SNSUN

Ah blank video tapes, the easy choice when Christmas shopping for my Dad in the 80's.

Alex Ferguson has only lost 168 games as Man Utd manager and tomorrow will be his 1000th game managing them. That's a hell of a statistic. How many of those 168 were to us?

Still too soon? I bought Charlie Sheen's pigs.

Is Bearsy female? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bearsy

Two and a half months you've had to come up with something better than that! :-D I still think early 40's. We'll survive, this weeks signings have made me think that.

Chill peepholes, it's the Star FFS. I've seen better writing on Fact of the Day toilet paper.

Bearsy has a bear arse.

I was christened SNSUN. It's actually pronounced 'Clint', but nobody ever guesses that. My mum's name is Siobhan and wanted to continue the family tradition of having shyte names.

Wiping in pub toilets is a whole separate issue. Rarely is there any bog paper, and if there is, it's probably lying on the urine soaked floor. That's when the faithful hanky kicks in, and not to mention socks and boxers, should the need arise. I once chucked a shltty hanky out a bog window once in a dive club in Brighton. Apparently it landed in the beer garden. I didn't stick around to find out. Alternately you can use the flush water as a makeshift bidet. Takes a while though and your hands smell after. Anyone ever pooed in a urinal?

As long as we make a ManCity-esque go of it. I'd love us to do them, and renew our position as Man U's bogey team, but I understand it'll be tough. JWP to start and impress, Mayuka to come on and scare the bejeezus out of them.

Really? Not me, Martin in his proper position over Frazer or Fox would be prefferable, were he not on loan. Seaborne is never going to win World Player of the Year but as fourth choice now I'm slightly more confident, as long as he's truly put the horrors of last year behind him. And how good really is Stephens? He was getting good reports from people on here as a right back, is he as good a centre back now they've converted him? We all know we need another CB, but what we have will see us through until January. It's not the terrible defence some people make out. Sure it'll ship some goals, but as long as the attacking department do their job, and the covering central midfielders, we'll pick up positive results. (and excitement along the way.)

Danny Gabbidon is on a free too. :-D

50/50. A GK, A LB and a CB each for £4 million would sort our defence out, but we'd lack the exciting creative edge Ramirez will give us. Plus he's a massive investment. Even a few good games and his transfer fee will sky rocket. This is all hypothetical of course, but it's possible you'd make more money in profit from selling one Ramirez than three squad players. Assuming, and plenty of wishful thinking, that our defence will in fact cope until January, I'm far happier with Ramirez. He's made the headlines too, record transfer fee, wonderkid, longest thread for a player on SWF...

Nope, the only defender I can think of so far is Danny Gabbidon.

He's gone from being an arrogant little sh!t to being one of our decent attacking options this season. I still don't like him, but he can make me like him. A winning goal on Sunday would make me like him.

Looking forward to seeing Mayuka in action, however long he may get. I hope they unveil Ramirez on the pitch on Sunday too for a quick wave. That'll boost the feel good factor around the stadium and us cheering will show how happy we are with him. (Aside from the Mancs.)

There, current avatar sorted. Up yours Lawro.

One minute this deal looked on, then it looked dead, then it looked on, then it looked dead. It really depends on when people were voting. I voted "NO" when the negativeness crept in regarding the Bologna president asking for more money.

As it turns out, Forecast has always been played in the wrong position and is actually a cracking left back. He just never thought to tell anyone.

Sad to see both Deano and Billy go, but dare I say it, if the worst does happen this season and we get relegated, at least we'd still have these two on the books to steady the ship in the Championship, especially as the crown jewels would be pilfered. That said I believe we have the quality now to stay up and surprise people, in which case they can be sold next summer. Good signing for Brighton, a few of their signings have caught the eye. That league would be hell to get out of this season...

I get the feeling Mayuka will prove to be the bargain of that little lot, but it was obvious we needed to strengthen and we spent a good amount to do so. It's only half a season we have to go through until the next window anyway - we can spend a bit more then. Most importantly, 4 or 5 of those are, or will eventually be, in our first XI. Adkins philosophy was to strengthen the squad with better than what we had, and he's done that.

2 keepers technically. I'm chuffed to bits with our transfers. I still think we're one LB and one CB short of a complete squad but we've got enough in the tank with Yoshida on board to last us until January. From what I've seen of Clyne so far, he's my favourite signing of the window. (and that includes Ramirez.)

I'll love and support Penarol (as my Uruguayan team) forever if they sign off on him. Bologna, however, can do one.