Murrr

Oh but come on guys, it'll be "banter"! lolroflz **Rolls eyes**

Thoroughly enjoyed the Murphys even though the sound wasn't great, especially their version of "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya". I arrived pretty much just as The Briggs were coming off stage which I was pretty pissed at as I really wanted to see them... not much of a ska fan though, so the Mad Caddies didn't really do it for me.

Trying to serve someone on a phone is horrible, I've been working in retail part-time for over five years now and the ignorance of some twats is still astounding. These days I refuse to serve people who are on their phones though; if they're jabbering away I tend to find that a quick "back of the queue 'til you're off your phone, thanks" really gets on their tits. I love winding up twattish customers.

Yeah, I thought it was great... I never thought I'd be able to sit through some dude talking for 3 hours and not get bored, but some of his stories were awesome. In fact, when he finished I almost got a fright when I looked at my watch and it was 11:30, seemed to go by so quick.

That's pretty savage like. There was a fire in the block next door to us the other night (King Street). Me and my flatmate were watching the telly when we heard the alarm going off in the hallway; opened the door and shitloads of smoke poured through, we shat ourselves like. Fortunately one of our neighbours told us it was the next block, panic over. There was like three fire engines there, I don't think anyone was too badly hurt. Some crazy-ass policeman then came to our door at half past midnight to see if we'd seen anything suspicious, and some woman from STV knocked on the door at 9am trying to get an interview for the news, which we didn't give.

Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darknes," and after that Conrad McCarthy's "The Road," ya dig?

Managers blaming the players is one of my pet hates; I'm of the opinion that if a player isn't performing to his full potential then it is the job of the manager to motivate said player into getting the performances out of him. For example, when Big Sam had a go at our players for underperforming a few months ago, I felt like driving down to Newcastle, going round his house and yelling "play them in the right positions then min!" at him. Bah.

The appointment will either turn out to be a masterstroke or an absolute car crash. Obviously I'm hoping that King Kev can pull it all together (which I think he will do in the short term at least), but there is still some doubt lingering in the back of my mind. I think he is FAR better suited to the job than Big Sam though. I don't think I want Shearer around actually, it would undermine Keegan's authority having him hanging around being groomed for the job. That said, I'd rather have him than Dennis Wise (as has been reported in a couple of papers over the last few days). Superb post above. I think we should have made a move for Sir Bobby when Keegan left the first time around actually; he'd have been the perfect man to carry on the progress that King Kev had made and of course he'd have been a bit younger so we'd have been able to have him around for longer. I do think that by the time we parted company with Bobby he was beginning to show signs of losing it (as evident in the last couple of months of his last full season in charge) and that we were right to dispose of him, but the timing was terrible and I'm disgusted at the way Fat Freddy treated him. We should've offered him a role upstairs in the boardroom that summer and brought in a new man, but that just isn't the Newcastle way, is it? I think our problems stem not only from the ridiculous expectations of much of our fanbase but also from the ridiculous ineptitude from our board over the years. I was over the moon when Fat Freddy left the club just before the summer as I think he's done us no favours by making countless wrong managerial appointments over the years. While I will always give a new Newcastle manager my full backing, I wasn't happy with the appointments of Souness, Roeder and Gullit (although at least he had the good grace to hold his hands up and take the blame for his shortcomings) but I guess that's just how things go. I'm not your typical deluded Newcastle fan; I don't think we should be in the top 6 every year, and I don't think we have some sort of God given right to be title contenders. I recognise the fact that we are, at the moment, a mediocre midtable side, but one with bags of potential. However, I don't see getting beaten by the likes of Wigan and Derby regularly acceptable for a club of our size, and I absolutely loathed Big Sam's disgusting 4-3-3 "if the ball enters our box just hoof it at Viduka or kick it in the stands, lads" style of football. For this club to be successful (I'm convinced we're cursed tbh, no domestic tropheys in 52 years and all that) the manager needs to receive full backing from the board, and above all else, he needs TIME. Keegan will certainly get a lot more time than Sam did but I'm still worried that if results don't start to go our way then the board will make another rash decision and replace him with a nothing manager like David O'Leary. I guess we're just the epitome of a badly run club *shrugs* Such is the rollercoaster ride that is being a fan of Newcastle United. Wouldn't change a fucking thing though.

After a dire 0 - 0 draw with a Bolton side determined to play a hideous form of anti-football it's off to the Emirates on Saturday with our ridiculously depleted squad... Shola Ameobi for England! Anyone going to Pittodrie tomorrow night? Got my tickets today, should be spectacularly dire.

They're pretty fun live but I think their music is ridiculous to the point of hilarity. On the one occaision I saw them the room was full of crazy fuckers waving plastic swords and shields in the air...

Agreed, this and the new Metallica CD. Looks like 2008 will be the year of the old farts

Andy Sinton is a poor man's Ruel Fox

It'll have been from Newcastle to Arsenal. Supermac... complete legend, bit of a cockend though. Still, he scored the goals and that's what matters.

....aaaaaand I'm done 8-). Now I've got a whole week with absolutely nothing to do, could get pretty boring...

Finished at 11am tomorrow, thank God. Criminal Law too, should be a piece of piss...

Unfortunately we have a lot of those... every club as a substantial mong quota in their fanbase, ours is waaaay above average. Just watching and listening to some of them on Sky Sports News, Jesus Christ... "I think Mike Ashley should take the job with Gazza as his assistant," without a hint of irony. Says it all really...

I saw that too... throughout the duration I was constantly wishing for someone to run up and smack the self-satisfied little shithorn upside the head with a big stick

Very one-sided arguement tbh, focusing on all of the negatives and none of the positives... no mention of the fact that he took us from the brink of the old Third Division to second in the Premiership . Yeah, I'm not living in the past... I do have a couple of reservations (given his tactical mongness and temperament) but I can't but be really excited at the moment. He'll get more time than Sam as he is Mike's appointment and very popular with the fans, and he'll at least play the players in their right bloody positions. I'm a big fan of Sam Allardyce and if he was given time I do think he'd have been a success, but he played players in stupid positions (Zog at fullback when we've got a 6.5m LB sitting on the bench, Oba on the wing, Smith in midfield, Milner on the left) and tried to get us playing a formation that we clearly lacked the players for. He was far too slow to react to what he was doing wrong, which I'm very surprised by because I do think he's a terrific manager. Keegan will galvanise us in the short term, no doubt about that... hopefully he'll have the presence of mind to bring in a creative midfielder, a right winger and a couple of defenders, then we should be able to make a decent push for a top 10 finish. The style of player doesn't bother me too much, I'd rather play boring winning football than sexy losing football (the whole "Newcastle would rather lose 5-4 than win 1-0" thing is bullshit btw) BUT I am looking forward to hopefully seeing a bit of invention from our players once again. 'Mon the KK

Good news, just hope the money doesn't go towards someone like Scott Dobie...

Three months, tbh.

Yas min!

At the moment my head is saying "no" but my heart is saying "fuck yes!". Let's see how this one pans out... at least we won't be playing this 4-3-3 long ball pish anymore .

My schedule has been pretty savage thus far... yesterday I had Legal System and Microeconomics with just a 1 hour gap between 'em, and this morning I had Management. I've got Criminal Law on Friday at 9am and that's me done, thank god. I'm with you on the whole revision thing; I'm absolutely terrible at it. Still, having all four of my exams in such a condensed period kind of forced me to get off my arse a little earlier this time round.

Another lineup change? Dave loves that shit.

Ditto that. I'm 6' and have never had any trouble in the city centre, even up at the far end on Union Street on a Saturday night when the trolls come out to play. Meh, it's probably because I look like a caveman