donnie

Bad signing poor attitude and would let him go back to Wigan if we could get a replacement in . Simply won't cut it for us

So wigan want CNZ back and we are trying to get a replacement 8) How confident of this are you MM??

Geez i think Bham is a shite hole but how the heck is Glasgow beating us?! Manchester, London and Edinburgh are better then us by far but cant think of any other city that comes close to Brum in the UK

Sounded to me as though SI moreorless run the show, which is what we really need from him. Lambert will be purring about that this morning.

As for the rest, probably more industry than star quality, though its never a foregone conclusion when you're playing a potential banana skin. Stephens seemed to have done ok, chipping in with the assist and Weimann was his usual busy self. The stark comparison between him and Bent is pretty clear for all to see, but then DB9 goes and does the business just to confuse the issue.

As for the rest, maybe Baker did enough to change Lamberts mind as to who should partner Vlaar and there was a distinct step-up in attitude overall, which is very pleasing to see. If only we could get N'Zogbia to take part things might look very different.

Nah your wrong here Weimann did nothing and added nothing to our team. Bent did actually try and put in a shift today although he kept slipping over and misplacing passes, at least he contributed. Weimann contributed nothing and if he made a simple pass to Bent would have been an easy tap in for him, instead he shot at goal with the weakest strike of a ball you'll ever see. Championship player im afraid.

But yes Ireland was majestic yesterday, always thought him as being an attacking midfielder but yesterday he sat back slightly and commanded the central area. I think him sitting behind a midfield centre 2, with him pinging his balls across could work on yesterdays showing

Comfortable win in truth. Impressed with Weimann and Ireland for the most part, good finish from Bent for the goal. Keen to see Holman and Ireland playing together at the weekend.

Sorry but fail to see how Weimann could have impressed you??

Guzman - 6

Stevens - 6 was decent going forward but kept drifting outt of position to often

Baker - 7 solid

Lawton - 6 played centre back, shakey at times

Licaj - 6 good forward runs

Bannan - 8 really think he has the potential to be a good player. He ran the show tonight

Herd - 6 scored and works really hard but headless chicken comes to mind. No real quality in anything he does

Ireland - 8 lovely touches all night and a nice assist at the end

Delphi- 7 worked hard, solid performance

Weizmann - 5 barely touched the ball, very poor showing

Bent - 6 had a nightmare game to be honest, kept falling over and giving the ball away but took his goal fantastically

Nzogbia - 3 don't think I've seen a worse 15 min cameo, get rid

Anyone know why tranmere fans kt booing there number 14 left back? Also they had a fat,bald phil Mitchell lookalike up front but was actually a decent player! Lovely touches and fast feet for a fat bloke

Probably best to read Stevo's response donnie. We've been back several times. NEXT!!

Fair enough, just cant be bothered to read 9 pages about Neil Armstrong to find out people have already mentioned what I said, oh well

If man walked the moon, why havent we been back?!....i know the huge costs involved but surely China would have done it by now....conspiracy theory's are nonsence usually but still not convinced with the 'moon landings'.

Oh FFS. :bonk:

:?

Always thought our best formation was the one Martin O'Neill used at the start of his reign 4-3-3 (luke moore, angel, agbonalhor) up front then reverted back to 4-4-2 for some reason although it was effective.

Attacking but yet defensively strong also...

Ireland KEA Herd

N'zog Bent Gabby

The problem with that formation is that the full backs are completely exposed, we do not have the full backs in place for the system either going forward or defensively. If you are suggesting a 4-5-1 in which case it could work, however I would be very much against that set up, mainly as Gabby is not a winger as he can't cross the road not to mind a football.

Yeah your right but looking at our team doesnt matter if its 442, 451, 433, no formation is suitable for us its either our defence that is too weak for that formation, the full backs are not good enough for it, midfield is too weak, we are not attacking enough...blah, blah

Lets face it we are an absolute disgrace of a team, worst villa team since the Kinsella, Eirik Bakke days although Id say that was better.

Lets be honest even fu**ing Wigan are a better team and have better players then us. We are a shower of shite, and the youngsters (who are bloody 22-23 years old now) who we thought would develop by now are all complete wasters. We are **** quite frankly. We need 5-6 new players, good players not championship potential, but it aint happening...people happy with NZonzi, Olsson, etc shows how far we have dropped. Only reading, norwich and maybe southampton have worse or the equilvant team as ours.

If man walked the moon, why havent we been back?!....i know the huge costs involved but surely China would have done it by now....conspiracy theory's are nonsence usually but still not convinced with the 'moon landings'.

Your knowledge of boxing is too great for this site Dr Pangloss lol but good to have a real boxing fan on here, keep up the posts there good reads!

What do you think of Bellew chances against Miranda?! Last time i seen Miranda he looked shot to shit, but i really dont rate Bellew. Think he is european at best, massive heart but his chin has been exposed by a journey man in mckenzie, he struggle with bob ajisafe and he really hasnt fought anyone of note other then an over hyped Cleverley, who if you didnt know has a Maths Degree lol

Really beleive Chavez Jnr will pull off the upset against Martinez...Martinez is living off his williams wins and against ordinary fighters like Darren Baker, and Matt Macklin he really looked nothing special. Gonna have a big bet on this as I beleive Chavez will pull it off against the odds with an ageing Martinez

Always thought our best formation was the one Martin O'Neill used at the start of his reign 4-3-3 (luke moore, angel, agbonalhor) up front then reverted back to 4-4-2 for some reason although it was effective.

Attacking but yet defensively strong also...

Ireland KEA Herd

N'zog Bent Gabby

Dexter is far better than Boardwalk Empire in my opinion. I like both, but Dexter is probably the second best show on TV, very close behind Breaking Bad.

Can't wait for Season 7 and for the cliffhanger to be resolved!

I love dexter but better then boardwalk empire and game of thrones no, no and again i love breaking bad but its so overrated that it puts me off slightly.

The Wire and Soprano's are the ATG shows and nothing else has came close.....game of thrones has the potential to be up there but its early days.

No they dont....QPR, Southampton, Reading, West Ham, Norwich, Newcastle, Fulham, Sunderland...

Just one example I could be arsed to find, but counting more outgoing players than incoming........

Southampton Transfers – August 2012

17th August 2012 – Jonathan Forte – Southampton to Crawley – Loan

18th August 2012 – Lee Barnard - Southampton to Bournemouth – Loan

Southampton Transfers – July 2012

6th July 2012 – Steven Davis – Rangers to Southampton - Free

19th July 2012 – Nathaniel Clyne - from Crystal Palace to Southampton – Undisclosed

20th July 2012 – Paulo Gazzaniga – Gillingham to Southampton - Undisclosed

20th July 2012 – Tommy Forecast – Southampton to Gillingham - Loan

28th July 2012 – Dan Harding – Southampton to Nottingham Forest - Undisclosed

Southampton Transfers – June 2012

10th June 2012 – Jay Rodriguez – Burnley to Southampton – Undisclosed

15th June 2012 – Bartosz Bialkowski - Southampton to Notts County – FREE

20th June 2012 – Ryan Doble - Southampton to Shrewsbury - FREE

Southampton Transfers – May 2012

21st May 2012 – Harlee Dean – Southampton to Brentford – FREE

29th May 2012 – Lee Holmes – Southampton to Preston North End - FREE

No, Rodriquez cost around £6 million, all the outgoings were for free so doesnt present your counter argument fairly as the rodriquez deal says 'undisclosed' when that deal alone cost more then what they received from the outgoings, plus im sure his wages alone equated to all there championship, league 1 wages combined, even if he did come from the championship

Every club, bar Chelsea, City and United (after losing the top spot) has a sell to buy policy.

Would be crazy to not have it. And very irresponsible.

No they dont....QPR, Southampton, Reading, West Ham, Norwich, Newcastle, Fulham, Sunderland...

Leon Knights tweets are the best. His tweets to Jamie O'Hara were disgusting but his twitter war with Amir Khan and Paulie Maglinelli were pretty funny

Incidentally, September 8th is an incredible day for boxing:

Tony Bellew vs Edison Miranda

Darren Barker vs Simone Rotolo

Andre Ward vs Chad Dawson

Antonio DeMarco vs John Molina

Bowie Tupou vs Malik Scott

Tomasz Adamek vs Travis Walker

Bryant Jennings vs Chris Koval

Steve Cunningham vs Jason Gavern

Devon Alexander vs Randall Bailey

Lucas Martin Matthysse vs Ajose OlusegunPeter Quillin vs TBA

Vitali Klitschko vs Manuel Charr

Magomed Abdusalamov vs Jameel McCline

Plenty of good action there, I think my entire Sunday will be taken up watching boxing on youtube.

Be good to see ajose back in action after he keeps being 'screwed' out of title shots. Personally think Ward will beat dawson with ease. Cant see any upsets happening in any of those fights and Bellew should beat a past it Miranda, although still think Bellew's chin is suspect although his heart is undeniable

Mates who disappear once they get a new piece of ass. They always come crawling back.

Is it bad to think it's him not the girl as she's a good laugh, but he's a loved up mess every time he finds someone new?

Can relate...good friend of mine who i used to see at least twice a week meets up with a bird and two weeks after they get together, me and my other mates havent seen him in 3 years. Doesnt reply to texts or nothing. Strange.

Im guilty of this though, rarely see mates for months at end as id much rather stay in with my girlfriend.

Ronnie Irani pretending he knows anything about football on talksport. Rekons Mexico beat brazil due to their 'aztec' sprit!?

The new Bourne film - 6 out of 10

Watchable, but just felt like a completely different film with the 'bourne' name attached to sell more tickets. Very disapointing to be honest. Too much talk about 'blackfriar' and 'treadstone' and to be honest I had no idea what they was talking about. Not even close to the original 3 in terms of action, acting, story. Could of been so much better

Currently going gym 3 - 4 times a week as well as a once a week session of Boxing but have no idea what im doing to be honest. Looking to lose a few kilo's and only get to spend 45 minutes in the gym as go before work.

Currently I do (3 times a week):

-10 minute on bike, followed by a minute of intense cycling, 30 seconds rest, another minute intenses, rest, intense.

-15 minutes on the cross trainer.

- around 100 sit ups

My diet consists of:

Breakfast - Cornflakes with sugar

3 cups of tea a day with 2 teaspoons of sugar

Lunch - Brown Bread with ham and reggae reggae sauce

Dinner - Either chinese takeaway, steak n chips, spaghetti, or fish n chips.

Any suggestions of what else I can do in the gym to lose weight and tone up (not looking to bulk up) and suggestions for a better diet

Going for 4 nights in september. Any recommendations of what to see and do??

Great Britain's Holly Bleasdale on BBC Radio 5 live on finishing sixth in the women's pole vault and getting engaged the same night: "It was the best evening of my life! I was really happy with coming sixth. I didn't realise at the time where I had come. My boyfriend took me down a little canal which was very pretty then got down on one knee and proposed. It was so pretty. I said yes obviously! "

BBC

The 'I was really happy with coming sixth' statement is worrying. Losers attitude. Why should we fund somebody who is happy with finishing sixth?!

1 August 2012

Vertigo is named 'greatest film of all time'

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo has usurped Orson Welles's Citizen Kane as the greatest film of all time in a poll by the BFI's Sight and Sound magazine.

The magazine polls its experts once a decade - and Citizen Kane has been their top pick for the last 50 years.

This time, 846 distributors, critics, academics and writers chose Hitchcock's 1958 suspense thriller, about a retired police officer with a fear of heights.

Starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, Vertigo beat Citizen Kane by 34 votes.

In the last poll 10 years ago, it was five votes short of toppling Kane.

Hitchcock called it his most personal film and it sees the director tackle one of his recurring themes - love as a fetish that degrades women and deranges men.

It opens with police officer Scotty Ferguson (Stewart) retiring from the police force after his vertigo inadvertently leads to the death of a colleague during a rooftop chase.

He is then hired by an old friend, whose wife Madeleine (Novak) has been behaving strangely.

As the story plays out against a glistening San Francisco skyline, there are dozens of twists and revelations that challenge the audience's preconceptions about the characters and events.

It has become famous for a camera trick Hitchcock invented to represent Scotty's vertigo: A simultaneous zoom-in and pull-back of the camera that creates a disorientating depth of field, known as a "dolly zoom" or "trombone shot".

Like 1941's Citizen Kane, Vertigo received mixed reviews on release but has grown in stature as time passed.

The BFI's list contained few surprises, with the top 10 mostly representing a reshuffle of the 2002 list - and all of the films more than 40 years old.

Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story from 1953 was ranked third, bettering its last placement of number five, while Jean Renoir's La Regle du jeu dropped one place from three to four.

CRITICS TOP 10 FILMS OF ALL TIME

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

4. La Regle du jeu (Renoir, 1939)

5. Sunrise: a Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)

6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

7. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)

8. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1927)

10. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)

Source: Sight & Sound

The two new entries in the top 10 were both silent - Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera (1929) at number eight, and Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) at nine.

The most recent film in the top 10 was Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) at six.

The top British film was The Third Man which came in at number 73.

For the poll, the panel voted for 2,045 films overall.

They were asked to interpret "greatest" as they chose - whether the film was most important to film history, aesthetic achievement or personal impact on their own view of cinema.

"This result reflects changes in the culture of film criticism," Nick James, the editor of Sight and Sound said.

"The new cinephilia seems to be not so much about films that strive to be great art, such as Citizen Kane, and that use cinema's entire arsenal of effects to make a grand statement, but more about works that have personal meaning to the critic.

"Vertigo is the ultimate critics' film because it is a dreamlike film about people who are not sure who they are but who are busy reconstructing themselves and each other to fit a kind of cinema ideal of the ideal soul mate."

Meanwhile, in a separate poll run by the magazine involving 358 film directors, Ozu's Tokyo Story was voted the Greatest Film of All Time.

Again Citizen Kane was knocked down to number two, a place it shared with Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Vertigo took seventh place.

Directors including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen and Mike Leigh participated in the poll.

DIRECTOR'S TOP 10 FILMS

1. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

=2 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

=2 Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

4. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)

5. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1980)

6. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)

=7 The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)

=7 Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

9. Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)

10. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)

Source: Sight & Sound

The full results of the polls will be published in Sight and Sound's September issue.

BBC

To be honest never really liked vertigo, need to watch it again i guess. Of that list (critics) ive seen none (prob due to the age of these) other then 2001.

For me the greatest film EVER is One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest....comedy, drama, uplifting, depressing, amazing acting...its just the perfect movie

yeah I have followed billy joe quite closely and quite like him

ordered the tickets for it today, looking forward to it, ive never been to the boxng before so it'll be a new experiance for me to see it live.

pretty expensive weekend away though gunna be about £150 just for the tickets, train and hotel

Ouch!! Seems pricey...maybe would have been better to wait until november and go see Froch fight in Nottingham against kelly pavlik (if rumours are to be believed)...closer to home and a better fight/venue.

Read last night that the groves Anderson fight is off, because of the cut that groves sustained he would only be able to get in two weeks of sparring

Still Gunna get tickets for this one though

Billy Joe V Fletcher is a great matchup. Fletcher is undefeated 12-0 (7 KO) and if my memory serves me right he won the commonwealth Gold beating James Degale on the way