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Last time I was up there was Fulham at home with my old man and younger brothers aged 10. They loved it. Will avoid it this year if its gonna be empty takes me ages to get used to the height up there and I never really get comfortable till I'm surrounded by people.

Seems like they blatantly stuck our name in there just to remind us we're in the Championship.

but it a 5-30 kick off which means 2 and a half hours extra drinking for quite a few. Great stuff.

So fans should just pay good moneyto watch the directors box all game and shout at some fat c***, whilst idiots patrol round the ground with their mispelt banners. The fans like the team just need to get on with it now, we can't do anything to change it. Its obvious he pays no attention to the fans so we might as well just the support the team and hope that we do get out of this league.

There should be no protests on Saturday. They do fuck all. Just turn up watch the game and support the fucking team.

Bought mine from Sports Direct in Bradford, they don't do number printing. Still only £35 not bothered that the money goes straight to Ashley's pocket. I'm a student anything to save a fiver.

Roeder > Souness > Allardyce > Kinnear Souness got us to an FA Cup Semi Final people seem to forget.

Anywhere near the gallowgate is good mate.

Staying shy of predictions this year. Really looking forward to this though.

It wasn't just me then. Part of the film that was on ITV at the time apparently, f*** knows how they managed to do that! I thought it was a nice change. The League Two highlights were shit.

It wasn't just me then.

Absolutely class

Harper 6 - Solid in everything apart from the goal. Hope he isn't too badly hurt. R. Taylor 5 - Solid in defence, deliveries were inconsistent. S.Taylor 6 - Average, nothing special. Good to see him encouraging Krul. Coloccini 4 - Poor, out of position too many times, wish one of the lads would shave his hair as well. Enrique 6 - Ok going forward, him and Jonas were abit lazy on the ball second half. Duff 7 - Lots of effort, cracking run for the goal, cool finish. Final ball needs work. Nolan 6 - Improved when pushed up, great pass for the goal. Smith 8 - Bossed the midfield. Few loose passes, but was always strong in the challenge. Jonas 6 - Killed them down the flanks first half, then looked poor second half. Inconsistent performance. Ameobi 5- Got himself into good positions needs to be more composed in front of goal. Didn't know he could pull off a stepover like Carroll 6 - Same as Ameobi but was stronger on the ball. Krul 8 - Absolutely fantastic. Just needs to work on decision making when defending corners. Barton 6 - Looked like he could nick one for us late on. Should start ahead of Nolan or Shola against Reading Ranger - Can't really give him a grade, nice flick on for Barton. Chased every ball that he got near. Hopefully he gets more time.

Would be class in the Championship. A bit inconsistent, but he can't half whip a ball in, Taylor's goal @ Everton under Kinnear and Owen's first against Sunderland under Keegan spring to mind.

Emnes is so shit

It was my birthday when we went down.

Debating what day to go to Headingley because of this. Saturday or Sunday?

1) How much money would you need to have in the bank before you were willing to buy the club in the first place? (assume club can be purchased for £100m) Approx £750m 2) Who do you appoint as manager? Shearer 3) Do you take a hands on approach with the clubs operations, or do you appoint a chief executive? Appoint Chief Exec 4) Do you appoint a director of football? No 5) How much money per season on transfers? 30m 6) Who controls how transfer budget is spent? Manager 7) Do losses (excluding transfer fees) come out of the transfer budget or out of your wallet? My wallet 8) What is your overall business plan? Get Newcastle back into the Premier League and challenging for silverware both in domestic and european competition 9) Would you ever intervene on any issue? Where do you draw the line on intervention? Only in board matters. The line is drawn at tactics, team selection and handling of players. 10) Where do you sit on match days? Directors box. 11) Would you maintain a high or low-profile? Low 95% of the time. High when fans need to know what is happening at the club if there is a pressing concern. 12) How do you respond to the press? Fairly positively. 13) How would you make future managerial decisions? With the consulation of board members, and supporters trust. 14) Would there be fan representation on the board? See above 15) Anything else you'd do? Try and extend East Stand and Gallowgate end.

Paul Jewell maybe? Not a huge fan, but he'd do ok.

Fuck knows. Hopefully we can get some kind of result.

They were taking the piss then. I'll believe anything at this stage. Born optimist.

The fact that bids are being rejected and the sudden rumours about Beckford, make me believe that something is definitely happening.