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Looks like it will be an all out assault on 4th place again this year, no doubt Madrid and Barca will come sniffing in the summerfor Torres if, as expected, Benitez gets the hook.

They used to say that anyone in Loughguile who didnt have an admiration for Joe Cooney and cows was banished from the parish.......He is their favourite son

I shudder to think where we would be without "The Kid".......

Did I read somewhere that Anelka has found religion, and hence has mellowed on the back of it?

I think Anelka is a great player, and could make a major impact, but Chelsea can be a graveyard for strikers (Shevchenko, Sutton, Fleck, Kezman, and to a degree Crespo), and therefore I welcome him but remain slightly reserved.

Norf do you not think Crespo did ok? His games/goals ratio was probably as good as many when he was at Chelsea, he scores goals everywhere he goes. His goalin 2005 CL final, the chip over Dudek is one of the finest you will see, he actually put spin on the ball when he dinked it over Dudek.

[Andytown news is dying on its feet and has been for the past 10 years or so yet the stupid management team behind it thought they could introduce a 'republican daily' even after being told it wouldn't work... Still, I suppose as long as a few members of Sinn Fein can gain a wage from the advertising, that's all the Shinners care about]

The Newsletter is dying on its feet.  It barely sells 20,000 monday-friday.  It has reverted to type because the only people who buy it are the utter bigots.  Have u ever read the letters page?  unbelievable.

Its biggest sale is on a saturday because it inserts its farming weekly, which after the irish news and telegraph stopped priniting a farming supplement, is the only alternative.  Ironically, the reason it sells so much on a saturday is because fenian farmers buy it to get all the news.  So, basically, fenians are keeping it afloat.

The editor Darwin Templeton actually tried to change its bent when he joined but was beaten down by the bigots in the place (Kennedy, Miller) after a few months.  He's sitting there on 80,000 a year, so why should he move until something better comes along? 

It really is a disgrace that the oldest newspaper in the world (which started out supporting the United Irishmen) has come to this... pathetic

Andytown news is dying on its feet and has been for the past 10 years or so yet the stupid management team behind it thought they could introduce a 'republican daily' even after being told it wouldn't work... Still, I suppose as long as a few members of Sinn Fein can gain a wage from the advertising, that's all the Shinners care about

It is alright, it seems to target a certain demographic - unemployed, semi illiterate. I dont know anyone with an ounce of wit that takes it seriously, most stories are along the line of someone getting their window smashed by "the hoods" or getting their DLA stopped, with the obligatory photo with aggrieved party standing outside their house with a sad expression. A few months ago they ran a story about a local hood who had been knee capped last year and had his application for DLA refused, the story took the usual spin, "big bad government department", i have seen this fella in action on many occasions and he is one of the biggest anti social elements on the Falls Rd, i fired the journalist off an email advising him to exercise greater journalistic responsibility in future. I got a reply - "All feedback is welcome".

Was there not a thread before "Would you rather have Geezer or Peter the Great as your captain" and someone made reference to some of his less admitrable traits, something about going into the changing rooms after a University game and breaking some fellas jaw.

I think Berbatov scored 11 league goals last year, Dirk Kuyt type figures. He can be a bit of a lazy fecker and he wont be playing Reading every week.

Have Dunloy been playing many 'friendly' matches?
I'll hopefully make it to Clones.

Skull1 & Max could fill us in, Skull has been quiet since he was verbally sparring with Max a few weeks ago.

[The man who doesn't hold back]

McGourty gets some column inches!!

"The man who doesn't hold back"

"The Antrim forward has now joined GAELIC LIFE as a regular columnist and he starts off in flying form gunning for double talk in the GAA......"

Talks about hyprocracy in GAA re grants/pay for play. All his arguments I have seen before somewhere.......

I remember the time he posted on here as "Shaws Road" saying how intelligent and great a fella Kevin Mc Gourty was, until he was rumbled. 

AZ Offaly is looking for a good Villa

[cross between eric and matt le tiss]

I agree he's a good signing for chelsea. i actually think he'll be most effective playing off drogba in a 442.

not sure he'd have succeeded at united. shoulder of the last man strikers haven't fitted into fergie's teams. the nearest has been andy cole, who didn't succeed until he adapted his game and became more involved in general play. berbatov is our man... cross between eric and matt le tiss

Couldnt lace eithers boots.

Awful slow going on the hurling front.

It is, Dunloy to play Birr in Clones on February 24th.

No. Sam's idealogy is play putrid, negative football and win f..k all.

Well realistically what was he going to win at Bolton, he overachieved if anything with the Trotters.

Houllier fcuked him about nicely at Liverpool, will be a good buy for Chelsea. Glad he didnt go to Salford as he is just what they need.

Young fellow - is he not in his late 20's?

What would you know rico?