Chester40

A bit 'toys out the pram stuff' on here from a few tonight.

Until the last minute it was a standard recent performance. All very scruffy, but probably the slightly better team and nicking the result... then we balls it up.

Hopefully it's the kick up the backside we need because top 2 is on offer.

Wycombe are a horrible team. Niggley, time wasting and just launching it every single time they could. We played down to their level and way too many players were poor.

No disaster but a wasted chance to climb that table.

If you kick the ball away to stop the opposition breaking, I get its a yellow. Sibley could have stepped over the ball and it wouid have gone just as far away from them as it did. Never a yellow.

Hourihane and Bird were poor tackles. NML made minimal contact,  but was a lunge I suppose.  Collins, just needs a quiet word. 

Another scruffy first half. Wycombe just launching it. Derby passing it,  just slowly and badly. 

Derby on top but not creating much. Game there to be won.

#'She's got a ticket (downloaded to the app) to ride'.

As someone prone to saying 'It's the hope that kills you'..

I've remembered now there is also the flip side. Whereas I've been looking for positives, seeing how few points outside the top 6 were are etc...

I'm now looking at Bolton and Portsmouth's fixture list and thinking they both have the easiest run of games I've ever seen!! And that only 3 points will do today...or we can kiss goodbye to top 2.

NB even if we romp clear and are top with games to spare, I'd be mithering who's out of contract, that we can't compete with the Championship teams, that the new right back seems injury prone and once said he enjoyed scoring a goal against us... its just a thankless task isn't it, the life of a football fan! 

45 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

I'm pretty sure that was one of the techniques used in Guantanimo to break suspects.

I'm doing the same to my kids.

I constantly come up with ridiculous 'chants' for players that dont really work.

So far I've adapted 'Wooly Bully' for Willy Boly.

Adam Ant's 'Dog Eat Dog' for Udogie. (The chorus : dog eat  dog eat dog) sounds very similar.

And to Madness 'I like driving in a bra' for Saar. 

Edit : actually the Willy Bully song is awesome. We're all singing it now.

What an absolute cringe-fest Mull of Kintyre is.

Apparently Gene Kelly was a huge fan of the bad weather in Derby.

Sinfin in the rain..

I'll get my (rain) coat

16 hours ago, ketteringram said:

This was being discussed/reviewed on R5 today.

Both reviewers thought it was very funny. However, only one thought it was supposed to be funny. 

Did you think of it as a comedy?

'Very' funny is most definitely a stretch!

It's a drama really.  With interactions between individuals and group dynamics pushing against each other.  

With this ever present backdrop of 'something isn't right' gradually playing out.

Some films are just plain slow and boring, by accident.  This was purposely unrushed with lots of space to give you the chance to draw your own conclusions. 

The petty stuff that was happening seemed more important than whatever danger was impending. 

I mostly enjoyed it. The acting was great and it was well written, so it felt like a thriller but it kept reverting away from that. 

I can also see how on a Friday night when you're expecting a blockbuster it would feel quite limp.

Not quite sure I understand all the directorial decisions but I did find it engaging (although not very funny!).

Saw X

Hard to review really. I suppose it's a 'good' version of what you hope for. Or a particularly sick and gory version if it's not your thing.

Had an understandable and relatively engaging storyline for a Saw film.

All the clichés were there and the contraptions were especially horrifying. Some unwatchable for me. 

Gave me a headache almost,  but there's a hide 'behind the sofa' part of me that kinda was fascinated by it.

Not for the squeamish or anyone who didn't enjoy the others in the series. But a big improvement and closest to the first one in quality.

6 /10

3 minutes ago, sage said:

2 on 0 is correct.

 

If there had been one defender he'd have said its 2 on 1... so he consciously differentiated.

Its a bit like the 'debate' when you score after 4mins 30seconds..its the fifth minute.

Anyhow...the debate on here has definitely got a bit less heated since 6 games ago 🤣

5 minutes ago, IlsonDerby said:

Bored shitless of reading criticisms of Collins. Bloke puts absolutely everything into every game and he’s top goalscorer for the 5th best side in the division over the last 19 games so he obviously knows where the net is. 
 

Because he doesn’t have the technical ability of McG or Martin his efforts seem somewhat less impressive. 
 

Im telling you now McG missed plenty of chances last season - some a lot easier than those Collins missed yesterday. 

He had a decent game yesterday.  Playing much better recently in general. He did miss a very good chance but he's playing that role of a battering ram so much more effectively and confidently.

Seems like the plan wasnt working so well earlier in the season but now it is ie first half we seem to use him as a hard worker, winner of free kicks, bothering defenders etc. Second half we use the options to take the game more by the scruff of the neck.

Without NML - and now Wilson increasingly - I still think we will struggle to take that control though. Either JJ needs to be able to used more or we need more width/invention from the transfer window.

14 hours ago, ossieram said:

How does 3-0 flatter us?

It could quite easily have been 5 or 6.

As someone who took on a fair amount of criticism for arguing we weren't playing that badly a few weeks ago...I thought we were pretty poor first half tbh.

We constantly gave the ball away and were probably the scrappier of the two teams.

One moment of magic out of nowhere gave us the lead. Orient missed a couple of good chances and so did Collins. 

So imo we were fairly fortunate to be in the lead. A stupid red card really put them in the cart and a sweeping move a minute into the 2nd half suddenly gave us a comfortable situation.

I didn't think we shut them out as well as we could and they alnost got back into it.  They eventually tired and over committed and we then could have scored 4 or 5.

So a strange game really. We could have won even more easily but at times we played quite averagely and all the big moments went our way.

Just as a few weeks ago I was saying we weren't that bad, I'm saying yesterday we weren't that amazing. Little moments are going our way more and we are moving into a great position with more in the tank. 

We can play much better than yesterday - and probably will do and not win, that's football. 

Really bang average first half performance.... yet turning into a routine win at a canter with us never really out of 2nd gear.

The provisional league 1 table is looking surmountable isn't it... #hopethatkillsyou

Collins misses another Gazza style by not committing to the strike.

Fozzie spreading the ball like a prime Roberto Carlos.

Hate to say it and sound like some of the impossible to please fans..

But we've been pretty damn poor!! Yet we still could and should be 2 up if Collins could shoot on target from 15yards.

Come on....!!

Wilson slips his man and gives it Sibley who takes two steps and should spread it wide to Bird but drills it bottom corner from 25 yards instead.

String a few passes together and these are there for the taking. 3 big points. Maybe the bench will be crucial again.

Giving the ball away waaay too cheaply. Getting no cohesion or form. Need to settle.

Massive let off for Derby. Cashin commits himself and gets an unlucky bounce. Orient totally balls up the great chance.

Defensively we look half asleep. Poor start but Orient look equally suspect.

15 hours ago, B4’s Sister said:

Hi everyone, let’s spread a bit of Christmas cheer and show our Christmas trees and decorations. I’m not really feeling Christmas this year without Daniel, so I’ve only put the tree up and a few bits in the windows.  No bah humbugs allowed 🎄🎅🏻⭐️

Wow, some great baubles on that. 

I'd love to post a picture,  very rare I get asked. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get mine up this year....

On 05/12/2023 at 02:25, sage said:

My friend watched it and she hated it. Put me off it, will have a go now

Bonkers film. Posted on here at the time.

Absolutely 100 miles an hour, non-stop ideas, action,  humour, fun...

Very much one of a kind. Loved it.

Violent Night

Expected more from it. Was a bit of a strange mix really. Like Home Alone with lots of very strong expletives and too much gore for little kids.

Wish they'd gone one way or the other... properly made it adult with less silly slapstick humour and without the naff saccharine storyline or cut some of the swearing/sexual references and made it a proper kids film.

Not sure who the audience was but I was expected more thrills and less cheese. 

5 out of 10 

1 minute ago, Chester40 said:

I faced the same unbelievable lack of support for my Waghorn suggestion...

To the tune of oggy oggy oggy

# Waggy, Waggy, Waggy...

.#.score score score

Genius.

And don't get me started on my unfinished opus on James Collins to the tune of Wizard of Oz/Follow The Yellow Brick Road.

# Collo, Collo, Collo, Collo the fellow who scores on the road..