Smiley Culture
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It genuinely has the possibility of being one of the most interesting competitions for many a year. I don't think there's a clear favourite, despite what the bookmakers may think. I think St Helens are still favourites but personally, I don't agree and I'd put us amongst one of four or so teams who could win the Grand Final. We have probably the best player in the league in Ben Barba in the side, who should be absolutely frightening. Justin Holbrook may have had an entire off-season to work out who his best seven is and it seems that he's likely to go with the putrid Matty Smith at 7 next week, a man who offers little whatsoever and provided some frankly disgraceful stats from 2017, including never winning an away game in which he started. We also have quite shit forwards, too. James Roby is a freak and Luke Thompson had a beast in 2017 but people like Kyle Amor, Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Jon Wilkin and Zeb Tai'a are another year older and likely to have regressed further.
Leeds have lost the last of their Golden Generation in Danny McGuire, Castleford still have nearly all of the side that have served them so well over the last couple of years, Hull FC look on an upward curve still and Warrington are somewhat of an unknown quantity this year for me. They've finally fucked off the second most loathsome and excuse ridden fart inhaler in the comp in Tony Smith, have appointed Steve Price who comes with a lot of good words said about him from the NRL, they've binned off a load of shite like Rhys Evans, Kevin Penny, Joe Westerman, Ashton Sims and Andre Savelio and recruited well in Tyrone Roberts and Ben Murdoch-Masila, especially.
One team who I think won't be in the running is Wigan. This isn't any bias but they've simply not recruited and I don't see how you can seek to improve on a poor finish last year (5th) and barrels of dour rugby by signing two players, an unknown kid from Australia and re-signing Dan Sarginson, a man so incapable of defending, it's laughable. Wigan's recruitment and retention over the past few years has wound up fans and they weren't happy with the re-signing of Sarginson and having lost Anthony Gelling and Micky McIlorum, I can't see them doing anything this year which will be a massive shame.
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https://twitter.com/HackneyWickFC/status/957555658399846401
Hackney Wick, a team founded in 2015 and 'merged' (basically they just took their place) with London Bari in the Essex Senior League in 2017, will play their home games next to the Olympic Stadium next season. Looks an interesting venue, I had a brief look at it when walking round the Olympic Stadium before West Ham v Leicester in November, I might get over for a game there next season.
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16 minutes ago, Blue said:
Today might be a milestone in my career as Nolberto Solano has began talking to me and if I've read the signs right, he's let me interview him. Prior to this the most known players I've interviewed have been Wynton Rufer and Mark Bosnich, so fingers crossed it works out alright.
Is he still playing the trumpet? Once saw him play it at an opening mic type night when he was at West Ham.
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10 hours ago, Daedalus said:
Form the sounds of the interviews, York City might be in trouble financially.
They have been for a while, from what I understand.
9 hours ago, Storts said:Don't let facts get in the way of a Smiley Culture rant
Odd.
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23 hours ago, The Palace Fan said:
Really? That's your justification? Just pay it early and hope they learn.
Southend learned from the twenty grand debt that nearly put them out of business because of the public shame that John Terry was on seven times more a week.
What the fuck does John Terry’s wage have to do with Southend United? Terry played at the top of his game and in his prime was a multi-medal winning, highly respected footballer in Europe and therefore, justified his wages.
Southend United used to regularly flout tax bills, then gain a winding-up order, only to pay the bill and subsequent fine once money had been sourced from directors, it was regular for them to do that for a few years.
I’ve never understood the “[Player X] earns £250,000 a week whilst little old [Team Y] need £75,000 by the end of the month to survive, why doesn’t Premier League players stump up” argument, if that’s the argument you’re trying to make. Top players shouldn’t have to help clubs who have been mismanaged.
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Chester need £50,000 by the end of next month to survive. This is Chester, the fan owned club, who's own board, made up of fans, have completely mismanaged them. Must be a tough night to be a Chester fan.
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Given the number of Footballers who don’t get sacked for the past Twitter behaviour, especially Andre Gray, who’s comments about gays, were well over the mark, it would be unfair, IMO, to sack a manager for the same offence.
The only people who should be getting abuse at present are The FA, who’ve undermined Women’s Football by appointing someone who’s criminally inexperienced for the role.
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Why give him that long? He’s not got another 12 months in him, he’ll go bat shit crazy by October if Conte keeps at him.
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Finished The Sinner over the weekend, wasn’t a massive fan. The last two episodes were good but the middle part of the series was just weird and not very entertaining or enthralling, tbh.
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1 hour ago, Eco said:
Well I know that, but not shit enough to postpone football.
Non-League Football in England suffers badly through the winter months and there’s always one side somewhere in the country left playing 5 games in 12 days or something equally as daft as that.
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Can’t see many games going ahead tomorrow due to the after effects of the weekends weather.
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37 minutes ago, Cannabis said:
Nevermind that, how are Leyton Orient 19th?!
The Director of Football, ex-boss Martin Ling, basically was in charge for pre-season, which was disjointed because of needing a whole new squad and the late deal in regards to the change of ownership.
Steve Davis got a matter of weeks, I think about three, with the team before the season started and that didn’t help but neither did him being a dire manager.
Justin Edinburgh seems, from what I can gather when I actually look, to know what he’s doing.
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Premier League commentators do generally overhype and sensationalise absolutely everything. It doesn’t seem to happen with English commentary of European Football and that is more enjoyable for me.
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Sergio Ramos the best CB? Bloody hell, there's unpopular and then there's just plain stupid.
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8 minutes ago, RandoEFC said:
If referees still make poor decisions with VAR then either the rules are too open to interpretation or the refs really don't know what they're doing. I'd say it's both.
Looking at what's gone on in Germany, VAR will cause more chaos in the Premier League than the referees alone.
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The VAR system coming in is going to make the Premier League a worse spectacle, in which the blame culture of managers towards referee's will go through the roof.
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46 minutes ago, Blue said:
No they don't.
It's not like he plays in the Maltese league FFS!
a defender who plays against the likes of Messi, Agüero, Falcao and Higuain at international, don't you think that's good enough? Or do you only rate the likes of Ross McCormack and Steven Fletcher?
International football as an example of players being good. Mate, you’re not winning this one. Mina needed to come to England, Italy, Spain, Germany and maybe Holland or France to prove his ability on a bigger stage week in, week out. Not every few months in Internationals. He’s doing it, we’ll see if your prediction is right.
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2 hours ago, Blue said:
But you said he wasn't good enough, so you were (unsurprisingly) wrong.
Whether he will live up to the same level he's had in South America we'll have to see, but it was funny, you went out to insult the entire Colombian race and basically laughed him off for playing in Brazil. Typical embarrassing euro centrism from a centralized English.
No I didn’t. I said that these players need to play in a top League to be considered a top player.
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5 hours ago, Blue said:
Yerry Mina on his way. Not good enough for Barcelona though because "he plays in a feedar liga in brazeel"
@Smiley Culture look forward to your insults this time. Light entertainment.
So, he’s going to one of Europe’s big leagues from a feeder league like I said? He’ll be gutted he can’t join a big club like Rio Ave and make himself a real big name.
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42 year-old Jamie Cureton has signed for Bishop's Stortford, only two of the current squad are within twenty years of his age and when Cureton played for Farnborough against Stortford in November, not one of the starting eleven for Stortford that day were born when Cureton scored his first Premier League goal.
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Was a bit disappointed by Phil Taylor tonight. I don’t mind seeing him beaten, he’s by no means my favourite player, and he deserved to be beaten but it just all looked jovial and nonchalant from him tonight and I don’t think he really cared that much tonight. He seemed to give up at 2-0 and just play up to the crowd and spent the rest of the night gesticulating and joking around.
I don’t know if that come across like that on the tele but that was garbage from Taylor and he was acting as if he was the newcomer to a Final, not like a bloke who wanted to win and bow out from his sport in style.
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10 minutes ago, Stan said:
Despise going out on New Year's Eve. Never been a fan of it after doing it once about 10 years ago. So many bellends out and about (more so than on a normal night out).
Much prefer the house-parties which is 1) more fun and 2) much cheaper especially if you get people to bring their own food and/or booze.
I’ve not properly been out on NYE for years, I’ve always ended up at a party, which usually is better than going out.
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Dad’s born and bred St Helens, moved to London for Work and settled down here.
Believe it or not, there’s about eight-ten I know of. Mostly London Broncos.