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  1. If Bolton West, my home constituency swings, then it will probably be a shelling for the Tories. By that, I mean they will lose by over 100 seats, if not 150. Bolton West was the safest Tory seat in Greater Manchester after being something of a bellweather before then. They'll lose Bolton North-East, which is a very tight one anyway, and Bolton South-East is a very safe Labour seat.
  2. Must have tightened up considerably since the Castro era, as the Castro regime earned very well off trafficking.
  3. Some quality archaeological work's gone into this thread. Might even be necromancy.
  4. After Kane's performances for us on loan, yep. 😉
  5. Seen worse. The German one is a banger, and I like the away one as well.
  6. He couldn't get his favoured Cuban stimulants through customs so got the next best thing.
  7. My favourite one in German is the retort to their version of "new brooms sweep clean". A witty German will say "but the old ones know the corners".
  8. True that, at least the women's national team won something. They actually brought something home. More chance of Maddie McCann or Shamina Begum coming home than the men's rabble winning anything.
  9. If I go back to Germany and this song - particularly the "Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da dam dam dam, da-da dam" bit - hasn't been turned into a chant or goal celebration.... (Gotta be Cologne, really - Miljö is one of their bands).
  10. I know, that's why I put the word "always" in there - especially when considering Millwall's reputation, a gentle-paced song about longing such as Sailing seems a bit incongruous anyway! EDIT: Incidentally, Jena's goal music was the instrumental to Chelsea Dagger, by the Fratellis. Foot-stomper, definitely.
  11. Was going to type this, thought I'd check the thread before I did, and you beat me to it. Amusingly, in German they also have a direct translation of the phrase "great minds think alike", but as a counter, they also have a reverse version thrown back in conversation, so if you were to say "Grosse Geister denken gleich" ("great minds think alike" in German), you might get countered with "Zwei Dummen, ein Gedanke!" (Two idiots, one thought). Wonder if they have that in French? EDIT: Incidentally, when watching that match in Jena just before Christmas last year, they had a chant before the game started to the tune of "Sailing". That was always one of the odder songs to put a chant to, I thought.
  12. There was an Estonian Cup tie between two sides that ended up 36-0 or something like that.
  13. Onel's much closer to a pure winger, so was Placheta, and Rowe's more of an inside forward. I agree that we still have the overloading out wide, but I maintain the players we now have in the wide attacking positions play it somewhat narrower than the players that are missing. It's easier to retain the ball effectively when the players are a bit closer together! Look where Sainz was when he picked the ball up to score against Rotherham - he was pretty much in central midfield and I'm certain Lungi's ball was pinged at McCallum a good twenty yards further over, but Sainz took it down and thought he'd have a go. It's not a grand system change, it's just a tweak/shift along a spectrum so we're not quite as open if losing the ball. I'm not sure we'd have more pace with Tzolis (and his workrate was sometimes lacking a bit), and Rashica was inconsistent beyond belief with something of an attitude problem and an equally inconsistent end product. I'd take Sainz over both of those players every day of the week. I do think with those two you mentioned we'd be less solid out of possession and wouldn't be so confident we'd hit this run of form we're on.
  14. That's much closer to what Hernandez is compared to Sainz and even Rowe - and I agree that Rowe's stamina is a problem, indeed I've said that earlier as well. You see Sainz as a winger though, and I don't. Cantwell was hardly a pure winger either.
  15. Sainz is hardly a traditional winger though, he's essentially a multi-purpose attacking midfielder. He might start quite wide, but he comes in a lot. You're right re. the overlap on each side, but often the full-back provides the width, which brings it back to a point I made earlier - the midfielders are closer together if the ball is turned over and we're more solid as a result.
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