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The world is goint to end...

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  1. Aldridge_Prior

    Aldridge_Prior Active Member

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    It's the worst case scenario...

    Jose Enrique and Joey Barton and both go to the scousers and Tiote goes to Man Utd and NUFC fail to sign anyone.

    99% of us would kill ourselves/the nearest person or both but not I!

    I would get straight into some below-par formication!

    What would be your strongest team after such a tragedy? And would it keep us in the Prem?

    I'd go for...


    ------------------Harper----------------
    Simpson------Willo------Colo----Ferguson
    Gosling------Nolan-----Guthrie------Jonas
    -----------------Ben Arfa---------------
    -------------------Best-----------------

    OR...


    ------------------Harper----------------
    Simpson------Willo------Colo----Ferguson
    Jonas-------Nolan-----Guthrie---Ben Arfa
    -------------Lover------Best-------------



    Not as bad as I thought to be honest, my main concern would be how Best fared over the course of a season and to be fair, our alternatives if any of these were injured are pretty dire.
     
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  2. Rafa's Championship Party

    Rafa's Championship Party Well-Known Member

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    What cover for injuries are you going to have, lets not forget Ben Arfa and Gosling have only played 5 games between them and 3 of them were brief.
     
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  3. I Sit Next To A Badger-Leazes Corner

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    Roll on 2012, cant take much more of this so let's hope the world does end!
     
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  4. I want curly hair too

    I want curly hair too Active Member

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    Remembering that we still have 35 million in the bank
    ...unless that goes to **** as well
     
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  5. Aldridge_Prior

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    ST. Ameobi, Ranger, Airey
    MID. Gosling, Vuckic, Lua Lua
    LW. Ferguson (Play Perch at LB <yikes>)
    DEF. Perch, Taylor.... erm.....
    GK. Krul, Foster

    **** me, quite frightening just how threadbare we really are!
     
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  6. Smudger

    Smudger Active Member

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    Absolute worst comes to worst and that team would survive IMO. Barton will hopefully stay and we will spend at least some money to a degree, so... optimism <cheers>
     
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  7. Aldridge_Prior

    Aldridge_Prior Active Member

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    MA has promised it will be "invested" into "the club"....

    So it will be spent on a new SportsDirect supercomplex to be opened in the Gallowgate end...
     
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  8. Lucaaas

    Lucaaas Well-Known Member

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    I don't think it'll be that bad for you, you're looking at Conor Wickham which is surely promising (although half the prem are looking at him) and shows signs that you might be investing in the future. £10m of your budget would be a lot to spend on him though, considering he hasn't actually done that much in football yet.
     
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  9. Donkey Toon

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    It won't come to this will it? :emoticon-0107-sweat

    We have to stop listening to the media. They have column inches to fill and they put any old ****e in. They also don't care that it ****s with our heads.

    I'm imposing a media blackout on myself until the summer (when we can actually do anything about it) for the good of my health and sanity!
     
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  10. LTF

    LTF Well-Known Member

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    I usually impose a media blackout if we lose a game or play really badly, no sky sports news, no match of the day and definitely no newspapers.
    All the rumours and speculation flying round even now is an indicator of how it's going be during the next transfer window, whilst some rumours you know to take with a pinch of salt, the occasional one gets to you, the Enrique ones in particular at the moment are doing my head in.
     
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  11. Donkey Toon

    Donkey Toon Active Member

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    Absolutely! the Enrique one is particularly raw because I think it is probably true.

    The rest are just speculation but it still leaves that nagging "what if there's some truth in it" doubt. If I had any confidence that the media does its homework before running with these stories I wouldn't mind but I know they are just throwing any old rumours out there, or even just making random ****e up. It boils my piss quite frankly!
     
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  12. Agent Bruce

    Agent Bruce Well-Known Member

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    Ja ja, agree with the above.
     
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  13. Smudger

    Smudger Active Member

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    What if we make up rumours about stuff like Suarez and Reina leaving, or Carroll having a serious injury? Might distract the media if enough people see it.
     
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  14. Leon Bessi

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    Jose is going and good riddance to him.
    I'd rather have someone who wants to play for the club,also if we do sell him for 12-15 mill, it'll add a nice amount to the transfer kitty so we stand a better chance of getting the players we need to go forward.Ferguson will probably not be as good, but he is only young.
     
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    Agent Bruce Well-Known Member

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    Chicken Little told me the World was going to end so this must be true.
     
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    Aye the 15 million will soften the blow a bit, and if the rumours about M'Bengue are correct then that's also pretty good
     
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  17. Mod Face

    Mod Face Well-Known Member

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    What's the best way to get a rumour noticed? Can we send ITK letters to The Sun and stuff?

    Following an alledged training ground bust up between Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez, the South American striker is said to be 'deeply unhappy' with conditions at the club, alerting Bayern, Chelsea and Man City. He is expected to leave in the summer for a cut price £18m.

    The incident is said to have aggrevated Carroll's previous injury which will see him out until November this year.
     
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  18. Donkey Toon

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    Yeah, I like the cut of your jib young man! Lets start a wholesale bullshit rumour campaign. Try and swamp the media with so much crap they won't have time to make anything up about us!
     
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  19. AH

    AH Active Member

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    If enough of us (say...the entire NUFC board) e-mail this out, with small variations in each story, then it could get picked up ;)
    Doubt it like...but ya know, would be good ha
     
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  20. Smudger

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    Perfect, the Sun will believe anything, and they have no reason to suck up to Liverpool like SSN/BBC do.
     
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