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A tad off topic but apparently the definition of endless love is Ray Charles v Stevie Wonder at tennis. As for the footy - FFS.

Feck's sake haven't seen Boruc (apart from Wham highlights shambles on MOTd) but if we are saying Davis would be an improvement then I simply give up.

Villa and Norwich

Too cleaver by half, much more and it will be the axe.

2 goals each for our centre backs. Massive relief after going behind, this is going to be a long hard season and if we survive skin and teeth will both be involved. Thought Do Prado looked quality for a player that gets so much stick.

I think we will Be good Enough but then Again we might not be but Anyway we'll see!!

Indeed not. Our three away games have been against City, Everton, Arsenal. One savage battering no points but who would really expect to have gleaned any points from those 3? Wigan is our worst result of the season, but I remain confident that we will win more than we lose against the weaker sides and this will be enough to keep us up which is mission accomplished even if we're 17th.

He is a ****. Anyone who refers to a goal in the plural "got across his goals", "defended the goals" is a ****. He does and therefore is. As for today's result AVE IT! But let's not get too carried away, Villa are ****.

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Finishing 17th is success this season. We can achieve that regardless of the size of today's battering. The elements that aren't good enough - Davies, Fox definitely, Fonte, Hooiveld probably - will be weeded out and replaced, we will get stronger and hopefully in 2/3 seasons we will be an established premiership force. It's all about scraping by with what we've got at the moment, at least until January, and having 1 more point than 3 other sides at the end of the season. All that said, if we lose to Villa next week I am going to start worrying that this season could be a complete embarrassment.

Surely you are not suggesting that transfers such as 14 million Steven Fletcher are not good business?

This is all beginning to irritate me

To be fair you really shouldn't work in a libraries innit

It's only been a week for me - Reading. I wish to f u c k that we hadn't been on the fecking tv again. I am ****ed off to an extent that is impossible to articulate.

Agreed. Oliver Lancashire was bad for us.

FMOB I thought that was going to be a positive post. You almost did it. ALMOST.

Drowned

Got a Brighton supporting colleague at work, THE most indescribably irritating **** I have ever encountered when it comes to football rivalry/banter, in fact just THE most indescribably irritating **** I have ever encountered. According to him we only ever win if the other team doesn't try; we ,in fact I personally, paid the referee to give us the penalties when we beat them this season and there is a general conspiracy going on with match officials being instructed to send opposing players off against us to make things easy for us. Now then, shall I remind him his team set a new record tonight or not?

ha ha!

There was a player called Bobo in the Cameroon squad in some late 90'a SNES game that I can't remember the name of. Never saw him play and might well have retired by now, but could be worth checking out.

That 4-3 against Birmingham was an incredible match. I can't believe no-one else has mentioned it (on this or various previous threads about the best matches ever).

What a tragedy. Always remember him as the man who finally brought some solidity to our traditionally porous defence. Doesn't matter who you are, if your number's up it's up. RIP big man.

Agreed 100%. The 4-3 against Birmingham in the Championship the season we made the play offs was better and is probably the best game I have ever seen. Incredible end-to-end nerve shredding action from start to finish, right down to the last second when DJ Campbell was clean through from a punt by their keeper that should have been cut out by Lundekvam but headed just over the bar with Davis stranded. Davis and Baird proceeded to grab each other round the throat.

LOL at Mike Osman and his 'Seriously people, just have patience it is going to happen and it will happen by the end of the week at the absolute latest' bull****. Who was he? FWIW I think BenTheLegend was pure comedy gold and the day of his passing (was he banned or did he just leave? - mods please clarify) was a very sad one for this forum.

If you want my opinion you are being way too hard on yourselves. Speaking as a regular visitor and occasional non-confrontational poster I can honestly say I have not really experienced particularly bad reliability problems (the only gripe would be that sometimes my occasional posts, which can take a while to write (let's hope this ain't one of them), disappear into cyberspace when submitted), and I have no 'moderator issues' either (perhaps those that do need to look at themselves?). BTW I am not applying to be a moderator although I would, without doubt, make a good unbiased one . One final point - unless I am mistaken you lot get basically sweet F.A for running this thing (which must take not-insignificant effort), so I would be reluctant to take too much criticism from posters who do nothing but log in and criticise if I were you.