Happy Face

you seem to have ignored the point. Which group of players would you prefer to have. Those that arrived in January or those that have left this summer. If it's the former, then you agree the squad is improved on this time last year. If it's the latter then I can't see how you would justify that. All this is true while gladly agreeing that we remain frighteningly short of depth.

Agreed. The new signings put in a load of Premier League appearances in the games possible after being signed... Sissoko - 12/15 = 30 games a season Mbiwa - 14/15 = 35 Debuchy - 14/17 = 29 Haidara - 4/15 = 10 Gouffran - 15/15 = 38 So, since we're keeping Cisse (36), we've lost players capable of 64 games a season and bought players that would extrapolate to 142. ..and they're better quality. If someone offered you the 5 players above or the group that are no longer available (Ba, Ferguson, Gosling, Harper, Perch, Ranger, Simpson & R Taylor) you'd take the new signings all day long. Saying the squad depth is better now than it was last September is not saying much though, we still need to sign players, clearly.

Not yet. This is the first proposed bill and Obama needed republican support to defeat it, his own party were well against him. The Patriot act will not get re-authorised next time around in it's current form. I'm not saying it'll be dumped, but the oversight will get some tinkering at least.

champion

Remarkably close vote yesterday though. Where there have only been a few dissenters when it has come to renewing the patriot act in past years, yesterdays proposal was the first in over a decade to place limits on NSA overreach....and it was almost a 50-50 split. Only 12 votes gave Obama his victory. Shows the impact these leaks have had on lawmakers.

Earth photographed from Cassini, a spacecraft on the dark side of Saturn. Obviously fake if Wolfy is reading.

Church plans to force out Wonga http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23433955

Goss

I walked through every major casino in Vegas without placing a bet. Don't see the attraction of handing my cash to someone with a fraction of a chance of getting it back based upon a random event. Matt Goes was canny though

I keep meaning to go and get my free pint on my Impari card...but never do.

They were already Britain's biggest payday lender well over a year ago... http://www.independent.co.uk/money/loans-credit/rollover-loans-curb-agreed-by-wonga-6296653.html

Didn't work on the post I quoted just then. ?

Iphones man. Shit.

That... Or you're a hack

Doh. You know what I mean... PFA I suppose.

Ashley is worth £20 billion now?

Turn off your tapatalk signature would you? It was inconceivable that joe kinnear would get another job in football, let alone here.

Reminds me of a mate who went ballistic when I called Green day pop/punk rather than punk/pop.

Have we stopped paying the fuckers wages yet? Surely the LMA wouldn't have a leg to stand on if they objected.

Looks more likely every day that Kinnear has been brought in purely as a lightning rod for the criticism Ashley knows is coming when the window closes on an awful window.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/07/hollywood_and_blake_snyder_s_screenwriting_book_save_the_cat.html?wpisrc=most_viral Marvellous stuff.

Just man city fans apparently...

Steven (number one fan favorite super Geordie) Taylor has made horrendous mistakes regularly for the best part of a decade

Have you read the gone fishing post where man u and man city fans mention Santon as a player they'd have in their team?

Pardew says "make no mistake" far too often for a man who has made so many mistakes himself.