Gemmill

They should make him recite his times tables at corners.

Has anyone else noticed that Bramble seems to have thick muscles in his forehead? There's more beneath the skin than just his skull I'm sure of it. He must do some pretty serious brow-furrowing to bulk things up like that.

Educational thread though. People have learnt what a fathom is AND had their suspicions about Renton confirmed.

How long are you there for? A fortnight? Two weeks staring at japs' eyes eh? Haway Meenzer, I've flicked this one up, all it needs is the volley.

It's not in my database.

"Schuuuuu make me feel. Miiiiiighty real."

If a fathom is six feet, you are a geek for knowing that. If not, I don't get your joke.

He's supposed to be pretty much the dullest man alive, isn't he? My sister's friend knows him and reckons when they have parties or whatever, all the lads will be going daft enjoying themselves and Wilkinson is the one you'll find in the kitchen talking to the mother. Mind, given that we're talking about rugby lads here, it's maybe just an indication that he's not a total bellend.

How's that?

Because he's riddled with injuries? Not straight after the WC he wasn't. He would have been mental to retire at 24 at that stage of his career. He's had an awful time of it though. He should just take a year out of the game to recover and try and make a comeback. If he breaks down again he should probably be thinking about calling it a day. What's the money like in rugby? Is he likely to be set for life?

If F1 was anything other than a total snoozefest, I'd maybe contribute something worthwhile to this thread. As things stand............

Permission granted. Apologies that no one was polite enough to grant this permission yesterday.

I only read this thread hoping that someone would have called him "Schumi", so I could take the piss. I'm disappointed that it was you, Meenzer.

Ancient. Just ANCIENT. Happy birthday.

Apparently Bellamy walked out of Mellwood Friday. Few comments from Lineker and Hansen on MOTD and some stirring up going on Liverpool forums. Wait and see with that one. 2002 we had as good a forward line as anyone. I hope so. He'll not be long for Liverpool if he acts like a brat. Maybe Leazes will get his wish and his boyfriend will come home.

9 has to be lying about this PM from HTT surely. I doubt he'll ignore the results of the poll like. Not unless he truly is the king of the dickheads.

Lucky bastard! (sort of) He gets that and Owen manages to be out for a year with an incident that didn't look nearly as bad.

Funny like, cos I think pretty much everyone who's commented has said that it's very early days. We are still allowed first impressions, aren't we?

Never mind you're off out, Hayton. It's probably your fault that it broke in the first place. I'm afraid you're gonna have to disappoint the wife and kids and crack on with this this afternoon.

Not helping him either that Shola looked a bit like "old Shola" yesterday rather than the "new Shola" we've seen of late. Hope this isn't one of those where in 3 months time they'll be saying "he's been playing with that hip injury of his all season". No excuses from the club this time - that should have been sorted. Feel sorry for Shola if he's still carrying that two seasons later. They would never take the piss like that with someone like Owen.

Nice one. Don't know how long it took or how much effort was involved, but it's appreciated. Cheers.

Aye, you might be right. Fingers crossed.

He has never really played somewhere else, so the difference is marginally tbh 195822[/snapback] Nonsense. Look at the way the bloke is built. Without wanting to over-generalise, the majority of African footballers are ox-strong. I can count the exceptions on one hand. There have to be very small oxes where you are from. I really start to worry. The only really pacey thing he showed yesterday was how quick he can fall to the floor when being physically challenged. I have to agree with Isegrim like. He does not look like the powerful player I thought he was supposed to be. As I keep saying, it's still very early days, but in physical battles so far to date I don't think I've seen him come off best once.

The whole match was shit man. We looked pretty much clueless all game. The positivity in the face of all evidence to the contrary thing isn't working. 196085[/snapback] If the match had finished after 80 minutes, we'd have been praising the contributions of the midfield, saying that the defence had done pretty well, and preaching patience over the front two. As it is, the defence blotted their copybook big-time in the last 10 minutes, and the overall feeling is entirely one of disappointment. I disagree that we looked clueless all game, there were a few very promising moves that hopefully bode well for the future once everyone has settled in. 196102[/snapback] The game lasted 90 minutes though, and having not threatened us for the previous 80, Fulham all of a sudden decided to give it a go, and we completely folded. As I've said elsewhere, we were ok in midfield. Everywhere else we were poor though. The defence had nothing to do until Fulham decided to score two goals. There's little point in trying to be positive after today, I really don't know what point you're trying to make. The only positive was that the midfield did ok. Not much good when we lost a game we should have walked. Fulham are notoriously bad away from home, and yet we couldn't kill them off and ended up losing the game. We won't get much worse opposition coming to SJP this season. That's pretty worrying if you ask me.

You also said that only Henry could have scored the goal Luque scored against Lillestrom, so it's not like you never talk shit. 196080[/snapback] I dont want to start that debate all over again, but it seems funny to me that nobody mentioned even a remotely similar goal scored by a player in England. Anyway, dont you think I might have been slightly right about the defender thing? 196093[/snapback] I don't think anyone thought we didn't need to sort the defence out tbh. We needed strikers too though, especially after Owen was injured. We've all been let down by the club, no one wins.