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Fans shouldn't need to have 5 pints before during and after matches.
I find the whole drinking thing around games a bit sad (in every sense). Not big or clever.

What are our early aspirations for next season, prior to any signings? 
Personally, I would be happy to consolidate our position in the Championship without spending too much money. If we could steer clear of the relegation dog fight and flirt with the top half, I would be happy. 
This would give us a platform to build upon and aim for the play offs the following season, all the while, steadily improving the quality of our team.

We climbed up Mount Batur, Bali at 3:30am yesterday. Hard work on an old mans limbs but well worth it for the sunrise above the clouds. 

Hard to believe that golf exists when there is w*nking

WOMEN's football is s**** and they (the media/TV companies) should stop trying to force it upon us. If we want it, we will find it! The WSL is pretty much driven by spending clubs, more so than the PL.

Fans shouldn't need to have 5 pints before during and after matches.
I find the whole drinking thing around games a bit sad (in every sense). Not big or clever.

Fans shouldn't need to have 5 pints before during and after matches.
I find the whole drinking thing around games a bit sad (in every sense). Not big or clever.

Angry Steve after he misses a sitter.

Any grown up who wears a football shirt on a non-matchday needs to give their head a wobble.
All replica kits are a waste of money, teams should have one kit that doesn't change from season to season.

Fans shouldn't need to have 5 pints before during and after matches.
I find the whole drinking thing around games a bit sad (in every sense). Not big or clever.

Not being in the play offs has enabled Mrs NG2Ram and I to book a last minute trip to Japan to visit our eldest son who lives and work here (not seen him for over 5 years). Currently on the bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto. Hoping to get to a J League game whilst we're here.

Hi, no

After finishing Fall of the House of Usher (very good), we decided to jump straight into another Mike Flanagan creation: Midnight Mass (Netflix).
Promising first episode but must admit it threw me a bit having most of the actors playing billionaires in Usher, now turning up on an impoverished remote island.

I realy like Eurovision. Unfortunately this year, we were round at some friends who had a big TV but with terrible tinny speakers, so I didn't have the normal viewing experience.
Anyway, not that anyone asked for them but here are my thoughts:
The best songs finished at the top, on the whole. No complaints. Political voting (friendly countries voting for each other) isn't anywhere near as prolific as it used to be, despite what the haters say - many of whom will slag it off and then say they haven't seen it for years. Our song didn't deserve to do any better than it did. I thought it might be in the top half but hated the staging. I'm really no prude but the  comedy cod-piece thrusting looked like a parody of a strip club. Embarrasing and cringey, and would have turned a lot of viewers off IMO. The whole zero gravity effect thing never once looked convincing. Ollie's performance was OK but no better than that & way behind that of Switzerland, whose staging was far simpler (their gimmick worked) but a lot more effective. I've just heard Richard Osman (The rest is entertainment podcast) give a very good explanation of the massive Israel public vote - basically that even if the public were a lot more sympathetic to Gaza than to Israel on average, pro-Israel votes will only go to Israel. Anti-Israel votes can go to any one of 24 countries, so that was always going to happen if people are going to take the war into account.

My spring weight loss efforts were scuppered by picking up a stinker of a cold/flu/covid that floored me for a couple of weeks, which has meant I've missed my target by about 3lbs before going on holiday this coming Saturday. Annoying in that it didn't kill my appetite but did stop the gym sessions.
I'm going to have to try not to go mental with the all-inclusive but I suspect we all know what's going to happen there.

I realy like Eurovision. Unfortunately this year, we were round at some friends who had a big TV but with terrible tinny speakers, so I didn't have the normal viewing experience.
Anyway, not that anyone asked for them but here are my thoughts:
The best songs finished at the top, on the whole. No complaints. Political voting (friendly countries voting for each other) isn't anywhere near as prolific as it used to be, despite what the haters say - many of whom will slag it off and then say they haven't seen it for years. Our song didn't deserve to do any better than it did. I thought it might be in the top half but hated the staging. I'm really no prude but the  comedy cod-piece thrusting looked like a parody of a strip club. Embarrasing and cringey, and would have turned a lot of viewers off IMO. The whole zero gravity effect thing never once looked convincing. Ollie's performance was OK but no better than that & way behind that of Switzerland, whose staging was far simpler (their gimmick worked) but a lot more effective. I've just heard Richard Osman (The rest is entertainment podcast) give a very good explanation of the massive Israel public vote - basically that even if the public were a lot more sympathetic to Gaza than to Israel on average, pro-Israel votes will only go to Israel. Anti-Israel votes can go to any one of 24 countries, so that was always going to happen if people are going to take the war into account.

My spring weight loss efforts were scuppered by picking up a stinker of a cold/flu/covid that floored me for a couple of weeks, which has meant I've missed my target by about 3lbs before going on holiday this coming Saturday. Annoying in that it didn't kill my appetite but did stop the gym sessions.
I'm going to have to try not to go mental with the all-inclusive but I suspect we all know what's going to happen there.

dont know if anyone cares but im down to 15st 2 and hoping to break into the 14st barrier by the weekend. With the hot weather comes all the socialising and bbq's so im gonna have a miserable time in coming months hahaa

My rules on eBay are  - just bid once, make it the maximum you are willing to pay, and if you win, happy days. If not, then accept that you've been outbid and get over it

Pinched from the Gateshead Facebook thingy.
…………………….seems fair comment to me. 👍🏁

Let’s assume he hasn’t come through our academy and is a random young striker who’s had a good 3-4 months.  Would we really be suggesting we sign him and throw him in?  Would we really by looking at him thinking a Prem club will sign him for 8 figures in the summer?  Probably not.
@Chesterfield_Ram has given some good stats about other National League strikers who’ve scored hat loads at that level, but not so much in L1 or L2.  It’s about developing him at the right pace and not rushing him too soon.  I think the best next step is to send him on loan to L1 with the option to recall in January.

Last year the programme was live from the UK with a raft of UK presenters so of course the ratings were way higher. The year before we had our only decent entry for a decade and a good chance of winning (and would have without a Europe wide Ukraine sympathy vote).
This year the viewing figures reverted to their normal level. And were high given the paucity of good songs. In 2021 it was 7.4m, this year it was 7.6m. No contest in 2020, but 6.9m in 2019.

After finishing Fall of the House of Usher (very good), we decided to jump straight into another Mike Flanagan creation: Midnight Mass (Netflix).
Promising first episode but must admit it threw me a bit having most of the actors playing billionaires in Usher, now turning up on an impoverished remote island.

That may well be true but we currently have nowhere near a mid table Championship squad, once those who are leaving have left, IMO.
We're playing catch-up and so we'll need investment that other teams don't require. Which is why I would say expectations of anything above half way are some way too high.