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I've been lurking for a little while but now I'm posting. D'ye see me I would love to win the Worthy - think we'll get kicked up the arse tomorrow and bottle it but.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

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Welcome Heednhands, with your brand of optimism you're going to blend in with the wallpaper on here :-))

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

I have a good feeling about tomorrow and a good feeling in general about the worthless cup (which I will call it no more if we win it!)

I am not saying I am looking forward to tomorrow night and for the most part I will no doubt watch it hidden behind a pillow! :o)

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000


I have the same doubts, after a dismal defensive display v's Liverpool. The Macums are going all out for this knowing that MANU will field a weakened side and that there is not that much quality left in. It would really piss me off if they went through and we didn't.
I've gotten so despondent that I can barely get myself out to watch it.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

Well we better win tomorrow and it better be good. I'm taking a half-day off work to drive down to DC to watch it.

Guess that means Harper will be taking an early shower again and we'll lose..again.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000


From the Ronnie: >>STEVE Harper is hoping to emerge from the ever-lengthening shadow of Shay Given for tomorrow's Worthington Cup fourth- round tie at Birmingham City. For the 24-year-old keeper feels he has plenty to prove if he gets the nod from Bobby Robson for tomorrow's match at St Andrew's.

Robson has not said whether or not Harper will play - but with Given carrying a thigh injury there is every chance the Easington-born keeper will be given only his third start of the season.

Before leaving for Sutton Coldfield, where United will be based for tomorrow's night game and also for Saturday's match at Aston Villa, Harper told me: "I was sent off in our Worthington Cup defeat at Birmingham last season and I hope to be given the chance to make amends tomorrow. "Not only that, but in our previous Worthington Cup tie this season against Bradford City at St James's Park, I conceded three goals. "Having only played in one game prior to that, the Worthington Cup victory over Leyton Orient, I thought that I had to do that little bit extra against Bradford City and things didn't work out. "So if I do get my chance tomorrow night, I will just concentrate on the job in hand and not try to do anything extra."

Harper got some much- needed practice last Thursday night when he was the last line in a young Newcastle Reserves defence beaten 4-0 by Manchester United at Bury. "At this stage of the season I need games and I certainly got one on Thursday night," said Harper. "In fact I got the 'Full Monty' in which every aspect of my game was put to the test. But it was just what I needed."

Harper became the second player sent off by Uriah Rennie in the early part of last season, joining skipper Alan Shearer in falling foul of the controversial Sheffield official during the 2-0 defeat at St Andrew's. But the keeper stressed: "What happened last season is in the past and going back to St Andrew's holds no fears for me."

Given's recent form has strengthened Bobby Robson's view that he has the best pair of goalkeepers in the Premiership and Harper sportingly concedes: "Shay is in the best form of his life at the moment."

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000



Good to have you on board "heednhands" - what a fantastic name for a pessimistic Toon fan. Love it, love it, love it.

The only problem is we're getting weighed down with pessimists - with Pit Bill, Dougal, me, and now heednhands. Actually, come to think of it De Builder also seems to have joined the massed ranks of the 'half empty glass' brigade.

Any optimists lurking out there?

Get posting, before we all convince each other to just slit our throats and end it all.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

'half empty glass'? Mine is also dirty and cracked... and I just cut my lip on it...

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

Clarky, do you mind? I am being resolutely optimistic at the moment! My "worst ever" comments were a p...s take of the general gloom that has descended :-))

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

My glass is half full but some bugger just nicked the other half. Minesweeping Bbbbstads!!

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

Don't miss me out of the ranks of the terminally pessimistic, I've already decided that my season is over.....

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000


Sorry Gav mate - I was momentarily overly optimistic!

;-{)



-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

In true Gemini fashion, I reserve the right to be pessimistic and optimistic...as the mood take me. :-)))

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

Welcome, heednhands - nice to meet you!(:o)

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

we'll win tomorrow night. we'll finish second in the league. we'll win both cups and trundle our way through europe next season. Ian Gregg. On medication. Terminally optimistic. At work.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

Nah, sorry Ian - not even a cock-eyed Optimist would buy that one.

BTW aren't the terms "terminally optimistic" and "at work" oxymorons?

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000



I have to plead the optimist as I follow Jonno's sentiment that if your depressed before the game and get beat then your depressed twice as much as if you are optimistic before the game......ah bast*ard we better win.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

Clarky, you don't know what I'm doing. anyway the tablets are wearing off.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000

We'll win - the worm has turend - apparently we should have lost Sunday but luck was on our side. That + this time we're the better team = a win.

There's no beating logic.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2000


Tony Green Jnr.....Professional Porn Star or Head Surgeon at the Mackem Eunich Hospital? ;)

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2000

Nice to meet you all.
Howay the lads - No Fear tonight!

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2000

Why do you need a Head Surgeon at a Eunuch Hospital?

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2000

Bill
Cos hakkems are all dickheads. On second thoughts, maybe an ENT specialist would be more appropriate.

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2000

I'd have said a proctologist would have been more appropriate for a bunch of @rseholes, eh PB (or should I say...PA??)

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2000

Bill
Being dcikheads would put their @rseholes somewhere near where their mouths would be, so head surgeon just about fits.

I reckon they'd go to a proctologist to have their teeth seen to, judging by what comes out of their gobs.

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2000


PB, I thought that this surgical specialisation had gone about as far as it could - then I met a Naval Surgeon...

Headgear, overgarment, egress.

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2000


Would one of his instruments be a navel telescope ?

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2000

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