Everton v Fulham

Da Judge wrote:

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:Carling cup - Quarter final

Tuesday 19 December - 7:45 ko

I am going for FIVE straight wins here so hold on to your jingle bells very tightly.... a semi is highly possible & I haven't seen that since the days of Rachel Unitt

According to the boss...
The Duke went off at half time against Bumley with a tight hamstring so we have to have to wait and see if he's fit.
Mykolenko is also touch-and-go.
Seamus & Young   and   are possible but unlikely to figure.

We get two back [Idrissa Gana Gueye and Jarrad Branthwaite] after the suspensions

Full-back slots are considered to be the most likely problem areas by SD.

Jiminez was red carded for them against Manure so I presume he is suspended


M4G will go for a 2-0 win with goals from Mo Besic & JP Gbamin & Michael Keane to be knighted at half time in the centre circle... and as there is no predictor for cup games this is dodgy indeed as no negativity to offset my positive bluenose outlook... perhaps Bubbles has recovered enough from the shock of not tipping us to lose last time & post something really fucking obnoxious & negative to offset my blue tinted beliefs

COYB ... UTFT ....and FTPL

Don't quote me but you mentioning there is no Predictor for Cup games made me think that I had already made a ruling in Tonts v Sef (KB v1 pp470-471) on Wednesday 1st November. Sef was agreed owner of the thread FOR CUP GAMES and if we were to prevail over Burnley (cup game) he would retain thread.

Would you like to retract before Sef gets here M4G? IOt would avoid a lot of inadvertent jinxing (one way or another... I now have bad ju-ju thinking about this)

callmebubbles wrote:We are gonna smash Fulham!!!  3-1. No fucking problem at all!!!
Wow, this feels weird......but I like it!!!!!!

Da Judge wrote:

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Da Judge wrote:

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:Carling cup - Quarter final

Tuesday 19 December - 7:45 ko

I am going for FIVE straight wins here so hold on to your jingle bells very tightly.... a semi is highly possible & I haven't seen that since the days of Rachel Unitt

According to the boss...
The Duke went off at half time against Bumley with a tight hamstring so we have to have to wait and see if he's fit.
Mykolenko is also touch-and-go.
Seamus & Young   and   are possible but unlikely to figure.

We get two back [Idrissa Gana Gueye and Jarrad Branthwaite] after the suspensions

Full-back slots are considered to be the most likely problem areas by SD.

Jiminez was red carded for them against Manure so I presume he is suspended


M4G will go for a 2-0 win with goals from Mo Besic & JP Gbamin & Michael Keane to be knighted at half time in the centre circle... and as there is no predictor for cup games this is dodgy indeed as no negativity to offset my positive bluenose outlook... perhaps Bubbles has recovered enough from the shock of not tipping us to lose last time & post something really fucking obnoxious & negative to offset my blue tinted beliefs

COYB ... UTFT ....and FTPL

Don't quote me but you mentioning there is no Predictor for Cup games made me think that I had already made a ruling in Tonts v Sef (KB v1 pp470-471) on Wednesday 1st November. Sef was agreed owner of the thread FOR CUP GAMES and if we were to prevail over Burnley (cup game) he would retain thread.

Would you like to retract before Sef gets here M4G? IOt would avoid a lot of inadvertent jinxing (one way or another... I now have bad ju-ju thinking about this)

nah ... I'm on a roll ... Sef can have the honour back after we lose... probably the City game

The previous ruling was to dodge Sef out of a breach against Tonts if I recall... a kinda premier league make it up as you go along sanction... rather than adhering to the proper rules where honour is retained across all competitions   ... which can be dug out if required

You're not Donald "rules don't apply to me " Trump are you?

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:

Da Judge wrote:

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Da Judge wrote:

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:Carling cup - Quarter final

Tuesday 19 December - 7:45 ko

I am going for FIVE straight wins here so hold on to your jingle bells very tightly.... a semi is highly possible & I haven't seen that since the days of Rachel Unitt

According to the boss...
The Duke went off at half time against Bumley with a tight hamstring so we have to have to wait and see if he's fit.
Mykolenko is also touch-and-go.
Seamus & Young   and   are possible but unlikely to figure.

We get two back [Idrissa Gana Gueye and Jarrad Branthwaite] after the suspensions

Full-back slots are considered to be the most likely problem areas by SD.

Jiminez was red carded for them against Manure so I presume he is suspended


M4G will go for a 2-0 win with goals from Mo Besic & JP Gbamin & Michael Keane to be knighted at half time in the centre circle... and as there is no predictor for cup games this is dodgy indeed as no negativity to offset my positive bluenose outlook... perhaps Bubbles has recovered enough from the shock of not tipping us to lose last time & post something really fucking obnoxious & negative to offset my blue tinted beliefs

COYB ... UTFT ....and FTPL

Don't quote me but you mentioning there is no Predictor for Cup games made me think that I had already made a ruling in Tonts v Sef (KB v1 pp470-471) on Wednesday 1st November. Sef was agreed owner of the thread FOR CUP GAMES and if we were to prevail over Burnley (cup game) he would retain thread.

Would you like to retract before Sef gets here M4G? IOt would avoid a lot of inadvertent jinxing (one way or another... I now have bad ju-ju thinking about this)

nah ... I'm on a roll ... Sef can have the honour back after we lose... probably the City game

The previous ruling was to dodge Sef out of a breach against Tonts if I recall... a kinda premier league make it up as you go along sanction... rather than adhering to the proper rules where honour is retained across all competitions   ... which can be dug out if required

You're not Donald "rules don't apply to me " Trump are you?

Da Judge wrote:

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:I reckon there will be some goals in this one. Fulham are dangerous but they play wide open.

So I'm predicting a 3-2 win with all three of our goals coming from McNeil 50 yard dribbles through an invisible Fulham midfield followed by 30 yard piledrivers.

It's just occurred to me that at the age of 54 and having used the word liberally for most of my life, I didn't actually know what a piledriver is in a proper, non-football context. So I googled it...

"A piledriver is a professional wrestling driver move in which the wrestler grabs their opponent, turns them upside-down, and drops into a sitting or kneeling position, driving the opponent head-first into the mat. The technique is said to have been innovated by Wild Bill Longson."

I now have no idea, based on that explanation, why it's used to describe a very hard shot that goes in the net.

This has now got me thinking about other stupid football terms. Who was the first commentator to decide that they'd use "strain every sinew" to describe a footy player who works really hard? It's got a Motty feel to it, that one.

Anyway, come on you blues, let's see some telling passes and piledriver shots (but don't hit them too well). There are no easy games at this level, but I'm confident that if we strain every sinew with no quarter asked nor given, then we'll be able to celebrate with a bottle of red wine after the game.

No, I was hoping that paragraph would have got this out of my system but it's only produced more questions. Why red wine, after the game? Why not white, or a six pack of Grolsch and a packet of Planters peanuts torn open and left on the table to be shared?

My particular bête noir is the idea that humans are somehow like nuclear reactors in that they can deliver more than 100%. For example we are giving 110% focus on the matches coming up. Nuclear reactors have an absolute power output threshold (dangerous as fuck - ask Chernobylites) so within that envelope they scale back and set that level as 100%.

When I last looked no human has such a capabilty defined. 100% is the absolute destruction of the human body total energy exertion and zero fuel insertion. The best athletes can sustain ratings of 100% for very short periods of time (rowers, cycle sprinters and endurance racing - Tour de France etc). However I can sympathise with any player saying he is going to be working his cock and balls to a complete frazzle to get a result - at a level approaching 95%.

I once played in a rugby game and was required to play at about my 95% capacity for around 20 minutes at the end of a match to defend a lead (UAU semi-final) and it took e 4 weeks to properly recover. But what would I know I am not the athlete I once was.

All I ask of Everton's players is that when they get back into the dressing room they each ask themselves the simple question Carwyn James asked of us

The Inimitable Carwyn James - British Isles & Ireland Lions Coach wrote: "did you leave an 'IF' out on the park boys? Because if you did then we will never know the resolution to the horror that is uncertainty that we left something out there. If there are no ifs then we have been beaten on the day by a better team, simple as. So boys - remember no Ifs in the end."

Still the best coach I ever had.

fourdoors wrote:

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

I like this common sense approach. Similar to my demands (which I've written to my MP about) that advertisers be totally accurate in a no-nonsense way as to what their product does. E.g. "Durex - you put it on your cock before a shag and it stops women getting pregnant, like, most of the time." It's sort of a one-man campaign against hyperbole and wank marketing speak.

Surely Durex are also against wank marketing?
Unless it's a posh wank.

fourdoors wrote:

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:I reckon there will be some goals in this one. Fulham are dangerous but they play wide open.

So I'm predicting a 3-2 win with all three of our goals coming from McNeil 50 yard dribbles through an invisible Fulham midfield followed by 30 yard piledrivers.

It's just occurred to me that at the age of 54 and having used the word liberally for most of my life, I didn't actually know what a piledriver is in a proper, non-football context. So I googled it...

"A piledriver is a professional wrestling driver move in which the wrestler grabs their opponent, turns them upside-down, and drops into a sitting or kneeling position, driving the opponent head-first into the mat. The technique is said to have been innovated by Wild Bill Longson."

I now have no idea, based on that explanation, why it's used to describe a very hard shot that goes in the net.

This has now got me thinking about other stupid football terms. Who was the first commentator to decide that they'd use "strain every sinew" to describe a footy player who works really hard? It's got a Motty feel to it, that one.

Anyway, come on you blues, let's see some telling passes and piledriver shots (but don't hit them too well). There are no easy games at this level, but I'm confident that if we strain every sinew with no quarter asked nor given, then we'll be able to celebrate with a bottle of red wine after the game.

No, I was hoping that paragraph would have got this out of my system but it's only produced more questions. Why red wine, after the game? Why not white, or a six pack of Grolsch and a packet of Planters peanuts torn open and left on the table to be shared?

And there was I, a trained (but non-practising) Civil Engineer, naively thinking it referred to a shot as powerful as the hammer used for driving steel piles into the ground to form the foundational structure of a building. Now I feel a bit silly for thinking that.

The red wine reference I always understood like this: "proper" sportsmen don't drink beer (too many calories) so on the rare occasions when they indulge, then wine is the beverage of choice. It's stronger than beer, weaker than whisk(e)y, and tastes nicer than White Lightning. And since red wine can command the astronomical sums that only the very rich can afford, it tends to be (very expensive) red wine which they drink after a match.

Tonteau wrote:Any good streams tonight given it’s not on telly?

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Tonteau wrote:Any good streams tonight given it’s not on telly?

can't find much ... trawlinf twitter at the moment.

May resort to the OS commentary