Good afternoon.
Our old enemy confronts us again. Our squad for the old Bar Codes on Sunday may be heavily depleted. Word is that Adebayor, Sandro, Van der Vaart, Charlie and Krankie are all subject to last minute inflammation inspections.
Add to this Les Dawson, Billy Gallas an Dances With Scones who have no return date plus Azza Blud who appears to permanently ‘a bit gouty’ and we are close to a ‘bare bones’ speech from talkSPORT’s number one correspondent.
A plethora of absentees. Which for word fans not only means ‘a lot’ but as an archaic medical term refers to a morbid condition due to an excess of red corpuscles in the blood.
BIOYC!
We often get this bare bones malarkey from HR a few days before a game.
Suspect and hope most of those that matter will turn up for Sundays game.
Well spotted sir. :daumen:
Perhaps (just a thought for consideration), that it equally puts the opposition plans into a spin, as if they’re uncertain of who’s playing and where, then their pre-match tactic’s may also have to wait until the line- ups are announced and confirmed?
Spin here being the operative word I presume. As for tactics I will agree the opposing managers do have some idea. :lol:
Rooney, as I thought would happen, is banned for three matches. England is in with a chance. :whistle:
Bloody foreigners conspiring against our brave English heroes again…….should send NATO in to give them a sound thrashing…….that’ll teach them a lesson they won’t forget! :whistle:
To be paraphrased and regurgitated by the following ‘free’ media outlets until the cow’s come home/England gets knocked out of Euro 2012:
talkBollocks (90% of callers), Mail, Sun, Express, Star, Torygraph, Times, Mirror, BBC 5Live (70% of callers), Standard and the Metro.
*Apologies to those i’ve missed out*
I blame the names they give kids these days Jermaine,Nigel,Julian etc, tarts names-What happened to the Berts and Henrys eh? good solid names-British names!
Billy?
Solid, geezers name just like mine which is Gerviase
Nice name for a goat. :whistle:
Meh.
What’s wrong with my ex-goat’s name Eric, I say ex, cos he’s gawn, there one minute gawn the next- Who’s got my goat?
I have 2 goats, brother and sister as it happens…Walter….good old British name, and Masie which I think is Gaelic….
My first name……J, ahhhh
Gout! WTF, I just re-read the headline, apologies all around
I don’t like talking about gout, goats are far more interesting…when they were younger, my two could climb trees! ;-)
My goat will be easy to spot if you come across it, it’s got fake tan and say’s SHUUT-HUP!,Nice hoofs though.
Your kiddin’!
Subtle…and took me a while, but very good :daumen:
By the way, I do actually, truthfully own 2 goats and they did actually, truthfully used to climb trees when they were “kids”. What is ironic though is that the male last winter caught a form of gout due to his diet and couldn’t be picked for our football team for nearly a bloody month. Sometimes, it can be grim up north… :shifty:
“Sometimes, it can be grim up north…”
It must be all those mushy peas! :-D
Troutie’s Goutie’s it is then?
Funny how, last week I was full of confidence that we could pull off a 3 pointer up at (the resurgent) Barcode Centrale…
…the news that Ade & Sandro may not be fit has caused my optimism to evaporate… which just goes to prove (in my mind) how paper-thin the squad really is, especially up front…
Scary!
Could all be a ruse manufactured by Twichy to give the Brown Ale mob a false sense of confidence.
Hope so, or we could be in for a torrid afternoon, coz the Brown Ale’s may not be setting the world on fire but they’re organised, disciplined, consistent and getting results (the table never lies).
We may have to grind our way out of this one if the sick-list doesn’t improve.
“Could all be a ruse manufactured by Twichy to give the Brown Ale mob a false sense of confidence.”
Tactics? Steady now. :shifty:
What was i thinking?! :dizzy2:
I know, it’s so easy to get carried away! ;-)
We’ll be fine I think. Ade is a bog loss but probably Sandro will make it, just one of those post lay off niggles which can be recovered in time but there is always Livermore if not, there is a grind out a result with 5 in the middle plus a dwarf up top vibe from what Bond said, probably Defoe doing the scampering with the return of the wingers backing him up, maybe even a free and central Luka too. So a win I expect, but it might be less fun than Sky had in mind when they booked it, then again with Spurs you never know…
bog loss? wtf dude!
Typo orrer perhaps? :daumen:
Just daftness ;)
I see Pardew is trying the charm offensive:
‘this weekend will undoubtedly be the most stern test we have faced yet this season – Alan Pardew equally under no illusions, commenting: “It sets us up for a real blue-riband game with Spurs who are far superior to us individually. They have top international players. But we’re a decent team, and we’ll get a gauge of how good a team we are…”.’
Looks like he’s doing a Trout Chops on us in telling us how great we are. Notice how he didn’t say what a great job Trout Chops is doing. Would that have been stretching it a bit too far? :shifty:
Galloping knob rot is the proper prognosis :daumen:
Own up!! Own up!! Who’s got the pox? 8O