sadoldgit

I don't think that poor decisions necessarily even themselves out and obviously it is very frustrating to be on the end of a wrong one. But there is no excuse to harangue the officials and any manager doing so should be heavily disciplined. More use should be made of the 4th official - perhaps put him behind a screen so that he has a better view and review facility. It is often used as an argument against using technology that it cant be used on the pitches on Hackney Marshes. So what? The highest level of the sport deserves the highest level of refereeing and decision making.

It would appear that the students (not Lefties) are saying that the violence was caused by Black Bloc anarchists.

I don't get why Tadic is supposed to be brilliant all of the time. Plenty of quality players "go missing" at times during matches and for a variety of reasons. George Best wasn't on fire every game for 90 mins. He is there to add that bit of extra quality that will lead to a goal, not to chase all over the pitch trying to win the ball back. He and Pelle have been quality this season.

Now you come to mention it........I can think of a few places around Ashford where that would be seen as the norm!

Is that the case though? Were "The Left" responsible for the Poll Tax riots for example? A bit of a generalisation there I think. Arranged protests are supposed to be peaceful affairs but you cant legislate for some idiots who pitch up intent on causing trouble. Bit like football matches really. Are all football crowds "Lefties?"

desert

There is a difference between "dropping" a player due to poor form and changing the team due to tactical reasons. You say that Ron is unpredictable as if being predictable is a good thing. He will have his reasons when making team selections and tactical decisions and with a deeper squad he has more of an opportunity to change things if he thinks it will work better. With regards to Cedric, now he is playing more consistently and the defence seem more stable I would be very surprised to see a different back four than Cedric VvD Fonte & Bertrand unless there is a good reason.

sh*t

I have not commented any further on the subject of this thread so not sure what your point is. I have commented about yet more abuse from you and the fact that you have followed me to another thread to have another rather childish pop at me.

Apparently I also have a "disease."

It makes you wonder, although when I was with the CPS they were talking about giving a manager responsibility for "diversity." There was a standing joke in our office that the only people being discriminated against in the organisation were middle aged WASP males!

These are things that you can coach out of players though and I am surprised that either they haven't tried or that they haven't picked this stuff up. He does have a good attitude and wants to improve and you would like to think, if they have talked to him about this, he would have changed by now.

Multiply that by virtually every thread on here and you are spot on! It is particularly fun when certain posters follow you on to other threads to keep their childish affronts going. Still, it keeps them off the streets, which can only be a good thing!

Now he is more up to Premiership standards do you still think he will be dropped for Yoshi?

Oh dear Hypo, you really need to get out more mate. As for IS. Where is your evidence that they brought the plane down? Here's a thought for you - wouldn't it be good if all of IS move into the same area so that they could feel more comfortable together, then we could bomb them all to hell and the problem would go away. By the way, my original point was that we would end up sitting around the table with Muslim Extremists (and I wasn't just talking of IS) in order to find a way forward at some point. You seem to think the only solution will be to kill them all. Good luck with that.

We can speculate all day long (and hasn't there been a statement to say it came from an external force?) but until someone officially comes out and says it was a structural fault, a bomb or a missile we wont know what caused it.

Is it better to have a stronger 1st X1 than a stronger squad? Personally I would go for a stronger squad. Having a weak bench cost us a few league places last year. We have better options now which should prove positive over the season. Still weak at keeper level and need JRod to pick up the pace, but overall, cant complain about depth this year.

catholic

No doubt SG will find a way to rationalise this, or at least tell us "Limeys" to keep our noses out as it is none of our business! Just for once though it would be really nice if he could admit that it was out of order.

If Yoshi had just made that one error then I doubt if he would have got as much stick. Unfortunately he makes many errors that lead to goals. He does tend to switch off at times.

Well, she certainly doesn't seem to know what Diversity means in this context. I am also very surprised that the CPS dropped the case as there seems to be evidence against her according to this article. Her definition is completely wrong. At the CPS it was drummed into us to the extent that we had to answer questions on it during promotion interviews that diversity means treating people of all race, gender, religious, sexual backgrounds the same. To say that you cant be racist against "white men" is wrong. Inciting people to murder others, if that is what she did, no matter what colour their skin, gender, religion or sexual background is also a no-no unsurprisingly. Had this appeared in the Daily Mail I wouldn't have looked at it twice but as the Mirror are going with it perhaps there is something to it. The CPS will drop cases if they feel there is not enough evidence to get a prosecution and or if they feel it is not in the public interest to prosecute. It will be interesting to see what the DPP has to say about the decision.

martin luther king

I fancy us to win this one. We have been good on the road and they are very poor at the moment.

I love that St George, a "Limey" himself with the name of the patron saint of "Limeys" uses "Limey" as a term of abuse. I am pretty certain that none of us "Limeys" are the least bit bothered about being called a "Limey." I also love the fact that he apparently left the UK because of the multiple stabbings, punch ups etc that go on in the town centres all of the time for the safety of the USA where you can get shot dead just for going to school or causing a minor traffic violation.

A match is played over 90 minutes or so and matches are often won and lost in a few moments here and there. If we had gone in at 0-0 I suspect it would have been a very different second half. If we had gone in 2-0 down I am positive that it would have been a very different second half. I agree with Jose, it is a state of mind thing and although it needs to be sorted out, we won 2-0 and that is the most important thing.