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Smash and grab!

Or if Jenas hadn't missed an open goal at Boro about two minutes before they equalised. Or if the officials had been halfway competent and seen that equaliser was scored with a hand. Or if Shay hadn't made a totally uncharacteristic error to let Norwich back into the game at SJP. Or if we'd put away one of the shedful of chances we had against Spurs. That's without mentioning the Dyer shit. We had an incredible amount of bad luck in those four games, which was what made it even more sickening when the fat mong started mashing the panic button. I don't think we can say those games were the reason he got the sack, if we'd have won those games it would have just been delaying the inevitable, the team we had that season would have come 5th at highest and we all know what Shepherd thought of that position the previous season. At that stage after a succession of successful years i think the board began to take our success for granted and didn't actually respect what Robson had actually done, if your going to sack someone with the caliber of Bobby then you need a damn well good replacement if your going to continue never mind progress on to the next level, we didn't do that, we got someone in who wasn't capable of repeating or even coming close to half the job the legend had done just years before. Which bit don't you understand? The wrong thread bit.

Or if Jenas hadn't missed an open goal at Boro about two minutes before they equalised. Or if the officials had been halfway competent and seen that equaliser was scored with a hand. Or if Shay hadn't made a totally uncharacteristic error to let Norwich back into the game at SJP. Or if we'd put away one of the shedful of chances we had against Spurs. That's without mentioning the Dyer shit. We had an incredible amount of bad luck in those four games, which was what made it even more sickening when the fat mong started mashing the panic button. I don't think we can say those games were the reason he got the sack, if we'd have won those games it would have just been delaying the inevitable, the team we had that season would have come 5th at highest and we all know what Shepherd thought of that position the previous season. At that stage after a succession of successful years i think the board began to take our success for granted and didn't actually respect what Robson had actually done, if your going to sack someone with the caliber of Bobby then you need a damn well good replacement if your going to continue never mind progress on to the next level, we didn't do that, we got someone in who wasn't capable of repeating or even coming close to half the job the legend had done just years before.

Or if Jenas hadn't missed an open goal at Boro about two minutes before they equalised. Or if the officials had been halfway competent and seen that equaliser was scored with a hand. Or if Shay hadn't made a totally uncharacteristic error to let Norwich back into the game at SJP. Or if we'd put away one of the shedful of chances we had against Spurs. That's without mentioning the Dyer shit. We had an incredible amount of bad luck in those four games, which was what made it even more sickening when the fat mong started mashing the panic button.

Indeed. And it's mind-bogglingly pathetic.

Hitzfeld was interested? Are you having a giraffe?

We were definitely on the slide. 5th or not, that last season was poor. It was only thanks to the form of Laurent Robert over the time leading up to Christmas that we finished where we did. As has been said a million times, the timing and the replacement were abysmal, not to mention the unnecessary humiliation of a great man.

Fucking hell. That's reading a little too much into a glance, not even close! Well, from the main forum index (latest posts), I just saw SBR and "has suffered"! Don't judge me!

http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=47813.msg1105978#msg1105978 :blush: With my first glance at the title, I thought it was going to say "SBR has suffered a stroke" or something.

£8m would go a long way to making up for what we paid. I think any club would be mad to take the risk we did on him. Fingers crossed.

Owen's worth more than £6m. I'd take £8m though.

How do you figure that one out? Because my opinion on the matter differs from the norm? Yeah, grats on that one. Why should I (or any of us) care about this anyways? The blokes getting shipped out and thats that. Nothing we say or do here on this board is going to change any of that ffs. Stop trying to be heroes. That's a lame argument - you shouldn't care about stuff you can't do anything about? I'm just saying don't try and shit on other people's opinons and call them all sorts of names under the sun because they have an opinion. Fail to see how "prat" is "all sorts of names under the sun". I couldn't give a toss if your opinion differs from the "norm", whatever that is. It was just a pretty stupid thing to say imo. Long as you're alright though, Jack?

Back it up is what I meant, but it was a bit of a sly dig, sorry. Here's the Boothroyd quote, by the way: Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2007/12/12/sfnwat112.xml The highlighted bit is what I was commenting on. Fair enough. As I said, there is somewhat of an argument to be made for Boothroyd's comment, as well as against. He's not making it very well though, but then he's probably pretty angry about one of his players being deported, both as a person and a manager.

Done.

What did you note I hadn't done Indi? State my opinion? I thought I had tbh. Course there's no hard feelings mate.

Do you have a link for this 'detective system'? Sounds like bollocks to me. If France gives them accomodation and we treat them like shit, why don't they stay in France, Indi? Isn't the official rule that they are to stay and claim asylum in the first safe country they reach? Unless they're bloody good swimmers, that ain't jolly old England. I never said that clearly hyperbolic and hypothetical situation was the reality. I think you wish it was though. I'd also like to see these comments from Aidy Boothroyd that suggest he's saying that everyone but footballers should be thrown out. I reckon that's bollocks too. From what I've seen Boothroyd say, it's nothing of the sort. He's talking about his player, what else should he talk about? If no-one said anything of the sort that you're arguing against, it leaves me to wonder why you got so aggravated about it in the first place. RP was clearly just being a prat, but you defended him on the basis that everyone else apparently thinks that way.

I'm not!

http://www.duffzone.org/framegrabs/4f17/01162004120153.jpg "Shine on, you crazy diamond!"

Investigate? Do you think the UK should foot the bill for some sort of asylum detective system? Send some civil servants into Sierra Leone and ask around X's friends and family to find out whether he's really in danger or not? The dole, no, the benefits, yes some of them do. "They" don't stay in France because France don't give them money and accomodation while they have their application processed. We do. Of course they'd hang on to the Eurostar for £50 a week if they've been living in real poverty all their lives! Indi, don't take this the wrong way but you seem to overcompensate all too often for what you see as an overabundance of right wing thinking by tripping over your own feet to get as far-left as you can. You say English charva scum exist, but you don't agree that a similar minority from other countries might make their way to Britain? Why not? This brings me back to the original point I was making, albeit not very well. Just because I don't think Bangura should be deported doesn't make me, or anyone else, a hypocrite. I'm not advocating plumbers, electricians or any other immigrants be deported and then in the same breath saying "well if he's a footballer then let him stay", but you assume everyone is actually saying that, or at least thinking it to the point where it "pisses you off". I'm no hemp-smoking, long-haired, sandal-wearing, veggie-eating, car-bashing hippie and I think we need to have some sort of workable immigration policy that goes further than "If they say they're in danger, then let them stay and give them some cash to get them by" but that doesn't make me some sort of Neo-Nazi either. We're talking about Bangura because it's a) on the news and b) involving a footballer on a football message board. Witness this thread: http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=6410.0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_bun ? Ta.

Why are Chelsea "famous for buns"?

Would you just let anyone in then to take advantage of our benefits system? So what would you do with people who've come here to escape persecution? The argument in this case is that it's dangerous for him to go back, surely if that's the consideration it applies to anyone regardless of their employment status. So would you extend that policy to the bloke who raped that woman, posted above? And how do you prove persecution? My position is that I'm not arsed what Bangura potentially faces in Sierra Leone - he's contributing positively and so he stays. Anything else is bureaucratic toss. BTW, for some people, £59.15 JSA is life's ambition. That includes some people who are asylum seekers and even more people who are English charva scum. Deluded to pretend otherwise.

Would you just let anyone in then to take advantage of our benefits system? What the fuck? I'm not doing a Morrissey or even a Morph, I'm just interested in indi's position.

Would you just let anyone in then to take advantage of our benefits system?