Ian C

I don't use smilies very often, but your posts leave me lost for words. I can't believe that you,,,, ah forget it, I'm gonna go and post on the Landon Donovan thread.

Memaclub made me do it, I was gonna replay to his post on why won't get relegated because we haven't spent £20m and had to find a somethink only slightly more interesting to post on....
 
Yeah Landon Donovan, was alright first time round. Plays for the U.S of A and is a generally good egg.

I really don't see how this is indicative of the club being poorly run.
 
I think it's an indication that retail staff don't work well late at night or early in the morning. Any, absolutely any, comment that implies otherwise is taking the absolute piss.

I really don't see how this is indicative of the club being poorly run.
 
I think it's an indication that retail staff don't work well late at night or early in the morning. Any, absolutely any, comment that implies otherwise is taking the absolute piss.

I really don't see how this is indicative of the club being poorly run.
 
I think it's an indication that retail staff don't work well late at night or early in the morning. Any, absolutely any, comment that implies otherwise is taking the absolute piss.

Will this thread ever just die?

WHAT IS GOING ON I CAN'T HANDLE THIS, THIS ISN'T EVERTON.
 
 
someone hold me

WHAT IS GOING ON I CAN'T HANDLE THIS, THIS ISN'T EVERTON.
 
 
someone hold me

Rounds Bluetooth device and inclusive minutes will save us the loan fee for Moses itself.

WHAT IS GOING ON I CAN'T HANDLE THIS, THIS ISN'T EVERTON.
 
 
someone hold me

This is a very, very good signing. Glad to see we've solved the problem at GK with something other than a stop-gap B-rated player. Really looked a player for Wigan, great potential.

This is a very, very good signing. Glad to see we've solved the problem at GK with something other than a stop-gap B-rated player. Really looked a player for Wigan, great potential.

This is a very, very good signing. Glad to see we've solved the problem at GK with something other than a stop-gap B-rated player. Really looked a player for Wigan, great potential.

This is a very, very good signing. Glad to see we've solved the problem at GK with something other than a stop-gap B-rated player. Really looked a player for Wigan, great potential.

I don't think it's a good article. For one, it spreads that "for every van Nistelrooy, there's an Alves" shite. That's a mental construct and nothing more. Van Nistelrooy and his ability have absolutely no relation to Alves and his ability and neither have anything to do with Bony and his ability. Every transfer is a risk. Even transfers from other big leagues: for every Zola, there's a Shevchenko. Don't get me wrong, Shevchenko was a fantastic player, one of the 3 or 4 best strikers in the world during his Milan days and even he wasn't a sure thing for Chelsea apparently. Even buying from your own league isn't a guarantee. For every Alan Shearer, there's an Andy Carroll. For every Robin van Persie, there's a Fernando Torres.
 
Then they also twist a lot of positive statistics into negative ones. They say "the best finishers need around 3 shots on target to score a goal", he does even better than that, but they somehow know that he will not maintain that. Then there's the "he scores 29 of of his teams 60 goals after 29 games, he must be shit" stat. That's like blaming Messi for scoring 46 of his teams 115 goals. He's fucking carrying the team! Blame their starting wingers Ibarra and Kakuta (scored 4 goals combined last season) for Vitesse not scoring that much, not Bony. For good measure, he finished the season scoring 31 of his teams 68 goals. That means only Ajax and PSV scored more goals than Vitesse. Then there's this passage:
 
 
Again, they're seeing trends and correlations where there really aren't any. Here's the strikers who did play for the Eredivisie champions in the last 10 years: Siem de Jong, Mounir El Hamdaoui, Blaise Nkufo, Danny Koevermans, Jefferson Farfan and Arouna Koné (PSV played with 2 strikers at the time), Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink and finally Zlatan Ibrahimovic. They must all be much better than strikers than Suarez (35 goals in his last full season for Ajax) and Huntelaar (33 goals in his last season for Ajax) then. The only reason PSV and Ajax, who have much better sides in general than Vitesse, struggled to finish above Vitesse, is because they did not have a striker of Bony's quality and Vitesse did.

I want to say I would cry out of happiness, but I can only imagine what my girlfriend would say if I started crying at my most vulnerable(during the act). I could see it now.
Me: Babe I'm getting close.
Her: Its ok
Me: Where should I come
Her: ?????(You never can tell what she will say)
 
At this point I start crying
 
Her: Babe its ok whats wrong
Me: Its nothing, Love (Yeah I'm an American. I still say love. I picked it up from ya'll and I like it)
Her: Tell me Babe
Me: Everton signed the best Asian footballer in the world today. His name is Honda
Her: What!?!? I thought something was wrong
Me: No, I am just so happy
Her: You never cry when you are happy. Get off me
Me: But, I'm not done
Her: Oh, but I am done. You can go come on your Honda.
 
At this point she pushes me off.
 
Me: I was really close, and I don't have a Honda anymore. I drive a Volkswagen.
Her: Then come on the F***ing Volkswagen.
 
Woman never seem to understand true passion am I right?

You are a strange, strange man.

You are a strange, strange man.

Pascoe's going to have a fit.

Again, the little veiled digs.
 
Everybody in our team has their own jobs, and the majority of them do their jobs very well. I get fed up of people thinking our team has just 2 players, and that those 2 players are the only ones who perform.
 
Let me tell you that we were finishing in a high league position every year before Fellaini arrived, and we'll do so again if he goes. Individuals do not make teams. Everton play as a team, and that is why we are a good side.
 
Everton developed Fellaini. Fellaini did not develop Everton.

That's racism that.
 
 
 

Dawkins probably not the best example seeing as he is very much a white, old man. (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/07/05/richard-dawkins-and-male-privilege/#.UN2gGqX7WTc).
 
There are plenty of ridiculous and pretentious things about every country - the protocol around the monarch is a bit out-dated, but it'll be liberalised when William takes the throne. The monarchy will probably head down the Scandinavian/Dutch model in the next while.

How about I answer this one?
 
Me not being British at all, a proud Irishman, socialist and democrat fyi. As an aside, Ireland is probably the best comparison of what a republican Britain would look like. Ireland's political system is almost a direct clone of the British system c1920 - with the monarch replaced with an elected President and the House of Lords replaced by a Senate.
 
First of all, the monarchy is cheap. Really cheap. The royal household costs the taxpayer ~£30m a year. It's a pittance per person (In the region of 70p). This money is more than clawed back in various tourist and merchandise related taxes and jobs gained. Cost is not an argument against the monarchy, more an argument in favour.
 
Second, the monarch is a unifying figurehead. It is an apolitical symbol of Britain's proud past and traditions. The pomp and circumstance surrounding the monarchy is as positive a display of nationalism possible. People from across the political divide can be proud of their monarchy. Elections can be divisive and bitter and about personalities. And that's even when you have serious policy issues to debate. Now imagine the election was for a position that had no policy powers (The Irish President for example). What is there to discuss besides personalities? Our Presidential Elections have a habit of being very bitter affairs (the previous one ending in the most bitter fashion with a live-on-TV decimation of the front-runner by Sinn Fein calling into the debate's producers and supplying incriminating information without any evidence).
 
One only has to look at Britain in the 30s and 40s to see a nation that rejected fascism, had political unity and a monarchy that held public resolve together even as the bombs fell and defeat seemed imminent.
 
Philosophically I disagree with monarchy in the hereditary sense, it is elitist and anathema to a equal, democratic state. But speaking pragmatically, the monarchy's benefits to Britain far outweigh its negatives.

Dawkins probably not the best example seeing as he is very much a white, old man. (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/07/05/richard-dawkins-and-male-privilege/#.UN2gGqX7WTc).
 
There are plenty of ridiculous and pretentious things about every country - the protocol around the monarch is a bit out-dated, but it'll be liberalised when William takes the throne. The monarchy will probably head down the Scandinavian/Dutch model in the next while.

Preparing us for the inevitable .