What's annoying me today 2.0

[tricky]

You've just been dying for him to go a couple of games without a goal so you can climb back on this particular hobby horse, haven't you?

Not particularly.  I don't think of it as a hobby horse, more an opinion.  I will say that over the last two games I've had people independently say to me, without prompting, that Earnshaw was everything that I talk about him in the D*rby game and also someone else say that they had lost patience with him after the last game because he's too much of a passenger that doesn't justify his place on his finishing alone.  This is from people who I would judge to be in no special rush to agree with me.

I understand that people may feel differently, and I know people who still do, but that doesn't make it a  hobby horse - rather just a point of view.  If we're playing that game I could comment on how quiet those people who like to give me stick when he does well are. They're definitely off their hobby horse at the moment, and overall I've had a pretty quiet ride this season.

[JimShady]

Earnie was a bit rubbish on Saturday. But I'd still have him in my team 8 games out of ten. I don't think he suits the very physical games though, and those last two certainly fell into that category. The problem is that you often don't know a game will be like that until it's started, well bar the likes of the Blunts and D*rby anyway who are always uber cnuts. He'll start tomorrow I think. Along with Adebola.

[Brid]

I disagree; I'd certainly have Earnshaw in the 16 every time (assuming fitness), but a starter 8 times out of 10?  Not for me, especially away from home.  Dextock plays every time if he is fit, because he brings so much to the team, including goals.  Away from home I would generally do as the Billys do (or did until recently): play 4-2-3-1 with Dextock as the 1 & Majewski or McGoldrick as the middle one of the 3.  Opposition managers decry it as negative (don't they Roberto?), but it most certainly isn't, not with our pace on the counter.  Earnshaw then comes on with half an hour to go when we go 4-4-2 and kill the game against a tiring defence.  It sez ere.

To be honest, Shady, I expect a fair few of our games to be very physical from now on, at least for the first 25 minutes; teams will have seen the D*rby & Wednesday games and think they can bully us out of it.  I expect them to be wrong, but I bet you a good few of them try it.

I think that the Billy took their eye off the ball for the D*rby game; our unbeaten run was built on meticulous preparation and tailored tactics for each match.  D*rby was always going to be a battle, but he went with the 5-0 QPR side, which I think was his first mistake in a long time.  I don't expect him to repeat it in a hurry, and for that reason I doubt Earnshaw will start tomorrow - unless the Billys think the Cov defence has a particular weakness against his type of game.

[garf]

It'll be Blacksocks on his own up front to start tomorrow mark my words.

[Simon]

It'll be Blacksocks on his own up front to start tomorrow mark my words.

Or Adebola.

Been a while since he started a game, gives Blackstock a break towards the start of a run of frequent games (although there seems to be a suggestion that Doncaster at the weekend is vulnerable to a postponement) and it's his old club (not that Davies seems to put too much import on that kind of superstition).

[richoriginal]

(although there seems to be a suggestion that Doncaster at the weekend is vulnerable to a postponement)

Why's that then?

[Simon]

Why's that then?

No undersoil heating and bad weather (including snow) on the way.

[Russ]

What kind of two bob outfit builds a new stadium and doesn't install undersoil heating?

[Nottingham Florist]

A Yorkshire one.

[RC]

Probably thought that a pitch that could heat itself was the work of the devil or something.

[ned]

Light snow for Donny Fri plus min overnight temp of zero...if that's correct no probs.

[Ingo]

Robbie Savage. What a cnut. Just genrally.

[Jose]

Still getting on my nerves is John bloody Terry.  Can't we (and by 'we' I mean the media, no-one I know gives a flying fcuk) get over it now???

What a fckuing suprise, saints and sinners exist in roughly the same portion in both the footballing population and the general population.  Who knew?
No young and budding footballer is ever asked (for example) "JT, are you a bit of a lad, a cockjuglging thundercnut who's likely to get an ex tem-mate's bird pregnant?"  and even if the answer had been 'yes' it wouldn't have made any difference, they'd hardly have kicked him out of the academy.  Who decided that just because a young man was good at kicking a ball he'd be morally upright?  Why are we (and by 'we' I mean the media, no-one I know gives a flying fcuk) so suprised when a footballer turns out to be a tosser?  There's no quality control on morals for footballers, why do we (and by 'we' I mean the media, no-one I know gives a flying fcuk) expect them to be bloody perfect.

I know this is a little late, but the fcuking media are still going on about it, so I thought I would.

[dubya]

Robbie Savage. What a cnut. Just genrally.

+1

Easy, isn't it?

[Russ]

Vampire Weekend
Florence and The Machine
Mumford and Sons

Why do these bands exist? And more importantly, why is their appalling insipid crap music being played on my otherwise very good radio station?