sydney_saint

It says, from the 15/16 season onwards, the previous season winner (i.e from 14/15) will qualify. So if we were to win next season we would qualify for the CL. Too easy, CL qualification here we come, as simple as catching a disease from a bear.

I have no idea why he wouldn't be interested in the Europa League. Let's me honest, we have more chance of winning that and qualifying for the Champions League that way than realistically finishing in the top 4 next season. Given that in recent years we've had clubs like Fulham and Middlesbrough each the final, certainly not squads I would consider to be any better as our current squad, we could give it a good shot. Wouldn't matter then if we finish 7th or 15th in the league. Although I do realise that more clubs will be taking the EL more seriously from next season.

Spurs already tried that this season by playing Sandro, Dembele and Paulinho. It didn't work as it completely stifled their attacking threat, whilst many of those players ended up encroaching on each others space. A player like MS is used to playing with just one other defensive minded midfielder, he would need to adjust his game to accommodate another one.

Done

The question is: Is the premier league ready for Sam Gallagher?

Seriously are people just unable to see the game and see what is actually there? Why does it always have to be a player is dire or great. Lambert for example has done some good things, some good hold up play and is perhaps our most consistent crosser. He also has moments that are less good. So he takes on a volley, on his wrong foot, and suddenly he is **** and dire. Of course most players in the premier league are also shanking that over the bar but lets not let that get in the way. No apparently he is ****. He's not been brilliant either, it just lies somewhere in middle. Jay has been far worse, but of course he has pace and that's what the fans want to see. Overall wasn't a bad half. Most top sides struggle in this situation when they are trying to break down a decent side. Why should we be cutting through them?

So no acknowledgement of the great refereeing decision. And yet you blame Alpine for only commenting when something is negative?

Exactly. Always follow the bears lead when you want to come out.

It seems all your dreams do come true at 19

I'm soft now bear, blew off after that 3rd goal and the recharge time isn't what it was. I need you to keep that up for me in the second half and we'll see if I can manage. Another goal like that should harden even the softest though

I think we have missed the true hero of them all. He never wants thanks (apart from the occasional sexual favour), he goes about his work silently (apart from when having said sexual favour) but he really is core to this slick, fantastic performance. Thankyou to the bear for starting the match thread.

Rats

Matthew Le God Bearsy Alpine Tokyo

I offer this as the olive branch of peace.

Ah but we have an abundance of those threads, the environment is hard and thick with boobs threads. Think of me as the Pied Piper. A new strategy is needed to lure MB over. I will play the tune, the rats (including the mother of all rats- the bear before he infests the main board) will follow.

Tokyo and I have, and will remain, a professional relationship. Yes that could include occasional moments where, late in the evening, we both withdraw to the balcony, smoking cigars whilst in the background soft jazz drifts across, creating a sense of melancholy and enchantment between the two of us as we look down on the streets below us and watch a peculiar hairy creature become intimate with a discarded milk carton. But professional it shall be.

It would be curious to find out how many managers that get promoted from the Championship, particularly from the last decade or so, will find that moment of promotion the highlight, not just of the time at the club, but of their careers. In recent years, and I am only speculating, we have the likes of Owen Coyle, McDermmot, Warnock, our own Adkins, Holloway, Brown and a huge host of others, be promoted only to find themselves shortly back in the championship.I am unsure whether there is a trend here but I can only think that Rogers, Lambert and Pulis have gone onto better things.

I reject your premise Brian that my fiver was in anyway to do with Tokyo and/or balls. Instead I was promised by a certain mod on this board that, in return for my hard earned cash, that I would be rewarded with sexual favours by a female member of this board who shall remain anonymous and I trust you, of all bears, to respect that.

I feel I have severely under estimated the genius mind that is behind the tokes. He has developed an intuitive and sophisticated system where he can receive the best worlds. The status of having a trophy wife and social acceptance without having to worry about all that tiring sex and emotions. I shall humbly bathe with him and his f-i-l and hope that the genius of his mind spreads through the sloshing soapy suds of our embrace* and enter me *Again not gay

I fear that, given the mechanical orientation of his current partner, that a bath with that father-in-law would electrocute me.

Lying (which in my case in an occasional experiment or, as is the case of a certain manager of QPR, a hobby) is an activity that must be done in the face of an interview and was not meant to be taken at face value. It was an ingenious strategy which, when you think about just how repellent (again not in a bad way) the poster who posed those questions at me, allows me to get out of any sort of trouble for possible insulting him whilst enjoying the privileges of my transfer over to TMS. I think my response was essentially playing a blinder

I am willing to be flexible on this Brian. It does not necessarily have to be a rat, other animals can also be incorporated. (obviously I will treat this sensitively and no bears/related to the bear to be brought into this). My other strengths are I am hard working, can work either individually or in a team, am organized, an office flirt, a terrible alcoholic, can follow instructions and treat fellow colleagues with respect. Tokyo, I feel, is my kindred half brother. There have been many times I have dreamt that the two of us, hand in hand*,taking over and conquering the vast eternity of the internet. He has the cunning of a fox, the eye of a hawk, the heart of a griffin, the ears of a rabbit, and the unyielding alertness of one still recovering from the effects of a night without shame. *Not gay.

You have let this place go to seed magnificently,the dust and filth is the envy of every married man, you have done well. But whilst the environment is good you need new people to entice us causal viewers back. Classically amusing, yet thoughtful and intelligent posters. As the drawback of TMS is that it gives rise, much like worms in compost, to people like Bearsy, who are not bad people per se, but more in the same way a plague-bearing rat is not a bad animal. These people will always develop in TMS, but need to remain in the minority. I suggest you begin to talk to people in a language they understand over on the main board. They are simple football folk. Use it. Would Ramirez have joined were it not for an abundance of brown paper bags? Would Osvaldo have joined were it not for Cortese discovering is most hidden secret? You need to set up transfers with these folk. For example, I will transfer over, promising to do 5 posts a week in return for a weekly picture of Bearsy's latest **** and a monthly shot of Victoria Pendleton's snatch.

This is actually quite an interesting discussion that of course would have been less of one 30 or so years ago. I do strongly believe that the standard of refereeing as improved. However, one of the large questions that remain is it improving at the same rate that the players are. This is particularly poignant when you consider the vast differences in pool sizes between players and referees. As a referee, I wrote an article about how there are systematic flaws in football that are limiting that pool of referees. My aim was to provide some insights from the referees perspective, rather than the usual from the outside. It is very much IMHO however. http://lastminutewinner.net/officiating-the-game-part-1/