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Perhaps they'll try shooting from in their own half, might stand a chance if Gazzaniga isn't focussed at that time.

Could we not just have a minutes applause at the precise time into the game when he was injured last week ? Or, better still delay kick off until after that time has past ? #sanctimoniousself-rightiousenjoymentwallowinginowngrieftypeof*b0ll0cks

Talking with a Stoke fan through work back in January, he said there was a widely held view amongst their supporters that the club had resisted bids last summer, but 'gentleman's agreement with the player that he'd stay another season for them. The Stoke board perhaps hopeful another good season and a world cup might raise his value. Why would they sell to us ? Simple answer is £££ , if we offer more - or better terms - than another club, I don't suppose they'd give a monkeys whose money it is.

Zieler is highly rated and has previously been linked to a move to England. Someone put Baumann's name on here before , and this was found: which looks like 2 x a Joe Hart in one match, and a Bialkowski thrown in for good measure. Imagine the uproar on here if that was playing for us, or if committed by Gazzaniga or Boluc. On another clip though he seemed to retain the full support of the crowd there, so perhaps an isolated fiasco he's now got out of his sysyem.

Interesting, but that appointment was nearly twenty years ago, I'm not sure how many of the 'big four or five' who have consistently been around the Champions League places will now be prepared to gamble on young unproven but with potential managers. Chelsea certainly don't, Man City brought someone in who had just been a CL semi-finalist, and Liverpool had slumped to mid-table before gambling on Rogers. Spurs highlight the risk of unproven managers, AVB etc, and add in the Moyes factor, his 'failure' at Man Utd will make the appointment of managers without a string of trophies already a lot less attractive. For a manager with mid-table finishes as his main achievement, I can't see MP walking in to an Arsenal, Milan, PSG job too soon. If he went to Spurs then he'd probably have two years before his career took a dive again, after Levy shuffles the pack in hope. But at least we'd have another reason to detest spurs.

McCarthy at Reading.

So, what exactly was printed ? As living out of the area, this did not reach me.

Nothing on BBC about this by the way, so it seems more - continued- speculation rather than founded on anything.

Ditto.... (apart from the skates perhaps). Hatred of them is nothing new however, reading one of the books re Saints early history, and Saints had a dislike for them in the early southern league days).

Back to this point, did he say in a Canadian radio interview - linked on here a few weeks ago - that they had one lined up, or was it that they were looking for one still ? If already agreed, then speculating I'd go for someone RK has previously worked with or knows from his time in Germany or Switzerland.

Yes, I saw it in a Working Mans Club in the town (more of a village) on a visit to County Durham in the late 1980's. Some bastard stole it in the mid nineties, so they now have a replica there.

.. or thinking of another pay day attending the FA Tribunal with MP...

That should guarantee a bit more publicity for it then, taking in to account their history (winning the' first World Cup' and all that.... Thomas Lipton Trophy to be precise..)

ditto

and which one of the two was Claus close to ? Answer, I suspect is neither.

You may be right, although hope not, but I remember similar being said of both Lovren and Ramirez after Sunderland.

So how does that differ from a DoF then ? Perhaps its pedantic, and the two titles are one of the same thing, but "sporting" director indicates overseeing more than just the football and recruitment side of things to me anyway. Perhaps into the sports medicine, physio, and even sports psychology side of things (eye and vision coaches in the SCW world). Not seeking to pick up specifically on your comment, but the role is a bit of a mystery to me and what it - as opposed to a DoF - may bring. As for Leonardo, he no doubt opened doors, but the players mentioned probably signed for the Arab money rather than it being down to him.

..followed by "and the ref was a c^nt.."

That's far too sensible a suggestion , it will never catch on.

No. You're forgetting Bialkowski, and in particular his show at home to Blackpool ?

Result is no real surprise, but yet again manner of it leaves a bitter taste. Dubious penalty (or so I read) , but we come back from that to collapse in first half injury time. Rodriguez is biggest concern . Proves yet again how thin the squad is, and how lamentable our gk options are.

Talk of a sporting director raises a few questions in my mind. What does a sporting director do that will improve things ? And whose role will that be taking over or encroaching on ? Where will this fit in with Les Reed's role ? A director of football to be involved in scouting, transfers etc I can understand, but the sporting director role is a little more ambiguous, and perhaps leans towards SCW territory.

No, don't apologise, I'm exactly the same. I intend taking the dog out for a walk shortly, and then learning the result when I get back in. No result will surprise me, but it will spare a couple of hours of F5's, semi-naked nuns, and 'woots' !!!

Oh well, sorry for my brief outbreak of trying to have a fair and 'balanced view' of him. Yes I agree, he won't make a goalkeeper as long as he has a hole in his arse.

To balance the above comment on thinking about it and in fairness to him, didn't he play v Man City at St Mary's earlier this season ?