Big Red Fury

Terrible sending off of Bikey in the Reading game and Chelsea and Co. put on their usual song-and-dive routine. Hope Cudicini is alright however.

1. Carly Pope (Also I feel like I need to qualify that I'm not a bandwagoner, rather I wanted her since Popular. 2. Eva Mendez 3. Erica Durance 4. Scarlett Johannsen 5. Emmanuelle Chriqui 6. Elisha Cuthbert 7. Jessica Alba 8. Mandy Moore 9. Angelina Jolie 10. Jennie Finch The "Not" Top 5 1. Milla Jovovich 2. Alyson Hannigan 3. Lucy Liu 4. Natalie Portman 5. Natalie Imbruglia

don't be silly you idiot.

Tony Romo for Cowboys QB!!

I happen to enjoy OK Go when working out as well as the Jay Z/Linkin Park mixes and occasionally some Killing in the Name

Tom is right, at what point in history have you ever seen a manager take over a team and then immediately try to sign players whom better suit his style of play?

You guys realize that the play.com leaked version is incomplete correct?

I demand to be listed as a Barnet fan.

The timing of this release could either be very, very good or very, very bad. My midterms will either be starting the Monday of the week of the 20th or the Monday after, and if it is the latter then I will be failing them all miserably.

Popular was fucking amazing and never should have been dropped, but they marketed it towards the wrong crowd. War at Home is decent and two guys and a girl was also awesome.

Today blogs is about the youth revamp that is coming in Football Manager 2007. A full round up of this weeks blog, with screenshots, will appear on Friday at our website at www.sigames.com Youth Revamp Youth teams in Football Manager and Sports Interactive titles have been very well served over the years by a system called "regens". This was, basically, the regeneration of players as they retired, and had evolved massively over the years to the point where it couldn't be taken any further. But it still wasn't perfect. So, out go "regens". And in comes a whole new system of youth player generation, and database stability. It's internal codename is "Fred" because if it had a more descriptive name it would give far too many trade secrets away, but what it means is a lot more youth players in the game and a system much more akin to that of real life, using real life rules, so youth teams at active clubs should always be well populated with players. Just like real life, only a small proportion of these players will "make it" into top players, with many dropping down the leagues into non-league obscurity, but each year your youth team (if your club has one) will be topped up with new players and if you don't have what we deem "enough" at the starting point of the game, you'll be given more in the first couple of days of the game starting. Obviously, as with everything in our games, all areas of the game are linked, so if you have poor youth facilities, you will be less likely to find the next world superstar, but that doesn't mean that you can't, just that it's less likely. Some years you might get a whole heap of potential first team players, some you might get none, but the stability of the database over the long term stays the same, so you shouldn't find that in 2020 players in the third division are better than the international players of today. We've also used real world contract rules to ensure that you can offer players "pre-contracts" to try and save your players being snapped up for next to nothing by bigger clubs as has happened on previous games. As long as you're on the ball and keeping a close eye on your youngster or, if you trust them enough, letting one of your staff looking after the youth contracts, you should never lose a potential superstar for nothing again. It's also important that you nurture your young talent to get the best out of them. And to do this, you need to interact with the players, but there's more info on that coming on Thursday! Cheers Miles

Well lets leave it till then and stop arguing for the sake of it.

Oh my sweet God. Takeovers and the ability to move into new stadiums if you get big enough means that I need new shorts.

Barnet FC for me Coupet(Lyon) Terry(Chelsea) Kompany(Hamburg) Chivu(Roma) Eboue(Arsenal) Juninho(Lyon) © Elano(Shakhtar) Simao(Benfica) Carvalho(CSKA Moscow) Klose(Bremen) Podolski(Bayern) Subs: Akinfeev(CSKA Moscow) Rat(Shakhtar) Diogo Rincon(Dynamo Kiev Chamakh(Bordeaux)

Orient just had the goalie from Tranmere score on them.

Off topic question but I've been watching Green Street Hooligans a lot recently. How true is the whole 'firm' thing? *EDIT* Wow Villarreal paid 2 million pounds for Cygan?!?!?!

Something's not right about this situation...

Are they really as good as they seem from the few songs I've heard from them? I'm looking to you Brits for help on this one because I'm considering buying the cd and I just want to know what the concensus is on them.

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