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Sorry NSS - I thought you might have got the wrong end of the stick re: age - as I was talking about Benny!!!

Roo - I wouldn't have thought that Higuain would be worth more than €20-25m and if Coentrao is only €14m then I reckon we would be after rather cash on the deal to let Bale go. Cannot imagine that DL would consider less than €50m.
 
Sorry NSS - I thought you might have got the wrong end of the stick re: age - as I was talking about Benny!!!

Roo - I wouldn't have thought that Higuain would be worth more than €20-25m and if Coentrao is only €14m then I reckon we would be after rather cash on the deal to let Bale go. Cannot imagine that DL would consider less than €50m.

The reason I have even brought Higuain into this, is because without this partnership with Real and the fact that they want Bale, We'd have no chance of getting a striker of Higuain's caliber.
If Bale is top of their agenda, the true value monetary of Higuain may never be known, as he's just "part of the deal". It might be our only shot at getting an amazing striker.
 
April 15th really isn't a good day to leave the house - this is the short list...
1861 - Abraham Lincoln starts the ball rolling on the American Civil War
1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies
1912 - RMS Titanic sinks, 1514 people die
1921 - Black Friday
1927 - First day of the Great Missisippi Flood
1940 - Jeffrey Archer born
1941 - 1000 people killed in Belfast by Nazi bombing
1955 - First branch of McDonalds opens
1982 - Seth Rogen born
1985 - Tommy Cooper dies live on national TV
1989 - Hillborough disaster, 96 people die
2001 - Joey Ramone dies
2009 - Clement Freud dies
2013 - Boston marathon bombing, three people die
 
This, the 1882 Movement, has been mentioned on here before. I enjoyed reading this short article and I hope you do too:


http://www.tottenhamjournal.co.uk/t...s_spurs_fans_a_change_of_atmosphere_1_2021414

I was trying to remember the name of this group only a day or so ago. They pretty much take over blocks 30 and 31 for every home game (that's the corner where the East stand meets the Park Lane stand) and very vocal they are too. For the NextGen game against Barca, they didn't stop chanting all evening. Next Monday at Barnet promises to be noisy and I believe they have been given 'exclusive' use of a nearby pub before the game.
 
For Michael Dawson fans that also like cricket:

[video=youtube;grpGy1P-gzo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grpGy1P-gzo[/video]

Why are there people standing in front of him when he's batting 80mph balls and then looking a bit surprised when they're nearly decapitated?
 
Looks a very decent cricketer and as always, comes over as a really good guy. Great Ambassador for the club and glad he stayed around!!
 
For Michael Dawson fans that also like cricket:

[video=youtube;grpGy1P-gzo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grpGy1P-gzo[/video]

Why are there people standing in front of him when he's batting 80mph balls and then looking a bit surprised when they're nearly decapitated?

Back in the 90's I worked one winter with Mark Illott. The outfit I was with at the time sponsored the Essex county side, so one or two of their players were given part time jobs doing P.R, And stuff like that.

One evening we all went off to the cricket nets to basically have a little bit of fun. Anyway, somebody dared Mark to let them come down at us full pace. ****ing hell!!..it's like facing a exorcet missile!..I've no idea how these batsmen manage to react in time to something coming at you at that speed.
 
From what I've read about cricket, the batsmen decide what shot they are going to play before the ball has left the fast bowlers hand. It's impressive stuff.
 
From what I've read about cricket, the batsmen decide what shot they are going to play before the ball has left the fast bowlers hand. It's impressive stuff.

Only really in 1 day or T20 cricket where you are trying to score runs quickly

In a test match they analyze length, direction and what-not in order to make a decision on what to play, whether to go forward, backward, attack, block etc. All with very, very little time. The practicing makes it almost autonomous, there is no time to weigh things up in your head, but shot selection will be based on what is coming at ya.