NJS

Thing is two of their key players - Dyer and Routledge - are shit which pretty much knackers them.

What the fuck is wrong with Rob Lee's mouth? has been to the dentist or something?

We need to play more like them when we do get it, otherwise we're okay.

Must admit I was there and would say I'm 95% sure I remember people booing. Yeah but what 5-10% of a 50k crowd? Its like his assertion that a few kids booing Shepherd at Shearer's testimonial means we all "deserve" Ashley.

I overheard two West Ham fans on the train last night who agreed they would be okay with staying down if it meant getting rid of him.

I think they will do that. It's changed because there are now 6 teams with much higher income than us instead of 1 or 2. In that context 5th was "unacceptable" to quote Shepherd but 6th now would be pretty good. It's that simple.

Because every fucking person on the planet apart from you recognises two completely differnt contexts of where the club is and how football has changed even since then. If you reply that it hasn't changed then you just confirm your idiocy.

If you don't mind a bit more technical info it will go for a bit more if it has component output - look for 3 round sockets on the back which are red, green and blue coded.

Plenty available on eBay. I bought one with a bigger HD for more recording last year and just used my existing card. All the buyer needs to do is phone them and pair the card with the box.

Even though I always thought the previous owners were cunts, I was happy to benefit from their actions (even though I still think it was two good managers rather than underlying competence). Like Stevie I'm starting to feel the same way about this lot. I think his point about it more being by luck than judgement is true but I also think Toonpack's point about people like Ashley never settling for failure is a factor as well. In 2012 I think our current position, competing with those above us, Liverpool, the mackems and Everton is about "right" given the various financial factors. The best way forward is steady progress under good management. Within that we'll have good seasons where we'll finish top 4 and bad ones where we'll finish ninth or tenth. Unless you do glory hunt then its just about what most fans want - pride in the team,a sniff of the cups, maybe a trip to Europe and a few games a year that make you think you're top of the world. It might be "unambitious" to an extent but I think moreover its realistic.

Which proves that despite the denials, his only real "solution" is to spend millions. Of course the irony of demanding the owner spends his money is breathtaking.

For me the handball finally evens out the Taylor one from Man City - so the scouse cunt and the sheep shagger can fuck right off.

I would like to see more players doing that. I'd almost forgotten how much I fucking love beating these cunts.

I know this will backfire but when they've destroyed us in the past it's been by pushing Gerrard right up - I can't believe how much they're wasting him. Maybe he hasn't got the legs anymore - I fucking hope so.

I think just about everybody would love us to spend 100m on players but the question is where does it come from. Even if it were possible, borrowing it would be madness and a change of heart from the fat cunt in putting his own money in would fall foul of the rules. Sadly steady progress on and off the field is the only real way forward . I think the question to LM is if Carrol and Nolan hadn't been sold where would the money to sign any new players come from? If the club is making a loss then that's the hard truth. As I've said before even restoring 10m in "lost" revenues wouldn't make that much difference.

I think I've said before the one tiny chink of light in my extremely dark hatred of the mackems is that thing where once a year they take time at a game to remember the fans who've died in the year. At least that's sort of personal rather than being asked to care about someone you either have no connection with or even dislike.

It might if she gets a state funeral.

Other countries took a longer view - including of course the Germans but also the Scandanvian countries. Of course 30 years on I can see that a lot of those industries aren't viable but the big mistake was to kill them stone dead with no plan for an alternative. There are two views (well probably more) - one that it was a deliberate move to destroy union power - now possibly there was too much but again I would have favoured reform over a longer period. Another view was that she needed mass unemployment to drive down wages and control the money supply - of course this has now been taken up across other parts of the world and persists today. The argument then goes where better to take so much unemployment than areas that never vote for you - sound familiar? I can see with the benefit of hindsight that reform of manufacturing was necessary. However as I said other countries adapted, retrained and modernised whereas the Tories had the attitude of "the private sector will prevail" - I think the North East naturally turned to the public sector for security but have now been shit on again by the idealogy. The embrace of the service sector (of course Blair/Brown were just as bad) has added to the problem. Most of all the thing that got me at the time was the absolute relish she showed while destroying lives - backed up by the upper class cunts cheering her on whose sons are now in charge. It's tough that another generation have had to be shown what they are like but when the "opposition's" best plan is to be just slightly less bastard like I see no hope.

Also bear in mind that she shut down the mines and decimated every pit village in the region. South Tyneside was always top of the mainland charts for unemployment thanks to one of her early almost un-noticed contributions - destroying the ship repair business. On the armed forces she may have raised salaries but given that the Falklands happened at what is regarded as a "just in time" moment to stop her cuts rendering the Navy unable to fight such a campaign, I assume the extra money came from those chucked out.

I'm quite worried about the recent free speech cases - the latest being Celtic - I think fining them for the pro-IRA stuff is probably right but following that up with a fine for having a banner with "Fuck UEFA" (even if was related) is wrong. On Thatcher I think the passing of time has probably reduced the chances of a silence anyway but I think that someone would have the sense to not try it in the north. Despite what I think of her I wouldn't "actively" disrupt a silence - but I would do what I did during the ones for the queen mother and princess margaret - I'd sit down.

Cheers. As has become sort of normal I had a few days holiday left over which have to be taken by the end of March so I've got into the habit of taking the week off which makes for a more pleasant day even if I do nothing.

Daft question but I have to send something first class and I have a few gold-ish first class stamps with no price on which must be a good 5 or 6 years old - can I still use them?

Project managers = box-ticking bastards - put them together with internal auditors and they're a death knell for the IT business and I'd imagine anything else you'd care to add.

Thousands of pink seats have turned up before the end.

Mackems losing it en masse.