Things I learnt today

[sitwell]

I must be the only one who wasn't that impressed with Hanson, jumped well for a ball in the first minute, but for much of the first half we were playing like statues with everyone trying to play Hollywood hoofs to Hanson instead of playing football, and like with Clarke earlier in the season that didn't really work. With the only really good bit of football in the entire first half he got in the right position and took his goal well though so credit for that.

Second half we swapped to playing our more normal game of moving the ball around quickly on the ground and Hanson was a passenger for much of it as the team's strengths and his strengths aren't really the same. With more time to get used to how we play he'll hopefully be able to fit in with the passing play better as that's how he got his goal, but we looked much better when Sharp was the most advanced striker and we abandoned the long-ball stuff.

I love passengers that have a goal and an assist on their debut in a 4-0 victory , really don't care much if some decide not to be impressed.

 

[Oreyt]

*They were better than Gillingham. It wasn't a 4-0 game. The scorelines in those two games could've easily been reversed due to defensive mistakes or the absence of them.

And therein lies the fascinating thing about association football: it is at the same time utterly predictable and wildly random.

Always makes me chuckle when people make ABSOLUTE statements about a spherical thing bouncing around for 90 minutes (I don't mean three episodes of Eamon Holmes' How The Other Half Live, btw)

 

[Bladepicker]

I can't stop crying, gutted.

I wouldn't worry, I work with a Carlisle fan and he reckons you have got a star in as a replacement. He was gutted this week.

 

[CHRISSY BLADE]

I must be the only one who wasn't that impressed with Hanson, jumped well for a ball in the first minute, but for much of the first half we were playing like statues with everyone trying to play Hollywood hoofs to Hanson instead of playing football, and like with Clarke earlier in the season that didn't really work. With the only really good bit of football in the entire first half he got in the right position and took his goal well though so credit for that.

Second half we swapped to playing our more normal game of moving the ball around quickly on the ground and Hanson was a passenger for much of it as the team's strengths and his strengths aren't really the same. With more time to get used to how we play he'll hopefully be able to fit in with the passing play better as that's how he got his goal, but we looked much better when Sharp was the most advanced striker and we abandoned the long-ball stuff.

Are you for real? He was outstanding I'm well impressed . He's exactly what we needed

 

[1danewhitehouse]

I'm with PeteBlade on the chicken balti pies. I once bought a "steak pie" from the hot food counter in morrisons. Got home and made some gravy to tip over it, tucked into my pie only to discover it was a balti. Grim....

 

[1danewhitehouse]

* James Hanson looks fucking weird when playing football.

I've never noticed it before as I haven't paid a great deal of attention to him (watched him but just the same as any player rather than scrutinising him as I do when a new signing first plays for us). Thought he did quite well, put himself about, got a goal and an assist (albeit because Fleck made a silk purse from that sow's ear of a pass). But he looks so fucking weird when he's playing. One of the most ungainly players I've seen. perhaps moreso than Alex Baptiste.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

One thing I learned today.

Away mascot trying to impersonate great uncle bulgaria is a huge fucking mistake, you cannot replicate this.

 

['Doc' Pace my hero]

*James Hanson is like marmite,i really like marmite when we win 4-0 and go top !!

 

[Grappler]

Had a few pints of that 9% porter (can't remember it's name surprisingly!) God that was lovely

good stuff!

 

[Sean Thornton]

I learned that regular caller Sean, first on RS last night should be the poster boy for S2. 4SU. Like many on here he was bigging the team up to Barca's status again only a matter of days after hyperventilating on air saying it has all gone tits up and we should all panic.

He also said JH won every ball in the air which clearly wasn't the case.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I'm with PeteBlade on the chicken balti pies. I once bought a "steak pie" from the hot food counter in morrisons. Got home and made some gravy to tip over it, tucked into my pie only to discover it was a balti. Grim....

Make your own pies then!

 

[Kenilworth]

I learned that regular caller Sean, first on RS last night should be the poster boy for S2. 4SU. Like many on here he was bigging the team up to Barca's status again only a matter of days after hyperventilating on air saying it has all gone tits up and we should all panic.

He also said JH won every ball in the air which clearly wasn't the case.

Did you think he sounded a bit effeminate on there? I wasn't quite sure.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Did you think he sounded a bit effeminate on there? I wasn't quite sure.

He was excited. One of the only two states of mind he has. The other is manic depression when he's nearly crying. Neither seems to stop him phoning RS at the final whistle though.

 

[tyke1889]

good stuff!

It was, and that's a thing I learnt today, I shouldn't drink 9% Porter!