At a loose end, so went down last night with a couple of mates. Barton 
looked eager, to say the least (thought he was going to go a bit far 
occasionally), Shola was decent, Martins looked bored and Owen still not 
sharp, but the whole team seemed to gel a bit better, even with what seemed 
to be about 376 substitutions (some of them looked like children and all. 
Or maybe I'm getting old). Can't tell much from a friendly I suppose, 
especially against a lower league team, but I'm mildly optimistic. Good 
chant about Shepherd going down too.
 
Hartlepool is still a dump by the way. Went for a pint first in some bar my 
mate said was OK - well, it would have been OK in 1992, last time he went. 
Problem was, they obviously decided never to clean it again till he came 
back. Bumped into the only bloke I know from Hartlepool on the way back to 
he car too, which was weird.

"Devoto"  wrote in message 
news:Xns997174AB21B65devotoblueyonderc@195.188.240.200...
> At a loose end, so went down last night with a couple of mates. Barton
> looked eager, to say the least (thought he was going to go a bit far
> occasionally), Shola was decent, Martins looked bored and Owen still not
> sharp, but the whole team seemed to gel a bit better, even with what 
> seemed
> to be about 376 substitutions (some of them looked like children and all.
> Or maybe I'm getting old). Can't tell much from a friendly I suppose,
> especially against a lower league team, but I'm mildly optimistic. Good
> chant about Shepherd going down too.
>
> Hartlepool is still a dump by the way. Went for a pint first in some bar 
> my
> mate said was OK - well, it would have been OK in 1992, last time he went.
> Problem was, they obviously decided never to clean it again till he came
> back. Bumped into the only bloke I know from Hartlepool on the way back to
> he car too, which was weird.


HEHEHE get used to Barton going to far, he's a fucking liability mate( good 
at times but you always wonder when his head will go)

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:36:18 GMT, "goaty"  wrote:

>
>"Devoto"  wrote in message 
>news:Xns997174AB21B65devotoblueyonderc@195.188.240.200...
>> At a loose end, so went down last night with a couple of mates. Barton
>> looked eager, to say the least (thought he was going to go a bit far
>> occasionally), Shola was decent, Martins looked bored and Owen still not
>> sharp, but the whole team seemed to gel a bit better, even with what 
>> seemed
>> to be about 376 substitutions (some of them looked like children and all.
>> Or maybe I'm getting old). Can't tell much from a friendly I suppose,
>> especially against a lower league team, but I'm mildly optimistic. Good
>> chant about Shepherd going down too.
>>
>> Hartlepool is still a dump by the way. Went for a pint first in some bar 
>> my
>> mate said was OK - well, it would have been OK in 1992, last time he went.
>> Problem was, they obviously decided never to clean it again till he came
>> back. Bumped into the only bloke I know from Hartlepool on the way back to
>> he car too, which was weird.
>
>
>HEHEHE get used to Barton going to far, he's a fucking liability mate( good 
>at times but you always wonder when his head will go) 
>
well yes, but then parker wasn't shy when it came to yellow cards
either, so doubt there'll be much difference.

it's when he goes too far off the pitch i'm worried about, have to
hope alardyce can sort that out.
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