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Liverpool XI: Mignolet, Clyne, Lovren, Caulker, Smith, Stewart, Allen, Brannagan, Teixeira, Ibe, Benteke.

Substitutes: Ward, Enrique, Ilori, Randall, Chirivella, Ojo, Sinclair.

Why is klippety resting players for an important FA Cup game against another Premier League team ? surely he doesn't think he has a chance of top 4 ? seems like that delusional thing is catching

To be fair, he'd be better off resting players in the league games

Patrick Roberts should have come to us ! probaly would have been worth 30m by now

Try and get some prices from Foreign exchange companies.

The offshore rate from the company i use will usually be the equivalent of the TT rate and the advantage of getting an offshore rate is that you know exactly what rate your getting on the day and can then decide if you want to do the deal or not, where as if the money is sent in your home currency you don't know what rate you are getting until 2 or 3 days later and if you don't like the rate then it is too late.

I can even look at my companies app and it will tell me approx what the rate is at the time.

I find their prices cheaper than my UK bank on smaller amounts and on a recent larger transaction 1.1m Baht i found the overall cost to be roughly the same as it would have been if i had used a UK bank.

I'm obviously looking at things from a UK perspective so you will need to check how much your US bank charges,incidentally there is a US subsidiary of the FX company i use.

Oh, (she says as the penny drops) that's what he means by "ladyfriendly". In that case, I know from first-hand observation that Duang Tawan is just the place for a frolic with a bargirl or better yet, someone who you hire to be your girlfriend for the week. I used to be a member of their fitness center and it was common to see hotel guests come with their new "girlfriends" to use the pool and for the gals to change into their newly purchased swimwear in the ladies locker room. I vividly remember one guy who had four girlfriends with him -- yes four. He got them all in the pool with him and made a big show of giving them "swimming lessons", all the time looking around to see how many other guests were admiring his good fortune. It helps that the huge pool is uniformly about chest deep. One has to work very hard to drown in that pool and since it's a dogleg design part of it is always in the shade, so tender Thai skin isn't exposed to the sun.

That would have been me but don't tell the wife

Any news on verity?

And 12 mill for andros,, decent enuf

wish the guy well always sad to see one of our own go, but it was time,, sure he'll do well as a.straight 4 ward Winger, just not pochs style.

Still reckon we should sign berihino,<deleted> pullis didn't want andros i'll never know100% suited his style.

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I think the Baggies chairman, Pierce, is acting like a prick over Berahino. The lad doesn

t want to stay, so let him go. Plus he's now a dwindling asset.

JW is out for a minimum of three weeks and at worse two months pending on the severity of injury. I presume we'll line up with Wimmer who looks quite solid although i've not seen too much of him. However, if we lose Alderweirald were deep in it!

The crazy thing is that Berahino only has 18 months left on his contract so even if he starts playing and scores a few goals his value is still going to go down !!

Someone said in one of the threads that academies are there to either produce players for the first team squad or produce players to sell on, well we seem to be the bee's knees at doing both, Townsend's 12m makes it 28m GBP we've made in the last 2 seasons from academy players, add in the value of Kane, Mason, Bentaleb, Onomah, Carroll and Pritchard then it looks like it's happy days

Go easy on Stevie Alfredo...after all we know he always goes home in the dark of winter to don his balaclava and crowbar.

I'm joking yes....

go easy on stevie? alfie? as i've said before on here smokie, a trolling from alfie is like being viciously savaged by an incontinent lamb. not to mention that i don't even bother reading his posts any more because he's simply too tedious and unfunny.

It wasn't suppose to be funny, i was being serious

Cos you are just trolling again .

Come on Mary just respond, after all, you have badges

haha, yep, piece of piss that.

christ we were bad. i mean dreadful bad. you can definitely see the impact of the fixture logjam now, two games a week, a lot of them intense games, is obviously taking its toll.

was a bit surprised to see stoke revert to their alehouse stuff with walters and crouch considering the plaudits they've been getting for their attacking football. and mark hughes can sod off with his best team lost nonsense, we should have been out of sight after the first leg where we battered them but couldn't score the two or three more our performance warranted.

so a wembley final to look forward to. heart wants it to be against everton, head says it'll be city.

To be fair, you haven't been very good all season so no excuses about 2 games a week please, as for intense games, what games were they then ?

Can you just <deleted> off you tedious prick?

Instead of coming out with expletives, why don't you just respond to my post

haha, yep, piece of piss that.

christ we were bad. i mean dreadful bad. you can definitely see the impact of the fixture logjam now, two games a week, a lot of them intense games, is obviously taking its toll.

was a bit surprised to see stoke revert to their alehouse stuff with walters and crouch considering the plaudits they've been getting for their attacking football. and mark hughes can sod off with his best team lost nonsense, we should have been out of sight after the first leg where we battered them but couldn't score the two or three more our performance warranted.

so a wembley final to look forward to. heart wants it to be against everton, head says it'll be city.

To be fair, you haven't been very good all season so no excuses about 2 games a week please, as for intense games, what games were they then ?

Squad for tonight likely to be similar to Norwich (Clyne main doubt) with Lovren replacing Caulker (cup tied) who, along with Ojo/Brannagan/Kent, played for the <21's in a facile 2-0 win against the Spuds last night.

Kent and Sinclair with the goals. Despite going down to 10 men (Stewart getting a Red), and Enrique playing makeshift CB, Bogdan (fortunately ) didn't have a save to make.

Yep, sounds like it was men against boy's, probably because it was

Typo

You've gone soft Alfie !! Last man red card but nothing more. I would do away with the obligatory red for the keeper as last man though.

Football has gone soft, to much diving and coning of the ref, and ref's nowadays blow for the slightest contact.

Taking one for the team half the time the tackled player is waiting for the slightest of contact so he can hit the deck,we all remember Beastie riding tackle after tackle before he scored.

Your going off topic nev, what your suggesting needs to be another thread

You've gone soft Alfie !! Last man red card but nothing more. I would do away with the obligatory red for the keeper as last man though.

To me jd the game is called football for a reason, in that you kick the ball with your foot ( not sure about headers, lol ) therefore if a player is going to try and impede another player by not trying to do that then it is another form of cheating so he should be off !

So called "taking one for the team" even when the attacking player doesn't have a goal scoring opportunity should result in a straight red card.

In fact a foul committed anywhere on the pitch whereby the defender is deemed to have no intention of going for the ball should be a red card, albeit from a pullback, lunging tackle,etc.

How many times do we see when a forward is flying down the wing and a defender comes across, takes him out with total disregard for the player and just results in a yellow card as it wasn't a goal scoring opportunity.

Thoughts please !!!!!!!!

Everyone is focusing on the wrong thing.

Just visiting Chiang Mai last month will not inform you about one of the most important aspects of living here: the people.

I don’t know if you have lived in Thailand before (it appears not) and I am not sure if you have determined with certainty that this is where you want to spend your retirement, but here’s my 2 baht worth:

Sure, Chiang Mai has a nice environment, malls, infrastructure and whatnot, but there are more important issues you need to seriously consider.

You live in Florida and mix with people who are native English speaker s who are well educated and savvy about world affairs. Workmen and craftsmen are professionals and generally take pride in their work. When problems arise between customers and merchants or professionals, there is some reliable resource of complaint and redress (such as the Better Business Bureau, and other consumer protection agencies).

When you move to Thailand, you will enter a completely different world. Thai people’s average IQ is lower than the global average (and yours) – you can check this out. (This is not necessarily their fault; the education system here is lamentably poor.) And that figure only speaks to Thai people who took an IQ test; it does not address the vast number of Thai people who have never been tested and are undereducated.

I expect that you enjoy a good discussion with your friends and girlfriend about global issues and other topics of general interest. But when you move to Thailand, that will pretty much end.

Be it a Thai neighbor, friend or girlfriend (very few retirees stay in Thailand alone), this is the kind of conversation you can look forward to (and this assumes the person you are talking to can even speak English – and I am assuming you don’t know how to speak Thai):

321Rich: “Did you see the price of oil yesterday? It’s amazing how much it’s dropped over the last year.“

Thai GF: (Silence)

321Rich: “You know the US lifted sanctions on Iran… (Next 5 minutes spent dumbing down explaining “sanctions,” “nuclear bomb,” etc)

Thai GF: “Uh, okay.”

321Rich: “Now they will be able to sell their oil, starting with all those supertankers just sitting there full.”

Thai GF: “What’s a ‘supertanker’?” (More “walking dictionary” work)

321Rich: “What do you think that will do to the price of oil?”

Thai GF: “I don’t know.”

321Rich: “Oh, well…I guess it’s good for gasoline prices but the stock markets – what about that?”

Thai GF: “I don’t know.”

Pick a subject:

Dropping price of oil – how this affects global economy – currencies/What about that Donald Trump?/What about those Warriors this season?/What’s wrong with Man United this season?/Global warming – can anyone really deny we are a prime cause?/Will Thailand return to democracy?/Is Russia really bombing IS in Syria or them and the enemies of Assad?/Will Britain sanction Putin over the inquiry into the poisoning of the ex-Russian spy?…you get the idea.

The response you will get from a Thai will mostly be: “I don’t know.” (Meaning, “I don’t know” or “I don’t understand what you are even talking about.”)

Ask about basic science, geography or general world history and you will also get a raft of, “I don’t knows.”

The fact is that the Thais, generally, do not have the knowledge set to conduct not only a thoughtful discussion on current events, but because they lack inquisitiveness and abstract thought, it is difficult if not impossible to have a conversation based on theory with them.

So, for example, if you want to talk about the obstacles of manned, deep space travel and the possibility of going to Mars, forget it. If you want to have a speculative discussion on what the world would be like if we had never stopped going to the Moon, good luck with that.

You will also never be able to use any colloquialisms (again, assuming the other person can speak English fairly well) again or references to pop culture. No Breaking Bad references, no slang, no sarcasm and no innuendo, to name but a few examples.

But let me be clear, this is not an issue of, "They don't understand because of the language problem." Even if you posed the same example questions in Thai the response would mostly be the same, "I don't know."

However, if you ask a Thai which of their chickens eats the most, you will get a direct answer. …

Look at the Thai “entertainment” shows on local TV as a reference. These are mainstay programs that are geared to the absolute lowest denominator. And they are popular. Puerile humor, mindless slapstick and funny costumes rule.

Socially, you will be an outsider. A tolerated alien, but never an insider; never “one of us.” That may not be an issue for you, but it’s always there.

So for stimulating conversation, you will have to seek out other aliens, but you may find that they are not always in tune with your thinking or lifestyle. Some men I have met over the last 10 years here only want to sit around and drink and talk about football and banging chicks. Some groups of older folks never really seem to understand they are in a foreign country and spend more of their time bitching about things in “backward” Thailand and the way it was back home.

Of course you will find a handful of people (if you search long enough and in the right places) with whom you can converse comfortably and interestingly. But it won’t be the same as in Florida.

Thais are also quite unreliable. If I had a nickel for every time a Thai person broke their word to me, I’d be rich. Thais also generally will not be considerate of you if they decide, for whatever reason, not to come when scheduled – and this is true among Thais themselves too. Instead of calling you to tell you they can’t come, they will usually just not show up. Or if they do come at all, they could be hours late.

Thais are also not very observant. This can manifest itself in work done, be it selling you something that doesn’t fit or making repairs, or just their daily life. (“Oh, here, this part will work.” “But that will clearly not fit.” “Oh, yes, it will.” You take it home and of course, it doesn’t fit.). Of course this example could really fall under what I call, "Hammering the screw," whereby Thais just can't be bothered to do it correctly because they don't care or, "This might work, but probably not, but I'll do it anyway," mentality. "Maybe you should use the screwdriver that is sitting two feet away from you?" "Uhhh."

(Recent example: I just had a flush toilet replaced with a new one and after the workman finished installing it, I pointed out to him that it was at least 30 degrees off true from the wall. “Look at this; it’s not straight. Do you see?” He did, with a puzzled, then mildly bewildered look and then that ‘Uh, oh well’ Thai smile. It did not occur to him that the toilet should be perpendicular to the wall (although he’s seen it that way all his life). After I left him to correct it, I returned to find the toilet now at an angle of only about 5 degrees off true – just enough to be irritating every time you look at it.)

And on the topic of language, few if any expats take the time and effort to learn to read, write and speak Thai before they move here (Yes, I am sure it has happened, but it’s pretty rare). So in addition to the above, you will be hobbled by the language barrier. One thing you will find retirees often resorting to is instead of going to classes and actually learning the language of the country they are now calling home, they will dumb down their English in a misguided effort to make it “easier” to communicate. Personally, I find it pathetic and demeaning when I see older men, most of whom likely have a high education and probably had a decent career, speaking like a caveman.

“I go store. I no want you go. You wait me come back.”

The fact is that if a Thai can understand that, they can understand that with the necessary grammar as well. I find it depressing to see a gentleman in the twilight of his life moving to a place where he can’t communicate with the local population, and when he does, he must resort to language hardly befitting a toddler in his own country. Subjects of discussion now center around local and tangible situations – what to buy, where to eat, how to pay the bill, when the tuk-tuk will come, etc.

And lastly, Thais, like many other peoples, have nearly no sense of protecting the environment and little concept that littering is a bad thing. If living with strewn litter – on the streets, along sidewalks, in gutters, vacant lots (pretty much everywhere you can think of) – bothers you greatly, this could be an issue.

So, I believe that moving to Chiang Mai (or anywhere in Thailand) must also encompass these issues, not only whether there is periodic air pollution and so on. You really need to think about what social environment you may be getting yourself into. Chiang Mai and Thailand are not simply "real estate," they come with the population, that should be considered carefully.

Having said that, most people who have lived in both the South and North of Thailand prefer those in the North. Calmer, more level headed, easier going and less prone to violence.

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Before all the detractors pile on, let me make some clarifications.

For anyone whose comment goes: “Well, if you dislike the Thais that much, why don’t you leave?” Let me say that that is not an argument; it’s a slogan, a pablum. It is a worthless comment. And I never said I don’t like Thais.

For those who will say: “My girlfriend has great English and knows a lot,” I will say: good for you. But the fact is that, just as you can find someone who is 195cm tall, it’s not impossible to find a good conversationalist here, but just not very often. Just as you are most likely to meet someone who is average in height, you are more apt to meet someone with average abilities. There are certainly Thais out there who are educated and well spoken. Hopefully, it is obvious that I do not mean “every Thai,” but rather the average Thai.

For those who will say, “That’s just being racist and sanctimonious,” I have to disagree. It is what it is. Thai people do not intentionally act this way; it is simply a function of their culture, education and upbringing.

Seems you have probably wasted 2 hours of your life on going off topic as it is totally irrelevant to what the OP was asking which was :

Would you be living in the same city or some other area of Thailand?

Food for thought on Chiang Mai, how many people do people know that have moved from Chiang Mai to other parts of Thailand and how many people do people know that have moved from other parts of Thailand to Chiang Mai, now taking into consideration that Chiang Mai only takes up a very small percentage of Thailand then the answers to the above should tell people something about Chiang Mai.

More importantly when will MrRed be back

An easier method is to park where you are not blocking someone's exit. I remember once i parked at Queen Sirikit Hospital and when i came back someone had parked across the front of my car, even though there were dozens of empty spaces further up the car park. The owner was obviously too ar*ed to walk 10 metres.

Iv'e often thought this method, supposing someone has parked across a little old lady's car and there's no one about to help her, &lt;deleted&gt; is she suppose to do ?

Surprisingly routine win. Good rotation by Poch and excellent performance by Son.

Still think we need a back up striker. Shane Long looks an obvious choice to me.

Yeah not a bad shout don't think poch will sign him but for me i always liked long, imo never recieves enuf credit and probably not worked to his benefit he's effective off the bench.

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I read something yesterday saying that Pochettino is going to use a couple of youngsters from the academy as back up for Kane. I suppose we'll have to trust his judgement.

I read something along them lines but I don't believe that for one minute carms, just a bit of spin in case we don't sign anyone.

I think the one most likely to come is Dembele but i'm not even sure that he is ready for the Premiership

wow, we've lobbed in a bid of £25m for alex teixeira from shakhtar apparently. hope we get him. cracking player.

According to you lot nearly every player your interested in is a cracking player, the problem is, that after signing them a lot of them tend not to be so cracking

buy it at home. as said you will pay considerably more - i mean a lot more than in Europe, America, etc.

A friend recently came over on holiday from England. He was amazed to find how much more expensive clothes are in Thailand compared to the UK.

There are cheap clothes to be had here, from the markets and bigger stores, but these are usually of substandard quality, after one or two washes the dye fades, they shrink or they go out of shape. Actually living in Thailand I can get away with wearing a pair of shorts and a wife beater vest on most days that I don`t go out, but I wouldn`t even consider buying high branded clothing in Thailand.

Was that a designer one ?

Perhaps Nissan have noticed the comments about the Hybrid being good value!

The X-Trail sales numbers seem good so they probably think they can screw the price up a little.

If I remember correctly the X-Trail 2.5L was introduced at 1.5M and quietly increased to 1.55M mid 2015.

Still hard to believe Nissan think buyers will pay 150k more for the 2.5L sunroof and small 3rd row seats.

They are paying more for a bigger engine, sunroof, bigger wheels, different wheels and not for 3rd row seats

To be fair, it is probably more of a case of the Hybrid being under priced rather than the 2.5 being overpriced.

Don't know what happened there but the Poxy alarm clock didn't go off ended up waking up for the last half an hour, have to watch the first 60 mins later.

Anyway, it seems to me lately that playing any of the squad players doesn't really weaken us significantly if at all, a real nice position to be in.

Wow really, the prices are higher? I don't shop much of this kind of stuff, but I thought with tax refund the prices would be at least comparable to Europe if not a bit cheaper.

Anyways cheers for the tip mate, I wasn't aware of Central festival. I'll check it out for sure and I anyway need to visit Pantip, so I'll probably drop into the Lacoste shop as well.

In Robinson they have an Armani dept.