You know much about the likes of Srna , Simunic, Pletikosa or Leko or are as you as usual basing your evidence on two games that you have watched. Until you have seen players play on numerous times for country or club I cant see how people can make such massive assumptions . Yes as a team Croatia have been better, but measured on raw talent they are not as good as the English. Look at Man City they are above Chelsea in the league , yet would you say they are better individually ? As for you Neekoy you are a poster I respect in the main, but why do you support an English club? when you clearly have such a dislike for anything English. As soon as England loose at anything you are their running them down. Agreed we as a sporting nation could take some lessons from the Australians in terms of preparation, mental attitude & pride at representing your country.

You Obviously dont watch much football outside of rovers ,if you honestly believe that gerrard is not one of the best players in his postion in the world

So you dont think that the likes of Owen, Rooney, Gerrard, etc etc are not top International level players? Agreed as a team we have been pants for over 2-3 years but i believe this in not due to a lack of talent , moreover the problems i listed in my original post. You ask Bilic who he would have from England if he could and their would be very few Croatians that get into a combined XI, yet what thet have is a passionate coach, a good team ethic and a will to do well for their country. Something Engalnd have lacked since Euro 2004. Out of the two starting XI on wens if measured in terms of raw talant only Modric, Eduardo & Kraclaer would get into a combined XI, and thats without the availaibilty of Owem , Rooney etc

Correct Individually no they are not. That’s what the next coach faces, creating a Team of good individual players with a lack of motivation/ego problem into a proper team

England have played consistently poorly for over two years. Yet I have to disagree with the usual suspects when they say that other teams are SUPERIOR. With this current crop it is not a matter of talent, because imo if you measure teams on pure talent then this squad is as good as any in Europe. What the problem with this current squad is motivation, poor coaching / tactics and too many big time Charlie attitudes (fuelled by stupidly high wages and an unfounded celebrity/pop star culture that follows them). There is also still the trait to pick players if they play for certain clubs rather than been picked on current form or actual talent. If we can get a world-class disciplined coach, who will pick players on ability, form and most fundamentally a desire to play for their country I see no reason why England should comfortably finish top of there WC qualifying group.

People may mock the FM games and those that play them, but if you have ever played the games you would realize the scouting system used by the games to generate player stats is in a different league to even the best football clubs It is quite uncanny how many unknown gems first spotted on the game have devolped into world class stars , players playing in footballing backwaters that only the most avid FM or CM scout would have access too.

Does anyone know to change the WEP encryption key on XP & Vista for wireless connection? I thought that I’d managed to change it but keep on being unsuccessful. Any advice would be helpful Secondly my G’friend has signed up to AOL Wireless and was promised a top speed of 8 mb, yet I ran the website which Den linked her max speed for downloads was under 1 mg which is pitiful. Their obviously a problem, Is it an ISP issue? a problem with here laptop or both. Because the results seem really slow for wireless internet

?? Croatia arent that good, England have been realy realy poor, but id put money on them beatin Croatia on Wens night thats why their odds on to win. Get in Isreal 2-1 we will see on wens how good Croatia are

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Id snatch their hand off for 5 million quid, imagine who hughes would bring in with that sort of cash given his expertise in the transfer market. All his stomping around and moodyness; just before he got injured put me off him.

BTW JM didn’t sign Robben or Duff it was under he previous manager As for digging a hole pip, again you are clutching at straws, ive stated my opinion that Duff is not the same player he was, he has lost that yard of pace, looked unfit before he was injured and saw rumours of ‘castle trying to unload him. It seems obvious to me that you clearly have not seen him play for the past 2-3 seasons. If duff was so good then why would a manager such J.M allow him to go so cheaply (don’t give the contractual stuff, you’re guessing and assuming again) Again your assuming, I think you will find that there quite a few players at l’pool on more 40k , Im guessing your basing your assumptions on the bellamy & Neil prospective deals. The reason why they weren’t offered top whack deals is because they were only ever going to be squad players. BTW I think you’ll find that even before the American ownership. The likes of Kewall, Carragher, Alonso and Owen were all on above your 40k claim.

Robben was sold for 25 million, duff 5 m and yes Duff was a world-class player, Dunn's actual perforamnces with Brum were good ,ask any big club fan. It wasnt a perforamnce thing with Dunny it was his fitness & injury situation, with duff his perforamnces over the past 3 seasons have been poor. Due to injury taking ( and generally unfit) there toll when a winger who relies on pace , losses a a yard or two . He is never the same player

His work ethic (or lack of it) during chelsea training seasons, was one of the primary reasons for the taking a 12 million loss on him, and generally during interviews he seems to have chnged. Then we have the badge kissing, one week he apparenly cries when leaving rovers the next kissing his chelsea badge. He repeated this at Newcastle. He also seems to be unfit, a little overweight when he has played , pointing to the fact that he dosent train properly. Anyhow my main point was that he is not good enough for a team, with top 6 aspirations

When will people get it, Duff will never be the same player he was 3-4 years ago, infact I seriously doubt he could down a place at any top ten club any longer. He has devolved a big time charley attitude, lost 2 yards of pace and was unfit at Chelsea, that’s why they sold him for nearly a 12 m loss. Anyone who saw him play for N’castle or Chelski would realize his. The difference with Dunny was, yes they were both injured constantly, but when he did play for big club he played well, as most big club fans will admit. Dunny wants to play for this club and prove a point; I seriously doubt that Duff feels the same. Let’s stop reminiscing and move on, we don’t need any big time Charlie’s who have underperformed for the past 3 seasons

The problem that I have with our own and other nation’s policy towards drugs, it that they are predominantly reactionary. What I mean by this is that they attempt to tackle drugs when they entered the destination country. Through policing, intelligence then subsequently education & rehab etc. What needs to happen Is that we must cut the supply, at the moment supply is outstripping demand thus the subsequent dramatic lowering of prices on the street (especially cocaine & heroin) lower prices equates to more users. Instead of spending billions on reactionary expensive UK strategies, why don’t we target the Drug the infancy of its production. At the moment we have the perfect opportunity to-do this in Afghanistan, where over 90% of the UK’s heroin originates from. We need to give the Afghan poppy farmers another option apart selling poppies to earn a living. We should be investing our millions educating, re-skilling and creating other jobs in areas where the poppy is the only source of income. Failing this, why have state run poppy farms, where the farmers are guaranteed a fixed price and protection of the coalition forces from local warlords & Taliban. The poppy crop could then be used for medicinal purposes in the UK and other coalition nations

Have Everton got 25-30 million to shell out on the transfer fee & wages for benni- the answer to that is no so therefore he was watching a game of football with his mate, whats the crime

So im not the only who watches those sort of conspiracy dramas

I can understand why climate change would cause more severe rainfall, more evaporation equates to more moisture in atmosphere thus more rainfall; however the temperatures have been freakishly low for this time of the year. I’ve been getting up and seeing temperatures as low as 9/10 degrees and that’s been in June & July. In fact I can’t rember a day in the last 5/6 weeks were the temperature has been above 20 c. If this truly was climate change caused by global warming then surely we would be seeing warmer temperatures with terrific outbursts of severer rainfall, rather than the constant rain and very low temps

Universal Currency Converter™ Results Using live mid-market rates. Using live mid-market rates. More currencies... Printed from the XE Universal Currency Converter at: www.xe.com/ucc Memo: ....................................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................................... Live rates at 2007.07.09 18:47:06 UTC 60,000.00 NZD = 23,216.73 GBP New Zealand Dollars United Kingdom Pounds 1 NZD = 0.386945 GBP 1 GBP = 2.58434 NZD Thats what ive just got from the website http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi

According to that article , Ryan’s new contract will mean that he earns around £24,000 per week although that is crazy in terms of the bigger picture, however in a footballing sense that is excellent value IMO when you the likes of Lampard & terry demanding 115k per week

A latest update from the 606 boards tombo1984 ( aka West Sussex Rover) In reply to vinjay telling everyone what was on the nicko thread "I wouldnt know about what was said on the boards, i got banned from both the Blackburn Rovers Official Messageboard for reporting someone who was slagging me off for being disabled (Lee banned me). Then got banned on the supporters board as Lee told Ste B i was a trouble maker" Vinjays reply Lee Grooby's just power hungry and SteB is known as a dictator and banning people with a different opinion. I should know as I've also been banned from those boards. Exactly it dosen't mean he's good but everything Nixon has said so far has turned out to be good.

Yes ive brought Miltio before he is top notch but pricey- second season he will cost between 12-16 mill. If you can get Esequel Garay he is at least as good and will cost no more than 3 mill + he is a bit younger. If you want to spend big-bucks then why not go for Mertersaker ( sorry typo ) .

Sell him or part-ex for another striker if his heart isnt in it. It would be best for all the connected parties

That analysis doesn’t take into account- United champions league exploits this season, the increased TV revenue starting from next season & their own ticket price increases which alone will generate 10-15% more income. Then we have the seperate foreign tv deals which will also lead to extra in icome