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Well done Andrew, very glad to hear you found something right for you.

Me too. I'm a stickler for a pristine ring-piece

Some good information here Stevie on Cancer Research UK http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-help/type/brain-tumour/treatment/statistics-and-outlook-for-brain-tumours Your pathology results will tell you what type of tumour you have and the grade. The type of tumour will tell you what sort of brain cells the tumous came from. The types of cells it has come from and the position / role of those cells in the brain will affect how easy it is to remove with surgery. If they are saying yes to surgery this is good news. The grade of the tumour essentially refers to how different the cells in the tumour are to the normal cells. Cancer cells are normal cells gone wrong, the extent to which the cells are 'wrong uns' determines the grade. The more 'wrong un' they are, the more they dont obey the normal 'cell rules' (e.g. create new ones when old ones are damaged and kill the old ones aka 'apoptosis'; when the old cells are no longer needed) 'Malignancy' is therefore defined by the grade which in turn defines how fast the tumour grows. The bottom line: Find out the type of tumour and aks for the specific type. If he says its a Glioma say 'what type' until he either says there is no other name or 'its an astrocytoma'. Find out the grade (usually on a scale of 1 to 4). Find out the extent of diffusion and invasion of the tumour into surrounding nearby healthy cells. A clearly defined tumour with easy to see edges is easier to remove. The problem with surgery is that you can leave behind microscopic pieces of tumours next to healthy cells which is how they come back after surgery.

Well then i can only assume that CSD's experience of employment contracts is limited.

Its the only way to treat a player who you dont want and who prefers to stay. You've played hard for the club, 190 odd games, the odd important goal, put the graft in and they then want you to find another contract with a probable pay-cut. Most people wouldnt accept the pay-cut, so the club can only be arseholes to try and get rid of the player. Not saying any of that is fair or what should happen to Jonas, just thats how the system of fixed-term contracts works in these circumstances.

Devastated by this news. Jon and me got on really well, we shared the same sense of humour and had a few things in common which we always joked about. He will be sorely missed on the forums and by all the people who became good friends with him. My thought are with his family who must be going through hell. 31 years old is too young. He was a very funny lad online and in person. Met him quite a few times on the piss-ups with NO and he was in fact in attendance at the famous PapaLazaru Pissgate episode. A truly lovely bloke who was always happy to lend a supportive word to people and to his credit, could always find a bog when needing a piss.

I was on top of Engstligen alp last week, the falls there are amazing. Weather was shite mind, snowed the night before. We were visiting a traditional alpine cheese maker who lives on a farm on the plateau up this mountain for 10 weeks a year making alpine cheese. Fuckin random. Visited a sturgeon farm later that day which sold genuine alpine caviar. They are building a new tunnel through the alps and they need to do something with all the water collected inside the mountains. As it's Russian funded the obvious solution was a sturgeon farm. The Swiss are idiots.

Total nightmare Stevie, not much harder things in life to hear than that. Obviously everything crossed that it's not malignant and can e easily treated. I really don't know much about this type of cancer but I would imagine that if it can be removed surgically then it's unlikely you'll die from it. Meaning you'll live long enough for it to be something else. Only thing to do is to wait and see what the next tests say. I would have thought that lack of other major symptoms and your age would mean it's been caught relatively quickly. Anything I can look into for you just let me know. My very best wishes and hope its something the docs can't sort out quickly.

I think the point is he was 1.5kg over the limit thy set him which would have allowed for some weight gain over last season. Love the player but if he can't be arsed to cut back on the Merguez to stay reasonably fit then I can't see him sorting out his performances to be a consistent player.

Confirmed. There goes another Happy Face theory

It's an elegant theory and based on a very good analysis. I shouldn't sound like I am trying to argue against some of the finer points you have been making, especially on the inability to break sides sides down in the final third. Some of what you say crosses over into the simplistic view that Pardew is so inept he destroys otherwise brilliant players. I think this nonsense. Anyway, given a lot of what you said, on that basis we should be looking forward to a very good start to next season. Look forward to seeing how it plays out later on.

So loads of exceptions to the rule. Sissoko was good for 3 games then nothing, last season he was increasingly effective. Anita looked lost then looked good then looked poor when the whole team was switched off. Pardew is an average manager but the 'Pardewed' shite is the worst example of selectively fitting data to a view of the world. This is not a defence of his abilities, just a look at players whose values have increased under him. Cabaye, Debuchy, Ba, Remy, Sissoko have all increased in value whilst playing for him. Some have decreased too.

Or 'losing Cabaye fucked us' which also explains massive amounts of the data. Simpler.

I do like your theory, particularly because it was developed through some analysis. You've mistaken that process for a proof though. All theories come from data gathering. To then say the theory is true because it fits the data is self-fulfilling. Cabaye continued to develop and improve during his time with us. Debuchy got better an better, Ba was top class. Sissoko and Anita have improved but maybe less consistently. Remy's goal record might have been better if his appearances and interest had remained at the original level. I imagine he thought 'fuck this' last January too, like the rest of us. The Pardew effect on players is bollocks because the fans say the opposite. The fans say we sell our best players. We sell them for profit because they develop with us into proven premiership players. So the Pardew effect can't be true. At least as many as have turned shite under us anyway. If you want to argue that 3 or 4 players were so good they were an exception to the rule then you don't have an argument really. As I said, a nice analysis led to a nice theory but it doesn't stand up to the valuation of the players on the market as a metric of their development.

Riviere has never bean prolific.

Blown The Sun money on a flop by the sounds of things.

Besiktas, a reward from God. The Lord moves in mysterious ways.

No, yours is the simplistic view as its easier to be critical.

Well Louis Val Gaal obviously sees it a bit different to you as he can pick a player. If he's good enough for LVG, he's good enough for me. Not for everyone, obviously but there are strong reasons to suggest he is good, namely his performances at a strong world cup, his team being stronger than Debuchy's and his selection by one of the world's best coaches. We have to wait and see but swapping an international right back from France for an international right back from Holland seems like good business to me.

Thought they spent less than they earned from Bale? Even if it was bigger, there was not much in it. They sold their best player. Everton brought in some good players last year but had a negative net spend. They also sold their best player. We sold our best player.

So what explains it then? How can the Villa defender look good if he isnt?

Bingo. We sign two attacking midfielders because we arent going to replace Cabaye with a like for like and play the same system.

So are Spurs and Everton.

If Janmaat is as good as Debuchy (based on world cup performances seems reasonable) and we've held on confirming his departure to Arsenal until we secured the replacement and he is half the cost, then its good business.

I think Debuchy stalked him here, they had some sort of tiff after some overly aggressive sex so Cabaye then left him for a Portuguese house boy from Versailles. PSG was just a convenience.