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25 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Presenter chris hughes was told his comment was not "appropriate" by bbc chiefs when he said to Australian bowler  maitlan brown the following comment was "your a little barbie yourself with your blue eyes"

What the hells wrong with that? 

 

Maybe it's because he used the possessive.

2 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

That’s the elephant in the room. I don’t think we’d have nearly as many comments (over 70 pages for a backup keeper!) about Olsen had Deano or Unai signed him. Just a fairly ordinary backup option. Same with the obsession with Digne’s wages and with Coutinho - who I rarely agree with Gregg Evans, made a valid point that his signing boosted our standings and might have helped us bring in bigger names. Without derailing the thread too much, the fact that Unai is happy with all three names is telling. It’s a squad game after all. People need to move on from the disaster of Gerrard. 

As I said above, this is a huge reach. We all love Kamara and Carlos, I'm sure. Having concern about Digne's wages is also legit when he's our 2nd left back. Our 2nd left back shouldn't be the highest paid person in the squad (and neither should our past it attacking midfielder—the manager who signed them is irrelevant).

7 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

A backup who’s made just 7 appearances, 4 in the league, gets a disproportionate amount of comments that go far beyond fair criticism. It’s also because of who signed him. 

This is an invented narrative too. I get the heebie jeebies when he plays in a way I haven't had since Nyland, and it has nothing to do with the shitty previous manager. It's because of how shakey he's looked in 92% of his appearances.

4 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

Olsen kept a crucial clean sheet against Spurs. Yeah, he’s back up for a reason, but the desire to scapegoat him is getting pathetic. 

I think it's OK to have concerns about him. He might have kept one clean sheet, but to think he hasn't been worryingly costly elsewhere and looked shakey besides is the odd thing here imo.

His tenacity is a thing of beauty. It's incredible that this time last year, I couldn't see a future for him at the club, and now—I agree—he's one of our defining players. What a turnaround. Undroppable tbh.

After watching the highlights from last night I've done a 180 on the kit. The badge is clearly an improvement too, even if it looks similar to another team's. 

I do this most seasons, but I actually now think the kit looks pretty great (the only kit I never softened on was the one from two seasons ago with the weird shoulders). 

He's just a rich kid with bad taste in so many ways. I have no respect. 

Nobody wants an app called x. 

1 hour ago, villan-scott said:

I had wondered how he got so many so quickly - but that explain it! Count the fingers next time! 

There's this magical thing called Photoshop!

2 hours ago, Brumstopdogs said:

 

I can't stop watching this. It says a lot I think. If a picture speaks a thousand words, a gif is more like seven thousand.

1 hour ago, TRO said:

In terms of his Output....he is less efficient than Ollie.

I'm jumping in here and it's probably already been said but one of these guys is a striker and the other one an attacking midfielder. I also think Simeone plays the most dire football imaginable, and Felix just isn't suited to playing such boring awful negative football. Living in Madrid I tried to get interested in them, nostalgic a bit because of our epic Uefa Cup tie back in the day, but my word they are hard to watch. I wasted my money a couple of times, but never again. 

1 hour ago, NurembergVillan said:

If you think of it through a lens of "don't change anything unless it's to return it to its former glories" then it all makes sense.

Small c conservatives are literally change-averse. Don't take risks. Don't do anything different. That's been added to with "things were better in the past before all this change".

I've started adding another interpretation alongside all this. They're all just pissed off that nobody asked them and they can't get beyond their nobheadishness. If they came up with the ideas themselves they'd be all for saving the planet. 

59 minutes ago, bannedfromHandV said:

It’s different tho isn’t it, it unlocks the voyeur aspect and because they’re ‘real’ people and not porn stars (per se) it makes people feel like they have a chance…….not that I’ve thought about it much…….

I think people talk to them too. They have chats, so for lonely people it has multiple uses. I mean this with no irony...I believe a friend of mine had a secret addiction to it and blew thousands. He had no money and he's getting evicted. He seemed to do it for the messaging as much as anything else.

50 minutes ago, CarryOnVilla said:

How I role on the eBay offer button..

super low offer first to see how easy they’re to work with 

I've got some bargains this way! 

8 minutes ago, Shay said:

i think this design would be perfect. both the lamp shield and round badge part of the crest with the lion facing the right way! And i agree with everyone that said we should have more claret and less blue as part of our official colours. 

The badge in a circle looks as messy as when we used to have a badge in a badge back in the 90s/00s. I think Man City's looks so sloppy for this reason. The badge alone is enough.

19 minutes ago, Indigo said:

Young won three quarters of his duals that night while Gnonto only managed a third of his. You'd imagine a large portion of those were against one another so it's fair to say Young got the better of things.

Gnonto ran him ragged that game. It's probably the reason why most of us are aware of him. Young made similar impressed comments.

4 minutes ago, paul514 said:

Indeed some can't help but signal their virtue.

Boring. I think the suggestion deserved a bit of very unsurprising piss taking tbh.

49 minutes ago, Aston_Villan4 said:

It wasn’t made to look like Chelsea’s though?

Yet it does.

2 minutes ago, HKP90 said:

If you throw away our heritage just to become a 'unique brand entity', you are selling out big time.

The badge was chosen as an option originally specifically because of it's historic use. 

We can't copy other clubs, but going the other way and alienating our own history to avoid it being similar to Chelsea, who essentially copied us, is similarly desperate.

It wouldn't make sense to do it despite what you say. There's a better way. And the Chelsea badge is an unavoidable reality. 

For transparency, I have no love for the round badges, so I am particularly biased on this, but I guess that's where I'm at.

36 minutes ago, Captain_Townsend said:

All of this just makes me wonder, again, why a perfectly good revamp as approved by fans has been set aside for yet more tinkering and ultimately bickering. 

Because it looks nigh on identical to the badge of a much more successful club in the modern era and that's a really weird choice. No brand/club with any sense or self respect—or ambition for themselves—would chose to follow in the direct footsteps of a more successful club no matter what some fans voted for.  

3 minutes ago, sne said:

Ah OK. Again, there are NBA logos that are equally similar.

Thre wasn't really out of the ones you just showed. Ours are like two drafts of the same badge—ours is much better. Chelsea's is pants, but still, in the modern era they came first whether we like it or not and regardless of the badge being ours back in the day. We can't really compete for reach with a team like Chelsea, and travelling the exact same path as them with the badge is just silly imo.

The gaslamp option for me is a perfect modernised version of our late 90s/00s badge and I literally love it. It's perfect. There's no wasted space at all—all the focus is on the name and the lion. Sure, the colours could and probably should be tweaked to make the lion stand out even more, but you can't do better than that.

Riquissimo...

1 minute ago, MrBlack said:

Timberwolves and 76ers look like they belong to the same parent group.  At least as much as we look like Chelsea at the moment. 

 

Maybe they look like distant cousins. Yet we look like Chelsea's better looking identical twin.

3 minutes ago, sne said:

Neither do ours unless you think a ship and a lion is the same thing.

14 minutes ago, sne said:

There is about 15 franchises in the NBA using round logos very similar to the Philly one. 

• Atlanta Hawks
• Boston Celtics
• Brooklyn Nets
• Charlotte Hornets
• Chicago Bulls
• Cleveland Cavaliers
• Dallas Mavericks
• Denver Nuggets
• Detroit Pistons
• Golden State Warriors
• Houston Rockets
• Indiana Pacers
• Los Angeles Clippers
• Los Angeles Lakers
• Memphis Grizzlies
• Miami Heat
• Milwaukee Bucks
• Minnesota Timberwolves
• New Orleans Pelicans
• New York Knicks
• Oklahoma City Thunder
• Orlando Magic
• Philadelphia 76ers
• Phoenix Suns
• Portland Trail Blazers
• Sacramento Kings
• San Antonio Spurs
• Toronto Raptors
• Utah Jazz

But none of them look idential to another team's badge in the division.

2 minutes ago, sne said:

Philly rocking that City group round badge we supposedly will move away from due to Heck...

They're both circular, but everything inside that outer circle is completely different—and I imagine it doesn't look almost exactly like another team's badge in the same division.