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I do like Murphy as a sweeper-keeper! He is always miles out of his area when plays up the other end. I watched him doing this for Scunny at The Ricoh last year, as it looked likely we'd be signing him. He really is good with the ball at his feet (won the Scunny Soccer AM Crossbar Challenge too)...

Thanks, you're an idiot, that's kinda what I was saying. The mobster has missed pretty much every point I was making, as expected. Metaphor, comparison and analogy obviously not being common concepts in the mob underworld.

Your Joe & Hoff photo should end up on the wall in one of the bars at The Ricoh one day. I love it. Captures the moment and vibe so very well! Is it just me, or does The Hoff have a bit of the Winston Churchill about him? Whilst Joe has a bit of a Field Marshall look with those binoculars...

And you might want to ask Roy Keane how many medals he has.

Well Carlton Palmer was crap, but so was Gary McAllister for us until he had Carlton to do all his dirty work for him! I assume you subscribe to the Ossie Ardiles school of management. And he did so well! It's pretty insulting to be patronised in this way, and with some very immature...

I like the cut of your jib there, skyblue_rich! It really depends on the definition of "investment"! I don't see what is happening now as that and it's clear to many that we've been written off as a "bad deal" by the SISU Venture (vulture?) Capitalist dragons. I think I've just about had enough...

I'm incredibly excited, as ever, and hope that all my fears are laid to rest and my dreams of glorious attacking passing football come to pass. I'm also bloody terrified that we'll miss Westwood and King massively, have some injuries and the kids will be found out, and that it'll turn out that...

I don't think he's hero worshipped, TBF. He's respected for being an incredibly hardworking midfielder who always went in for tackles he had no right to win and in his prime covered as many miles in a game as any Prem CM. A good old-fasioned "Dogs of War" type player. Like Doyle, only about 50...

Lack of Turner and Deegan again is a worry (less so Platt!). Both needed a full pre-season to even be in contention for the Leicester games. Now they'll be playing catch-up during the season in our non-existent reserve side. As for Christie-he's been involved so much partly due to impressing...

Great news, welcome back Lee! A big off-the-pitch influence and a great role model. I'll be honest though, if he doesn't get his boots on at some stage I'll be amazed. Decent backup at the very least and an old head given our squad, even though I understand why he doesn't want to do that.

Ah c'mon, this just sounds like Richard Keys shameless self-publicist. There's probably bits of truth in what he says, but grossly exaggerated (not least portraying himself as a fan who follows us everywhere!). Maybe it's partly orchestrated by Hoffman to keep the flame of publicity burning...

This captures just about the level of smugness for me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X_Ot0k4XJc

Exactly. In August. Making my statement "he's still only 25" entirely factually correct! Macca I know what you mean, but the fact that Hoffman resigned due to player-sales and Ranson tried to -is part of the attraction. Honestly, we'll always be a selling club when it comes to the big-boys. I...

You've picked out the exact 4 players who've really impressed me too, Paxo. And I mean including "first teamers" in that. Christie & O'Donovan have probably been our best players after 2 pre-season games, and nobody would have predicted that. I don't think we're getting carried away or saying...

Ah but we're not quite at that stage of "negotiating" yet. We're still in the "screw you Hoff!" stage. And a lot of the above comments do imply that SISU understand football...if they did, we'd offer players contracts before they hit the last year of their deal :thinking about:

Did you watch Kidulthood and Adulthood on BBC3 too then, blud? Yer get me? Safe.

+ West Ham to that.

Yeah, much more likely to go to Birmingham. He was a quality player last season when fit, but he's had a couple of terrible injuries in the past few years. Time will tell if he can ever get back to what he was before-or even play at all. I'd be waiting until he proves his fitness before spending...

Just egg the Leicester team, Sir Digby! You are part chicken. Ideally with your theme tune playing! Dun-de-le-dun-de-le-dun...

I know Keogh marked Bellamy for one of the Cardiff games-it must have been the home one. Becasue I heard that Aidy's instructions on how to deal with him had his head spinning-utterly clueless. It actually brought forth a rare moment of support from King-he told Keogh that "Sometimes at this...