Pilko

They've not specified loan or permanent, because they clearly don't have a clue.

06/07 was a fucking rotten season, like. To add to Oba's goal at Spurs and the Emre winner against Reading, there was a credible 2-2 draw with Man U on New Year's Day and a couple of 0-0's against Arsenal and Chelsea at home. I can't remember much else. We had Pattison, Alan O'Brien, Edgar, Huntington and Ramage playing regularly, Nobby at right-back, Rossi sat on the bench and Sibierski up front every week. Amazing how we didn't go down.

The handball against Taylor was a load of nonsense. Mind you, so was Dyer's miss from about two yards in Alkmaar, and a Parker(?) goal that got ruled out for some minimal infringement by Sibierski.

Roeder's fault. Carr's fault for ducking out at the 11th hour and leaving Roeder to shoe-horn Huntington at full-back.

annoyance disapproval disdain

£20m for Swansea, £2m for anyone else. Let's show those stupid twats how to overvalue a player.

http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/sport/football/blackpool-fc/ferguson_heads_next_batch_of_pool_targets_1_3567004

Well, I think we've got enough strikers already at the club to cover the 'horror' genre.

If they don't televise the away derby they'll be sure to televise the home one. The home one is nearly always televised.

Eh. How have they played 4 pre-season games already? The teams Hamburg've played arrived at their stadiums to find beach towels draped all over the away dugout, they had to play them in a friendly before they'd shift.

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=607952 Yep, exactly the same viewing figures for Stoke vs Fulham than there are for Manchester United vs Chelsea, etc.

I've seen comparisons in style of play between Bellamy and Airey.

Would be happy with Routledge for N.Taylor.

Mind you, if we were going to lose one of Best or Ranger, we've made the correct choice.

As disappointing as he's been this season, it's fucking infuriating knowing we're hanging on to Lovenkrands and Shola to peddle him. With a bit of work, he'll become a far better striker than those two gimps.

glorified training session

Yet it fails to mention that Pardew has said Ben Arfa will be deployed behind the striker, where we have fuck all options (alright, Vuckic I suppose) therefore making pretty much the whole angle of that article null and void.

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Ba strikes me as a good all-rounder. I don't think he has one particular stand-out attribute but I'd say that most of the main centre-forward criteria (aerial ability, strength, pace, finishing and footballing brain) you could probably give him at least 7/10 for. I think Ba may be something we've not had for ages in that he's someone who always looks to attack the ball inside the box, be it whipped in or floated in. I don't include Nolan in that because I mean just strikers btw.

I wonder if N'Zogbia leaves Wigan (to us, or otherwise) if Rodallega would be wanting away? I'd love us to sign him.

Silver fox at Silverstone.

When it says the club don't want him, that's not in the same way they apparently ruled out Cole and Sidwell - they don't want him at the fee/wages they'd have to pay right now. It's not a question of the powers that be simply saying "nah he's rubbish". I'm absolutely certain that should the fee come down if he hasn't moved towards the end of the window, or he drops his wage demands (whatever the main stumbling block is in the eyes of Ashley), we'll be in for him.

What does this mean a raunchy way? Well, he whipped off his pants, dipped his penis in a pot of ink and wrote 'you can't leave' on the wall, whilst licking his lips and winking at me

Didn't David Craig stipulate that we'd be 'sticking with the new manager through thick and thin' when it was first leaked that Pardew would be signing a 5 and a half year deal? That was supposed to include if we went down; now we're being told it's top ten or bust? Just doesn't add up.

Offering Shola a new deal and yet not Barton would be laughably stupid.