David Kelly

It was in the national press yesterday too. Not sure whether that makes it any more reliable like. Ability wise, I don't think he's that great a player, but he's giving us a lot more than his ability suggests he's capable of. I'd be very disappointed to see him go for any amount of money, especially as Ashley would be the only one to benefit from it.

When their other legends are the likes of Gary Bennett, Marco Gabbiadini and a convicted nonce, it's not really that surprising they worship Defoe. Who was a half decent international striker.

Fucking hell, I only got Campbell and Ince mixed up man.

I'm surprised he didn't blame it on them being racists. Isn't that his usual complaint? Clearly he's just a fucking moron.

Don't let him drag you down to his level Alex.

Black Panther. The bad guy wasn't really up to scratch but it's a decent film.

Aye he seemed to make a few good saves from what I saw on SSN.

I'm not calling them a big club. But any club that's pulling in 40k (albeit topped up with freebies) in the Premier League and still 20k's in the championship despite being absolutely gash for years is still one of the bigger clubs in country and as such have access to greater resources. Not one of the very top but there are 92 league clubs and professional clubs in the conference. Even if they're only relevant to themselves and (to much lesser extent) the rest of the North East. But it does appear that they have been mismanaged (maybe not as badly as Leeds or Portsmouth) financially so they do need someone to come in and sort them out. I'm not all that up on how much they're in debt but from what I understand, it will take someone a lot more than £50m to do it.

Being a bigger club allows you to get better managers though. Has there been any traditionally big clubs who have really fallen and not managed to come back at least most of the way in the last thirty or forty years? You probably have to go back to the likes of Preston or Blackpool for clubs who were once big and never managed to at least partly re establish themselves. I'd love to see the mackems give it a go mind.

I was in the car for a bit of their first half last night so was listening to the radio Newcastle commentary. They mentioned Camp's name and I did think to myself that it was a shame that they'd managed to get themselves a half decent keeper for the rest of the season after the performances from the chuckle brothers. Then I heard Gary Bennett's reaction to the goal and pissed myself laughing. As if rest of the setup wasn't bad enough but the amount of goals their keepers have cost them this season is brilliant.

Anything is possible with complete mismanagement from the top, but I think that's what it would take for any club around the size of us to really drop for any significant time. Leeds are smaller and although they still haven't completely recovered from Ridsdale, they reasonably easily moved out of league one despite being owned by a loon.

Lets not spoil the fun of taking the piss out of her though.

I quite like how he developed towards the end.

That was very much my thoughts on it. Fucking hate that pathetic excuse for a club. I see they're still covering half their seats to hide the fact no cunt turns up to watch them.

I don't think there's any doubt which one they'd go for.

Is she a real athlete and not just another one of these ones just turning up for a laugh. From what I've seen of her I reckon I could do better. I've only skated once but managed to stay off me arse. Maybe she needs some of those shoes the curlers wear? They never seem to fall over on the ice.

Hows Carlisle doing this season? Any chance of a derby for them?

They might have got the win if Debbie Ali hadn't continued with her diving.

Their only hope of getting rid of the shower that they have at the moment is a further relegation clause in the their contracts which might get them down to a level that bottom half of the championship teams might be able to afford. But I serious doubt they factored the possibility of a second relegation into any contracts. The better players (ie the ones who are already out on loan) will go for a comparative pittance and they'll be left with the likes of McNair, Love, Matthews (nope I don't know who he is either), O'Shea if he doesn't retire and the young kids. I can't see them having much money to even bring in some experienced lower league players to help their plight. I must admit, I'm enjoying this.

Aye her reaction was brilliant. You have to hand it to the Russians don't you. No one could have expected they'd go so far as to dope curlers but they go all out with their drugs programmes.

Aye it's superb. Watched the first episode of Altered Carbon and it looks really promising. As does Collateral which started on BBC2 last Monday.

Standard Pardew. I generally have no feelings one way or another to West Brom but I'd love to see him take them down.

Aye if they go down those players will be worth even less purely because any club wanting to buy them will know how shit a position they will be in. They had no interest in playing for them in the championship so they have fuck all chance of getting them to play in league one. Even the ones that haven't been flops while out on loan like Lens and Karzi will go for a fraction of what they might have. Any interested clubs will have a massive upper hand on them because of this the knowledge of their finances. I can't see them getting more than £5m for anyone.

Why was that? Must be a reason why he's king of the caveat.

The fact that we've not had a proper leftback playing all season while Dummett was out has meant he's looked better than he probably should have since he came back. That said, I've never been anything close to a fan of his and I've been impressed with him since he's returned to the team. I didn't take much notice of him doing ok last season because most of the time he was up against dross. But now he's putting in comparable performances in the top division too. He's still pretty useless going forward, which is especially disappointing since he has a pretty decent left peg, but defensively you can't knock him much at all.