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See, I had Alex as a liberal, Happy as a green and you as........some communey thing in prep for it all falling apart

Of your categories where would Alex fit in? Something acrossthepond said as well about certain posters coming and being accepted straight away. Well there's a lot who aren't, more than three year I've been on, and certain hardcore polit bureau members would wish I would fuck off. Luckily Yeltsin and Gorby are onside these days though . Alex is Malfoy, keep up. He's CT's arch nemesis. He's the Grand Poobah, the Ayatullah, the Godfather. And he has disciples. Like Louis XIV, he is the board. @Gemmill: Sure, I thought Martins was good. Pretty sure I wasn't alone in that. No, what really got your goat was that I said I'd rather have Le Sib than Owen.

Of your categories where would Alex fit in? Something acrossthepond said as well about certain posters coming and being accepted straight away. Well there's a lot who aren't, more than three year I've been on, and certain hardcore polit bureau members would wish I would fuck off. Luckily Yeltsin and Gorby are onside these days though . Already covered Alex above With regard to being accepted, if you go with the flow then Im sure the elite will tolerate, rather than accept you. However the more interesting posters dont really care what others think of them. I prefer posters who you can call a cunt in one thread while laughing with them in another. It would be an extremely dull place without the different strokes tho.

Sure he is. Also a special mention to Kevin, geordielad??? and oztoonfan who seem to post a fair bit at the minute and seem good eggs. Used to really enjoy parkys voices but he seems muted off late which implies the asylum has upped his dose.

Think yourself lucky Stevie, you only have to share a short drive with them....I have to sit around with them all day long!!!

I like fisty but he had a hissy fit this week and doesnt love me anymore I would say I have no alliances on here (not sure why you would want them) but tend to find I am the voice of the quiet fan. Often I find my point of view backed up by the lurkers, sensible fans, who are not keen on posting themselves due to the venom that can be quite hard on the less thick skinned. Everynow and again they pop up to re-inforce my position against the dark side. I suppose that means that I have alliances with the silent majority. Having been here a year and a half'ish it is quite clear the types of posters..... There is.... Who can be very funny but also extremely bitchy almost girly. Rather than his alliances I would refer to them more as desciples such as Fish. There ia also the old skool who seem (as referred to by HTT) a bit snobby, hence the lack of more new posters. There is the football manager / gamer posters such as Andrew or Betsy who dont really seem to get dragged into the muck of day to day posting. Tom I assume is stoned all day and only comes out at night with the odd random post. Then there seems to be a bunch of 20 or so regulars who knaw each others nuts off every day. I would definitely have Stevie and Leazes as an alliance. I also suspect some users of more than one user name........ And then theres that angry man from the states who obviously is on death row and only gets 1 hour internet time a week.

Why, when the salt sellar runs out, does always take weeks for someone to fill it back up from the main drum in the cupboard. Weeks and weeks of careful sprinkling from the large shoot go by until one day, a kind person carries out this simplest of tasks.

Too many leechers, not enough seeders .... Simple everybody who reads this thread should then immediatley go and start their own general conversation thread, thus rectifying problem.

Or wants to be able to get his money back on them!!!!!!

Sniffer, re the routledge point. Surely if the wages are realistic, it would be better to have him a 3 year deal so that if he doesn't work out after 18 months you can sell him on. On a 18 month deal he would just go bosman an no money recouperated. Ie there will be plenty of championship teams who would snap him up if we sold him today.

Didnt the FTSE 100 lose half its value in the same period though? Abramovich's losses were 4 times the size of Ashley's total wealth too, or something like that. To have an IPO at 300p of a retail business built from scratch is a massive achievement in itself tbf. How he then handled the float and his subsequent short positions against the stock shows a ruthless and shrewd man. He's a cunt too, which is the final piece in the profile of a 'good businessman'. A ruthless, shrewd, cunt is basically what you are looking for. Most of us would prefer a benefactor, not a businessman. A very good assesment and another Lord Kirkham IMO. I have no problem being run by a very succesful cunt of a businessman but he does need to be "hands on".

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I think Bird is a lot more accurate and balanced than most in general though, wouldn't you agree? Im sure he is, but its still just his guess and guess is no better educated than Happy Faces, yours or Stevies. I mean Billy Davies interviewed after the match by Sky.....

Or Like all the other Jouurnalists this week, Simon Bird is speculating with no more facts than the rest of us. No interviews have been given, there are no quotes about spending plans or ambition from anyone at the club. It seems as though the self imposed vow of silence is being maintained so that Chris and the players can concentrate on winning the division. (which is good). It is the next statement of intent that comes out of the top two at the club that will be the make or break one and then and only then will it be time to start contemplating bleak years in the wilderness. Until then its all pie in the sky

No, it gets better Many football hooligans have switched from the grounds to the internet Rattled me thinks

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Or ignore it so it goes away. Not a hope, the circus is back....in paper land

Read all the comments, everyone an attack http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/167776...s-still-deluded

Like the first reply in the comments section

A little something for the weekend sir?

What you are not factoring in is the Managers perspective. (Not that I've played football manager) But if I was the manager (and not a fan) and knew that money was going to be tight then that is when you wheel and deal. Hughton might decide to cash in on Colochini, make do with Taylor and williamson for now and decide to make better use of the Colochini money and wages. After all he crumbled quite a bit last year in the prem so if we can cash in now AND better re-invest the money then that would be good business. Sadly the same may go for Krul and a few others. As a manager I would be looking and saying which is the absolute core of my team that I cant be without and which ones can increase my transfer kitty. As a manager I think Enrique would be untouchable, everyone else would be available at the right price (as long as I had identified alternatives).