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Just bring your own blue top...no doubt there's a plethora available in west london... Never in a million years mate!! More likely will be..... http://www.prosport.ca/images/NUFC%20%20A%2007-08.jpg Or if that's too light I have the 93/94 Blue Mcewans lager top, and a few others.

Well that makes me feel a little better. Although I won't know if you are any good till I get to test myself against you all, you could be trying to fool me into thinking you are all rubbish. I'll be working on my long throws tomorrow to see if my back holds up. I'm a bit of a poor man's Rory Delap. If I'm on the blues do I have to bring a blue footy top of my own or is there a kit??

Getting some practice in tomorrow, Beavers FC (Hampton & Richmond Supporters) vs Kidderminster Harriers Supporters. For one reason or another (nobody to organise it mainly) it's our first game of the season. I/We haven't played since last may (a 3-1 win over the scum that is AFC Wimbledon). Kiddy look a decent outfit so I'll no doubt be reporting back on a crushing defeat followed by my withdrawl from the Reds vs Blues match on grounds of lack of ability leading to personal humiliation.

For the record, I play centre back normally. Although I am happy to fill in any position if required. I've always been sort of a utility man, started every position on the pitch in one season including in the sticks.

That sounds like a decent plan to me. Would probably also be good for the lads who will play against PNE on 20th to get in some match practice as their hasn't been a game in some time. I still can't make the 20th but can do the 6th.

I'm definitely going to be there. Look for the tall, fat, bespectacled bloke drinking the cider. I'll be the one in a Newcastle shirt. Fnar Fnar.

Forest 2-1 Reading. Forest officially better than Liverpool. If we beat The Albion on Monday we'll be five ahead of Forest with a game in hand, and they have to come to SJP. What's more if WBA also lose their other game in hand that big gap between us and the rest is back. A must win game on Monday, obvs.

A bit? Complete lack of interest from them. They only had two players to worry about between the five of them. Blackburn really are a terrible side.

I'll take a ticket for the Reading game if anyone who can't make it wants to avoid the hassle of getting it refunded.

Imagine if Gerrard had left 3/4 years ago. Benitez would have been sacked a long long time ago.

A nervous one.

I've said on another thread that whenever I've seen Carroll live I've been impressed. OK he is raw and his finishing needs to improve but you have to say he's the sort of player any 'off the shoulder' type of striker would love to play with. I think the lad has a big future, but it might not be with us if he becomes the latest player to be demonised by our fans. Give the guy a chance.

Greg went shopping at half time. It was a bit dull for a while so the contents of his basket became the main topic for about fifteen minutes.

I reckon it needs to be a full on documentary. There's a young German lass I know who's an amateur film-maker, does lots about my local club. I reckon she'd be well up for filming it

Could he have given any more 'non-answers' to those questions. Just admit it Rafa, you've got no clue what to do.

Personally I think he was very restrained. I bet there was some more cakes that were reduced, I'd have bought the lot.

Dorito's, Kettle Chips, Pringles. All the same. Don't really like crisps. I'll make an exception for pickled onion monster munch though. Anything else happening in the match? No. Oh well, I've just had some Tesco Potato Wedges.

Somehow I think it won't end up a comfortable 5-0 win. We just don't do that.

Aye, but it'd be hilarious if they didn't.

How many plymouth fans are there today?? I saw the inevitable news story on them making their mammoth groundbreaking journey earlier on SSN. Hero's the lot of them.

Trouble with Sport Extra is you have to listen to Steve Stone. Muppet.

Maybe it's just because I live in London, so therefore can't go to games as often as I like, that I feel this way but personally I'd go to every game I could if I lived in Newcastle. The only restrictions being work/money related.

So you're defining a target man as someone who get's the ball mainly in the air. An old-fashioned English centre forward. Therein lies the problem. Old Fasihioned. It is not current. That sort of football is not succesful anymore which is why that sort of player has been phased out. You need to update your idea of what a target man is otherwise, as I suspect you want, this arguement will go round and round. Football has changed and old principals are no longer valid, thusly your position is not valid as the position of target man you refer to is no longer part of the game.

Which was my point. There is no such thing as a conventional target man, strikers have to have so much more thesedays. A target man, by definition, has to be a target for the balls (ooer) of his teammates. It doesn't matter how that arises, long balls, drilled passes, in the channels. It's all the same. To expand my definition, Manchester United used Cristiano Ronaldo as a target man for the last three seasons he was at Old Trafford. They knew they could give him the ball anywhere on the pitch and in any fashion and he would take it, chase it, hold it, flick it or run with it. But they knew he'd do something with it.

That was my original point tbh. I didn't really get that from what you were saying.