Convict Colony

Not sure if sarcastic but I've told the missus she is having my polar and I will now get a garmin instead.

Am pretty sure in a un-researched way Long didn't take pen's.

Am very impressed how well Florin speaks english, fairplay to the guy he seems like a decent guy and honest ambitions. Am a florin fan

Maybe we are doing him a favour, koeman knows he won't play much and we've accepted a cheap offer to enable him to play regularly. I'd like to think as a club like the sharp deal we do what we can for players who won't feature.

hahaha well vic gets it and passes it to someone else but to be fair I think at the end of the season when he was getting back into form his passing was actually much improved, anyway vic is a destroyer, am not sure what Jack is, very neat and tidy player but I think we can all agree we groan when the ball falls to him in a good shooting position

Vic is the man, a walking brick sh*t house.

Morgan has the same bag as me, its proper snazzie

They gone to retrieve his head from spurs

I'll be on my couch in Knysna drinking beer

"Once each team is given its distinctive Bloomberg Sports rating, we simulate each match of the season 100,000 times in order to provide a projection for the level of success expected for each club. The simulation eliminates ambiguity in the league table, and provides an accurate projection as a result of its large sample size." Its like MLG on steroids

Fairplay to billy, not always been treated the best by the club but has been the ultimate professional and a fan favourite, lets hope the fat lad from sheffield scores some goals for dirty leeds.

hahahahaha

hahahaha owned by the big dog

http://www.futhead.com/14/career-mode/players/3759/shane-long/

I'd also add that I seem to remember quite a lot of shock when WBA sold him to Hull and he was apparently on Spurs radar in Jan as well. http://www.caughtoffside.com/2014/01/05/tottenham-weigh-up-shock-cut-price-swoop-for-west-brom-striker-shane-long/

Seems like a bargain which if he turns out to be diamond we have enough wage scope to increase it to ward off the bigger boys.

I think we've forgotten that the buzz in Holland and when he first came over here is that Koeman prides himself to coach players to be better and improve, a true test of this will be how we rate Long at the end of the season as we are judging him on him playing for some of the worst managers in the PL style wise. Perhaps with some specific coaching and a defined role he could be another Jrod on the opposite wing !! "Furthermore, he takes young talented players and makes them better, more technical and intelligent". http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/new-southampton-boss-ronald-koeman-3706461#ixzz3AGhXm3oc

Am relaxed about the CB situation for one and only one simple reason, it was time to dig it out again anyway but....

Young and restless Rodwell’s advice that English players should avoid the Etihad disguises the fact that he failed to make it at that level Rod Liddle Published: 10 August 2014 Comment (0) Print Rod Liddle WERE you aware that Jack Rodwell was still alive? He is, he is. Last week he signed for Sunderland for ten million quid, a couple of million less than Manchester City paid for him from Everton in 2012. In the two seasons he spent at the Etihad he played a total of 16 Premier League games, just five of them coming last time around. No, he wasn’t injured — just not good enough to hold down a regular first-team place. Rodwell was one of the players we talked about with much hope and optimism at the start of the decade, part of a new generation of English players who were young, dynamic, adept with the ball — ready to step into the national side and vanquish all that came before them. Well, we saw how that worked out, to a degree, in Brazil; less the golden generation, we were tempted to conclude, than the zinc generation: distinctly modest in both aspiration and ability. Unfair, perhaps. But I wonder, too, if it was the hyperbole heaped upon the likes of Rodwell — and to a lesser degree Scott Sinclair and Adam Johnson — that was the clincher in convincing them they could cut it at Manchester City, become regulars on the team sheet instead of merely being wheeled out for Carling Cup matches and maybe the early rounds of the FA Cup. Or was it their grasping agents and the lure of unimaginable amounts of wonga? Or simple hubris? Rodwell seems to have regretted ending up in Manchester and, in interviews just before the weekend, urged other young English players to think twice before signing on to play alongside Aguero and Kompany et al. It is better to be playing regularly for a lesser team, was the gist of Rodwell’s advice. It seems likely to me that Rodwell would have been in the England World Cup squad had he stayed at Everton — all the more so given the recent arrival on the scene of a similarly exciting midfield partner, Ross Barkley. Samir Nasri, Rodwell’s former City colleague, suggests in an interview with Martin Hardy on the facing page that players make pragmatic decisions based on what is good for their careers, and that the money is only a contributory factor. Perhaps. It has to be said that despite being close to ever-present for Manchester City last season, Nasri couldn’t force his way into the French World Cup squad, but that’s another issue. You might expect Rodwell to reinvent himself successfully at Sunderland, much as Adam Johnson has, of course. I’m not sure how big the distance was between Johnson being a member of Roy Hodgson’s squad for Brazil and being on the stand-by rota; it must, by the end of an excellent season for the born-again Mackem, have been very close. England have become adept at producing wingers of the week — young, fast players who sparkle briefly and everyone thinks they are the second coming before they fade perceptibly over the course of a few games. Remember when we believed that Shaun Wright-Phillips was the business? Or Andros Townsend? Or Aaron Lennon? The jury is still out on Raheem Sterling, I suppose. But Johnson, less mercurial than the aforementioned, knows better how to cross the ball and score the occasional goal — and it wouldn’t surprise me to see him back in the England squad sometime very soon. His time at the Etihad was fraught and uncomfortable; I wonder if Rodwell looked at Johnson’s move to Sunderland and thought, “Yep, that’s what I should do, right now.” The young British players who really can cut it at the very top Premier League clubs are few and far between, and mostly Welsh. Both Aaron Ramsey and Gareth Bale could expect regular starts for Manchester City, I suspect. Who else? England’s Danny Welbeck and Jordan Henderson? You’re having a laugh. I doubt Daniel Sturridge would get many more starts in pale blue than he did while wearing the navy blue of Chelsea, either. Successive Manchester City managers look at English players and see value only in the humble and honest water-carriers: James Milner and Gareth Barry were close to ever present in various City sides over the past seven or eight years. Oh, and Joe Hart, of course. How did that happen? The suspicion is that City and Chelsea will battle it out for the title this season so I suppose it is no coincidence that these are the teams where young English players find it most difficult to break through and instead will watch their careers dissipate from the bench, at best. They fare much, much, better at Arsenal, where Smokin’ Jack Wilshere, Ramsay, Alex-Oxlade Chamberlain and Theo Walcott have all thrived during Arsène Wenger’s period of not winning anything whatsoever *****il May). And that’s probably the hard truth of it, proven in Manaus and Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte: they are simply not quite good enough. The nucleus of future England sides will be playing, this season, for Arsenal, Southampton and Liverpool; anyone want to take a bet that all three teams end up as also-rans?

Hahaha I like you (no homo)

Is dave watson wearing headphones and watching his iPad ? must be catching up on True Detective

Respect Bob

Slow news day huh

Fairplay I think Artur will stay unless he can get the same wage somewhere or will wait until Jan and see if Legia want him for slightly less then he will go to them.