It seems that Sadfish & myself chose the wrong time of year to go away on holiday, not that we went together you understand - Fishy was off in Canada looking at elk & beaver, while I was in sunny Ibiza looking at beaver too!
It was the wrong time to go, because the page left on view (for 3 weeks) gave Chris Smith such a bollocking and worse still - compared him with Danny Arnold. And what does he do - but go and score a couple of hat-tricks just to make me look stupid (but that's ok because my barber beat him to it).
Or another way of looking at it, is that he checked out this page and thought to himself, "Right, I'll show the fat get". Either way - well done Chris on proving us all wrong - keep it up and I promise to leave you alone for the rest of the season.
Today's game was an expected result against a struggling Salford side, but it was great to see a clean sheet, which I'm sure will keep Ellery happy for a while. Salford never really looked like scoring but had a couple of 'purple patches' in the opening and closing 10 minutes of the game - the words "score couldn't and brothel" spring to mind here.
Good to see Joynty back to his best again making numerous breaks and tackling anything that moved, and although he was my Man of the Match, I was surprised that he actually got the vote at the end of the game, because normally if anyone scores a hat-trick the vote usually goes their way - so try for 4 next time Chris - it's just not bloody good enough.
Salford fans turned up in numbers for today's game, 36 to be precise, and still outsung us in spells. It seemed that the catalyst for their vocal efforts today was when Kieron lost the ball over the line, after that happened - they just wouldn't shut up, and the language they were using was disgusting - the foul mouthed bastards.
It was also a disappointing turnout at the Black Bull today, with just me, Sadfish and Oval Balls (where were you all ??) A special mention though for Oval Balls who was sporting his 'new' Saints tracksuit and looked absolutely 'stunning' - the white jacket matching the hairs on his head. With the next home game being against the pies - I wonder if they might fancy meeting up in the Black Bull before the game for a pint - if they do - I'll see y'all in the Bird in th' Hand in a couple of weeks.
ARSE OF THE WEEK
Has to go to Kieron Cunningham this week for his monumental blunder dropping the ball behind the sticks for a score that would have got us over the 50. I could see the logic in his method though, with Longy being off the pitch and Tommy just missing a kick a few minutes earlier that my Mum would've got - he was trying to get an even easier position for the conversion - still, at least it gave the 35 (one was at the toilets) Salford fans something to cheer.
