Juju

Well, if you see me, I'm, commander backer #7291.

Well, I'd have bought it for £35, so whats £15 when you got a long bank holiday ahead of you..... Installing now, I'll see you in about 6 years if original Elite is anything to go by....

So has anyone got the beta here and playing it? Just been paid so I'm toying with the idea but £50 is not a small sum these days.

This is going to make Mcleish and Houllier look like inspired, astute management decisions. Seriously Randy Lerner, wtf are you thinking?

Actually Rev, I think it's "M.Khan is bent!" 'M. KAHN IS BENT' was, until recently, painted in very large white letters on a railway bridge that crosses the North Circular road in London between Crouch End and East Finchley (Just by the gasworks). It had been there for over ten years, unmissable by every single car travelling in a westward directionon the North Circular, which, bearing in mind that approximately 300,000 cars containing an average of 2.7 people pass under that bridge every day, would indicate that, over the course of time, the fact of M. Kahn's bent-ness may have been impressed on 2,956,500,000 people, or round about five times the population of Europe. This kind of majority opinion must have made it very difficult for M. Kahn to dispute. Many things, however, remain unexplained. Considering the scale of the insult, why did the man who painted it choose to use the polite form 'M. Kahn' - as if he was writing a letter to his bank manager? Perhaps he didn't know Mr Kahn's first name (Micheal? Monty?), in which case he can't have known him very well - in which case it seems a bit much to go and paint definitive statements about his sexual orientation ten feet high on the North Circular. And perhaps even more intriguing, why was M.Kahn himself (Morris? Matt?), no doubt a resident of the Funchley area and well able to contact the local borough council, content to leave the message there for over a decade? Is it possible that he wrote it himself? Which would suggest that the graffiti was not in fact an insult, but the biggest sex-advert in the world. Perhaps we'll never know. Whatever it was that persuaded the council finally to paint over 'M. KAHN IS BENT', The Mary Whitehouse Experience is prepared to offer a large sum of money to any person or persons prepared to go back to the bridge, under cover of darkness, and paint on it the words 'M. KAHN IS STILL BENT'.

Already sacked 2 people for a bad attitude. This guy admitted to trying to break the leg of another professional footballer, and his behaviour going home from a World Cup squad because someone stood up to him stinks. I don't want this man anywhere near my club.

Whils't it's not earth shattering to release him, given we don't know what transfer budget our selling owner and failure manager will have, can we really afford to get rid of any of the "arguably" cheaper players in the squad when there's no guarantee of replacements? And is Lambert the right man to be making the decisions anyway - is he just a dead man walking? Is this a Faulkner brainwave - lets trim the squad, without having any sodding idea what is happening next?

I'm a little confused - it mentions single player combat, but I'd always understood it was going to be a mmo?

I signed up for the beta of Pirates of the Burning Sea, a mmo, years ago, does anyone remember whats happened to it? It wasn't that great, with some land based button clicking combat, and sea combat on vessels, but if it's still going it might have got better with age?

Yannik, as long as you behave better than your grandfather, its fine. His bombs MISSED Coventry......

Given that Campbell had a breakdown and ran off to Belgium, then without wishing to make light of mental illness, and I get fairly hefty bouts of depression myself, that doesn't indicate the mindset for an England Captain. And as our estimed railwayman earlier said, 10 years ago, Bosmans, and the idea of players refusing new contracts but refusing to be sold on, to ensure a big signing on fee and rob the club of a transfer fee, was a big no no. To go to your rivals is worse. Just think, if Barry had literally walked for nothing, to the noses, after refusing big contracts for 18 months, think how much he'd still be reviled today. And with respect, the noses are never going to be as big an issue to AVFC as Spurzzz are to Arsenal. And this was 5+ years on, when we'd had more time to get used to a Bosman. To be honest, a great player, but a total hairy, crusty ballbag of a professional, from a fans point of view. It may not matter when your negotiating for yourself, but when your "England Captain" thats not baggage you can afford to have. As well as being a bit mental.

woo, good tackle by Foster - better timing than any defender on the pitch tonight.

More goals in this yet?

I've been pro Lambert a long time. But to field a weakened team, in one of the few things we could compete in, is just waving a white flag of surrender. We all know and understand we won't win the league again until something major changes -ie the oil wells run dry and or Abrahmovich is assasinated after a fall out with Putin, but as a one off, the cup gives us something to play for every year. If we're not even going to bother, then whats the point,seriously? Might as well sell the ground, move to a green field in the middle of nowhere and bank the proceeds and live off the interest, if its now only about money. And a decent run in the cup might have earned enough to buy a decent bloody player or two. Sorry Paul, today you lost me.

You do realise some of the arguments about why "your team is better" are almost completely mirrored by Richard Dawkins God delusion. At a higher level, its 11 men from around the world, picked by a man who could be from anywhere, with a work record of all sorts of imtermediate places, who happens to be temporarilly at the one you pay to see. That "team" is owned by a business person or company who think they can leverage their financial knowledge to make money out of you. Getting bogged down in abuse of people who just happen to spend money supporting 11 different men from round the world, assembled by a different man under a different business person with whom you also have nothing in common but a temporary geographic location is a bit pointless. You're probably a Villa fan, because your dad was, or some other influence. If you'd been born 3 miles further south, west you'd be a bluenose yourself. Or a baggie. Or a manu fan. Or Crawley Town. Or River Plate or Grampus 8. No point giving anything other than respect, to someone with whom you probably have more culturally shared things in common due to your socio-econoimic group and race/religion and gender, than some arbitary label applied due to some trivial difference in upbringing. If you choose to support the Villa, thats fine. Spend your energies on that.

Don't forget Nigel Kennedy ;-)

This is going to have to be a pretty big map to include Mars for Leemond. no, thats in Slough,SL1 post code.

Well, I bought MoP a month or so ago, but haven't really done anything yet - I'd like to do a panda from l1, so if anyone wants to join me, post a time and date. If a few of us could do so at the same time, that might still be kind of cool....

Sounds very clever to fellow liberal left wingers. To those affected by actual terrorist atrocities, from the bombing of Manchester Arndale Centre, to the London tube bombs, or even the nailbombing of Brixton Tube or the Admiral Duncan, is sounds glib, shallow, smug and ill informed. And I declare I am usually a liberal left winger, and this post left a rather unpleasant taste in my mouth. If your allowed free speech to say such thoughtless things, I am free to signal the crass, sweeping nature of a rather daft soundbite.

Its "sort of" trenches, there are trenches but then it's more like Red Orchestra2 without buildings. So you can be in a trench and its like a FPS, and then as you climb out and across to the the enemy, more into a lumpy bumpy open setting. The joy is that wwI weapons being slightly less accurate, the game seems less about camping from the back hidden, dying from the guy you never saw, and heading out towards the enemy.

Anyone tried the early open Betaversion of this yet? The download did't take much time? Been greenlighted on Steam,and I recall some people were looking forward to a WWI Trench shooter. http://www.verdungame.com/ I've played a few mins. First impressions were ok, but I have been playing a bit of Rising storm (The expansion for Red Orchestra 2 set in the East, Yanks vs Japs) recently, so its the kindof thing that appeals to me.

Well, I have to say I'm impressed. The guy has totally transformed the squad, from ridding the overpaid journeymen for hire in the squad with those still here knowing they're heading for the door if THEY dont make the decision to jump first. The club financially in astute signings. Lowton and Benteke alone have "made" probably 30mill "on paper". Big difference to those Ellis "amortising" years where the value of the squad just fell like a new BMW. The attitude around the club to a proper one of keen youth, not quite the "Ellis academy" of cheapness,but of a squad who seem more together than most of those in the past. Seem a lack of ego's, but some leaders like Vlaar emerging. A sense of purpose and direction. The ability to negotiate and win in the boardroom as well as on the pitch with contracts, and winning the trust of the chairman. Far more "press friendly". Everyhting Mcleish said, whether well intentioned, always just "came out wrong". That he has enough self belief that at the worst point of the season, he kept a cool head, with the plan he had and saw us just come through. And all in 12 months. And there's evidence the man himself knows his own failings and is addressing them in appointing coaches to deal with the defensive issues. Not so arrogant as to believe he is the finished article. As long as the squad has learned from last season, and 50% of the new signings work out, (all managers get a % of signings wrong. Even Wenger and Ferguson, next season could be genuinely "interesting", even if the top places are up for grabs. Could be the best manager since Saunders? Given the league wasn't so "fixed" back then, could be a better manager than Saunders and still not get top 6, realistically. But theres no doubt we're heading up the league next year. And success begets success.

I haven't been able really to afford a day out at Villa for a few years now - but i relish attending either first game of the year of Benteke is still with us, or our first home game against where ever he goes to, just so I can vent my opinion.

Just bought Pandaria for £7.99 so thinking of giving it a month to play with panda's. Still on Tarren Mill any of you?

Weirdly, my last text message actually reads "Are you still able to come to the funeral on thursday, Lee Gemma and Gillian look forward to seeing you there!"