andy82
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I stopped posting on this messageboard because of some of the ridiculous views of some of the English posters when it comes to world football. I'm almost crying as i read this forum, but hey, at least now i can work out why the Sun's readership figures are so high.
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Clearly a yob. Stamps on people, mouths off at referees and, to cap it all, theres that poster. Absolutely hilarious that Englands wonderkid did absolutely sweet FA all World Cup and England were saved by Owen Hargreaves. Theres more than enough evidence that hes a yob, without speaking to him. His much lauded workrate was also pitiful compared to that of Hargreaves, Terry and a good 100 other players in the tournament.
Someone also suggested that he would be an ordinary member of the workforce if he did not play football, and therefore not a 'yob'. Do you have to be unemployed to be a yob? Wasn't that fat tattooed England fan from France 98 in a good job?
Anyway, i'm happy with the fat chavs performance, it won me a fair few quid from English willing to bet that Rooney would score more than Poldi and Messi.
As for diving, cheating etc, EVERY TEAM DOES IT. Yes certain players are worse than others, but to suggest that whole teams are a lot worse is nothing but racism. Eddie suggests the Germans were very quick to go down on the floor. Really? Ballack was going down all over the place but the rest of the team were no worse than anyone else. Having a go at Ronaldo is just the typical English blame game. At least this time the scapegoat gets paid enough to deal with it, unlike the unfortunate referee from the last time.
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None of you are right with the Schweinsteiger name translation.
The closest i can come up with is someone that watchs over pigs sleeping.
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True and I agree with what you say...but you'd think being next to that big thing called Ewood Park would make their Rovers items the most profitable surely? Instead they had any old tosh piled up. How many Rovers fans must have walked away with their cash still in their hand?
Does anyone know of anywhere else with a good collection of Rovers gear?
I'd have bought at least a couple of scarves - say a tenner for two? Add that to Ozzie's two quid and Hughes now has £14 to put towards a new striker. There's a long way to go to get Dean Ashton but at least we are on the right track...
I dunno if there are any clubs that hold similar deals with SWI, but if we are the only one i imagine the club shop is not given any different status to other SWI's of its size. I say this as the Leeds Megastore - considerably bigger than the Ewood store -has a lot of old rovers shirts - some several seasons old - in stock at about 4 quid a pop, and has done for a while. I suspect that the smaller stores only stock 'current lines' and leftovers are moved to the megastores. For some items - if theyve got 20 pairs of blackburn Rovers mittens for example, it would probably be cheaper to bin them than follow the procedures required to sell them at Ewood - the profit on that whole lot may be 20 quid - not worth someones time adding stock to systems, adding a new pickface in a warehouse, transporting them to the store etc. They wont order in any more because its going to be an insignificant figure on the whole sales.
I know sod all about blackburn town centre but i'd guess that SWI only wanted the Rovers store because its one of the few places in Blackburn people with a bit of cash in the area go expecting to open their wallets.
Oh, and on the subject of the clubshop - did anyone buy one of the 'flitcroft' long sleeved t-shirts just after Shagger signed all those years ago. Blue cotton, with red collar and cuffs and flitcroft + his number (23?) on the back? Now that was proper tat. I wnder where mine is
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Was sent this, may be of interest:
The truth about Per Kroldrup
Apparently Moyes signed Kroldrup without going to
see him himself, took the advice of a european scout
working for the club. A £5.1 million bid was lodged
and Udinese the Italian club who Kroldrup was
playing for couldn't believe their luck and
immediately accepted Everton's bid.
Only after the player was signed and all the
neccessary paperwork had been completed, and the
player himself had completed his first training
session with his new team mates did Moyes begin to
smell a rat.
Moyes was apparently totally unimpressed with what
he had seen and it was only then after he made
enquiries with the scout that it dawned on him.
Everton had signed the WRONG player!!!
The player the scout had watched had been Kroldrup's
centre-back partner!
This was why the Everton bid was immediately
successful and they (Udinese)were it has been
reported, totally amazed with the size of the bid.
So, Moyes now had a problem, he had a centre-back he
knew was not good enough for the Premiership, he
also needed to off-load him and get back if possible
the club's £5.1 million.
How was he going to do this without losing face with
the Everton fans. The first thing he did was report
to the press that Kroldrup was injured, he did in
fact have a slight injury but not enough to keep him
out for 3 months ,which is what happened.
Eventually through pressure from local phone-ins,
fan groups and local and national press asking
questions about this £5.1 million invisible man, and
also because of the club's injury list, Weir was
injured etc, he eventually had to play him against
Villa at Villa Park.
It was there that David Moyes worst fears were
realised, Kroldrup had a stinker, was out of his
depth and Moyes knew it.
The problem now was that other managers had now seen
Kroldrup's non-performance so there was no chance of
them getting back their £5.1 million- and he knew
it.
It has been recently reported that Florentina have
put in a bid for £3.6 million, my source tells me
that is in fact bull, they have offered Everton 1
million Euros- which is approximately £700,000.
An agreement has been reached with Florentina to
release to the media that the figure is £3.6
million, mainly, to save face at Everton Football
Club.
So, there you have it, mismanagement on a grand
scale which goes to show how EFC went from being
called the Mersey Millionaires in the sixty's to the
total shambles which the club is today.
Moyes apparently blames Chief Executive Wyness, he
blames the european scout, others within the club
blame Chairman Bill Kenwright.
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Thats the bugger. Don't think i ever got very far
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pretty sure there was champ manager way back then?
There was sensible world of soccer out around that time as well, cant remember much about that other than the in-match screen though. There was also another game i used to play religiously on my mates Amiga, one of the first football management games. Can't remember what it was called, but you had to start as a conference club and build your way up - you even had to sell the spaces on the advertising boards round the pitch yourself!!
I think theres probably several games you'll find, but you may need various emulators to play.
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And apparently after the game, some unhappy Boro fans were waiting at the front entrance. When Mark Viduka was leaving, he responded to some accusations that he was spineless and lazy by laughing, blowing a kiss to some of the crowd and sarcastically thanking them for their support.
Hes been taking a load of crap, some of it supposedly quite threatening, from a large amount of Boro supporters who have been waiting for him after every game. Good to see he shrugs it off, couldn't see Rooney ever doing that.
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John Williams' commentary on the annual report.
I think what he has written is very fair and points to a healthy future. He is right to highlight that Rovers have done well to increase turn over after outsourcing the catering and shop businesses- now the club just takes fees without commercial risk whereas before all sales from those outlets went into the club's top line.
Which as i see it is great from an immediate economic point of view, crap for the long term marketing. Its quite clear that the external companies brought into do these jobs (remembering selling offical merchandise and products within the ground is a monopoly) are making their profits by reducing levels of service, especially staff and product range. Fairplay to them, they are businesses looking for oppotunity and downsizing and strategic portfolio management are simple procedures for them.
The question on my mind, is how does this affect Rovers core product of the football(or tickets, if you rather)? Are people going to think they may as well go to the pub anyway, as they find themselves missing large parts of the match due to being in the concourse trying to get a drink or snack? Are people finding they have less of a range of merchandise to purchase and display, therefore cementing the floating/nuetral/rival fans views that Rovers are badly supported? If attendance keeps going down, are these companies going to back out as their profits go down year on year, leaving Rovers to have to restructure again in a few years?
Sorry if my questions are explained in Williams notes - ive forgotton my damn username for the official site
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I think this is probably where i will end up, back in my wahlmart. I havent got a chance in hell of getting a ticket for a DE game, wouldnt mind going to a smaller game though. Fritz Walter is one of my favourite stadiums in the world as it goes, my father used to play there
The fan-park looks like it will be a great place to watch the games from, well a lot safer than Leeds city centre anyway -
Got the Old Trafford league win off e-bay and I've just bought the Ewood win off there also. Three pounds summat each including postage.
If anyone is interested there are 2 left (Ewood win), type in Blackburn Rovers and they're on page 2.
Don't wait for the excuse for a club shop to bring it out or you'll be covered in cobwebs and as stiff as a board.
Are you listening BRFC marketing department!?!
i think there has to be a marketing department to hear
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Lol. I do actually know a lad that posts on NWDNB thats a Utd fan.
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Dunno if its been mentioned or not but we arent the only ones with this deal. Leeds Utd have also announced pretty much the same thing today....
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I didnt even think DJ Campbell was Brentfords best striker tbh
Why on earth would they sign him when they could have got Trundle for cheaper? How old is he, young?
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Tchocky i buy the game once every two years, get an illagal the other seasons. I bought fm06 and theres loads of bugs compared to fm05 which i downloaded. I get something about a sensor arrays everytime i sign a coach.
As for the easyness, i mainly play from the lower leagues, and its incrdibly easy to get Started - just get a load of prem reserves on loan, no wages/ no cup ties, and sell your best two players in order to buy Lee Trundle & Neil Danns plus loads of squad players.
If you aint found him yet - check out Nik Besagno, Salt Lake City reserves, bought 100k, 16 yr old. Magic.
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I think it may just have been my first game - i was about 20 points clear of the rest of league one, in february. Now i have re-started with the same team, and even though i have bought better players i seem to be on the slide big time.
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Theres a couple of top quality German managers available in Daum and Hitzfeld
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I assume Lonsdale are doing this for all their prem teams due to the Birmingham fans (terrible) reaction to their shirt this season???
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cheers for that, ill take a look-see
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First off, if you want to change a players name (give them a nickname) then you can click their profile IN GAME and at the bottom left click give nickname.
Second. Why cant you use the editor? Its the easiest thing in the world to use.
Give me step by step details on what you have done so far and I will tell you where you are going wrong
yeah i know about the nicknames thing, ive ended up using that to do it.
the editor i've never used before, so i had a quick look up the setup before i played my first game and there were no folders in there - no surprise. i made a game up, played pre season and went back to the editor. theres now a db called 'server'. so i went in there and added some random player (billy bolovski
) for a random russian team,saved it, went back into my game and had a look for him, he hadnt appeared. i assume that next time i start a new game, however, he will be there? Is it possible to use the editor once you are already part-way through a game?Im sure i'll figure it out, a little bit of messing about with it when ive got more time should explain it easily.
The fan-park looks like it will be a great place to watch the games from, well a lot safer than Leeds city centre anyway 
Fans Behaviour
in World Cup 2006
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Hmmmn. Interesting thread, not sure how much i agree/disagree with from a German point of view.
When talking about 'reminding' Germans of Nazi atrocities you need to learn a bit more about post-war Germany and the groups that make it up. A few posters on here seem to have a good idea of WW2 related German history but not the aftermath - this is extremely dangerous imo. I don't feel comfortable talking about my family history on a football site, but like many others in wartime my family took ###### from both sides.
On the subject of the England/Germany and Germany/Poland clashs, you must understand....
The English fans were drunks. The German/ Polish hooligans were just that. BFC Dynamo fans
Whilst you can stop all known British troublemakers from leaving their island, you cannot stop Polish and East German thugsfrom travelling around the area. It was quite obvious to see that the German troublemakers were all big, tattoed skinheads (not normal behaviour) whilst the English loooked fresh out of Yates' Wine Bar. Of course what was going to happen, happened.
But who were the worst fans in the tournament? Well, we worked on corperate, and i can tell you hands down that those guys are the biggest bunch of uninteresting pr**s you will ever encounter, and next time there are hooligans about, they should all join up and slap the prawn sandwichs brigade about.