Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:19 am  

Conroy wrote:

39?

Scharner will be a decent signing as a CB. Was always his best position. Hopefully McGeady will replace Beausejour. Would love to see Charlie back at the right price. Wasn't Benitez a flop last time he played in the PL?

Beausejour desperately needs replacing . Someone like McGeady or N'Zog would be ideal. Benitez got 4 goals in 30 games for Birmingham apparently, I could've sworn he was more successful than that.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Jan 31, 2013 10:45 am  

Conroy wrote:

And that's you speaking as a Liverpool, Darlington or MK Dons fan?

MK Dons all the way.

There is no more wretched a creature on the face of God's green earth than the PL club "fan" who has never even so much as lived within a 50 mile radius of "their" club and none of them are worthy of more respect in my eyes than the dirt on the sole of my shoe.

...and God knows where you got Darlington from...

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:14 am  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

MK Dons all the way.

There is no more wretched a creature on the face of God's green earth than the PL club "fan" who has never even so much as lived within a 50 mile radius of "their" club and none of them are worthy of more respect in my eyes than the dirt on the sole of my shoe.

...and God knows where you got Darlington from...

There is. There's Joey Barton.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:17 pm  

JonB95 wrote:

He deserves better than that shambles Chelsea. Trust Rafa to do his own thing (and give him more than a year) and you will reap the rewards -- just ask Valencia.

Twice he's taken over at the Champions League holders. Twice he's been a complete failure. Never his fault though.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:27 pm  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

JonB95 wrote:

He deserves better than that shambles Chelsea. Trust Rafa to do his own thing (and give him more than a year) and you will reap the rewards -- just ask Valencia.

Twice he's taken over at the Champions League holders. Twice he's been a complete failure. Never his fault though.

Remind me how he has 'completely failed' at Chelsea again?

You don't deserve him.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:37 pm  

carl_spackler wrote:

There is. There's Joey Barton.

But as a supporter of God's own RL team he is absolved of all sins by default

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Jan 31, 2013 2:18 pm  

JonB95 wrote:

Remind me how he has 'completely failed' at Chelsea again?

You don't deserve him.

We don't deserve him. We deserve a manager who's competent.

He's completely failed at Chelsea because he lost the World Club Cup Final to a side we were clearly better than. He lost a League Cup semi final to Swansea City over two legs. He has managed the side to the staggering act of throwing away two goal leads against the might and power of Southampton and Reading. He has been beaten by QPR and West Ham. He nearly managed to get knocked out of the FA Cup by Brentford. He has shown a staggering inability to change a game when the game needed changing.

The only thing has has done well, is to mimic Avram Grant in constantly repeating that the side were improving when everyone watching can see that they aren't.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Jan 31, 2013 2:56 pm  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

Conroy wrote:

And that's you speaking as a Liverpool, Darlington or MK Dons fan?

MK Dons all the way.

There is no more wretched a creature on the face of God's green earth than the PL club "fan" who has never even so much as lived within a 50 mile radius of "their" club and none of them are worthy of more respect in my eyes than the dirt on the sole of my shoe.

...and God knows where you got Darlington from...

Weren't they the club you supported that went bust?

I fully agree btw. It's not always those who live 50 miles away either. We're only about 20 miles away here but there's people who you know wouldn't find Old Trafford if they were dropt off at Salford Quays. They annoy the life out of me.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:17 pm  

Conroy wrote:

Weren't they the club you supported that went bust?

I fully agree btw. It's not always those who live 50 miles away either. We're only about 20 miles away here but there's people who you know wouldn't find Old Trafford if they were dropt off at Salford Quays. They annoy the life out of me.

You're getting them confused with the dearly departed Rushden & Diamonds - only 200 miles apart so easily confused I'll grant you Last I heard Darlington weren't technically bust anyway and were furiously trying to offload their white elephant of a stadium while dropping down the leagues although that was a while ago... I was at Diamonds' last ever game there coincidentally and lo and behold the ****s in Man. Utd shirts were crammed into the town centre before the game there while their local club were dying...

[John_D]

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:27 pm  

Anyone sniff another Portsmouth brewing at QPR?