Legod Second Coming

I was uprooted from a corner, but funnily enough decided that the game might be visible from Block 35, and feck me, it was...

I concur. If John buries the header, we win 2 or 3 nil. Massive turning point in the game. They go straight up the other end and score a woefully scrappy goal. But, we're young and we'll learn (I hope) and I would say there were far, far more positives today than I have seen for a long, long time.

Just got back from the game (via a 50th Birthday party) and thought I would share with you that if you inted to come to games again and simply sit somewhere near me and lambast every fecking pass, every attempt at good football, every move that breaks down because a pass is intercepted and every shot that misses, will you do me a favour?? Go down to the Red Funnel Terminal, find that log pier that runs alongside it, tie two lead weights to your feet and fecking well jump in... I am pig sick of people who think it is their God-given right to slag off footballers despite them clearly trying as hard as they fecking well can against a much more experienced and professional side. FWIW I thought we played the better football for 70-80% of today's game and were undone by some poor defending and a little naivety (both of which are far from irreperable). When a senior pro at the end of his days picking up the wages doesn't put in the effort, slate the basket. When youngsters put their all in and still come up short, do the thing it says on the tin 'support them'. Thank you, good night. Rant over. (Well done to the vast majority who did support them and showed their appreciation at the end, shame we have so many armchair pundits whose money might have staved off the loss of Andrew Davies, c'est la vie...).

Well that would wipe 3/4 of all threads out...

LOL! Good on you friend!

Wasn't this on the OS days ago?? Or did I dream that??

Frankly mate, when you've been married 15 years and have two teenage kids (well 14 and 12, girls) a nine month old female puppy, and you are beaten into submission every time you ask for a scrap of respect or freedom, a hot curry is just that bit more appealing...

I'm thick, what's the relevance of a phone reseller?

Maybe this is a language thing and what he means is that he doesn't like the implication of his nickname??

Well physiologically he only needs to be involved in one, but I'd be a bit cheesed off myself if the missus ordered a good curry and missed me out...

Worked twice for conception and twice for delivery. What can I say? I love it when a plan comes together...

Amen to that brother! A sound back five (inc keeper) is essential, but I have faith in Perry/Killer/Thomas and (please soon!) Davies. Then a couple of flank-halves suits me fine!!

Friend, as father and inducer of two, let me say three things: Hot-bath Hot-curry Hot-sex Out in no time and happily in your seat by three...

It depends who you are and how good you are, I reckon. Monty cannot ignore the crowd. Tiger can. Manchester United go to Turkey and win despite the noise, others don't. If you are mentally right, the crowd should be irrelavant. Having said which, if a Captain can wander around his troops and make them harken to the baying mob, it can be a tremendously motivational thing to hear. The key is focus and being in the zone and then using or ignoring the noise as YOU see fit. And that's without an easy-peasy sports degree, which I could have picked up free with my Coco-Pops this morning had I been bothered to send the tokens in...

Can I be the first to say well done Clive on the pursuit Gold...

I dare say Trousers that you do have customers or a manager or someone who supports, recognises and rewards your better efforts??

You have to assume that players are taught these things until they prove otherwise surely?? By your argument, I could say, what if Lloyd James turns out to be the next Ashley Cole? What ifs are what ifs until we see what's what. Put it this way, how did Theo cope at Millwall? They kicked him to death and he stlll scored and made one. I like steel in our side, and I like old heads for the kids to learn from. But for every strength there is a weakness and we have to hope that JVP has trained the team to know how to exploit them and concentrate on our own strengths. For me this would be a sight better than Burley picking a team to play to the opposition's strengths which he seemed to do at the expense of any understanding within our own side.

I am most perterbed. I have just realised that I have to drive all the way there in my wife's hoplessly under-powered, lilac, Honda Hormone Replacement Vehicle (HRV) which was ironically called 'The Joy Machine' in its marketing. I can only assume it came with a Rampant Rabbit in the glove box... (Nevertheless I WILL be there. That's how much I LOVE this club. Personal humiliation...)

Thank you Nick, but I fear ears deaf on falling comes to mind...

You truly are plummeting as a serious poster. The very fact that the the banks are losing billions is the reason they are NOT extending credit to credit-worthy profitable businesses. Let alone bailing out a mismanaged high-risk football club by funding one player who might fall over on the way out of a nightclub and spunk their money there and then. But, of course you know that. Or you truly are misguided at best, criminally insane more likely.

The international credit crisis passing you by...??? The idea that Lowe could argue with Barclays to save a man who scored 3 goals in a season is bonkers on so many levels. Totally.

I read it all and sadly find myself agreeing with a lot of what he says and bizarrely liking him for his honesty. I disagree vehemently with the way he views management of football clubs but he is nothing if not consistent in his beliefs. And who knows, the way football is going with clubs going bust every day he could eventually be proven right...

I'm guessing that he posed for the photo and that we can therefore assume he is: a) fairly confident the knee is standing up well b) happy with the nickname Killer c) doing his bit for club finances. Of course, the guy who knows the doorman at the Winchester who slept with the wife of the plumber from next door, who fixed the taps in the Anglers where the brother of the former coach of the youth team whose manager is the cousin of the sister of the nurse who assists the club doctor on a Wednesday afternoon has heard he's on crutches... so it must be true.

How appropriate for a bet with Alpine - our new Austrian striker???

Why the feck are people talking about relegation with one game gone?? There is one thing I know about football. If you give up hope, you should give up going.