Window Cleaner

We have Martin in reserve and Cork could play there again if absolutely necessary.We're 5 weeks away from January and don't need anyone who isn't at least as good as the options that we have.Can't be too many players of the level required to be a first team candidate at Saints available for loan.If we needed a loan I guess we'd have got one way back..oh we did with Jos, It's not as if the loan possibility only opened yesterday is it.

Is that where all the Gas fans just there to watch you get crapped on by Saints in general and RL in particular will be?

Pretty evident that keepers are getting better on long range pot-shots or defences are closing players down more quickly and more efficiently.Footballers are getting better and better across the board,probably because there are more and more candidates for every starting place in every professional or semi-professional side. It always makes me smile when we get the old hallelujah chorus for past glories.Most of them wouldn't even make professional status in our times.

Probably won't even be much of a turn out from Bristol.Saint's fans (licit or illicit) will probably make up 30% of the attendance.

Marseille certainly isn't the same thing,don't think they lost their European Cup anyway. They lost a League title because they actually paid opposition players to "lever le pied",ie not play up to their true level.Nothing to do with financial skullduggery,just straight out bribery.

It says I ran 36'48"" in a local(ish) 10K last Sunday.

In most civilised countries Skate FC would have been shut down by now and resurrected by a bunch of well meaning amateurs in the Sunday leagues or similar.That's what happened to Strasbourg,fell from Europe to CFA2(not much better than park football) in about 4 seasons. Other than in the UK if you can't pay your debts you are f*cked.

Lambert started out as a midfielder most early age goal stats are irrelevant .

Right, about par for Celtic then,as you were.

but then let's face it,who is impressing at Preston??

Can't understand why decent players like Lustig sign for micky mouse teams like Celtic.

We don't get them anything specifically at Christmas any more, mind you they're pretty grown up now and those old studies are still costing us a fortune every year. Still one is in his last year (of 7) and the other only has 2 of 5 to go in the US.They'll come out of it with armour plated qualifications and no debt whatsoever which is better than some plasticcy crap on the 25th of December I suppose.As for the Mrs and I,well we haven't had a single gift from anyone for about 10 years now so I guess we won't be getting anything this year either.

But to be honest Lambert has developed into a better player than some/most of us thought he would.Don't find many players who are getting better and better at 29 going on 30,perhaps because he was underexploited by previous coaches and managers.

Correct. I am absolutely floored by the poster who rates Claus Lundekvam and Statue Monkou as better central defenders than Mark Wright. Not even regulars in their respective national sides, McGrath was just a thug(footballing wise).Paul Bennett was a better centre back than any of those 3 .

I'd quite like to see us sign a player like LJ because I think it would give us the bit of punch we need and it would also alleviate the necessity for both CBs to come forward systematically for set pieces.I fear however that Guly would be sacrificed and that we just can't afford that right now as he is our principal playmaker. Perhaps when AL is fully match fit it would be an option but not on Saturday's showing.

Morgan,Hammond and Cork is a completely different situation.They've each been starting 2 games out of 3 for a fair while now. This week it should be Hammond's turn to be on the bench,Rickie wouldn't stand for that, he obviously wants to start every game.If we start messing him around on that the transfer request will be on the door-mat within hours.

Wort is very necessary,in fact wort is probably worth more than Jutkiewitz just now.

But how would we use him exactly? We have Lambert who usually stays pretty fit and has missed about 1 league game in the 2 and a half seasons he's been here. Guly is our engineer in the attack and then there's Barney.If you go LJ and RL you'd have to lose Guly and that would be extremely negative from the construction angle because Guly is wasted out wide.RL won't tolerate being benched so bringing LJ here right now would be just another bench candidate,we already have largely enough of those.

21,000 capacity ground,12000 home gates,should be plenty of space for our excedent then shouldn't there?

Really? Skates FC is just a low grade circus,nothing funny or amusing about it,just shedloads of sleaze and horse-shît at every level.

does anyone really care??

Best player we've ever had.

probably not so much,depends how many more penalties we would have obtained doesn't it. Lambert has 12 league goals this season, 5 penalties in that number I think. So 7 open play goals. LJ has 7 league goals of which only 1 is from a penalty.So Lambert scores an open play goal in 7/17 ths of the games he plays,for LJ it's 6/18.

Idem, can't be a very accurate system, I must know the meaning or definition of at least 100,000 words.