shurlock

So basically you rate everyone and everyone will contribute in their own way

Hope so mate

fact

Fair enough. No doubt its often sincere, though the working-around-the-clock, down-to-the-wire, late-night-at-the-office talk is also standard fare on transfer deadline day.

You mean the one that was already all over the Japanese media the night before?

I got a text saying you're a fantasist ITKer who has a track record of spreading horsesh*t. Don't shoot the messenger. I assume your text was more credible than mine before deciding to share it?

When has a manager not said that, though? Part of the footballing vocabulary, part of the mythology of transfer deadline day.

Its a standard cliche- if anything, been working on outgoings like Sharp.

Why - Mayuka in. Sharp out. We're still probably top heavy with attackers.

Yuto Nagatomo - if we're turning japanese. Sheer class. Shame Lawro hasn't given it his blessing. For next season

Arguably Jason Roberts is a bigger helmet than Lawro in that interview.

Agree, though the pacing of this season feels odd by BB standards. The show works so well because it starts slowly and deceptively -lots of unhurried, kitchen-sink scenes, spacious and dreamy camera shots, characters stuck in their own private grooves. No doubt, this requires the viewer to defer gratification; but the hardwon pacing gives it a realism and credibility so that when various, potted storylines coalesce around episode 6 or 7, the wait is worth it. The viewer is enveloped by the unintended consequences of the characters' various overcalculations, ensuring the finale is an absolute corker, full of focus and intensity. This season hasn't followed this arc. It has felt a bitty with lots of things dumped on you from above- hence the introduction and artifice of all the new characters. My other gripe is that in previous seasons, Walt has usually been pitted against a worthy adversary -whether its Gus or Walt's own demons. This cat-and-mouse quality has been missing in the season so far. Mike turned out to be a streetwise but essentially unthreatening pragmatist, Hank has been underused and Jesse, having come of age in the last season, has gone back into his shell. Only Skyler has provided any source of challenge - obviously, things will change in the next half-season -and the pride before the fall logic makes some sense; but a bit more psychological chess would have been nice. Don't get me wrong, BB the best drama on TV - just judging it by its own ridiculously high standards. Very interested to see what fate befalls Walt. Sopranos did it one way; keen to see how BB squares the hero/monster circle.

Just watch Antonio rip Fox apart...

If you don't ask, you don't get ...just as long as I'm not the mug who's asking.

Sure once Sibley's finished towelling down Cortese, there'll be some announcement.

No it isn't The Bologna account is unofficial; Gaston Ramirez's account is official. Bit odd to RT an unofficial account but that's far more substantive than the smoke and mirrors boll*cks we've had to date....

The Bologna account isn't.

what about 'unofficial' dont you understand?

Mayuka?

Yuto Nagatomo (Inter) another decent player - could solve our LB problems.

Shunsuke Nakamura

Reckon its yoshida

He's staying despite our best advances - having jammie dodgers in celebration.

Reckon Chaplow will be off.

Interesting Chaplow's changed his twitter profile photo. Not so much it's Burnley -it's his boyhood club; more that the previous reference to saints has gone.