James

Fact is, Harper is probably only the 30th best keeper in England.

If anyone genuinely does have something that they want to post, but cant really do so without starting a new thread, PM me if I'm online, and I'll post it for you as long as thhe content is fairly reasonable.

Love you too Vic.

Bond was the only figure on the Panoram coverage openly discussing the sweeteners that he and Harry were going to get. Freddy Shepherd requested to see all the unedited coverage prior to the documentary being shown, and he must have been satisfied with what he had seen that there was a case against Bond.

Congrats to Given, him and Harper should be given a joint testimonial. However, I don't think that Given will last for more than three years. Generally keepers make up for loss of agility with improved mental attributes that come with experience, but Given's mental attributes aren't that good compared to other long lasting keepers. Hopefully Allardyce can get him on some regime that will keep him physically fresh and injury free, while at the same time work on some of the mental attributes in his game. Inevitably though, Given will get injured in a couple of years, and Krul will get a prolonged run, and keep his place.

Cheers Dave. Tickets were £20. Like I said, should have been many more, but Morcambe couldn't sell tickets.

Morecambe had 9,000-10,000 Exeter sold their maximum allocation (every seat in levels 1,2,4, and 5 on my half of the pitch, and could have sold more, but Wembley wouldn't give us more seats due to the low Morecambe sales.

We've been G14 slaves for a couple of years now. Thwey use us to do their dirty work for them.

It was AWESOME, although Exeter lost despite bringing three times as many fans. http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/4207/img3262tb3.jpg http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/8065/img3263is3.jpg http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4427/img3266dd9.jpg http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4631/img3267cu5.jpg http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/2327/img3273ta1.jpg http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/613/img3281jm9.jpg http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/4270/img3291vf5.jpg http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/614/img3289ct5.jpg

Right, time to leave, should have some photos up later.

Bit of a non-story this, but the coincidences are strange: http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2083432,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=5

I dont mind paying a tenner for a programme at the first FA Cup Final at Wembley. It is a unique item. I'm hoping though that they might try to flog them off at a reduced price at the Conference Final the next day.

The whole interview is on .cock by the way. He is saying he only expects us to play like that away against the stronger teams, he wants us to play like we are playing at home when we are away at the weaker sides.

Is that just for the FA cup final, or is it for other matches as well?

Sam Allardyce is finalising pre-season at the moment, so we should know more soon.

"Something that had to be done in my point of view" - the words of Allardyce on Newcastle World.

Owen and Dyer have gambled a lot more than one days wages away!

Shepherd and Al Fayed are the only chairmen to donate.

Yes he is still have to work on his finishing,but he has 9 assists this season...... Glenson's agant was asked today if there any truth in those roumors and he says that there are talks with Newcastle and another two EPL clubs........ Confirmed that he met Newcastle representives in Monte Carlo Looks like we are going through with this one then. Thanks for the heads-up. Always good to mix up youth with experience.

Videos and photos taken during the match, facing the pitch are copyright infringement unfortunately.

Due to the timing, I dont think I'm going to get used to it until the season starts. Our first fixture will be surreal, Sam Allardyce sat next to Shepherd with the microphone, and a few new faces we never eventhought of out on the pitch.

Fact is Alan_Shearer that there are numerous better players available. De Zeeuw may be free, but we still have to play wages. We'd have to make a longer term investment sooner or later, it may as well be now.

Anyone finding it hard to adjust to the fact that Allardyce is our manager? I've just called him Big Sam for the first time, while writing "Newcastle manager Sam Allardyce" just feels ethereal.

Once exams are over (6 june) I'll start up the reserves section. Are these your last ever university exams, as there is little point in starting a section up in the summer when there are no matches if you are going to be even more bogged down the following year.What we need for next season are people who are going to have the free time to write throughout the season. Reliability is the key in my opinion.

On the basis of what people are suggesting, it would make sense not to sign anyone until the existing players have been given a decent run out under Allardyce to see if he can make them any good. Fact is that to improve our team, Allardyce is going to have to make his own assessment of the existing squad, and as he hasn't had the chance to work with our current squad, he will make decisions that with hindsight will be wrong. He will sign players in the wrong positions, he will fail to sign players in needy positions. He will sign players that can't adapt with the existing personnel. Future transfer windows will be much better than this one. Rafa Benitez sufferred the same problem when he took charge at Liverpool. At least Allardyce has some advantage in that he can identify the players that can or can't play in the Premiership. I'm prepared to accept that this summer's transfer window will not be the definitive fix for all our woes.