Kitman

I watched Salems Lot (Stephen King story, David Soul in the lead) when I was alone at night on a farm in my teens and nearly shat my pants. It's probably quite tame by today's standards. I watched any number of scary movies ripped to my tits in my 20s and couldn't tell you a thing about them. I guess the context is all important.

What do they do? Hang around the meat counter and tell passing blokes they'd like a bit of sausage?

Agree with that, however the threat (of an injury recurrance, and similar impact related injuries) with HBA is greater. Opposition outfields (with a hatchet-man) will set their radar on him, due to the fact that when fit he is the 'key man' in the final 1/3, particularly in the hole where he is more vulnerable to the attention of a loose playing defensive midfielder ie. De Jong. We have little to offer in the form of that ability, to shift the focus away from him. With the likes of Man C and Liv, the attacking threat is more widespread Sorry but you don't buy a Ferrari to park in the garage and catch the fucking metro. Point is when that Ferarri has just had major extensive work done and been off the road for some time you don't want to take it out for a fang on Nurburgring without a few more km on the odometer on some more friendly drives. I reckon the Ferrari should come back from the repairers as good as new, fuck it I'll have spent enough on it, I want to take it out for a workout not a namby pamby friendly drive. If it's not in tip top condition, I reckon I'd want to send it back and get it sorted our properly, I mean it probably costs a fortune to get your Ferrari repaired, so you want it sorted right away. Otherwise you'd want to fuck it over and claim the insurance, then get yourself another one you can use. Or maybe even a different supercar, maybe something a bit more reliable than the Ferrari, possibly a nice Porsche. In fact it's quite likely your faith in Ferraris would be damaged by now so you'd probably want to get something different anyway.

Brewce must be feeling like the fattest turkey in the farmyard atm, with xmas approaching and the farmer sharpening his knives. I think I read somewhere he's now favourite for next manager sacked, and he's lost his mate as chairman too.

Yes. I don't really give a toss about the finances, as long as the team keeps improving I'm happy. As things stand, we look to be moving in the right direction but as you say time will tell on what the longer term picture is.

Good for you Kevin, good luck

I can't say I'm pleased England are out because I'm English. At the same time that haven't earned the right to progress, and no neutral will mourn their exit because they've been negative on the field and unprofessional and boorish off it. The players and coaches should have a good look at themselves.

Partez les cheeks, we arrr goin' to emp yew

England getting their butts kicked by les bleus

"God bless you ma'am, that was fantastic. Any chance of a sandwich?"

I suspect it has more to do with not wanting to play for Nigel Worthington than not wanting to play for Norn Iron. iirc he turned out for the U21 side not so long ago. There's every chance Worthington will get the sack after the next match, which would sort the issue if that's what this is about

Just met one of the French flankers during a boozy lunch. Huge fuckker. I wished him the best of luck for the match tomorrow

I understand your frustration but I respectfully disagree. If you don't want to perpetuate the "debate" why not stop responding to his posts?

Shane Ferguson reportedly refusing to respond to Northern Ireland call up.

Rooney Snr looks more like 60 than 48. I reckon Wayne will look that a couple of years after he's retired.

Just been and checked out some of his stuff on YouTube. Fuck me he could play.

Don't wish to sound a discordant note, but I find that a bit pompous and trite. Perhaps if I get some of his money I can reinvent myself listening to my inner voice and not my iPod.

What the fuck did you watch that for man? When I read the opening post in the thread, I thought "he's gonna get a chewing for posting this", and yet it was just people commenting on how awful it was. Aye no shit. Morbid curiosity. Lesson learned. 20 years ago people would have had PTSD watching something like that. Now kids have a good laugh at it online. I couldn't/wouldn't watch something like that. It's horrible and sick but I'm not surprised some people watch these things for entertainment. I suppose it's the way the media's been heading for years, the people who provide the content don't matter to the broadcaster or the viewers. I imagine the target audience get a vicarious thrill and move on to the next clip for another cheap laugh. Depressing really.

it's about 11 hours ahead of you, so just after midday Thursday Think it's 12 hours ahead now, mate. We had clocks forward recently and I lost an hour's sleep

Yep, thanks Tom. Personally I'd like nothing better than passing the time of day at work looking at chebs but it doesn't tend to go down well......

The new board will also have this exciting feature ! You can just see the advertising tag line: Or Toontastic v2 New and Exciting features* *Arseholes included as standard

OK it's now NSFW

She reminds me of Peter Andre somehow

So farewell Bert Who's now inert Alas he's gone the people sigh To play his folk shit in the sky RIP

You're all heart RIP