Gemmill

Is this the last 16 we're in now then? When you look at the draw we got off pretty lightly.

I'm on holiday for FA Cup final day so we'd better bloody not win it!

All that was missing was the 'whistling dixie' in the background! 86071[/snapback] Perhaps Renton could drive the General Lee whilst he's flying 86087[/snapback] Renton P Coltrane tbh.

As mentioned earlier, the NE corner is a mare to get out of. Although 11 minutes is stretching it a bit. 86084[/snapback] I'm in Level 7 right in the middle of a row, and I reckon I'm still out before 11 minutes passes. It's got to be one of the stupidest stats ever as well btw!

Hollywood Irish accents do tend to be awful. Brad Pitt's in that IRA film a few year's back was desperate. Tom Cruise as well in that thing with Nicole Kidman. Really, really bad.

Who are these idiots that leave the ground 11 minutes after the whistle?? And that's on average. Seen as most people leave either before, or just after the whistle there must be someone stopping there for a while to get this average to 11 minutes. Unless they're including the ground staff.

Man United have apparently asked that FIFA punish Chelsea for this Mikel business by imposing a transfer ban and excluding them from certain competitions. Whilst I think Man United are out of order asking for this sort of thing, I would find it canny funny if Chelsea got a ban from the CL or something (if found guilty of being up to no good). Following the way they behaved with Ashley Cole, it wouldn't surprise me at all if they'd done similar with this lad. All it would do banning them from competitions is level the playing field slightly which I would have no problem with.

He's taken time out from defending his mate (one for the Souness haters there ) to write an article all about how just because Rio Ferdinand played in midfield yesterday against Wolves, doesn't mean he'll play there in the World Cup. Now THAT is what you call insight.

I was first like.

Not sure I follow. It's a fact you're more likely to drive on the way to the airport than on the flight itself (especially in some foreign countries), but that doesn't help people who have developed phobias much, unfortunately, no matter how much you tell yourself it. 86035[/snapback] Aye, the pilot'll very rarely let you have a go like.

Strange. I've flown direct from Corfu to Newcastle direct in a 757 before. Apart from an emergency evacuation once, my most fightening experience on a plane was when I was flying back from America, about 1 am local time, the 31st September, 1997. The pilot announced "he had some terrible news for us". Already being a nervous flyer, I nearly shit my pants, convinced he was going to say that an engine had blown and we weren't going to make it to land or something (I was well aware we were in the mid-Atlantic). Thankfully, he went on to say "there's been a terrible car crash in Paris, and Dodi Fayed is dead and Dianna is critically injured". There was an audible sigh of relief from everyone on board. By the time we landed at Manchester, Dianna was declared dead. Later on I found out the match against Liverpool was cancelled. 86025[/snapback] Another example of the gross overreaction to that bint's death tbh. 86031[/snapback] Renton is Billy Liar man. There's only 30 days in September. This is just his way of feeling like he played a part in the whole Diana story - like people who have 9/11 stories and that.

Probably the scariest flight I've ever been on was going to Florida when I was 8. The turbulence was horrendous, and there were loads of those moments where the plane just drops like a stone and you think it's never gonna right itself. Most of those moments were followed by various drunk people throughout the plane shouting "YEEEEEEHAWWW!" like the Dukes of Hazard though, which made it all seem a bit less worrying. Good old Brits abroad.

Spoken like a true accountant. 86015[/snapback] I'm terrible with money actually. But I would never entertain the idea of spending thousands of pounds on a toy. Sad freaks need to get a life tbh.

Seriously though, what is wrong with these dweebs? Pay off a chunk of your mortgage or something. Don't spend thousands of pounds on a little plastic figure that you won't even take out the box.

Just signed for West Ham hasn't he?

Flying into San Francisco for the first time is a bit of a "This can't be right...." moment. You fly in over the bay, and the runway starts right at the edge of it, so it looks for all the world as if you're about to ditch into the water and just as you touch down the runway appears beneath you - if you're on the right side of the plane, you can only see water all around until the very last second. I will admit to being a bit worried.

True, but they were League 2 defenders. And he plays like that most of the time an'all! 85965[/snapback] I was being sarcastic like 85966[/snapback] That's not like you.

True, but they were League 2 defenders. And he plays like that most of the time an'all!

On the subject of Shola (somebody's mentioned him), did it wind anyone else up to see that Obejayi and Francis playing like strikers with purpose at one end, committing defenders, and basically playing like they realise that the object of the game is to get the ball in the opposing team's net.....then when the ball goes to Ameobi he's his usual ponderous, lackadaisical self, seemingly no purpose to what he does, and giving the opposition every opportunity to get the ball off him. I'm not an Ameobi-basher, but the lad is so frustrating. He just seems to have no drive about him.

fooking brilliant to see you lot saying what you want unlike before ..... ooopssss 4016[/snapback] You've lost me 4066[/snapback] I think LM just shot his load. 4070[/snapback] best pair of knicks I ever had years ago, bought for me, which said "I dribble before I shoot" 4314[/snapback] LM wears "knicks".

I have never heard anyone come up with as much bullshit as Souness, and that includes politicians, estate agents, 2nd hand car salesmen etc..... 85909[/snapback] Maybe not like, but I've never once heard him dream out loud about a Roddenberry Star Trek utopia.

I don't mind flying at all - long hauls can be a pain if the movies are crap and you get sat next to a freak (or behind someone who thinks whacking their seat back full tilt for the entire flight is a good idea), but for the most part it's alright. On the seat reclining thing, I almost had a bout of air rage once when some German tosser on the way back from America put his seat back from the minute the seatbelt light went off. I'm canny tall so it was pretty uncomfortable. Anyway, I dozed off eventually, and must have moved my legs, only to be awoken by this tosser turning round with his neck cushion strapped round his neck, and those silly little eye things designed to block out the light on his forehead going "I vould like to know vhy you are putting your knees in ze back of my seat!" I told him that maybe it was because I was tall and he'd had his seat fully reclined for the last 8 hours. Anyway, he told me I needed to be more careful to which I responded "I suggest you turn around and shut up, dickhead". He goes "No! You are ze dickhead!", pulled his little eye things down, and turned back round. Aye, that's right, I'm nails. I couldn't get back to sleep cos I was so livid, so I spent the rest of the journey playing keepy-ups with the back of his chair, the little prick. I can't stand it when people are inconsiderate like that on planes - I know the seats are designed to go back that far, but I never recline mine more than about halfway because it just makes the journey unpleasant for the person behind. Oh and I really can't understand people who are scared of flying. It's safer than driving.

The sad thing is that I could quite easily see Shepherd doing business via the medium of the text message.

Did you really expect else than a win against a team three leagues below? Are you really happy to see this kind of rubbish performances? Of course it is nice to be in the next round, but it would also be nice not looking like a League 2 team (and a bad one that is). 85599[/snapback] Since when has the performance been important in a cup match? Tell the mackems how easy it should be to beat teams from the lower leagues. Or Boro - second replay in two rounds for that lot. Or any other Premiership team that gets knocked out by a team in the lower leagues. The ONLY thing that matters in the cup is whether or not you win - yes, it would have been nice to see a scintillating performance, but how often does a Premiership team go away in the FA Cup to a lower league team, and completely blitz them or play them off the park? Not very often. It's just the way people whine on as if the performance has ruined their weekend, when in actual fact, we won and are in the next round that gets on my tits. 85698[/snapback] Normally I would agree with you about performance not being important in a cup match. But the problem is every performance we have is now completely unacceptable; you would hope these matches might be an opportunity for us to shine and get some confidence back, but that's just not the case at all. We now have a full strength team out (barring Owen), and we're still shit. And the manager is making excuses before a ball is even kicked. Ask yourself a question about yesterday - if you didn't know the respective league positions of each time at that match, could you guess which was which? Like I said before, you strike me as incredibly easily pleased, and have now even resorted to comparing our results with the mackems to support you argument (have you visited the SMB recently btw, they are not happy). Fact is, given this performance, I can see no way we'll beat Man City on Wednesday. And I can see no way we'll progress in the cup if we meet anyone form above division 2. 85706[/snapback] I'm not comparing our results with Sunderland's, I'm just pointing out that it is nowhere near as easy to beat a team from the lower divisions as common sense would suggest. I suspect you know exactly what I meant as well tbh. And I don't believe that you would normally agree with me about result being more important than performance in the Cup. The fact is, if there's something negative to focus on, you'll focus on that and ignore the positive (i.e. the ONLY thing that matters in the cup, the result). Ask Arsenal fans whether they'd have preferred a great performance against Bolton, or to be in the draw tomorrow. That's not me comparing our results with Arsenal's just for the record. 85709[/snapback] I normally think performance is the most important thing, and make dispensations for the cup - a one off poor performance in the cup won't bother me usually as long as we get the result. But when it's as bad as it was yesterday, and when we are seeing similar levels of performance every game, I think people (not just me here btw, read the forum) are entitled to be unhappy and concerned about it. We should expect more, but it seems you are perfectly happy to accept the dross that is being doled out. But seriously, ask yourself this - what do you think would have happened if Cheltenham weren't 60 positions beneath us. Do you expect us to beat Man City? 85713[/snapback] Renton, I thought the match yesterday was fucking dire, and I didn't enjoy it at all. And yes, we were shit. But I cannot be arsed to dwell on the negatives when the fact remains that we're in the next round. What's the fucking point? I'm not accepting of the dross, but at the same time I'm not gonna whine on too much when we win - what good does it do? I prefer to look at the fact that we won and are in the next round as a positive. You prefer to ignore that and dwell on how shit the game was and how poor the performance was. It's not like I didn't notice that we were crap, you know? I just don't harp on about it.