portslade seagull
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Is this thread now all about BG. Are we looking at signing him
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Shane Duffy - it's a DONE DEAL!
- Thread starter Philzo-93
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He was actually born in Poplar (hospital) but the rest is accurate
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Bit close out ..still we had sone lovely sunshine today
I enjoy BG's posts..............Some of them are ''off the wall'' and a bit wacky but we all talk shit sometimes but on the whole I think his views are valid ones. Except the ones on Matt Derbyshire and J Lloyd Samuel
bobby baxter
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- Jan 31, 2014
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This all day long, how many recruitment mistakes has Hughton made?
Anyway back to Duffy.
IF, the club are willing to spend 4million on a player they will know we are getting a good one. The player has had his head turned, even his manager has said so. This doesn't make him a bad player. If he wants a move here and he comes he'll get his head down and hopefully get back to form he showed last season and at the Euro's. Wasn't he in some of the statistical teams of the year last year? Couple of own goals and a sulk suddenly he's awful...
IF, the club are willing to spend 4million on a player they will know we are getting a good one. The player has had his head turned, even his manager has said so. This doesn't make him a bad player. If he wants a move here and he comes he'll get his head down and hopefully get back to form he showed last season and at the Euro's. Wasn't he in some of the statistical teams of the year last year? Couple of own goals and a sulk suddenly he's awful...
Postman Pat
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Hopefully it will be done tomorrow so he can try and get a training session in with his new team mates.
Best option under the circumstances for our hardest away game of the season.
Best option under the circumstances for our hardest away game of the season.
GT49er
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Season long loan, shirley.................................
GT49er
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Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Only if he can play left back.
So how many left backs do you think there should be in a Championship squad?
As many as BG thinks is necessary.................................He has been put in charge of left back recruitment
- Apr 5, 2014
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Sorry BG, but I want to call you out on this one. It, perhaps unwittingly, would be quite upsetting for many folk who just happened not to enter this world within these borders.
Your post is a reflection of your own, probably inherited, discomfort as to what constitutes as English and what doesn't.
Only mercenaries cause me any discomfort when they represent the national team at sports I care for. This is simply because they care less for the 'flag' and more for their own careers. But to suggest that a person who came to these shores at a young age, and has grown up within our culture, should somehow be barred from receiving the highest sporting honour of representation is as ignorant as it is hideous.
What you haven't considered is the latent, probably unintended, racism in your suggestion. For what such a strategy does is single out people on the basis of an inconsequential act that they had no control over. It also potentially excludes them from representing the very culture and peoples that they most identify with. Under your system, if I was born in England, but raised in France and never since set foot on these shores, I could become a UK national in sporting terms. Yet someone in the opposite situation couldn't.
Note that I do not make assertions about your character when I post this, or imply that any racist undertones are intended. But I would ask you to put yourself in the shoes of someone who would be affected by such ideology. I'm sure you'll think again.
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spring hall convert
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He might win it but he hasn't got a ****ing clue where it's going once it touches his head.
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Aberystwyth Town FC
This is a great post, on something that obviously I have very strong opinions on.
midnight_rendezvous
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A bit of an exaggeration. How times change. A few years ago NSC thought the sun shone out of his backside.
BensGrandad
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It was never intended to appear racialist just a reflection of what I consider to be English and eligible to represent my country. In the flats in my block are Romanian, Latvian and a Bulgarian family who all have children and if they had a child who grew up to be a good sportsmen they could play for their mothers country as above or England where they were born 2 options. I was born and bred in England of English parents so have 1 option is that right and fair. If my mother was Welsh and my father a Scot then I would have 3 options for international honours. That cant be right surely.
jamie the seagull
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- Jul 27, 2011
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How about you start a separate thread about whatever you are talking about and leave this one to any update on a Singing....
spring hall convert
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I was never too far one way or the other. I think he's a decent player but one that isn't helped by the system we now play or the quality of players that have been bought to play his position.
I have never rated his heading though. He seems to struggle with coordination in general. And yes, it was a bit of an exaggeration.
BensGrandad
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So how many left backs do you think there should be in a Championship squad?
As many as BG thinks is necessary.................................He has been put in charge of left back recruitment
Thanks for that we will sign Rico Henry based on your appraisal of him and then keep Sam and Gaetong until the end of the season then think again. Just ask West Ham for Burke on loan and n.no 10 from Vydra, Rhodes or Nugent either on loan or permanent with a view to having 1 season out of them then think again when we know which division we will be in next season