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Clearly you haven't been on a bus in a while. Standing is pretty much obligatory these days...

Possibly true but since we've been restricted to a shortlist of who we can choose to vote for I've lost interest. I realise why that is and the reason for it but it also plays into the hands of populist sports. To be honest I'd probably vote if I had a genuine choice but I don't, and frankly the last ten years or so the programme hasn't even been that good so I doubt I'll bother watching.

I'd agree with this - there's too much artificial competition in the newly privatised industries that doesn't really benefit the consumer. There are other benefits to a nationalised industry such as decent apprenticeship schemes - as a country we're crying out for skilled labour but private industry can't or won't put in the investment for long term gain. Nationalised industry used to do this and it benefited the economy.

Now you're just being funny!

Are there any funny right wing people? I mean there's obviously Clarkson and........um, Jim Davidson but I was looking for actually funny people.

Clarkson is so utterly boring, predictable and tired. Him and his fellow muppets on Top Gear are like an end of the season, end of the pier show in fact it's more like a pantomime. I honestly despair of anyone who finds them funny because they're not. As for what Clarkson says? Couldn't give a toss what morons say, or what the morons who listen to him think either.

Jon Sopel

TBH I think we've already got to the stage where any striker to improve us will need to be silly money. So it comes down to judgement on an individual talent and potential - Sordel certainly has both but whether he could fulfill it who knows? It's nice being linked with these players though and, only my personal opinion, I think we'll spend the money if it's worth it. Maynard & Rodriguez at 5M+ probably isn't but drop that down a couple of mill and it is.

You'd still win more if we won though......

Bristol City don't actually need the money, or need to sell, and financially a summer move would be better for Maynard anyway so it would be easy to see him staying put. The only thing that could change that is if the player comes out and says he wants a move in Jan and the fact he didn't say that in the summer probably means he'll stay. I'd love to sign him up but I hope we don't chase a deal that isn't going to come off, and have other targets in mind.

Wasn't that the beautiful south?

Just out of interest how do RL and LJ compare stats wise when RL was at the same stage of his career?

I remember a similar thread on a Middlesborough site years ago comparing clubs to the kind of characters you went to school with. We came out as "Decent enough, doesn't say much but you know you wouldn't want to mess with him" which was pretty good I thought. Back to topic though and I'd imagine most other supporters put us in the same bracket as Norwich which is fairly rural, nice bunch but easy to ignore and not much to find offensive.

Stats can be confusing though - you talk about 4M candidates but no one is willing to pay that for the ones you've mentioned (or certainly not us anyway). Sharp has a 3.25M exit clause and Maynard is out of contract in the summer so neither will go for much more than 3M which is what we're talking about with LJ (although that's probably paper talk). Maynard also plays for a team that is 22nd so the ratio is fairly similar but he does have a better goals to games ratio in previous seasons than LJ.

Personally don't see this as a goer at all. LJ would be a decent squad player and probably would improve as well but that kind of money for what effectively would be RL backup is a bit mental. 1M then maybe it's not bad but still really only a stopgap measure and still a squad signing. NA talked all summer long about only bringing in players that would improve the first team and, on the face of it, this signing wouldn't do that. Seems like this is more of an attractive deal for Cov and/or the players agent TBH.

I got lower than average on everything and was defined by a low desire to avoid. Interestingly I didn't take the genocide question as being about the holocaust - if it was though I would have been a bit harsher. In most if not all the questions though I got frustrated that there wasn't really any background information so you were left judging deeds and actions without knowing what led to them. Tellingly the most punishment I gave out was for the person committing non consensual sex which is obviously wrong - most of the other scenarios were grey areas.

I love that quote about at least you knew where you stood with Thatch. Yes, as Alexi Sayle said, "You were f*cked".

Stephen King's latest brick of a book, 11.22.63, and about halfway through. I always look forward to his books even though some can be a bit disappointing. This one is about a school teacher who finds a way to go back in time, and decides to stop Lee Harvey Oswald. Thing is he can only go back to 1959 so he needs to spend at least four years in the past. At times it's a bit of a homage to 50's smalltown America which I suspect is a bit exaggerated but I enjoy reading about that period and King is nearly always readable anyway. Oh and if you're one of King's "constant readers" then you'll be interested to know he goes back to Derry and "IT" at one stage.

I know he quit/was pulled in the thrilla but I still reckon he won that fight. Great fighter.

I said to mate at the time it was probably more spectacular than a goal.

Well speaking as someone who has managed to fund a S/T through gambling this year I shouldn't really complain. Thing is I really don't find it addictive - I open an account and only bet the money I win. Once that gets to a signficant amount I withdraw it and spend it on something I want. Once I've done that I go months and months without betting so I guess I'm a bookies nightmare - at a guess for a £30 outlay I'm up about 1K. Thing to remember is that anything you win is free money but only if you use it. I can see why people would want it banned though.

Shame is I've stood up for hypo before but he's being a judgemental little prat on this thread, let's hope he gets back to form.

What abuse? I merely used your own language.

Funny how you fail to address my point that you're an arrogant poster unable to see another's point of view, imo you're a bit dim which is no more than you've accused others of. I can fully see why you get the abuse you do.

Of course it's not arrogant to hold that opinion, it's arrogant to suggest that people who hold a different one know nothing.