ChezGiven

superb! Think just about everywhere is open on Christmas day like. Was in a Brewer's fayre the other day and noticed they had the brass neck to charge £45 for a shitty 'four course meal' on christmas day (the first course being soup and the last one being coffee). Thats just ridiculous.

The debate barely elevates itself above schoolground mud-slinging and retarded economic analysis. The Shepherd/Halls era was an era of exponential revenue growth and asset price inflation. The Ashely era has been characterised by flat revenues from the key sources, a massive reduction in the availability of credit, a global financial crisis and a global recession. Its daft to draw direct comparisons. I was a big supporter of what the previous board did for this club as they took the gambles neccessary for the club to compete at the top but the business model has changed since then because of the changes in the credit market and the economy.

3 countries, 4 siblings, 5 children. I need one of Gemmill's spreadsheets.

Then why don't you? Remind me what the fuck do we have a Christmas thread at this time of year for again anyway? Its the right time to start planning tbh. I'm having a nightmare trying to get everyone organised. HF you under the thumb much?

Tozer's no good? Why not? He's only played a couple of games for us at most...was he poor for the reserves as well? He scored for Northampton the other week, on loan there.

Fucking nerdlingers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g9rQ_kZHwY

Again instead of focusing on a topic, you gang together and throw lame remarks toward me based on the fact I used to post on N-O a year ago. You were genuinely funny though, now you've grown up, you've gotten all serious. There was a time when all you wanted to do was smoke doobies, fuck bitches and listen to Hendrix. Now its just politics and religion. Where did it all go wrong?

You're sounding more like Leazes every day. I think he's taking the piss.

I remember when AS9 was funny.

You want to get your CH thoughts in my Hughton thread on NO. I like a lot of others are still holding fire as CH has done a steady job so far. I'm not going to judge him on it all yet, the step up and the new personnel has presented new challenges, he has admitted he made mistakes, lets see what he does next. As i've said, the City game is not that important but the next 3 games are potentially make or break for the season, we need to be at least nearing 20 points at Christmas if we are going to stay up. Wigan, West Ham, Sunderland, Fulham, Blackburn, Birmingham, Bolton, West Brom are all massive games for us and all before the two ties over the holidays we arent likely to get points from. We've got to give him until then to sort a few issues out, last season we didnt really start playing untill November. I would be worried if we hadnt dominated the chances against Blackpool and played well enough to have been 2 or 3 up at half time against Stoke. The result was bad but the margins of error at the moment are miniscule. Thinking back to Souness/Allardyce/Roeder when results were shit, the performances were shit too. When we get there, then we can think about changing him, until then he deserves a lot of time to get things right. Till the Jan window then? Until i feel after watching the side play that based on tte performance (not the result) we have no chance of winning our next game against a team outside the top 5 or 6, home or away. Realistically speaking, if we dont have around 20 points by the start of January then we arent on track for survival but am not sure i'd change it even then. People are too quick to judge and am not sure why you want me to go over to NO to post about this. Certain posters on there were claiming Guthrie is better than Barton because Barton gave the ball away cheaply a few times against Blackpool. The big picture is that even with the bizarre substitutions on Sunday, we were still carving out chances and Nolan should have equalised. Hughton cant finish them off for us, he can only set the team up to ensure we create them. I am readying my stalking horse, you look like a prime candidate. :icon_lol: You've got the fully forged kitchen knives out already?

You want to get your CH thoughts in my Hughton thread on NO. I like a lot of others are still holding fire as CH has done a steady job so far. I'm not going to judge him on it all yet, the step up and the new personnel has presented new challenges, he has admitted he made mistakes, lets see what he does next. As i've said, the City game is not that important but the next 3 games are potentially make or break for the season, we need to be at least nearing 20 points at Christmas if we are going to stay up. Wigan, West Ham, Sunderland, Fulham, Blackburn, Birmingham, Bolton, West Brom are all massive games for us and all before the two ties over the holidays we arent likely to get points from. We've got to give him until then to sort a few issues out, last season we didnt really start playing untill November. I would be worried if we hadnt dominated the chances against Blackpool and played well enough to have been 2 or 3 up at half time against Stoke. The result was bad but the margins of error at the moment are miniscule. Thinking back to Souness/Allardyce/Roeder when results were shit, the performances were shit too. When we get there, then we can think about changing him, until then he deserves a lot of time to get things right. Till the Jan window then? Until i feel after watching the side play that based on tte performance (not the result) we have no chance of winning our next game against a team outside the top 5 or 6, home or away. Realistically speaking, if we dont have around 20 points by the start of January then we arent on track for survival but am not sure i'd change it even then. People are too quick to judge and am not sure why you want me to go over to NO to post about this. Certain posters on there were claiming Guthrie is better than Barton because Barton gave the ball away cheaply a few times against Blackpool. The big picture is that even with the bizarre substitutions on Sunday, we were still carving out chances and Nolan should have equalised. Hughton cant finish them off for us, he can only set the team up to ensure we create them.

You want to get your CH thoughts in my Hughton thread on NO. I like a lot of others are still holding fire as CH has done a steady job so far. I'm not going to judge him on it all yet, the step up and the new personnel has presented new challenges, he has admitted he made mistakes, lets see what he does next. As i've said, the City game is not that important but the next 3 games are potentially make or break for the season, we need to be at least nearing 20 points at Christmas if we are going to stay up. Wigan, West Ham, Sunderland, Fulham, Blackburn, Birmingham, Bolton, West Brom are all massive games for us and all before the two ties over the holidays we arent likely to get points from. We've got to give him until then to sort a few issues out, last season we didnt really start playing untill November. I would be worried if we hadnt dominated the chances against Blackpool and played well enough to have been 2 or 3 up at half time against Stoke. The result was bad but the margins of error at the moment are miniscule. Thinking back to Souness/Allardyce/Roeder when results were shit, the performances were shit too. When we get there, then we can think about changing him, until then he deserves a lot of time to get things right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTkpLHBMTC0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0DezeQViTg

Alex is spot on, i thought Tiote was the best player on the pitch and was a mix of surprise/annoyance and disappointment when he swapped him for Shola. About 5 minutes before it i was thinking the only change he could make was Nolan for Ameobi, which would have been fine. Bottom line for me, if Hughton has spent the summer chasing Ben Arfa to play him as a left winger then he's a fucking idiot. Jonas gives us good width and stretches the game, Ben Arfa likes to drift inside so too often in the first half we were slow to move it out left and they usually had cover. On a more positive note, the introduction of just two players does have a big impact on the rest of the team and will take time for them to develop a better understanding. It was interesting to see that probably the best understanding between two players was Ben Arfa and Tiote in the first half but Tiote/Barton and Enrique/Ben Arfa whilst not poor, certainly didnt click.

Surprised that baby facilities are better in England these days.....certainly eating out with kids was always a mission in the UK and much easier in places like France, Italy and Spain Not better, just more of them in more handy places.

Does the return of Friday threads mean that Gemmill has finally worked his way up to having access to a pc?

Plenty wrong in the UK but there are loads of things which go un-documented abroad. Taking the big two, health and education and specifically looking at France, there is a multi-tiered health care system with income and job determining access to services. It's not in the slightest bit 'free' in France with many procedures requiring co-payments. France's healthcare is great if you have a good job with a big company, it get progressively worse for those on lower incomes and then the unemployed. The education system is under a lot of criticism too, this summer an English professor at Sciences Po published a scathing attack on the education system which was met with significant support from educationalists in france. The lack of creativity and the fear of failure he claimed was endemic is borne out by my own experience. These things are not close to being captured by these surveys. Couple of observations too, travelling around with a baby in England is much easier than in france. Baby changing facilities everywhere in stations, dept stores etc, always access for prams. You wouldnt believe how poor things are on the other side of the channel. Then a bit of a daft one, 3 first class tickets from Paris to south of france were more expensive than the same from London to Newcastle. In England you get free wi-fi, coffees, tea, water, biscuits and at seat service. In france you get a bigger seat and nowt else. They reckon that the strike riddled, old rolling stock, crap service French public transport is the best in the world too. Bollocks iyam. Bit of a stupid example but food for thought.

Same starting 11 as Everton? EDIT - without Harper.

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/9918...S-MAVERICK.html Some interesting comments. http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/breves2010/...omparaison.html Quotes from Robert and the sub-headline 'a footballer born to play for newcastle'. Home debut, my first game of the season, shirt bought, guaranteed to be shit.

Surely the quality of the league is improving if the top teams are finding it harder to win? Unless you're suggesting that Arsenal would have struggled in the championship last year?

I might be missing something but wasn't this hypocritical cunt dismissing boycotts as a reason for our low attendances and now justifying theirs for the same reason?

Tell Carroll he gets dropped if he doesn't score against Stoke. We aren't expected to get a point at city but the next 3 are big important games this season. You want them both as fired up as possible. That's shola's main problem though, he's not the sharpest of people or players. He does know how to beat the mackems though.