There was me thinking only fools and horses was just a sitcom. Do southern folk think it was a documentary?
He thinks we live by the seaside. Hull is on a river, there's no more sea air than there is in London.
I think you're referring to me. At the time, you didn't have it half as bad as we did. Pretty much every player we signed in Summer, bar two youth players were injured, suspended or unfit (or in Ben Arfa's case, a dick). Therefore, we were relying on players that we'd signed in the Championship to help us get promoted. It wasn't an excuse for us being **** (we couldn't really be anything else at the time), it was a stone cold fact. We are only just getting through a bad injury phase, we signed a striker in January and that's it. We've had Robertson, Huddlestone, Jelavic, Hernandez, Ramirez, Ben Arfa, Diame, Rosenior and Snodgrass missing for prolonged periods of time this season and given that 6 of those players were signed in Summer as first team players, how was it not going to have a massive impact on our results? As ellewoods said, at the time I posted it, we had the second highest injury list in the league, so how was I wrong? You, at the time, didn't have it 'arf as bad' and you know it so **** knows why you've dragged this up out of nowhere, you were wrong then and you're wrong now. In fact I'd forgotten all about it until you mentioned it. I said if you took out Austin, Fer and Green (it might have been 3 other players, I don't really remember/care) out of your side you'd be nothing special and you booted off like some nancy boy...well some nancy boy drama queen. If you can't take the banter, don't bother replying. Soft sod.
That reminds me of when Vito Mannone first joined us when he said he was looking forward to playing for a club based in a City by the seas-side as that was where he grew up!! LOL! Not much excuse for similar mistakes from this chimp!
Bullsh*t. I came back with the fact that our two best midfielders were out, as was our best player........and a couple more besides. But only to make the point that everyone gets bad injuries and I was growing tired of listening to your balling. You signed a striker in Jan? We signed no-one but sold a 5 mil player to Palace! And now we have 7 injured but again, I wouldn't raise it but only to make a point about your excuses. That's why we've a squad and its partly our own fault they're injured because we bought some crocks........just like you! Look Archer, just take it on the chest like a man and stop crying about spilled milk. There's nowt worse than someone throwing out excuses left right and center cos they're team is doing sh*t. Time for you, Brucie and the rest to step up to the plate
The players we bought weren't crocks though, with the exception of Snodgrass who had a long standing inury the others didnt really have any problems with injuries. Again, they weren't excuses. We've got four points from our last two games because our first team players are nearly all fit again (again, with the exception of Snoddy) and we just have Diame to come back into our midfield on Saturday and we should be there or there abouts. It makes a massive different and we don't have very good strength in depth, that should be obvious as we've struggled massively while our first teamers have been out. It's not an excuse, is it, it's a perfectly valid observation. It would have been an excuse had they come back and made no difference at all, because then you'd have been able to say that even with the first teamers back, we were still awful. But we were massively improved, the difference was there for all to see. Do you know the difference between a reason and an excuse? An excuse exists in spite of something. A reason defines something. We were **** because we were missing 8 first team players. That's a reason. An excuse would be blaming us losing on stuff we couldn't control, like ref decisions or crowd atmosphere.
Snodgrass' long-standing injury had absolutely nothing to do with the injury that cost him the season. The only crock-signing going on here is by DQPR.
You're right, read up on it and it was a long standing shoulder injury he was famous for. Case and point then.
He is probably an American, dude is tossing out tons of American slang not to mention idioms referencing Baseball. Next thing you know he is going to start referring to our players on the bench as "riding the pine" and things being hard as "picking a tick off a bear" or the fact that he is "plum tickled to death" for getting to speak to us on the internets.
Then maybe you should've built a better squad. By that rationale if you beat us on Saturday, it won't really be down to you being any good, it'll be because we had 7 players out injured! That's a load of sh*t, Archer. If we lose on Saturday you won't be hearing any stories being concocted by Rangers fans regarding injuries. It'll be because we wasn't good enough, pure and simple. C'mon man, just cut the bullsh*t for fukk's sake
Fer ****'s sake. Has he Faurlin foul of one of our resident WUMs or is he l'Austin a sea air? Onouha I go on a bit but I needed to get that off my chest. Right, I'm Dunne.
I don't understand, so if you lose there are no contributing factors other than levels of skill? That's what you're saying? That nothing other than one team being better than the other is the reason for winning/losing? What if we play badly, still win and a player you brought in to cover one of your first team players makes the mistake to gift us a goal?
I know all I need to know about that Gentleman. He's an incomprehensible nincompoop with a penchant for sympathy seeking and exaggeration. If I were you Sir, I'd distance myself from his statements as much as possible
Then, my dear Watson, we weren't good enough. The player we brought in wasn't up to it and if you played badly and still won, then more shame us. Its a squad game, Archie my boy. And its high time you got your nut around that fact
Fair enough 1860's Victorian land owner Orville Pennyshanks. I put it to you, good sir, that you are a Southern dandy, a reprihensible pup with a reputation for skullduggery and exquisite affiliations of a lusty nature. Have at thee, I bite my thumb at you sir.
