ToonMarshy

Just back from the pub, and apart from spilling me pint doon me trousers so it looks like i'd pissed meself after shola knocked the goal in - could not be happier. In all honesty Gutierrez played pretty well considering his usual form - though his miss was inexcusable, and the defence was a bit shaky in the first 15 , but managed to find their feet before it cost us. Good to see us trying a little bit differently as far as attempts on goal are concerned, hopefully that will stay the same once carroll returns. My only real disappointment was Tiote at the end. Even when he got 'nutted' last week, he stayed up, stood strong, and even the critics were applauding him! not sure what he was playing at rolling grabbing his face - time wasting aside it just kind of tarnished his otherwise awesome personal MO. Though tbh when you have newspapers publishing articles with such content as "Blackpool admit refrees have told us to go to ground easier so we win free kicks" and that being acceptable, who can blame the fella! Am i missing something with Barton not being banned as well?! I swear that was his 5th!

Reet, off doon the boozer to watch t'match - see you on the flipside, hopefully get a result from this one :s

Oh my word, liverpool yesterday and villa now are making ti so we HAVE to win today. When heskey scores you know you have a problem!

Very True! However you know what some blokes are like, any excuse to start swinging after 2 wkd's! The girls love my hair though so that's all that matters That and because i decided to leave after that rather than stay and cause any trouble, i swear my hangover was a lot lighter than it could have been! He had a point in fairness, unless you're South American. Well i was born in Cyprus - British soil there as my dad was in forces, but that kind of counts? maybe!

Happy new years Lads (and lasses) Entered 2011 the same way i entered 2010 - absolutely paralytic and spent all of jan 1st in Bed begging the mrs to kill me (or go empty my bowl) To be fair i would've been in a hell of a worse state if i hadn't decided to call it a night at 5am and go home after some tosser decided to throw 2 drinks over me and start swinging because "I had long hair and fucking deserved it" - so in retrospect he probably did me a favour!

EDIT :- Ignore this rambling, didnt realise there was a non-stickied 2011 thread already talking about these rumors xD - brain isn't functioning properly because of the bashing its taken over the past few days! haha

It might be my affinity for him after being called 'gutierrez' by the sunday league lads for so long (probably as a back handed insult) But i really like the bloke - his problem is he blows hot and cold. I've seen him take on 4 or 5 blokes in a row, cut into the box switch onto his left and deliver a perfect ball right onto the head of carroll (did something similar vs spurs just gone) but I've seen him through as a last man, go to receive a ball and then fall over himself and giving away a throw in - and god knows his delivery is anything but reliable. We definitely need a bit more quality for the 'number 1' slot in the team - but i wouldnt go as far as to call him shite - i couldn't tell you why his crossing is so inconsistent, probably something to do with him favoring his other foot than the one he is forced to hit with while he's played on the left maybe? who knows.

Welcome! Your english is fine, and I know you're Enrique in disguise (aren't you?) yup thought Ranger deserved a game as well, he's looked lively when given a chance SOrry, my name is Jose, but not Enrique Good enough for me

Bollocks Bowyers always been a bell end

It almost makes our shortcomings twice as bad that every other result from teams below us seems to have gone in our favour as of late - hopefully the brum dont manage to muster a comeback!

It just shows how 1 dimensional we become when we have Carroll Playing solo up front I understand it's our main goal line - but we really need more threats than ; "as soon as it goes to the wings, everyone run to the area and mark carroll" because any team on its average day seems to be wise to it now. In all honesty i reckon anything other than a loss would have been a win today - tottenham are on a good run at the moment, and though i hate the cunts, their supporters and that porridge faced monstrosity of a manager - i would have been surprised had we not lost. The thing that saddens me isnt the loss, it's how out of ideas and and out of belief we seemed during the match. There was no creativity, no strength, no will to do anything other than what we know occasionally brings goals. Ok the ref didnt really help matters by blowing his whistle every time Carroll was near their area, and even their 2nd goal came from the ref not minding someone trying to take carrols legs off at the shins. But you play to the whistle, and we didnt create the chances for ourselves when we needed to. I reckon a little more composure, and Barton having a much better day with his set pieces than he did, would have made the world of difference here. Barton seemed lacklustre - and Things like routledge trying to emulate lennons goal when ranger was begging for a tap in just showed the inexperience we have going forward. We've been promised, "flowing attacking football" - but pardew is limited by what he has. Im worried about the 1 win in 8, and lack of points. However other results do seem to be favouring us at the moment - We'd be expected to show a but of fight against wigan and get a point or three, so i'm reserving judgement until after that match - more than 1 days rest before a match will help - and seeing what happens in the transfer window

oh come one

This is a joke to watch, perch wants to turn into a statue whenever lennon has the ball - and he cant mark for toffee And if all we are going to do is put in terrible final 3rd crosses - we might as well just end the match now :/

Bollocks

I just need to go change me nappy

Bartons set pieces seem a little off today

Ohhh smudge

Redknapp "we know how to handle Carroll" So it turns out that their tactic of 'handling him' is hitting the deck whenever he goes near the ball - and the ref is fooking loving it Nice to see van de Vaart being nice and mature, no punishment for him though

Krul did well to save perch blushes there!

Its our only hope of scoring tbh. I know, i just wish we had other options Need someone to switch their magic shooting boots on and taking some chances - barton, gutierrez, anyone. HBA get well soon

And the hoofing it blindly into the box and hoping someones there has begun already

Well, time to get the web feeds up - god speed gentlemen - lets pray that perch does a heskey and flourishes under a new manager

wtf Obviously being reading my posts off a few weeks back Please tell me that is not an official lineup announcement - smith and perch?

Apart from batteries and drill bits, what could you even fit in there?

The wire is incredible xD