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Now that's a fucking huge tuna. 271 cm long, 272 kg in weight. That's a lotta John West cans

4-X is Queensland's drink for BIG BURLY QUEENSLANDERS. Us effeminate Welshie's can't handle it.

Toohey's over XXXX? You may as well be a New South Welshman I don't like VB, it's too bitter.

Carlton Draught for me and I'm happy as can be. You're an XXXX man, no?

Fosters is disgraceful. It's not sold in Australia, thank fuck.

Oh hell no. It's fucking snowing in Goulburn, only about 80-90km away from where I live. This is Australia damn it, it should only snow in the Snowy Mountains. Perhaps Tasmania. Also the temperature has dropped from a reasonable 13 degrees to a downright freezing 6 degrees in the space of 18 minutes. And the sun still hasn't set!

The problem with signing Andreas here is we already have Moses. I don't like these combined-striker-winger types. Either sell Sturridge off now and buy a proper, fully fledged striker who absolutely cannot and will not play anywhere else; or keep him and stop chasing this guy.

Perhaps we can do what a lot of those South American clubs do and include a sell-on clause, where we get a certain percentage of any future transfer. So if he does become world class at least we'll be properly reimbursed. As it stands though, 15-20 million plus a 10-20% sell-on clause, for a player who's about to run down his contract and is a 'potential' buy, that's a great deal.

Also his market value is going to slump, as Transfermarkt have predicted:

No, 2013. No one will pay anything for him in January. http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/sturridge/profil/spieler_47082.html

If we sell him in January we'll get about 5 quid and a pint of beer. That's if anyone even wants to sign him in January. Everyone will just wait it out until summer and then sign him up for free.

Lol, Roman won't pay a cent regardless of what he's told to do by the courts. Look out for Boris' body to be found floating down the Neva River in Leningrad if Roman has to pay out

I can has banter?

How hard can it be to adapt to the PL from Germany? They play a similar high tempo style of football there. German defenders are just as big and just as nasty and just as happy to injure players as anyone in England.

I refuse to call him that, it'll jinx him. Andreas Schurrle.

May as well chuck Gerald Asamoah in there. And Cacau. They were rubbish, Klose is the exception rather than the rule. And Podolski doesn't count, Lukas is a German name.

But then Andreas Schurrle is proven as well. 27 Bundesliga goals, 7 goals for the national team.

Yes they do, otherwise you'll have them doing things not associated with German footballers (missing penalties, choking, being shit in general). Lars Bender. Sven Bender. Now there are a couple of great German names. They'll never miss a penalty and will be the best player(s) on the pitch every big game they play.

Why the hell would we loan him when he has 1 year to run on his contract? Either sell him today before the deadline or give him a new deal.

Sturridge is hardly proven. He had a good 12 month spell, that's all.

Andre. Andre. Andre. We can't be having Germans named "Andre" or "Marc-Andre" or "Mario". Bring back the Franz's.

I'd like to revise that. Fernando Escartin- implicated in the Giardini Margherita Raid in 1998. The list should now look like this: 1999: Daniele Nardello (Italy), originally placed seventh. 2000: Daniele Nardello (Italy), originally placed tenth. 2001: Andrey Kilivev (Kazakhstan), originally placed third. 2002: Jose Azvedo (Portugal), originally placed sixth. 2003: Haimar Zubeldia (Spain), originally placed fifth. 2004: Carlos Sastre (Spain), originally placed eighth. 2005: Cadel Evans (Australia), originally placed eighth. Also this chart has a very nice summary:

Juventus away and City home looks tricky.

He own's a Formula 1 team, Mittal won't sink his fortune into a middling football club in a very competitive market (London) that they're unlikely to crack.

They got Granero?! Fuck me they're building a very good team, they're not going to be involved in a relegation dogfight this year. They should be finishing in the top half of the table...