hypochondriac

Wristslitters invented by certain posters to validate their incorrect opinion? YES

Yes but it's tethered. I'm waiting for the untethered jailbreak which should be along in a week or two.

Clearly federer's opinion. He tries miles more at the slams.

Are you saying you never have an initial gut reaction when you hear about a signing? I thought for instance that balotelli would be a bad signing for man city but I had never actually seen him play myself. Opinions like that are part of football.

Im not sure we are! . My stance is that both positive and negative initial opinion based on not a lot is part of football and always has been. I fully support both negative and positive comments about a player before they have played as long as the person making the comments is willing to change their opinions once they have seen the player perform over a period of time and is able to make a more informed decision based on more evidence. If we refrained from offering an opinion about a player that we knew little about every time they signed, then this forum (and indeed the pubs where these exact same conversations occur) would be a very dull place indeed!

I didn't see it like that at all. Why were people not condemning posters who declared themselves excited about the de ridder signing, and used the exact same criteria to form that opinion as they did to form their one about Jos? Why is it ok to think that a player may be really good for us based on evidence from other fans, but not ok to think a player may not be so good based on the same thing?

No one dismissed him. They offered an initial reaction. Many posters used the exact same criteria to comment on the signing of de ridder for instance, yet nobody made any comment about that initial opinion because it wasn't 'negative'. Can you understand the very obvious difference between giving your thoughts on a player signing before his has played and writing him off as awful before he has kicked a ball???

A thousand times this. No one wrote him off before he had played. If they had it was a very very very tiny minority (I think I saw one example on this entire forum.) people invent things that they want to be true in order to further their own argument or support their incorrect assumptions.

Well it is very similar to the notification you could have had from jail breaking. As the person who did it was originally the person who made the first tweak on Cydia this is hardly surprising. Bitesms is still my messaging system of choice anyway as it has reply right in the app and you can send a text straight away from the volume up button. Just waiting for the jailbreak and I will be chuffed.

I'll ring up and get my two tomorrow.

People are rewriting history again. At the time, there was only one example of a poster writing Jos off error he had kicked a ball. Everyone else who expressed a 'negative' opinion said they felt underwhelmed by the signing. That isn't anyone being wrong, it's an initial reaction based on what is available. Time and time again posters have been unable to tell the difference.

So so true. Why anyone would think that another fan would want jos to do badly is mental as well.

He is a hero. Love x

It was to do with the players being worked too hard in pre season and pardew refusing to budge over his methods. Source? Aaron Martin.

Rubbish. Really wanted to Steve to stay. They will probably appoint someone like Dave Jones now and be ok

Yes because you have all your contacts and a fully working phone.......not

13 for me. Why on earth does it matter when women were allowed to divorce their husbands?

Installed it on two phones with no issue. Probably your hardware

quite like it TBH. icloud is a great feature.

Lol

Quite correct. Grand slams are the only things that count.

The plan is to get to the premiership in a sustainable way as quickly as possible, the sooner the better. Why on earth would anyone think differently?

Not always but in this case yes I agree. It isn't quite make or break, but it will be our biggest test so far and if we are still near the top then there is an excellent chance.

But when he bought the club he didn't know he was dying (to my knowledge.) He bought it because it was great business. The idea that he would buy it and then lose a load just because he loved the club is almost as much of a nonsense as you saying that we would be allowed to spend tens of millions in January.

He did it because 12.5 million was absolutely fantastic business. He may have grown to love the club subsequently, but this was clearly the initial attraction. He has already made that back on the sale of Chamberlain.