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Is that you Stevie?
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It might just be me, but I'd love to see the likes of Villa, Everton, or even Spurs (whom I hate) knock out Liverpool from the Champions League, thus compounding their financial predicament.
But is that a desire for a particular outcome or is it a desire for the actual format? How would you feel if Liverpool finished 7th but won the play off thus qualifying them for the CL when 3 teams who finished above them don't....?
It's not often I agree with Collymore but he was ranting about it on Talksport this evening. His basic argument was what was the point in having a league if come the end of it, you have a lottery to see who finishes where. He also said that the Champions League should be for the League Champions and them alone claiming that Arsenal and Liverpool have developed squads in order for them to finish in the top 4 rather than aiming necessarily for the title.
What Toonpack said earlier in the thread is spot on - divide the money up equally and there's no need for any of this carry on.
The NFL in the US have it spot on....equal share for all and the worst clubs get the best kids. They don't have relegation though, but that would make the league a true test of managerial skill iof teams were on a lot more of an equal footing..strange that the country who virtually invented global capitlism should be so "socialist" when it comes to sport. Also the "Superbowl" is just the "Superbowl", not the "Superbowl in association with eon, or doritos, or pepsi etc etc".... They sell everything else, but the name of the main title is sacred...not like the FA cup...
I don't think that's true. The worst team gets 1st pick but better teams trade off older players for the prospects and that's why the new franchise teams don't suddenly challenge for the title the following year. Draft picks benefit the top tier who trade out their "Teddy Sheringham"s for "Wayne Rooney"s and the middle tier who trade out Kevin Phillips for Gabriel Agbonlahor but the meek shall never inherit a God damn thing.
The Americans have got a shit sport. That's all
Yeah there are ways around the best laid plans.But the Superbowl last month shows what can be acheived....New Orleans have never done fuck all historically, but there time in the cycle has come eventually. I cant see that happening in this country too often in the future, but you alwways stand a chance in the NFL.
The game itself isnt great, but the leagues works a lot better than our current shambles.....
And didnt Carolina and Tenessee get to the Superbowl within a few years of their franchaise starting?...were Baltimore an expansion team as well?...they won it..and there hasnt been a promoted side in over 30 years who have won the league the next season in England so its not really common here either, however much money theyve thrown at it, us being the chief culprits with that.
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It might just be me, but I'd love to see the likes of Villa, Everton, or even Spurs (whom I hate) knock out Liverpool from the Champions League, thus compounding their financial predicament.
But is that a desire for a particular outcome or is it a desire for the actual format? How would you feel if Liverpool finished 7th but won the play off thus qualifying them for the CL when 3 teams who finished above them don't....?
It's not often I agree with Collymore but he was ranting about it on Talksport this evening. His basic argument was what was the point in having a league if come the end of it, you have a lottery to see who finishes where. He also said that the Champions League should be for the League Champions and them alone claiming that Arsenal and Liverpool have developed squads in order for them to finish in the top 4 rather than aiming necessarily for the title.
What Toonpack said earlier in the thread is spot on - divide the money up equally and there's no need for any of this carry on.
The NFL in the US have it spot on....equal share for all and the worst clubs get the best kids. They don't have relegation though, but that would make the league a true test of managerial skill iof teams were on a lot more of an equal footing..strange that the country who virtually invented global capitlism should be so "socialist" when it comes to sport. Also the "Superbowl" is just the "Superbowl", not the "Superbowl in association with eon, or doritos, or pepsi etc etc".... They sell everything else, but the name of the main title is sacred...not like the FA cup...
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All I know about poker is Victoria Coren is one of the best looking women ever to have drawn breath
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If anyone can lay their hands on any Watford tickets let me know...I could use 3....cheers
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1995 On your 13th birthday The Outhere Brothers - "Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle)"
Can't stop Peter Beardsley, watch his feet they'll drive you crazy,
dribble, dribble
dribble, dribble
boom boom boom let me hear you say wey aye wey ayeee.......
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i've been rediscovering the smiths this week. quite apt for this time of year what with all the bleak weather. i forgot how good they are
I really can't get into the Smiths. I've tried a few times because I like 'How soon is now' and some of Marr's guitar work is canny. Problem is, I cant get past Morrisey.
how soon is now
william it was really nothing
this charming man
heaven knows i'm miserable now
panic
there is a light that never goes out
the boy with the thorn in his side
....all classics imo
but yeah, if you're not a fan of mozza's wailings, they're probably a non-starter
I was a huge fan until he took ill last year....he can't be arsed to re schedule the gigs he had to cancel, like the one in Bournemouth I had 2 forty quid tickets for, the fuckin fat cunt
but yeah all of the above are exceptional
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Collo back. 5 man midfield including Nolan.
Must be a pain in the ring for lads heading down to the game with such an early kick off.
and Rugby game to following, traffic might be quite bad.
We kick off at 1245, the rugby kicks off at 1400. Anyone from Swansea going to the rugby will be on opposite carriageway of the motorway travelling to Cardiff (30 odd miles away) probably before our buses get across the Severn Bridge. I'd imagine that 99.5% of Scotland fans will have travelled the day before. I'm driving and I don't think there's any need for concern about the traffic, but Swansea may be a bit gutted that the league and the 6 nations will have ensured that they may well lose some paying customers to the rugby.
The thing is any compromise would've been even worse for our lot...Friday night or Sunday?....no thanks.
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Give that man a cigar!
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Just listened to the new Massive Attack album Heligoland on spotify (have they increased the amount of adverts on there?
) and its pretty good....the best since Protection on first listen. Theres a remix track at the end that I heard on the radio on Tuesday night driving back from the match....if anyone knows any of the Happy Monday's "Wrote for luck" remixes its in that sort of style and its fuckin brilliant
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What concern is it of yours man?
No 'single one person' banned him - it's a decision that was unanimous that one person carried out. If they want to reveal themselves they can but that's their decision and I don't see why they should have to - I mean what will you get from it?
The host is Peasepud so why don't you ask him yourself?
As for Adolf, we've banned one member you cretin!
Well you know what they say....."the first casualty of war is the truth"
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Craig you were being a nob to Stevie tbf. What was the point in attacking him for quoting a line from a TV show, even if you knew it was such? Get a life?
Come back when've caught up with everything son...
how about a "STEVIE ON TRIAL" thread?
Present the case against him, let him defend himeself and the rest of us can all vote on whether he stays or goes?
Whatever you say Adolf
Am I right in assuming whoever hosts this site has read some of Stevie's more "thoughtful" posts and told you to ban him....maybe more than once?
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Craig you were being a nob to Stevie tbf. What was the point in attacking him for quoting a line from a TV show, even if you knew it was such? Get a life?
Come back when've caught up with everything son...
Thats the thing..these forums are a bit secretive and not very demorcratic......how about a "STEVIE ON TRIAL" thread?
Present the case against him, let him defend himeself and the rest of us can all vote on whether he stays or goes?
I can't see why he's banned on what you can gather from his posts...you can hear opinions like his in any workplace in Britain. I certainly didn't agree with a lot of them but I don't want people muzzled either. Rocky road to start going down if you ask me.......
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I dont really see many patterns from recent games. I see the ebb and flow of a season. We were due a defeat too.
As for Hughton getting it tactically wrong, it seems that perhaps his more defensive line-ups were more effective?
Anyway, we only lose when Colocinni isnt playing, that was the real problem
3 out of the first choice back 4 out last night, and Guti looked very much as if he was missing his amigo Jose like a lost lover.
I'll tell you one thing about the last 3 or 4 games, the games have largely passed Nolan and Guthrie by. There seems to be lots of play in front of them in the centre of the park, but they rarely get tight on their opposite numbers and make it awkward for them. And this was just as obvious to me v Cardiff on Friday as it was last night and at Leicester. They seem only interested in playing when they have the ball given to them and want to do nothing about winning the ball for themselves.
I quite like Guthrie but he isn't the greatest in terms of his engine. He's better than Nolan in that regard though.
Guthrie flatters to deceive at the moment. Neither him nor Nolan had any interest in closing Savage down last night and made the cunt look like some sort of shite gay Welsh fuckin Andrea Pirlo
Because we can't get very much going in the middle, we're forced wide, and when Guti is off his game as he was last night (he looked like he might still be carrying a bit of a knock) it largely peters out. Routledge looked sharp again though last night, but often gets knocked off the ball due to him being a bit too small and lightweight. The Derby left back was however given lenient treatment by the ref and his linesmen, who may have well let Savage ref the whole game on his own.
Tbf Guthrie's only played his 2nd game in a row in his proper decision. I didn't see the game last night though so can't really comment. Ideally I'd like to see him and Barton play CM for us though.
True, but part of playing in his proper posistion is closing his opposite number down. Savage ran the show without anyone getting near him or putting him under pressure. So can we say he's been shite in his proper posistion? Becasue he didnt have a real hand in any of the goals we scored against Cardiff....who in midfield they played a teenage right back and Stephen MacPhail, who was playing his first game since recovering from cancer.
That's fair comment but I think he needs a run in the side to judge him properly. And he played well against Cardiff.
Didn't work hard enough for me against Cardiff, playing against lads were largely passengers.And you can't just pick and choose your games in this divison.A lot of the players we've got seem complacent, especially away from home. Not looking too good.
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I dont really see many patterns from recent games. I see the ebb and flow of a season. We were due a defeat too.
As for Hughton getting it tactically wrong, it seems that perhaps his more defensive line-ups were more effective?
Anyway, we only lose when Colocinni isnt playing, that was the real problem
3 out of the first choice back 4 out last night, and Guti looked very much as if he was missing his amigo Jose like a lost lover.
I'll tell you one thing about the last 3 or 4 games, the games have largely passed Nolan and Guthrie by. There seems to be lots of play in front of them in the centre of the park, but they rarely get tight on their opposite numbers and make it awkward for them. And this was just as obvious to me v Cardiff on Friday as it was last night and at Leicester. They seem only interested in playing when they have the ball given to them and want to do nothing about winning the ball for themselves.
I quite like Guthrie but he isn't the greatest in terms of his engine. He's better than Nolan in that regard though.
Guthrie flatters to deceive at the moment. Neither him nor Nolan had any interest in closing Savage down last night and made the cunt look like some sort of shite gay Welsh fuckin Andrea Pirlo
Because we can't get very much going in the middle, we're forced wide, and when Guti is off his game as he was last night (he looked like he might still be carrying a bit of a knock) it largely peters out. Routledge looked sharp again though last night, but often gets knocked off the ball due to him being a bit too small and lightweight. The Derby left back was however given lenient treatment by the ref and his linesmen, who may have well let Savage ref the whole game on his own.
Tbf Guthrie's only played his 2nd game in a row in his proper decision. I didn't see the game last night though so can't really comment. Ideally I'd like to see him and Barton play CM for us though.
True, but part of playing in his proper posistion is closing his opposite number down. Savage ran the show without anyone getting near him or putting him under pressure. So can we say he's been shite in his proper posistion? Becasue he didnt have a real hand in any of the goals we scored against Cardiff....who in midfield they played a teenage right back and Stephen MacPhail, who was playing his first game since recovering from cancer.
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Anyway, the point I was really making is, look at our form over the last two months and we will not finish in the top 2 in all probability come the end of the season.
We were 12 points clear on xmas day, since then we've 10 points from a possible 24. Thats points to the play offs at best for me.Depends if Forest and WBA go on, and if Cardiff, Swansea or Leicester appear out of the pack. Derby were as good as any team I've seen outside of Forest and WBA and are 7 points behind 6th with all the players injured around xmas back now. Derby are this years Derby
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I dont really see many patterns from recent games. I see the ebb and flow of a season. We were due a defeat too.
As for Hughton getting it tactically wrong, it seems that perhaps his more defensive line-ups were more effective?
Anyway, we only lose when Colocinni isnt playing, that was the real problem
3 out of the first choice back 4 out last night, and Guti looked very much as if he was missing his amigo Jose like a lost lover.
I'll tell you one thing about the last 3 or 4 games, the games have largely passed Nolan and Guthrie by. There seems to be lots of play in front of them in the centre of the park, but they rarely get tight on their opposite numbers and make it awkward for them. And this was just as obvious to me v Cardiff on Friday as it was last night and at Leicester. They seem only interested in playing when they have the ball given to them and want to do nothing about winning the ball for themselves.
I quite like Guthrie but he isn't the greatest in terms of his engine. He's better than Nolan in that regard though.
Guthrie flatters to deceive at the moment. Neither him nor Nolan had any interest in closing Savage down last night and made the cunt look like some sort of shite gay Welsh fuckin Andrea Pirlo
Because we can't get very much going in the middle, we're forced wide, and when Guti is off his game as he was last night (he looked like he might still be carrying a bit of a knock) it largely peters out. Routledge looked sharp again though last night, but often gets knocked off the ball due to him being a bit too small and lightweight. The Derby left back was however given lenient treatment by the ref and his linesmen, who may have well let Savage ref the whole game on his own.
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I dont really see many patterns from recent games. I see the ebb and flow of a season. We were due a defeat too.
As for Hughton getting it tactically wrong, it seems that perhaps his more defensive line-ups were more effective?
Anyway, we only lose when Colocinni isnt playing, that was the real problem
3 out of the first choice back 4 out last night, and Guti looked very much as if he was missing his amigo Jose like a lost lover.
I'll tell you one thing about the last 3 or 4 games, the games have largely passed Nolan and Guthrie by. There seems to be lots of play in front of them in the centre of the park, but they rarely get tight on their opposite numbers and make it awkward for them. And this was just as obvious to me v Cardiff on Friday as it was last night and at Leicester. They seem only interested in playing when they have the ball given to them and want to do nothing about winning the ball for themselves.
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Think Stevie nails this one
http://tvnz.co.nz/othersports-news/world-w...er-bowl-3348334
I get the impression it was bigger with folks in this country when it was on channel 4 in the 80s
My ex was one of them....Dallas Cowboys fan.She was dead keen like, knew all the rules, had her mates tape the games she didnt see becasue she didnt have sky. She went to the first Wembley game a couple of years ago. She said it was full of folk just like her. Then the cowboys quarterback got jailed for illegal dogfights. Imagine what the Daily Mail wouldve said if John Terry had been doing that.....
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To be fair, heres Forest's fixtures this month:
29 06.02.2010 Sheffield Wednesday home
30 09.02.2010 Coventry City away
31 13.02.2010 Doncaster Rovers away
32 16.02.2010 Sheffield United home
33 20.02.2010 Middlesbrough home
34 27.02.2010 Leicester City away
WBA:
28 03.02.2010 Blackpool away
29 06.02.2010 Plymouth Argyle away
30 09.02.2010 Scunthorpe United home
13.02.2010 Reading away FA cup.
31 16.02.2010 Cardiff City away
32 21.02.2010 Bristol City away
33 27.02.2010 Derby County home
WBA have 7 too, and coincidetally its against Reading, which is where our extra game has come from, pospotned from last month. So it looks like Forest may be the "winners" in all this
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Hopefully not breaking our backs to rack up an even bigger goal difference over the season will pay dividends
Well, at least the squad depth looks better now anyway.
Aye fair play to CH, he must've looked ahead and presented Ashley and Lambchop with the fixture list and then told them to think how piss poor we'd been over xmas and January...because going on previous experiance with th pair of cunts I can't see that either of them has much in the way of forward planning skills.
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NUFC February fixtures
05-Feb
Cardiff (H)
Tue
09-Feb
Derby (a)
Sat
13-Feb
12.45pm
Sky
Swansea (a)
Wed
17-Feb
Coventry (h)
Sat
20-Feb
Preston (h):
Tue
23-Feb
8pm
Reading (a)
Sat
27-Feb
Watford (a)
Sat
Thats 7 games in 22 days...thats nearly a game every 3 days
Is this usual for this division? Obviously theres 46 games to get through but ffs...thats fuckin ridculous in the shortest month of the season?
No wonder Hughton signed 5 players in January....I think if we're still at the top when Barnsley turn up on 6th March we'll know a lot more about our promotion prospects.
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Anyone who thinks the captaincy of England is important is a fucking cock, Capello included.
As far as the image of the side is concerned the captain is important.
Captains often reflect the nature of a society, take Maradona, wonderfully creative but ultimately a glutonous, corrupt, cheating, choatic life cunt, and you could use all the words to describe Argentina and Argentines.
Aye, but he won the World Cup. You reckon anyone in England would really sacrifice that in favour of a more societally representative captain?
No. My point is its important for your captain to convey a positive message, Beckham was always an icon, but it went to another level when he was made captain and he was a good ambassador, he even helped us win the Olympics. Look at Bobby Moore "gawd rest 'is soww", a brilliant man by all accounts, family bloke had a good life and battled bravely with cancer. You didn't hear about him being a tit like Jimmy Greaves etc... People look up to captains whether you like it or not. Bryan Robson another fantastic example.
yeh look at the cunt...left his first wife for an air hostess he met on an England trip
the only difference between then and now is back then you could often find half the sports journos on Fleet Street out on the piss with the England team......look at how the media treat the England players nowadays
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The Scottish language is born out of Northumbrian largely, not the other way around.
I've had this with you before...its not
They are both (that is the Geordie and the Lowlands Scots dialects, because thats what they are,dialects) from the Anglian root of what is now called called Old English.
The oldest existing poem in Old English is by a bard called Aneirin, where he describes a raid form old Northumbria down to Catterick. You can see what remains of it it in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, where it was written 1400 years ago.
Can you tell you're going to like someone...
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This is what I'd be hoping for too......if theres one getting organised I'm definetly up for it as I want to see him call me a "cunt" to my face
Thats the thing about him in regards to this thread.....he cant possibly spek to people like he did on here in real life...if he does I imagine he'd be turn up in a similar state to Steven Hawking