St Marco

Sorry but you really must be taking the **** or something. How can being told/shown OFFICIAL NUMBERS/SALES TRENDS/COMPANY REPORTS etc.. etc... be wrong exactly? They are the correct pieces of information. Again im not quite sure you understand what it is your actually agreeing too. What i have said is what is actually happening/happened hypochondriac. The fact you don't believe them and believe anything other then them is just pure baffling. It is like say Saints win tommorow at Burnley. Say we win 1-0. It is the equivelent of me saying "we won 1-0" and you saying "no we didn't". The media watching the game recorded the entire 90mins and showed one goal, a goal to Saints. It is like saying "they are wrong". Which is just plain stupid and that is what your basically saying. Again i will not talk about any of the consoles except for games from now on. I said at the start of the year to people don't buy a PS3 as Sony is in trouble money wise and chances are high they could go under. At the end of the year they are selling less and less consoles, sacking people,cancelling games,selling parts of the console to rival companies and shutting down the factories that make them and selling them etc.. Those things make what i said/predicted more acurate. Again you might not like it but that is what is happening/happened. I maintain my prediction that things will get a lot worse. Why? Because it is a simple case of outgoings versus ingoings. If your outgoings are higher then your ingoings = trouble. Add to that a new financial climate where banks won't lend you money = trouble. It does not take a genius to see that... But thats it, im done with it as i said

haha that is so bad i just don't know where to begin! How i suggest? That is the facts hypochondriac, if it upsets you go talk to Sony, losing $3Billion in 2 years does not make you a "winning company". But as i said before im serious i wont talk about either again as there is nothing else to say. Stats/facts and figures plus all of the tinternet show what i said/say is right. You may not like them, you may not agree with them, hell you can hate me all you want, call me all the names you want, but it won't change the fact what i've said is the facts and is the general opinion of the gaming/business/electronic/people etc.. community. If you want to believe what Cabbage says then again you believe that. All that means is in a year or two when it is all said and done your look just as retarded as he does. Which you already do. So i'll go back to http://www.microsoft.com as you said and you can go back to http://www.ihaveamentalageoftwo.com. That is if your mammy lets you up past 10?

I remember the celebrity half time match with Hale and Pace in goal, was classic. Don't think i have ever forgiven Gemmil since to be honest! Still got the programme somewhere!

To be fair though i don't think it is meant for us oldies! My little nephew (9yrs)loves it. Think were just harder to please these days!

No i was actually pointing out that the news post has to be the most biased reporting ever. The guy truely must be the biggest fanboy! So i was trying to be funny not slag the PS3 off. But that is honestly it for me talking about the 360 and PS3. I have nothing against the console other then the points i mentioned earlier (price points etc..). This is a games forum and should be talking just about the games. So i will stop being my irritating self and harping on and on about it

CNN really went to town on the PS3. They should come read this forum because generally it is quite positive stuff! "Sony's PS3 A Sinking Ship: Sales Plummet" Sony's (SNE) PS3 is dying on the shelves. Alone among the three major videogame consoles, sales of the PS3 are down about 19% from November 2007, according to the latest stats from the NPD Group. Sony was only able to sell 378,000 PS3s this November, compared to 466,000 last year. And the problem for Sony isn't the recession, it's the PS3. Microsoft (MSFT) put up respectable numbers with its Xbox 360, selling 836,000 units vs 777,000 in November 2007. And Nintendo's (NTDOY) Wii continues to dominate the market, more than doubling sales from 981,000 to 2.04 million. So why is the PS3 flopping so badly? It's the most expensive console on the market, $150 - $200 more than its rivals. Even if you believe the video game industry is "recession-proof" (it isn't), a tanking economy makes consumers more price-conscious. The PS3's big bonus is its ability to double as a Blu-Ray player. Too bad no one seems to care about hi-def DVDs. The differences between Blu-Ray and DVD are hard to see on a TV less than 50". The PS3 just doesn't have any must-have titles exclusive to the console. "LittleBigPlanet" has generated decent buzz but isn't a game-changer, and neither is Sony's new virtual world "Home." There's really only one option left for Sony to remain in the game: deep price cuts, and not just for people with good credit. Tell yourself the PS3 has superior graphics if it makes you feel better, but a $400 console with a mediocre game library simply cannot compete against an Xbox 360 priced at $200 in this economy. http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/siliconalley/personal-tech/2008_12_sonys_ps3_a_sinking_ship_sales_plummet_sne.html That guy must be a complete raging fanboy!

Ah good old memories. Hope we get some revenge on Forest next saturday!

classic

I was on there for a bit, watched people talking in convos and stuff in the Drakes room when someone said they were a girl or something. Suddenly turned into what can only be described as 300 people trying it on with the person (who was probably really a boy) talking in a language i don't understand. Turned it off. Now that s not me slagging off Home, i actually think it is an ok idea. Just in general my hour or so experience of it made me think/feel i was waaaay to old to be on there. The penguin game was ok tho!

1 good display does not make you good, Wotten has been by far our worst player when he is on the pitch. Anyone who goes to the games knows what im talking about. Very slow player, awful at passing, and goes to sleep every time there is a dead ball situation. Add to that he is unsure of how to play his position means most of the times the ball is dinked over his head and were in the hope Davis can save the 1 on 1. Robertson has been **** poor for us this season in a season were doing the worst we have in the CCC. For example people mention Wright as being bad but they easily forget he was our 3rd best assister in our playoff season (our best season in the CCC). Ahead of players like Jones etc.. He has played some right dire games but he has also played some good games. Saying he is amongst the worst is laughable to me because what i have seen this year is nothing on comparison to his displays. Even with him in defence we looked more solid when Pearson took over. So i don't blame JW for being crap i blame the manager for not knowing how best to use him.

Best i'd say 1. Jones 2. Rasiak 3. John 4. Davis 5. Wright (the goalie) Worst 1. Wotten 2. Robertson 3. DMG 4. Powell 5. Davis (performances from last season especially reaction to us at the Weds game).

Burnley are the inform team and we are playing them off the back of a 2-2 draw or something at home. They will be up for this game because of that. They are a no nonsense team and the place is one of the most hostile crowds i have experienced, im sure it will be again tommorow. Burnely have developed into a typical championship team, big,strong,like to tackle and like to defend with everyone involved pressuring the opposition when they get the ball. If you play like that your obviously do well and their league position shows that. As much as i want a repeat of the Reading game i can't see it. Since the Reading game we have played truely awful football and like with a few results this year have been fortunate. Fortunate that our keeper kept us in those games. I fear tommorow could go two ways. We turn up and play for a draw and hold on for the entire 90mins to a 0-0, and i would be delighted with that! Or we will go there over confident, bigging up how great we are and get turned over. So my prediction is 4-0 Burnley.

And who would be filling that role when he goes? We have not exactly been setting the world alight this year but Drew is our top assister, with 2 assists.....Says it all about our system if you ask me that our top assister has 2 assists...He has scored 4 goals though and is our 2nd top scorer! Seriously though Davis and Surman have been our best players this year by far. Remove Surman from the picture and i worry even more where the supply will come from, Wotten? Robertson? Pearce? Peckhart? Pulis? Gasmi? Drew goes and were fooked imo.

Don't think we can afford to lose either, if Lallana was used right like he was under the previous manager then he would do much better. However based on current importance/display i think Surman would be a huge blow for us where as Lallana would just be a blow to add to the long list of blows.

So what do those who have it think then? Good or bad? I have not got on there yet as get some sort of error, don't think i've done something right will have a proper look when i get back home tonight. I have never used one of these types of thingy's before (2nd life etc..) so should be interesting!

i think there have been some really good ones thus far Dead Rising,Gears,MGS4,Drakes Fortune,Fallout 3,Forza 2,Fifa,Bioshock. Pinning it down to just one is hard but i would say Crackdown

man that is pretty harsh right there, i did not know our last 46 were that bad. Home form has to pick up now or it will just get harder.

media/business analyst for Flea (Fairbrother Lenz Eley) media, basically i get paid to give people advice on companies.

Sorry and i mean no offence but you seem to lack any clue of how the economy works especially for a electronics company. Firstly you do realise that even in the recession the computer industry is/has not been effected? In fact they are selling and making more money then they ever have. Last friday the busiest day of the year sold nearly 25% more then last year. If it was caught up in the recesion it would of dropped not had it's biggest increase EVER. So have a read o this, it is an interesting piece about why the industry is recession proof http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10107412-52.html Secondly your a prime example of someone who ignores the facts and then goes on the defensive, looking for reasons as to why "it is all ok!". Such optimism is to be applauded but from a business sense is very deluded. Shareholders don't seem to share your support, maybe you should post them your comments so they understand a bit better? Let me give you some cold hard facts which as much as you try are un-spinable. This year Sony saw profits FALL by 76%. They have dropped to the 445th biggest company from 82nd last year. They made $900M profit last year of which has dropped 76% this year meaning they are at about $150M profit for the year of 2008. When the figures come out Sony will drop out of the top 1000 main companies on the stock exchange. In contrast Nintendo has seen sales increase by nearly 400%. They have made from the last quarter alone $400m. They will jump up from 400th to around 200th. Microsoft on the other hand are a complete different fish all together. They post $8BILLION PROFITS every year and are the 8th richest company in the world. Their shares as are Nintendo's going up and up and are posting the biggest sales/profits of the two companies histories. The complete opposite to Sony. However we have been here before, this is nothing new at all. In fact one of the people i work with wrote a piece awhile ago about the fall from grace of Sega. The patterns are the same. Sega once owned the electronics business. Until they couldn't replicate the success of the Genesis era. That put their company on the line by investing in projects such as The Dreamcast/Saturn etc. and it bombed. It does not take a genius to work out if your outgoings are higher then your incomings you will be losing money. And the longer you are losing money the less you can succesfuly operate. And Sega rather then continue to lose more money pulled the plug on it's console buisness and concentrated on publishing games. The same thing happened with Nintendo. So you may not like it, might not agree with it, can call me the biggest Sony hater in the world, that will not change the fact Sony has a rip in it's side the same size as the rip that sunk the Titanic. They are now changing their company to help protect it from losing the sheer amount it is losing. If the PS3 in particular remains to be outsold 800k a week by the Wii and 400k a week by the 360 it will be just a matter of time before those numbers catch up to it.

16000 jobs are to go. Sony have a total 180000 workforce. Losing 5% of your workforce is not good, it is not common especially in electronics. If you read the analysts notes in that link your see he says that won't be anywhere near enough. Shares are at an all time low and on 11th of December Sony will be announcing that ALL Sony gaming division products (PS3/PSP/PS2) are all down by around 30% on the same period for last year despite the PS3 seeing a price cut for that period and having it's strongest games line up. Right now it has lost $3BILLION in 3 years on the PS3, losing a further $1Billion already in the past quarter. Now the problem is Sony only makes $500m-$900m a year profits. As you can see that would mean the entire Sony company will have lost over 3 years profits trying to keep the PS3 afloat. The company is run by shareholders who all want their money so naturally as i predicted Sony will have to scale back their gaming division and in their own words "Withdraw from non-profit making business'", their gaming division is not a profit making business. So yes Sony are in meltdown and have been since the end of 2004. Soon as they announce those figures on 11th of December expect their shares to fall into the abyss. They started to make these cut backs last year such as selling off the Cell of the PS3 to Toshiba. That's right, your PS3 is actually made now by Toshiba (the guys who made HD-Dvd). They then sold off many of their factories that make the products especially the PS3, and it looks like they are having to shut more of them down. So that means lower numbers of the consoles will be made thus reducing the costs for the company. But the worst part is games will start being cancelled which we have already seen with the cancellation in the past few months of The Getaway and Eight Days plus others i doubt you have heard of. So it is not the end of Sony, far from it. But they have bled money for too long and now it has caught up with them. The harsh part is that all these people have been told they need to look for new jobs now, not in 2010. That is when their contracts expire, they will be given redundency pay. But that is the global situation at the moment, im sure each of us knows someone who has lost their job recently. It puts things into perspective.

all great results for us

It would be interesting to hear what Pearson would of said if we had the performances we have had especially the past 4 games. I can imagine he would of told some of the players a few home truths if he were in charge! Pearson: DMG why did you not do what i told you to do? DMG: I didn't feel like it i can just imagine the reaction to that one

Almost ****ed myself when i read the bit about sharing football in the tradition of Johan Cruyff. More like Crufts.. This whole going Dutch has not worked and by adding more and more dutch coaches won't make an ounce of difference to anything other then our bank balance. How long until we change our shirt colours to orange?

Not sure if i should of posted this as no doubt it will make me look even more of a Sony hater but today Sony announced 8000 (potentially 16000) people will lose their jobs http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/playstation-division-under-review-as-part-of-corporate-changes Naturally anyone losing their job is not nice especially when so close to xmas, but firing that many must mean the fact their income dropped by 76% this year and shares fell to a near 20 year low would mean they have no choice. Not a good sign really.

This was the table last xmas if anyone is interested http://www.sportingchronicle.com/blogger/2007/12/championship-table-at-christmas-2007.html Which to me just shows as poor as it was last season it was better then this season. We can't afford to have a 2nd half to the season that replicated the 1st because 10 wins will mean we are down for sure. The other thing is Forest away is our last game of the season, they will be pumped for that game and that is another reason why we have to win this fixture.