jcb23

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by seamus redux:
Is your office in New Jersey? And if so, it must be more southern. Sarcasm is a key element of North (New) Jersey life.

Either that or they're too embittered being in the shadow of NY and can no longer cope with sarcasm. After all, if one more person offers up the afterlife joke to me I may go on a murderous rampage.

For those that don't know it:
Why are New Yorker's so afraid of the death?

Because the light at the end of the tunnel is New Jersey.

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Central Jersey. Maybe they just don't get me!
It could be that the use of sarcasm is different each side of the pond and most folks I encounter don't get the UK kind. Or that we're just far enough away from the big bad city to be outside of its sarcasm field.

The bad Jersey joke my friends from out of state like most is the observation that all of the tolls at state lines are payable when travelling out of Jersey. i.e they'll let you in for free, but you have to pay to leave.
I prefer Letterman's motto from a couple years ago: "NJ: Keeping PA safe from NYC"

sfi

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Church:
I don't necessarily agree here, but I may be in the minority. I had one of these a while back and his value diminished from 100K to 8K within 3 years before I finally got rid of the kid for nothing. He played in amost every reserve game in one season and scored 1 goal. I like my strikers to be a little more prolific than that.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm with you here. I had one in Norway that was worth 500K Euros as a 16 year old and the board loved him. Two years later he's not even getting a game in the reserves and his stats are woeful for almost any league.

AdyTaylor

I've never had a regen this successful - think you should consider yourself fortunate

glamdring

I had a guy when I was in the Scottish First Division like that...I was going to keep him anyway because he had good pace and I like good pace, but it was a bit of a giveaway that he was quite special since my highest valued senior player was ~80k and this lad, straight out of the youth academy at 15 was valued £160k :eek: I guess the fact that he was the one my youth coachy person pointed out to me from the bunch means that it wasn't just his value that made me think he might become quite good...he's 23 now and has ~35 Scotland caps!

jraldous

Yeah but its Scotland...

A three legged donkey could get 35 caps at the moment if he had a Scottish grandfather

(waits for the jockmodfella backlash)

iajafer

At least Bert McVoghts picks Scottish-born donkeys to take the beating :cool:

jcb23

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jraldous:
Yeah but its Scotland...

A three legged donkey could get 35 caps at the moment if he had a Scottish grandfather

(waits for the jockmodfella backlash)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

As long as he doesn't play for Norwich
Although the silver lining to McBerti's bizarre selection policy means that we don't have to risk our defensive rock and three lungs getting injured at this critical stage of the season. :thup:

glamdring

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jraldous:
Yeah but its Scotland...

A three legged donkey could get 35 caps at the moment if he had a Scottish grandfather

(waits for the jockmodfella backlash)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


Ah, but I'm not "at the moment", I'm in 2013 where Ross County players make up the entire Scotland back four as well as occasionally supplying players for further forward too

Dr. Hook

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Taipan:
Got the yearly new batch of youth players through the system. Usual dross, value low all except this spotty 14y. Utter carp stats, but he is valued at 100K.

Thanks for telling me game that this kid is going to be good. Did I tell you that I would of liked to have found this out for myself?

It's like a cheat. You can't tell he is good, but the game decides that you need to know straight away. Value low = carp, value high = good.

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The other way it tips you off is suddenly one of your utes is making shortlists and generating interest from big clubs. I had a young striker at 16 in 3rd Div (scotland) who had English DIv 1 clubs coming for him. HIs stats weren't great, but like you I said thanks game for letting me know this...

aj2k

Wow is this still on topic?