David Kelly

When was Guttierez thought of as one of the best wingers in La Liga? When he signed there was a few people who come out and said that. Gerry Armstrong is one I can remember but I'm sure there was a few more too. Just because he's not a massive name like Messi doesn't mean he wasn't highly thought of. Let's face it, most people can't name a single player from any Spanish team outside of Barca, Real/Athletico Madrid, Valencia, Deportivo or Villareal but it's not realistic to think that in a league of the standard of la liga that they are the only teams with any decent players! And like I said he's a current international in one of the best teams in the world (as an attacking player too which makes it all the more impressive when you think of the other players who fall into that category) so it doesn't take a genius to spot him. So it's gone from anyone with a decent knowledge of Spanish football to a few people including Gerry Armstrong. He'd only managed one cap for Argentina before he came here hadn't he? So that doesn't really mean much, we've seen in the past with England how many players pick up to odd cap here and there. Another point though is if he was one of the best wingers in Spain then why did he come here when he would have had the choice of clubs if he was so highly rated and out of contract since he'd bought it out? Or are you going to give credit to Jimenez for convincing one of the best wingers in Spain to come here on what is basically a free transfer? I said that a few people including Gerry Armstrong came out and said he was one of the best wingers, I've never gone back on saying that anyone with a decent knowledge of spanish football should have known about him. But do you expect everyone who knows about la liga to be quoted in the press? The fact is that given his ties with Spanish football on Sky, Armstrong is one of the people most associated with having a knowlege of the league and as such he was one of the people asked for an opinion. I don't think they bothered asking everyone. And so what if he'd only had the one cap at that point? If you gave me a list of the Argentine squad with their respective clubs I could very quickly come up with a list of players worth having a look at (ie all the ones who weren't at massive clubs so we might be able to attract). Fucking hell, it's not as if he's unearthed some wonderkid playing in the forth division in Nepal is it. And yes plenty of players get one cap for even the top countries and don't turn out to be anything worth while but that's not the point. The point is that it's an easy place find players to scout, I'm not saying that you don't then have to actually go and watch them play and see something in them. For christ sake, I'd be seriously concerned if we were signing players without watching them at all. As for how we got him to sign or whether there were other clubs after him, tbh I really don't know (well we do know Portsmouth were interested) but I'm willing conceed that he might have done a good job convincing him to come but we've never really had that many problems on that score have we. I could name a long list of highly rated/sought after players that were convinced to come here in the past for one reason or another (money mainly) without any work from Jiminez. And most daming of all is the state of the squad at the minute. Try and convince anyone that it's strong and they will just laugh at you. Was he not the guy in charge of signing players? Any way you look at it we didn't get in the number of players that we needed in the window so he failled in his very first task.

When was Guttierez thought of as one of the best wingers in La Liga? When he signed there was a few people who come out and said that. Gerry Armstrong is one I can remember but I'm sure there was a few more too. Just because he's not a massive name like Messi doesn't mean he wasn't highly thought of. Let's face it, most people can't name a single player from any Spanish team outside of Barca, Real/Athletico Madrid, Valencia, Deportivo or Villareal but it's not realistic to think that in a league of the standard of la liga that they are the only teams with any decent players! And like I said he's a current international in one of the best teams in the world (as an attacking player too which makes it all the more impressive when you think of the other players who fall into that category) so it doesn't take a genius to spot him.

It is the most vile thing I've ever seen. I'm not a sickly person at all but I reaching when I watched it. Fuck knows what kind of person would enjoy it.

I really like TGI's although I'd definitely go with the general sentiment that if you want really good food a chain is last place you'd go. Italian's are always the best place for pizza but there's always so many better things to have I never one.

Whoever's the scout they haven't done that well. The best two signings we've made are Argentinain internationals for fucks sake. It might be true that few (if any) on here knew anything about Guttierez (Coloccini is a fairly well known player throughout Europe) but anyone with a decent knowledge of Spanish football should surely known plenty about one of the best wingers in La Liga. As far as I can see the only thing our much praised scouting set up has is a knowlege base in Spain. There can't be that much of a shortage of that type of scout if we want to look for it (something the club hasn't done in the past). Bassong is the only player that you could say is a real find baring in mind that he apparently hadn't looked incredibly impressive in a poor Metz team, but while he's looked pretty promissing he's not setting the world alight. I don't see any problem with losing any of them but I would like to see us with a good scouting network (something we have lacked for years) going forward.

Clinic - Do It

Get Smart. Was ok, an easy watch but unsuprisingly nothing earth shattering.

It wasn't just me then. Nah I'm with you on this one.

Is that Lilly Savage singing their tune?

Sounds like an exciting line up! How badly do we need Jonas back?

Nice to see the poison fucking dwarf is actually doing something for his money though.

Justintv I think is the one you mean. If you can get onto livefooty.doctor-serv.com (I can't at the moment like) that should be able to link you to a stream. You might need to download SOP TV or TVU to watch it like but there'll be links on how to get those too.

always makes me laugh when the west ham fans sing 'englands number one' yeah right! The fact the England have such a lack of quality in that position makes them worryingly close to being right.

The Passenger. For a film that has a basic story of a thriller it moves far too slowley for me. Nicholson is great as ever and the camera work is excellent but there was just no build up of tension. Reading up a bit on it the theory of who the girl is make it more interesting as possibly worth watching again but as it stands there are a lot of other films I would watch first.

Sell buy?

Having someone come out and say anything is an improvement on recent time.

Three Colours Blue. Found it very slow and despite a great central performance I don't think I every felt truly engaged with the story. I've got the other two to watch so I will see how I fair with them.

Black Mountain - In The Future

Keegan was clearly filling the players with confidence before he was forced out (you only have to look at the Manure game and how we've played since he's left to see that) so I see no reason why he can't manage to do it again. I'm with Gemmil in that I don't think he's the greatest manager we could possibly have but I do think he's the only decent one likely to come into this mess at the moment.

Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Twin Peaks, The Straight Story and The Elephant Man are all class and Wild At Heart is a very good Lynch light. Dune is supposed to be shite but I haven't seen that or INLAND EMPIRE.

I aquired it a while ago but I haven't had a chance to watch it yet due to the complete attention I think you need to be able to give a David Lynch film. That's not very helpfull I know so I'll add the fact that every Lynch film is worth watching with Mulholland Drive being the pick for me as it has the added bonus of hot lesbo action.

The Grand Archives

Had no idea they were still going, used to love them back in the day. Frightenened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight

Watched the first two episodes of the new series and enjoyed them as always.