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Cougar:
what are we calculating? attempted pass per minute or accurate pass/min?

Here's your quote . . . 'there must be ten players in arsenal with better pass/minute ratio than denilson on the top of my head.'
I love the way you back out. . .

Cougar:
there must be ten players in arsenal with better pass/minute ratio than denilson on the top of my head. almunia and fabianski should be better. same as eboue, rosicky, etc.

Did you read what I said, pick one and tell me how much you wanna put on it . . . open view on NL, no mago-mago.

Bayern hero Beckenbauer backs Bendtner bid
Bayern have been prominently linked with the Denmark international and Beckenbauer, who recently resigned as club president, certainly believes Bendtner is of the calibre required by the German Double winners.

Beckenbauer told the Daily Mirror: "Yes, he is among some players, who have done very well - both for Denmark and for his club, and who has got the class and the potential to play in a club like Bayern Munich, where we already have a lot of class players."

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=843282&sec=transfers&cc=5739&cc=5739

This guy is not even in our first team and he's 'one of the players with class to play in Bayern??'

@Cougar

Pick an Arsenal player and I'll compare his pass/minute ratio with Denilson . . . now I'll go through the pain of calculate everything, but I want you to put your money where your mouth is. . . it's going to be fun taking money off you.

Deal or no deal??

Cougar:
keep shaking your head but ma point was. . . . .denilson cops high number of passes because he copss more minutes than the arsenal players who are skilled to retain possession. more minutes on the pitch should give him more passes than cesc, diaby, nasri, etc. as an aside, he also retains possession mostly in his half and his range of passing is 5-10 yards(high accuracy, less difficulty) unlike cesc, xavi or scholes or lampard whose range are between 5-60 yards(prone to inaccuarcy because of the difficulty involved). any slowpoke can make 2-10 yard passes and get away with them. it doesn't make them geniuses - only the fans of arsenal will celebrate denilson.

Stop saying he's not passing enough . . . 59 accurate passes per match last season was one of the best in the EPL.
Get it, this is a ratio . . . passes per match, so it eliminates the B.S about the others don't get many matches, and a proof of his consistency.

Now are those passes important?? Possession battles are won in the midfield . . . every  knows that.
And those passes help to hold the ball while creative players are finding spaces, that's why Arsenal is a possession team.
And to prove my thing about consistency, he had 45 minutes in the Everton Match and he produced half of his last season pass/match average.

Cougar:
i am not a dog, i don't bite but stop peddling false allegations against me.

if the earth remains spherical, denilson should not start for chelski. who can denilson ace in chelsea midfield? mikel is better than denilson. same as lampard, ramirez, essien and zhirkov. denilson is yet to cap a debut for brazil at 22. i mean, what other evidence do you guys need to know he's a mediocre player who retains possession in the area of the pitch where his markers are not interested in winning the ball from him.

So before, it was . . . he doesn't pass enough, then it became, his pass/match ratio was low . . . then it became, he only passes this good because no one tackles him . . . like seriously, what team lets you hold the ball in the midfield . . . SMH!!!

hax:
it satisfies most hip-hop fans. excellent production, nice hooks and good-to-very good rapping. and we all know big names over nice production is always likely to sell well. and after G.O.O.D. fridays?
it is very poppy, with enough sick rhyming to still be very hip-hop as well.

funny you mentioned it. BP3 wasn't rap enough to bear the blueprint name.

There's only one full 32 on any of the tracks . . . and it's almost like 808's and Heartbreaks with raps here and there.
Don't get me wrong, I rate it 9-10/10, but I don't know about y'all 'take it back to the streets' people.

And it's not poppy at all, those piano solos and creative stunts make pop music look childish.
I listened to a version with almost half the words bleeped out, but the instrument solos and beats were just next level. Kanye is a rock star that just happens to know how to rap.

Hehehe . . . So you think Venus Vs Mars, On To The Next One and Reminder are not hiphop enough??

Ibime:
If dem no want Denilson, make dem send am come Chelsea.

Just couple appearances wey Denilson make last season, e dey score goals.

How many goals did Fab4 score prior to 09/10?

Am absolutely convinved that Denilson would be a good attacking midfielder. If you want him to produce attacking stats, release him to go forward. Denilson is easily one of the best midfielders in the prem. For the last 4 years, he's always been at the top of the passing stats.

You guys have Mikel there already, they do basically the same thing.

I don't know of the attacking part though, he'll definitely score, he's with Arsenal, but Arsenal is a flair team so I'm sure people will still want him off.

Cougar:
simple-mind you call it because you are simple-minded. when has denilson ever won man of the match in about 130 appearances for arsenal? none! he has never taken any game by the scruff of the neck. he hides. he doesn't dictate games and his number of passes is commensurate with the number of appearances. if other midfielders cop the same number of minutes than denilson, they will make more passes. that statistic is a fraud. i can understand an arsenal fan rating denilson. in the country of the blind, a cyclop like denilson is a king.

[b]You're talking about passes and you call Arsenal the 'city of the blind'??
[/b]No offence but have you ever watched a football game in your life before??

I'm not going to make any further comments on this.

Jay-Z . . . 'owning teams is like paintings for billionaires, they're not profitable'.

slimshay:
@eldee, you know its like a striker copping the golden boot and someone now comes along to say 'well, more than half were just tap-ins'. . . .simple mind I tell you.

That negro is why we're called a possession team, we all know what happens when we're not with the ball.
When coaches talk, they say . . . 'don't let them pass the ball around and you'll beat them'. They're managers, their jobs depend on this.

Those sideways passes, that he gives just gives creative players the chance to find that opening, it gives Walcott to run into that area, it takes off the job of Fabregas distributing the ball, simply, he's the reason Fabregas is scoring.
59 accurate passes per game last season . . .

We need to separate pub-gist from football, anyone can be a football fan, but watching football is a different thing.

Won fe fi eleha se Miss World

slimshay:
'How many of those are backward or sideways passes'. . .the argument of the simple mind. SMH!!!

Saying Denilson is not important to us is like asking why Chelsea have Mikel.

Oh my fucking dayzzzz Runaway is beautiful . . . Kanye West is legend!!!

Hmmn . . . I also think it's wrong to use the term 'U.S.A'. it's highly offensive and totally derogatory, it's pronounced 'United States of America'.

I get the generation gap, but these people need to chill . . . don't they think at all??
The slangs we use are a part of the unifying vocabulary that holds young Nigerians together.

'Jand', 'Las gidi', 'Naij', 'Yankee', 'ABJ', 'V.I' . . . these are words that help you feel connected to other Nigerians, simply because you only know them by growing up in Naij same way people that use 'Cali', 'A-town'and 'QB' obviously had a phase of hiphop culture.

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=550510.msg7149490#msg7149490 date=1289838242]^^both of you need to stop whining and act like men.

end of.

only a f.oolish and effeminate man spends inordinate amounts of time arguing in the manner you're doing here.[/quote]More childish talk, I won't say I didn't expect this, I just expect you to be a lil more creative with your attempt to rile me up

iice:
[color=#9900ff]So the 'powers' he has is actually a 'power'. . .but yes his speed lets him do alot of things.[/color]

[color=#9900ff]He's like Steve Carrell to me. Irritating.[/color]

Yeah but then no one in the X-men apart from Wolverine has more than one power.

iice:
[color=#9900ff]All those are based on his speed.
It's not the same thing as say. . .Superman : Heat vision, different from strength, different from freeze breath.
He's my most irritating JL member, next to Superman and Wonderwoman.  Atleast Hawkgirl manage small[/color]

Come on, he's funny . . . he make the overly serious Justice League guys look interesting.

steeze:
Disgracing nigerian men? How about u stop disgracing nigerian women with all this display of bias and antagonism as against logic and reason. Please stick to topic instead of making those unnecessary statements.

Did you see Oyinda's post?? This is not a matter of Nigerian or Black . . . this is a matter of the ability to apply basic logic on things.
So while Oyinda is saying 'what we need to do is cultivate black female movie directors', Ms Farrakhan over here is going 'they're threatened by by black women'.
And now because you said 'A professional is a professional', you've become a disgrace to Nigerian men with archaic views.
Tpia's lack of ability to follow logical reasoning is in no way representative of Nigerian women, that I'm sure of.

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=550510.msg7145274#msg7145274 date=1289783027]^^this back and forth is pointless.

keep to your views but stop trying to throw a tantrum at the thought of black women directing a movie about the lives of black women.

very unbecoming, petty and churlish of you i must say.

now, if you dont mind, can the thread get back on track.




blah blah blah @ the racial/gender discrimination wolf crying.

you just dont get it and i doubt you ever will.[/quote]How typical . . . more narrow-minded talk.
'Keep to your views', 'browbeating' and I'm the one being petty??

I guess I'll never get it, I need to got through childbirth to understand your need to choose sentiments over logic.

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=550510.msg7145201#msg7145201 date=1289781524]^^ok, in[b] your [/b] opinion, black women have no business directing or producing movies about black women.[/quote]Blind assumption, I said . . . 'Why should race and gender take priority over merit and skill??' . . . the need for a great director to do important movies trumps the need for your 'strong black woman' B.S.

This statement 'movies about black women can and should be directed by black women' is small minded . . . and I have a problem with any form of racial or gender discrimination.

And I'll ignore your childish comment in the last line, you're famous for statements like that.

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=550510.msg7144885#msg7144885 date=1289776537]why exactly do you feel so threatened by the thought of black women directing movies about black women? [/quote]This is the 'The world is against us' attitude I was talking about. . . so because I'd rather see Speilberg do another The Colour Purple than watch Oprah try her hands at producing I'm 'threatened'??

Hehehe . . . I'm not threatened by the thought a black women directing movies, I'm just of the opinion that we picking directors for movies based on race and gender is at best petty and racist at it's worst.

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=550510.msg7144455#msg7144455 date=1289771472]^^no need to.

you have your opinion and others are allowed to have theirs.

however, after all is said and done, you're still not a black woman.

and if steven spielberg, a white man, connects better with a black woman's world than black men, then there isnt much to say, really.[/quote]Your opinion is way too sentimental, it's blind to logic , I said Speilberg and EVERY other good director can portray the black woman right and you interpret it as 'Speilberg the white man understands the black woman but Lee Daniels can't' . . . you see why I said I won't take you serious??

Now a good director will portray war in a way that will trash a frontline soldier will, why?? Because he's that good.
Today's directors will trash a story from the 1800s like they were born then . . .
Lee Daniels didn't need to be a fat black woman to do an Oscar worthy Precious . . .

Now my point is, it's not about black or white, male or female, it's about good or crappy when you talk about movies . . . drop the Alice Walker act and see basic logic.

hax:
i think the book is done.

and you don't really think Jay-Z would write a whole book? the niqqa doesn't write his rhymes. 

The book is done, but promotion is the biggest part of writing a book, you actually have to do book signings and all that.
Come on, I read a page or sumn, that was interview-Hov talking.

hax:
and yeah, J. Cole's album HAS BEEN shelved till spring lol. there's no release date. i don't think he'd drop it this close to the mixtape.

I knew it was shelved, I thought it was going to end up a December album, not spring.

hax:
willow and rihanna are definitely more important to jay-z right now. his influence is showing on rihanna's music especially. the new direction, since 'good girl done bad'. . . some would call it 'illuminati' though. i find it hard to believe that willow did that song on her own. its only in the chorus you can tell that it's a little girl. will and jada don't know too much about music, no offence lol.

It was just heavy studio work, Roc Nation has a massive team.

hax:
completely wasted. considering the fact that drake didnt sing the hook. havent heard it. knew it would be on the mixtape so i waited. since it's the same verses i'm not exactly looking forward to it. i wasn't such a big fan of the original anyways.

Drake did the hook after his verse.

bjmighty:
Kinda true el but Jay Elect is not a new kid. He's already got the street, he just need to be unleashed to the street in a well timed manner. Though, i foresee him clashing with a lot of other rappers. I'm kinda not cool with him on ROC too. Like he just got himself in a cold war with other rappers.

@el. . . na me u enjot dissing. Oloshi Me sef enjoy u. NL is fun for me.

Jay Elect is not going to be that successful with the Roc, the streets don't buy albums . . . and Hov will just leave him to do his thing, that'll be his flaw.

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=550510.msg7144316#msg7144316 date=1289770020]yeah whatever.

movies about black women can and should be directed by black women.

thank you.

mara akil is one of the best and has consistently shown she has a better perspective of what it means to be a black woman, than most black males.[/quote]That opinion is based on sentiments, I won't take it serious.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=550510.msg7143986#msg7143986 date=1289766799]YOUR opinion is not the validation test for mines.

It's still right to say that one must be of that specified group to know fully well what the people in that group went/is going through.

Now knowing that the movie is based on a book that was written by a black ammerican woman, directed by a black american man, I Am well content and very anxious to watch it.[/quote]Nah . . . my intelligence should be the benchmark for not my opinion. . . j/k

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=550510.msg7143331#msg7143331 date=1289760878]Who said anything about anyone being against anybody?

What's so bad in saying that no one can fully know what one group of people live unless they're part of that group? 

You're drifting off. . . .[/quote]My point is, you don't need to be part of the group to portray what they go through, you just need to be good. . . hence the reference to Speilberg and other directors.

chamotex:
To Whom It May Concern: [size=3pt]Tamuno Ibitc[i]h[/i]me[/size]

Singing Fela - U dey fumble . . . I dey look I no talk
                      U dey shout . . . .I dey look I no talk




To be continued . . .

Please give us a blow-by-blow account of you experience at Sockodicki. . . Bendover [/b]demands a lot along with the commitment, it's good to see that you're [b]handling [/b]the [b]Gaylords, it's a big [b]dealthough [/b]so I can't fully understand it.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=550510.msg7142683#msg7142683 date=1289755519]@ The bolded

I'm just saying, unless she/he has done her research, she couldnt possibly know the full length of what a black woman goes true. And yes, it does matter.
Pssst, @ gender. . . . so you're saying that a man can tell us how bad labor pains are? They can assume, but they'll never know.

Trust black men to get sentimental over Black women's sentiments [ ][/quote]Yeah . . . Speilberg should have gone back in time to fight in the World War II before he directed Band of Brothers, afterall he's not experienced the pain of being shot by a bullet.
Infact they should have hired Zack Orji to do Hotel Rwanda because the Irish dude doesn't understand tribal wars.

Trust black women think the whole world is against them. . . every thing is part of the agenda to make black women look bad.
I remember a woman telling me that black women should have special bathroom scales.

dayokanu:
I need band boys on the Chelsea thread.

Come one Come All

As we wan see Alhaji Wasiu Alabi Pasuma featuring Justin Beiber on stage.

Uncle me, uncle me!!!

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=550510.msg7139445#msg7139445 date=1289710039]So it wasn't made by a black woman?
I support it. . . .only a black woman would fully know what black women go through.[/quote]Good directors like Speilberg have successfully expressed the voices of black women better than even Oprah could.
Why should race and gender take priority over merit and skill??
Don't get me wrong, Tyler Perry is a crappy director . . . but he does know how to do propaganda movies right, and he's prolly the only okay director that can work on this budget and be effective.


Abeg comot for here jare . . . trust the black women to go sentimental on irrelevant things.