: Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:42 am  

Well, that's France out of the 4Nations and back to international obscurity.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:45 am  

Blimey.

If only I'd have known what the competition was I'd have applied.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 12:02 pm  

Give them a call, please. They may yet change their minds.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 12:38 pm  

Blobby Goulding.

hope Doug Laughtons cars not around

[John_D]

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:41 am  

the canaries wrote:

hope Doug Laughtons cars not around

Well quite. The man could start a fight in a phone box

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:46 am  

Quote from BBC Sport:

"It'll be tough, but it's going to put me back on the ladder," said Goulding. "All those people who doubted me, all those people who knocked me in the last couple of years, they've got egg on their faces now.

"It's up to me to go out and prove them wrong and show what Bobbie Goulding can do.

"I don't disrespect people for having a view on me. Everybody's got a past. Maybe other people's pasts having not been brought up - I was in the spotlight.

"But everyone knows who Bobbie Goulding is and what he can bring to the table."

The Penguin doesn't like it when people talk in the third person. It makes them sound like gimps.

Nice to see in that little diatribe there was actually no mention of, you know, making France a better team and all that. Seems he's taken the job purely to get up the noses of some people.

Prat.

[John_D]

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:41 pm  

The Penguin wrote:

The Penguin doesn't like it when people talk in the third person. It makes them sound like gimps.

Indeed. Only boxers can get away with it

The Penguin wrote:

Seems he's taken the job purely to get up the noses of some people.

Prat.

Spot on once again. I mean - what could possibly go wrong?

[John_D]

: Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:41 pm  

Some early reaction in with the league previews from earlier in the week, and more here

Some early reaction in with the league previews from earlier in the week, and more here

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:49 am  

John_D wrote: Some early reaction in with the league previews from earlier in the week, and more here Pretty much sums up my feelings on the whole situation. Ridiculous.

John_D wrote: Some early reaction in with the league previews from earlier in the week, and more here Pretty much sums up my feelings on the whole situation. Ridiculous.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:06 am  

I dont really know how I feel about the situation, I'm trying to search for positives on the issue but struggling.

About best I can do is that Bobbie should create a backs against the wall mentality, which could be good for team spirit (lacking in the WC), and that Maxime Greseque will become a niggly little sh!thouse.