Jenko#4

I'm going to open a whole can of worms here, but the greatest burger of all time is the 'Dead Hippie' Burger at Meatliquor in London. 2x mustard-fried beef patties, dead hippie sauce lettuce, cheese, pickles, & minced white onions. None of this Gourmet Burger nonsense, it's a proper dirty burger and served pretty much rare, but no burger I've had since can get anywhere near it. Would definitely recommend......

I wonder if it is as simple as US healthcare being private, and ours being public? I may be completely wrong on this (maybe an American can help out) but aren't US doctors and clinics essentially profit making organisations? So if they can push pills to everyone then they make money, explaining why so many people are on medication. The NHS is trying to save money, so maybe they think it better to go through other routes first (exercise, diet, therapists etc..) before giving away medication? This is a very black and white way of looking at it, apologies if I've offended anyone.

I get this pretty much word-for-word as well, especially the part around being pissed off about something even though I don't know what it is. Then I end up getting even more frustrated and moody because I don't know what I'm being moody about. I've worked out that mine seems to correlate to some sort of mental 'comedown'. If I've had a good night out, or spent some quality time with the missus/mates, or even had a productive day at work, then once that is over I seem to hit a wall. Once i realised that was what it is, it made the feelings more palatable and manageable.

He was bought as a winger though from what I remember. He wasn't good enough as either a fullback or winger in the Premier League, but I think he could be in the Championship.

Well Dr. X definitely isn't 'Hairyhands'. Look at them, its like he's never done a hard days graft in his life!!

I don't think we are after a winger. As @Grasshopper mentioned, if Bacuna now has a future, I think he will be used there. We all saw a couple of years back how good a delivery he has from advanced wide areas (I think he set up 5 or 6 Benteke goals in a short period of time) and I think a settled, focused Bacuna with the fans onside, plus poorer Championship full backs, should be productive.

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I think they could potentially finish on a similar number of points to us last season. You look at their squad and its set up in a very similar way. Full of players who didn't make it at a big club and are only playing in the Premier League based on past reputation, and earning big wages because of it (for Djilobodji, McNair, Rodwell, Borini read Lescott, Richards, Sinclair, Richardson). Then they have the next level of player down where they have older players on big money with no resale value (for O'Shea, Pienaar, Defoe read N'Zogbia, Agbonlahor) I think at the moment only one player (Defoe) would improve our current starting eleven, and even then I wouldn't take the gamble as it would feel like a throwback to darker days. Watmore looks a good player, but Sunderland fans already see him as the next messiah even though he isn't the finished product yet (Grealish anyone?) Plus in David Moyes they have a manager whose personality makes Paul Lambert look like he is on hippy crack!!

Van Persie maybe?? He was linked with Rangers and Stoke, and I'm sure we could compete with those two wages wise.

He looked about 10 years younger as well. His time at Villa really took it out of him. He came across as very intelligent, I still feel he was the potentially the right man for us, just at completely the wrong time.

Do the horses get medals as well? May sound like a stupid question but they're the ones who are actually doing the physical exertion!! Also, doesn't the chance of success mainly depend on how good a horse you own? The best riders might not necessarily be medal winners because they can only afford to buy Muffin the Mule.

As a fan, I'm loving the fact that Tony is so upfront about our dealings, as seen by the Lescott and Adama tweets today. It seems to have put the brakes on the press making up BS rumours about us for the time being. How does everyone think the press now see us? We were never a favourite of the red tops anyway,(we were pretty much their go to team for a bit of bullying last season- maybe deservedly so) and even the Evening Mail seemed to be against the Villa at times. Do you reckons Tony's honesty will help our cause in the press, or alienate us even further?

No Adama tonight.......

Barton & Krancjar probably on very high wages, Senderos on trial, and potentially Lescott coming in who isn't going to be cheap either. Not exactly any resale value there...... they need to qualify for the Champions League this season or I'd be worried for their bank balance again.......

Robert Hopkins- Villa, Small Heath, Baggies, then Small Heath again Scot Sinclair- Small Heath (loan) Baggies (loan), Villa

If any one was mad enough to order a Kozak shirt on the club shop website, he is down as #18 on there as well.

I though Kozak was 18, Green was 19 and Hepburn-Murphy was 29?

I'll bet on the footie and play cards with my mates, but one thing I will never do is online poker/games/fruit machines/scratchcards etc..... I know that they are supposed to be regulated but how can you ever be 100% sure that what is happening on the servers in the background is ever 100% legit. I work in IT and know how easy it could be for an admin guy to rig the system if the losses are looking high for the company, or someone is cleaning up. There is already proof that people have created AI poker 'bots' that are continually online picking up winnings off less experienced 'real' players.

Has his 100m time ever been recorded any where ? The Spanish record is 10.06 seconds.... wonder how close he could get!

Maybe I'm off with the figures, but look at Andre Gray, (£6m from Brentford to Burnley), Benik Afobe (£2m for Arsenal to Wolves) Calum Wilson (£3m from Coventry to Bournemouth) There will be players like that out there at those sort of prices, like Clough for example, and I would much rather pick up 2-3 of those than rely on 1.

I don't really understand this love-in with McCormack. He is prolific at this level, no doubt. But so is Cameron Jerome, who has actually helped teams get promoted out of the Championship 3 times, rather than just being the top scorer in an awful team. He is also exactly the same age as McCormack. Can you image the chaos on here if we were linked with him, and he has promotion experience?! I would much rather spend £12m on 3x £4m potentially good strikers (Kodija, Wells etc..), or 2x £6m on slightly better strikers with room to improve (Bamford, Clough etc..) I know its not that straightforward though........

A random question on this subject, but do players sometimes have it written into their contract that they must have a certain squad number? I know it is unlikely that the above are already fixed, but looking at that list for example, Elphick (as potential club captain) should surely have 4,5, or 6. (was 5 for Bournemouth I think). It would be a statement of intent by the club to give Lescott/Richards/Agbonlahors number to someone else. I think they did the same with the bomb squad a few years ago.

Wow, they are worse than the blouses!! On the off chance that one of their hoodlum are copying and pasting from here again, and that their new messiah loves to talk about the 'facts', how on earth does- 4x league titles, 6x FA Cups, 1x Inter-City Fairs Cup and 30+ England internationals make you a bigger club than- 7x league titles, 7x FA Cups, 5x League Cups, 1x European Cup, 1x European Super Cup and 70+ England internationals ?? We even have twice as many Intertoto Cups as they do! It's not even close.... It really frustrates me about football in the Sky era that so many fans think that turnover, wage bil,l profit, & crowd size constitute success. I would much rather tell my grandkids I saw us win the League Cup than the fact that I remembered when we signed Andros Townsend and Jonjo Shelvey for £25 million..... mugs!!

Russia are playing Slovakia in Lille on Wednesday, England v Wales in Lens on Thursday. Lille and Lens are 20 minutes apart and Lens is a small town, so guess where the French have recommended that England and Wales fans stay?? Yep......Lille!! So the fans won't be going their separate ways for a few days yet.....

They've got Lewis Baker as well, who also looked sharp in Toulon. Most teams (especially in the Championship!) would love a midfield three of Loftus-Cheek, Chalobah and Baker, yet Chelsea didn't spend a penny on them so it makes no real odds to them whether they make it or not.