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"Newcastle has set up an extensive scouting system". Yes that worked just brilliantly didn't it, ringing around the club's for a midfielder and having Steven Taylor tell the manager that Taylor was available. I was talking to my mate today as well, who is Michael Johnson's agent, and as far as he is aware there was no bid for him so sounds like more bullshit from the club. Johnson isn't even running yet never mind in full training with his groin/pelvic problem."

Of course you can take it on complex levels but only if you're a complete fucking nerd. It's a basic idea jazzed up with some complete mythical bollocks that fools fans into thinking that it's complex. I wasn't a fan and stayed away from it for ages. And? I'm not a fan as you understand the meaning of the word, what I meant was I was one of its sternest critics. The fact that it has won someone of my intellect over says all you need to know.

You know me too well.

Of course you can take it on complex levels but only if you're a complete fucking nerd. It's a basic idea jazzed up with some complete mythical bollocks that fools fans into thinking that it's complex. I wasn't a fan and stayed away from it for ages.

You can see how fierce the competition is.

Not long ago you said we're lucky to have him and Wenger would be in for him iirc. Personally I think he'll do alright although I'd love to be proven wrong. Gone off him.

Not fair to compare it to the genius of Lynch and 20 odd years ago. Lost for me is a marvelous combination of mythology and race memory combined with this clean artifice that looks for meaning inside. It also works on another level with the archetypal characters who we are all familiar with in narratives, but in LOST the choices aren't clear and easy for the audience. Unfortunately that meaning is nowhere to be found and that's the problem. ...you sure? For me you can take it on complex levels or the very basic level of good v evil if you so choose. The way the characters all carry bad karma drawn to the resonant magnetic fields of the island....Wonderful stuff. I will say the writers have tripped into this arena and I'm pretty confident they really had no real clue after series 2.

Not fair to compare it to the genius of Lynch and 20 odd years ago. Lost for me is a marvelous combination of mythology and race memory combined with this clean artifice that looks for meaning inside. You said "Lost is the best thing ever to come out of U.S. televisual mindfuck" though. Maybe I shouldn't have said ever. Bugger.

Not fair to compare it to the genius of Lynch and 20 odd years ago. Lost for me is a marvelous combination of mythology and race memory combined with this clean artifice that looks for meaning inside. It also works on another level with the archetypal characters who we are all familiar with in narratives, but in LOST the choices aren't clear and easy for the audience.

JFK's masterplan has been rumbled. "Yawn. 4-4-1-1, 4-3-2-1, 4-3-3, 4-1-4-1, 4-2-3-1, 3-5-2, 4-2-1-3. Can’t we just knock it up to the big bloke and get the little bloke to bang it in?"

I'll send you the book. Seriously mate, don't bother. Wasn't going to, but the threat was enough.

Is this one for the thickest poster thread?

I'll send you the book.

What a doylum. Can you imagine how shit football would be without the offside rule? That's the list of stuff that never made the top 50 though. The top 50 list is alright imo: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/foo...icle5589815.ece Yeah, remember 40 a side, 3 pots in in the schoolyard? it would be like that but with Shola stood chatting to the keeper. Admittedly he'd still be beaten to the ball by a defender thats just ran the length of the pitch to get back. He still tries to goalhang bless him.

Cobblers. You said that about Mi6 although you are blatantly clueless about the subject. You blatantly make stuff up. The New Criminologist. http://www.newcriminologist.co.uk/news.asp?id=1124824797 London Bombing ringleader, Haroon Rashid Aswat - double agent for MI6? Published on 23 August 2005 .. Author BERRY-DEE, Christopher. In a lengthy statement that will send shockwaves around the world, John Loftus, a terrorism expert and a former prosecutor for the US Justice Department, has publically revealed that the so called mastermind of the 7/7 London Bombings, Haroon Rashid Aswat, is a British 'Intelligence Asset'. A TNC US-based source has sent us extraordinary fully verifiable information, along with a filmed interview during which Loftus makes his accusations. We are double-checking with our contact - a former long-time colleague of former FBI Counter Terrorism Special Agent and Al-Qaeda hunter, John O'Neill, who died in the 9/11 Twin Towers disaster. Former Justice Dept. prosecutor and terror expert, John Loftus, revealed that the so-called Al-Muhajiroun group, based in London had formed during the Kosovo crisis, during which Fundamentalist Muslim Leaders (Or what is now referred to as Al Qaeda) were recruited by MI6 to fight in Kosovo. This is the key book, frightening and uncomfortable reading is so far how far our security services are embedded in the Al Kidder London machinery. http://www.amazon.co.uk/London-Bombings-In...y/dp/0715635832

Cobblers. You said that about Mi6 although you are blatantly clueless about the subject. Read up on Bakri, Hamsa, The Finsbury park mosque, Haroon Aswat, Tanweer. C15 Night flights into Chechnya and SAS/CIa training of AL Kidder in Bosnia. Oh yes it's coffee mornings all round. But I digress. Lost is beautiful and imo a television landmark.

Will be the worst buy in Wigans history. FACT.

Shearer will soon be added to the Dictionary under boring.

Lost is the best thing ever to come out of U.S. televisual mindfuck.

Decoded the Viduka bit means he'll come on for 11 min at the end.

Class when he fucking bollocked Shola for not bothering his arse to challenge for the ball at one point in the centre circle on Sunday. Been here 5 minutes and he's already sick of that useless prick. Nolan did all the talking when they had the huddle at the start.

I tend to agree with you Alex. I think the "plan" is this: 1. Short term - bottom half of table. Clear out poor value and older players on high wages. This includes Viduka, Owen, Geremi, Cacapa, Smith, Duff. Balance remaining transfer outgoings with sales of players to generate offsetting transfer incomings. Occasional purchase as necessary, to be balanced by sale of existing squad member. Surpluses to be used to cover operating losses due to wage bill. 2. Medium term - consolidate mid table. Rebalance revenue/wage bill. Improve quality of first team squad with one off purchases of quality players. Must be young and probably foreign - therefore reasonable wage demands and good resale value. Annual transfer budget 20m (based on previous statements) 3. Long term - push for top 6. This to be done by bringing through top quality players from Academy with little outlay, and occasional one off purchase. Annual transfer budget up to 20m. Dennis Wise to oversee recruitment of starlets and senior players in DoF role. The 'plan' has several major shortcomings imo. It assumes there is sufficient quality in the first team squad to tolerate departures and recruitment of lesser talent. It doesn't. It also ignores the prevalence of injuries and suspensions at the club. It assumes we can attract who we like and pay them lesser wages, we can't. It ignores the fact that JFK is a second rate manager. It assumes that you can replicate the success of clubs like Arsenal in bringing through major talent - the jury's out. It places huge faith in Dennis Wise and the scouting team's ability to spot major talent at the age of 16 or 17. And so on. To be fair, it's a better long term plan than Freddy's technique of picking up the phone to Willie McKay on the last day of the transfer window to see who's available. But it's no guarantee of success. The biggest flaw is the failure to bring in a talented long term managerial appointment who can mould the shape of the team. This is what the advocates of Ashley's 'plan' ignore -that to replicate the Arsenal model, you need Arsene Wenger - a man with a huge contact book and a clear vision of how his teams play that is instilled at every level of the club from the Academy upwards. We've got Joe Kinnear. Fail. these sort of posts, ie the ones that talk about grand "plans". are all well and good, but you let yourself down by making cheap shots at the old regime for their "lack of planning", in particular the phrase "Freddy's technique of picking up the phone to Willie McKay on the last day of the transfer window". Stuff like this mate is unnecessary and also very very untrue. I could give you a whole shitload of players who were signed nowhere near the end of the transfer window, including some very good astute buys, at good prices, with the potential to get better, that improved the team.......and most of all, achieved good league positions, certainly much better than Ashley will ever achieve with his blinkered view, which is either short term or completely clueless, or a mixture of both which is what I suspect. There is nothing wrong with making last minute transfer deals, nor is there anything wrong with "trophy players". Lots of clubs, some of them big clubs, have just made them, and are in a much better position just now than us. Its a pity we didn't make a few more in fact. This is not a defence of anyone in particular on the old board, but it most definitely a defence of how they did things because sometimes, quite often in fact, they got it spot on. I think Spurs are looking for a back up plan for "the plan" and perhaps a back up even to that ""plan"". 'Arry will just keep buying players without selling the ones he doesn't want. Till they end up with a first team squad of about 50 players. That's the new 'plan'. That's what 'Arry does innit. He lahves it!! Sell everyone and then buy them all back. Sweet as a naaaaht.

The Kappa logo is nice.

If we're relying on Smith to save us, we're fucked. with a golden shower on top