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my school was tough on it's pupils!
my point was more of a school report analogy rather than an actual time frame. he has played though a dozen+ or so games so not too far off the mark.

In three games he's scored 1 (2 if the Sunderland ref wasn't such a wank). That doesn't sound like a failing ratio. He's still scored more goals than Torres so far

Yeah, and Eggnog!

Well, I go away for a bit and I see the knee-jerk reactions (or is it just the jerks?) haven't gone away.

I assume that seeing Kenny Dalglish bench Carroll prior to us thrashing Bolton in much the same manner we thrashed Fulham and Birmingham last season IMPLIES Andy Carroll is rubbish. I'm not entirely certain how people reach such short-sighted conclusions.

Dalglish is much more practical than "I will play my best XI every week", when he has the strength in depth to actually choose a strategy against every opponent. That strategy failed against Sunderland and Arsenal for two reasons: the man of the match performance by our opponents happened to go to his marker in each game, and the referee disallowed goals he either scored or created in the false assumption that he must have fouled the opponent in the process (much like Suarez "diving" in the area against Bolton when he had been rugby tackled instead).

People also forget that the arrival of Suarez combined with a change of tactics blew Arsenal away, not just because Dalglish got it right (and they had ten men) but because their backs were already broken from having to out-jump Carroll for 70 minutes. I think some people continue to view our players and our tactics with a single eye, and calling for Carroll's head after 3 appearances in a season when he is almost at full fitness (having scored a goal in the process) is far more extreme than those of us who could see Uncle Roy was not fit to manage the club after 8 league games (2 shy of the tally he himself requested). Ironically, it's the same people who criticized the anti-Hodgson section of the crowd for being poor supporters who have always been on Carroll's case.

Pot: (to kettle) "You are black."

I never really have understood that Pot to Kettle joke.

? What do you mean? The pot and the kettle are both black, so the one remarking about the blackness of the other is either irony or stupidity.

Oh lol, thanks for that

No probs, mate. Comes from the old days of cooking over an open flame - been a long time since I last saw a black kettle, for example. lol.

You guys gearing up for the Rugby World Cup? Gonna be a cracker, but it sure is hard (especially for us Saffers) to look passed the All Blacks as winners. Better you than the Ozzies tho!

Haha definately, I despise the aussies no hard feelings Laz Its going to be great I hope, Goodluck for all teams but hopefully the ABS will pick up the trophy

I actually think the Aussies are a reasonable bunch, given that they make their limited talent pool go so far, so it's probably their commentators that turn everyone against them. Years of listening to Richie Benaut saying how every Aussie cricketer was brilliant but his dismissal "unlucky" (in every single game) kinda does that.