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He's wrong

I posted a geet big fishing smiley and the statement "thank god for AIDS" or something like that. Never took the high horse out the stable today though (yet) . Simply pointed out how "nice" Mr Stone Cold sober after 8 pints, post was. Anne Franks drumkit is hardly "tastefull" and I would suggest by todays standards it could easily be described as anti-semitic in the same way as calling someone a puff these days would be deemed homophobic.

Nope What high horse ?

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Where did I do that?? Electric pace is just not a "must have" to be an effective fullback IMO, you can't be "slow" but then again few are. If there were measurements available anywhere I reckon you'd find the average winger and fullback aren't far apart, there'd be the "exceptions" obviously but as a rule the whole footballing population at each level will be much of a muchness withmost at the Prem level being pretty quick. Pace is not the be all and end all as you portray, if it was, the Obertan example is perfectly valid, maybe we should convert him to fullback. Colo is great example of a not "electric" defender but he reads the game so well he gains yardage without having to run it, that's the key thing, having a football brain as a defensive unit and diagnosing/reacting to the game before it happens.

I know it's difficult for you, but don't be a wanker. Pace is important - Yes it is, but its not the most important thing,see Obertan for reference. You get caught on the break if you over extend and get wrong footed, got fuck all to do with pace per se, it's that wrong footing that makes the breaking team appear "fast" when in reality there's not a huge difference (with a few exceptions) in the pace of the players breaking and being broken against. It's all relative to the reaction time and players positioning. Good defences don't get caught on the break. There are a few exceptionally fast players and then there's fucking loads who are much of a muchness pace-wise. Simple really.

Bollocks, some of the best fullbacks have hardly been particularly "pacey", certainly never as much a flyer as a winger otherwise they'd have all been wingers. It's all about the defensive unit working as a unit and scheme/positioning, and having a football brain that can work in the scheme. No professional footballer is particularly "slow" and really "electric" wingers are few and far between.

The last orders pub in me youth (and not so youth) on any trip to the town (sometimes as last stop before the Mayfair) Long lamented :-(

Raylor (depite his lower than some "rating"/ability) was part of our "best defence in years" last season. He is a miss IMO

Better that than the other way around tbh

The amount of debt at the takeover equates very nicely to the "take" of the Halls and Shepherds tenure. The Bowyer summer, which is when we really screwed up IMO, they excercised financial restraint on the football side yet managed to find £9 Mill in dividends that same year. It was only ever, and always was, about the money. The stadium was less than half the debt BTW. p.s. re your earlier "never damaged the brand" comment - I give you the Fake Shiek for starters.

Does the fact that we played (and have played consistently) without the best 25% of our team not have any bearing on the way we can possibly play in LBT world ??? Take the three best players out of any team and see how they do.

Not at all, Hearts are my Scottish team but not anywhere near NUFC, odd weekends on the hoy in Edinburgh with a match thrown in was how it started, and yes I remember 86 and the lie down.

So do I, but its not the St lie down cunts

21 year old given FC Baku job with only Football Manager gaming experience behind him, last sentence is a belter. http://sports.yahoo....0vMSLd16k_xTtzP

Nope

le supposition puis

Really ? and Really ? Is that supposition, I don't recall reading anything particular on those matters/views ?? The only tangible way I've seen Pardew "losing the players" is to injury and suspension.

Is 100% correct PL. The "backup" kids (and Pardew) are not unmitigated shite CT, the problem is we've had to play way too many of them together in a patched up team time after time. Ideally your young depth would come in "occasionally" into a settled side not en masse to cover for the majority of your better players all at the same time (better players, many of whom, even when sporadically available, have underperformed). You cannot expect expansive football when we have played our complete first choice XI (I think) for the sum total twenty five minutes at Sunderland all bloody season-ish. January won’t fix this (even if Ashley splashed the cash, which he won’t) you’re not going to buy another Cabaye, Tiote, Colo, HBA or Cisse because even if you could, what happens when those players get fit again, few outside the bazillionaire clubs have anything like near-same quality replacements for their best players. We have to suck it up, and as PL says, stay patient. Which sadly won’t happen and some of the youngsters may not recover from the vitriol from the stands.

I think this is one of those "legal technicality" things. They paid EBT's which are legal, if they are loans with an expectation to be paid back. HMRC took the stance that all the Rangers EBT's were never ever intended to be paid back and levied tax liability and penalties on the club. The judges in the tribunal (not unanimously, but by 2-1) decreed that as the payments were EBT's they are simply loans which could be paid back (in the eyes of the law) and thus would attract no tax liability. As NJS states NO F'in WAY were these ever going to be paid back. That said, the tribunal also noted: "Mr Thornhill noted five cases where peculiarly trust payments were made in respect of guaranteed bonuses. These relate to Messrs Selby, Inverness, Doncaster, Barrow, and Furness, as confirmed by his instructing solicitor’s letter of 29 September 2011. The Appellants concede that in these cases there is a sufficient nexus with a contractual right to create a tax liability" These are the "side letter" folks (disguised names obviously) That means there is some liability but not the £100 Mill HMRC were looking for on all the EBT's. Importantly that section also hands at least 5 cases of dual contracts to the SFA on a plate. On the EBT's themselves, if oldco Rangers had not died no way would the loans/EBT's ever have been repaid, however given the liquidation I would be very surprised if all recipents of EBT payments will not at least be asked by BDO (the liquidator) to pay them back, they are loans after all which could get very interesting as the beneficiaries will obviously argue through their lawyers (as we are talking millions here - Boumsong as an example was paid over £3Mill I believe via EBT) it was their pay and not a loan so can of worms re-opens. Bottom line IMO, they cheated and financially doped but football yet again kicks the revenue in the nuts, and the law remains an ass.

Hiya Walter/Derg/Dirty Bristow (on smb)

Same here, although it's not just young kids, my daughter in law starts getting hyper as soon as the first Christmas Coca-cola ads been on TV, first sign it's officially christmas season in her opinion (she's 25) !!!!!

Who are you on Skunkers Benny ??

Pardew IN

I love the oil&gas industry, nee fucker (except some of the the finance crew) wears a suit day to day, can't recall last time (outside interviews) I wore a suit to work or even a tie.