Andrew

Look away now Matt

News today that Newcastle United may be in a battle with Birmingham City to sign Shane Long from Reading.

 

The news is in the News Of The World today, and it’s that both Premiership clubs are willing to cough up £3M for the Ireland striker, and that would be a very reasonable transfer fee.

 

Shane has two years left on his Reading contract, but the news (where they get this from we have no idea) [birmingham] are prepared to pay bigger wages than Newcastle, and as much as £5K a week more, or at least that’s what’s being reported.

 

http://www.nufcblog.com/2010/05/09/newcastle-pursuing-readings-shane-long/

I confess The Sun newspaper are a bunch of cunts

Bumping cause I bought "the shape of punk to come". Absolutely love it.

Thanks to Scuzz for playing the New Noise video.

Few against many - Hell is for Heroes

I confess I'm going to make a playlist for GTA Vice City

New Noise - Refused

If they dont side with anyone is a re-election not held within a couple of weeks?

Not sure to be honest, I'd be guessing it'd be a few months time. Would take a huge amount of work to send out 30million+ ballot papers all over again.

I confess I was actually on someone's follow friday on tumblr

I confess I am loving Refused already

I confess I love the drumming on this song

I confess David Cameron is a posh wanker. trufax.

New Noise - Refused

Again

Ireland would be a cracking signing for us, i think we need another defender tbh and a striker

It seems Villa are also interested in Ireland.

Rumoured Transfer Targets

Mark Reynolds - Motherwell (CB, LB, RB) Potential Cost £1.5m to £2m

Jamie O'Hara - Tottenham (CM) Potential Cost £2m to £4m

Hamit Altintop - Bayern Munich (CF, LW, CAM) Potential Cost Free

Morten Gamst Pedersen - Blackburn (RW, LW) Potential Cost Free

Joe Cole - Chelsea (LW, CAM) Potential Cost Free

Deniz Yilmaz - Bayern Munich (ST) Potential Cost £500k

Simon Poulsen - AZ Alkmaar (LW) Potential Cost £1m to £2m

Steven Ireland - Man City (CAM, CM) Potential Cost £8m to £10m (imo)

Connor Wickham - Ipswich (ST) Potential Cost £6m+ (Spurs rumoured to offer £5m)

Who I would look at getting...

Steven Whittaker - Rangers (RB)

Jack Collison - West Ham (LW, CM, RW)

Carlton Cole - West Ham (ST)

I suggested Carlton Cole because "all West Ham players except Scott Parker are for sale" according to the owners so why not make a bid?

Basically the new Newcastle transfer policy is to sign players under the age of 26. Hughton has about £15m to spend in the summer.

Who will be leaving Newcastle:

Fabrice Pancrate (RW) Already released.

Nicky Butt (CDM) Retiring/Out of contract.

Leon Best (ST) Rumoured to be offloaded in the summer, the £2m January signing has been a 4th choice striker since signing and if not sold outright in the summer he will probably be loaned out.

Lib Dems haven't joined up with either party yet.

I think the Lib Dems would be better off with Labour to be honest, since Labour have more to lose, Labour can offer them a sweeter deal.

Labour have talked up an actual coalition with the Lib Dems, where-as the Conservatives would be the ruling party but if the Lib Dems supported some of their plans, they would support Lib Dem plans in return - kind of a "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" kind of thing - except Cameron has ruled out changing his stance on Trident and Europe - two big things the Lib Dems disagreed on.

And if the Lib Dems don't form a coalition with either party, Labour will remain in power.

I reckon we'll have another election before the end of the year because it's such a mess.

The conservatives don't have enough votes to form a government. They only have 36% when all previous Conservative leaders who won elections had over 40% of the vote. (I'm actually extremely unhappy with the Conservative gains in Wales, but I won't rant about that now But on the plus side Labour won by 10,500 votes here over their nearest rivals, the Lib Dems )

The Lib Dems despite having 6million votes overall will have less than 60 seats in parliament compared with the 250+ seats Labour have with about 9 million votes.

If I were Nick Clegg I wouldn't side with either party. Instead I would remain neutral and as a result Labour would remain in power. The Conservatives would be pissed, and I would say to change the voting system so the Lib Dems can have more seats in parliament. Making them stronger in the long-run. Another election in 6 months time, and boom the Lib Dems could have more power.

New Noise - Refused

I confess I hope she didn't actually vote Conservative.

most amazing game and comeback ever from motherwell 2-6 down and come back to draw 6-6. The 6th goal from motherwell was one of the best i av ever seen

Great advert for Mark Reynolds eh? Newcastle were interested in him, and then Motherwell concede 6 goals

Lots of potential Newcastle signings/transfer targets at the moment, the newest one being Stephen Ireland.

Female singer or actual band?

I wish I could get into politics more since its the first time I can vote but I just cant understand it.

I do feel sorry for gordon - he always looks so sad lol

If you're posh or rich vote Conservative

If you're working class vote Labour

Been and voted this morning, and I'd just like to say that The Sun are a load of absolute bastards.

I haven't had a bad dream or a nightmare in a while. Although I do remember sitting up sharply after a dream I had last week, but I don't remember what freaked me out.

Most of my dreams are weird, but in a good way. They don't make sense but they are usually good dreams. Or when something bad does happen, I don't just wake up at the first sign of trouble like I used to, I just get on with it. If that makes sense.

I might've misheard but I thought Clegg said he woudn't form a hung parliament if Brown was the PM? I think this is the opening for Milliband to be PM. Labour retain power and kick out the unpopular PM in one swift swoop. Unlikely but I wouldn't put it past them.

What I meant, was that Labour could form an alliance with the Lib Dems to keep the Conservatives out if it was a hung parliament. In that situation, Clegg said he wouldn't let Brown be PM.

If Milliband was running instead of Brown, I bet Labour would be ahead in the polls.

Brown is better as a chancellor anyway.

Bad news for (Mod) Ross...

Motherwell's highly-rated defender Mark Reynolds has conceded he would consider a move away from the club this summer.

 

The 22-year-old has one year left on his Fir Park contract and has been linked with a move to newly-promoted Newcastle United.

 

http://www.skysports.com/story/0' date='19528,11678_6134592,00.html[/quote']

 

This is not the first time we’ve been linked with the 22 year old Scot' date=' and he has confirmed that he could be playing his last game tonight for the Motherwell side against Hibs.

 

Motherwell manager Craig Brown has admitted there has been interest in his player over the last year or so, and the lad has already been linked with Fulham, Blackburn Rovers and PSV Eindhoven.

 

Indeed Glasgow Rangers made a bid for the player 21 months ago, and the bid was said to be around £750K.

 

Reynolds has been watched several times by Newcastle scouts this season, although the player has refused to reveal his likely destination.

 

http://www.nufcblog.com/2010/05/05/newcastle-still-said-to-be-after-motherwells-mark-reynolds/#more-43756[/quote']

Voting is tomorrow.

Definitely going to vote Labour, even if the whole system is messed up.

It's going to be a hung parliament for sure.

Current election polls are:

Conservative 35%

Labour 29%

Lib Dem 26%

Others 10%

Translated into seats at the House of Commons, this is:

Labour 272

Conservatives 270

Lib Dem 79

Others 29

If that is how the election finished, it’d be a Hung Parliament with no party able to run the UK, unless they formed an alliance with another party.

Nick Clegg says that if the Lib Dems had an alliance with Labour, he would want to be Prime Minister, which Labour would never agree to. I don’t wanna think about the Conservatives actually getting into power.

A hung parliament would force the parties to work together to pass laws, make changes, etc

Sources: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8609989.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8280050.stm

I confess I think May is going to be a Porcupine Tree month for me

Stay too long - Plan B