David Kelly

I think Poll did the right thing for once. Football isn't about getting players sent off to win games it's about trying to outplay the opposition. If a player is starting to look like he can't control himself surely it's better for a ref to warn the manager than to let him injure an opponent. I agree that a manger should be able to see this anyway but sometimes managers can get caught up in a game and not notice these things. If a referee does this instead of issuing a red card then there is a problem because at that stage the opposition is being robbed of an advantage they do deserve and the player isn't being punished, but from what I understand this isn't the case. The only other objection is that Charlton in this occasion are getting the benefit of something that 19 other teams in the league don't get because the refs don't do it for them as well. I still hope that twat poll gets bollocked like!

Wild Straberries is my favourite. Persona is as mad as a jellyfish. Aye that seems to be the general concensus.

Cheers, I'm thinking I need to to try and see some Bergman films next.

Never heard of it tbh. Don't be put off silents though. Get yourself some Charlie Chaplin, DW Griffiths, Buster Keaton and Fritz Lang. Eisenstein's always cited as a legend but his films don't have any of the heart of those 4 and don't really pull me in as a result. Fell asleep during battleship Potemkin. It was on Sky Arts on Friday night and it's in the 1001 Films To See Before You die (which has led me to some really top class films). It's about some farmers getting some new machinery or something but like I say it was pretty hard to follow. It's not what I would have started with but since it was on I thought I might as well have a look. I was thinking of getting something like Metropolis, Nosferatu or The Cabinet of Dr Cagliari from lovefilm and working from there. Sky Cinema has had quite a few Chaplin and Keaton films on recently but I don't have access to it anymore. Even the best versions of Metropolis have missing scenes, it's still the best of those 3 though. I've got that book too. Mistake to tell anyone on here though, they'll hammer you for reading about films. I supected you had given a lot of the films you've seen this year! Given that about 90% of my posts recently have been in this thread I don't think it can be much of a surprise to anyone that I read about films

Never heard of it tbh. Don't be put off silents though. Get yourself some Charlie Chaplin, DW Griffiths, Buster Keaton and Fritz Lang. Eisenstein's always cited as a legend but his films don't have any of the heart of those 4 and don't really pull me in as a result. Fell asleep during battleship Potemkin. It was on Sky Arts on Friday night and it's in the 1001 Films To See Before You die (which has led me to some really top class films). It's about some farmers getting some new machinery or something but like I say it was pretty hard to follow. It's not what I would have started with but since it was on I thought I might as well have a look. I was thinking of getting something like Metropolis, Nosferatu or The Cabinet of Dr Cagliari from lovefilm and working from there. Sky Cinema has had quite a few Chaplin and Keaton films on recently but I don't have access to it anymore.

You expected anything else?

2046 (Cheers for the recomendation Alex) - Not as good as in the mood for love but still brilliantly shot and very worth watching. Clerks 2 - Really funny as with all of Kevin Smith's films but I don't think it had the depth of the original. And I still think it's wierd seeing Dante and Randal in colour! My Man Godfrey - Brilliant screwball comedy from the 30's with William Powell and Carol Lombard. One of the best films I've seen this year. The Killers - Cracking film noir with Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardener excellent as the femme fatale. Earth - My first go at silent films wasn't much of a success as I couldn't stand this supposed masterpiece of Russian cinema. It seemed like fifteen people would be talking and one line of dialogue would come up and I couldn't make out which one was supposed to be speaking. Not helped by the fact I kept nodding off through it like!

The problem was that soon after Butt arrived we got Souness and now Roeder who don't have a clue how to set a team to use attacking or defending players!

Posidon. Not sure why I put this on my Lovefilm list but never mind. Not a bad action flick but not in the same class as the original with no one coming close to Hackman, Borgnine or Winters but then again their characters had much more to them as you found out very little about the new characters. Dreyfus's gay was cringeworthy and the kid pissed me off no end too. Any why can't Hollywood make any big budget special effects ship disaster films where the ship actually lokks real when it's floating? It was nearly as bad as Titanic!

If we want to get anywhere as a club then we should only be playing an "Anchorman" in midfield in a 4-4-2 formation for maybe a dozen games a season, the rest of the time it's just a negative tactic that holds us back against teams we should be destroying. I disagree, we were all crying out for an achorman when we played with a midfield of Nobby, Robert, Speed & Dyer (our best midfield since Keegan). The amount of times our defence got left exposed by having six players in front of them all looking to score was unreal. Manre won everything going playing with Ince or Keane in a holding role and it's a position filled and virtually every sucessull club on the planet. CM at Chelski is one of their most important players!

The stick Parker is getting ridiculous tbh. He gets the ball and there's no pass on so he turns to find a man (and actually manages to find his man more than 90% of the team) and people are up in arms. If Martins had done that on Saturday he might not have lost the ball leading to them scoring! Parker was our best player last season playing as an anchor man but that fuckwit Roeder in all his genius decided to play him as our attacking midfielder this season and it's something he can't do no matter how much effort he puts in. He shouldn't be playing now because Butt is playing better and you can't play the two of them (especially at home to teams like fucking citeh) but for my money he's probably our best midfielder if he was used correctly.

The fact that we're still being linked with Ferdinand is the most worrying thing about that. Jesus titty fucking Christ! It's also amazing how far Parker's stock has fallen because Roeder doesn't know how to play him.

We we really are a shite club now aren't we!

When you're hoping for the likes of Hitzfeld or Hiddink, he doesn't really compare but when you've sat through three seasons of utter shite like we have he would definitely be a step forward. I'm sure he wouldn't take the job without being assured he would be able to work his way (which would mean a propper coaching set up and scouting network as well as more modern thinking on diet etc) which is what we have all been crying out for. Yes Bolton don't exactly play attractive football but it's way above the shite we're churning it and they're doing it without any big name players. They're also a team no one likes to play which is the exact opposite of the pushovers that we are. As for not liking him, well tbh we need a manager who wants to get stuck into other teams unlike Roeder who just wants to get his tongue stuck in their arses!

I thought Taylor was our best defender on Saturday but I know not everyone agrees.

Good news you don't want to be going in againt Sheffield missing quality players like that!

Here or stateside? In America! [/Alan Partridge] Torrents normally available on Monday morning. I've still not been able to get a single tv torrent I've downloaded to play

His worst film and the twist was comlpetely obvious but I still quite liked it tbh.

If we only have £20m after selling Martins we are well fucked tbh. And I don't think £20m would get those three tbh!

It will be interesting to see just what Keane can do in the premiership tbh. I don't think it's much of an achievement to do what he has so far given the resources available (just look what Reid & McCarthy did). He will have more money available than previous makems I'm sure but we know only too well that spending money is no guarantee. That said I'm sure we will continue to struggle if Roeder is still in charge (which I'm all but resigned to) so they could quite easily overtake us!

I actually think that running around is a benefit of him and have always liked his style of play. He makes himself available and creates space by unsettling the structure of opposition teams. Of course it would be nice if he had scored more, but this doesn't mean he has contributed nothing to the team. The formula "doesn't score goals"=SHIT is far too simplistic for me. Spot on tbh.

Here or stateside?

Unfortunately these days there are very few of our players that I like in any respect.

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