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I cant see rangers putting up the money for him. If theirs any truth in this its madness, sure he aint had the best of times so far but you'd think he'd be a typical kinneir player, and to get him back to fitness and then loan him out when we're already short on strikers is crazy That's right, he probably is a typical Kinnear player, i.e. not very talented, picks up a booking every match, is committed but without anything to show for it and is generally useless. He also likes to swear a lot...

It's going to be Schweinsteiger of course.

Didn't he only say they might have something for the news ticker? Probably announcing the sale of Bassong, Martins and Jonas.

Getting the right kind of player for next season already? Wonderful "planning".

What an awfull team full of has-beens and never-will-bes. How you can play a clueless crock like Ameobi for 90 mins and stick with Duff is beyond me. Most of these players would look poor in the Championship as well.

Tbf as much as I think Kinnear is right that Charlie just wants to engineer a move JFK's public appearance is just cringeworthy. Calling a player Insomnia isn't just a normal slip or mispronouncing, it's not as if he mixed up names like Robson often did but replacing it with a negative word that isn't even remotely close to a name. Charlie is a cunt, but JFK is enormous tosser. I'd wish he would just fuck off back to the retirement home where he was taken away from...

Of course he has to work under difficult circumstances, he's done loads of mistakes himself too when it comes to selections and tactics. For this deserves all the blame he gets, not to mention his incapability to keep his gob shut.

What, next he'll tell us that his predecessors actually tried to adress the squad's problems. Tosser.

But the footballing voice of reason DannyB told us what a good job this tosser is doing and how we are ungrateful not to appreciate it...

Plastic pots The plastic plant pot is the gardener's equivalent to the shopper’s plastic carrier bag: we know we use too many of them - some 500 million each year in the UK - but they’re really cheap and they’re handy. The only trouble is that like carrier bags, they have become a huge waste problem: they pile up, in our gardens, in our bins, and the majority of them are either sent to landfill or incinerated. And the manufacture of virgin plastic uses significant amounts of fossil fuels (four per cent of the world's annual oil production is used to produce plastics and a further three per cent to manufacture them). An obvious alternative is to recycle them, not just by giving your surplus to neighbours or a local community project, but by being able to take them back to be recycled commercially, ideally to be made into more pots. Until recently, the argument against recycling on a large scale has been that it's too complex and costly to sort the mixed plastics. But now the majority of plant pots are made from polypropylene, with trays made from polystyrene, and advanced technology means that mechanical sorting is feasible. However, Steve Griggs of Associated Polymer Resources points out that the specialized machinery is very expensive. The challenge for gardeners is to persuade garden centres and nurseries to take back used pots - this will entail them providing staff to sort, stack and shrinkwrap them - and set up a collection scheme with one of the country's specialist plastic recyclers who can clean and granulate the plastic so that it can be re-used. Some enterprising independent garden centres, such as Groves in Bridport, have already set up schemes, and this summer Wyevale will have collection bins at all its 121 garden centres. Using degradable plastic - plastic which has been treated with an accelerant so that it will degrade when finished with - throws up problems of emissions and the length of time it takes to break down. And, according to Friends of the Earth, does nothing to promote lasting solutions to plastic waste. Biodegradable pots, made from a range of materials such as coir, wood chips, rice husks, miscanthus or seaweed, are becoming increasingly popular, especially with organic gardeners. There are two types: ones that last a few months and can be planted straight into the soil, where they gradually break down and add humus to the soil; and more rigid ones made from plant materials such as rice husks and latex which last up to three years and can be put on your home compost heap to degrade. Berryfields head gardener, Alys Fowler, has tried both kinds and found the miscanthus-based ones fell apart too quickly. She is now successfully using the rigid ones which can be washed and re-used, but will break, she warns, if you drop them on the ground. Caroline and Derek Taylor of the Hairy Pot Plant Company have recently switched to coir pots, which they describe as 'rustic looking', having trialled several other kinds for three years. The roots establish quickly and once they push through the sides of the pots are air pruned, which encourages them to branch more inside the pot. This avoids rootballing and creates a well-developed root system that enables the young plants to romp away, with no disturbance, as soon as they are planted out in their pots. Organic grower Mike Kitchen of Rocket Gardens has had similar success with compressed wood fibre pots from France, the largest of which, he says, can last for up to a year before degrading. Both these kinds of biodegradable pots dry out more quickly than ordinary plastic pots, and need to be handled more carefully. Except for the ones you make yourself from newspaper, biodegradable pots are also more expensive and their manufacture has a carbon footprint. In the case of coir, which is mainly sourced from Sri Lanka, there's the extra transport costs, although very little energy is used in their manufacture as the coir is dried by the sun for most of the year. But as coir importer Joe Collinson explains: 'We should consider the social costs of what we're using too. In this case, the pots, which are finished by hand, provide a livelihood for communities hit by the tsunami.' Did you know? * Each UK household produces over 1 tonne of rubbish annually. * The average net saving of CO2 from recycling plastics is estimated to be between 1 tonne and 1.5 tonnes CO2 equivalent per tonne of plastics. * Worldwide, we produce and use 20 times more plastic today than we did 50 years ago. * Plastics make up around seven per cent of the average household dustbin in the UK. * Nearly 57 per cent of litter found on our beaches in 2003 was plastic. Viewpoint Alan Knight, Sustainability Director, Wyevale. "Recycling plant pots is a low carbon form of recycling as the material has already been manufactured and you're making use of lorries that would normally be returning empty to the growers. If we simplify the kinds of plastics we offer in our garden centres, it will make the recycling process even easier." Caroline Taylor, The Hairy Pot Plant Company. "Coir pots provide valuable employment in an under-developed area of Sri Lanka and work brilliantly as a pot. Last year we grew 20,000 plants in them. You plant the whole thing in the ground so avoiding waste and giving the plant a great start in life." David Gwyther, The Horticultural Trades Association Director General. "The industry has long been very conscious of the environmental challenge caused by used plastic pots, and has for many years been seeking both alternative materials and cost-effective collection and recycling schemes. There are no quick fixes to this problem. It continues to require diligent development and trial work. HTA is monitoring these activities and running its own investigative schemes. Current industry projects include a SEEDA funded waste reduction and recycling project, and recycling experiments by Hilliers and Bransford Plants. We are pleased that Wyevale too is running a pilot recycling scheme. Though we have no details of this at present, we would hope that it would add to the industry's developing knowledge on how to come up with real solutions to the problem." What you can do * Take any unwanted plastic pots to a garden centre that offers a recycling service. If your nearest centre doesn't offer one, suggest the idea to them. * If you want to buy plastic pots (with or without plants in them) choose ones that are made from recycled plastic (such as Plantpak). * Make your own seed pots from newspaper. Use cardboard tubes for seedlings that put out long roots, eg sweetpeas.

Eh, he last posted a couple of days ago and was last online today. Why don't you just use the last posts option when you look at his profile?

Bah humbug, that's just the equivalent to referring to a story from Anal O. posted here... And I'm still waiting for Mutu (next to Emerton).

£20m according to 365! Seriously, has there ever come anything believable from that place?

I would say it's the same as strikers i.e. plenty bodies but only three of them any good. In fact we've only got two CBs who are any good. the question is.. Is Stephen McManus any good? No idea, I wasn't advocating buying him (it's probably more bollocks anyway). Just we aren't well off for centre-halves. Ones that aren't shit anyway. Though, with money being tight I'd expect us use it on positions where we are even worse off in terms of quantity and quality. Another centre half would be luxurey at the moment imho - especially one where you can't be sure that you are really add quality to the squad.

It's really ridiculous. You think with a global financial meltdown, loads of clubs not being too well of financially, prices should drop to a more sane level, but it looks like the market isn't recovering. A record fee for a German under-19 international who (despite his talent) hasn't even been considered for a higher level so far is also laughable. Especially from a continental point of view where prices are on a completely different level/planet.

It's hopefully going to be a year full of holiday trips for me. Already spent some days on Malta early in January. Then a trip to Andalucia is already booked for the first week of June. In August we'll go to England + sailing. Crazy plan is to maybe fly to New Zealand at the end of the year. In between I'll have to rob some banks though...

Tbh, I'd laugh. Serves the fat football murderer Sam right that his former club starts splashing the cash when he's gone...

Keegan Returns There's quite a few comments in there predicting it would end badly. Some said it. And I doubt anyone had in mind that it would end because the owner would behave like a clueless numpty with a bunch of monkeys incapable of running a football club.

There can only be one. I am a big fan of Keegan don't get me wrong but we all knew bringing him back was a mistake and we knew it would end badly, we need to move on and look to the future. We need to establish stability and actually create a scenario that offers the manager something to work with. What a load of rubbish.

I'd rather have signed Streit tbh.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...utd/7851056.stm Crazy.

Tbh there are loads of things that can be hold against Ratzinger, but the repeated reference to his time in the Hitler youth is not fair as the membership was mandatory at the time of his youth and hardly anybody could avoid it.

Blah.

The thing is though that we are much more desperate in other positions. Lovenkrands won't single handedly change the shape of the team. He might provide some width and pace, but I am not sure that he will offer anything that our current wing players including Duff are already doing. He has to make a huge step up in form from his Schalke days to help the team at all. But I am desperate to be provren wrong.

Who would work with him? He treats his shareholders like shit, treats the fans like shit and treats his staff like shit. I suppose there's a chance of an Ashley / Kemsley dream time. Aye, another 'bonus', following on from what I said about the reputation of the club at present and those in charge, is that Ashley has seemingly built up a terrible name for himself in financial circles as well. I think that's why he was looking for a north-east based business man. He'll only find someone who is willing to invest in "his" club. Not likely the way Ashley treated it. But without third party cash injection I can hardly see how Newcastle will restore its reputation on the field.