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To be fair that was during Pardew's streak of good form, they have the worst form in the league in 2016 according to the commentator on the channel I was watching it on (haven't bothered looking that up mind). I do agree though, regardless of his good run of form 5-1 to them is a total and utter disgrace I think their strikers have less goals than that this year. Edit: just looked it up, 7 losses and 1 draw so far this year (I'm including todays inevitable loss in that btw) and their team in total have scored 4 goals this year.

I'm glad they finally attacked the fact he doesn't actually say anything when he speaks and they didn't just let him brush them off with one liners or insults like usual, the issue is it's probably too late, why did they not go after him like this weeks ago?

Aye he does do a lot and a fair few are shite, I tend to just pick and choose depending on who is on. He has got into bow hunting recently and has had a ton of hunters etc on recently which I don't have loads of interest in. He can chat some shit too, a bloke he had on this week (a comedian) started saying how psychodelics bring you closer to God and that the man just wants to stop that, even Rogan drew the line on that one . Burrs is still class, the best part is he tells you straight up that he's fucking clueless before he rants on something. The Armstrong one is class, I watched it on YouTube over a few days. He also had the lead investigator on the Armstrong case on it a few weeks before Armstrong was on.

Yeah I don't give Diaz much chance, even if Diaz had months to prepare I'd still put my money on a McGregor win. Just as you say he's not the sort to lose quickly so it'll be interesting especially with Diaz's aggressive style. Sort of on this topic but does anyone listen to Joe Rogan's podcast? he had Bas Rutten on recently and it was an interesting listen. His Lance Armstrong one was good too.

Aye he definitely has a decent chin. I agree he wont be as big a hitter but hopefully his excellent footwork and timing will make up for that, I think it'll be interesting. Fully agree regarding McGregor not being on gear, he looked fairly gaunt at lightweight I always thought whereas the weight he is currently walking around at looks a lot more natural. I saw an article saying McGregor has saw 6 opponents in the last 5 years pull out of the bout due to injury, I've no idea how regular it normally is but that seems fairly excessive, do they push themselves harder training for McGregor? fear? Shame it happened mind as I was looking forward to the original match up.

See Dana White has talked about how it came about, said that Diaz initially said he would cut to 155lbs but after McGregor said yes Diaz said it had to be at a catch weight of 165lbs. White phoned McGregor back up to ask McGregor if 165 was okay and he said "make it 170lbs" . I'm looking forward to this as a slugger like Diaz might make this a bit more interesting with it being a rushed fight, he's also great at getting under peoples skin which he did right away with the steroid comment to McGregor.

Hearing things like that is the most frightening to me, people that are intelligent, successful and competent backing Trump. I live in an extraordinarily Republican town in NJ (basically a lot of investment bankers, people high up in Insurance and Pharma companies etc) and a lot have the 'I have worked for my money so hands off it' viewpoint which I get to a certain level (of course many have also benefited from a cushy upbringing, the best schools etc but don't try opening that can of worms with them) but I still get disappointed to hear the way they can just absolve themselves of any desire to help the poor, many say some pretty depressing stuff to me as since I'm white and living in a nice area I think they assume I'm a Republican supporter as well. I was told recently about how Mexicans are coming and taking American jobs and that 'we' have to stem the immigration problem to stop this, the person telling me this seemed oblivious of the fact that I actually am the 'problem' in that instance and not many Mexican immigrants. I recently beat out American candidates to an internship with a Big 4 accounting firm, which is probably more resembling of the job they would class as an 'American job' rather than picking fruit or landscape gardening. I haven't brought this up yet as I don't think it's worth getting into, as of course the implication of my getting a job not bothering them is their anger stems more from brown people than 'immigrants', but if I'm irritated by Trump getting close to an election win I might broach that discussion. I think it's crackers when you see a quote like '50 million people in this country are handed out food stamps thanks to Obama' and you remember that a fair amount of that 50m will be Republican voters simply because they oppose abortion or dislike Mexicans, two things that will have little to no real impact on their lives. The last quote is my fear with Hilary, a lot of people really don't like her. She gets a lot of flak for staying with Bill after the affair and of course the whole Benghazi email issue will keep coming up (Trump recently mentioned 'predicted' it would be him vs Hilary 'unless of course she gets indicted'). I've even heard people who voted for Obama say negative things about Hilary and then give a positive in Trumps favor like 'he wont bend over for lobbyists', it's probably the most interesting Presidential election in a long time but it's concerning.

Aye who would have thought going round making insulting and at times racist remarks during a presidential campaign would piss people off. I'm not all that convinced he actually believes a lot of what he says, I think a lot of it is playing up to the morons he has targeted as being his main potential voters. I wish Bloomberg had run tbh I think he would have been the perfect democrat (provided of course he ran as that) to go up against Trump and win the middle swing vote. I just worry about the wildcard of the swing vote being put off voting for a woman, or a jewish guy who Trump will make out to be an insane communist. I know Bloomberg is Jewish as well but I think with his successful business career there is a good amount of moderate Republicans who would vote for him over Trump. I feel bad for Americans I know as a lot of them see how massively embarrassing Trump will be, they might have a president that regularly has talked about the fact he would like to fuck his daughter and a first lady who has appeared in playboy. I can't remember who said it but there's a quote talking about how Trump himself isn't the scariest part it's the confidence and voice he gives to these racists that back him, behind this thin veil of patriotism and 'getting our country back'. Edit: Jorge Ramos (the bloke who got chucked out of a Trump press conference) done a good job recently going and speaking to Trump supporters in New Hampshire: https://www.facebook.com/jorgeramosnews/videos/504564833062941/ "Is there any specific idea you thought 'yes I'm going to vote for Trump'" "Yeah... the wall" "Ah yes so you would build a wall on the border with Canada"

I live in New Jersey and have for about 4 years. If it's out of a choice between train or car for going between Boston, NYC and Philly I'd definitely take the train like Tom. I think if you were going more to the South like AmericanMag is on about driving would be good but you'd just end up sitting in traffic up here. The other reason is parking in NYC is fucking insanity (unless your hotel has an okay option for parking). You can even take NJ transit from New York Penn station to Philadelphia (with a change at Newark and somewhere just outside of Philly), which would be pretty cheap (it's like $15 to NYC and back from where I live if I buy a single trip).

Aye, true enough.

It would be hilarious if it wasn't frightening. The saddest part is that Cruz is an utter fucking nutjob as well so the chances of an 'acceptable' Republican being nominated are pretty slim.

I still think (really fucking hope) that if he does win the Republican nomination that the swing voters will be scared off by him and vote democrat. I do worry though as there are plenty of people about that say things along the lines of "yeah I mean he's crazy but I do like that he's not a typical politician and speaks his mind etc". The scary thing is if you actually listen to his speeches he says very little, it's normally just fluff like "If I got in power I would have the best financial people, believe me I know people that you've not even heard of that are so much better than what we have there now" and "If I'm in charge we will win at trade, we will beat China, Japan and Mexico at trade" errm okay... the only things he seems to actually say he will do is build a wall and get rid of Obamacare. I just can't understand these lunatics that live in trailer parks that would happily vote for a bloke like Trump, do they actually believe he has their best interest at heart or is it just because he wants to build a wall to keep Mexicans out?

I fucking hate Stoke, vile club with vile fans. That aside Hughes is doing a canny job with them and they will probably howk us, 3-0 to Stoke.

was there an original to 'ignition' or was there only ever a remix?

I hope that Short knew absolutely nothing about this so that he becomes even more disillusioned with the hovel of a club he got convinced into buying.

Aye it makes the move to sack him look odd as it's nothing they haven't known for months so why do it now? Of course he fully deserved the sack but as I say it should have happened months ago if they saw what he did as grounds for termination of his contract.

Totally agree with it being daft playing Rooney all the time in friendlies, Hodgson never bothers trying different combinations up top which looks increasingly daft as he now has a decent crop of goal scorers but no idea how/if any of them fit together. I've no doubt whatsoever we will see Hodgson's favorite players shoe horned into a team and it'll be shite, probably not even get out of the group tbh.

I don't even see the point in showing it in court, they can't really prove it was his in the photo anyway. The only possible reason for showing it could be to try and put that image () in the jury's minds when this defence attacking her comment about his pubic hair comes up.

The attack can't start without the ball though, a poor defence tends to mean you're on the defensive for a lot of the game as they are poor at winning the ball and distributing the ball if they do win it which means rather than initiating our own attacks they give the opposition the ball back again to launch another attack. Think you're getting mixed up with attack is the best form of defence tbh, which while true is again predicated on having a defence capable of winning and the distributing the ball. To outscore the goals we leak we'd have to be one of the best attacks in the league.

Aye we would be in better shape if we had spent £13m on another defender (or two) instead of buying Thauvin. I know we didn't know he wasn't going to work out but the fact he really didn't get a place in the side anyway shows he wasn't really needed.

Aye typical lost an argument behavior, that mackem that was on here yesterday did the same thing just acting like we were all just comparing Johnson to Huntley and ignored the points that were being made. They and their club have stuck up for a nonce, classy club indeed.

That's more like it imo. Not that we will see it mind.

Aye, Rooney especially. Hodgson has even had him basically playing CM to ensure he's on the pitch. We should be going with Vardy and Kane up top tbh as those two have been the best two English strikers and I think they'd make a good partnership with Vardy's pace coming off Kanes knock on/hold up ability, all irrelevant mind as like you say it'll be Rooney.

Shearer's 11 btw. No natural winger when we have a kid like Sterling, I like Carrick but he shouldn't be starting for England nowadays like and I don't see why he put Cahill in there other than he has been an England regular in recent years because he has been poor this season.