Syrette Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Tedious. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Invicta_Toon Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 only an idiot needs a scoreboard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 only an idiot needs a scoreboard i agree, no need for them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcdefg Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 It should be renamed The Uneducated Knee-jerking Twatfarm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 That's not the point, James is a name, it is singular but happens to end in an s. I'm annoyed by how much this annoys me now. Anyway, the club are incorrect in usage, but at one time used the apostrophe correctly, now I need a lie down (as I'm hungover) There is more than one St. James It is their park therefore it is St. James' Park Nonsense and you know it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_James The fact there's been several men called James who have been canonised is irrelevant, The NUFC stadium does not refer to several people, as is shown by the fact that it used to be written as St James's Park. how do you know it wasn't wrong in the first place? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrette Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 only an idiot needs a scoreboard i agree, no need for them Absolutely, I suppose it helps a bit when they've got the time on them though, but no-one needs them. If they're expanding the ground anyway though, might as well find a place for one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcdefg Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 That's not the point, James is a name, it is singular but happens to end in an s. I'm annoyed by how much this annoys me now. Anyway, the club are incorrect in usage, but at one time used the apostrophe correctly, now I need a lie down (as I'm hungover) There is more than one St. James It is their park therefore it is St. James' Park Nonsense and you know it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_James The fact there's been several men called James who have been canonised is irrelevant, The NUFC stadium does not refer to several people, as is shown by the fact that it used to be written as St James's Park. how do you know it wasn't wrong in the first place? Because I speak English. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcdefg Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Back on topic, I hope they don't rename Leazes and Gallowgate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Back on topic, I hope they don't rename Leazes and Gallowgate. they already have The Sir John Hall Stand and The Newcastle Brown Stand aaaaaaaaaaaages ago Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcdefg Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Back on topic, I hope they don't rename Leazes and Gallowgate. they already have The Sir John Hall Stand and The Newcastle Brown Stand aaaaaaaaaaaages ago Oh yeah, you'd think I'd have noticed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 I'd rather they kept the traditional authenticity, and not bothered with a scoreboard n'all. More Americanisation that ultimately fucks up the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcdefg Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 There used to be a scoreboard, though I forget when. Frankly if you're too pissed to remember the score then it probably doesn't matter. They could stick up the scorer, it's not always clear from the opposite end, and the PA is useless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 There used to be a scoreboard, though I forget when. Frankly if you're too pissed to remember the score then it probably doesn't matter. They could stick up the scorer, it's not always clear from the opposite end, and the PA is useless. you are very forgetful today, it was taken away in 1994 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcdefg Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Damn, my 1994 diary was lost in the great fire of 1997. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Geordiecunny Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Mike's sporting goods arena Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcdefg Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Mike's sporting goods arena I like it, as ridiculous as this thread is (it made me think of Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse in the pub, getting righteously indignant about imagined sleights from celebrities). Oi Ashley! I may appreciate your business skills and dignified silence during the takeover of NUFC, but if you come here, trying to call our ground the......oh you get the idea. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Just to put this one to bed...from a Grammar website. http://bellevuecollege.edu/writinglab/Apostrophe.html James has a Walkman becomes James' Walkman (The apostrophe follows James.) This can also be written as James's to match pronunciation. So both are correct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcdefg Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Just to put this one to bed...from a Grammar website. James has a Walkman becomes James' Walkman (The apostrophe follows James.) This can also be written as James's to match pronunciation. So both are correct. Spoilsport. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
indi Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Just to put this one to bed...from a Grammar website. http://bellevuecollege.edu/writinglab/Apostrophe.html James has a Walkman becomes James' Walkman (The apostrophe follows James.) This can also be written as James's to match pronunciation. So both are correct. Is there a difference between US "English" and the proper thing, though? That's what we need to know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcdefg Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 There is no one English, our language being so widely spread........oh even I can't be bothered. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 There is no one English, our language being so widely spread........oh even I can't be bothered. there is even a difference between English in one newspaper and another. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcdefg Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Of course dialect is important, it's what makes language so rich, I doubt any of us could understand 16th century English, even 19th C would sound odd. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Knightrider Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 I'd be dead set against any renaming of SJP and a scoreboard too, what do we need one of those for anyway? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Knightrider Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Oh and it is St. James' Park. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcdefg Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Oh and it is St. James' Park. Don't make me get medieval on your ass. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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