Fatwax

Pardew was walking around in training and deliberately shaking players' hands and patting them on the back. Making an effort to do it to everyone, but blanks some players - notably Barton & Smith. Presenters having some shit patter about it being the possible line up for Saturday or something.

I hope so, no handshake for Alan Smith.

Yeah, try fining Robbie Elliott. Burnt, Ashely. Burnt.

At least we're back in profit now that we've trimmed the wage bill. Can't wait to see how much they add to Pardew's immense transfer war chest. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/06/01/business/02money.1.L.jpg

he's quite a major signing, always big news when a fee is agreed Aye, but not breaking in the sense that this is the first we've heard of it. I just felt like a dick typing something that we all already knew so started babbling. Your logic makes me feel like a dick.

Medial ligament surgery? Yes.

Fee agreed. Travelling for medial. SSN. Not sure how this is quite breaking news though.. but it is. So there.

He'll get injured before the 90 minutes are up without a doubt being rushed back if so.

a -6 goal diff? You never know, like.

So they'll be really good as opposed to really really good. Or will they?

I actually reckon we might get something from this. You kind of have to I suppose.

Every stream I've found online (including on my iPod Touch) is the FM feed, which is the mackems. Aye same here, just wondered if someone who's got better internet skills had found something. Bit annoying really, the coverage of our friendlies this season has been very poor.

So no internet radio coverage for us?

Imagine if it said we lost 7-0. Meltdown.

They have for about 12 months now or something stupid.

Great response... Thanks for proving what I already thought. Everything you've said has been completely spineles. Yumago, samanes-seki. Really? You've really googled Korean swear words? Regardless of everything else that's kicking off in this thread I must say that this just makes you look like a dick.

I assume the 2m is just to allow Swansea to speak to him, yeah?

I seriously doubt we'll be one of the best, if not the best in the league. I think we have the potential to have a very good centre midfield and they'll see amazing to us.. but that's mainly because of the last 4 or so season of a midfield incapable of movement.

Guybrush Twreepwood as Social Secretary.

Ahhh, so it's basically a case of you can't stand him so everything should be moved around to suit your needs. Got you. If we're going to put a stop to this because he speaks bollocks then we need to do the same with other things then? There's loads of sources that are known to be total s*** but get used around the forum... No. Just him and those that we know for sure spend every hour of every day making up bullshit stories. It's completely f***ing stupid and has no place on a good messageboard like this. But it doesn't work like that. You can't just ban people for posting a tweet from someone who has a load of followers and acts like he's the big 'I am'. Some are going to fall for it for the reasons I outlined earlier and it'd be unfair to ban everyone (or anyone) for that reason. 99.9% of twitter ITK posts are bullshit and you know that.. same goes for Martin Jol who posts his Spurs ITK bullshit.. same as every tribalfootball bullshit story. It's unavoidable. Going back to my original point, surely this thread was made to keep all of the Twitter bullshit away from the other threads because it is actually 100% unavoidable?

Ahhh, so it's basically a case of you can't stand him so everything should be moved around to suit your needs. Got you. If we're going to put a stop to this because he speaks bollocks then we need to do the same with other things then? There's loads of sources that are known to be total shit but get used around the forum...

Generally, the people that have posted his stuff seem to be doing it as if to say 'look what he's come out with now'. If you only want twitter rumours with an element of truth in or with at least to be from a source that isn't this one person then be clearer with the thread surely. It says bollocks in the thread title and this Colin clearly talks bollocks so I can't see what the massive issue should be. If it's that much of a problem just change the thread title and give people a heads up. You're assuming that every poster is aware of this Colin fella and that they check all the obvious places day in day out. Seems a bit unfair to jump on people based on the assumption that they should know that he's like some kind of hashtag voldemort around here...

Why do people get so stressed out about the Colin thing in this thread? I thought this was a thread designed for the sole purpose of twitter bullshit...?

Was that because they spent the whole time haggling ? As with Liverpool and Chelsea in the earlier examples, they did not wait til late August to get a cheaper deal, as people here are arguing we should do with N'Zogbia. In all of those cases, the selling club were very reluctant to sell. In N'Zogbia's case, the selling club are happy to let go. Perhaps some don't rate the player as highly which is fair enough, and wouldn't mind us targetting someone else. I'm just not convinced we can get a player as proven in the Premier League. Given our other signings have been players with fitness concerns or no Premier League experience, to bring in N'Zogbia after the season he's just had would be a big boost. There were probably numerous points of contact during the whole summer over the player but obviously that's just supposition so can't be cast.. however likely. Another example is Arsenal with Arshavin - that one went over the transfer deadline if I recall and had been going back and forth all summer. There's loads of cases of it, definitely not just a 'small club' thing. Don't get me wrong, I agree that it'd be fantastic to have all the players here now and ready but the truth is that it just doesn't happen that way - regardless of the clubs' stature.