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Deal between the clubs has been agreed - he is on his way for a medical.

Good news.

Great stuff. Let's hope he signs (im sure he will now). Just Betsy to go then.

Where did you hear this btw?

It's on the OS for the suscribers.

Hope he's worth the wait.

It'll be on the official site soon.

Woop

ace

cowabunga

Plus he has a flava-base (yeah, flava-base) name. It shouldn't take long for a song to emerge.

Megasauras

Is that world interview just on Casal or does Malpas discuss other transfers?

  What the Bo diddley does that mean?

 Vindaloo last night?

I have no idea. I believe in this scenario I replaced the word 'cool' with 'flava-base' - no reason, I tried - didn't like it - won't be using it again :D

Hero's in a half shell, Turtle Power!

Not sure we should be paying money for this player.

uh huh

ding-dang do.

Seems it's gonna be performance related though so not a great risk, though I dare say there's a small up front fee, guess we just hope for the best with him.

I don't think we should sign him... having thought about it, we have Vincent, Kennedy, Aljofree, and Jack Smith who are all capable of playing leftback. I'd save the money and ofer more wages to Betsy to speed that along, or use it on Marshall...

mulley, the problem there would be that if aljofree or vincent played left back, its only a 3/4 black four. maybe 3.5/4 if aljofree's there, he's a little bit foreign ;)

plus this guy has an awesomeo name.

What leggett said.

But also, isn't he supposed to be good at getting forward, cross over with the winger sort of full back? Sounds like fun.

I see that MM is saying the Casal can also play further forward so I wonder if that is a Zaboub type player where he was signed as a left back but ended up playing most games wide left, Casal has pace so probably be able to provide good cover for the Macnamee then allow Vincent to get his place back

seems as if our new fullbacks are two out and out athletes with little footballing ability.


worrying.

I haven't seen this Casal play yet, is he a little short on ability then?  As for Amankwaah I'm not sure if we'll see too much of him this season.

I quite like the idea.  We normally have full backs with no pace or ability.

Saw him against Cardiff, and he seemed to have more than enough ability. Caught out of position once or twice, but any attacking full back will be.

Who's saying Casal has no ability?! He had plenty!

Err Strooood is.  Just scroll up man!

haha touche.
jack smith, love him or hate him, is a footballer, he can deliver a ball and tackle, he's steady and isn't too prone to a rush of blood to the head. the kind of bloke you want at fullback, stick him in there then you dont really have to worry, he won't win you games but he won't cost you much either.

i kind of get the impression that these other two are the complete opposite. this is quite odd as the one thing im sure malpas can do well is construct a back four, so this isn't a criticism and im sure it'll work out fine.

hmmm

I was pretty impressed with Casal against Cardiff, definitely has ability.

And pace..

pehaps the plan is to scare people into thinking we are arsenal. We do have too much white on our shirts after all.

Get Timlin on the sunbeds, grease his hair and grow some stubble and I reckon he could look like Fabregas. 

Get Barry blacked up and he'll be a spitting image of Adebayor

you disgust me

I made a vow to myself that everytime a TEF member mentions anything involving getting "blacked up" I'd post a Youtube clip of the Black & White Minstrel Show. Mainly because it freaked me out a little when I saw those old timers do their thing.

But to be honest such phrases occur far too often... oh, and it's not as funny.

Ah the Black and White Minstral Show.  Top qaulity entertainment.  Brillant harmonies and nifty foot work.
It was the first programme to be broadcast in colour in Britain.
Whan a black man auditioned he was rejected as not good enough.  Was it a case of, qaulity control, or the, no blacks, no Oirish and no dogs syndrome?
It returned audience figures that would have todays most popular drooling with envy.

One of the first I think. Wimbledon was the first on BBC Two according to here..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/3/newsid_2514000/2514719.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/3/newsid_2514000/2514719.stm)


Would have been a nice little bit of trivia if it was true, but these myths shouldn't be alowed to spread.

  Colour TV was well exciting....we had one of the first colour sets, it was about the size of a sideboard. 

  We used to get it down a cable from Radio Rentals up by Greenbridge....it was sexy cutting edge new technology.....sort of thing you expected in Swindon.

 ITV didn't however show 69 in colour, but we wore white shirts anyway.

 The major breakthrough was the 70 WC....seeing Brazilian yellow, the whole damn thing..swoon.

Makes all this HD stuff seem pretty underwhelming.

all i remember about our tv was it was fucking huge and our dog bruce used to stand in front of it. i try to train him to change channels but he would bite me.

Do you think we'll see 3D TV (without the cool specs) in the next 15 years?

 Think you'd have to jump to 3D TV, to get a similar degree of change for the better in one go.

  Must be 30 years ago now, I went to an exhibition in London on holography and laser technology....it was very popular and had to queue for hours to get in.

  The most clever thing was a hologram of an old style telephone, that you could put your hand in thinking you could lift the hand set.  This was about the biggest hologram that could be created at the time.

  I did think that one day we should be able to get 3D TV, but clearly it's not happened, don't know why, becasue I'm sure a deal of research has gone into it.

I think it's the processing power that's required to create a full moving image that's held it back but they can't be far off being able to re-create that sort of technology.

Reminds me of virtual reality, which has died off mainstream in recent years after the big hoo haa in the late 90's.

Stolen from Wikipedia so no idea of accuracy:


All your filth needs catered for by the sounds of it!   :)

I guess it isn't something which there's a big need for. I mean would a film or telly programme in 3d actually improve it at all? Depending on how it worked you'd create problems on the viewer side of things; people seeing it at different angles, sets getting in the way etc. The recording end would be a nightmare too, presuming you'd have to record a scene from the same amount of angles that it could be viewed from. Although I image there were people who said the same thing about the jump from making radio to telly.

Might have it's place in interactive stuff. And maybe demonstrations and advertising.

I agree Ben although it would be a pervert’s paradise if they had to film at every conceivable angle. 

You could watch the likes of Hollyoaks on your back hoping for a glimpse.

Potentially perhaps a bastardised version is the way ahead where the image is projected off an arched screen and the real ‘3D’ stuff is saved for the dramatic bits projecting out from the screen.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Everytime I've caught hollyoaks recently, I've been fairly disappointed with what's on offer. It's probably as I haven't been watching 'enders much, which makes everything look good in comparison.

My old man watches Hollyoaks which disturbs me no end when I visit for my tea.

It's usually under the pretence that my younger brother or sister are watching it but it's not so much the teen perving that bothers me  but more the reminiscent way he's on the slow descent into madness that ended with Arthur Fowler watching Postman Pat.

Thankfully it’s only vice to date since taking up early retirement and he still makes a mean Roast dinner.  :eatkf:

Don't let him loose with the Christmas club money, just in case like.

He's taken up gardening and has his own bench to boot.  Thankfully Mother doesn't look like Wendy Richards otherwise I'd have had a hell of a misspent youth.

For the record I probably still would as long as she called me Awwwwwwwwwwfur

Gone very quiet on this today, anyone heard anything? Was expecting it done by now.

Waiting for Betsy aswell to announce a double signing?

thats what i was thinking along the lines of, but still a bit of a worry as times getting on now.

He's just signed a 2 year deal on o/s now

asked wether he might start sarurday he replied  "I have been travelling for the last couple of days, but now I am here I want to get straight to it."

Did he swim from holland?

Was probably in an "internet" cafe in amsterdam, and hired one of the pushbikes there.

he is starting on saturday

Has Maurice picked the team already? - is there no more training to be done before then?!

Wait a second... are you Maurice?

Malpas comment from Adver "The Town boss has revealed he will tell his squad today who has made the starting XI for the County Ground opener against Tranmere"

so I think he ahs already picked the side, someone on thisis claims to know the side
Brez

J Smith RB
Y Casal LB
Jerel CD
AljofreeCD

McGovern RM
MsNameeLM
Timlin CM
Nalis CM

Cox ST
Paynter ST

I very much doubt that MsMamee will start.

Cut and pasted from Thisis sorry did not proof read it first

In that case the spelling is superb.

Is that like Ms Pacman?!

Shame to see Easton left out, and i really thought we'd see Kanyuka starting instead of Aljofree...

Wait a sec... Paynter?? no 'cock?

Easton and Peacock havent had proper pre seasons though to be fair

If that is the team then for the first time for ages I would guess we will have a pretty strong bench

P.Smith Amankwah Easton Kanyuka Peacock

is it still 5 subs this season or has this been increased to 7, I seem to remember seeing something close season on the web that said more subs were going to be allowed to be named.

We'll miss Peacock running around looking busy keeping balls from going out for throws... he fools so many...

Ah yes, i was forgetting Casal's thorough pre season action with his new club.

So then JPC, can you text your mates and find out about Betsy please?

Premiership are allowed 7 subs this season and I think there are 7 subs in the FA Cup which will affect teams lower down, other than that it is as you were.

It is only a matter of time before premiershit teams start pushing to be allowed to use 4 subs for a game

We won't miss him, we'll be too busy watching Paynter trudging along covering as much grass as Borat's man-kini.

Its funny beacause its true

Shrewd observation sir.

3 in 6 after being moved up back front last season.

Record without Peacock last season

p11 w1 d1 l9

we'll never miss him....

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Quality.

The Lord's prayer on record!  Excellent!

Someone's going to hell for smashing that up.

oh for fricks sake... i was looking for a little devil head smily and i can't find one. I'm all for all these new smilies, but it makes my eyes hurt looking through them all.

Hiwarious!!! funniest thing Ive read all day