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    Now then, let me begin first by saying I love Paul Lambert and if I was forty years younger and female I''d probably give him the freedom of my ladygarden.  However, he has started to worry me with some bizarre tactical and selection decisions ever since that FA Cup game against Leicester where the whole ground smelled distinctly of that old aftershave "Can''t Be Arsed."  Since that game we have been out-thought, out-fought and our selections have left us too narrow and easy to pass the ball around - and then today I thought we looked rather powder-puff in attack even when Newcastle were playing as if they were our twelfth man.

     

    I suppose one positive is that as we slip down the league due to our tactical shortcomings, fewer clubs will be circling to take Paul Lambert away from us in the Summer but that is really at best a consolation prize - you fellow oldies might remember the Blankety Blank chequebook and pen, or the "Dusty Bin" replica that good old Ted Rogers used to offer up to losing contestants.  It would be a great shame if Paul Lambert carries on with his poor run of selections and tactics and costs the club more money in finishing positions.  It reminds me rather of when Ron Saunders became overly fond of his rigid 4-4-2 system, or Mike Walker becoming fixated on the 3-5-2.  It''s all well and good to have a favourite but it should not blind you to alternatives.  I would like to see us go back to a solid 4-5-1 which offers both width and the extra midfielder to stifle more creative sides, but either way the narrow diamond must now be packed off to bed and replaced with something less predictable and easy to counter.  His halo is still in place but it will start to slip soon if he remains dogmatic and reluctant to change what we can all see needs changing.

     

    What say you?

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    Now my lovelies, I''ve scanned every league in the world this week looking for some fresh meat, and I have found you a right old beauty.

    http://uk.soccerway.com/national/paraguay/division-profesional/2012/regular-season/

    In the Paraguayan Professional League on Sunday at around 21:30 Paraguay time, which is obviously quite late over there in Blighty, as we used to call it, the top team Olimpia will beat the bottom team Tacaury.  My name is Bore Bore Bor, and I would not lie to you.

    x x x

     

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    Well what a lovely old mardle down Memory Lane.  That fair brings a tear to the eye, that does.  Now I''m not one for boasting or giving it what young people these days call "the large one" but I found footage of my first ever game here.  Norwich weren''t playing that day so my uncle Ernie and I hired a horse and trap and set off on Thursday.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UkVZZnrC4E&feature=player_embedded

    I didn''t enjoy it that much at the time as I was too close to the piano player who was both very loud and rubbish and didn''t change the music, even when goals were being scored.  Still, that''s all fields now.  Good times, good times.  Thank Goodness for Google.

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    Did I ever tell you old timers about the time I went to my first game on Boxing Day 1948, and paid at the gate with one of my mint-condition 1938 shillings?  There''s a story.  You see, back in those days, rich men would ride around in Zeppelins, dropping coins on people, and one day I seen J.D. Rockefeller flying by. So I run of the house with a big washtub which I''d used that very morning to wash my turkey, which in those days was known as a walking-bird. We''d always have walking-bird on Christmas Day, with all the trimmings: cranberries, injun eyes, yams stuffed with gunpowder. Then we all went to watch football, which in those days was called baseball. I forget the score, it was something-something to one side or the other, but I was hooked, I tell you, hooked!  Of course, thanks to Google I can relive these crazy days at my leisure but boy was it fun at the time.

     

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    [quote user="BroadstairsR"][quote user="First Wizard"]

    The late fifties, early sixties, you had proper footy, every tackle wasn''t a booking, diving was restricted to the swimming pool, crowds were huge and refs were honest, 2/6d would be your total outlay for the day, including train fare and your packet of rolo''s.

     

    In fact............bliss.

    [/quote]

     

    Nah! Proper football was when a hundred of us used to gather in a muddy street and kick an inflated pig''s bladder about for hours or until the first fatality. No need for namby-pamby referees in them days.

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    I went to my first game on Boxing Day 1948, and paid at the gate with one of my mint-condition 1938 shillings. You see, back in those days, rich men would ride around in Zeppelins, dropping coins on people, and one day I seen J.D. Rockefeller flying by. So I run of the house with a big washtub which I''d used that very morning to wash my turkey, which in those days was known as a walking-bird. We''d always have walking-bird on Christmas Day, with all the trimmings: cranberries, injun eyes, yams stuffed with gunpowder. Then we all went to watch football, which in those days was called baseball.  I forget the score, it was something-something to one side or the other, but I was hooked, I tell you, hooked!

  16. Posted

    [quote user="Mister Chops"][quote user="First Wizard"][quote user="super canary"][quote user="First Wizard"]

    [quote user="super canary"]jeepers...it really is like listening to a bunch of silly children...GROW UP the lot of you![/quote]

    ;

    Well said sir, but I will stick up for myself.

    [/quote] yep, no problem with sticking up for yourself...and infact i had no issue with your post...it was interesting...my post was more aimed at the other silly children who couldnt wait to shoot you down for no apparent reason.[/quote]

     

    Many thanks friend, I swear some posters reply like they do on here just because I wrote it, they sure as hell have never read what I''d written.

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    I think people are unduly quick to criticise you, Wiz.  They probably have read your previous offerings, and are unaware of the old phrase "past performance is not necessarily a guide to the future".

    On this occasion, you seem to have found a link to a dubious rumour and posted it here with a "probably not true" comment.  If you''d done that before, for example, I can see why people would criticise you for it.

    Some would call it attention seeking.  I''d say a sixty-something year old man would be beyond such things and would be making better use of his remaining time...

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     [:D] [:D] [:D]

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    [quote user="Mister Chops"]This would never happen, Emmerdale is pretty much a Championship standard soap opera with a poor squad of actors and a village that only holds 1,000 at best.  Paul Lambert might go to Coronation Street, possibly Eastenders, but I think Emmerdale would be a backwards step.
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    FFS Chops, I clearly said "load of nonsense IMO" in my original post.

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