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was looking forward to this one Roy. Enjoyed that it was their fans getting all wound up on Satdi instead of us.
 
It always frustrates me when people slag off our home support, we turn out in numbers because we care so much, now if someone could give me a reason to sing and make some noise with the season we are having then I'd happily agree with them.
 
“Bramall Lane is a nice ground but their supporters were shocking- about 19,000 of them there and not a peep whatsoever, even at 2-0. Good noisy away following from us"

That's what they define as 'noisy'? Bless.....

I think we've held up quite well considering that we've spent all season struggling to beat teams from towns which don't have a McDonalds, decent mobile network coverage or indeed electricity.
I think that anybody in our situation would be bored and subdued by April.
 
Here's a couple from 'upthesaddlers'. Yeah, right fucking up them...

I thought Sheffield United's time wasting was a disgrace. Especially the keeper. He should have been booked for the incident when one of his players was injured and play was stopped. He had the ball and kicked it toward the corner flag hoping that when play restarted he' do have to walk very slowly to get it.

I don't think players do that automatically they are told to do it by management. United knew to fall down under every challenge and the referee bought it every time.

Is that what Atkins learnt in the premiership?

Glad they won't get promoted.

and...

It didn't impact on the result as Walsall were piss poor but yeah it was some of the weakest reffing I'd ever seen.

In the second half near the Kop one of their players ran the ball out of play and then booted it into the corner of the stand.

A normal ref would book him and give him a stern word to show the rest of the team time wasting wouldn't be tolerated.

Nothing happened and so 10 seconds later another player did exactly the same thing as he'd seen his mate get away with it. And again the ref did fudge all.

Thought he was pretty weak throughout, gave a lot of 50/50s to Sheffield and was even joking with some of their players when they were having their five minutes injury treatment.
 
grafikhaus said:
In the second half near the Kop one of their players ran the ball out of play and then booted it into the corner of the stand.

A normal ref would book him and give him a stern word to show the rest of the team time wasting wouldn't be tolerated.

Nothing happened and so 10 seconds later another player did exactly the same thing as he'd seen his mate get away with it. And again the ref did fudge all.
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Time wasting is one of my pet hates and the Walsall peasant is right, they should both have been booked.

That said, they were pants and even when they tried to 'chase down' the game they never looked like scoring.

Sour grapes from a toytown team and I doubt any of us will lose much sleep over it.
 
Tyler Durden said:
“Bramall Lane is a nice ground but their supporters were shocking- about 19,000 of them there and not a peep whatsoever, even at 2-0. Good noisy away following from us"

That's what they define as 'noisy'? Bless.....

I think we've held up quite well considering that we've spent all season struggling to beat teams from towns which don't have a McDonalds, decent mobile network coverage or indeed electricity.
I think that anybody in our situation would be bored and subdued by April.
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They might not have Ronald McDonald, but they do have Cavey McCaveman. The Mammoth Burger is exactly that, so I'm told from a Barnsley acquaintance (they particularly enjoy the trip down for some reason ;))
 
grafikhaus said:
Here's a couple from 'upthesaddlers'. Yeah, right fucking up them...

I thought Sheffield United's time wasting was a disgrace. Especially the keeper. He should have been booked for the incident when one of his players was injured and play was stopped. He had the ball and kicked it toward the corner flag hoping that when play restarted he' do have to walk very slowly to get it.

I don't think players do that automatically they are told to do it by management. United knew to fall down under every challenge and the referee bought it every time.

Is that what Atkins learnt in the premiership?

Glad they won't get promoted.

and...

It didn't impact on the result as Walsall were piss poor but yeah it was some of the weakest reffing I'd ever seen.

In the second half near the Kop one of their players ran the ball out of play and then booted it into the corner of the stand.

A normal ref would book him and give him a stern word to show the rest of the team time wasting wouldn't be tolerated.

Nothing happened and so 10 seconds later another player did exactly the same thing as he'd seen his mate get away with it. And again the ref did fudge all.

Thought he was pretty weak throughout, gave a lot of 50/50s to Sheffield and was even joking with some of their players when they were having their five minutes injury treatment.
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I agree with some of that. We had the better of the decisions and Coutts had to be booked for hoofing it away.
 
The Saddlers should take it with a pinch of salt. I can't remember that little cunt upfront for Southend last Wed night being booked in the first half for blatantly kicking the ball away. It is a bookable offence, and should be, but its not just our friends from the Birmingham suburb who suffer with it.
 
It always seems to be fans of midlands teams that carry a burning sense of injustice long after any match. Remember Coventry and their bunch of whining twats?
I can imagine all the yam yams filing out of the away end on Saturday, moaning about how it was all a 'conspiracaaaay'.
 
Tyler Durden said:
It always seems to be fans of midlands teams that carry a burning sense of injustice long after any match. Remember Coventry and their bunch of whining twats?
I can imagine all the yam yams filing out of the away end on Saturday, moaning about how it was all a 'conspiracaaaay'.
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They probably see losing to us as a right kick in the bollocks as we've been shite most of the season, that's why they get upset. Fuck em!

Where has that mouthy Coventry fan got to anyway? Did some gobbing off earlier on in the season and that is one team i don't want to see going up just for that one twat.
 
From the pig end said:
It always frustrates me when people slag off our home support, we turn out in numbers because we care so much, now if someone could give me a reason to sing and make some noise with the season we are having then I'd happily agree with them.
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True, although they aren't used to seeing nearly 20,000 people all in one place at the same time so it must be surprising for them that it's not noisier. Our attendances are nothing short of staggering given what we've been subjected to, but the apathy is deafening!

The players names barely get a cheer, the GCB song is somewhat half-hearted, the rest of the game was played in near silence apart from some cheering and polite applause for our goals - like I said, it's hardly surprising.
 



Tyler Durden said:
It always seems to be fans of midlands teams that carry a burning sense of injustice long after any match. Remember Coventry and their bunch of whining twats?
I can imagine all the yam yams filing out of the away end on Saturday, moaning about how it was all a 'conspiracaaaay'.
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They're all miserable moaning twats and have the perfect accent for it. But then I'd moan if I lived in Birmingham. And that's what it is to me, 'Birmingham', the fucking lot of it, Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Dudley, all of it, it's all just Birmingham and as desirable to visit as Middlesboro but with shittier people.
 
BushBlade said:
They're all miserable moaning twats and have the perfect accent for it. But then I'd moan if I lived in Birmingham. And that's what it is to me, 'Birmingham', the fucking lot of it, Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Dudley, all of it, it's all just Birmingham and as desirable to visit as Middlesboro but with shittier people.
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It's a veritable melting-pot of shite. The entire place is post-apocalyptic. You'd think that getting bombed to oblivion in WW2 would've brought about some improvement.
 
I stayed in Walsall once when there were no hotels available near Birmingham. The "Quality Hotel" bar appeared to be some form of knocking-shop. Never wish to go near the place again.
 
Didn't the Nazi's turn it into a ghetto in the 1940's or have I got the wrong end of the stick?
 
Grecian2000 said:
Does such a culinary paradise still exist? Point me in that direction if you would.
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Actually, in fairness to Walsall, it has three Michelin starred restaurants close by in Brum, three times more than our fair city and an infinite number more than Manchester, which has not a one.

And a McDonalds on the shopping centre behind the main stand.....
 
I think that is a great point about a forward line of Matt Done, Billy and Che ripping the league a new one next season.

Make it so Nigel.
 
"they were totally in control against inept opposition.”

Pretty much sums it up (surprisingly), nice change from the usual "we were totally in control against inept opposition".

And long may it continue. Can't imagine Gillingham will put up a similarly wimpish advertisement for top 4 Division Three football though.
 
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Trigger Blade said:
Actually, in fairness to Walsall, it has three Michelin starred restaurants close by in Brum, three times more than our fair city and an infinite number more than Manchester, which has not a one.

And a McDonalds on the shopping centre behind the main stand.....
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So it doesn't have any as they are all in Birmingham. That's like saying Chesterfield can count the Old Vicarage.

Birmingham actually has five btw, the most outside London.
 



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