Pilko

Good spot, was waiting for someone to comment on this After all of his big talk in the build-up as well. Hey, I blame the weather, the team, the opposition, the manager, the referee, the substitutions, the man of the match award, the mascot, the turnstile operator, wristwatches, the latest Mcfly single, global warming, Steve Bunce, DVDs that dont come with commentary tracks, clouds, eyelids and gastric flu, but it wasn't my fault To be fair I acknowledged my crappy first half performance and main errors earlier in the thread!

Nixon wants to learn some fucking positional sense, he's the first right back I've seen to spend an entire half in the centre circle...

At least Smith's is workable, just hire a professional hitman and he'll never play for this club again, until he's forced to retire/drops dead.

pretty sure I started picking you up when I realised no-one else was (thought CP40 or Rich would have done it) Aye you did in the second half, but the first half I was completely alone, ready to ripple the net, then northerngimp did his Geremi impression.

Wish people would stop whinging. We have a pacy, versatile player here who can pass and move, and possibly cross. 6 month deal with the promise of a longer one if he performs? We can't go wrong.

You're kidding, right?

I take it you've forgotten how truly abysmal Smith is (I can't blame you, I've tried all sorts to wipe my memory and the nightmares still persist)? Smith makes Butt look like Messi in comparison*. *possibly an exaggeration. The reason I originally posted that was because Butt has been so consistently shite for so long, I was voting on a purely "anything except Butt" basis. And I'd kind of half-forgotten exactly how bad Smith was.

Carroll and Taylor could probably play but are being rested on medical advice, meaning they are likely to feature against Blackburn.

They probably saw my pissweak header from your freekick and decided not to bother.

After Butt's recent form, Smith.

And by the way, did anyone notice that during corners the blue team always seemed to shout "yes, mark the big lad here" and yet they had three players marking Nixon at the back stick and I was totally free on the penalty spot?

Mick, do you fancy posting up the couple of photos that you said were alright? Here's hoping they catch a funny facial expression or stance or whatever.

Come on Dave, I thought you were bigger than that.

cue a clamouring to play CB on the other team...

I'll help sort it out again if you like, Greg. I reckon the 3G would be fine unless anyone else has any problems. I have no problem with that date as far as I can see, but closer to the time I'll confirm. Yeah, put me down please.

Stuff getting fit. I can't wait to feature against you lot as the fattest, slowest, shittest player there is maaan! Better get eating then if you want to beat Nixon

Hoddle and youngsters? Wasn't it him who played a centre-half up front during a criplling injury crisis and didn't even include any young lads on the bench, deciding to stick 2 keepers and a half-injured striker on there instead?

Was it you who set me up for my goal with that beautiful outside-of-the-foot curved through ball, marky? Whoever it was deserves a because it was the best through ball all game.

You musn't have noticed me in the first half then.

There was at least 2 occasions when I thought that you were Dave. Wearing the same colour t-shirt and both about four foot two.

I'm not exactly Billy fucking Whizz like, I only have some form of 'pace' (generous calling it that tbh) because I've got such long legs.

And in response to stupeedo's thing about me being disappointing... First half, I admit I was totally fucking shocking. To be fair, I did get a couple of decent flicked headers in but the wind kind of scuppered any proper long ball approach. I dropped a bit deeper when we were defending and 'Alan Smithed' my way through the first 45 by closing down the centre backs and keeper. And to be fair I did go back for every single corner, even one when I was in the opposition 18-yard box from the last attack. Was shocked during our half time team talk that despite going 4-4-1 to keep some kind of shape, they wanted me to continue alone upfront after that dismal showing. Managed to grab that goal which I was relieved at and then that run to set up The Prophet showed I was growing into the game a bit. Of course, I always had company upfront in this 4-4-1 by Nixon who seemed to forget he was playing right back and just stood in the centre circle for 95% of the second half, telling me to "drag paddock out wide right, he's rubbish" and then trying to gallop half the length of the pitch when presented with the ball. Then had a shot in the closing stages that fizzed across goal, and spent the last ten minutes trying to stay onside, just waiting for the killer pass (nowt to lose and that). A slower-off-his-line keeper would have seen me grab about four goals, there was a couple of times that NSG just about beat me to the ball when it was played through, and the time I scored we got there at the same time and it fell for me to tap it into an open goal. Fair play to him though, he was class. And then of course there was that cross at the end of the first half from Venkman on the left that I managed to knee out for a throw in. Good game though, looking forward to the next one. Maybe earlier in the day?

dave i dont think any amount of proper grass is gonna help that mate :-[ At least I could TRY properly then. haha aye, there'll be some very tasty challenges on proper grass i reckon. btw i was surprised by how young everyone was in general Im still waiting to be told i dont look 40,.... 39...

aye, The Prophet looked about 13. And I swear Dave was trying to nibble at my kneecaps while he ran past...

Mate you should have seen our HT team talk it was like 300. I don't know who but the lad on the left wing for us was like " I wouldn't want to change now like". Commitment man! So who are the non attenders Jawesome and GG? and pegasus bridge. aye we talked about asking for the keeper to change teams but we woulda had to swap one of our players and we were all red or dead. pilko - i was being modest, you're supposed to say 'nah mate that was a difficult chance' or next time you're not getting a lift. and aye that one that came back of the post i f***ed up big time, less said about your 'finish' from my left wing cross the better though eh? good defensive claerance tbh :colo: What, you mean when I managed to knee it out for a throw in?