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#11951 The University Thread
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I'm in my final year of Physics. Finding it pretty enjoyable after doing a placement year, and having 10 hours less contact time than previous years helps. I'm hoping to get a first, but there is some pretty hard stuff we're doing so far /o\.
#11119 Newcastle Thread
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By Dodds | Permalink | On 21 October 2012 - 21:18 PM
What did everyone think of the game today?

I thought until the red card we were the better team and looked good in a 4-4-2 for a change. Without the red card I think we'd have probably gone on to win the match. Bit of a harsh red I thought, although definitely a yellow - and to be fair the whistle had already gone so Tiote didn't even need to make that tackle which made it all the more disappointing.

After half-time Sunderland seemed to step it up a bit. Pretty impressed that we limited them to so few chances on target despite it seeming like a game of attack vs. defence for the majority of the second half. Perch looks like a really good squad player now after all the stick he got in our first Premiership season (including from me).

The ref was pretty shocking all around, there was some awful decisions from him in both teams favours
#10829 NFL Thread
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Terrell Suggs is back \o/
#9398 The Politics Thread
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By DB | Permalink | On 18 October 2012 - 18:41 PM
And then Jaygull to come in with a bunch of words no one has ever heard of.

#9395 New Careers Section
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Like everyone else said, It looks fantastic Rob!
#9345 Xbox 360 Thread
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It looks quite good with the new Madden game. You can yell out things to change the plays, whereas you used to have to press various buttons and I always struggled to remember what I was doing

I haven't got one though, so I don't know how well it actually works.
#9227 Newcastle Thread
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Pardew on Nile Ranger

I think if we can't get anything for him in January we should just terminate his contract. Sounds like a complete idiot and not worth the money or the hassle really. It's a shame because he had his promising moments when we were in the Championship.
#8319 NFL Thread
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Ravens \o/ Although it would be nice to see the offence play consistently good throughout the game, as opposed to the 3rd quarter performance we had yesterday.

It was good to see Rodgers get back to form last night as well. He threw for 6 TD's against the Texans !
#8210 World record sky dive live in five
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It's definitely more than advertising. They've funded research into various different fields which may have produced new technologies that could be very useful in a variety of fields.

In addition to that they've funded jobs when they could have just banked the money, given the global recession (or at least recession among many western countries) and all that seems like a pretty beneficial thing for others.
#8174 NFL Thread
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Jacoby Jones just scored a 108 yard kick-off return TD \o/

The Raven have got an 11 point lead over the Cowboys now
#8152 Newcastle Thread
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I'm not sure the issue is whether or not the Dembas are playing well together. I think it's more that we struggle to retain possession when we don't have the 3 midfielders in the centre. So we don't really supply the Dembas enough to know whether they can play well together.

Also, thank god Senegal are awful so we won't lose the two Dembas to ACON duty this winter \o/. Although Cheick Tiote will probably be there as Ivory Coast have qualified
#7846 The Relationship Thread
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By The Platypus | Permalink | On 13 October 2012 - 16:54 PM
"Hey, remember that really weird guy that used to go on about Italy all the time?"
"Oh right, that absolute spastic that used to hang out with all the German foreign exchange students who didn't have the heart or the vocabulary to tell him to fuck off?"
"Exactly. Well he's at uni now"
"Fuck me, my knickers have never been wetter."

#6630 English Premier League 2012/2013
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He's running along with his arms low, gets near Cabaye raises them and swings one back behind him then returns to running along with his arms low again. He looks at Cabaye so you can't really say he didn't know where Cabaye was.

Your calling it inexplicable, but it's not, it's just the only reason is he's attempting to make contact with Cabaye.

All I can find is that Webb decided on review it wasn't worthy of a straight red. In my eyes he was deliberately trying to hit Cabaye and it should be a red, but what's done is done and in context of the game it wouldn't have made too much difference I don't think.
#6616 English Premier League 2012/2013
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Yeah, fair enough it's not something that happens often and it isn't an issue solely with Man Utd or RVP. But I think that needs to change, the FA do need to retroactively ban people for elbowing amongst other things.

I more suprised at Ninja's attempts to absolve RVP of blame
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By Ninja | Permalink | On 09 October 2012 - 17:14 PM
Yeah but he also doesn't really throw it back at Cabaye at any real force. It's more like he brushes past him, with his elbow inexplicably at shoulder height than an elbow like the one Rooney got away with against Wigan a few seasons back.

His elbows at head height !!!

Surely that's making it harder for him to run and get separation from Cabaye. I can't think of a single reason why his elbow would be that high apart from to hit Cabaye in the face. Just because he doesn't put a huge amount of force into it doesn't matter, if you raise your hit another player with your hand it's a red regardless of force, I don't see why an elbow should be any different (with the possible exception of when jumping for a ball).
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By Ninja | Permalink | On 09 October 2012 - 16:37 PM
VP got away with it because he said it was inconclusive. Which I think is probably fair enough, it was a bit silly, but I don't think you can watch that video and say, even when you slow it down frame by frame, exactly what happened and what the intent was.

Tiote got away with it because Webb had already 'dealt' with it.


Inconclusive, really??

There was no reason for his elbow to be that high in the first place when he was away from the ball and making a run into the box.

That ref 'dealt with it' rule really needs to be changed, they should be retro-actively red carding players for that kind of thing even if the referee didn't think it was that bad in real time. Even if it would have cost us a three game ban this time around.
#6556 World record sky dive live in five
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By ede444 | Permalink | On 09 October 2012 - 14:33 PM
one thing is for sure: the impact will be very heavy. i dont think he can brake that much mid-air.

Do you know what a parachute is?
#5971 Newcastle Thread
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It isn't them two clicking upfront that's the issue.

We struggle to get a foothold in games and retain possession when we play in a 4-4-2 so it just leads to us being under a lot of pressure for extended periods of time. Todays game and the Everton game are prime examples of that.
#5895 Newcastle Thread
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He had it right in the back half of last season.

It's a little frustrating as a Newscastle fan to be honest - we were great with 3 in midfield last season but Pardew insists on trying to force a 4-4-2. There's been multiple games where we've started in a 4-4-2 and it hasn't worked so we've moved to a 4-3-3 and looked a lot better.
#2742 The "i'm scared of change" thread
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I just had the same thing Slashman had in the Night Thread as well. It put me onto page 16, I went back to the first page of the thread and then there was only 15 pages in the thread.

Don't know whether that helps or not.

EDIT: The comment count on the Night Thread was at 300 then
#1679 NFL Thread
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Absolutely dreadful fantasy week for me /o\ Apart from Ray Rice pretty much all my players were god awful this week. My bench wasn't much better either .

On the plus side it was a great day for the Ravens yesterday, we looked awful in the first quarter but came back brilliantly to win on a last second field goal against the Patriots. A nice changed from last seasons missed field goal in the AFC Championship game.

Torrey Smith had a great game as well, getting two TD's. Really impressive from him considering his younger brother died less than 24 hours before the game !