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Colinjb

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  1. So why is this not happening? Many of the greatest 'integrations' in history, including the example of the Neanderthals, have actually resulted in the near, if not total destruction of one of the sides. History has very few examples of multiculturalism, but many of absorbtion/obliteration.
  2. Try option 'd'.
  3. Yeah, that.
  4. Yep, left our academy in 2009. A Gosport lad who allegedly switched to his preferred club. Fair play if so, but you would have to wonder how he would have developed had he remained with us. Would he have been near our first team? In better facilities he may have been a match for Jack Stephens.
  5. Teams with better infrastructure then the Skates (Based on modernity of ground, size of ground, training facilities.) All Premier League Sides Championship: Forest, Cardiff, Millwall, Charlton, Norwich, Watford, 'Boro, Sheffield Wednesday, Ipswich, Reading, Derby, Blackburn, Birmingham, Brighton, Wolves, Rotherham, Leeds, Huddersfield, Wigan, Bolton, Fulham, Blackpool (All bar 2, 3 if you exclude Blackpool.... but Bloomfield road is a very good facility.) League 1: Bradford, Bristol City, MK Dons, Preston, Doncaster, Coventry (Once SISU and ACL come to terms, they have a great academy and training structure), Barnsley, Sheffield United. So, I make that at worst lower League 1, at best lower championship with a fair wind and purple patch. Times have changed, many clubs have invested to improve themselves (Like Brighton, now easily the second biggest club on the south coast) the failure to make hay when the sun shone has set the Skates back at least a decade. The only way that they can catch up will be from a huge influx of funds. A good academy could provide a base for that but it will take years to re-implement to a decent level, the fan owned (...... sorry, my splitting sides.....) model also in theory prevents a rich benefactor taking over. While their trevails over the past 7 years didn't kill them, it took the glass ceiling and lowered it to a level that will prevent them actively competing at the standard many, many of their fans saw as a divine right. That is a victory for common sense and fair play.
  6. How would you quantify that exactly? Bare in mind that fans do not constitute infrastructure.
  7. Not sure whether this is from the Adrian Durham school of stirring argument.... however there is a certain degree of 'children repeating the mistakes of their parents.' Starting from a point of wanting to escape from bad behaviour, yet repeating it themselves in later life.
  8. Perhaps the shirt sizing is intended as motivation for the fanbase to do more exercise?
  9. There are elements of truth in that speech, as unpalatable though it may be. Of course it isn't valid as a sweeping generalisation, but to shy away from the threat that is represented by the extremes would be wrong.
  10. Or SaintRichmond. Wait, that's already someone else's pseudonymn.
  11. What causes Taider general wonderment?
  12. Greetings to our new Algerian friends. Hope Taider justifies your adulation, he looked handy v Leverkusen, was surprised he didn't come on towards the end of the Liverpool game.
  13. Peter Crouch syndrome. Never needed to jump much when younger which meant it stifled his ability to do so when adult.
  14. Supplementary to this, how do you identify which processors will work with a certain type of motherboard?
  15. Supplementary to this, how do you identify which processors will work with a certain type of motherboard?
  16. Employing the Spurs manager with the highest win percentage in their history may not be the worst thing they could have done.... #devilsadvocate
  17. Employing the Spurs manager with the highest win percentage in their history may not be the worst thing they could have done.... #devilsadvocate
  18. His dead-ball delivery is worth accommodating for any slight deficiencies he may have been seen to have v Liverpool. Would like to see Taider get a chance after he looked effective v Leverkusen but i'm sure his time will come.
  19. His dead-ball delivery is worth accommodating for any slight deficiencies he may have been seen to have v Liverpool. Would like to see Taider get a chance after he looked effective v Leverkusen but i'm sure his time will come.
  20. There's two Alvaro Gonzalez. A spanish central defender at Espanyol, and A Uruguayan winger at Lazio. I'm assuming we are meaning the winger?
  21. There's two Alvaro Gonzalez. A spanish central defender at Espanyol, and A Uruguayan winger at Lazio. I'm assuming we are meaning the winger?
  22. And therein may be the problem.
  23. And therein may be the problem.
  24. Lovren for me. We had the chances to win that game, our lack of defensive assertiveness cost us dearly with those two cheap goals. With Lovren and Fonte at the back we would have been more confident under pressure and repelled the Scouse attacks.
  25. Lovren for me. We had the chances to win that game, our lack of defensive assertiveness cost us dearly with those two cheap goals. With Lovren and Fonte at the back we would have been more confident under pressure and repelled the Scouse attacks.
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