Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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Although it's great that Charlton are on the slide from our point of view, I like Chris Powell and wish him the best in management.... just not this season.
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Dick Knights Mumm
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Seconded. He seems a good man.
Not yet, there's still the tedious matter of picking up the necessary points and a few more 1-0 wins will have to be ground out. I won't be claiming we're going up as champions until it's mathematically certain as one of our rivals might show a bit of consistent form - but we ARE going up. If this were a match we're the equivalent of being 3-0 up with about 25 minutes to play.
Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
Now that analogy has me worried. This is the Albion we are talking about.
My brother was at the Hawthorns against West Ham a couple of weeks back. At half time and 3-0 up the consensus among the WBA faithful was that they could maybe get a draw.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Interesting type of analogy.
We're 6 points clear of 3rd - effectively 7 points when you take the GD into account, and we have 15 games remaining.
I'm quite confident, but not quite as confident as you are. I'd say that puts us 2-0 up with 35 minutes to go, against 10 men.
fataddick
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Carlisle were nothing special. We were woeful, as we have been for the whole Chris Powell era so far (winning his first four games was largely down to lucky refereeing decisions rather than our performances). Mind you I'd rather have a quite respectful manager like him than whoever Carlisle's manager is. He responded to heckles from twats in the stands with wanker gestures and even threw a water bottle at a disabled woman at one point. Try winding him up on Saturday - if your voices can carry across the running track - it's be worth it for the reaction.
fataddick
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In other news, we are reinstating our subsidised coach to the Valley from Eastbourne and Hailsham from this Saturday (it stopped running a couple of years ago). No explanation as to why, but the cynic in me suspects the club is bricking it that some Premier League era johnny-come-latelys (at heart, neutrals) might find decent football and Falmer more of a draw than dire third division hoofball in a three-quarters empty Valley 
When? I was directly behind him (about 15 rows back) and didn't see any of that. It's entirely possible I was just oblivious - it's been known to happen before - but I'm more than a little surprised to see that written here...
fataddick
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Was all in that brief period when we were winning. I was directly behind him 5 rows back (and all the seats directly below me were empty) so had a good view of his antics. He had a water bottle in his hand that he angrily tossed towards the ground at a refereeing decision and it hit - not hard - a disabled woman's legs and/or wheelchair close by (disabled seating in front of the stand between the dugouts). It was obviously accidental and he did apologise profusely to her, twice. I deliberately bought my season ticket where I did 'cause watching the oppo manager is usually more entertaining than watching the game.
Ok - but there's two others on a yellow, they've no subs left and they've taken off the two forwards and the attacking midfielder.
Fair enough - there was a guy about 10 rows in front of me giving a hell of a rant towards the directors near the end - not you, was it?!
True about watching the oppo manager though - more entertaining than Powell though, who seemed to literally stand like a statue in the technical area, hands in pockets, for the entire 90 minutes...