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Isn't he still recovering from that injury?

I dont understand why he's taking set-pieces at all. The frustration on Pochettino's face when he subbed him after the last fiasco said it all. I know SRL got on the end of a Gaston freekick and almost scored, but the others were just so badly wasted, and against the type of side where we needed to make them count. He is a very good player, but shouldn't be our default option for freekicks and corners.

Any prediction for our finishing position?

I think that was the only free kick Ramirez took which wasn't intended as a direct strike on goal. If he's going to keep taking them he's going to have to learn to do that, if he can't then he shouldn't be taking them at all. We had several more freekicks given in really dangerous positions, Gaston wasted all of them. And arguably, set-pieces were likely to be our best chances against west hoof. The delivery Fox put in after Gaston went off actually threatened the goal. He's a class player though, and took his goal very well indeed. I agree with the assessment about his workrate and passing in open play, but its telling that MP hauled him off after delivering possibly the worst dead-ball of the game.

Its apparently not a nice thing to watch, smirker. The still-functioning body is declared brain-dead, then they get started, and it writhes all over the place during the organ removal, very distressing for the family. The only bodies of any use are those that are brain-dead but still breathing and to all intents and purposes functioning normally. I carry a card, but I hope like hell that I dont die in such a way for it to become relevant.

Yep, what with social networking sites and the advent of google streetview, we're living in a burglars paradise nowadays.

How long have we all been saying that? And why is he still taking them?? Even the manager today got frustrated enough to sub him after the last fiasco.

Great goal from Gaston, but why in the name of christ is he taking our set pieces? Three appalling deliveries, all from really dangerous areas. Fox's dead ball a minute from time was far more threatening. Surely we must have somebody who could do a better job of it than Ramirez?

As, in fact, a whu supporter pointed out on the kumb buildup thread. iirc, he said "their pressing game will count for nothing when Collins lumps it 60-70 yards over them to our centre forwards".

I'll see your Christ, and raise you a Christ on a bike.

Blimey.

I have a feeling that Pilchards didnt mean "purple patch" in the usual sense.

Just wait. If we lose tomorrow, (and I dont expect us to btw,) this thread will be like a wristslitters magnet. We'll be as good as relegated, and all the talk about champions league and Pochettino being the new Guardiola will be forgotten in the fog of pessimism.

This thread might get more interesting when whu beat us tomorrow.

Forget your precious scarf spud, its gone. Go the whole hog, get out of that closet and buy yourself a nice cravatte.

This. The opt-out idea is wrong imho. Any potential donor should have clearly expressed their wishes before dying, otherwise how could their relatives know what they would have wished to happen to their body and whether to agree to it? fwiw, I do carry a donor card, with a sentence added in marker pen which reads "I wouldn't bother with the liver." Might as well be honest.

Involuntary Expression Disorder. A psychological condition causing the sufferer to erupt into spontaneous, hysterical and uncontrollable laughter in sad and inappropriate circumstances, such as during a funeral. A mass outbreak is predicted in the UK next Wednesday.

My reaction exactly.

Jillyanne sounds high-maintenance....

Thats the point. The mines were not all lossmakers, the unions needed sorting out but she did the whole "close the mines" thing as a political move, and we are suffering for that even now. She never knew when to stop; any decision she made was the right one, witness the poll tax when even her own supporters booted her out in the night of the long knives.

Carlsberg dont do irony, but if they did.......

Thats really not the case. The mines were closed mainly because the unions had got out of hand and she wanted them crippled. Now that we're almost entirely dependent on imported energy, we are reaping what she sowed and paying through the nose for it. By God, could we use some of the coal we're sitting on now.

Well, thats an opinion. Mine differs somewhat, they are right down there with Pulisball imho. They wont go down this season though.

lol, the irony- "Southampton are so insignificant to me that I actually USED to like them!" When I was a kid, my red-and-white Dad always loved watching west ham because they played such attractive football, I dont remember ever missing a whu game at the Dell, the one game of the season he always made sure we went to, and even when we lost he'd still say it was worth it to see the style of play. The comment I remember most from last season was a whu fan before the St Marys game, "they play some pretty stuff, but they wont be able to cope with big sam's hoofball." From a west ham fan. ffs

Has it occurred to you that Michael Foot's appointment and subsequent political statements might have been a deliberate move by Labour? They were never going to win that election. Better to have an expendable has-been or a no-hoper lash it up completely so he could carry the can and get sacked, than put a bright hope in to genuinely fight it but still lose. (William Hague was a wasted politician for the tories; if he'd been given a decent shot in an election campaign they actually had a hope of winning he could have been an excellent leader.) I remain convinced that this is still Labour policy. If Ed Miliband is still in charge come the election it can only be because Labour either dont believe they can win the election, or that they don't wish to. My opinion fwiw is that Foot was put there to do exactly the same thing, catch the bullet and take the blame.