benjii

You don't understand the loan window. "Emergency" is a complete misnomer and red herring.

£18m for Johnson?! PMSL

Failing to honour a CVA should result in a hefty points penalty. I have written to the FL on this point. We all should.

Paul Hart. PMSL to think some of our more excitable members believed "Paul Hart for manager".

This thread is obviously a wind up, FFS.

I was at that game and McGoldrick was actually excellent that night, playing in a deeper creative role. TBF. He does seem quite poo generally though.

I have decided to update my excellent post, above. As stated, I think 85 will guarantee promotion (I imagine 84 or 83 will actually be enough for second). Set out below is the points per game required by the contenders to get to 85 - in the left column - and also set out is their points per game average thus far - in the right column. With respect to each team, the higher of the two figures I have emboldened. ---------------PPG for 85------------Season PPG West Ham ------1.71-------------------1.91 Reading ------2.00 ------------------1.78 Blackpool ------2.31 ------------------1.67 Birmingham -----2.21 ------------------1.69 Cardiff ----- 2.29-------------------1.66 Brighton ------2.46-------------------1.61 Middlesbrough --2.29-------------------1.66 Hull ------------2.27-------------------1.65 Super Saints ---1.77-------------------1.88 Now, I reckon the top 2 is a three horse race (WHU, Saints, Reading) with B'ham an outside shot if you think they will win their six pointers. Will Saints get promoted? Well, unless our form slips and Reading's continues to improve, "yes, we will". Will Saints win the league? If you think WHU have a harder run in then I'd say we're a very good bet. Just had a quick look on William Hill and we are 2/1 to win the league. I think that's a brilliant price. I would say each team's chances of winning the league are roughly: WHU 47%, Saints 45%, Reading 7%, Other 1%. Oh yeah, we won't finish 17th.

Can't help feeling Palace have blown their chance by failing to score. West Ham will get some sort of goal of attrition at some point and can only really get better in the second half. I love watching Zaha - hardly ever actually delivers anything but he's brilliant to watch. If he matures well he will be a superb player.

But we are owned by legitimate billionaire's and have a cohesive business plan and good infrastructure. They are owned by criminals and have jack ****.

PS. She may have a dickson too.

You are a div and a ****.

Regarding the previous CVA: The Football League has a rule requiring clubs to exit administration with a CVA or face a big additional points deduction (or in extremis the revocation of their "golden share"). There must be some underlying assumption here that the club will actually meet their obligations under such a CVA, otherwise the rule is entirely hollow. If a club subsequently restructures its CVA debts (either reducing them or materially delaying them) doesn't it follow that they ought to receive an additional points penalty commensurate with the materiality of the alteration of the CVA liabilities? I have emailed the Football League to ask this question. You don't even need to mention Pompey to ask it. I suggest that others do the same.

It depends what his vagina is like. I expect his bum hole is still a bit manly so I would rule that out. But if his vagina looks and feels like a bird then I probably would. Unless it smells like a willy. Blowie might be the best option. How tall is he?

That's because they are both better than Walcott.

The placid banks of Ipiranga heard the resounding cry of a heroic people and in shining rays, the sun of liberty shone in our homeland's skies at this very moment. If the assurance of this equality we achieved by our mighty arms, in thy bosom, O freedom, our chest shall defy death itself! O beloved, idolized homeland, Hail, hail! Brazil, an intense dream, a vivid ray of love and hope descends to earth if in thy lovely, smiling and clear skies the image of the (Southern) Cross shines resplendently. Giant by thine own nature, thou art beautiful, thou art strong, an intrepid colossus, and thy future mirrors thy greatness. Beloved Land amongst a thousand others art thou, Brazil, O beloved homeland! To the sons of this land thou art a gentle mother, beloved homeland, Brazil I like this for two reasons: 1) Hearing it means you are probably about to watch Brazil play; 2) The tempo of the vocals cracks me up. It's a sort of operatic rap, particularly when sung by a rabble of footie players/crowd at hyper-speed. Here's a particularly berserk rendition: And here it is being used by Maradona to flog some fizzy stuff in a tin: The Chilean anthem is also a belter when delivered properly. Despite the awful sound quality this is a classic example of anthemry, got to love the explosive climax: The French is a really good tune. The Irish one is embarrassing. Sounds like an 8 year old wrote it.

You have to register security over a company at Companies House. When doing so you need to submit copies of the agreements giving rise to the secured obligations (as well as the relevant Companies House form). So there is no doubt that some paperwork evidencing a debt will have been sent to Companies House. Whether the underlying transaction described in those agreements is legit or not is a different question entirely but, given the security is registered, the onus would be on Birch to challenge it.

No, no it isn't. It's a poor point based on misunderstanding. If you get slightly more than what the team in third usually gets you will probably finish third. The premise that "third plus one = second" is correct if you take a freeze frame of historic results but the average for second place is the reasonable expectation of what the second placed team will get. We are not playing in a vacuum. By saying that you only need to just beat the third placed average you are assuming that no team this season will perform to the average second placed standard. You might think that's going to be the case but if you do then it undermines the entire thrust of the thread as you have a starting premise that this will be an exceptional season (and so averages will not be of much predictive value in any event). Averages are expectations. Get something approximating the third placed average and you can expect to finish third. I hope I have explained why it is not at all a good point in the context of this thread. I am correct. Fact. Question of logic.

*waiting for some div to post that you only need to get one point more than the average for third to finish second* We have six home games left and 8 away. If we get to 85 points (ie. take a further 26) then the teams below us would have to achieve the following points per game average to get to 85: West Ham - 1.75 Reading - 2.06 Cardiff - 2.29 Blackpool - 2.2 Birmingham - 2.125 Hull and Boro - 2.19 Of those, only West Ham currently equal or better the average required and all apart from Birmingham would also need a big GD swing in their favour to pip us. So, I reckon 85 points would be enough for second and it could well be slightly lower. 26 from 14 is no mean feat, however we could get a significant chunk of those at home... If we can get 15 points from our remaining 6 home games then 11 points from our 8 away should be enough for promotion. That's a minimum away record of 3-2-3, or 4-0-4 or 2-5-1 (or better). 11 from 8 is an average of 1.38. Our current away average is only 1.2, which is quite poor, although we have been reasonably unlucky away from home IMO. Had one of our losses been a win (Brighton, for instance) our average would be 1.4 away from home. Obviously our season average includes the poor run in December/Jan. So, if you are confident that we will win at least 4 or 5 of our home games and that our away form will be more like the first third of the season than the second it will take a hell of a run from someone else to keep us out of the top two.

Alan Green must be just about the most odious **** in broadcasting.

That'll help them trade....

Huzzah! Got one in. "Mr Freeze"

But everyone knows that, in these circumstances, "violent" doesn't mean "liable to cause pain or injury". If you grab someone round the throat and/or give them a good two handed shove there is a good chance you will get sent off. Everyone knows that. It was a clear red card. If a Saints player had done it I would not object at all to the red card. Look at the reaction of Noble and Vaz Te to the red card. They don't argue with the ref, they go after Taylor and tell him he's a ****.

As others have pointed out, the most telling thing is Vaz Te and Noble screaming at Taylor for being a **** as he walks off. You can also tell that Taylor shat himself as soon as Sharp fell over - he knew he'd been a ****. It was as clear a red card as you are likely to see.

That last paragraph is ********. Maynard's chance came from Hooiveld's error. The propensity to lay any error within 20 yards at Davis' feet and attributing it to a "failure to command" is pretty silly.

It is bloody weird. TCWTB is the only excuse I can think of. Objectively, there is no other explanation. After all, other clubs with much better support have suffered far more than any bleating Skate has. It is odd indeed. It's not as though football pundits are strangers to the banal, largely meaningless cliche though is it? Maybe it is axiomatic that if you repeat a mantra often enough around footy people they will just go with it. Anyway, you enjoy holding on to your little myth. It really is all you have.