alpine_saint

One persons "bile" is another persons "opinion". Your comments speak volumes for the kind of person you are.

Minty, the howl that goes up if you do less than ejaculate on here over any action from the club at the moment is just plain ridiculous. Do I think Ramirez is a good buy that will measurably improve the team performance ? Yes Do I think the Ramirez money prevented the pursuit of adequate defensive signings ? No Do I think the obsession/determination to sign Ramirez got in the way of focusing on more urgent areas of team strengthening ? Yes Do I think our transfer activity addressed the real squad issues and weaknesses in balanced mannner ? No Do I think we've done our very best with our transfer activity to stay up in the PL ? No Do I think we've done our best with our transfer activity to play sexy entertaining football ? Yes

He's definitely the sort of guy you want available on the bench, to somehow get on the end of the ball in the box in the last 20mins of a tight crunch game you must win. But then we are supposed to be walking in loads of goals with pretty passing from half-way inside our own half this season, arent we ?

I notice the usual morons are mobbing any of those with a different opinion, demanding justifcation, evidence, circumstance, motivation, joined-up writing, etc. like we are in a court of f**king law.

Feel sorry for him. He had a big interview in one of the nationals a few weeks before saying how much he liked living down here and how being with us was helping get over the death of Luey. To me it feels like he's been tossed aside for a newer and "better" model. I reckon we might end up regretting this.

Yes, I do. They are a bunch of mediocre stroppy prima-donnas coached by a bloke who has committed seppuku on his managerial career, by taking over that bunch of dysfunctional tw*ts, and they are folllowed by the biggest bunch of whinging bellends on Gods Earth; still stuck in the 80s like the blue-rinse brigade are still stuck in WW2 and the days of the British Empire, or even worse, still stuck in the 60s with memories of Gerry and the Pacemakers.

Well, its up to him, isnt it. Though not particularly impressed by the idea of him looking down on us like that. Its clearly not just about the football anymore. Otherwise he would have been interested in helping establish us a PL force and would have had another clubs fans worship him for years to come. Going to Liverpool is just money for old rope; we have more chance of winning something than them.

Maybe he's an honourable man who feels he has given Sydney already too much of a commitment.

Bit of a convenient comparison that, tbh. If on one side we are talking about a world-class attacking player, why cant we talk about a world-class CB ?

Then their code of dress was discriminatory. Can another company write "no burkas" in their code of dress ?

Oh, give it a rest with the lecturing...

I am somewhat surprised that there is anything left to consider after reading that. It seems to me that, although they may well still get their man, there is a serious level of hype and propaganda going on from the Australian side.

As I said earlier, people see what they want to. Yes, I think he may have dropped the ball here, but overall he has built an impressive squad and the highlight for me is that he squeezed Wenger's and Arsenal's balls dry over AOC.

Very good !!! Well, at least its clear to everyone you are just here for the argument.

I dont see that as negative at all, its just his working style. He's done well for the club overall.

Nah, just lay back and think of Ricky Ponting or Iain Chappel, and your guilt and sympathy will melt away...

I seem to recall the world governing body for judo, a sport involving grabbing hold of clothing attempting to defeat your opponent by any permissible means including half-throttling, has just been bullied into allowing a head covering into the Olympics. Dont give me the HSE moody. That BA baggage handler wasnt endangering her or anyone else's safety.

What delicious codswallop !!!!! I said several times "I can see this slipping out of the window" in a non-aggressive offering of my opinion. Guess what ? It was still met with "STFU", "troll", "Ban him" and various other choice insults...

Nope.

Well I am not so sure. I can quite easily envisage NC dealing with the discussions on a personal basis. That means spreading himself thin.

What squad number does ADP dig ? EDIT: Ooops, Ramirez has got 10.

Is that unreasonable ? Its not the expectcation thats the problem, its the patience.

You managed to get "backtracking" in 3 times. I wrote it off because I couldnt see it happening with us (the pompey delusion comment exemplified this) and/or it was taking too long and would slip out of the window. Nothing to do with being a waste of time or money. Are you slightly illiterate or is it the mad desperate rush to get in the one-liner and eeek out a little giggle that drives you onwards ?

Can you sack a Muslim canteen cook for refusing to prepare, cook and serve a bacon sandwich ? Thought not. For those of us capable of not suprimposing our own value sets on this, the law is an ass, biased towards minorities.

So all of you pontificating that Christians shouldnt have the right to display symbols of their faith without fear of discimination are going to run down the Luton High Road ripping off the headpieces of burkas, are you ? Neither displaying crosses or wearing burkas are obligatory elements of the respective faiths. I have no sympathy with those individuals of the 4 who are refusing to deal with homosexuals on an equal basis, however.