Or so you would think due to the Mail running the same story (power will be great blah blah) about him for the past 2 weeks.

Getting fucking sick of the lad already!

It makes a change from them 'linking' us with random strikers from all over the place which are just players plucked out of the air.

Although signing a striker who could fly might be cool.

Signing one who could score a few goals would be a bit of a novelty, too
(penalties excluded, of course)

Do I detect early signs of Power being written off already?

We must be the only fans who write people off before they kick a ball

Whos Power ?

Paul Power.

He's our new left back.

He's getting on a bit but he's quicker than Elliott.

Sounds like our 5 a side squad

I though we were going to be down under 2500 this year??

How exactly does getting sick of a paper doing the same article over and over mean iv written off the lad already?

Some of you are clueless beyond belief.

That might be why...

There is nothing new to report on, so they're milking this story for all it's worth - it's what newspapers do, just ignore it.

Since when does getting sick of someone mean your writing them off?


Man U fans will be getting sick of Ronaldo but doesnt mean they think he is shit?

I concur.

Wasnt in you that bragged you "played football at a reasonable level"? And your boasting about having a poorly taken photo of you knelt next to a badly made trophy from Mike Goughs in one of the worst regional papers in the country?

Whoop de do.

Bet your kids are proud.

I don't want to be a pedant but Mike Gough's has closed thus making your vitriol factually inaccurate.

at least you make yerself laugh!!

Yeah, but if I lived in the right country, I could afford to and would. I wouldn't stop going 'cos it went up two quid.

Why do you have that oblong picture at the end of your posts? I don't like it

Here we go with the old "Rivals" stereotype.

How exactly am i a loner or fat, chip?

errr he was talking to me.

I know. I was attempting to be humorous.

Doesn't matter now

ah £3 so you do admit to being a tramp that smells of wee tho'

I suppose so, katcha. I don't get time to buy clothes or go for a slash at the moment like

Before i know it i'll be 40 and then it'll be the grandkids staying on a weekend. Thank fook for Saturday afternoons

Sorry, I run 1280* resolution.

Will downsize. And I run it to conform to stereotypes, I thought it was quite clever

Fuck 'em, I thought it was great. Even people who don't come on here are knocking out shit American jokes, and who am I to back down?

Downsized for the people who run inferior computers, anyway. Gays.

Fuck 'em TGP I think it's funny!

One small point though, a Barker touchdown? Now a field goal I would believe. He only scores them you see.

very good

I just wanted to see Barker run for his wages, I don't think that's a crime is it?

This is very true.

It's nice to see a small conversation about the game developing, even if I end up getting scapegoated in the torch-wielding parades later in the day

Probably the least funny picture and biggest waste of time iv ever seen.

Yeah, but you get a lob on over a photo in the Mail. And you don't know the difference between your and you're.

Real tough guy, insulting someone over a trophy in a local rag

49ers??? dolphins????

what the frig are you's on about????!!!!

sorry, thats just a noise

well I know that!! I seen it often enough......


why didn't you's just cut to the chase?
eh?!

Jesus Christ! You know just as much about the torrid position of the Miami Dolphins and their ridiculous trade of Chambers to the Chargers... with Ronnie Brown out for pretty much ever, they've got nothing. Cleo Lemon is the single worst quarterback I've ever seen too... good job they got Chad Henne.

The 49ers are a sleeping giant and will bounce back in a year or two. Alex Smith seems to have competition from Shaun Hill at QB so there'll be some healthy competition (a bit like the Browns and Cardinals).

Who do you follow, Chip?

Sleeping giant?
Tut tut GP
Did we not once agree to whip people for such cliches?
Now GP is bigger than me I hear so can someone else please discipline him?

What, even more than actual Man Utd fans on here? And how exactly is it like Man Utd?


I'm very similar, I'm the same in any sport - I prefer to follow the underdogs and the shock teams. I actually have a Peterson jersey (and a Reggie Bush one too) because the bloke's an utter legend. I'll be following the Saints when I go to see the second London game.

I can't remember who's franchised to the 49ers but if Gore isn't already, he will be soon. You're right about Jerry Rice though - he was arguably the best player in the NFL at the time (apart from maybe Emmitt Smith).

I quite like the Chargers and even the Browns after their brilliant season last year (especially that ridiculous 100+ point game vs the Bengals, who I hate). Can't stand the Pats or the Raiders. I'm a Steelers fan though, as I followed the Penguins in the NHL for years.

Who do you reckon will be the shock draw this year?

I'll let you off this time

Behave Jethro. And don't you and Cousin Earl forget to kick the cow shit off your shoes.

All I can hear is 'Blah, blah, blah....................................'

American Football is , well words can't describe it and most Brits who bang on about it have never played it

I mean, the Hartlepool Steelers for fooks sake!!!

You're right. Steelers is now as irrelevant as Dockers.

Hmmm, I wonder what typifies Hartlepool these days. Hartlepool Telemarketers?

Did you compete at the top level in NFL too? What a guy!!!

Hartlepool Pastie-scoffers

I played for three years. I was selected for the GB preliminary team but had to pull out after doing serious damage to my back. It doesn't matter if you haven't played it anyway - as if you have to have been directly involved in a sport to enjoy it, you fooking rarf.


It's mainly because the Steelers is the closest team name to a relevant link. But your point is also part of the reason I left it at that - not exactly anything to go on nowadays. Most teams, if they haven't moved, keep names relevant to ages ago. The 49ers are named after the Klondike gold rush, ffs


And thanks Chip. It's genuinely nice to see someone being sound on here, instead of being arrogant and too busy inflating their online egos in order to portray themselves as some kind of sporting xenophobe, even though half of them hate their OWN team too....

Liking the same half arsed, God awful sport hardly makes one 'sound' in my opinion (not that I would EVER suggest Chip isn't sound, a man of his sporting prowess is 'sound' to say the very least)

And as for being a 'rarf' because I think the Steelers were a load of old wank, well what else can I say

PS

My brother in law played for the Steelers and he is a doyle

PPS

So putting it quite simply, I think American Football is as interesting as the cold and windy evening I spent outside Scunthorpes ground in late 1996 waiting for the RAC to come and fix my car

I've always thought Chip was a top bloke (and it wasn't me who started the full-blown conversation about the NFL) and for once it's nice to have someone who doesn't use it as a half-arsed springboard to (failing to) take the piss. I'm playing up to the shit jokes heading my way - I think it's a good thing for the community that I encourage the dim-witted folk on here

I didn't call you a rarf because you don't like the Hartlepool Steelers. I thought I made that perfectly clear.

PS

Don't give a fook

PPS

It's clear what people think of American Football in this country anyway. I like it, and I don't give a fuck what others think of it.