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Wheres that freakin prayer emoticon when you need it?!!

Oh YEAH!

That much is true if MON fancies him as a player. It certainly wouldnt have harmed MON's kudos and would have filled the ground on many occasions. Paying Sidwell £40k a week to sit on the bench is ridiculous and there are others. I think it would have been worse to pay £90k for a player to sit in your treatment room!

Could well be. I think we signed Downing round about the 14th July last year. We signed Harewood on the 16th July in the first summer

Its my birthday. I would like a shiney new player as a present please Martin. Though this time I would appreciate it if it wasn't Marlon Harewood. Thanks.

not for wigan he wasnt berbs was 10 odd millon and sold for 3 times as much modric was a quality player who cost 3m more than downing Although, to be fair, Modric was pretty poor in his first season and their were questions as to whether he could cope with the premiership. He has since shown he can. Lets hope Downing comes good in his second season too!

Same style of play

The thought of a Petrov/ Ireland central pair scares the shit out of me... that is one half paced midfield right there!

This. And we would have the better deal IMO a very good replacement and money to spend. Am I the only one who thinks Ireland is a talented yet lazy nutbar who is nothing like Milner and would certainly not work in a midfield two with Petrov? Ireland is not a like for like replacement for Milner in any shape or form, he is more of a Sidwellesque player.. though obviously better. I can't think of ANYONE that would work well enough with Petrov to make us top4. I don't think Ireland is 'Sidwellesque', he's far more attacking than Sidwell. Much respec to Chorlton and the Wheelies. Best kids TV ever

This. And we would have the better deal IMO a very good replacement and money to spend. Am I the only one who thinks Ireland is a talented yet lazy nutbar who is nothing like Milner and would certainly not work in a midfield two with Petrov? Ireland is not a like for like replacement for Milner in any shape or form, he is more of a Sidwellesque player.. though obviously better.

id be delighted with £20m plus ireland, absolutely delighted. and i think city would be happy with it too The only thing about signing Ireland would be, we'd have to switch to a 5 man midfield or replace Petrov IMO. im gonna go out on a limb and say carrick and ireland in the middle of a 4 with downing and ash on the wings would be a far more balanced and effective midfield than what we've got right now although im not a football manager Hmmmm... who would win the ball back and do any hard work for the team? Also both Carrick and Ireland are Barryesque in terms of pace!

And who is going to replace Milner? Surely the 20m will have to be spent on a direct replacement for Milner? If you think Ireland is a good replacement for Milner then you have been watching a completely different Ireland to me.

ok then so you'd rather risk losing the best young striker in the country? I thought that was Sturridge :winkold:

I'm glad you are no where near controlling our finances, we would be doing a 'Portsmouth' very soon!

I'm glad its not just me that has a hate of all things Apple.

Because he knows we are not going to like his answers. In all honesty, he simply has to avoid doing anything stupid for the next week and he should be PM. I know for a fact that his constituency house in Oxfordshire is currently being fitted out with all the security gubbins that goes along with being PM so he must be confident.

Cameron ought to be walking away with this.... he should be a little embarrassed that it is even still in doubt that his party will walk away with a majority.

YES! We robbed them, I almost for sorry for 'em! But only almost :winkold:

Glad we got the three points.. but seriously worry about the Blues game next week if we play like that!

That sentence doesn't make sense to me. If it's a gimmick then it's not here to stay. It has to be profitable to hang around. And people will quickly tire of it. I suppose what I mean is that at the moment 3D is a gimmick on many films, however, when done correctly ie Avatar it is proven to be a very successful marketing tool and a draw for getting people to the cinema (like the film or not, it did do this). Those who have seen the film in 3D noted that it was far more subtle, adding depth to the screen, than was expected. This is the future of 3D rather than the 'pointy-thing-in-your-eye' moments of bad 3D efforts. Plus James Cameron has long been a fan of 3D in films and developed 3D cameras with his brother for his Ghosts of the Abyss films. Whilst 3D has the backing of such hugely successful film makers it will continue to grow. It has now become pretty standard for animated films to be released as 3D as these are by far the easiest films to 3Dify and I can not see that changing. Hence I feel that 3D is here to stay.

Its here to stay, gimmick or not.

Well Cahill nearly always has a stinker against us so lets hope that continues!

Apparently he's been laying slabs in his garden all week and is in need of a rest. Slabs or slags? :oops:

Which is correct - i'm not sure I like living in a world where John Terry can be right

I read some quotes saying he definitely wanted to manage in the premiership again - but I suppose he could have changed his mind!