hypochondriac

What someone says and what transpires is not always the same thing. Circumstances change and this sort of thing is good evidence to suggest that any commitment is a long term one. It's pretty sad that you can't just accept good news like this in the spirit it was clearly intended.

Yes.

I'll have it joe. In responsible for a French exchange student this weekend and thought I would take him to a game!

Yep. There is a shop on Shirley high street that does it for about 70 I think. Opposite to the old woolworths.

Now it is ridiculous. He has recovered and said he wants them to play.

Because I wasn't 'wrong'. I was disappointed with the signing based on the Celtic fans comments. I never wrote him off before seeing him play. What was I wrong about?

Of course. Brilliant that he turned out to be a gem. Nothing wrong with being disappointed by an arrival based on the available evidence. A few people (myself included) said they were disappointed based upon Celtic fans comments who had seen him play. Nothing wrong with making an initial comment about a player on a messageboard. It's not like people were booing him at the ground as soon as he arrived. It's exactly the same as being excited when we sign someone. I was pleased when we signed Lee but by your logic, I should not feel any emotion until I had seen him play. It's neither writing him off nor supporting him, it's making an initial comment about a player on a messageboard. I'm happy to say that the Celtic fans clearly did not know what they were talking about! (And arent we lucky.) ​Incorrect and misguided. You can't be wrong about an initial opinion.

Doing a Southampton: To occupy the automatic promotion places for the majority of the season before losing your last eight games and finishing third.

If we get promoted then we have done a Norwich because we were in league one and then got promoted twice in two seasons. To an outsider, that is the only comparison that is relevant.

It means that there weren't many posters on here who wrote him off before a ball was kicked. It's a popular myth started on here because people were initially unimpressed by his signing. Every time someone posts this mistruth I feel compelled to point out that it is a load of rubbish. Expressing disappointment or reservations about a signing on here whilst being fully prepared to change that opinion once you have actually seen him play for yourself is not 'writing him off'. I'm thinking about creating a stock response.

Sigh.

Just had a quick look at future plans and it looks interesting. I just hope they have less standing around talking and they develop some of the cast a bit more. Can't say I actually give a toss about Carol or T Dog so far who seem to be there just to make up the numbers. The same with some of the female survivors on the farm.

I've never heard that before. I don't think that's true.

I definitely preferred the first series and I hope they move off the farm quickly next season. Still lots of fun though.

It is good that he is getting better. Hopefully he will be ok.

No I won't leave out having an opinion Phil, it isn't just this specific instance anyway and where did that tweet make reference to public reactions on twitter? If she really believes that prayer is helping than it is still possible to pray for the player and wish him the best without publicising it all over social networking sites.

I don't think all tweets were insincere and apologies if it sounded like I said that. My main problem is with how public people make things these days.

I don't see why it has to be done through twitter that is all. Personally I think it comes across as insincere when people have public displays like that. People are entitled to do what they want but as I said, it annoys me when people put public messages about my friend on his Facebook account a year after his death. At the time, I contacted his sister an was extremely upset, I didn't need to tell everyone else about it through Facebook and I still don't need to now.

Yep and nothing wrong with that at all. What bothers me is the public displays from public figures like footballers. Certainly highlighting the good job that the medics do is a positive thing.

I'm not on twitter. It was reported on the bbc news sites and numerous outlets. I'm not aggrieved by it, I just don't see why every footballer with a twitter account feels obligated to express their public sympathies.

Yep this totally. I get that people want him to get better and I get that people may feel a bit sad, but why do we have to have every footballer on twitter expressing their sadness publicly. What is wrong with sending the message in private if you know the player personally? It makes it seem like they are doing it out of obligation. Someone close to me died and it really annoyed me that someone posted a Facebook memorial page an people still post on his Facebook profile even now a year later. What is Wong with just expressing your feelings in a personal way?

Yeah I can understand team mates being upset but at the end of the day they are professionals and they cant just keep postponing games. If a work colleague of mine had fallen ill I would still do my job. In many ways, continuing to perform is a tribute in my opinion.

I agree. As with many of these things it is bandwagon jumping that I like to call Diana syndrome. The Blackburn manager has said he will support postponing their game on saturday but it's not like he could say anything else. Very sad about Muamba but I can't see why Bolton cannot play Saturday nor why we have to have so many public outpourings of support. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer shows of support in private. I consider them to be a lot more meaningful and more tasteful. Obviously I'm not talking about the crowd when the actual tragedy took place. It was like when Markus died and people said on here that they literally had tears streaming down their faces. I'm a fairly emotional person but I just can't understand someone who can feel such extremes of emotion towards someone they have never met or know personally.

I must have been right by you.

Oh dear! Bad hair day.