If carlsberg did transfer threads.....This would be it!

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Re: If carlsberg did transfer threads.....This would be it!

Post by TonyDomingos » Wed Sep 16, 2015 6:14 pm

^^ I'm with you, DSB. Where do I put my X?
Às armas, às armas!
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Re: If carlsberg did transfer threads.....This would be it!

Post by Prufrock » Wed Sep 16, 2015 6:21 pm

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That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.

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Re: If carlsberg did transfer threads.....This would be it!

Post by bobo the clown » Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:00 pm

TonyDomingos wrote:^^ I'm with you, DSB. Where do I put my X?
On his bottom xx
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Post by TKIZ! » Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:40 pm

Just going through the free market again and noticed this fella is available (117 goals in 256 games):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mounir_El_Hamdaoui" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Pfffft.

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Re: If carlsberg did transfer threads.....This would be it!

Post by TonyDomingos » Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:50 pm

bobo the clown wrote:
TonyDomingos wrote:^^ I'm with you, DSB. Where do I put my X?
On his bottom xx
On second thoughts ....
Às armas, às armas!
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Às armas, às armas!
Pela Pátria lutar!
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Re: If carlsberg did transfer threads.....This would be it!

Post by thebish » Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:52 pm

TonyDomingos wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:
TonyDomingos wrote:^^ I'm with you, DSB. Where do I put my X?
On his bottom xx
On second thoughts ....
On Nolly's bottom?

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Re: If carlsberg did transfer threads.....This would be it!

Post by Il Pirate » Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:54 pm

For me, Nolan has done his bit here and I'm very thankful for his previous contribution. However, to re sign him, in my opinion would be a mistake. Too old, too slow, too much of a gamble, no matter how 'cheap' we could acquire his services for. We should and I'm certain Mr Lennon is, looking at younger, quicker, hungrier players with a point to prove.
As for Wellington; no, I for one had not heard of him before he landed at the Macron.
But could we please start calling him 'Bomber' instead of 'Boot' ? :wink:

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Post by bobo the clown » Wed Sep 16, 2015 9:02 pm

^^ the Duke
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Post by Jugs » Wed Sep 16, 2015 9:03 pm

Il Pirate wrote:For me, Nolan has done his bit here and I'm very thankful for his previous contribution. However, to re sign him, in my opinion would be a mistake. Too old, too slow, too much of a gamble, no matter how 'cheap' we could acquire his services for. We should and I'm certain Mr Lennon is, looking at younger, quicker, hungrier players with a point to prove.
Um, the same Mr Lennon who snapped up Eidur and Heskey? :P

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Post by thebish » Wed Sep 16, 2015 10:50 pm

bobo the clown wrote:^^ the Duke
nahh - not so soon after the Juke... it'd be proper confusing!

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Post by bobo the clown » Wed Sep 16, 2015 10:54 pm

thebish wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:^^ the Duke
nahh - not so soon after the Juke... it'd be proper confusing!
Are you mad ??? It's spelt entirely differently.
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Post by bobo the clown » Wed Sep 16, 2015 10:55 pm

^^ well 25% differently, which is significant.
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Re: If carlsberg did transfer threads.....This would be it!

Post by wigan white » Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:18 am

bobo the clown wrote:^^ well 25% differently, which is significant.
Could always refer to him as "Beef" :lol:
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Post by thebish » Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:59 am

wigan white wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:^^ well 25% differently, which is significant.
Could always refer to him as "Beef" :lol:

we have a winner!

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeef!

not unlike..

feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!

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Post by bobo the clown » Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:08 am

Beef is nothing like fish.

You vegetarians are weird.
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Re: If carlsberg did transfer threads.....This would be it!

Post by Bruce Rioja » Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:20 am

bobo the clown wrote:Beef is nothing like fish.

You vegetarians are weird.

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Re: If carlsberg did transfer threads.....This would be it!

Post by Bijou Bob » Thu Sep 17, 2015 10:34 am

See what you've done Plymouth??! 150 odd pages reduced to fish jokes and still no goal scorer!!
Uma mesa para um, faz favor. Obrigado.

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Post by Il Pirate » Thu Sep 17, 2015 10:37 am

Jugs wrote:
Il Pirate wrote:For me, Nolan has done his bit here and I'm very thankful for his previous contribution. However, to re sign him, in my opinion would be a mistake. Too old, too slow, too much of a gamble, no matter how 'cheap' we could acquire his services for. We should and I'm certain Mr Lennon is, looking at younger, quicker, hungrier players with a point to prove.
Um, the same Mr Lennon who snapped up Eidur and Heskey? :P

Horses for courses. An emergency stop gap and a gamble upon experience which kept us in the division. I may be wrong, but I don't see Emile as our future. And the pair were hardly 'snapped up' now, were they? It would be interesting to know if Eidur would have returned if another club had offered him an extra grand a week?

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Re: If carlsberg did transfer threads.....This would be it!

Post by Il Pirate » Thu Sep 17, 2015 10:38 am

Bijou Bob wrote:See what you've done Plymouth??! 150 odd pages reduced to fish jokes and still no goal scorer!!

As we may have funds available for two signings, how about a cheeky bid for Billy the Fish as second goalie?

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Re: If carlsberg did transfer threads.....This would be it!

Post by Tombwfc » Thu Sep 17, 2015 10:46 am

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:
Tombwfc wrote:Andy Carroll's record starting games alongside Kevin Nolan is a goal every 2.3 games. Outside of the games he's started with Nolan, he averages a goal every 4.3 games.
While you're on the abacus, out of interest, what's Carroll's scoring rate with and without Allardyce as manager? Or, perhaps an easier one: of Carroll's goals, how many have come from Nolan assists? As someone once said, everyone that confuses correlation with causation ends up dead eventually.
If you just take games he's started in the Premier League, he's scored 14 in 46 when managed by Big Sam (3.3 games per goal). Not managed by Big Sam he's scored 19 in 51 (2.7 games per goal).

Correlation doesn't equal causation, but the same applies to your own stat about goals Nolan has scored since turning 31. A result of terminal decline due to age? Possibly. Or a new style of play being imposed on his team from above that caused them to rely much less on him? He started 35 games in 2012/13 (10 goals), 33 in 2013/14 (7 goals) but then only 19 in 2014/15 (1 goal). Or just a bad season? In his early twenties for us he went 01/02 (8 goals), 02/03 (1 goal), 03/04 (9 goals).
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote: And if you'd read the line before that, you'd see I mention - in the future tense - that the squads will be settling down. "As Premier squads settle down, there'll be those on the periphery – and I would hate to miss out on them because we've made somebody a cake." I don't yet know which forwards will be unwanted, so to suggest ideas now would be an entirely hypothetical listing of squad players who may or may not be available, may or may not affordable and may or may not want to come: how many TW readers had heard of Wellington two months ago?
A large proportion of this thread is an entirely hypothetical listing of players who may or may not be available, may or may not be affordable and may or may not want to come. It just seems strange to ridicule the idea of signing Nolan but your own suggestion is to wait for players to come available who you don't even know exist.

Back to talking about players that do exist, Lennon has confirmed to the Bolton News that discussions have taken place with Nicky Maynard.

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