Turkish

"We all know we will p*ss it up the wall against Exeter and Dagenham" Alpine Saints after beating Huddersfield 4-1 "this Ashes series will end up like the last one 5-0 to Australia" Alpine Saint after the first day of the first Ashes test (okay not football but still quality) "In league one Rickie Lambert would score 30 goals, Torres will score about 10" Le God Third Coming "we can sign any player we want and are the most attractive team for any player outside those playing in the champions league" Le God Third Coming "Rickie Lambert should be in the England world cup squad" Tactics "Saints would beat England" numerous posters, before the world cup

It's horses for courses though, i'd start with Barnard every time on a wet ,cold February night away from home when the match is going to be a battle first, passing football second. Gully is a good footballer but not going to be at his best in those conditions. Adkins seems to preach the horses for courses but not practise it.

You're right, we should win every game 10-0 in this league as we have spent 10 times more than everyone else.

Realistically we could and should have beaten them, but on paper Man United should have beaten Crawley 10-0 saturday, Arsenal should have spanked Leyton Orient rather than drawing, Chelsea should have beaten Everton, Sunderland should have beaten Notts Country in the 3rd round. We should have won tonight if football was played out on a computer with attributes and statistics being the decisive factor but it isn't. Yes we should be top two and we would be but for our shocking start. We are playing catch up, but i still believe we are good enough to go up ideally by automatic but if not by the play offs. What is unrealistic is our fans expecting us to win every game 5-0 and the the dispear when we dont citing money spent as the reason why we should win. Look at Man City, money guarentees f*ck all. Win saturday and it's 4 points from 2 games in a week again and in February have taken 11 from 5 games, a good return, keep it up and we go up, people need to measure our performances and form over 5 or 6 games not 90 minutes.

what are you talking about? We have only lost one away in our last 6 and our league record against the teams in the top 8 and the realstic play off contenders is played 9, W5 d2 L2. One of those defeats was MK Dons away when Adkins had been in charge for a day! We will be the team other teams dont want to play in the play offs if it comes to that, that is for sure.

what unrealistic standards, expectations and ambitions our fan base has in places......

He also believes that when Lallana plays, players around him are inspired to brilliance and reaches heights they had never been to before, they can streach higher to head crosses into the net, run faster, tackle and pass better, his mere presence on the pitch does this. What happened tonight?

Good, good, usual drama queenism. Out of all the teams playing for second place (lets face it, we are now unless Brighton implode) we got the best result. Win saturday at home gainst a team fighting relegation and it's 4 points from 2 in week again and a good return. On paper should we win? Of course, but guess what, football isn't played on paper but we got a point, didn't lose ground on the others despite not playing well. We wont win every game FFS

HOw can you judge them after playing twenty minutes and 140 minutes of football for us?

just how i like them

I didn't specify how i carried you did i.

This cant be true, you didn't mention the bit of me jabbing up.

One night Deppo dreamed he was walking along the beach with Turkish. Many scenes from his life flashed across the sky. In each scene he noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only. This bothered him because he noticed that during the low periods of his life, when he was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, he could see only one set of footprints, so he said to Turkish “You promised me Turkish that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there has only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?” Turkish replied, “The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.”

That one doesn't count because we were already 0-6 down i think

was that the game we had a goal disallowed in normal time that would have put us 1-0 up, then lost 1-2 in extra time? If i remember rightly it was Rod Wallace got penalised for running with the ball before crossing and putting a hand out to keep a player off him. I also remember being really angry reading in the echo the next day as they described it as "the sort of thing that goes unnoticed, let alone unpunished"

We done for Saints what about against. There have been plenty but one that sticks out out in my memory, because it was when i first started going on the Milton with my mates and i thought he was a brilliant player was kevin Sheedy for Everton in a 1-1 draw at the Dell c1990. It's on here 2 minutes 30.

I consider it more mentoring and training. BTW you dont know this now, but we actualy live quite close to each other, you can bring your lap top round anytime and we can sit her online alnight in my front room, drinking cans of Red Stripe and just generally doing what mates do.

what always strikes me about that goal is that the touches, flicks etc were when each player was being hassled, harried and closed down by a team which were probably the best in Europe at the time. it's not like they were showboating against a poorer team or a team standing off them and letting them play, every touch, every header, flick, pass etc is played which being pressurised. Am amazing goal.

seamen

You see Supermikey, look at the competition, you have some great times ahead of you.

It could all have been so different for me and you Deppo. It could have been us walkng hand in hand (in a cyber sense of course) across the fields, dressed in our white linen fabrics, freshly growing corn waving gentlely in the light summer breeze, we'd chat endlessly about everything and nothing. If you were down i'd lift you up, if you need to borrow a pound i would you give you two, if you were to ever accidently slice of your arm in a freak cement mixing accident, i'd give you my arm. It could have been you.

that role is rapidly changing super, you see all the verbal jousting has merely been a test of resiliance for you and part of the initiation process into my bosom. You could have huddled in the cyber corner shaking, sulking and shivering, wondering why everyone picks on you with a woe is me attitude (like Liquidshock did), responded with unfunny and irritanting quips like Deppo or you would rise above it, show your minerals and develop the backbone needed to thrieve in this cut throat society. I have been providing you with life lessons and you are on the verge of passing with flying colours. I see something in you Super, i have for a while but not everyone can cut it as a buddy of Turkish and i need to rid you of the shackles of the need of me time. Consider me like the black dude training the lazy fat f*ckers on The Biggest Loser, they had to hurt, they had to suffer, they had to be in tears to achieve that moment of enlightenment. Now like them we are there, me and you. In the future world that i see, in years to come we will sit back as virtual world, remisince about the days of Verbal, Deppo, Dune, BTF and Liquidshokk, slap each other on the back and think about how far we've come and how close this life changing friendship came to never, ever happening.

No, Verbal is a love junkie and i am his Heroin.

What we need is to get our own Radio Station again, that worked really well.

At the end of the day you are talking about 2 or 3 extra games over a 2 1/2 month period. If a team cant cope with that then they dont deserve to go up. It is a fact that the more successful and better side you are the more games you play, for example PL clubs will be expected to reach the latter stages of all cup competitions. I dont hear Man U or Arsenal fans *****ing that their chances of winning the league are serverely dented as they now have have extra games to play because Chelsea are out of th FA cup and they are not and all other teams competing for the league wil set out to injure all thier players.