New signing today

[SpaceCruiser]

Sorry to get technical here, but its incorrect to say that the English owned parts of france, or (as some would have you beleive) that the English Monarch has a claim to the french thrown, as it was actually the Normans who invaded and took over England.

If anything the current British head of state come from a line of monarchs who can tenuously be traced back to being French (with a large helping of German recently), so we're still be run by France (sorry spacey).

I've run out of essays to fail, so I'll mark your work instead.

The English/British monarchs claimed the French throne from the 14th century, and only dropped the claim in the reign of George III (when it was a little embarrassing because we were sheltering the exiled French "king", Louis XVII. The claim has nothing to do with the Norman conquest; rather, it depended on differing interpretations of the French laws of succession (although Edward III was really just looking for a fight, anyway). And the last "Frenchman" to take the English throne was Henry II, in the 12th century; just how long to does your family have to live here to be naturalised?! (We're straying into Daily Mail territory again!)

surely by the point the English Monarchs claimed the throne the whole ruling class was French anyway, and most of them spoke the language.

Either way, can't you just go along with it to upset Spacey, as he's clearly Raci.... erm, I mean xenophobic.

No he can't because you were clearly wrong in the first place. Moron.

[Jeffers217]

We should sign Jagielka as well

[Royal Rother]

We should sign Neil Warnock as Assistant Manager.

[Coppelled Streets]

We should sign Jagielka as well

Yes please! But I feel Sheffield United will want silly money for him - £5m or such fee.

[Royal Jelly]

Sorry to get technical here, but its incorrect to say that the English owned parts of france, or (as some would have you beleive) that the English Monarch has a claim to the french thrown, as it was actually the Normans who invaded and took over England.

If anything the current British head of state come from a line of monarchs who can tenuously be traced back to being French (with a large helping of German recently), so we're still be run by France (sorry spacey).

I've run out of essays to fail, so I'll mark your work instead.

The English/British monarchs claimed the French throne from the 14th century, and only dropped the claim in the reign of George III (when it was a little embarrassing because we were sheltering the exiled French "king", Louis XVII. The claim has nothing to do with the Norman conquest; rather, it depended on differing interpretations of the French laws of succession (although Edward III was really just looking for a fight, anyway). And the last "Frenchman" to take the English throne was Henry II, in the 12th century; just how long to does your family have to live here to be naturalised?! (We're straying into Daily Mail territory again!)

surely by the point the English Monarchs claimed the throne the whole ruling class was French anyway, and most of them spoke the language.

Either way, can't you just go along with it to upset Spacey, as he's clearly Raci.... erm, I mean xenophobic.

No he can't because you were clearly wrong in the first place. Moron.

snigger, snigger......

I think that worked well

[Jeffers217]

Think about it though, when manager's leave often players move on. Jags has only just made the England B team for the first time. To get in that shop window he will need to be playing in the prem and what better place to get first team action than at the Mad Stad?

[Millsy]

Sorry to get technical here, but its incorrect to say that the English owned parts of france, or (as some would have you beleive) that the English Monarch has a claim to the french thrown, as it was actually the Normans who invaded and took over England.

If anything the current British head of state come from a line of monarchs who can tenuously be traced back to being French (with a large helping of German recently), so we're still be run by France (sorry spacey).

I've run out of essays to fail, so I'll mark your work instead.

The English/British monarchs claimed the French throne from the 14th century, and only dropped the claim in the reign of George III (when it was a little embarrassing because we were sheltering the exiled French "king", Louis XVII. The claim has nothing to do with the Norman conquest; rather, it depended on differing interpretations of the French laws of succession (although Edward III was really just looking for a fight, anyway). And the last "Frenchman" to take the English throne was Henry II, in the 12th century; just how long to does your family have to live here to be naturalised?! (We're straying into Daily Mail territory again!)

surely by the point the English Monarchs claimed the throne the whole ruling class was French anyway, and most of them spoke the language.

Either way, can't you just go along with it to upset Spacey, as he's clearly Raci.... erm, I mean xenophobic.

No he can't because you were clearly wrong in the first place. Moron.

snigger, snigger......

I think that worked well

My mistake - go to the last page to see who the new signing is (still don't know, at the time of writing this!) to see the thread descend into another episode of "Spacey vs the French". Still.... here's my 2 penny's worth: the Normans weren't actually French they were from Scandinavian background who had colonised northern France. As we British are largely Scandinavian by background too they were probably racially closer to the rest of England than to the French anyway.

[rabidbee]

My mistake - go to the last page to see who the new signing is (still don't know, at the time of writing this!) to see the thread descend into another episode of "Spacey vs the French". Still.... here's my 2 penny's worth: the Normans weren't actually French they were from Scandinavian background who had colonised northern France. As we British are largely Scandinavian by background too they were probably racially closer to the rest of England than to the French anyway.

Sorry. My excuse is that I was invigilating an exam. Which actually means that I was being paid to read Hob Nob and Facebook whilst a student typed her exam on a computer on the other side of the room. Ho hum, easy money.

[Royalee]

Well done Spaceshitter for ruining yet another thread.

[Volvicanus]

As I can't really be bothered to tread through the shit on this thread - can someone tell me if he's ever played for France?

[skipper]

As I can't really be bothered to tread through the shit on this thread - can someone tell me if he's ever played for France?

LOL - Felt the same.....

[cmonurz]

As I can't really be bothered to tread through the shit on this thread - can someone tell me if he's ever played for France?

No, he hasn't, in fact he hasn't played 50 career games yet.

[paultheroyal]

Played for Dulwich Hamlet though!!

The next Bas Savage!!

[PieEater]

Seems quite a cheap low risk signing, at £650k that's less than the two places we didn't drop on the last game.

Signing him early seems that he was one of our first targets, and I'd rather get our first choices than second or thirds.

[seahawk10]

In Coppell we trust! After reading through the entire thread the best points I saw were:

We don't need him to score. Scoring goals is not the end all. If he plays defense or even a defensive midfielder position that can be just as vital as a striker or an attacking midfielder.

This signing shows that our results on the field make a difference. The better we do, the more persuasive Steve Coppell and company can be attracting the type of players they desire.

Better to get players young, affordable that we can mould to fit the RFC way than to overspend on more established players who might be harder to motivate and adapt to our system.

[tom_t69]

He looks good wikipedia gives him a good write up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalifa_Ciss%C3%A9

[tom_t69]

He looks good wikipedia gives him a good write up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalifa_Ciss%C3%A9

[From Despair To Where?]

Seems a Coppell signing in the mould of Convey and Doyle, young, scouted for a while, picked up from a none too obvious league and relatively cheaply.

Can't say I know anything about him but Coppell's done his homework on the player and that approach has reaped dividends in the past. Seems to be a different type of player to those already at the club so should give us added options. Seems to have decent ability and lots of potential so without any evidence to the contrary, I'll say it looks a good signing.

[Huntley & Palmer]

He looks good wikipedia gives him a good write up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalifa_Ciss%C3%A9

Why do people insist on quoting Wikipedia for info when it is written by any old Joe with access to the internet. It's like taking anything on here as gospel

[royaldownunder]

Reading is a team that scores from all over the pitch, that's one of our strengths... bit worried that this guy hasn't ever scored as a professional!
(even our defenders have a better record than him!)

Oh well, sure that coppell's had his eye on him for a reason!
Hopefully he'll fit in well!