The Fergie X factor current market value c. 500milion quid. Give us the keys to the Emirates and we can talk.
Right, Town shirt on. Ticket in bag, along with food, drink and plenty of reading material. iPod charged, phone charged. Wit intact ready for impromptu terrace banter. M'off to Hartlepool! Wish us luck.
The Rugby World Cup starts in a few weeks... To anyone interested in watching rugby, this would be a great place to start. I started following rugby a couple years ago, and find it heaps better than the NFL or college football. New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, England, France and Wales are the top contenders in this sport. This year it's being hosted in New Zealand, first game Sept 9 - NZ vs Tonga
Watching preseason of The eagles and steelers! Anybody else? Hope you get to go Gigi, That'd be a blast!
My enthusiasm for the clash with Colchester is non-existent. After watching that tepid display at Hartlepool and hearing fans chanting 'you don't know what you're doing' at the bench I've lost a lot of my belief that we'll ever get out of this division, simply because the manager overreacts to criticism and certain sections of the support don't get that they need to get behind the team and not moan when a pass goes astray. Fortunately, Anton Robinson and Damien Johnson are fit again. With those two in midfield I expect we'll be a far more dynamic unit.
A five-goal thriller at the Galpharm this afternoon. Town edged it 3-2 thanks to three goals of the highest order. However, our defending was, at times, shambolic, with both their goals coming as a result of appalling defending. One was from a long ball that should have been cut out, a second from our winger not tracking back. Town took the lead after three minutes, Jack Hunt getting down the wing and pulling it back to Jordan Rhodes, who opened his account for the season with a shot on the turn. Colchester levelled within a minute: one long ball over, defender out of place, Kayode Odejayi slotting home. And on 28 minutes, they took the lead. They got a controversial free-kick, took it quickly, and with Gary Roberts dithering 40 yards downfield the ball came in for Antonio to head home. We made a change at half-time, Danny Ward coming on for Gary Roberts. The injection of pace and tricky wingplay came off: Ward terrified the Colchester defence, who backed off him at every opportunity. But it was Jordan Rhodes who equalised, and what a beauty of a goal it was. Town's number 17 got the ball 30 yards out, turned, and, with four defenders closing him down, fired in a vicious, dipping shot which beat the keeper and sent the Galpharm into raptures. And within 5 minutes Town re-took the lead. Donal McDermott's intelligent ball through found Lee Novak, who lifted it over the advancing keeper for his fourth goal of the season. Huddersfield Town 3-2 Colchester United.
Raiders picked up Terrelle Pryor in the supplemental draft, at the cost of next year's 3rd round pick. Considering I expected them to spend a first round pick on Pryor, I consider this move nothing less than a triumph. I am legit excited to have him, he has incredible potential.
Town are playing Cardiff City in the Carling Cup tonight. I'm not going. It's in Cardiff, for one thing, and for another it's the Carling Cup, we'll be playing a load of reserves and I don't want my nerves tested. And my nerves really are being tested. 2-0 down, pulled it back to 2-2, and now Cardiff are pulling out the players who got them to within a gnat's whisker of the top flight last season. And Kenny Miller.
This is the best I can remember the Crew being since '08. Everything seems to be going right, and nothing wrong. I'd love to win the division and get into the playoffs, of course -- and if we do what we've been doing thus far, we have a good chance.
Town v Wycombe. Last time this fixture was played (November 2009) Town walloped their visitors from Buckinghamshire 6-0 in a game played before the Sky TV cameras. Had we taken our chances that day, we'd have won 15-0, and not by a 'paltry' six. Looks like captain Peter Clarke is out, though.
Town 3-0 Wycombe. Got to be honest, Wycombe aren't very good. Not going forward, anyway. I don't think they actually got into our penalty area at any point. Defensively they were stubborn until Alan Lee came off the subs bench. Lee signed at the start of last season - and then went 26 games without scoring his maiden goal for the club. Which he finally notched against Arsenal in the Cup. Then he got a brace against Carlisle in the JPT. But his run of games in the League without scoring for Town stood at 29... until his first touch after coming on looped over the goalkeeper and into the net. Ten minutes later, another header - this time a bullet from a Jack Hunt cross - made it two. Gary Roberts wrapped up the win with a free-kick in the last ten minutes, but it was Alan Lee's day.
Sounders won 6-2 today It was such a fun game to go to! Everyone played so well, and it was great to see Neagle get the hat trick. I loved seeing all of Fucito's hard work finally culminate in his first goal of the season off of that fantastic cross from Riley. He's had it coming for a long time. Going to that game was a great way to spend my afternoon.
Milwaukee 10 and a half up on St. Louis, leading the division, and on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week.... amazing. And we play St. Louis next.
