There is absolutely no doubt in my mind whatsoever, that DERBY ARE IN FOR THE BIGGEST PASTING OF THEIR LIVES on Saturday. Definitely a cricket score. Never felt more certain of anything in my life.

And, there is no significance in the fact that when people go into print in advance about how confident they are, we play utter sh1te and get stuffed. DEFINITELY NO HEX.

Also, I won't be there.

As for the away games at Charlton and Ipswich, even better. Massive wins, both. In fact, we won't lose another game this season, they won't all be as good as Derby, Charlton and Ipswich, but it's down hill all the way into Europe, which we'll dominate for the next 70 years.

And SGE will make his job a thousand times easier by just picking the whole NUFC first team squad to represent us in the world cup, which, it goes without saying we will win easily, playing some of the best football EVER seen and scoring the most goals ever.

Yes, we definitely bottomed out on Saturday.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

Answers

Abusing Providence.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

You really know how to make us all paranoid about the game, don't you?!

Headlines for Sunday - "Devestating Derby", "Ram-med Home", "Rav's Toon Delight", "Derby's Smash & Grab"...I hate this club...

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

Not to mention: "toon tupped"

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

"Ram raiders"
"Toon rogered by rampant Rams"

or if we're really lucky... and I'm being very optimistic here: "Magpies steal point"

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

Well Pit Bill thats saying it son. To be fair we are only 3 points off the lead today despite the weekends reverse. Seems they are all inconsistent this term. I predict that we'll murder Derby then lay our London jinx the following week at Charlton then we will be looking down on a few more teams. 2nd or 3rd after 14 games is more than most(all) of us ever dared hope for before this season ever started. Too much doom and gloom about, the future still looks rosy to me. Bobby said he was happy with his team and I am too. Anybody else feel like I do. Be at the Valley to witness the historic day for the toon. Where we will go from there, beating the London jinx and all, who knows.......positive karma merchants need apply only.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

A fear faced is a fear fazed, Keith.

Which translates as 'It's so fn dark in here, maybe if I whistle it'll distract me from feeling so sh1t scared'. :-))

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

Hmmm....last time I tried a similar tactic was when a couple of us set out to prove the foolishness of "the Scottish play" superstition in a theatre. By the end of that evening's performance, one actor was in hospital with a heart attack and another one had stitches after losing an argument with a piece of the set, in addition to mics mysteriously going dead and various missed cues during the show.

Ah well, better to get our losing streak out of the way now so we can go on a long winning streak starting in January. ;-)

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

......and by the sounds of it, the losing streak started on Saturday. Daft bu99a was fined £1000. Mind you, it was worth it for the entertainment, seeing those stupid bar fat stewards running around clueless. In fact, NUFC should employ him. He'd give wor defence a canny run-around too ;-)

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

Derby coming on Sarurday - we'll murder them.
Ipswich the following Tuesday we'll wallop them n'aal.
Charton - a botton three team - we'll dump on them them too.
Ipwich away - a bottom three team - no bother.
Then Blackburn at home.
All the while our two best players are getting healthy, they will be ready for the Chistmas period all fit and with fire in their bellys.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

We KNOW that superstitions and hoodoos etc are rubbish, so is the idea of tempting fate. Yet I'm still uncomfortable with predictions so I'm keeping out of this one.

If we lose mind, PB it will all be your fault!!!

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

EVERY ONE OF THOSE PREDICTIONS WILL KEEP ME IN PINTS FOR THE REST OF MY NATURAL, YOU MARK MY WORDS LYNDA.

THERE IS NO LONDON HEX, THERE IS NO PREDICTION HEX AND SATURDAY WAS ABSOLUTELY, DEFINITELY, UNQUESTIONABLY, UNDOUBTEDLY THE NADIR.

IT'S DOWNHILL ALL THE WAY UP FROM NOW ON, TAKE IT FROM ME.

What's that darling ? Oh, it's time for my pill. Ok. I'll be there in a minute. Are you sure I can't take two ?

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

Go easy on those pills, PB. They're meant to last the season and we aren't even half way through yet. ;-)

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

We'll win the league this season, no question about it

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2001

And you know those pinkish animals that make an "oink" sound?

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2001

Yeah? Well they can fly

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2001

We should be taken over by Carlsberg, then we'd win everything.

"Carlsberg don't run a football team, but if they did it would probably be the best football team in the world"

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2001