The Mighty Hog

He was well overdue a flounce anyway.

Announced his retirement http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9570218?

Broken his toe on international duty, apparently.

I remember Peaspud and him getting into a back and forth over fan ownership in the very early days of NUST. He came across as a smug, condecending prick who seemed to think all anyone had to do was band together, say they were going to buy the club and that was that. His go to answer when anyone questioned his knowledge of the club is that was reporting on our matches back in the early eighties.

I'm assuming that it was along the lines of this: http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/patrick-barclay-message-to-newcastle-supporters--its-time-to-say-sorry-to-alan-pardew-9827653.html

Cheers all!

Does anyone have any recommendations for any town centre places where you'd be able to sit, have a drink and a chat on a normally hectic Saturday night?

I don't care if we're shite but listening to Man United fans ring into 606 is guaranteed to lift my spirits. The phrase "but we're Man Utd" always sounds like it's delivered with a great big pet lip.

It probably is. Also if furry goblet isn't in Viz's profanisarus then it should be.

The egg cup made my skin crawl.

A fairly small target audience for that one like, worth taking a punt on though.

Ebola/Alobe

You're thinking of Wycliffe Jean.

Fuck, I thought this was just a birthday thread. He was always a good laugh way back on the older boards, he started to drift away from this place but would always pop back now and again. Seemed daft as a brush but harmless with it. Such a shame.

How many times do you see it through the years though? Player X goes somewhere and you think he'd have been ideal for a Champions League or title winning club. I know our lot spout shite about agents fees. But all it takes is the right agent getting their own financial deal and being good enough to convince the player or his family to choose a particular club.

No they didn't. He went on a free, he wanted first team football. I believe he knocked back a contract offer from us http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/danny-guthrie-relishing-return-newcastle-1351343

St Vincent's is canny. The War on Drugs do nowt for me, personally. Enjoyed Love Letters by Metronomy same for Nabuma Rubberband by Little Dragon. Royksopp's mini album with Robyn is fun and I really enjoyed Soak's Blud EP.

I have done now. Will report back if it doesn't work! Aye, that was the first one I tried. It was canny but I couldn't seem to find an option for login details on a subscription feed. That will be next on my list if Doggcatcher isn't working. Cheers for the help gents, much appreciated.

Can anyone recommend a decent podcast app for for android? One that can support subscriptions would be ideal. I'm trying doggcatcher at the minute but it's skipping some of the shows from a feed as well as randomly showing old ones from the other feeds. The latter is easily remedied but just a minor pain. A decent music player could be helpful too I got Poweramp ages ago when it was reduced. The plan is to grab a decent memory card and use my S5 as an all in one rather than carry it and my iPod.

The £50k a week was supposed to be what West Ham were offering him and we got him for less, if what the papers were saying was true.

http://view.e.theequaliser.com/?j=fe9e15777364077d75&m=fe981573716d067e74&ls=fe241c74726d047f761777&l=ff64107371&s=fe2d157777600675771577&jb=ff9b1573&ju=fe5a16787360017e7111&r=0 Funnily enough this was brought up in a daily email I get. It's right near the bottom, but if you can't be arsed to scroll here's the question and the reply:

I've won a Nintendo DSi XL, A 32gb Ipod (it was one of the classic's before the touch's came out), Marvel Alliance 2 for the 360 (I think that was sorted out by Ritchie on here), won tickets through the years, it used to be piss easy to win cd's on Metro Radio when I was a bairn so I won some stuff from them. Never won money or a holiday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb71aW3KG1o

Just seen the Lego Movie with my nephew and sister, very silly but in an enjoyable way. Half the fun was trying to spot the different types of lego I had as a kid. I had the spaceman that was in the film, in white rather than blue and his helmet (fnar fnar) was broken in exactly the same way as the character.