This one is a belter
[quote=“Mac, post: 775055, member: 109”]This one is a belter
I scrolled straight down to the comments, check this effort out from “Munster Micko”, outstanding spelling.
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Fare play to ye Jessica. Stand up for your man. ROG hasbean the best player in Ireland and should always be the first man on the pitch. But dont blame Declan, he did all he could but the dubland/ulster chabal finally got there way. Munster should have there own natinal team!
Outstanding wumming from Bandages
Where the fuck did you find that pal? :D:D
Rocko[/USER], [USER=9]Bandage
Hugh Keevin’s article on Amido Balde is hunbelievable today.
T REMAINS to be seen whether Celtic have made a big mistake by going for Amido Balde instead of Johnny Russell.
Only time, and goal stats, will establish whether the half-hearted attempt to sign Russell from Dundee United before Derby County took him to the Championship should have been more serious.
But Russell’s already gone well in front of his Portuguese rival when it comes to credibility and common sense.
He made a dignified departure from Tannadice by using the social network to thank the club for the 10 years they had spent developing him as a player while also expressing his gratitude over joining such a decent club down south.
Compare that to the scarf-wearing, badge-kissing, trumpet-blowing arrival that Balde has made in Scotland.
Balde is going to have to be twice as good a player as he clearly thinks he is if he’s to live up to his own gargantuan hype.
I’d like to think most of what we’ve read so far from the former Vitoria Guimaraes striker has been lost in translation, given that he speaks no English.
Or, better still, that a lot of the guff was simply made up by his handlers to satisfy the needy among the fans who are desperate to hear Celtic have signed a world beater.
But the heart sank when Balde needed no encouragement to start kissing the badge on a Celtic scarf outside Glasgow Airport when he touched down on Monday.
The bit about knowing about Celtic for years and watching their games on television is standard material for the purpose of
ingratiating yourself with the fans.
It’s the same as Nacho Novo apparently being the only kid in Spain who ran around his village while wearing a Rangers top.
A revelation he delivered when he signed on at Ibrox, having gone without mention when he was at Raith Rovers and Dundee.
It all comes under the heading of “If you believe that, you’ll believe anything” and is relatively harmless fun to keep tongues
wagging over the summer.
Balde’s also promised to be everything from the old Jorge Cadete to the new Zlatan Ibrahimovic, which is difficult to contradict as nobody really knows much about him.
Now, on top of everything else, he hasn’t been done any favours by Ilidio Vale, his coach at Under-20 level with Portugal.
Vale believes Balde can be Celtic’s best attacker since Henrik Larsson.
On the basis that Henrik scored 242 goals for Celtic in 315 appearances, and was practically canonised a saint, I can give Vale a cast-iron guarantee. The Henriks of this world only come along once in a blue moon because they are bone fide geniuses.
I’d bet my house against his that Vale’s prediction about Balde emulating Larsson will be exposed as a nonsense.
Larsson arrived without a fanfare because Celtic had gone nine consecutive seasons without winning a championship.
He didn’t even start well, selling the jerseys against Hibs in his first game and gifting Chic Charnley the chance to score the winning goal at Easter Road.
But nobody bothered because no-one had any expectations in the first place. If Balde doesn’t hit a hat-trick in his first match the gullible who’ve lapped up the guff will be suing for breach of promise.
Larsson also knew the meaning of humility and never got carried away with himself.
Balde should watch and learn. Just for once, I wish somebody would sign for a new club and an independent witness feel moved to say: “I wouldn’t touch him with a bargepole.”
It would be better than lumbering a player with unrealistic targets.
Or drawing laughable comparisons with those who’ve written their name into a club’s history in indelible ink.
Especially when the one being lumbered already appears to have a big enough opinion of himself.
The new Henrik? Give us peace.
Absolute bollox alright. The use of the word “dignified” in the fourth paragraph was a tell-tale sign of what was to come.
The irish times has a great article about the hijinks of previous lions’ tours. It’s been on the guardian site for about a week.
Makes them sound like a right bunch of cunts.
Article by Ian Herbert in the Independent today about how Manchester City will benefit financially from the sale of Tevez. I’ve copied the first few paragraphs below.
The writer seems to be labouring under the misconception that depreciation can be just disappeared when you sell a player and that this excess earning can be used to buy someone else.
If City write down contracts to zero, and he had 9m left on amortisation then selling him for 9m generates a revenue of precisely nil. This is before you consider the fact that recouping 9m on a 45m outlay is a cash loss of 36m, no matter how you want to spread that in your accounts. There’s also a 17m saving mentioned which doesn’t appear to compute mathematically with any of the figures presented. This sort of ridiculous misstatement is what happens when non chartered accountants get involved in matters of financial reporting.
Article:
Manchester City have created the financial flexibility to go into the transfer market for a top class replacement for Carlos Tevez, having sold him for his ‘book value’ of £9m.
Tevez’s depreciation cost to City in the last year of his contract at City would have been £9m, if an initial transfer fee of £45m is spread across the five years of his deal. By losing that from their books, plus his £198,000-a-week wages and bonuses which would have added up to £17m, the club would potentially have the money to buy Napoli’s Edison Cavani, even at the inflated fee of £50m plus Tevez-level wages.
A £50m fee for a player would accounted for across the term of that individual’s contract. The cost of signing Tevez, when he left Manchester United in 2009, has never been disclosed.
[quote=“Rocko, post: 792418, member: 1”]
Article:
Manchester City have created the financial flexibility to go into the transfer market for a top class replacement for Carlos Tevez, having sold him for his ‘book value’ of £9m.
Tevez’s depreciation cost to City in the last year of his contract at City would have been £9m, if an initial transfer fee of £45m is spread across the five years of his deal. By losing that from their books, plus his £198,000-a-week wages and bonuses which would have added up to £17m, the club would potentially have the money to buy Napoli’s Edison Cavani, even at the inflated fee of £50m plus Tevez-level wages.
A £50m fee for a player would accounted for across the term of that individual’s contract. The cost of signing Tevez, when he left Manchester United in 2009, has never been disclosed.[/quote]
That’s just complete gibberish.
Even by his own twisted logic Man City still have come up with £33m for Cavani at the inflated fee of £50m. He also seems to forget they have to pay him wages
Frankie is one stupid cunt, as is the Editor. :rolleyes:
‘’ Looking to next weekend Gatland has a serious decision to make. He needs to make more changes, but his biggest call will be whether he hands the place-kicking duties to Jonathan Sexton or sticks with Leigh Halfpenny.
It seems that not having the responsibility of making the pressure kicks could be affecting Sexton’s overall game. It would be like playing a hooker and getting someone else to throw.
Halfpenny has done nothing wrong. That late penalty to win the series was 50pc at best, but for the good of the team it might be a smart move to give Sexton a go. ‘’
Yes Frankie, drop your goal kicker even though he has been kicking goals for fun all tour. FFS
That’s bizarre logic.
That’s just rank stupidity. And his point about hookers is even worse, there’s no need to have hookers throwing the ball in. It’s a convention that coaches haven’t bothered changing to a more talent- based approach for some reason.
I know one shouldn’t be surprised but fuck me the Indo are kicking the shit out of this non-story. Three Sundays in a row now in the Sindo and almost daily updates in the Indo. My favourite bit is [B][SIZE=5]“the alleged threesome scandal which has rocked the sport.”
[SIZE=5]RUGBY host Craig Doyle has become the first major figure from the game to publicly comment on the alleged threesome scandal which has rocked the sport.[/SIZE]
The 42-year-old, who recently signed a four-year deal to host rugby coverage in the UK for BT Sport, said as long as it was “consensual sex” the three-in-a-bed romp didn’t matter.
“Grown adults do things and as long as it’s consensual, is it really a story? The fact that the word is out must be very embarrassing,” Doyle told the Herald.
In Dublin yesterday to launch UPC’s new Horizon TV service to the market, the former RTE star said he supported Pat Kenny’s decision to leave Montrose after 41 years, and said he expected more RTE stars to follow him.
“TV3 are in for a huge couple of years because more people are moving over. Pat doing this has made it okay. I’m delighted for him because he is one of the best broadcasters in the country.
“People waited until Gerry Ryan died before they celebrated and acknowledged him.
“I think Pat should’ve done this years ago and it shows it doesn’t matter how old you are, you’re in demand. People don’t change enough over here and I don’t think that’s healthy.”
The father-of-four said he had no regrets about his own move from hosting a chatshow on RTE2 TV back into UK work.
“RTE2 was never the right channel for me.
“I’m not their demographic, I’m 42 with four kids and two cats and a dog,” said Doyle who revealed that the slagging he got presenting The Social on RTE2 was the worst he had ever received.
“That seems a long time ago but I’m back doing what I love.”
He said he hoped to have Brian O’Driscoll as one of the guests on Rugby
“People can’t pay their gas bills in Ireland and Roz is talking about spraying €500 bottles of champagne at pool parties in Marbella. There’s really no one like her. She is one in a million,”
[quote=“Wristy, post: 832525, member: 1156”]“People can’t pay their gas bills in Ireland and Roz is talking about spraying €500 bottles of champagne at pool parties in Marbella. There’s really no one like her. She is one in a million,”
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/roz-turns-50-and-returns-to-the-golden-age-of-spending-29580191.html[/quote]
That barry egan cunt deserves to be battered…comments are closed on the article …pity Id say he would be abused from on high…Out of pure boredom I checked his twitter and suprisingly he doesnt seem to be getting any abuse there…Think im gonna have to join just to abuse him…the cunt has over 80,000 followers on there…thats a sad endictment of people in this country…
Is that article not meant to be a hatchet job? Boasting about 12 euro cocktails is small time