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Haven't seen enough of Toivonen to make a judgement on him, but he sounds like the type of player we should be after. Can play in a couple of different positions, might be a nice squad player.

From a footballing point of view bringing in Debuchy and keeping Simpson as backup would be pretty much ideal. Let Tavernier go out on loan for the year and get some experience. Can't see it happening though, we'll want a fee for him rather than letting his contract run down. Hope to fuck it's not a case of sell before we buy.

What they had is essentially a 4-4-2 anyway, they just tried to make it look fancy. Ye could do with Ashley Young getting his act together, he was rubbish at the Euros but he's still only 26 so he should have plenty of tournaments left in him. He's got the ability IMO.

I think Italy will give Germany a pretty good game tbh, they look like a good side to me. Milner has no business playing on the wing at any level, never mind for the English team. Offers absolutely nothing. Think that between Carroll and Wellbeck you've got two good options alongside Rooney for the future, this tournament will be good experience for them. A lot depends on getting Wilshire established in the first team, he's the type of player you've sorely missed for years.

Was at the Ireland-Italy game, loads of us in the Irish section were singing and dancing along with it.

Stupid comments to make really.

Ribery

Engaging Stifler in conversation.

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France should go with the team that beat Ukraine IMO. Love Ben Arfa to bits but Blanc's primary concern should be playing the team he feels will do best together, in terms of pure talent that should include HBA but team harmony needs to be right, especially against a team like Spain. Disappointed Hatem has thrown the toys out, it's going to do him no favours in the long term.

I'll set up to leaving party thread over the weekend.

Well that was quite possibly the best two weeks of my life. Got back last night, in absolute ribbons here. Two week hangover, drank more vodka in the last fortnight than I had in my whole life previously. Can't say enough good stuff about Poland. Cheap drink, good food and friendly locals, literally had no problems from anybody the entire time. Police were happy to let us drink in the street and sing songs and anything we wanted really as long as nobody broke anything or bothered any of the locals. Polish women Croatian fans were cracking, loads of fun before/after/during the match. Spanish fans were good fun before and after the game, Italian fans were useless on more or less every level. Had tickets to our first and last game before I went, couldn't afford a ticket to the Spain game. However through some serious good fortune myself and one of my friends ended up having an entire VIP Skybox to ourselves. Free drink with our own personal waitress all night and a seat near the halfway line, was absolutely magic. We were the only fuckers in the corporate seats with jerseys on who gave any sort of fuck about the game, was pretty good at the end when we were both singing our hearts out with nobody else near us doing the same. Shame about how shite we were, really disappointing performances. Obviously was expecting that we'd be outplayed in all three games but so many of the goals we gave away were through sloppy defending/goalkeeping which is something we've never really done under Trapattoni. The result was obviously three comfortable defeats which I didn't expect, bad as we are in terms of talent. Spain were absolutely magnificent to watch btw, the quality of their first touch and close control throughout was absolutely jaw dropping. Was an absolute joy to be there and see them live. Oh, and We'll sing when we want We'll sing when we want FUCK YOU ROY KEANE We'll sing when we want

Cheers, should be a classy affair.

I'll be surprised if we lose all three. We're awful to watch and don't have any top class players, but one thing we definitely are is very well organised. The system has been the same since Trappatoni took over and the personnel rarely changes either, everyone knows what's expected of them and where they should be defensively. We won't scare any of the teams we go up against but I don't expect us to be pushovers either. My guess is that we'll take one pasting and have two close matches in the group stage. If we take our chances and get a little bit of luck when we need it then you never know, we might just sneak through the group. Off to Dublin in half an hour then flying out in the morning, come on Ireland!

Fuck your face Dave.

Don't have anything against him and hope he finds a new club. That said I'm happy enough for us to let him go. He has some talent for sure but I just don't think he has the mentality to be a consistently effective player for a club looking to push for Europe every season. He'd be a good addition for a newly promoted club or a team whose goal is just to stay up next year.

Depends on the fella. If it was Cabaye or something then you couldn't blame the lass for trying her luck there first.

Spanish guy in excited about the international tournament shocker. We're gonna destroy ye btw.

Flying out on Thursday, gonna be a mental couple of weeks. Absolutely can't wait, hope we don't just lose all three games in convincing fashion.

Fucking state of that jersey.

Sounds like he'd be a signing in the Abeid mould, looking a couple of years down the line with maybe the odd cup appearance in the short term. More signings like this the better IMO, long as there are a few for the first team as well of course. And yeah, being a Coventry fan sounds rubbish.

Aye, you just know he's an absolute dickhead.

Americans love a good "strong" challenge.

Well worked goal that.