AgentAxeman

gonna replace the orange fella from Hull maybe??

Can you really see this making him think one morning "oh these dont like me i think i'll sell"?? NO He will when and only when we get promoted and someone pays him well over 100mil for the club. Until then we can only make it as uncomfortable and embarrassing for him as possible. Not exactly true, he will sell as soon as someone offers him what he is looking for, which at this moment in time is £80million. dont think he will unfortunatley. he'll hang on and try and get promotion to sell "the product" at a better price. Fat lad will only sell us for that if we dont get promoted. but of course nobody will buy us for that whilst we are in the CCC. catch 22 i'm afraid!!

tbh, i think Krul might have the no.1 shirt by then. if he hasnt been sold of course!

What a load of shit. Only Enrique and S Taylor are Premier League quality. Can you not remember how utterly awful these players were last season? Sunderland spent over 80m when they came up and just survived. It would take a similar level of investment for us. yeah but they had Roy Keane as manager who thought it was a wheeze to pay WELL over the odds for average players. I reckon if the fat one is still in charge he'll go down the Stoke route. ie. inexpensive. who's out of contract at the end of the season btw??

seconded!

Canny looking Jackson here...........

Yup, good call!!

well i've spent a canny bit wedge in the last year or so to try and get "the sound" that we all hear in wor heads and i reckon (or at least hope!) that this'll do it. Ibanez guitar - Blackstar HT dual pedal - Marshall JMP 100 head - THD hotplate - Orange cab

Gan on Tom, you KNOW you want it!!!! always remember - take the credit card but leave the common sense at the door!! (or summat like that) Just ordered one of these......... Should be a larf!! EDIT: oh, and guitar babes... Susanna Hoffs

How on earth did you guess??

"David Cameron's U-turn on a 'cast-iron guarantee' to hold a referendum on the European Union's reform treaty has devastating implications for British democracy This a desperately sad moment for British democracy and sovereignty - a moment when the great majority of voters have been disenfranchised and left with no serious political party to represent their views. The implications of David Cameron's retreat over Europe are as simple and devastating as that. It is an ineluctable fact: poll after poll has shown that most Britons are strongly against the expansion of the EU's power - and an even greater majority demand the referendum promised by all three main parties in their manifestos at the last General Election. Of course, it goes without saying that the true scoundrels in this debacle are New Labour. Once safely re-elected, they chose to ignore their unequivocal commitment to the electorate, hiding behind the lie that the Lisbon Treaty was substantially different from the EU constitution that Tony Blair had promised to put to voters. Mr Brown, to his eternal shame, also reneged on his promise of a referendum. Then at 3pm this Tuesday, when Czech president Vaclav Klaus gave up his lonely resistance and added the final signature to the treaty, the betrayal was complete. After eight years of anti-democratic plotting and bribery, the empire-builders of Europe had finally got their way. The European superstate was born, with all the trappings of an imperial power, from a president and a foreign minister to a defence policy of its own. Tories will give people a vote on any future transfer of power to Brussels, pledges Cameron (but not on the Lisbon Treaty) Only one hope remained that the voice of the British people would be heard - and that the EU might yet be forced to repatriate some of the powers that Gordon Brown had signed away. Hadn't David Cameron offered us his solemn promise that he would give us that referendum we demanded? To quote his very words, which he wrote in the Sun newspaper in September 2007: 'Today, I will give this cast-iron guarantee: if I become PM a Conservative government will hold a referendum on any EU treaty that emerges from these negotiations.' Not much room for doubt there, was there? But yesterday, the Tory leader's 'cast-iron guarantee' melted away like wax. True, a referendum after the treaty has come into force would present certain practical difficulties of wording. And no doubt Mr Cameron feared that a referendum campaign would distract him from the pressing crisis in the public finances. But if this is the case, he should not have raised people's expectations by promising a referendum. For great leadership is about honouring pledges and acting on conviction and belief - not the laws of short-termism and expediency. The cancer destroying faith in modern politics is that the ruling class keep going back on their word and denying voters their say. Put simply, this paper cannot understand why we can't have a referendum, even now that Lisbon has been ratified. As former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis argued so powerfully in yesterday's Mail, it would greatly strengthen Britain's hand at the negotiating table if our Prime Minister could claim a popular mandate for opt-outs on such issues as justice, asylum, immigration and human rights. But instead, Mr Cameron pledges only to put any future treaties to referendums, while saying he will introduce a 'Sovereignty Bill' to ensure the supremacy of UK laws. With our system of government at stake, this is pretty sorry stuff. And of course the worst aspect of Lisbon is that it obviates the need for future treaties, since it gives the EU authority to change its own constitution. Moreover, what good can it do to pass legislation asserting the supremacy of British laws, when we've already signed that supremacy away? What makes Mr Cameron's backpedalling so depressing is that he has often seemed to stand apart from the political class - all the more necessary when the MPs' expenses scandal has opened up a yawning chasm between Westminster and the people. True, he has been far too reluctant to voice popular concerns over such issues as mass unrestricted immigration. But on such matters as the importance of the family, the need to clean up Westminster - and, yes, until yesterday on Europe - his gut instincts have been far closer than New Labour's to the views of ordinary electors. He must find the courage to trust those instincts and fight for what he believes. At this of all times, Britain is crying out for politicians of integrity who will put into words and action what the majority believe. That is what democracy is all about."

howay then Leazes, I'm still waiting to hear how badly you failed!!

aye, thats true. dont know who to back with this one. probably Haye

I for one would like to know why Ashley seemed to think Dennis Wise would do a better job at finding new players than Keegan. Thoughts? cos he's a miserly fat arrogant cockny bastard?

how the fuck do you manage that?? i thought the tax burden (including stealth taxes) was about 45/50%

I know you think I'm taking the piss but it does actually protect the rights of the individual over things like this. Also, what's wrong with recovering assets from people who refuse to pay fines etc.? It's not like they aren't given plenty of opportunity before it gets to that stage. Obviously you'll get the odd mistake but no system is ever going to be perfect. hmmmmmmmm, thats a lovely fantasy you've got going there. but the Human rights act doesnt stop your local council using anti terror laws to look in your bin. this is not a daily mail fantasy, it actually happens. the point i'm making is, no matter what the good intentions are, it wont be long before it'll be corrupted in much the same ways as the aforementioned laws (including the human rights act). How about wiring up dustybin with a nice chunk of c5? sometimes you need to come back from uranus before you post Parky!!

I know you think I'm taking the piss but it does actually protect the rights of the individual over things like this. Also, what's wrong with recovering assets from people who refuse to pay fines etc.? It's not like they aren't given plenty of opportunity before it gets to that stage. Obviously you'll get the odd mistake but no system is ever going to be perfect. hmmmmmmmm, thats a lovely fantasy you've got going there. but the Human rights act doesnt stop your local council using anti terror laws to look in your bin. this is not a daily mail fantasy, it actually happens. the point i'm making is, no matter what the good intentions are, it wont be long before it'll be corrupted in much the same ways as the aforementioned laws (including the human rights act).

mind you, i'd get a bit irate if me and wor lass got called a blk couple by a restaurant.

whatever do you mean? sorry the link doesnt work. is fine for me but the jist of it is Draconian police powers designed to deprive crime barons of luxury lifestyles are being extended to councils, quangos and agencies to use against the public, The Times has learnt. The right to search homes, seize cash, freeze bank accounts and confiscate property will be given to town hall officials and civilian investigators employed by organisations as diverse as Royal Mail, the Rural Payments Agency and Transport for London. The measure, being pushed through by Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, comes into force next week and will deploy some of the most powerful tools available to detectives against fare dodgers, families in arrears with council tax and other minor offenders. The radical extension of the Proceeds of Crime Act, through a Statutory Instrument which is not debated by parliament, has been condemned by the chairman of the Police Federation. Paul McKeever said that he was shocked to learn that the decision to hand over “intrusive powers” to people who were not police was made without consultation or debate.

Bloody Government are trying to shove ANOTHER infringement on Civil Liberties without ANY debate. How do you fancy any jumped-up little toss-pot of a Council Official freezing your Bank Account, searching your house, nicking your prize possessions or sending the Bailiffs in because you forgot to pay your Poll Tax or 'jumped' the Metro? (among other 'minor' offences-whatever they decide they are!) http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/busi...icle6892830.ece If it annoys you as much as it does me, sign the Petition here:- http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ProceedsofCrime/ FIGHT THE POWER!!!

Should there not be a "he's" at the start of the second line? Aside from that it's brilliant!! It wouldnt scan.

HUZZAH!!!