Football: WORLD CUP 06 and close season/transfer discussion.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:26 pm 0

Tapeloop wrote:What's the situation with Jenas at the moment? Is he off to Spurs do you think?

Theres enough ex Forest players at Spurs now I almost considered changing allegiance. Then I remembered *that* FA Cup Final and came to my senses.

Geenius · Post by **Geenius** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:00 pm 0

Mildly surprised no-one has posted this up yet - UEFA Cup first round:

Dinamo Bucharest v EVERTON
HIBERNIAN v FC Dnipro
MIDDLESBROUGH v Xanthi
BOLTON v Lokomotiv Plovdiv

Bit of an arse that the only team there that I've heard of happen to be against Everton, but hopefully we can get through that and into the group stages.

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:22 pm 0

Geenius wrote:Mildly surprised no-one has posted this up yet - UEFA Cup first round:

Dinamo Bucharest v EVERTON
HIBERNIAN v FC Dnipro
MIDDLESBROUGH v Xanthi
BOLTON v Lokomotiv Plovdiv

Bit of an arse that the only team there that I've heard of happen to be against Everton, but hopefully we can get through that and into the group stages.

Xanthi's in Greece isn't it? That would have made a pleasant trip at this time of the year

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:34 pm 0

Tapeloop wrote:What's the situation with Jenas at the moment? Is he off to Spurs do you think?

I personally don't think he is and am fairly glad of that if the figures floating around are anything like real. Heard that discussions stopped a couple of weeks back though (so expect him to be unveiled in about 5 minutes knowing my luck).

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:07 pm 0

Everton won't get great draws because they havn't played in Europe for years, and thus won't get any seedings.

Geenius · Post by **Geenius** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:20 pm 0

Guru-Meditation wrote:Everton won't get great draws because they havn't played in Europe for years, and thus won't get any seedings.

And Bolton? I wouldn't have said 'no' to Plovdiv! If we can play to our best, and manage these 2 new signings that we're in for this weekend, I'd say our chances are pretty good anyway.

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:32 pm 0

Geenius wrote:If we can play to our best, and manage these 2 new signings that we're in for this weekend, I'd say our chances are pretty good anyway.

Van der Meyde looks to be a good signing. Probably balances out buying Beattie

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:10 pm 0

fog wrote:I might be in a minority of 1 here but in most cases I back what Souness has done with players like Bellamy and Robert.

Not that I can really jibe given our status in the league but :

Goals by Newcastle this season : 0.
Goals by Laurent Robert this season : 1.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:19 pm 0

Guru-Meditation wrote:Not that I can really jibe given our status in the league but :

Goals by Newcastle this season : 0.
Goals by Laurent Robert this season : 1.

What's the "goals against directly because of Laurent Robert being a lazy bastard" statistic?

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:20 pm 0

What's the "Corner kicks pointlessly blazed to the far edge of the penalty area" stat?

Rev. Stuart Campbell · Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:49 pm 0

Zen-Chan wrote:
Rev. Stuart Campbell wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 143512.stm

GET IT RIGHT UP YE, DIRTY HUNS!
I shall remember this, Mr Campbell

(Still, you're probably still upset about losing the European slot to Hibs. HIBS!!!!!!)

Yeah. Imagine the embarrassment of losing anything to Hibs...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... efault.stm

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:04 pm 0

Go Hibs! Go Hibs!

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:11 pm 0

Well, when you've got the mighty Ivan Sproule playing against you, what can you expect?

Zen-Chan · Post by **Zen-Chan** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:17 pm 0

At this point I shall cleverly re-divert the attention off of the "events" of this afternoon by making a brash Champions League prediction - we'll pip Porto by one point to get 2nd place behind Inter.

There, that worked, didn't it

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:25 pm 0

Ivan Sproule.