Everton v Bournemouth

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:Hairy unceremoniously SACKED as match thread originator. Brutal.

I've been there mate, it's like a kick in the 'nads. It's part humiliation, partly a sense of burning injustice ("what did I do wrong, how did I cause that loss?"), partly a strange, irrational yet palpable sense of guilt. Eventually that mix of confusion, shame and anger will see you hit the bottle. Before you know it you'll be lying on a bench in a railway station wondering whose dog that is sat beneath you, your comfortable middle class London life of old a warming but fast-fading memory. The tannoy crackles, and a disinterested voice informs you that the 10.32 to Birmingham New Street is delayed by approximately 20 minutes, but you don't care, as you're not going anywhere. You notice that your last third of a bottle of red has leaked all over your trousers while you were dozing, and you let out a practised sigh. You start singing, a mournful sea shanty, but nobody hears...

Anyway, we're at home so we'll lose.

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:

Da Judge wrote:

Tonteau wrote:

Rotterdam 1985 wrote:Hairy unceremoniously SACKED as match thread originator. Brutal.

I've been there mate, it's like a kick in the 'nads. It's part humiliation, partly a sense of burning injustice ("what did I do wrong, how did I cause that loss?"), partly a strange, irrational yet palpable sense of guilt. Eventually that mix of confusion, shame and anger will see you hit the bottle. Before you know it you'll be lying on a bench in a railway station wondering whose dog that is sat beneath you, your comfortable middle class London life of old a warming but fast-fading memory. The tannoy crackles, and a disinterested voice informs you that the 10.32 to Birmingham New Street is delayed by approximately 20 minutes, but you don't care, as you're not going anywhere. You notice that your last third of a bottle of red has leaked all over your trousers while you were dozing, and you let out a practised sigh. You start singing, a mournful sea shanty, but nobody hears...

Anyway, we're at home so we'll lose.

Don't you get booted off after a loss? Them's the rules.

We were cursed the moment he got the matches in the wrong order. IMHO.

I have never been entirely clear on what the rules are, I think the rules were set during my long hiatus away from the board. So I may have inadvertently transgressed in this regard once or twice but, happily, some common-sense policing from Judge has allowed me to get away with a slap on the wrists and a warning as to my future conduct. Had this been an American messageboard I think I'd have been raided at 4am and given a good kicking down the station. And a three match ban.

As for Hairy, I'm not sure what the greater crime was - the loss itself, or getting the games in the wrong order. It doesn't take much to upset the football Gods these days as far as Everton are concerned. Either way I think Hairy is more responsible for Saturday's loss than Dyche. We have to own our match threads going wrong. With rights come responsibilities. The buck stops with the man at the top (of the thread).

hairy cataract wrote:I am proud of my brief but very successful reign as thread-starter.  Sure, I fucked up, but anyone can do that.  I mean look at VAR at the weekend - I think I heard something about a mistake at Spurs, though I can't be sure because it's hardly been mentioned in the media or by the RS.

Two wins on the bounce - not many threadstarters can boast that record in recent times.

SEFTON wrote:In my defence the old rules where you lose a game someone else takes over. now I haven’t seen many volunteers to take on the thread so thought?  I want to try lift the gloom on here by bringing home our first home win of the season ,specially as many on here have very little hope with the team losing its last four home games of this season.happy to stand down if people feel I’m stepping on toes but, just want the same as every one else which is an Everton win three points at home so we are able to climb away from relegation.