Ashley17

Yorkie, if it helps it takes about 20 minutes, especially if you do your smartcard photo upload online beforehand.

Not a fan then? I like the fact you picked apart the logistics of facebook instead of the fact that Dog's can't use computers

Steve Taylor

Weirdest move ever. Delia: He won 7-1, get me him please

87,000 Euro's according to that article, who knows if that's true but if it is he's on £75,000 a week He's on £70k. That's awful maths if the article is correct

I don't care if he's in the Pope's plans, we can't afford to have him on the wage bill if he's on near enough 80,000 euros a week.

Make's sense to me. I pray it's true. Is proberly a backup plan just in case. Not like the BBC not to be prepared. Not like they've had all summer or anything..

On the bus it would cost me from CLS to Birtley, then I could use the Magpie Mover. Not sure if that helps particularly but presumably if it cost me from CLS to Birtley it would cost you from Durham to say CLS.

Redknapp's defence of him was ridiculous - "Maybe it's a good thing he missed, or people might expect him to score every week" Get fucked off

Can't even get his age right, great article as ever

First cap for Cameroon last week

I agree mostly, however you cant expect 35k not to demonstrate or vent frustrations. It just wouldnt be football. Plus, how else are we to make any feelings known, when the club speak to absolutely no one? Write a letter to points of view? I just think, thats enough...we've had our say, hopefullly he'll be gone soon and we can get on with being a normal club. I dont think you'll see any protests on the scale of the Hull game, however I shouldn't imagine Ashley will be able to sit in 'his' seat for much longer. Anyhow, cracking performance from the team all things considered. Hopefully it will continue. You can't expect 35k to not complain because that's what we do, that's how other fans perceive us now. Like I said in my original post, could have done something before or after the game or even at half time on some level, although might have been hard to compete with the PA system. Anyway, it's all moot because like you say, you couldn't expect 36k to not sing about the twat that's dragging us down.

Yes I was there. SJH Corner. The first "Stand up if you hate Ashley" was a couple of minutes in, and fair enough, it was during the early stages of the game. Just about everybody stood up. Then it happened again about 20 minutes later, and quite a lot of people groaned. I'm well aware people want to vent their spleen at him but what are you expecting? He knows we hate hi, he's trying (supposedly) to sell and us call him a fat greedy bastard isn't going to make him think "fucking hell, maybe they're right." I agree the support for the players was exceptional, but I dread another "cockney mafia out" situation which, I think, went a way to us losing that game vs Hull.

We offered him a new 1 year contract, he said no.

f*** right off man, we have every right to tell Ashley where to go. And we all supported the lads all the way through. Yes we supported the lads but do you think the players want to hear anti-Ashley songs? It's probably all they have to hear about but for 90 minutes they get to play football and get away from the off the field shit. We want Ashley out! As if he didn't know man Get a grip

Bit late but my thoughts: Harper - Not much to do, nearly made a balls up by changing his mind coming out for something then going back, Taylor hacked clear I think. R Taylor - Much much better, defending and attacking. Great ball for Shola's 2nd. Enrique - Pretty good, brilliant ball in for the 1st goal, still sometimes indecisive at the back but generally good. S Taylor - Absolutely crunched somebody with a one footed tackle in a 50-50 on half time, played like a man possessed. Please don't go Coloccini - Error in the 1st minute but otherwise ok, the confidence in him when we went ahead, like the rest of the team, was visible. Smith - Had a mental 2 minutes, otherwise did his job. Get's deeper and deeper as the games on and was almost a 3rd centre half by the end. Nolan - Fat mess. Was our worst player but deserves some credit for chasing that ball down in the corner for the 2nd goal. Nearly gifted Reading a goal by being unable to control a football, reminded me of an elephant trying to pick up a pea. Barton - Did ok, mandatory booking. Probably out for 3 months now though. Jonas - Usual from him, although he had 2 shots on target!! Shola - Three goals, happy for him, a bigger miracle is that in the first half he lost the ball but chased back into his own half and slid in on the Reading guy and won it back. Will be shit on Wednesday most probably Carroll - I can't understand people saying he doesn't work hard, this boy grafts his nuts off. As already said though, needs some pace up there with him - and I mean a pacey goalscorer (i.e. not Lovenkrands) Fans - When the players are on the pitch don't sing about Mike fucking Ashley, if you want to sing about that cunt do it at half time or something Hughton - Xisco and not Ranger was odd, but whatever. Brought on Geremi as a pisstake. Reading - Either we were awesome or they were terrible

I thought you missed the point about a manager, given that you mentioned Ashley.

He'd possibly be the best winger in the Championship by a comfortable margin. Way to miss my point. I think if we kept everyone we have right now and just added a striker, we'd have a non-zero chance of going up even with Ashley on board. He means we could have Pele circa 1970 but with some thick cunt in charge we wouldn't go up

Dogging

Just thought, did you change your username as you knew about the bid for duff, you changed it a few days ago didn't you? Wullie changed it for me yesterday after the Duff bid was announced, seeing as whoever am I inevitably leaves this is as good a chance as any.

I'm quite happy with the signing, but moreso because for me, as already mentioned, it means we're actually doing something.

Would rather have Katy Perry

Did he play much on loan at Blackburn last season?

Signed before 12, so I don't see why not.

Played against us in the 6-0 and attacked like a madman, which is canny. Probably better than Ryan Taylor who will probably move to the wing in the absence/sale of our other wingers. Was on loan the mackems as well I think, in their promotion season.