of dropping a league? Well thankfully we have a cash-rich owner who it seems to me, is in this for the long run and wants the club to succeed - not just there as a means to increase the weight of his pockets. He'd make sure that a relegation wouldn't cripple us and of course there is a balloon payment to take into consideration. We've been on a rapid decline now for about 4-5 years - we need to get real, we're not going to be able to buy in a couple of players who suddenly turn it all around and we become Champions League contenders. A decline always occurs a damned sight more rapidly than a rise and I think we're going to be looking at the best part of 8-10 years before we can even consider being back to where we were between 1996 & 2003. There is a risk of dropping out of the top flight and disappearing into obscurity and people will no doubt reference Leeds & Nottingham Forest and probably some of the older peeps might even pull up the names of Wolves or Swansea. But then we can also look at Manchester City - it's not that long since they dropped into the third tier and had to re-invent themselves and look where they are now. OK, they're probably not going to trouble the top 4 this season, but they're undoubtedly in a far better position than we are when we've stayed in the same league over the whole period when they left the top tier and have come back to it. Like I said, instinctively I am against relegation - I've exerienced it once with this club and it's horrible. But maybe, just maybe in the long run it's what we need... Any comments?

I'm at a loss to see what you think he's got to be bitter at tbh.... Correct me if iam wrong, but didn't they beat us to the title and not the other way around?

Wierd. It's just started and I have a cocktail stick in my mouth. I shall be forwarding any medical bills.

There's just nobody out there[/keegan] Or no fucker wants to join us...