Sheaf Saint

Oh and every time one of those long throws came in towards Jones, Kelvin made a complete pigs-ear of it and never once got close to catching one. He really needs replacing as a matter of urgency.

Why is it that whenever an opposing team gets a man sent off we never manage to capitalise? After the red card it was all one-way traffic and we couldn't string 3 passes together anywhere. Really annoyed that we had some excellent chances to put this game beyond reach and fooked it up, before capitulating in a pathetic manner to a team with 10-men and a makeshift back four. Yes I would have been happy with a point before the game, and had it gone differently I'm sure I would still be happy, but to go from being in total control in the first half to hanging on in desperation for a draw at the end is infuriating. Gotta hand it to Jerome for their equaliser though - nobody was stopping that. But he's such a whinger - he was still complaining to the ref after the final whistle, even despite the fact there was more than a slight hint of handball from Crouch to set him up to score.

What the fook has happened top the team that were playing in the first half? Since they got the red card we have looked utterly pathetic and it's as if they've got a man advantage.

You've got to be f***ing kidding me!

FFS we look like the team playing with ten here. Sort it out Saints and hold on!

Richardson on fro Puncheon?

It's all over. Crouchy coming on. Inevitable he will score.

Oh dear. Kelvin was nowhere near that. Lucky escape!

Crap. Really should have made it 4-1 then, and go straight up the other end and fook it up to make it 3-2. What a shocking miss from Guly though.

I agree, but I'm thinking more long term. Villa have been in freefall lately and I reckon Wigan have a better chance of avoiding the drop than they do come the end of the season.

Not really. I'd prefer to see them carry on losing TBH.

In.... total.... shock! Wasn't expecting this at all. Fully anticipated getting a battering from Stoke today. Not complaining mind!

WTF!? Fantastic! :-)

Arrived today, along with the extra RAM and PSU upgrade I ordered to go with it. Installed and running nicely, with some scope for overclocking as well it seems (although I need to investigate this further before I crank it up and melt the card!). Got Far Cry 3 running at 'ultra' settings perfectly well, but had to trim the AA down a notch to get it running properly smooth. Pretty happy really.

Went for this one in the end. Just ordered it today with my xmas bonus money. Spent hours looking at various options over the last few weeks and this seems to be by far the best I can get for the money.

Agreed. He seemed to take an ice age to decide to dive for it. In the end he would have been much better staying on his feet and letting one of the CBs deal with it. Very poor.

Sorry but faith and rationality are, by definition, mutually exclusive. The whole concept of faith requires the abandonment of reason in favour of belief in that which cannot be evidenced.

http://newsthump.com/2012/12/24/van-persie-rushed-to-hair-salon/

Well I'm loathe to speak out against our talisman and the man who almost single-handedly got us to where we are now, but I can see where Saint Fan CaM is coming from. He's been found out in the PL I'm afraid. Every game I have watched recently has seen the opposition doubling up on him, so when those diagonal balls come into the box he is marked out of it and becomes completely ineffective. When was the last time he won a header in the box that lead to a goal? I can't remember. Opposing managers have all done their homework on this and have effectively snuffed out our biggest attacking threat. Without that option we appear to be pretty toothless in attack. I was his biggest fan and defended him fiercely before this season started against people who claimed he wouldn't make it in the PL, and he showed in some earlier games that he can still hit them given the right opportunities, but the level of ability among PL defenders means those opportunities have become way too few and far between for us to continue to rely on him as our main goalscoring threat. If someone like Leeds offers us silly money for him then, as long as it is re-invested wisely, we would be foolish to ignore it. I fully expect to get flamed for this but that's my opinion.

Yep, agree with everyone so far - thought it was brilliant. Saw it in plain old 2D (because the 3D screens give my girlfriend a headache) and found it immensely enjoyable. It had all the grandeur of the LOTR films without any of the sickeningly sentimental stuff that blighted those films. I thought Martin Freeman was excellent as Bilbo, as he is in everything, and managed to get Ian Holm's mannerisms spot on to make him totally convincing as a younger version of him. Really looking forward to the next two now.

She also played Deanna Troi's mother in numerous TNG episodes, and was the voice of the ship's computer in TNG, DS9 and Voyager.

He always wants to take on too many defenders when he has better options. And those pathetic little lofted diagonal balls into the position where Lambert is inevitably being marked out of it by two players will never, ever produce anything. Very frustrating player. Undoubtedly talented and we have yet to see the best of him I have no doubt, but so far he hasn't earned his price tag for me.

Lacking in quality all over the pitch today. Deliveries, not just from set-pieces, were just never going to trouble them. The only decent cross I saw all game was ironically from SDR from that corner to set up Fonte - whose header was wide anyway. We clearly miss Lallana.

One word: crap.

Absolute crap from Guly there. That ball should have been ripping a hole in the back of the net. Pathetic. Sums up our afternoon.