Sheaf Saint

First thing that popped into my mind was Delia Smith

Their appearance on Going Live was legendary!

Never met him in person, but had a lot of interaction with him during my brief stint as a mod back in the early days. Came across as a great bloke with a real passion for the club. RIP Lee.

That's pretty damming. The only one of those arrivals who has become a regular starter is Redmond, and he hasn't exactly set the PL alight has he. In fairness, we had high expectations of Boufal, and PEH came with high hopes that he could flourish in the PL, but as yet he hasn't. He may still mature into a decent player but I fear he will have moved on from us before that ever happens. The rest were only signed as squad players anyway.

No, I'm not suggesting it is the main problem. But let's face it, the atmosphere from our fans at SMS and at most away games is insipid at best, and deathly quiet at worst. I haven't been to SMS that many times over recent years due to living so far away and having family commitments on weekends, but I watch most games on streams and have been to quite a few aways, and frankly the atmosphere we create is rubbish. I went to Milan last year and despite our respectable numbers, I thought the noise and the atmosphere was utter crap for most of the match. Mostly just silence, interspersed with the occasional rendition on OWTS. The cup final at Wembley was much the same, with the exception of the "Ooooh Gabbiadini" that went on for some time after we equalised. This was a cup final FFS. I'm sorry if this upsets anybody, and believe me I wish it weren't so. But taking off my red-and-white tinted spectacles and being objective about it, our vocal support is among the worst in the PL.

Yeah I picked up on this too. It seems that Every other team in the PL has at least one keeper in their squad who is mobile enough and has the required reactions to occasionally make decent saves. We don't, apparently. So often watching MOTD these days I find myself thinking "Forster would have let that in". It's beyond a joke now.

Well I didn't watch the game yesterday so I've not got involved with this thread so far. But I've just watched the rerun of MOTD, and what I saw from that was a team who attacked with more intent than I have seen in recent games and created some decent openings but, as always, lacking the final quality to finish them off. Their second choice keeper made some decent saves, of the kind that you just know Forster can't make, but we still made it too easy for him. None of our attacking players, with the possible exception of Boufal, has the ability to hit an unstoppable shot. And then there is Forster. He is such a liability right now, it's painful to watch. What the hell was going on with his feet for their goal. He was so slow to react, it was as if he suddenly realised as the ball was halfway through its flight that it was his job to try and stop it, and got nowhere near it. I don't really know much about Mccarthy but surely he couldn't possibly be worse. Even Gazza would have saved at least a few of the goals Forster has conceded this season. Worrying times. We do look too good to go down but I know how dangerous that thinking can be. If we continue to be so profligate up front, and persist with a keeper who will let in any half decent shot on target, then it does not matter how well we play, we will be in serious trouble.

Our support has been embarrassingly bad for a few years now, let's be honest.

Are you trying to suggest that it's only Labour MPs and supporters who are hypocrites? Wow.

Oh it gets worse... http://www.theweek.co.uk/uk-news/89342/westminster-sexual-harassment-scandal-36-mps-implicated So not only do the party leadership know full well what is going on, and do nothing to stop it, they use the information to blackmail their own members into voting in a particular way. Dear oh dear. Anybody who tried to score some cheap political points by feigning outrage at Jared O'Mara's conduct are looking like right plums now.

So the Labour leadership did the decent thing and suspended him. Now there's just the little matter of the dossier naming 36 Tory MPs accused of sexual harassment. Are you going to get on your moral high horse about that as well LD?

Genius decision that. Haul off the only player we have that looks likely to make something happen in attack, and replace him with a moaning sideways passer while leaving the useless turd Tadic on the pitch.

It really wasn't that powerful. Look how much it arced before crossing the line. There is no possible defense for a supposedly international-quality, 6ft 7 keeper letting that in. None. He's a f*cking joke of a keeper, and has cost us far too many points in recent times. he needs replacing urgently.

FFS Forster. What the actual f*ck are you doing letting that in!? The bloke is a total liability. Get him off NOW!

I disagree. We're away from home and we've got a lead to protect. How many times have we seen teams come to SMS and successfully use the same tactic. I think this is the perfect situation to bring on Long, because it plays to his strengths. With BHA pushing for an equaliser it will leave space in behind for him to run at, which is what he does best.

Oh dear, what a pity, never mind.

If Pellegrino drops Boufal back to the bench now, he should be lined up against a wall and shot. Worthy winners in the end as WBA had nothing in attack. They defend competently, and usually that's all a team needs to do to get a point or more off us these days, but finally we managed to magic up a bit of quality from somewhere. A gritty performance because we knew that any Pulis side would set themselves up ultra defensively, so there was so little room for our forward players to operate in the first half, but then WBA changed their shape a little and the 2nd half was more open. We stuck to our guns and kept persisting and for once it paid off. Still got massive concerns about Forster though. Not tested at all today (only had to make one save that I remember), but somehow manages to make very hard work of the easy stuff. His parry back to the striker last week cost us, and it's juts lucky that his dropping the ball right back in the mixer wasn't punished today when it was still 0-0. Good to see VVD looking much more like his old self again today. He had Rondon in his pocket all afternoon and won a lot of defensive headers. Got forward well too and hit a thunderbolt shot just off target. Much better than anything any of our AMs could manage. BT Sport gave MOTM to Boufal for obvious reasons, but I'm going to say Lemina for me. Was everywhere and got stuck in.

THAT is why Boufal should be starting every week!

How is that not a penalty? Foster literally grabbed Tadic's thigh and pulled him back.

Redmond for Romeu? WTF!?

He's going to cost us a goal or two tonight I reckon. Just can't deal with anything under the slightest bit of pressure. Total liability

One of my mates who I went with knows a guy who lives in Milan and is an Inter ST holder, and we went and met up with him at a small bar a short walk from the ground beforehand. As such, we were a little late arriving for the match and only just got inside in time for KO. One of the most surreal experiences of my life... walking up to one of the most iconic sports stadia in the world, being pretty much deserted outside except for the security, and hearing OWTSGMI booming out from inside it. Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.

This is a classic sign of clinical depression. You can go and see your GP about this is if you want to, but with the current wait times for mental health issues, you might be waiting a long time for any kind of assessment, and even longer for any kind of treatment. In a lot of cases, the GP will look to just prescribe some anti-depressants and get you out the door again. Now this might work for a lot of people, but it isn't right for everyone and can lead to lots of other problems as trying to come off them again can prove very difficult and produce symptoms which are often worse than the ones they were originally prescribed for. If you don't want to go down this route immediately then you can try changing your lifestyle first. Do you get a lot of exercise? Just being active a couple of times a week can really help to improve seratonin production and make a big difference. I would suggest, if you don't already, that you try going for long country walks or bike rides. Study after study has shown that regular exercise and connection with nature are excellent natural anti-depressants. If you already do these things then maybe take up a new hobby, or join some kind of groups where you get to meet and spend time with people who do share your interests and opinions, rather than the ones who you say you have nothing in common with. Just being around like-minded people will make you feel much better than feeling separated from those who you struggle to connect with any more.

If you derive your view of how good/bad the world is from what you see on the news or read in the paper, then it is very easy to conclude that the world is just sh!t and life is meaningless. I had to have two months off work earlier this year due to stress, and the best thing I did for myself while I was recovering was I stopped reading and watching the news completely. I can't begin to describe to you how much happier this made me. But seriously, I suggest you consider the possibility that you might be suffering from depression, because from what you have described it sounds quite likely. It's worth checking out IMO.