The Hornet's Nest

Its past my bedtime so good night one and all

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night BHD, sweet dreams

 

Bedtime for me too...how did it get so late?! Night night all, sweet dreams, see you tomorrow View attachment 7972

 

Morning all from Bristol another day another well you know how it goes Supposed to be on shift with someone today but he has had to take time off for Compassionate reasons, quite weird cause that is where he works! Anyway might not get much chance to be on the board today, so I will pop in when I can!

 

Morning all. Thats me up, dressed, out of the house and in Cambridge and it was not even 8:30!! Not bad for a 9:00 start. I even had time for a wake up tea!!

Weather wise, it is cold and grey over head. Hopefully it will warm up for later, I dont want to be refereeing in the cold again!!

 

Sæll til allra. Cappuccino, coffee, tea donuts and fruit are on the bar.

Frothy cappuccinos for for al, HH, Leon and W_Y
Coffees for COYH, Frenchie, Kev rob and theo
Strong coffee for Sandy
Milky coffee for Yorkie
Espresso for SuffolkHorn
Strong black coffees for Bragi Norway and zen
Black coffee half hot half cold and no sugar for Charlie
Tea for jsybaz and Millens
hot chocolate with marshmallows for BBW
Tea and cake for Minx
Caramel latte for Hornette
Orange juice for Lloydinio
Redwine for NZ as he is so ahead of us in time


I removed your tea out dan as you have taken yours already.

 

View attachment 7973 all - lovely day up here after two days of awful cold weather. Winter over before it got started?

Just spotted this in the Express:

"Stuart Pearce yesterday held the door open for Wayne Rooney to overcome possible Euro 2012 heartache by leading Britain to Olympic glory next summer."

I have to ask myself "For God's sake why?" Pearce has just gone down in my estimation.

 

that is quite staggering I agree BB!

 

Is Wayne Rooney not too old to play? Perhaps Stuart Pearce wants him for his high intelligence and tactical knowledge.

 

Ak, we get 3 over-23 picks for the squad so will have plenty vying for those places.

I certainly don't want to see Rooney in an England shirt until after the Euros at the very least, and not sure he deserves a place at the olympics... But then when do players get picked who actually deserve it!

 

Apparently not - Pearce also wants Ryan Giggs in the side according to reports. I suppose that at least he has more intelligence, and probably tactical knowledge, than the Exhalted Pig.

 

Not going to Aberdeen now trip cancelled

 

Beckham also wants to be in the squad. Think I would take Giggs, giving him a chance to play at a tournament ;-) Apparently Owen also wants in...

 

Injury up date!

http://www.newsnow.net/A/527387144?-276

 

[video=youtube;Aj7f3B1VCYM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Aj7f3B1VCYM[/video]

This lot would beat us at the mo

 

Just taken this from the BHappy site:

1- Midweek away games are great. Even when we’re dreadful. Particularly then, perhaps. There’s something about a match under floodlights that seems to heighten the potential for something unlikely. ”Special things happen under floodlights”, as one of my companions for the evening probably sort of put it. Away from home, in particular, there’s an implied shared spirit amongst those present. A greater degree of determination to salvage something from the evening, even if it’s just gallows humour – more is generally being invested in the exercise than is the case for a home game. Expectations are lower. The mood benefits as a result (albeit there’s no direct comparator – a 2-0 home defeat to Leicester wouldn’t mean the same anyway). Immediately startling, however, that only 375 made it up. This isn’t Carlisle away on a Tuesday night, is it? That figure screams about all sorts of things. ”Why the f*** are you still here?” asked our neighbours at 1-0. We didn’t know.

2- We lost the game, you’ll have noticed. Not the same sort of beast as the soul-sapping events of Saturday, albeit with the same conclusion. The line-up reflected three changes, only one enforced by Martin Taylor’s shoulder injury, the others a shuffling of the pack moving out Sordell and Forsyth who both needed a break. Using the squad. No argument there. But any improvement was very far from obvious in a first half completely dominated by the home side. Sven has eulogised about the 45 minutes in which the Foxes effectively won the game – and without question they were comprehensively the better side, more confident, more mobile, more potent. From a Watford point of view though… there was a horrible predictability about it. Not acceptance, necessarily… but from the off it felt like a damage limitation exercise. Seeing the decks being cleared by aimless punts forwards can be frustrating when you’re manning the barricades at the end of a game, it’s harder still to accept twenty minutes in. The first came from a neat but all-too-easy break down the left… Nugent touched the ball past a flat-footed Mariappa and finished clinically. I didn’t see the second, I was off getting a pie order in, which also says a lot. I’m not one of those who makes a habit of disappearing to the bar for fifteen minutes either side of half time, but it was that kind of half. Leicester’s lead was effortless and predictable, as if they hadn’t had to do very much. It felt like a Premier League game.

3- One has to feel rather sorry for Chris Iwelumo. Whatever his limitations, the cards have hardly fallen his way since his arrival – the injury interrupting an encouraging pre-season, inadvisedly and unsuccessfully trying to play through it, and then trying to make an impact off the bench in a struggling side. Whatever he is, an impact player isn’t it… he’s a fundamental cog or nothing at all. This evening, finally given a start, he was deprived of the only proper winger on view, the hitherto subdued Kightly, by a hamstring injury after twenty minutes… thereafter with Joe Garner and Troy Deeney occupying wide positions in a 4-5-1 / 4-3-3 he was never going to be given a steady supply of crosses. He looked hopelessly unsuited to the role, clumsy and awkward… culminating, as we began to click into gear in the second half, in a horrible miss. Sordell sent a ball in from the right, Deeney applied a deft touch an Big Chris was through. But only for a second… he took the ball early and shanked it wide. Sordell’s head was in his hands, a reaction to our first incisive move of the evening that was mirrored throughout the away end.

4- The tentative second half improvement was down to a number of factors. Chief amongst them, of course, was that Leicester were two up and in control of the game, and evidently judged that their superiority was such that they’d be able to up their game again if necessary. The approach paid off, the second half was much more pedestrian from the home side… but a risky strategy, even against our misfiring attack. Perhaps abetted by our new formation we started moving the ball around a bit. Don’t be under any illusions, this wasn’t a rabble-rousing comeback, and such was never suggested. But it wouldn’t have taken much for the atmosphere to change, for Leicester’s confidence in their superiority and ability to kick on again to be tested. One neat move saw Hogg arrive at the edge of the penalty area to meet a lay-off from Eustace and slam a drive towards the top corner that Schmeichel did well to repel. An eye-catching shot, but that we manoeuvred someone into space on the edge of the area was encouraging. Balls across the area unsettling the home defence, Sordell attacking the near post to meet a left wing cross and deflect the ball goalwards – albeit maybe not as close to its target as appeared from our vantage point. It wasn’t great, in the normal way (the normal way? in what used to be the normal way, maybe) it wouldn’t have been worth commenting on. But we’ll grab at whatever straws are going at the moment.

5- The highlights of the evening was the impact of Prince Buaben. Almost lost in the wave of new signings struggling to quite make an impact, his lack of involvement up to now suggested that he was in danger of disappearing down the path trodden previously by the likes of Sietes, Travner and Adam Griffiths. Punts that were so clearly not going to pay off that they never got any meaningful action. Not so on this evidence… lively, standing out a mile simply down to his movement and enthusiasm (Garner, whose hard work has endeared him at home, was visibly subdued). Buaben was neat, tidy, making things happen, not just laying the ball off but teasing and probing, occupying the space between Iwelumo and our deep sitting midfielders. And delivering several vicious set pieces, balls across the box that seemed to surprise all concerned to such an extent that we didn’t think to attack them until too late. Again… not enough to meaningfully change the destination of this game. And not The Answer, not yet. But a green shoot, for those looking for one.

 

It's a good article Al...do you agree with it?

 

Oh God. I posted a link up to my blog on the General Chat forum in the hope of boosting traffic. I think I may be regretting my actions...

 

Never put anything in General Chat - it's just full of kids where all they do is talk nonsense or have a go at each other.... generally both!

 

I would like to apologise in advance (maybe too late?!) for comments that may tarnish our board.