MikeO

You didn't answer my question Louis (which was a serious one....wasn't being sarcastic), does the enquiry take other options into account? Also we keep coming back to this "mid-level" stadium argument, without any mention or reference point (as far as I've seen) as to how "mid-level" is defined. What's "high-level?" Wembley certainly, Old Trafford and the Emirates yes but after that? No point at all in us building a 75,000 capacity top of the range place because we'd not fill it. If "mid-range" means "mid quality" that's another thing but size isn't eveything....as my wife always assures me .

Point well made. Can't imagine Abu Dhabi United, Abramovic or Liverpool or Unted's Yanks agreeing to meet the fans . And Louis, does the enquiry remit extend to the possibility of alternative sites? I'd have thought it would investigate purely and simply the merits of Kirkby ? If you apply for planning permission for a house they say "yes" or "no," not "why haven't you thought of building it somewhere else?"

That would be a Bill Kenwright signing then .

Mentioned it on here before but I was in the 1987 "hurricane" over the south east (LINK), although I slept through it (I was fairly heavily anaesthatised for most of that decade ). Remember the wind being very noisy before I went to bed but only knew something was up in the morning when I went into the toilet and found that the ceiling had completely fallen in, wind must have got in the attic somehow. Real devastation when I looked out of the window....walls and trees down everywhere....but even though it was the biggest storm in the UK for 300 years in global terms it was a tiddler.

Ha....missed that Mark . Got another couple of tracks, Miles Davis & the Cool and Great Expectations. Like it a lot.

This week's free itunes download is the best they've had for a long time imo. The '59 Sound by The Gaslight Anthem. Worth a listen.

Your memory's playing tricks Jimmy....it was Clyde Best .

They're just where we were thirty/forty/fifty years ago. It'll hopefully change but it'll take time, same as it did here (although we've still got a pretty hefty minority of morons who haven't got the excuse of ignorance).

Flattering to deceive again I'm afraid. We'll likely make it to SA, probably come through the group as well and then play a blinder in the last sixteen. But, come the quarters.....or if they really feel like teasing us, the semis, we'll come up against Germany/Italy/Argentina/Brazil/Italy on a hot, humid evening and run out of steam like the unprepared Anglo Saxons that we are. "Bloody Hell" we'll say, "Fancy it being hot in Africa in July, we weren't ready for that! Next time eh?" Don't get sucked into hoping, I've been doing it since Mexico '70 and I'm not falling for it again <_< !

Bloody Luddites ! If it wasn't for people going out on a limb (or a whim) and doing ridiculous and expensive and apparrently pointless experiments you'd not be sat at a keyboard discussiong the merits of the latest "folly" with (potentially) billions of other people in every corner of the globe.....and any number of other things would never have been invented/discovered. If it wasn't for people like this "wasting" gazillions over the Millennia we all still be sat in caves clubbing the womenfolk over their heads and dragging them home (by the hair) for a bit of ravishment. Short term gratification certainly, but there'd be no cigarette aferwards, tobacco never made it to Europe sadly . Go for it I say. Oh, and there's no possibility at all of it causing the end of the world.....I can say that with absolute certainty, because if I'm wrong nobody will ever know !

Love that.....wouldn't faze them though Louis. There's no room for reason or logic in blind faith. They'd just say that on the morning of the first day "God created the collider pipe and verily I say unto you He sent full particle beams in both directions and they smashest one into another and created Adam and he saw it was good."

What the fuck was that opening sequence . Have we declared war on someone without me knowing?! Laughable.

It's the End of the World as we know it.....I feel fine . Wait a minute....I meant to post that in, "What are you listening to?"

Undisputed heavyweight cheese champ....unchallenged... (I strongly suggest you turn the sound down before playing, I can't be held responsible for any subsequent psychotic episodes if you dare to listen )

Can't be arsed to read all that but does it not occur to you lads that if he can be such a committed blue and change his mind that he could just as easily change it again? Ten years time he could be making the same speech about how Newcastle/Villa/City/Rangers/Tranmere is his life. Serial monogamist by the sound of it.....falls in love (metaphorically) with anyone who loves him back. Sad confused man who, as is usual for the type, thinks the more often and more passionately and louder he says something the truer it becomes. Inadequate character with low self esteem and a psychologists' wet dream. Next patient !

Impressive sight, even though they were late (and I got in position early so as not to miss them ) so I was bloody cold when they turned up. Twelve man breakaway when they came past me.

I'd noticed that Bill (when looking at Davey's odds)....he's second behind Gus Poyet in the betting, 7-1 with Skybet. Must look like I have a serious gambling habit quoting odds all the time . Actually I only look at them to get an idea of unbiased opinion....I don't bet at all, only done so probably ten times in my life (only one of which was a winner ).

"Newcastle fans angry at the way the club is been run want to ban owner Mike Ashley from sitting amongst supporters and from wearing his black and white replica shirt at games." And how are they planning to enforce that exactly ?

There was going to be an auction of cycling memorabilia before the start but there was a problem because some anique handlebars got accidentally bent. They were due to be the first item sold so there was a slight delay so they could reshape lot one .

Had to wipe a lot of dust off that joke before posting it .

I used to be apathetic but I can't be arsed any more .

I think I can say without undue modesty that I'm good enough to sit on the bench Bill . The problems would begin if they ever needed me on the pitch though if I'm honest . I'm in the "We didn't need another keeper" camp also btw.

Got no problem with them not singing the anthem, it's an embarrassing dirge that needs changing (Becky Adlington made me laugh when she was getting her first gold you could clearly lip-read her saying to the lass that got bronze, "I'm not going to sing, I don't know the words.") What bothers me is that we have fourteen year old synchronised swimmers with bigger bollocks than all of the England team put together . Can you imagine any of them going through the training regime of even the laziest British rower? Or cyclist? Or even the canoeist who got gold fitting his training around shifts as an A&E doctor? And a glance at the paralympics would do them no harm! Much too deeply entrenched in the comfort zone our boys, which is why we're underdogs (seriously...check the bookies) against Croatia ffs. Sad state of affairs.

Would judge any proposal individually I think....the Lerner model would be OK but Shinawatra No. Macca could possibly scrape together a billion if pushed....anyone got his number? He knew my dad forty plus years ago so I could give him a call (for old times sake ) and just drop it into the conversation I suppose .