alpine_saint

LOL at Bournemouth getting ideas above their station...

Well, its a valid argument, I suppose. But then shouldnt we be ditching Terry, Gerrard and Lampard ?

OMG, bring back umbro rather than that chav combat gear. Are we big enough for Nike or Addidas ? How about Puma ? Here's a thought, do Patrick still do kits ? EDIT : Indeed they do !! This would be a good starting point for a design :

So in the course of this short thread, you've lied, Billy's lied, and Adkins has lied Why is it so painful for some to concede that Rupert Lowe is alive and well at SFC ?

Do most CBs view themselves as capable of playing on either side ? I seem to recall we play Jos on the right and Jose on the left, and I really think our current strongest combination to try is Jos and Yoshida.

Well, that contradicts what jam was saying which was the point of my post. Which kind of means I was agreeing with you, but WTF, lets bash Alpine again, eh ?

I f**king hate Umbro generally speaking. Even the England team have ditched them. Most of their kits are gash, the sash and last seasons yelllow excluded.

Crouch will never succeed at international level, but thats not his fault. The pedantry and niggliness of international refereeing means he is always going to get pulled up for the slightest contact with an opponent because of his size.

I take your point about inheriting a squad for the Euros, and that the squad only had/has really a chance to change from here on, but I vehemently dispute your assertion that it is idiocy not to stick to Rooney. In the last 2 tournaments he has contributed almost nothing (apart from his first goal in 8 years as a STRIKER). FFS, Carroll had more of an impact than him at the Euros. I am sure this opinion will attract ridicule, but I have long argued that England needs to stop worrying about the short-term gain of qualifying for the next tournament and put a new way of doing things in place, and if the process of achieving that causes us to slip up and miss out on qualifying for the first tournament thereafter, or to get beaten in every game if we do get there, then so be it. Really, the time to do this was when Keegan quit after the 2002 WC qualifying match against Germany, but then Eriksson beat Germany 5-1 in the return fixture and we all got carried away about our standing in world football again. For me the target is now Russia 2018, as far away and ridiculous as that sounds - but sure it wont happen.

Yet he sticks to Rooney and Terry.

The major obstacle to this happening is Hodgson himself, who to my mind is already stuck in low-risk, unoriginal, big-club, trapped-by-the-system thinking (not that he ever struck me as a creative and innovative coach...)

The way Steven Howard is banging on in the Sun today, and if he continues to pick up PL goals, maybe Rickie is in with a shout.

I sympathise with the idea of distinguishing ourselves from those teams, and always have. Thats why I love the sash (though would change the shorts and sock colours if it made another appearance) and have argued for a return of the quarters.

Perfectly willing to change my opinion, only saying it as I see it now.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4522911/England-can-rule-out-glory-if-they-have-only-3-main-hitmen.html I would argue if he continues to get a few goals, it might not be long.

Its not the bottom line if the policy is discrimnatory. The bottom line is a tribunal over the employee and a court case over the policy.

Well, thats strange, because apparently Billy didnt want to go.

Puncheon appears to be doing just fine now he has buckled down. And J-Rod is not in Rickie's league, imo-

Lukewarm. I like it on my kids, but not on the team. Actually, I have a question about the printing service. A relative dashed down SMS when it came out and got my kids inital and surname printed with their choice of number on the shirts. But the shop didnt bother with "." between the initial and surname. Is that normal or has my relative been ripped off ? I reckon it looks a little odd without it.

Well I wouldnt have. I dont understand what the need for J-Rod AND Mayuka AND Ramirez was when we were already capable of scoring goals (as has been demonstrated against the 2 Manchesters without them..) And I dispute that the defence has been strengthened sufficiently. I also dispute that we have a sufficiently capable back-up or successor to Kelvin at the moment (maybe in time, which we might not have...)

If you've got a baby coming, I would consider getting a new one if the wallet can stretch to it, because its going to be running non-stop. We have 2 older kids, a 2 year old potty training and a 3 month old, and we have 2 machines running non-stop...

Bye then...

A ship launch in Soton, or a Type 21 frigate ? You can get on a plane to Pakistan, they still have 6 ex-RN Type21s in service.

Right, so Billy is lying. Glad we sorted that out.