Colos Short and Curlies

I'm only going on the interviews Smudger gave last year, but after his injury he seems to just want to play football and accepts that his days at the top are gone. If Hughts as told him that he isn't a guaranteed starter then he may be willing to drop his wages to get on the pitch. He seems a sensible sort of bloke, had a couple of decent signing on fees and good wages for a while, he may well be at the place in his life where the money isn't as important anymore

Could be the afforementioned £15m Carlton Cole. £15m? FIFTEEN MILLION POUNDS...Carlton Cole. I know times have changed but back in my day £15m would buy you an Alan Shearer. Or a Les Ferdinand, a David Ginola, a Keith Gillespie and a Phillipe Albert with change left over

Bloody Carroll cost me £130. At 4-0 promised the missus that if we scored 6 I'd buy a Delonghi toaster and kettle. buggar

Reminds me of http://accel10.mettre-put-idata.over-blog.com/0/08/06/68/wwe-raw/edge.jpg But needs to bring back the http://www.baodatviet.vn/Uploaded_CDCA/viettuan/20090413/Andy_Carroll_280x39_779934a.jpg

Or Honas as Pleat seems to like calling him

Whey Harper touched theball

Nah, the golden rule is to never cut the hair. History is littered with mulletts being chopped and players becoming shit

Another pleasing aspect for me is that 3 of our best players (Carroll, Enrique and Barton) are 3 of the players least likely to want to leave the club (unless we get relegated again of course) and ar eyoung enough to be here for some time. We've defintiely got something to build on for the future

Xisco is going to score today

The more I see of Carrol the more he reminds of of Edge (Wrestling not U2)

How funny would it be if we did and Smudger got 15 goals

Touche Who in the blue hell is Colo's Curls? Far too close for my liking

My two penneths.... Loan deals should only be allowed where the club getting the player pays all of the wages he gets at the parent club or the player takes a pay cut. Cardiff should not be allowed to take on a financial burden like this when they have outstanding debts to any other creditor unless they can show that the signing will generate the funds to repay the creidtors (and this should be overseen by the FA). In addition to the 25 man sqaud rule, there needs to be a limit on the number of players contracted to a club or a limit put on the number of players a club can send out on loan. Cardiff will still make the play offs at best. Cardiff's finances are/have been crap and the club is built on sand. Its a sham in many ways, the potential catchemnt area for Cardiff in the Premier League is massive, but I fear that promotion would lead to another Pompey situation

I'm not an Ashley supporter and I'm pretty peeved that we're simply refusing to spend money, but this ridiculous myth that Ashley is pocketing the TV money etc. just has to stop. He's not allowed to take money out of the club willy nilly, it's not how it works . Its his business, he owns all shares and can do and take exactly what he likes. His investments are all loans and he's using the cash coming in to fill his own pocket. Sorry but thats all bollocks. Its a limited company, any money that flows from the club to Ashley has to be properly accounted for - I'm pretty sure that he would have had to give written guarantees that he would not be reclaiming any money from his loans/cash injections this year in order to get the accounts signed off (the club would be insolvent if not if memory serves...) If he went back on this and took the cash out he is leaving himsefl open to all sorts of legal action from creditors, companies house and the auditors. He might be using the TV money to ensure that he has to put less in, but this isn't the same as taking the money out I own a limited company and can assure you I can take out what I want, when I want. As long as the business does not become insolvent and I pay the tax on it, no one can do a thing about it.

I'm not an Ashley supporter and I'm pretty peeved that we're simply refusing to spend money, but this ridiculous myth that Ashley is pocketing the TV money etc. just has to stop. He's not allowed to take money out of the club willy nilly, it's not how it works . So where's it gone? If you look at the big black hole in the clubs finances when he took over and the money that the Halls and Shepherd took out of the club, technically into their pockets!

We are! look at the 'turnover' of the UK, and 'we' have has to pull the plug on a loan that would have put a Sheffield company at the front of its field, not to mention the fact that we now can't 'afford' luxories like a public sector

I'm not an Ashley supporter and I'm pretty peeved that we're simply refusing to spend money, but this ridiculous myth that Ashley is pocketing the TV money etc. just has to stop. He's not allowed to take money out of the club willy nilly, it's not how it works . Its his business, he owns all shares and can do and take exactly what he likes. His investments are all loans and he's using the cash coming in to fill his own pocket. Sorry but thats all bollocks. Its a limited company, any money that flows from the club to Ashley has to be properly accounted for - I'm pretty sure that he would have had to give written guarantees that he would not be reclaiming any money from his loans/cash injections this year in order to get the accounts signed off (the club would be insolvent if not if memory serves...) If he went back on this and took the cash out he is leaving himsefl open to all sorts of legal action from creditors, companies house and the auditors. He might be using the TV money to ensure that he has to put less in, but this isn't the same as taking the money out

Prices can't won't keep going up indefinitely. With the exception of, perhaps, Man City the majority of clubs don't have cash to piss away. Those that try are increasingly finding themselves very fucked very quickly. Our way of doing business is going to be the norm if it isn't already. Maybe we aren't offering enough money to get some of our targets and it might cause us to miss some of them, but if the alternative is spending money we don't have - particularly on players that may or may not be suited to English football - then I prefer our way over Liverpool's. Absolutely, the likes of Everton, Villa, Liverpool - even ManU and Spurs this summer are cutting their cloth in a different manner. Maybe we are going too extreme, but if (big if time) we stay up this season and next you will see a Newcastle in rude financial shape who no longer pay inflated wages for inflated egos and are seen as a good choice for promising players. Football as we knew it 5 years ago is dead, and thank fuck for that.

Not quite Man City style owners though. They are trying to restructure Cardiff's debts rather than pay them off and there is still a lot of uncertainty about their true intent with the club. As likely to be another Pompey than a mini-City

That was my thought as well, Bellamy on loan to a club like Newcastle or Fulham is surely much better for City than sending him to Cardiff

Acuna was very underrated. Totally agree with that Mick - never understood why he was sold, played out of his skin against the Arsenal midfield in one game I remember. Wasn't it Acuna and Mclen, and they totally dominated Arsenal's midfield that day

Go on then, where did the chicken come from? All dinosaurs and then birds laid/lay eggs afaik, therefore the chicken is either (a) a direct descendent of a creature that is not a bird, or (b) a mutation from a creature that laid eggs and evolved into a chicken. I know what is more likely in my mind and it aint a cow giving birth to a chicken

That's a chipmunk. Spidermunk! Monkfish! http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/fastshow/characters/images/monkfish.jpg Loved the Spanish one: MMMMOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNFFFFFFIIIIIISSSSSSSHHHHHHHH!!!!! Put your knickers on and make me a cup of tea.

It's one of life's great questions. Personally for me the answer depends on whether you are religious or scientific. If you are religious then God made all creatures and therefore the Chicken came first If you are scientific then the Chicken was hatched from a creatured that evolved into a chicken therefore the egg came first. What really gets me though is that no religion (that I'm aware of) disputes Dinosaurs, and we know that Dinosaurs predate man. But Gods first creatures were Adam and Eve, so how does this work?