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#47656 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
Pippadoc
To be fair to him he wasn't complaining that we've been buying foreign players. Just players in general.
Given he's said previously Arsenal will have money to spend on players now, and then in this interview he says they haven't made any official bids for players I don't see how he can complain really. It's not like we're pricing everyone else out of the market with ridiculous fees and contracts, I'd say based on reputation we're getting some good value deals this window (I haven't seen any of the players play regularly if at all and they could always turn out to be a flop).
If he wanted to bring someone in I'm sure he could have identified targets and at least made some offers.
Seems like he's deflecting attention to me.
#47147 Capital One Cup 2012/13
Pippadoc
If he'd done it to a player who was purposefully time wasting he'd have a red and that'd be the end of it.
You can say he was provoked, but that's no excuse. You wouldn't dispute that Zidane still deserved a red for his headbutt in the World Cup despite being provoked by Materazzi(?). Admittedly it wasn't a clean hit like the headbutt (as in Hazard wasn't going only for the player), but there was no way he wasn't giving the ball boy a kick in the ribs if he wanted to kick the ball out from under him.
Having said that the ball boy shouldn't have done what he did and hopefully Swansea deal with him appropriately.
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I really hope Bradford can put up one more good performance. It'd be great to see them make a real contest of the final.
#47111 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
Pippadoc
Sky Sports are saying Coloccini was at practice this morning. So looks like someone's got the wrong idea somewhere.
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#46495 The cycling thread
Pippadoc
Depending on what caused the puncture you might need to replace the tyre as well. I had a piece of flint go through my front tyre and it made a proper cut in the tyre wall. Most punture should just make a hole that goes between the wires in the tyre, but if the wires get cut then the tyre is more prone to having things pierce through that hole again. Similar to how a needle through clothers doesn't really cause issues, but a bigger cut will make a noticable hole.
#46400 Newcastle Thread
Pippadoc
Looking like it could be a good transfer window if we manage to complete these deals.
#46209 The Night Thread Mk. IX
Pippadoc
Personally I like going over Problem Sheets and Past Papers. Working through all the questions again from scratch, without looking at how I previously answered them, unless I get stuck. I tend to use the past paper answers to give me a list of key things to know, try and fit all the important stuff onto two sides of A4.
I'm not sure who easy that would be for some subjects, in terms of what questions you have to go over and how similar exams are from year to year. I do Physics, and the exams tend to have a lot of overlap so that works out pretty well.
I find it helps to do something. Like writing notes out, or condensing them onto flash cards and working through questions. Definitely forces you to concentrate more on what your doing and that helps stop you get distracted as easily
#44400 Archer
Pippadoc
#38795 The Susie Book Club
Pippadoc
The Game of Thrones books are well worth reading! The serious is a good adaption of the books but like with a lot of things I think the books are better.
#38273 English Premier League 2012/2013
Pippadoc
I'd love to see them allow elaborate celebrations in the NFL again, some of them used to be great.
#35486 NFL Thread
Pippadoc
#32551 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
Pippadoc
Americans !
They love a good nickname for a sports star over there (RG3, A-Rod, T.O., etc.)
#32356 The Relationship Thread
Pippadoc
Drunk people!
I got a phone call from the girl I'm seeing at quarter to two after she'd been at a work party on friday. I was so tired I'm not even sure what we talked about
#32338 The University Thread
Pippadoc
Pretty excited about it and hopefully I'll get write something that can be adapted for publication as well!
#31599 English Premier League 2012/2013
Pippadoc
I see your point about the club the players going to making a difference. Out of curiosity what do Arsenal fans think about Gallas going to Tottenham? I guess as he left the club when his contract ran out and he'd had some issues with the club (losing the captaincy etc.) then it's not as bad a situation?
Surely Fabregas didn't give his best years to Arsenal, he moved to Barca at 24. You could make the argument that, like Van Persie, Arsenal developed him and he left the club after reaching his full potential.
It's a bit of an odd thing for me to relate to, Newcastle never seem to sell players directly to Sunderland. At least not big name players we'd rather keep hold of.
#30681 Euro 2020
Pippadoc
I hope (and assume) not, otherwise there could be quite a few nations qualifying automatically.
I'd have thought Wales could end up having a chance of qualifying for the Euro's since there increasing the number of teams participating to 24. Depending on the qualifying group I'd have thought you'd have a chance.
#30021 English Premier League 2012/2013
Pippadoc
Yeah Marvauex looked like he could be the guy to bring a spark to the side when Ben Arfa's not playing. Really impressed with him, hopefully he can avoid injuries now, at the very least he's looks like he could be a better impact player off the bench than Obertan.
Pardews hopefully the three guys that went off injured last night (Tiote, Santon, Ba) could be fit for Fulham next Monday. We could really do with that, and getting through the Bordeaux game without an injury as well.
#29826 English Premier League 2012/2013
Pippadoc
Yeah he was decent in the Championship. If he sorts himself out maybe he can develop into a good player for us.
2-0 up \o/
#29813 English Premier League 2012/2013
Pippadoc
#29502 What Was The Last Film You Saw?
Pippadoc
#27854 This Is Anfield
Pippadoc
Not directly, but you were obviously trying to justify Scholes' consistent fouling
#27813 This Is Anfield
Pippadoc
So Scholes fouls people intentionally and it's ok because he's an older player
But you criticise Suarez for everything he's involved with. Don't get me wrong he's definitely been guilty of some really dirty acts on the pitch, but some (not all) of the stamps to me look like he's genuinely losing balance and happens to step on the opposition player. I can see what Abbot means about pantomime villain from that, it seems even when he does something good people are always careful to point out he's a dirty player.
Everyone goes on about the Liverpool fans on here being overly defensive, but the amount of shite gets thrown at them you can hardly blame them.
#27714 Newcastle Thread
Pippadoc
I guess the only benefit to this injury crisis is it might get us picking up some new players in January
#27708 This Israel-Palestine bullshit
Pippadoc
#27441 Formula 1 - 2012
Pippadoc
It depends whether they think Kobayashi has reached his ceiling, and whether they can make big steps in car development relative to their competitors.
The increased money they bring in from sponsorship could be what they need to make the next step. They've got Hulkenberg who has shown flashes when he's had a car that's competitive (e.g. this weekend just gone) and they've lost Perez who was bringing in a big chunk of sponsorship money himself. So probably just to have the same budget as last year they needed to have a driver who was bringing in big sponsorship money, they lose income they probably end doing worse on the circuit and losing themselves income the following year. Starting a downward trend.
Really I think it should be looked as Gutierrez replacing Perez as their sponsorship driver and Hulkenberg replacing Kobayashi as their (presumably) paid 'No.1/established' driver. If you look at it like that it doesn't seem like such a bad decision.
#24610 What Was The Last Film You Saw?
Pippadoc
I watched "The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town". I think it would be a good watch even if you aren't a Springsteen fan.
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I watched Any Given Sunday the other day. I thought it was a reasonable decent watch and tackled quite a few of the issues with American Football (despite being 13 years old). I think they probably tried to fit too many different things in at the same time, it felt like it lacked in focus a little bit.
#24541 The Night Thread Mk. IX
Pippadoc
Can you noy find a temping agency near you? A couple of my mates got quite a bit of work through them in the Uni holidays. It's not exciting or anything, but apparently they got pretty decent tips working some of the more exclusive bars at Ascot Racecourse.
#22636 General Music Thread
Pippadoc
Just got Stone Sour's new album as well, it's had great reviews from pretty much everywhere. Anyone listened to it yet?
#22437 NFL Thread
Pippadoc
Given our (Ravens) performances on the road it's still not a slam dunk win, but it's definitely a big boost for us.
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In the SUSIE fantasy league I've got a 3 game lead and have a playoff place wrapped up \o/.
Looks like TomDixon, the self-proclaimed favourite, has worked out how fantasy football works and is finally on course for the playoffs as well
#22266 A few issues...
Pippadoc
#22186 The Night Thread Mk. IX
Pippadoc
I got one of the classics pretty recently. For the size they're pretty reasonably priced, the few that are a similar size have hit and miss reviews.
I don't know about any of the other models though.