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What were waiting on?...... Berwick's superb home win v Montrose?

Brett Ormerod has now scored in all 4 divisions for Blackpool, which is nice.............3 nowt, Danny crying into his chicken soup

Is there an abysmal statue of Sir Bob anywhere mate?...feel free to go ahead if there is. The ipswich one isn't great but fortunately i have too much respect for SBR to mock him like this. typical typical of what?....someone who doesnt take everything they see on the internet seriously?....correct...which must be a new feeling for you.... Not taking it seriously? Oh i get it, mocking a dead North East legend, what a great laugh No, as has been explained the thread is mocking that hideous statue....if you want me to be serious for a second then I think its a fuckin disgrace to the bloke. But there again, look who commisioned it....

Is there an abysmal statue of Sir Bob anywhere mate?...feel free to go ahead if there is. The ipswich one isn't great but fortunately i have too much respect for SBR to mock him like this. typical typical of what?....someone who doesnt take everything they see on the internet seriously?....correct...which must be a new feeling for you....

Is there an abysmal statue of Sir Bob anywhere mate?...feel free to go ahead if there is.

All kicking off....unconfirmed BBC sources say theres 233 Libyans dead in violence this weekend. Gadaffis son just appeared on national tv trying to scare the public into calling off the revolution and offering compromises, also claims only 84 dead and tanks on the streets are being driven by "drunks"....his old man is reported to have fucked off too.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12520586

Somebody called Tehuoe or something has just made two Arsenal centre halfs look very stupid.....1 each and just going into 4 mins of injury time Barry Hearn is going to be a happy boy tonight....

Depends on what you mean by "settle"?...do you mean us the fans "settling" for Everton's recent league record?...bar relegation, its been quite similar over the last 10 years. Don't we just settle for what is being dished up on and off the field by whoever owns the club?...we might not be happy about it, but our crowds show that most of us are willing to at least tolerate Ashley,or not let him spoil our enjoyment in spite of everything. The only thing that couldve made crowds stay away wouldve been a prolonged period in divi 2 but it didn't pan out like that. We're our own worst enemies in a way and we all deep down know it. Not enough of us are willing to stop going and even if we did is there anyone out there that would want to take us over and put enough serious money into us to make us serious challengers for silverware in most seasons? The potential is there, no doubt, but in reality we settle for whatever we're served up. We'll just hold our noses about Ashley and get behind whatever team we have to put out next season. And I expect the Everton fans will do much the same, as in reality we have no choice but to vote with our feet.

Really? TBF - they did get full houses for the first couple of years under the Monkey's heed - it was only after the relegations bit that they dropped a bit. That was in the initial "free ticket mackems" era though. Aye exactly. Headmasters in places like HEXHAM, BLYTH, BLAYDON, ASHINGTON, FUCKIN HAYDON BRIDGE (proper Sunderland heartlands), were getting letters - "right £50 bring the whole school doon" and that's how they filled 48,000. Newcastle have almost always had full houses for 18 year, paying top end prices (most expensive outside London). It was further afield than that....they sent a team of coaches to Kelso one weekend in the 90s and had a coaching clinic for all the local youngsters then put a bus on for them the following weekend to take them to a game at the sol.....Kelso is close to 70 miles from sunderland As we speak there are currently 2 sunderland fans in Kelso ...the same amount as there was almost 30 years ago when I was at school with one of them...the other one is his older brother and unsuprisingly their old man is from sunderland, they were brought up to support the fuckin twats. In view of this I think its fair to say as a policy for recruiting fans its worse than useless. Quinn has sold Short a pup and now he's getting grief from the yank for it. As you say, entirely predictable. Feel sorry for him in a way, but you can't make honey out of dogshit

Don't know if this has been mentioned but a friend has just said that the 10% renewal discount only applies if you bought a ST for the first time last season....anyone know if that is correct?....cant find my renewal pack, think the dog ate it, then threw up

aye and half of Warwickshire are hanging out of his missus.....who'd have thought it? Guthrie on for Best....just shutting up shop or was Leon injured? spurs scored in san siro, crouch...away goal for the cunts

aye we're sitting back and letting them play...fuckin get into the cunts freekick to brum....and the stream freezes! what happened?

Well you've just subsequently answered that yourself...I was just repeating what he said in his book.He felt that we undermined him that day, and Shepherd was doing the same behind the scenes, because he didnt want to seen to be the one who shot Bambi as it were. As you say. done to death, but I think all our subsequent problems can be traced back to August bank holiday monday 2004.

Which was?....appointing Benitez or some other exspenive foreign coach?...not having a dig I'm just not sure what you're getting at with this. Anyone who walked out at the end of the last home game v Wolves in 03/04 before the team had done a lap of honour undoubtedly put a nail in Robson's SJP coffin, he says so in his autobiography anyway. He felt very let down by us that day.

Well we did.... Speak for yourself mate....you're guilty of doing what the press do and lumping us all in together as we're the fuckin borg from star trek or something and we all think exactly alike. Some wanted rid of Robson, chiefly Freddy fuckin Shpeherd. Some were quite vocal on this and Shpherd listened to them and sacked him without having a successor lined up. As far as I could make out most were a bit on the diasappointed side at finsihing 5th and not winning the UEFA cup. And there were concerns about the behaviour of the players. But wasnt the best, most qualified man to turn that round already in the job? I didn't, but I clearly remember coming onto Newcastle messageboards and people claiming we should get him out.... Our main error was who we replaced him with...A cardinal sin.. anyone who takes any notice of the drivel on them mate needs their head looking at...

Well we did.... Speak for yourself mate....you're guilty of doing what the press do and lumping us all in together as we're the fuckin borg from star trek or something and we all think exactly alike. Some wanted rid of Robson, chiefly Freddy fuckin Shpeherd. Some were quite vocal on this and Shpherd listened to them and sacked him without having a successor lined up. As far as I could make out most were a bit on the diasappointed side at finsihing 5th and not winning the UEFA cup. And there were concerns about the behaviour of the players. But wasnt the best, most qualified man to turn that round already in the job?

Any film with Christophe Lambert, chiefly Highlander.

The thing is some on here were predicticing his sale despite all the assurances issued via Pardew. I thought as soon as Joorabchain was mentioned in connection with NUFC that it could only be facilitate Carrolls sale. He's hardly likely to be concerened with Routlegde going back to QPR . He's a "superagent", only concerened with the top of the market. These paracites make sure deals go through, and they make sure theres a lot of money involved for everyone, including themsleves. The Carroll transfer was always going to happen, but you're probably correct with the timing of it being inspired by Chelsea's move for Torres. But if Ashley had said "no" yet again on deadline day, did Liverpool have a plan b?...or armed with the knowledge that they had 50million swimming around did Ashley just bide his time and make a killing when he knew they were desperate to get someone in? Karl Henry can throw some light on this: Torres threw in his tranfer request almost a week before the end of the window, which means Chelsea had made their move in the week before that. So we knew about the bid for Carroll I'd assume a fortnight (certainly at least 7 days) before the deal was closed. And we knew the size of the fee being payed for Carroll then too. I think its inaccurate to say all this happened on the 31st of January.There was plenty of time to identify a replacement and bring him in, another agent would've facilitated that too, had there been any intention on Ashley's part to do so. As I say its what normal clubs do, bring a replacement in. A replacement who would've been playing and possibly winning the game for us at Blackburn yesterday. A lot of ifs. But we're going nowhere without a cutting edge up front and could possibly be going backwards. 5 points clear of 18th as we speak. But Ashleys has stripped our greatest asset away with no intention of replacing him, all to increase any profit/get his money back.

If we go down, or even struggle to avoid relegation, Pardew will be judged by the results that led to either scenario. If you think about it, his posistion is virtually untenable. The difference between him and KK is that KK had (some may say misguided) principles about things like this. Pardew is nothing but a patsy for Ashley's way of running the club. He wandered in front of us at Fulham the other night to get to the dugout with fans behind the goal shouting "puppet Pardew" at him....he just kept his head down and politely clapped the fans. Silly fucker.

Why does this dribble keep getting spouting? 'The Carroll situation' is having a negative effect on the our performance because we sold him without any plan for replacing him before the end of the window. For me the thing that bothers me most is that we didn't get another striker in regardless of Carroll's situation. I agree we already needed another striker, it doesn't bother me more though, since having Carroll and no one else is better than having no one at all. Surely though the club, or at least Pardew, should have had targets in mind as a partner/replacement for Carroll. This is what confirms my belief that selling Carroll so late in the window without replacing him was always the intention of the board.Doesn't bode well for any future transfer windows in which Ashley is involved in my opinion. Nail on the head that like......its widely claimed he was being offered to clubs well before and for the duration of the window so its pretty plain there were no plans to bring a replacement in. Somebody on here said that we may all regret Best's hatrick v West Ham and I think whoever said it has been proven correct. There shouldve been a new striker leading the line yesterday at Blackburn. Thats what normal football clubs do. They dont replace the best young striker in England with a 34 year old fat bloke who nobody else wanted and who is only fit for the bench. And we only got him because of Shola's injury.

eh?...THFC will sue the Olympic Legacy quango type thing for 1billion they plainly don't have?....or sue West Ham?...ditto.... and if you're so anti the move to Stratford why the hostility towards Brady and what you feel she said to scupper Levy's plans? you want to make you're mind up mate...isnt it just the case that Levt can't afford a top 5 squad and a new stadium?

Levy himself said that the redevelopment of the the WHL site is no longer considerable. Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to Herts they go..... Fuckin hell theyve bought up every shithole/bombsite/ruin within a 3 mile radius of WHL...wonder who'll be keen on taking that lot off their hands?....the "stars" of my big fat gypsy wedding spring to mind

What now for the WHL development Danny?.....what are the "planning issues" that are causing the problems?...was Levy "planning" to have more cash for it than he's got?....

Stevie's mates at the Telegraph are "on message" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/...ket-prices.html

Such a great track, has played.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFXQRv0vsC0 My favourite soundtrack is this though..