madras

we wait....thats what we do. and i'll tell you what...tick followed tock followed tick followed tock followed tick

right arm over the wicket.

ethi i love the way you start everything one space in from the edge. i love these little quirks. takes me back to the days of elliswills for those old enough.

on the bright side it could've been a rick roll.

Two more what? two more sunspots (sorry, very much a stranglers in joke that only i'd get till i just explained ot to you all....just couldn't resist)

If signed in time? We are not even in for him, its all paper crap. surely if we are sticking "if signed in time" in there there should be a few "if not sold in time" aswell

for bumpage. and the phones and jewellery is a very good idea.

The punishment for missing a test has to be harsher than testing positive, otherwise the system woudn't work. hows that ?. i'm pretty sure it would work if missing a test got a 12month ban and testing positive was a 24month ban.

I feared for you the moment you appointed Malky MacKay. Nothing against MacKay himself, but promotions from within are usually epic fails. Hutchings at Wigan Roeder at Newcastle (after the caretaker spell) Adams at Portsmouth Sbragia at Sunderland And probably others that I can't think of right now. Whereas on the flipside I can only really think of Jol at Spurs where it has worked, and that was because he was there about 2 months as assistant under Santini. Unless you count Vialli at Chelsea, but he didn't exactly break new ground for Chelsea. paisley,fagan,dalglish.

we'll probably bring in the original ross jenkins.

That was Bowyer in Europe, for a domestic ban he doesn't need to be named the squad. Just looks like Spurs didn't file the paperwork and his registration with the FA until after our game on Saturday. Its a disgrace if they get away with it i'm sure we've done something similar once. we signed a player and his previous club had a game moved for tv (or we had one delayed for tv) and that got his suspension out the way for us. damned if i can remember who it was.

does that certain someone else though ?

I agree, this is from U V on toontastic: Target Sports Defect. Make it known that any true Newcastle supporter should not buy anything from his stores until he sells up. Set up pickets outside the shops (at least at first) to publicise it. At the very least stores in the North East should suffer if support for the club amongst the general population is anything like claimed. Use negative publicity about Sports Defect practices - they're probably no worse than anyone else, but a cheap tat merchant like that is bound to source a lot of it's merchandise from sweat shops, and treat it's staff poorly. If we make sure that Sports Defect are constantly associated with cheap child labour in poor conditions (it doesn't even have to be true), false sale promises, imply his goods are of a really poor quality, etc - over time it will have a negative affect on sales across the country. it may work inin limited fashion at his north east outlets. wouldn't work elsewhere.

unless those prices dropped further i think we'd be subsidisning their wages at their new clubs.

I like that one (black and) white riot by the clash is a bit angrier.

RCP Zonal marking. Aye. Coloccini's marking the twilight zone. 02:40 Corner. Coloccini's marking a different zone this time, at the back post. Allows their number 7 to go past him and runs away from the goal to a point nowhere near any opposition player leaving their player completely unmarked in front of goal set for a tap in if Shola doesn't save the day. 04:39 Free Kick. Marking a man. Ball goes over his head and his man is gone to stand completely free in front of the goal should the ball be deflected across goal or come back off the bar. Just a few from 5 minutes of highlights, but it's the same all game every game. I only wish his defence of the goal was half as determined as your defence of Coloccini. my defence of colcinni wouldn't exist if the rest of the defending was much beter. i'm not defending colocinni as much as saying defensivly they were all very poor. how many times even last season when he'd been dropped could you hear shouts of "who's marking him" from the crowd at almost every dead ball. 0240...he comes in with the no7. almost shoulder to shoulder with him at the time the ball enetrs the box and his positioning when the ball comes back in is poor as he stands still...as does every other defender. 0439....we'd pushed up to play offside, do you still want him goalside ? he should have been looking to drop deeper when he realised the ball was going over him.

Good post. A token protest will suffice, such as some boos (I'm sure boo boo and his hanger-on mates are experts at this) when he takes his seats is good enough, after that it's time to support the team properly. There needs to be an atmosphere to lift the players, not one to send them into some kind of shell and had the initiative to Reading. if there is to be any chanting against him i just hope hope its after the final whistle after support has been given to the team. however should we go a goal down i doubt many would be able to contain themselves (it's been a sign of the last few years that the crowd trying to get the team going after conceding has all but disappeared). in a perverse way i'd like to hear the crowd in a raucous "theres only one mike ashley" type thing and get him with humour as even he'd realise we were taking the piss.

both true. 20mins per pint,10mins getting served,toilet etc= 5 pints in 2.5 hrs (rounded up to 6 as the first one never touches the sides)

for all we definitly need at least a couple of new faces in it seems more unbalanced than short on numbers(how many central midfielders have we got,i'd be happy to lose 2 and bring in a forward and a full back)). practically all clubs in the championship will be using their kids to bulk out their squads. the likes of vuckic,kadar,lua lua,ranger,ngo baheng,donaldson,tozer would all be looking to get a fair few games at all the other clubs.

it's a confusing ad. get a comedian (though i've never been that impressed) known for charctarization to dress up, put on an accent and then deliver a straight piece.

but it a 5-30 kick off which means 2 and a half hours extra drinking for quite a few. Great stuff. just pointing out the reality. this saturday will be a fighting day particularly in the locals when folk will go out early for the first game of the season, stay out longer than they normally would with the adrenalin of watching sport and blind anger thrown in (blind as in the mongs who believe every rumour and shite that comes there way yet never go to the match or are incapable of thinking for themselves)

but it a 5-30 kick off which means 2 and a half hours extra drinking for quite a few.

it's on i-player. search "the football league show" 4mins 50 aprox. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/8192062.stm Replay of the goal at 02:08 Free kick about to come into the box and Coloccini is stood in space, marking no-one, watching no-one. Goalscorer runs from beside Nolan(?) towards Coloccini, all the way around the front of Coloccini, and stands in and around the goal area waiting for a loose ball while our central defender is stood stock still in the same spot he was when the freekick was delivered, just ball watching. Maybe not to blame for the goal this time, but certainly doing f*** all to prevent one. Time and time again, he's either nowhere near the action, or once someone's gone past him he makes absolutely no attempt to recover, pick someone else up, or get in a position to pick up a loose ball. as you say the attacker comes from behind him. as the ball drops he stands still...as does everyone else. he's only as much to blame as everyone else. possible less so than the 3 defenders closer to the ball and whoever let the attcaker go free. It's not like he snuck in behind him, he runs all the way around him like he was a traffic cone in training. Coloccini just lets him run into the box, then goes back to ball watching. I think it was Nolan who "let the attacker go free", but if he'd followed him he'd have run into the back of Coloccini - maybe he thought "it's okay, my Argentine international colleague will have him in his pocket now". Nolan at least then gets to the goal line in a position to try and put a block in or kick away a loose ball. nolan runs away from his man and takes up a position at the back post,marking nobody and goes away from the ball. if ididn't know better i'd almost say it was a plan. it looks very much like we were marking zonally instead of man for man. you can blame colocinni alone for that goal if you want, i'll blame the entire defending of the free kick.

it's on i-player. search "the football league show" 4mins 50 aprox. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/8192062.stm Replay of the goal at 02:08 Free kick about to come into the box and Coloccini is stood in space, marking no-one, watching no-one. Goalscorer runs from beside Nolan(?) towards Coloccini, all the way around the front of Coloccini, and stands in and around the goal area waiting for a loose ball while our central defender is stood stock still in the same spot he was when the freekick was delivered, just ball watching. Maybe not to blame for the goal this time, but certainly doing f*** all to prevent one. Time and time again, he's either nowhere near the action, or once someone's gone past him he makes absolutely no attempt to recover, pick someone else up, or get in a position to pick up a loose ball. as you say the attacker comes from behind him. as the ball drops he stands still...as does everyone else. he's only as much to blame as everyone else. possible less so than the 3 defenders closer to the ball and whoever let the attcaker go free.

Totally different team played on saturday compared to last season- Average age 22-oldest player 25.Have lost Coppell and several players from last season. Not at the match on Saturday but on all accounts Scott Davies played a blinder. New manager very keen to play a passing game. For maddy. i said somewhere else that i only recognised a couple of the names on their teamsheet from last weekend but of these youngsters what are they like ? any good ?