Barry the Badger

You're an effing idiot idiot idiot

Exactly, when was the last time we actually marched anywhere?

I don't understand, what's wrong with it?

I don't think it does and I think that accusation distracts from the issue. I just think people have their favourites and subconciously offer those players a lot more slack. With Lallana people will look for the good things he does, ignoring the mistakes, but with Guly they will ignore a lot of his better work because they're looking for something to berate him for.

The Guly bashing is really winding me up. The difference in reaction of the crowd between a Lallana mistake and a Guly mistake is mental. At one point in the second half last night we were getting hit with a counter attack, our centre midfield were nowhere to be seen, Guly sprinted from the right wing to close down the gap in the centre, and then followed that man with the ball across to the left wing (where there was also space). Ipswich then switched the ball to the other wing, where nobody had seen fit to cover for Guly, cue a load of "where the **** is Guly!" and "****ing hell Guly you lazy ****" shouts. I wonder if people are actually watching the game sometimes.

Watching the highlights I love his reaction to the goalmouth scramble. He's the one who gets the final block in to send it away for a corner by throwing himself in front of a shot, and then he goes totally mental! Brilliant.

All the hand wringing over Reading reminds me a lot of last season when people were banging on about Peterborough (myself included) during their great run. Ultimately though they ran out of steam, and I think Reading will too.

Harding is decent cover, but Fox is a class above him.

I'm not being precious. Warnock is a ****.

Exactly.

100% right but shows a total lack of class to come out with it then.

Fair enough, I was just being difficult really. It is a massive boost to see it there, and I have a feeling we may be watching the goal difference very carefully at the end of next month, makes me nervous just thinking about it.

Then you are ahead of them on goal difference, but it's not "worth a point" because if somebody else comes in and gets a point more than both of you, they finish above you. Would you swap our current goal difference and have it reset to zero, in return for a point? Yes you would, because the goal difference is not worth a point.

Normal service is resumed.

He really needs to be if he's ever going to make an impact for us.

Everything Andy has said on this thread is entirely sensible. I would not let this put me off a relationship if I really liked the person and was prepared to accept the limitations their condition might place on our relationship.

What?

My Liverpool supporting mate quite likes him, looking beyond the fee. The trouble is the second you remember what they paid for him it's impossible to feel he's ever going to do that fee justice without a massive technical improvement.

It amazes me that anybody falls for this. Somebody at work put all their details into one of those fake bank emails, why are people so dim?

It's been great to see a group of players grow gradually together in quite a steady way. I forget how many signings we've made but recently watched the jpt highlights and the team that day makes you realise how far we've come.

I dunno, if I were him I'd be determined to force my way in. I thought he'd been dropped due to.injury. A lot of games as the season draws to a close, I'm sure we will see him again.

You mean Mark Wotte?

In my group of four, each match one of us will be on beer duty and will head down at around 42 mins to get the round in. I hate it when it's my turn but once every four matches is not too bad, and as Scott Saints says, if you're down there and Saints score it's pretty good fun.

We were down anyway.

I always find this statement a bit bizzare. Teams drop points over the course of the season, no harm in hoping that those around us do so at crucial times.