Wullie

Little fucking arsehole, Bentley.

ARE YOU HAVING A FUCKING GIRAFFE? I went to the bog and missed the goal. YOU FUCKING BASTARDS. :celb:

Hereford winning in the FA Cup against Hartlepool. I'd fucking love to draw them cunts in the third round and well and truly exorcise some ghosts.

I don't know why Given came tbh. Carr and Beye appeared to have it covered. Shouldn't have been giving it to Rozehnal under pressure imo.

Bit harsh, that. If the Smith chance had come off, it would've been goal of the month. Good improvisation. Well aye, ditto Butt, but I'd rather score than take a chance on winning goal of the month. Thought Smith had time to take a touch and finish it quite easily, flag allowing obviously.

Think we've played pretty well first half. Nothing special, and we've obviously had a couple of blips defensively, but not too bad, miles better than the last few weeks have been. Our end product is not good though, too often when we get into the box, we don't have one player who really looks deadly. Smith (overhead kick) and Butt (long ranger) both had lots of time and space to get it right, to score or open Blackburn up respectively and both rushed it. I know Smith was offside but he didn't know that.

Not in the side, Wullie. Ah right, hadn't noticed the side there.

Gamst surely?

Might turn out to be sort of true after all: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7122881.stm Fingers crossed that Croatia were involved.

I have worries about Viduka's fitness though, he was just so bad in the last game It's a short list of players who weren't. Still offered our biggest threat going forward imo.

If we hadn't dropped points at Reading, Derby, Boro and the SoS, people could take home defeats. It's going to those places with the attitude we have and putting in the performances we have that has people's backs up the most, as well as driving the confidence from the team going into the home games. Whose fault is that Joey?

I'd pick Given, Beye, Faye, Rozehnal, Enrique, Milner, Geremi, Barton, N'Zogbia, Martins, Vids. I don't expect to see that team for a second though.

He's talking bollocks in all honesty. How were the fans to blame for 3-0 down in 11 minutes? How does he explain being totally insipid on the road? How do Barcelona and Real cope under the pressure of some of the most demanding fans in the world? I thought Joey Barton didn't make excuses, doesn't sound like that to me.

For someone who doesn't care about England to spend 90% of their posts talking about them is a little suspicious.

Mint. Love the Chelsea execs trying to get him off the subject - "But he wants me to answer the question!"

And how many on this site who rubbish O'Neill as 'second-rate' STILL believe that ? I said last year that this season would see a vast improvement at Villa and so it has proved... Whether you like it or not, O'Neill is a really good manager and time will prove that to be the case. All those who preferred Allardyce(or anyone else of similar ilk)must be having a talk with themselves right now - if not, they SHOULD be... What happens if we go to Blackburn and get thumped ? Will you STILL continue to sneer at O'Neill !?? Haven't you sort of trampled all over your own point there?

That's bollocks though, because when you play good football, you win football matches. You don't win them all by any means but if you play well, you create chances and by extension score goals. This theory about "losing 4-3 every week" is rubbish, because if you score three goals every week, you'll win way more than you lose even with a shit defence. Keegan's team, where this myth about NUFC and 4-3s comes from, didn't finish bottom or tenth, they finished second and were the best team in the country for a considerable amount of time. You talk of "grinding out results" but that is a million miles away on current form because we're absolutely porous at the back. We are neither creating anything nor defending anything and you've got to do at least one of those! There is often hyperbole on this forum, as with all football forums, but we were at home on Saturday and we didn't have a corner or a single shot at goal, we've also conceded 7 in 2 at SJP while not scoring a single 'real' goal since Spurs. It is not over the top to say that what we've seen over the past month is just as bad as anything we have seen over the past 15 years. I'm still somewhat hopeful that he can turn it round but he needs to do it fast.

Oh piss off.

Away from home too and haven't Pompey won 5 away on the bounce? Bastards.

That's based on some book of statistics or something. Really? I thought it said that was a vote of the players or something? I can't get on it now, my internet's on the blink. So basically not worth a wank. Ah right.

That's based on some book of statistics or something. Really? I thought it said that was a vote of the players or something? I can't get on it now, my internet's on the blink. Orange? I can only get on Toontastic and this place for some bizarre reason. Yep! Glad it's not just me.

Do Speccy while you're there mate.

For me, brummie was only welcome because they were in the same boat. I'm off to ban him.

That's based on some book of statistics or something. Really? I thought it said that was a vote of the players or something? I can't get on it now, my internet's on the blink.