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This is good. I doubt I'd want to join a monster roster. The more you talk about your setup the more I think I'm favoring returning to Ottawa. Nothing is decided yet though. Other teams, I'll definitely hear you out!

*sits in an oversized black chair twirling a ridiculous, evil looking mustache* Yeeeeeesss. Let me hear your offers. (Also, tell me what your team is like. Good bunch of first gens I could help out with? Tell me that. Competitive and need a piece to help out on depth? Tell me that. Feel aggrieved from losing guys you assumed were returning? Tell me that. I can't be sure what exactly my decision will come down to - I know helping out first gens is going to be a big part of it - but I can tell you it won't have anything at all to do with who can offer me the most money. In fact, I'd be more inclined to take less money.)

This. Conte's worked magic. He's made Cahill look like a professional footballer.

done - I fully expect to be one of the oldest

Hey guys - I wrote a poem in memory of my dad. Many of you probably remember when he died a few years back and it hit me pretty hard. Given that it's been some time now, I felt like sharing this, but I'm not going to share it on FB because my mom and sister are on there and I don't want to impose a negative memory on them in a particular moment. new experiences fade the old no matter how vital the old might be we don't get a choice we just do new things and poof there it goes parts of you fall away bit by bit i try to remember the whole but am faced only with the half the left hand falls, the right shoulder the memory of yelling at me upstairs when i was younger of picking me up from cross country practice replaced by a hospital bed and series of tubes 54 is far too young and it wasn't even one of the plethora of plagues you endured it was a curveball from the east wedging into the brain forming a puddle of bacteria and eating away slowly who'd have thought your heart would stay intact or your liver or your lungs yet something unforeseen soon the memories will fade yet more replaced by a skeleton wearing a pitt hat with a full glass of pepsi tugging downward at the bones watching ncis, talking about fixing the porsche the jaw bones rattling, fading away again faced with the half and the prospect of the none ashes three parts body, two parts pepsi, one part ink and that part housing the memories shrinking against my will

Done. Pretty sure you can figure out which one is my username

Anelka was good, but I didn't rate him quite as much as the general consensus did

Chelsea haven't had a great history of managers (I'm not going Ted Drake because of his playing career being primarily Arsenal, I'm not going Di Matteo because he wasn't very long for the job, and I'm not going Mou because Mou). Players though! Jason Hasselbaink. Jason Zola. Jason Desailly. Jason Gudjohnsen. Jason Ballack. Jason Lampard. Jason Drogba. (Di Matteo fits better here than he did the first category) (Coach is for Pool, but he'd likely appreciate the nod to his past I'd accidentally give if I attached my name to Chelsea's current longest serving player... especially if the player's middle name was Eugene)

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Confirmed: Nick Barr multi!

Saw a Dragonite. Threw more pokeballs at it than dick pics to the only girl on 4chan (had quite a few where it was a Great Ball with Excellent throw and Curveball, after a Raspberry). I still have 0 Dragonite.

Kick-lick Gonorrhea

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Looks like these were my first three goals of the season, let alone in one game

It's about accurate. We remember him as worse than he was, because time tends to exaggerate things. He actually wasn't that terrible, just nowhere near as good as he should have been

YES! Let's see if he gets 900 TPE but only plays like he has 500

Exactly. There is no universal mandate across sports that requires liking all good players. It is entirely possible (common, in fact) to dislike a player while still admitting he is good at the sport. I freely admit he's good. I also point out that he is oversaturated in the media, to the point where Brazilian Ronaldo only ever gets mentioned in comparison. We can bring up other good players, Zidane for example, on their own merit. Brazilian Ronaldo never gets brought up on his own merit because of his newer, shinier namesake - like a rich guy trading in a wife.

THIS is not my Ronaldo. This is Hair Gel Boy. This is the Ronaldo of the people who assume City and Chelsea were always good (until this season's Chelsea). This is the Ronaldo of the people who don't realize Blackburn Rovers won the league, half of them don't realize Blackburn Rovers were ever in the Prem, half of that half don't even realize there is a Blackburn Rovers. This is the Ronaldo of people who don't know that Serie A had a match fixing scandal or how widespread it was, that at one point back in the day the Brazilian league was full of good players who'd actually stay there instead of waiting for the highest European bidder, when players like Garrincha would turn down Europe even when the offers were creative. This is the Ronaldo of people who know what PSG is now and assume the Ligue 1 has always been like that and who don't understand that Lyon, Marseille, Monaco, Nantes, and St.Etienne all have more titles (and that Lyon in the mid 00s was arguably more dominant than PSG is now because they did it for longer). This is my Ronaldo. This is the Fifa 98 equivalent of Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl. This is the original, this is the best. It shouldn't be necessary to have to type "brazilian ronaldo" into Google to find things on this guy...

Thanks for the quick review - as for everyone else in the league: NO REPLIES? I'm a good writer, I should be generating replies. Come on, everyone.

KARLOVY VARY, CZECH REPUBLIC – The club team known as HC Energie Karlovy Vary is no stranger to the Czech Extraliga, having been an Extraliga participant since 1997 and a member of at least some level of Czech professional leagues since the split from Slovakia. In 2012, Karlovy Vary announced a junior team which had been granted entry into the MHL, which is the junior league that plays under Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League. It was looked upon as a potential national junior team, much like Latvia’s HK Riga in the MHL, along with Dinamo Riga and Belarus’ Dinamo Minsk at the KHL level. These teams promote Latvian and Belarussian talent and serve to attract talented players to the sport. Karlovy Vary’s junior team was intended to do the same. The operative word there, of course is was. Financial issues forced Karlovy Vary to pull the junior team from the MHL and just keep their primary team (one of several competitors, unspectacular among its peers and in no way representative of national hopes like the junior team stood to be) in the Extraliga. The problem, of course, is what might happen with the few years of promising young stars who had performed on the junior team while it had existed in the MHL. Most are expected to filter through the ranks of the Extraliga, with a few making their way east to the KHL or even over to the NHL. Nonetheless, it deals a significant blow to Czech hopes for the future, a once-promising hockey nation with players like Jaromir Jagr, Petr Nedved, and Martin Straka falling to a clear second tier status and less likely to rebound with this club’s demise. One player who had been on the junior team, however, has hinted at a different career path. The VHL, a talented league with a rather unusual setup of five North American teams and five European teams, may just hold the key for the young Vaclav Hrdina, a third-line center on the Karlovy Vary junior team who has a desire for travel like so many young men his age. Unlike many, Hrdina might just have stumbled upon a way to explore the world while still earning a paycheck at his sport of choice. The VHL has a strict age policy for its prospects so Hrdina can’t make his way over just yet, but in the meantime he has accepted a contract with his hometown’s major league team in the Extraliga. While Hrdina has made it known that he wants to make the jump to the VHL, the question remains if the VHL has a place for him. He has loads of potential but is as of yet not that skilled in most areas, having only put up one goal and eight assists all season in his final year with the junior team. One stat that stands out for Hrdina and might point to his future niche is an 82.6% win rate at faceoffs, the highest in the league. His father, Jan Hrdina, used to play for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Phoenix Coyotes, New Jersey Devils, and Columbus Blue Jackets of the NHL and was skilled not only at faceoffs, but offensively as well. Could the VHL make room for a true faceoff specialist, or will Hrdina be forced to adapt other facets to his game in order to make it at the higher level?

GO WALES! If not Wales, then Germany I guess. Not the biggest fan of the top teams doing top team things, especially when we had so much promise after the group stage for potential upsets, but as long as Hair Gel Boy doesn't win I'm happy

The best part of this is that there apparently have been 136 other people named Aeschylus Jigglejawns in the past. Plenty of Aeschylus, I mean the Oresteia is arguably the reason why things are done in trilogies, but Jigglejawns? He is the 137th person in a long line of people with the name Jigglejawns? That's fantastic.

Might take one Not sure