Ashley17

Sibi's not wanted by Wigan, Keegan's signed him before, I think we all know what's going to happen

Yep I called it hours ago Well there's a fucking shocker.

Well I'm off to work. I expect this thread to be well above 80 pages by the time I get home or the day hasn't been a success

Reckon he'll get booed by the masses in 2 weeks time?

Whenever someone is at a hotel one of these days we should fucking drive there and get Skirge to storm the place, that'd settle it

What nonsense. You weren't sitting next to me against Bolton were you? Some clown described Warnock as "a fucking amazing player"

I love how Keane throw the toys everytime they lose: "Never play for us again" "Don't want to talk to them" "Found out a lot about some of our players today" Get over it, silly cunt.

Don't the away fans sit behind the goal though? Or is it at the other end?

They're going to be insufferable after they win tomorrow, 2 weeks of "we're above you in the league!!!!!"

What I reckon happened was: Someone bought him a pint at half time. It was pointed out to him that you can't have alcohol in the stand. So he downed it. http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=349533

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Still?

Yes

Don't play that card

Amdy off

Lad at work was going tonight, said it was only a Tenner.. what was the crowd mate ? 25,400 Not too bad considering 4-1 up from first leg, and live on telly. Still wish I hadn't bothered. Aye thats not bad. Another couple of season ticket holders in the office couldnt be arsed to go. I guess they saw what was coming I had to work till late so raced across town to get there in time for a quick drink in the ground. I was spitting feathers, got to the front of queue and remembered there's no booze on sale at UEFA games. Left with a full 15 minutes to go. The most low key match Ive been to in ages. Some fan. To be honest if I had to work late and rushed around and sat through 75 minutes of that shite I'd want a medal for it. It's not as if they needed a strong vocal backing at that stage is it? Perspective needed I think.

Piss boiling becasue they were shite and scored out of the blue and with a long throw. We should be defending them, obviously - hell we did it quite well at the weekend - I think we lost focus with the all complaining about time. That and it was a fucking massive throw. Alan Parry bleating on about how well Coventry had played. Load of shite, even at the start he was sayign what a good start to the game they'd made. At 2-0 down they looked out of it and ready to go home, never seen us make a side look so shite.

Who's worse, Ferdinand or Kaboul? I genuinely can't decide

Tozer is also on the bench, just missed out on .cock for some reason

Interestiiiiiiiiing

Used to be away wins/points, not sure if it still is

Bramble played a slick through pass to Emerson Boyce who back heeled it to Zaki who's left foot drive was clawed away by Cech. And that REALLY happened!

I agree, you could basically take about 10 teams and arrange them in any order between 5th and 15th

Was just about to post my views on the match but that completely sums up what I was going to say. Then your both talking shite "jonas far too good for us". If thats the way yous feel fuck off and support the mackems. You gave Given a 7 for saving a pen and keeping a clean sheet. Nice one. As for my Jonas comments, you know (or should know) fine well what I mean. He is a player who could comfortably play for a better side than ourselves. Happy now? Or because I don't think we're the best team in the country/continent/world mean I should fuck off? Get a grip lad. Ahem, first of all belittling by using words like "lad" won't work. I gave Given a 7 because despite (as you say) saving a penalty and keeping a clean sheet, his kicking was atrocious. Now there are no rules on how to rate players, so the system is faulted in itself but IMO you rate them for the good things and the negative things. Before the penalty i would have gave him a 6 and after a 7. Perhaps 8 at a push. Secondly, you comment was "far too good for us", which implies that he's too good for the club. Which in my assesment is super bollocks. However, what i now believe you mean is that he is our best player, which would be fair comment but like i said, that's simply not how i read it. I mean exactly it how I explained it. He could very comfortably play at a higher level (e.g. Champions League club/Good UEFA cup standard team) If we don't reach the higher level (get back into Europe, basically) and he continues to impress, a bigger club will no doubt come in for him. Whether he goes or not would be another discussion. But that's getting ahead of ourselves considering he's played 2 competitive games for us. To go back to your ratings, fair enough, Shay's distribution was horrible, but using your negatives/positives thing, you're giving him the same rating as Taylor, who conceded the penalty (there's a negative) and at one stage tripped on the ball under no pressure and had to haul his man down. Then there's the incident mentioned somewhere else where he had all the time in the world to take a touch and pass it out of defence but instead he chose to smash it out for a throw in. I'm not saying he was awful by any means, I'm just using him as a comparison for the Given rating. As for "belittling" words like lad, telling me to "fuck off and support the mackems" is what exactly?

To be fair, Bolton had one up front so we had lots of time at the back, and they weren't exactly raking passes he was playing, we're talking 10 yard passes to Beye or Coloccini, or the occasional sly one to Butt