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My Box Office incompetence story beats all of yours hands down! Just been informing Gemmill (check your N-O PMs). "It's a cracker!"

Same as many people are saying on here then?

That BBC Greatest Sitcom poll was a fucking joke. The "voted" top 10 were given a Saturday night each, with a special about the show and then a selected episode of it - but of course the BBC can't show Father Ted, so shunted it to number 11. Utterly transparent bollocks.

Shearer scored from open play in France too though - and Moore's was only a penalty. I'd guess one of the Robledo brothers, did one of them play/score for Chile?

Beardsley.

Fucking hell, that's unbelievable.

Diesel's my drink of choice in pubs. Lush.

N-O = 125 PPM (posters per mod) Toontastic = 86.5 PPM FACT

Thanks for that peasepud, many fair points.

Well seeing as I was mentioned and Andy's said his bit, I might as well add my two-penneth (sorry, Jimbo). First of all, I'll say that I thought we'd got over the board wars thing and it's a shame that it's reared its ugly head again. It's not about megalomania, or any of the other rubbish levelled at us in this thread. It's simply about trying to raise the quality of the forum. How many times do Toontastic members level a snide comment towards N-O about the 'mongs' or the 'kids' or the 'hysteria'? How many times do Toontastic members say they don't come on N-O anymore because of various reasons, most of which to do with the fact that the NUFC Forum is poor and has been for some time? Yet, when we try to change things around, just to test the water, there's threads popping up on here left, right and centre criticizing? The trouble with comparisons to here is that you only have 500 members. This place was started pretty much with the intention that it's cosy and filled with friends, people who know each other and aimed more towards the General Chat kind of thing, which is fine, but it's not for everybody - new members for example. The whole point of here is that you're not really looking to attract new members or improve things. You've got what you want and good luck to you. We've looked at other clubs of similar stature and their messageboards. Chelsea's has 5000+ members, so does Tottenham's, Man Utd's has 6000, Arsenal's has 13000+, Liverpool's has 18000+ and all keep up a high standard of posting. We've got 1800 and it's poor tbh. Here, the football craic is great I think, but when you've only got a handful of intelligent people who all know each other, then yes that's going to happen. Newcastle boards in general are piss poor - we're bad at times but at least we're not Tyne-Talk, Talk of the Tyne or Skunkers. I'd like to think it's not just that idiots outnumber the internet-using Newcastle fans, but that perhaps good potential posters aren't signing up because each board has some severe limitations. Yes, I'd rather have quality than quantity, but there's a middle ground to be had, as demonstrated by the above boards. If it doesn't work, we'll scrap it and probably end up trying something else. I just hope then we don't have to see anymore of these sniping posts on here about it (and I don't include everyone in that). I enjoy viewing and posting here, and some of our best members are also some of yours. There's also certain members on here that I'd love to have back at our place now and then, because we're worse off without them. The last thing any of us want is another board war. Cheers.

I'm Anderson, they haven't fucking rang me yet. If I've not had the call by 2, I'm going out, stuff them, they had their chance.

None of that fills me with any confidence. Not what you want to hear as things stand.

How do you think I'm watching it, or I was till the cricket started. David Craig's there, Freddy's been on - "this is why we're such a special club, these are the next breed of ST holders" As you would say Sima - CRINGE 170358[/snapback] Did the fat twat really say that rather than something like supporters? What does he think he is doing, running a season ticket holder breeding farm? 170366[/snapback] That's partly how he's got the 52k every week, making us the 5th most succesful club in recent years. 170367[/snapback] Did you catch Leazes on Skunkers and HTT questioning club ticketing policy for the friendlies? Daren't do it on here or N-O, for fear of being seen to question the Mighty Shep.

How do you think I'm watching it, or I was till the cricket started. David Craig's there, Freddy's been on - "this is why we're such a special club, these are the next breed of ST holders" As you would say Sima - CRINGE

The East Stand is full, it's unbelievable.

Said he was seeing a Dutch game on Sunday afternoon - coincidentally enough when Feyenoord play the Smoggies at home...

Roeder on Tavano: "to be fair to the lad, I've never heard of him". Something like that anyway.

Roeder is on SSN now - he's just said he's going to Holland twice in the next few days 'working as hard as they can to get someone in'. Mentioned the Amsterdam tournament, which is Ajax, Inter, Man Utd and Porto.

We're absolutely on our arse. It's not even like last year where we needed a striker and a left winger - and everyday in the papers it was Anelka and Boa Morte - ok, we got neither in the end but it was clear we had targets and were going after them. This time, there's just nothing other than some spurious agent quotes about some Italian journeyman and stuff about Thomas sodding Gravesen.

I'm not even sure the list exists.

Ssssshhh. If Glenn hears you've been speculating about players, he's gonna come and trash the place up fo'sho.

Better than Cech in my opinion too though. 169206[/snapback] Thirded. Any chance of some Newcastle transfer news? 169217[/snapback] No. Quit asking.

Oliver's comment in the Ronnie today is classic: Just when you think he can't be any more of an utter fucking mong, he pulls one out of the hat.

You just know as well, we'll see a Kluivert/Butt/Luque/Owen situation somewhere along the line - hamstring goes, club says "it's a shame but what can you do? He hasn't had a full pre-season, wait and see what he does next season".

I said on N-O earlier, if we do what we did last season and basically forfeit the first five games for the sake of 'patience' or some bollocks, arses want kicking