Dr Venkman

it's nice to support a club that aims to progress through signing the best footballers possible for the amount we can afford. rather than letting an old bloke spunk a RIDICULOUS amount of money on players and then complain because they're not getting more than everyone else.

very good managers make the changes when they see fit, not when common footballing knowledge suggests so (after you lose a game or when you're losing a particular game and bring on subs to try and change things). that's what sets apart the absolute cream of the crop from the rest.

Bruce's obsession with us has obviously trickled down to the squad, nevermind the fact that they continually drop their arse against us, why oh why does Bruce (and now his captain as well) constantly refer to 'north east' football when trying to absolve themselves of blame? Speak for your fucking selves you twats. Our expectations are reasonable, arguably have been for years and DEFINITELY have been since relegation. It's nothing to do with us that your fans don't see your team for what it is, AVERAGE. Their constant mentioning of 'north east' footballing matters is just ridiculous, why do they ALWAYS have to bring us into it? I'll answer my own question....because they're a provincial town that no-one cares about desperately trying to define themselves, and the only way they can do that is in opposition to us, and by including themselves in 'north east' football. No-one's fooled, you colossal twats.

stupid cunts

so henry commits more fouls than he does tackles?

who the fuck is lamine diatta?

lee_ryder Lee Ryder #nufc Yohan Cabaye has also trained for France ahead of their game with Bosnia

lee_ryder Lee Ryder #nufc Hearing that Demba Ba is also fit and well and ready for game with #thfc

Shit. Back for Wigan IMO. Can't see Pardew changing the system if he's out,Guthrie will get walked over.

Ba's been called up for Senegal according to .com, must be ok

he doesn't

would be brilliant news

i see adebayor as their main threat for definite, put him in and the whole team looks better

fwiw i could barely watch rafa's liverpool side, utterly utterly awful. i see that phil's mentioned the 08/09 teams as being better so maybe i only remember the later days but my god are my memories of that team bad.

Where can these words be found? from .com

Note the highlighted word. We know the clubs aim was a top 10 finish this season, expectations will have no doubt been raised after the fantastic start to the season but a top 8 finish will be a great achievement in his first full season. that's a fair point and i agree a top 8 would be good stuff. still think it's a little bit over negative for him to be saying though, just continue to say our target is top 10 if you have to say anything at all

member of family ill in tunisia according to ryder

love the way bruce has to include 'north east' in his comments every time he says something like this to make himself sound credible. what the fuck is he talking about btw? they're bog standard average and their crowds are dwindling, nothing more nothing less.

glad to see some reasoned responses

He was obviously going to say that though. uh huh

encouraging words from jonas about him and colo wanting to stay, i'll be delighted if he signs an extension

does seem a bit odd he's not playing like

Løvenkrands came on coz pardew realised we wouldnt have the ball enough to really use arfa. Løvenkrands came on to work hard....at least thats what i read somewhere....pardew quotes. silly you....pardew doesnt rate løvenkrands higher...nobody does....pardew just felt peters running without ball was more needed....right decision, i dont know? so err, how does my post make me silly?

pardew saying our first target is still 40 points, it's nice to be realistic alan but i think that ship may have sailed, we should be aiming higher this year

was on holiday recently, initially had a little giggle at the bloke in his mackem top and full tracksuit at the airport (fwiw he wore the exact same clothes on the flight home)...then this happened... me and my lass went on a day long cruise around zakynthos on this big pirate ship looking thing. so we're sitting at the front of the ship minding our own business when 3 mackem blokes turn up, all in their 50's. incidentally i knew they were mackems because one of them had not only 3 tattoos on his legs of various simpsons characters wearing mackem tops but safc on his forearm and ftm on his other forearm (he later went on to take his top off and reveal 2 massive mackem badges on his chest and an additional ftm on his chest above them ) anyway, they position themselves right at the front of the ship on the open deck and start generally pissing about, giggling, offering other passengers sweets in 'hilarious' fashion etc and basically looking like 3 lads on a school trip. they weren't doing any harm mind. so we set sail and it's a little bit rough but lovely weather, so the lads all have their tops off and are sun-bathing and they crack open the beers. after literally one beer, and a beer the size of a coke can at that, one of them is lying face down on deck throwing up into a carrier bag, only it's not all going into the carrier bag and it's spilling onto the deck around him. there was a few waves, but this was a 150 ft boat at least and there's very small children asleep on deck, it's not that bad at all. he proceeds to lie face down in his own vom for the next hour while his mates produce hard boiled eggs and sandwiches. after a while the lad carries his bag of sick to the back of the boat but makes ney effort to get anything cleaned up and just leaves it there.