madras

complete c***s trick this like, not sporting at all. it's not like it's going to stop anyone. who would stop because someone made a noise ?. HTT, i can't remember taylor being classed a liability, he's had poor games, who hasn't, but I've never thought "shit steven taylors playing, there's a weak spot"

neither of our goals excite you ?, shame like.

na, though that was good. his telling the crowd to calm down after he slightly mis directed the ball back to eliott was better.

apart from neesy obviously whom I hope scores tons, has women swooning at his feet (obviously as the plucky loser being the redder that he is)

i'm off to work in 5hrs. hope you all get snowed on and hypobloodythermia.

do you watch football ? for all stoke don't have players you salivate over they have survived the past few years on more than the myth of their set pieces, their goals against us down there should show you that. recently our team has picked itself, expect very similar to line ups v chelsea/southampton/swansea.

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=765920 now get this. it's now hitting home to them that they'll never ammount to much, they are at best lower prem/higher championship.................................because of their geographic location.

Have we ever not done that? aye and nar. we often get blamed for it even if it's not the tactic, ie the oppo pushing on a bit more due to being a goal behind. no denying sometimes we have but some try to make out we do it whenever we take a lead. Well of course the opponents push on harder when they are behind, but that happens to every leading team in every game, and not all of them sit back not being able to handle the pressure. Plus, if the oppo push on that's when you get some chances to counter and can find spaces: I've never seen us doing that a single time this year, and I can't remember the last time we did it tbh. It's not just a coincidence that 90+% of our wins are by one goal margin. if it happens to every leading team in every game why have we not done it when trailing ? the rest, for me, is a confidence issue, the nerves set in, players may well sit further back 'in case' without even knowing they are doing it. it's not necessarily tactics to do that . do you really think with the way we look when trying to hold on to a lead that we'd do that as a a deliberate tactic ?

it;s a point though. marty does seem to be trying to emulate clough by copying him without understanding times have changed.

Have we ever not done that? aye and nar. we often get blamed for it even if it's not the tactic, ie the oppo pushing on a bit more due to being a goal behind. no denying sometimes we have but some try to make out we do it whenever we take a lead. Some evidence of us pushing on when in the lead might help your case. pushing on ? we often tried to carry on as we were but the oppo were pushing on to catch up. as i've said before, more of an issue was why we couldn't put on that sort of pressure after going behind.

Have we ever not done that? aye and nar. we often get blamed for it even if it's not the tactic, ie the oppo pushing on a bit more due to being a goal behind. no denying sometimes we have but some try to make out we do it whenever we take a lead.

they know he has no money, they also know why.

Nothing that good could really happen to us. Happened before, Sudnerland and Boro down...And we blast our way into the Champions leage for the first time. Should have won the league that year wrong year i think. the season both the mackems and boro went down was when we scraped into 2nd late on, needing to win by loads, liverpool and arsenal to get beat. i think every result on that last day went out way. the odds on all the games needed for us to get second and them two to go down would've made for a good win.

SWEEPER KEEPER! been used by kids for years, also called rush keeper up here.

you know what I like best about all this ? from us being green with envy about their signing of brown and o'shea etc (we told them the reality, they wouldn't listen), from them getting the great marty (we told them, they wouldn't listen), yet it's us who are deluded.

he's similar to what he was at citeh. pretty when he gets the ball but to little effect and does nothing when he hasn't got the ball.

shows how little they know. many warned them about o'neill and Johnson but they knew better.

honestly wouldn't recognise him. I saw sameobi coming out of kingston park tesco the other week. in the same way shay given was taller in real life than he looked on the tele, sammi is skinnier.

i can see 37 points just stopping up. (not sure they'll beat stoke and southampton mind)

After good draws (im surprised sat here now) at Goodison and OT they must have thought they were on the way to safety, then we played utter s**** and they gifted us a 4-1! Sure they were mathematically relegated after the game at OT. And long since relying on snookers before that. the mackems have recently been decent at old trafford. at least twice they should've won.

was brummie known as brummie on there ? can't find his posts on there. I was tempted to ask if he could have an apology as marty has followed his predictions to the letter.

Me too. Reminds me of this lot: Class I hate people like that which sadly seems to be how blokes are becoming these days. What happened to the shirt, jeans and shoes man? Now you have blokes, some in their forties, wearing twisty jeans that hang down their arse, huge v neck t shirts, with a scarf around their neck, f***ing either big pointy boots or sandals with f***ing dog tags hanging around their neck, flat caps on their head and bracelets around their wrist. You're not cool, you're.... a dickhead. A lad who plays football with us was out one night and dressed like that, he's 40 and you just know his wife watched f***ing geordie shore or that london crap thing and thought that's how men look these days, here try them on. He looked like a dick and probably felt like one too. Couldn't think of anything worse than going out in shirts, jeans and shoes btw. Charva-tastic. Nah, charvers go out in henley t-shirts and g star jeans. A nice pair of levis and a plain shirt with some nice casual shoes and you're a dappy chappy. You get the impression these days blokes dress to dress up. Like how women do. Blokes should be blokes. I hate seeing grey haired old men wearing adidas sambas with red/purple/brown jeans cut short at the knee wearing a t- shirt with some half naked bird on the front or some mish mash of a union jack or stars and stripes. Pet hate of mine the rebranding of the male or rather bloke. proper charvas wear trackie bottoms

stoke had the worst recent form (last 6 games) till today.

Why not? He's perfect for the role if the team is set up right. I'm on about the terminology. And no he isn't! Why? its been around since the 50s ffs its not something that was made up by Football Manager ffs The term false 9 hasn't and nor has the position/role or whatever you want it to be. People are just looking back through the decades, picking out I don't know say Hungary and thinking hey, that Puskas, he wasn't a nunber 9 was he?! Must have been a false 9 then... f*** off! Can you imagine fans back then talking about false number 9s or the media writing about such crap? The term basically means a player who plays in between CF and attacking midfield and it has been a term used on the continent for decades because it didn't become a term widely used over here until recently doesn't mean it doesn't exist. i thought a false no9 was instead of the CF ? hence the no9 bit. have to say i'd never heard of it till barcelona started going without a CF.

Here I am. *waves* Like I said, Martin pretty much never got any results in March for us, and I can see the same thing happening for Sunderland. They are not in as much trouble as we are, but they are still right in it. seen their upcoming games ?