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thats quite a good idea. easier to get the numbers and cause a bit disruption. it would mean them having to get the police in to clear the protestors. you'd probably get a lot of shoppers joining in too. easier to organize than a huge demo at SJP and would cause more problems. still should have a protest at stadium, but the ones at the stores would allow those not comfortable joining in at the match to vent their spleen.

should have waited for the great north run

do not see campbell coming here unless he receives some sort of reassurance he would be first choice when fit

carrolls open goal was easier than the penalty. similarly his diving header and jonas over the bar shot were decnet chances so more than cancel out their pen miss.

carroll and nile actually look like a partnership, no other combination has offered this

On target 10 v 3 Off target 8 v 3 definitely deserved the win. we let down by poor finishing more than poor defending

people say we were lucky but how many attempts/chances did they create?

hughton also needs to be more aggressive and creative with his subs. was shocked no changes made at half time with both butt and harewood being candidates to be raken off. also tendancy to leave second substitute too late as thought lovenkrands should have been on to try and stretch the game

think guthrie needs a little more praise. may not have produced too much end product on occasion, but was the one always looking for the ball and trying to play the forward pass

yeah, that was shocking - 2 of them on the edge of the box with their hands out telling him they were there waiting

tbf, been downhill since rangar/carroll partnership was broken up

only one team deserved to win - that was us. football matches are about scoring more goals than the other team. for all their slick passing and movement how many shots did they manage on target? our play wasn't as pretty but it was more effective. on another day it could have been 4-1. and i agree... stop with the "your support is ******* shit".

"do i remember (i was only a wee 'un at the time, a good 15+ years underage) there being a bar in the stadium called 'harvey's'? or is it just a figment of my imagination? and if so was it named after joe?" yup. it was a posh restaurant with a view out onto the pitch in the south west corner. went a couple of times with work.

fergie had already built a team and won a european trophy with aberdeen and managed scotland at the world cup in mexico

yup, thats him. went to benfield and was in my year

I would hope so considering he was called Paul . yup, realised just after i posted .

oh yeah, and nobby tried it on with my mrs (girlfriend back then) in offshore 44

went to school in heaton with david robinson - not the one who played in that mackems game instead of shearer and ferguson. good mates with Rikki - friend of the mighty Burt brothers

just been up with the wife and kids. we queued from outside shearers and got in 45 mins later just as the Robson family were in. very touching moment. just a note to say there was an A4 sized message tied to one of the seats attached to a shirt saying that "it should have been Ashley"!!!!!!!!! anyone else notice it?

"There is no suggestion that the players – some of whom are tee-total – went drinking but they were determined to enjoy some time away from the rigid training schedule." not much of a story then.

freddie isnt the perfect choice - but if he get's a £60m bid accepted then it means there isnt a billionaire sugar daddy around the corner waiting to finance us up the league. if there is another bidder offering more than £60m - rumours are that 2 bidders are front runners - then ashley will sell to them and you wont have to worry about freddie. if freddy is the only one making a bid, and you dont't want freddie back - then the only option is that ashley carries on into the season with hughton in chagre, no new players, and a firesale to reduce costs - which all means further relegation.

shepherd wouldn't dare undermine shearer. if there's one person shepherd loves more thanhimself - it's shearer

Hopefully this Singapore group, or any other interested party for that matter, should at least say to Ashley that all player sales need to put on hold for a fixed period of time - whether a couple of days or a couple of weeks - otherwise £100m turns very quickly into a much bigger outlay for the buyer. Better to buy the club for £100 and then reinvest any incoming transfer funds. should be an ultimatum really - if you start selling players - we're not interested.

Correct me if I'm wrong and I have may have missed something somewhere. But since we got relegated, we have had statements from our foreign stars (Beye, Jose, etc), and also from our young local lad Taylor - anyone seen or read anything from the club captain?

long time lurker but this my first post. got my 2 little boys the new toon strip on saturday. they kept them on all sunday - a couple of kiddies birthday parties then at home to watch footie with dad. out on bank holiday monday and they had their purple away tops on - felt proud as f***. I work in sunderland and walked into work this morning with my black and white scarf around my neck - complaining bitterly how cold it was in mackemland today. they didnt know what to say - but yews have bayn relegated man! smile and say yeah, so what - thick bastards dont know what to do if u don't bite. they gave up trying by 11am. not had another peep out of them all a day.