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GafferTape

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  1. Didn’t realise the responses are moderated. Don’t think my reference to Ryan Taylor as a useless spunk monkey is going to make it through.. Bunch of right benders on there.
  2. Thought I'd get an insult in before the reasoned replies came in. Point still stands, mind.
  3. Played well against Leyton Orient, skinned the defenders a couple of times and wasn't afraid to take a shot. Basically the opposite of Jonas and Duff then...
  4. How many is a plethora of bids? [/half arsed forgotten film reference]
  5. I'm sure there'd be a way round that, for example doing a 6month loan until January with an agreed transfer fee making it permanent.
  6. Confirmed out today according to Guardian.. S,Taylor at centre half and R.Taylor at right back? Or Edgar in the middle with S.Taylor on the right?
  7. Based in the south *ducks* I'm trying to decide between my local cheap Irish old-man pub that during the Boro game had a 15minute rendition of "Shearer's a wanka, a wanka, a wanka" when they realised who i was supporting and not just had a £20 on us at the next door bookies... or travel in to the Three Kings or somesuch other Newcastle pub.
  8. For me, the Faye Stoke equaliser was when i stopped and actually thought that we'll be going down. Everything else after that point was looking at points West Brom and the like were picking up.
  9. Sorry, not wishing to pick holes, but if memory serves, we don't have to better what Hull do, a win for us, and a draw or worse for the mackems and we stay up irrespective of what Hull do Correct me if i'm wrong though, been too depressed to look at the table.
  10. http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/show....ion/Bond_Street
  11. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/ma...fer-mike-ashley Newcastle United could play themselves out of a £140m takeover if they are demoted from the Premier League this weekend. A consortium made up of multi-millionaires from the United States and the Middle East wants to buy out the club's unpopular owner, Mike Ashley, but only if Newcastle pull off a last-day escape from relegation. The consortium has been taking advice from the football powerbroker Chris Nathaniel about a deal that would potentially make Newcastle the latest Premier League club to fall under foreign ownership. The men behind the takeover, including two NBA owners, have been putting together a potential deal for the last few months and are led to believe that Ashley is willing to sell even though he took the club off the market at the end of December. The prospective buyers are waiting to see whether Newcastle can climb out of the relegation zone at Aston Villa on Sunday before deciding their best strategy. Newcastle's valuation would plummet if they were to fall into the Championship but the businessmen involved in the proposed deal see little mileage in taking on a club that is not involved in the Premier League. As such, they will automatically turn their attentions elsewhere if the results go against Alan Shearer's side and Newcastle's 16-year spell in the highest tier of English football comes to an end. If Newcastle escape the drop, Ashley will be given the opportunity to end his controversial and occasionally acrimonious two-year spell in control at St James' Park, having initially put the club up for sale last September because of a series of protests and demonstrations following Kevin Keegan's departure as manager. Ashley, who bought the club for £134m and has spent another £100m on the club, was blamed at the time for not allowing Keegan to have control of the club's transfer policy and claimed he was unable to continue watching the team due to fears for the safety of his family. "I'm now a dad who can't take his kids to a football game because I am advised that we would be assaulted," he said. The asking price was initially set at around £400m but that has been shown up as unreasonable in the present economic climate. Ashley has returned to watching games, having been unable to find a buyer despite appointing a team of advisers to market the club's availability as well as making his own trips to the Middle East to try to drum up interest. Freddy Shepherd, the club's former owner, has reputedly been exploring the possibilities of putting together a consortium and there has also been interest from Nigeria and South Africa. However, Newcastle have found attracting new buyers almost as difficult as Shearer has found it to turn around the team's fortunes on the pitch. The club is in the third relegation spot going into the final weekend of the league season and Shearer has won only once since taking over from Joe Kinnear as interim manager at the start of April. The 1-0 home defeat by Fulham on Saturday leaves them one point behind 17th-placed Hull City, who face Manchester United at the KC Stadium on Sunday, meaning Newcastle will be relegated if they lose at Villa Park. Newcastle have appealed against the red card shown to Sébastien Bassong against Fulham and will learn today from the Football Association whether the defender will be available. A victory, or even draw, might be good enough to save Shearer's side but their chances of a dramatic late escape have also been undermined by Sir Alex Ferguson's insistence that he is entitled to play a weakened side against Hull, resting key players such as Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo for the Champions League final against Barcelona at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome three days later. While Ferguson is acutely aware it will open himself to allegations of favouring Hull, the United manager said last night he had to think selfishly. "I've got a fantastic squad. I could pick two teams and the team I will pick on Sunday will reflect that." Ben Amos, the club's fourth-choice goalkeeper, could be promoted to make his league debut.
  12. Apparently it could be Amos making a league debut according to the bottom of this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/ma...fer-mike-ashley
  13. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...tor/default.stm Take out all the players that are likely to be involved in the champions league final, and see what you end up with. i've already did my offering in the other thread, and it's likely to be an absolutely awful team..
  14. What team are Man Utd likely to play next week? Something along the lines of this, I'd guess? Foster Rafael, O'Shea, Evans, Rafael's brother Nani, Gibson, Possebon, Fletcher Macheda, Wellbeck.
  15. to the same tune.. if the ball hits your head and you sit in row Z - it's Zamora...
  16. Has this been considered by Admin? It must have, surely? WUM threads all over the place, not something I want in a relegation struggle. Not that I’m a prolific poster, but I don’t even bother lurking anymore because of the inevitable shit he causes. SpackersOnline isn’t an option either.
  17. Shame blackburn's fixtures look relatively good mind.. Hull though have Man United, Liverpool and Villa still to play. Bolton and Stoke left apart from that.
  18. I've probably heard the "Town full of Pakis" chant at West Ham three or four times in the last few years, i'm sure one of those times Chopra's family was in the stands and .com commented on it.. Probably doesn't help like..
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