PaddockLad
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Hope people realise I wasnt being Anti semitic! Its more about how his eye brows meet the top of his nose!
I wasn't neither. I can't think of one good looking jewish person though, always big noses and eyes too close together.
Good way to check if that post might be termed dodgy by some...substitute 'jewish' with 'black' and see if anyone calls you racist...
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Enrique doesn't strike me as the type of fullback who is desperate to play as a winger.
Whatever Enrique is on (it won't be 50K) he deserves more to stay here. He's a genuinely world class defender who got stuck in when we were relegated and helped drag us back up. If you don't pay decent wages you just cannot compete. Fantastic players necessitate fantastic wages, not pretend 'fantastic' ones.
If he was world class I think Barca or Real would be in for him. Cant picture the Real left back but for me Jose's not in
Abidal's class. And thats why hes still here. At the moment. Now doing at Liverpool as it looks like Dalglish has had other priorities (what happened to 'building from the back' btw?) and now has to sell to buy. So that leaves which clubs willing to pay an half decent left back 50k a week?
And none of the promotion side who stayed after relegation were completely motivated by 'righting a wrong'....a lot of them wouldve struggled to get the same contracts elsewhere.
But he is the sort of player we should be hanging on to if we want to progress. Sad really. :-(
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Where has the 50K a week figure for Enrique come from?
I know we were much more liberal with wages when he was signed, but he was a relatively unproven young defender coming from the Spanish league where wages are a fair bit lower (particularly outside of the top two teams). I'd say it would be a figure closer to 40K.
40-50k, not much difference really. The fact is that at 19 when he signed it was a huge contract for a player of his age and experiance. Theres only 2 clubs in Spain that pay that sort of money. That and his twitter outburst may tell us what truly motivates him.
I dont really have a problem with that but its the effect all this has had on the rest of the squad. He plainly thought he wouldnt be with the squad in the US and has let us all know how unhappy he is about the situation. I wonder if he wouldve stopped Liverpool getting twatted 3 nowt at Hull over the weekend? :-D
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Ian Harte apparently.
We'd get him on a free! Mike would like that. 9 years after Solano finished him as a player at the top level the day we beat Leeds 3-4.....its not beyond the realms of possibility
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Who was in the championship team of the season at left back? Was it the lad we trled to sign from Swansea?..
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CT is PUMPED. He's blasting out Phil Collins and doing a victory jig after he scythed down Gemmill like a machete through warm cheese.
Thought I'd clipped on mumsnet by mistake
its just words on a screen, ffs this place is getting like lord of the flies
Lord of the Flies is just words on a page.
precisely, so why take seriously the opinions of a bloke you've never met and probably wouldnt enjoy sharing a pint with?...I don't get it...
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CT is PUMPED. He's blasting out Phil Collins and doing a victory jig after he scythed down Gemmill like a machete through warm cheese.
Thought I'd clipped on mumsnet by mistake
its just words on a screen, ffs this place is getting like lord of the flies
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Being 100% right about the owner and the other cunts in charge doesn't mean he hasn't acted like a wanker himself - just saying.
At least Keegan, Nolan and Barton made a "positive" move to force the situation - they didn't leave everyone in limbo.
If he chucked in a request he'd earn my respect for doing things right and for telling the truth - the fact that what's stopping him doing that is money means he's just another modern footballer.
I dont think the club have had as much as an enquiry for him so this appears to me to be a pretty clumsy and desperate attempt by jose and his agent to bring the issue to a head...doesnt reflect well on the player like but can anyone blame him for wanting to leave?.....regardless of the ins and outs of it, the lack of ambition at NUFC is sending all the wrong signals to our better players.
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He can fuck right off and the sooner the better.
He's had no intention of staying here what so ever and has totally fucked the club around by refusing to even discuss the contract on the table.
Fuck off Jose.
good god, youre such a dick
From todays Observer:
Trolls aspire to violence, to the level of trouble they can cause in an environment. They want it to kick off. They want to promote antipathetic emotions of disgust and outrage, which morbidly gives them a sense of pleasure."http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/...lling-tim-adams
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All over tomorrow's papers...with Barton's commments as well...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/...fer-policy.html
Is moral actually lower now than it was post Orient a couple of years back?....
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The first record is awesome tbh & I don't think Doherty is really a bad guitar player. I don't really think good/bad always has to come into it. I've seen thousands of people jumping to the music of 'bad' guitar players.
Thats my point....punk rock didnt have many virtuoso "players" but the likes of Steve Cook from the Sex Pistols certainly had energy and charisma. It doesnt have to be note perfect and very technical to have musical merit. All you need is 3 chords to write a song....
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I have to take issue with the Doherty comparison: Pete Doherty cannot play any musical instrument, sing, or write songs to a standard where he could be considered a great talent. He had a talent for self-promotion and used the internet cleverly to build up a devoted fanbase who would buy his faeces if he put it up for sale. The music press then hyped him to oblivion, and his relationship with Kate Moss brought a level of media attention that his music never warranted.
Amy Winehouse on the other hand made a fortune out of her music and her talent. She wasn't a junkie when she was signed to her contract; her addictions appear from a distance to have been an unfortunate byproduct of her mental problems and the people she associated with. I have to say you're talking absolute shite when you say she made a fortune out of the fact she was a junkie.
Doherty plays guitar and co-wrote most of the Libertines stuff and as far as I believe wrote most of the Babyshambles songs. Hes classed as good enough a singer to have colaborated with other singers. As for Winehouse not making her money out of being a junkie, whats the song shes most well known for about again?
As far as talent goes I think both have way more than they deserve based on the way they chose to waste it.
Listen pal, I know about music. Doherty's guitar playing is absolutely abysmal, the worst I've heard from anyone who makes a living as a musician. As I said, he cannot play any instrument, "to a standard where he could be considered a great talent," by anyone who knows anything about playing musical instruments, that is. I'm well aware Doherty wrote Libertines/Babyshambles songs. That material isn't great. None of his songs captured the imagination of the fans of popular music in the way a song like 'Rehab' did. Qualitatively Winehouse's songwriting is much better than Doherty's, whose fans can only point to the occasional near-wit of, "an englishman in a baseball cap." Whoop de fucking do.
Anyone with ears and a functioning brain can tell that Amy Winehouse is so far superior a singer to the likes of Doherty as to not even warrant comparison. Winehouse used her songwriting and vocal talent to create a hit that referenced her struggle with alcoholism. Does that constitute making money out of being a junkie? Now you just sound stupid. And I can only assume your attitude and comments toward this woman stem from a deep jealousy of the wealth she accrued through her talent.
She may be dead, but she'll make more money in death than you'll ever have a sniff at, unless you win the lottery. So all that leaves you is snide comments. Type away. What a wonderful culture we live in.
Do you?..are you a musician or a "just" a fan?
Thing is you don't need to be talented to be successful. I'd much rather listen to anything Doherty has done than anything Winehouse has done. Thats just personal taste. That doesn't mean that Doherty is more talented though does it? For me though Doherty is very much in keeping with what you might call classic English guitarist/ songwriters going back to the likes of those 2 from the Beatles, Ray Davies, the better glam bands like T Rex Slade etc through punk and new wave where you get Weller and Costello up to Noel Gallagher.. Some of these were more talented than others but they could all write good songs in what I'd call an very "English" way. Amy Winehouse was Jewish British and sang like an African American....fair enough in a way and not uncommon for someone from here to imitate the yanks, but for me she was a bit inauthentic considering her background. Maybe she just imititated what she heard growing up, which is again fair enough in a way. But she always struck me as trying a bit too hard to be something she wasnt. Put me off her a bit. But she did write good songs. She''ll be missed musically and obviously by her family a great deal. A sad loss.
As for the rest of your post chill the fuck out old son its Sunday lunch time
I'm a musician, not a particularly talented one. If you want to quantify my ability, I can play classical pieces (guitar) of a grade 6/7 standard. I mainly play electric guitar atm though, transcribing blues records note-for-note (Freddie King, Albert King, so on). I can read and write music and know some music theory. Basically, if you put me through musical aptitude tests against your average non-musician, I would win comfortably. I'm better qualified to judge musical talent than, say, PeasePud and Ant. You can call that arrogant, but it's true.
Doherty's guitar playing is particularly bad. There are some musicians who play in an idiosyncratic style which isn't technically correct, but sounds great. Doherty's is just plain shit. The lyrics I don't care for. He's not worthy of comparison to Mccartney and some of the other songwriters you've listed there; even the likes of Noel Gallagher I would say are substantially more talented than Doherty. The fact is, the Libertines and Doherty built a very devoted fanbase via the internet, arranging gigs at a fan's flat and so on. That is great marketing. The music press picked up on this and hyped them a lot, it set them apart from the average shitty-indie-guitar-band that we currently see no end of. They were not a band of particular merit: the material and musicianship weren't extraordinary by any measure. They played on their hedonistic drug-fuelled image, the fans lapped it up. When Doherty started fucking Kate Moss--an important stage in every musician's career--his fame exploded rapidly. The material I've seen him promote as a solo artist, and the performances of it, have been shit. He is a person whose success has more to do with hype, fame and marketing than talent.
Fair enough, but as I say talent doesnt always equal success and vice versa. And as you say, he wasnt really that popular either before getting in the tabloids via Moss. But a couple of years back on a Friday night I went to see the Kaiser Chiefs and then the following Monday went to the same venue to see Babyshambles. That Ricky from the Chiefs is a good frontman if you have a fondness for the "performing gibbon on amphetamine" school of showmanship..he and they were ok, but he seemed to be trying a bit too hard for my liking. Cut to Monday, and whatever it is you need to create an actual riot just by apppearing on stage then there is no doubt Doherty had/has it in spades.He was straight for that tour, the band were tight and he sang like an angel. I think his stage charisma is very underrated, he's just got it iyam, in a way that the likes if Ricky thingy just hasn't, for all his running around the stage like a fuckin loon.
Very impressed with your mucsical credentials btw, nowt wrong with blowing your own trumpet
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Days after the Murdoch hearing in England, journalist called kids trying to flee and hide from the gunman on Utøya. I'm completely lost for words, on how a journalist can think it's okay to call up people, teenagers, for eyewitness accounts, while they are running for their lives.
The Sun stated on their front page yesterday that moslem terrorists were responsible. Not an uncommon comment from millions of people on Friday afternoon I'd guess, but for a national newspaper to print it as "fact" is grossly irresponsible iyam.
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I have to take issue with the Doherty comparison: Pete Doherty cannot play any musical instrument, sing, or write songs to a standard where he could be considered a great talent. He had a talent for self-promotion and used the internet cleverly to build up a devoted fanbase who would buy his faeces if he put it up for sale. The music press then hyped him to oblivion, and his relationship with Kate Moss brought a level of media attention that his music never warranted.
Amy Winehouse on the other hand made a fortune out of her music and her talent. She wasn't a junkie when she was signed to her contract; her addictions appear from a distance to have been an unfortunate byproduct of her mental problems and the people she associated with. I have to say you're talking absolute shite when you say she made a fortune out of the fact she was a junkie.
Doherty plays guitar and co-wrote most of the Libertines stuff and as far as I believe wrote most of the Babyshambles songs. Hes classed as good enough a singer to have colaborated with other singers. As for Winehouse not making her money out of being a junkie, whats the song shes most well known for about again?
As far as talent goes I think both have way more than they deserve based on the way they chose to waste it.
Listen pal, I know about music. Doherty's guitar playing is absolutely abysmal, the worst I've heard from anyone who makes a living as a musician. As I said, he cannot play any instrument, "to a standard where he could be considered a great talent," by anyone who knows anything about playing musical instruments, that is. I'm well aware Doherty wrote Libertines/Babyshambles songs. That material isn't great. None of his songs captured the imagination of the fans of popular music in the way a song like 'Rehab' did. Qualitatively Winehouse's songwriting is much better than Doherty's, whose fans can only point to the occasional near-wit of, "an englishman in a baseball cap." Whoop de fucking do.
Anyone with ears and a functioning brain can tell that Amy Winehouse is so far superior a singer to the likes of Doherty as to not even warrant comparison. Winehouse used her songwriting and vocal talent to create a hit that referenced her struggle with alcoholism. Does that constitute making money out of being a junkie? Now you just sound stupid. And I can only assume your attitude and comments toward this woman stem from a deep jealousy of the wealth she accrued through her talent.
She may be dead, but she'll make more money in death than you'll ever have a sniff at, unless you win the lottery. So all that leaves you is snide comments. Type away. What a wonderful culture we live in.
Do you?..are you a musician or a "just" a fan?
Thing is you don't need to be talented to be successful. I'd much rather listen to anything Doherty has done than anything Winehouse has done. Thats just personal taste. That doesn't mean that Doherty is more talented though does it? For me though Doherty is very much in keeping with what you might call classic English guitarist/ songwriters going back to the likes of those 2 from the Beatles, Ray Davies, the better glam bands like T Rex Slade etc through punk and new wave where you get Weller and Costello up to Noel Gallagher.. Some of these were more talented than others but they could all write good songs in what I'd call an very "English" way. Amy Winehouse was Jewish British and sang like an African American....fair enough in a way and not uncommon for someone from here to imitate the yanks, but for me she was a bit inauthentic considering her background. Maybe she just imititated what she heard growing up, which is again fair enough in a way. But she always struck me as trying a bit too hard to be something she wasnt. Put me off her a bit. But she did write good songs. She''ll be missed musically and obviously by her family a great deal. A sad loss.
As for the rest of your post chill the fuck out old son its Sunday lunch time
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Even if we do sign this lad, it's a pretty underhelming replacement for Carroll. He's totally unproven in the premier league, just like the rest of our summer signings to date.
We should just rely on Best then, as he has proven he can score in the premier league? It may be an underwhelming signing but he has a good reputation amongst the PSG fans I know.
Really?....I thought he'd had a poor season, and that was why theyre getting rid.
Wonder how much Pardew has seen of him?....couple of youtube clips?
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That may be true, and if you look at the bomb yesterday afternoon then you could say the IRA tried to murder the entire conservative cabinet at Brighton in a similar manner.
But the IRA didnt follow it up by shooting dead 80 odd innocent kids in cold blood. They were (and some still remain) amoral murdering bastards but this is on a different planet. This appaears to my completely amateur eyes as the work of a madman, psycopath call it what you want, am not sure of the correct term but you get what I mean.
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Please, enlighten me. I am all ears to why a bankrupt country in the midst of horrific cuts, should borrow money to pay a 400,000 strong army that it no longer needs?
Because they think they still need it? I assume youre in favor of scrapping trident as Britain can't afford it?
Yes.
I dont think we need Trident nuclear carrying submarines, no.
We have enough land based nuclear missiles to put off invaders.
(I think both Labour and Conservatives agree btw which is why the decision keeps getting fudged along from one government to the next).
Where in the country are the uk's land based nuclear weapons then?
I think you might find the only deterrent we have are sat on board two or 3 submarines.
Are you suggesting that Pakistan and India can afford a deterrant but we cant?
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Nick, thats not the same question asked twice, thats two different questions.
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Apart from just been a totally opportunistic money-making scheme, the whole thing completely devalues the point of a membership. I'm not from Newcastle (being from daan saaf and living in Aberdeen), I've never lived there and I can't see me being ever being in a position to buy a season ticket.
I normally go to more away than home games, and I've got a membership because it gives me a chance of actually getting a ticket at places like White Hart Lane where they're like f*cking gold-dust because of the demand. If everyone has to get a membership to go to these games then the advantage is taken away. I have to hand over £20 for the priviledge of just being able to apply for away tickets at all, and there's not even the opportunity for members to get seats in the singing section any more at SJP. It's a disgrace
That's a very good pont.
It is, and it means who gets allocated just goes straight to "loyalty points".
As said by most, an appalling decision but is anyone that surpised coming from these fuckers?
And to jamouse who's claiming that it will stop fans misbehaving as the club will be able to identify them...the last time there were mags' mugshots in the Chron there was at least 2 season ticket holders amongst them.
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Why is it Arsenal won one double and an FA cup between the mid fifties and 86 when George Graham turned up and none of their then fans were whingeing about "won nothing for x years"?
They're entitled to win the square root of fuck all, same as us, unless they earn it. Their sense of entitlement is a mystery to me or anyone else who can remember them boring the shit out of everyone for decades. The media and luvvie types love them because they're manager is a "sophisticated French philosopher blah blah...". So fuckin what?...sure on a good day they're great to watch, but recently "Wengerball" has been exposed as passionless tippy tappy pointlessness as it's stopped being able to overwhelm teams who are a bit physical with them.
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Fair one, so do you hate the Iggy/New York Dolls Primals most, or the Acid House/Weatherall ones, or the Black Crowes/Stones ones the most?....there is a lot to really have a go at about them...
Their stuff from the late nineties onwards (since Mani took up bass duties) has been consistently pretty good iyam.
Tbh, I've seen them twice before and Gillespie's live vocals are,being charitable, shite.
But am looking forward to seeing them locally.....no more than half an hour on the train
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So, in essence, Mike Ashley still has 40m quid - or most of it - from the sale of Carroll and Nolan to give to his manager to improve the team with, having sold those 2 players ?
This would appear to be the case.
I think we are one of the first top division clubs in the last 20 years who are truly living withion our means....with mountains of cash to spare too. If we do manage to stay up next season it will be a small miracle for all the wrong reasons (its more than possible if key players stay fit for most of the season iyam) and will only encourage Ashley to attempt to continue treading water for the next decade or so. Is this why ST prices have been frozen for 10 years?...
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Lucky bloke.
miaow!
I'd like to slate the musical taste of your youth but as you are more than likely still in it do you think you'll be wanting to see any of your current favourites in 20 years time?....
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Primal Scream in a couple of weeks.
Yup me too. Saw them at Olympia doing the old
and it was magnificent. They are also their own support act playing 40 minutes of "greatest hits"
Seeing them again in Brighton on the 22cnd. Cant wait
Was tellling a 23 year old from Glasgow at work today that am off to see the Scream Team at the end of this month....he said he'd never fuckin heard of them!!
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In a half decent spurs side he how many league goals did he get last season?...2?...9 mill?...hes past it iyam...definetly at that price.