Ian C

20 hours ago, holystove said:

I'll be a member for 10 years on December 22.  Funnily enough, my "mental image" of all the ones that have been here for all that time hasn't changed at all.

I wonder what happened to Ian (IanC?), the Irish guy; he made a lot of good posts.

19 hours ago, MikeO said:

I'd tried to blank him.

Made/making a great success of his life; in San Francisco now, shame he's not still active.

 https://twitter.com/IanConnolly?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

Got a new phone today as my contract was up; still operating at the budget end of the market (because it's all I need) but they didn't have the one I wanted in stock so I ended up getting a 4G one. Can anyone tell me what advantages this gives? Couldn't be arsed hanging around listening to the smug salesman, who I think was looking down on me due to the fact I was spending so little .

4G has much faster internet connectivity - max ~8MB/s download. Whereas 3G maxes out at about 1MB/s

I don't know, his best position is Minister for Finance and I think we're too short in other areas to worry about that at the moment. I hear he's not so quick these days either.

+1 for the reference

Played a pretty decent level, mainly as a fullback. Moved in goals for my last year (at about 14) as my coach thought I'd have a bit of talent in it. He must've been right because I was poached off to play basketball by the local club at a pretty high level. Packed in the football then.

Oh. My. God.

 

It was freakin awesome. I absolutely loved it.

 

Star Wars for our generation all right. Wow.

Going to see it tomorrow night, you've gotten me all excited

Oh look, the ducks popped up again.

Jesus you're a weapon.

Hey Ian, nice to hear there are some evertonians around. Any good spots you've found for the matches?

Sadly only here for the summer, but you should ask https://twitter.com/EvertonUSA -- they've got Everton hook-ups across the States!

Thats why we dont hear from you anymore?

I'll be back in your timezone soon darling <3

Oh hey, I currently live in SF (SoMa/South Beach area specifically) but I'm born + bred in Dublin, Ireland (not the rednecky Dublin on the east end of the BART line )

Welcome to the Everton family.

When clubs fire managers, they often go for a completely different profile afterwards. So after Moyes, I think they'll go for a proven winner so I hope we shouldn't worry about them chasing Martinez.

 

I think they'll do well if they go for Louis van Gaal. Has worked for some of the biggest clubs in world football in Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern. Won league titles in Holland (with Ajax, but also with the much smaller club AZ), Spain and Germany. Has won every existing European trophy. Brilliant tactician and always plays lots of youngsters. He will probably be fighting with about everyone at the club in a three years time, but I've no doubt he'll have laid the groundwork for a successful team and won some honour by then.

Even Moyes won the Charity Shield

Gave it to Coleman, exceptional.

Baines and Barry were terrific too. Naismith would have it if he put away one or two of his chances.

+1 <3

have a korma

get a bit of spice into you lad, none of this korma lark

JOHN MOTHERFUCKING STONES.

s/o's to Barry and McCarthy.

HBO's new series Silicon Valley is seriously funny.

Loved it <3

Agreed, thought Stones was v. good - started a ton of attacks by quickly getting the ball out and forward to Coleman.

And hey, that mistake led to the first goal

BOSS

I think he could do a great job in a double pivot system, when his pace starts to leave him.

Push your traffic through a VPN and all that your ISP will see is encrypted HTTPS traffic.

Not even it's as simple as "he doesn't try". I don't think you can watch him play and think that he's not putting enough effort in.

I think world class players need to be surrounded by great players and a great manager, and given the space and responsibility to thrive. Rooney has none of that at United.

I think if he were at a Bayern, Madrid or a Barca we'd feel very differently.

It's funny, Rooney always struck me as someone motivated purely by football (by achievement, not necessarily loyalty), not money. I think his upbringing, or maybe the people around him, have led him to compromise his football for money - and I don't think he's happy with that.

You're alive!

Only insofar as being locked in my room doing assignments and studying can be considered 'alive'

 

He just wanted to tell us he's off to San Francisco .

 

The bugger....love to go to SF .

*whistles*

Was going to rant about the sheer incompetence of some people in one of my university coursework groups in the other thread but I won't, because I reminded myself that I'm moving to San Francisco for the summer in ~7 weeks and ain't nothing gonna bring me down

Fucking love it if Jela scored to win it and send us above them.

Signed a new 4-year contract today.