Mad Scientist

My post? Patronising? Compared to this? Yes, I did (and do) seriously think that - based on your demonstrated lack of anything resembling the ability to put together an argument, neatly demonstrated by the above quote. My estimate of your 'reasoning abilities' couldn't actually get any lower.

Yes it does, in the context of 'David Hodgson' making the point that Babel should have started ahead of Maxi.

He has been saying exactly that. He's been making the case for Babel starting instead of Maxi. In response to a post saying that Maxi played well and his selection was vindicated Hodgson responded with: "Virtually everyone was putting him in their team to start V Blackburn, and there were very few shouts for Maxi.", i.e. most of the forum thought Babel should have started so he should have started. A couple of posts later: "Whilst I respect your thoughtful and insightful view of Babel, I must disagree as I think Maxi flatters to deceive and that yes, Babel would have given us more. This was the opinion of virtually every poster on this forum prior to the teams bring announced yesterday." Same again. That point made it's first appearance about a page later. Maybe I can let him off with a warning Or on second thoughts, maybe not. Ad hominem. My bet is he'll be telling me that I'm a clueless whippersnapper who couldn't possibly know as much about the game as him shortly. Which is the kind of thing that happens when you don't actually have any logical arguments to make.

That's a logical fallacy called argumentum ad populum, and I'm reckon an argument from repetition (another logical fallacy) as well, because this same logical fallacy has been mentioned a number of times by you already in this thread. There was an appeal to authority earlier in this thread as well, although not by you this time (you did a pearler a few days ago when debating MFletcher). It doesn't help your arguments when they are full of incorrect reasoning. Which is not to say that you're wrong by the way, it's just that the conclusions you have reached don't follow from the arguments you have chosen to use. You're also not the only one who uses faulty reasoning on here, so please don't think I'm singling you out - it's just the same fallacy repeated a few times over was starting to grate a bit.

You have to kick a mostly white, spherical object into a rectangle with white edges. If you do it well you get lots of small, thin, green rectangles.

What I think is killing the discussions is essentially the same comments being posted by certain posters over and over again, several times per thread, in practically every thread.

I think Leo has subconsciously hit upon the reason why we were so damn good in the 70s...

http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=...amp;part=sports lots of streams, take your pick

He was the star of the recent U20 championships, made most of Nemeths goals and scored 5 in 6 games himself. Excellent player, fantastic vision.

Lucas played well, although he wouldn't be my man of the match. He seems to have a habit of playing well against good sides and less well against less good sides - if he can consistently produce the kind of performance he managed yesterday, and start to dominate the less good midfields on a regular basis then he'll be fine. We've missed the level of control that Alonso used to bring to the midfield this season, let's hope that Lucas can kick on from yesterday's performance and start to help us to bring that control back.

Sensational through ball by Benayoun for Torres. Lucas and Masch were both very good in the middle of the park. Carra got a bit lucky with a couple of decisions but played much better overall. Agger was fantastic. A really good all-round team performance.

Agger played well - a couple of gorgeous long passes (one of 50 yards that put the right winger clean through) and nearly scored with a long range effort after advancing into midfield (forced a good save by the keeper). He appeared to be playing the last 10 minutes as a center forward as Denmark were chasing the game, and he looked very tired at the end of match.

Agree with this. Lucas has never played in center mid with Aurelio before, and to pair them together for the first time in a competitive match away from home was a risky call. Plus the tactics were all wrong first half, the full backs were bombing forward far too often. Rafa usually keeps things a lot tighter in the first half, especially away from home. We were giving them acres of space, and their midfielders made very good use of it.

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Rafa delighted with Purslow