Kitman

Physioroom.com is reporting Ba has a sprained ankle, which supports that idea.

Toys out of pram, "am not travelling half the length of the country to sit on the bench" I believe was the quote. Hadn't heard that, is that a fact? Unprofessional if true....

I think he's a championship player these days. Probably a good pro but not PL standard. Him and Alan Smith out of contract this summer, will free up a couple of squad places for replacements

Delighted with 3 away points, geddin. Didn't see the game but sounds like a draw would have been fair. Ha ha, up yours MickMack! Interesting that neither Santon nor Barfa came on from the bench. Also that Elliott was sub keeper ahead of Harper who presumably is now fit. Assume they're making it clear he won't get a game and should leave in Jan.

The match was more entertaining than I expected (I didn't go in the end), I don't think Scotland threw it away it was more a case England got control into their game. They can hold their heads up high for today's effort because they really had a go. If they'd played like that against Argentina they wouldn't be on the plane home yet. I think despite England showing signs of getting their shit together in the pack second half, the lack of cutting edge in the backs, especially the centres, is the real problem imo. They don't look like breaking the oppo's defence, and the ball doesn't get down the line quickly enough, if at all.

As if he'd go there

Cool. You probably know this already Gem, but good trainers only have a limited number of miles in them. So if you do a lot of running it's worth keeping track of overall distance so you know when they're done

I'm sorry but it's not even worth considering. It's pie in the sky man!

It's an utterly meaningless award, to be fair

Ye Gods

As do we. Hopefully not so much anymore

I was wondering if hamstring injury was a euphemism for something......

Senior player, club in the middle of a slump and he's out till the early hours presumably getting mullered. Embarrassing for Brewcie before you even get into the alleged sex attack and drug possession.

I saw Nolan in the flesh at Peterborough the last time I was over and fuck me I thought he was slow then. However he was also a class footballer and didn't lack for effort, so surprised at some of those comments. I wonder if Fat Sam's indulging in the long ball stuff and expecting Nolan to skip about the pitch onto knock downs, or maybe everything isn't rosy in hippo head's garden

http://www.physioroom.com/news/english_pre...yer_injury.html Worth a look, staggering. Dyer's been injured on nearly 40 separate occasions since 2002. I know people have commented on this before but I didn't realise he's hardly played since he left us. Ok you can't help a broken leg but otherwise what the hell's wrong with him?! If his contracts with WHU and QPR aren't 'pay as you play' they want shooting. With consistent appearances I reckon he could have achieved a lot in his career, however I doubt he'll be remembered in 10 years' time for anything much (except Lee Bowyer). Has there been anyone in recent times who's got a consistently worse injury record? Off the top of my head I can only think of Carr, Babayaro and Owen who could rival him in terms of toon players.

Do you not rate Santon like? No-one has ever seen him play Gosling was playing alongside Tiote in everyone's starting XI in the off season. Look how that turned out. Are you sure about that? Can't say I remember anybody saying that, or if they were, it certainly wasn't everyone. My impression was that Gosling featured in Deano and Christmas Tree's starting XI rather than everyone else's.

Somebody must have played badly in defence considering we conceded 3 goals?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_human_combustion

What possessed you to hire a Fiat Punto? We were broke at the time, and only driving down to Connemara for a friend's wedding. We only used the car about 4 times I think, and I was sick out of it on one of them on the way to Westport. Apparently it was very scenic (the 9 Pins or summink), not that I gave a fuck, I thought I was dying. Someone had given me a lethal Camberwell Carrot the night before, after an extended session of Guinness and whiskey, and I hadn't really recovered the following day. A bowl of Irish stew and a half a Guinness later and I was back on the pig's back.... Great days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion

I once got upgraded from a Fiat Punto to a C class Mercedes at Knock airport. God bless the Irish.

Where's 'here' for you, Zathras? And are you still bored and a bit down?

Noone has written him off. And if he had a good run with us prior to the injury, it would have been different. Messi has afterall shown a decent form prior to any injury he might suffer.. Fair enough

On the basis of that logic SW, Messi is "shit" whenever he comes back from injury. The question is whether you write someone off as shit. Gosling could be brilliant or shit, we don't know. He's been out for ages and needs a run of games to get back into playing. A run in the reserves and some bench appearances is probably the way to do it. To write him off as "shit" seems a bit premature to me, if that's what anyone's doing here.