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Agree with Adrian on most points here. Safri for all his composure on the ball just didn't do enough. He never really created much going forwards, and when we lost the ball he was hardly busting a gut to go and grab it back. There was never the correct balance in midfield as you'd need to have a box to box, brick outhouse play maker next to him. Find me one of those outside the Premier League. Saga never disgraced himself at Saints either. On those two spell of good form he has he was on fire. When he wasn't (i.e. when he was getting mucked around by Burley or play in that kindergarten team) he still put a decent shift in. He clearly cared about the club for the effort he put in against Sheff Utd and for the goal celebration with Pearson after Lallana's goal at the Hawthorns. Good luck to him whenever he ended up.

Yeah, if you want.

So 2 Lotus teams on the grid next year then. Both using Renault engines unless I'm much mistaken and with a black and gold livery. Renault to become "Lotus Renault GP". Feckin' stupid decision if you ask me. This is the Group Lotus (i.e. Renault (the one Kubica drives for)) livery mock up.

They were alright, but Steps and S Club 7 were way better live. P.S. TSSFC, you should have told her he used to be the lead singer for wings and married Heather Mills.

It couldn't have been an Israeli shark. Old German women aren't kosher.

No. HTH

Was watching one of those ' Best Christmas #1s' programmes on some MTV type channel this morning and Steve Brookstein popped up. I'd forgotten about him, partly because I don't watch XF, partly because he vanished into obscurity almost immediately. That's not because he was any less tallented than all the other winners, but because he was less marketable. He was too old for teenage girls to have posters of him on their wall and dance along to his songs at a school disco. That's what Xfagtor (I just thought of that. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha) is all about. That's no doubt why the judges kept Cher in instead of the old moose last night.

The key thing you are overlooking is, we did not have a choice with Walcott. He was 16 and therefore wasn't signed on to a professional contract. Arsenal could have waited until Walcott's 17th birthday and signed him then. All we'd have got was a tribunal fee for his career development, which typically is around £600k. The rumour at the time, IIRC, was that Theo and his family didn't want to f**k Saints over like this and were insistant on a deal whereby we at least got a decent payment. £12m all in all was a decent deal at the time (Would have bought 133 Ricardo Fullers). IF he had stuck around and signed on professional terms, as you say we could have got £20m + for him. The fees for Crouch and Phillips were about right. Why you would want to sell him in January, before we were relegated is beyond me. Especially with Beattie gone and Crouch still unproven. I do agree though that more should have been invested from the Beattie sale other than the McQ transfer and a couple of loans. Imagine the amount of grief/money spending £2m on a decent centre half would have saved us.

Good night was it?

If only everyone was as awesome as me and bought neither.

If I discovered a way of making £500m by slapping my pork sword around your ears, would you be saying the same thing? As Hatch said, it's not the fault of the contestant who are chasing their dream, or Cowell who has done a brilliant job lining his pockets from other peoples idiocy. It's the mongs who watch the show and buy the records. There are two guarantees about the Xfactor winners song. It will be sh*t and it will get to number 1. People will buy that record come rain or shine, regardless of how appaling it is.

Lampard went on loan to Swansea Beckham went to Preston Rio Ferdinand went to Bompey So did Jermain Defoe John Terry went to Notts Forest Ashley Cole went to Palace Crouch played a couple of seasons at Pompey and QPR Aaron Lennon was at Leeds Milner went to Swindon. Then there are all the players like Bale who started off at smaller clubs before making it big. Very few players walk straight into a top level Premier League sides. Even Rooney was 'super sub' for a struggling Everton team.

Which worked wonders for Eric Djemba-Djemba. Why do you think top Prem teams send their youngsters out on loan to NPC teams?

Wouldn't be surprised if Oxo was being watched, but he hasn't set League 1 on fire yet. Can't really see Arsenal bidding for him on anything he's done this season.

Give it 6 months, his toys will be littered around the pram again.

TBF Diniz did give us the best F1 headline ever... Diniz in the oven!

I'm knackered after reading that.

I just don't get why it's even watched any more, let alone one of the biggest showns on TV. Then again there are a lot of things I just plain don't get. February will mark the 10th anniversary of the creation of Hear'say (from wiki, I don't know the date they were created). That's a decade of Pop Idol, Fame Accademy, X-Factor etc. and still people tune in every Saturday night to see which HMV check-out assistant will get the next 15 minutes of fame. It's just the same s**t every time. Why does this not get old for so many people?

Is he good enough to keep Owen and Benjani out the side though?

Serves you right for going in there wearing a balaclava, black and white striped jumper and carrying the cheque in a sack labled "swag".

The snowmen I made last year disappeared around the beginning of March and the Police still haven't found them. This is a very serious issue.

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Airplane and the Naked Gun trilogy are both excellent. Airplane has got to be the winner overall. Timeless. The first 3 Police Academy movies were good for a silly giggle. Robin Hood, Men in Tights is hillarious. "You changed your name TO Latrine?" "Yeah, it used to be sh*thouse! I've tried to watch Anchorman several times and just do not get it.

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Absolutely feck all in Bristol. Not even a flake.