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We've got a few at the moment.  Anyone know when people are expected back? 

Troy AH
Gary Roberts
Ritchie
Collins

Personally I reckon they're all pretty important 1st team players.  I know we have the squad that should be able to cope without them but Id quite like to see a strong defence of Macca and TAH with Roberts and Ritchie pinging balls into Collins and Williams.

We do seem to have a few too many. I hope it's just bad luck.

Collins is injured?  It's an international weekend - is he not on duty!!

Rib injury, not gone with them.

Secret beatings dished out to any dissidents who fall out with PDC in the "punishment block" hidden in a secret unlit basement under the mysterious hidden concourse in the South Stand. If you listen carefully on a matchday, you can just about hear the screams.

Or it could be the tannoy playing up again

Sounded like Collins & Ritchie should be available for Sat

From the sounds of the screams?

But seriously and beyond the hilarious comedy Pauld has bought to proceedings (welcome back Paul anyway) does anyone actually know whether Troy AH and Gary Roberts are back in training.

I was impressed by both in pre season and would really like to see how we go with them back.

I find that the injuries in the squad aren't reported very well by the adver. Maybe this is done purposely but it would be good to know that Matt Ritchie was out with a hammy etc, it all seems to be pretty quiet.

DV will know, he seems to stalk them in the gym.

I've got a vision of him hiding in the bushes in an STFC anorak and a pair of binoculars.

He loves a Gym name drop, don't he?!

I'm sure SY will be along here with his satchell of GIFs soon.

In his absence...

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There arent any bushes inside the gym? that would be pretty ridiculous and make no sense.

A cheese plant perhaps?

I don't know, a lot of indoor places have either real or fake plants.

Our office, for example, has fake plants scattered about. Why? I have absolutely no idea!

For hiding in

There are a lot of ladies who would disagree with that!!

Aha!  :sherlock:

What, there are DV bushes?

Manager Paolo Di Canio expects James Collins to be available for Saturday's home game with Leyton Orient #STFC

The manager is waiting on the fitness of wingers Gary Roberts and Matt Ritchie as he looks to extend his options out wide #STFC

I thought Collins was off with Ireland U21s

Just in case this hasnt been mentioned before, no hes not.  He had a slight rib injury.

But if he's fit I thought this weekend he would be needed by Ireland U21s

Or maybe it's not this weekend he's been called up for

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on a serious note, heavier training is likely to cause the odd injury and is probably just an unfortunate effect of our increased fitness

or something

Ive written rib injury 4 times on this bloody forum.

Anyway.  U21's play tonight.  I'm guessing he wasn't deemed fit enough to train with their squad for a game tonight and thus he was allowed to stay with us.  In the interim period his injury has lessened, probably enough for a light session today and a full session tomorrow therefore he can take his place in the town team on Saturday if his services are called upon.

Perhaps if he is fit he will then have to travel after the games to join the U21 squad in Italy for the game on the 10th. 

Has that cleared that up?

I realised he had a rib injury - I just didn't know when he was needed for Ireland U21s

Coke has a groin injury according to the beeb.

I beleive when a player is called up for an international match the players fitness is judged at the squad get together stage normally so even if there is a chance the player could be fit in time for the game they don't often call them up in case the injury worsenes leaving their relative club physios to do the job rather than the internatinal physio.

This is more relevant in the U21s and U19 rather than the full national side, and then only if the player is considered as an important member of the team at full international level e.g Rooney for England would he be allowed to join the squad while carrying an injury.

Think Paolos tough pre season means we probably pick up more minor injuries at the start of the season as opposed to throughout.

An update from Adver

Sam Morshead ‏@SamMorshead_SA

@KeithC43 Ritchie and Arch-Hen returns imminent, though PDC did not say exactly what that means. Collins back for Sat. Roberts maybe 10 days

Good news. That's a quarter of our team that I would say are permanent fixtures

Anyone know what type of injury Collins has?

Thought it was under 21's this weekend...

Not sure.  Don't know how long he will be out either.  I've heard rumors on here that it's an ingrowing toe nail.  There's chance he could be back Saturday though which is good.

AAAAARGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!  You're joking right?

As I said in my previous post


'Ive written rib injury 4 times on this bloody forum.

Anyway.  U21's play tonight.  I'm guessing he wasn't deemed fit enough to train with their squad for a game tonight and thus he was allowed to stay with us.  In the interim period his injury has lessened, probably enough for a light session today and a full session tomorrow therefore he can take his place in the town team on Saturday if his services are called upon.

Perhaps if he is fit he will then have to travel after the games to join the U21 squad in Italy for the game on the 10th'

Has that cleared that up?

Whooooosh.

Ah, now I was wondering if that was what was going on, but as Im a right grumpy cunt today I bit.  Sorry.  How dare I.  Especially to a sir.  Who may be an ex sir soon.

I can feel my knighthood slipping away from me.

Lets hope we can return to winning ways soon.

Its a surprise you've held on this long son!

sir_fittons_coaching_badge

I like it ...

Yeah buck up or you'll be put on divoting duties and I'll take over MTD's

It's MDT's ... MDT's!

MDTs...it's MDTs.

So is Collins available or is he injured?

Is he injured?  I thought he was on international duty?

Tonight, I have decided not to bite.

I think we need a ruling from nev on this.

Does anybody have any idea how long Roberts is out for? I've been looking forward to seeing him play.

Well,if it's Match Day Thread  it should be MDT.If it's Matchday (and that doesn't exist in my dictionary) it would of course be MT.

I expect everyone knew that though.

The confusion was whether or not an apostrophe was needed.

With 'MDTs' in this instance being a plural rather than possessive, no apostrophe is needed. A+ for Donkey, WTRRA.... B-, must do better.

Oh, and @macphlea got it all horribly wrong. Lines after class.

How the fuck is Neville some sort of authority on English? He can't even use punctuation correctly. The thick cunt.

You can fool some of the people,all of the time....

You won't fall anybody if you don't start putting spaces after commas. ;)

you're a fall

Ha ha. What a cunt I am.

Your all cunts

Its

You are all cunts.

Or you're all cunts.

Get it right.

Cunt.

*It's.

Fuck me the grammer Nazi's are out in force today.  :D

:D

*Nazis

:D

Corrected by the bloke who can't even put capital letters and spaces in his own name...

Nowt wrong with that!

Sorry, had to be done :)
It's a fair cop!

Corrected by the bloke who uses a superfluous ellipsis.

*elipses.

*ellipsis.

elipses is plural for elipsis.

He used three. Which would mean there are two extra, hence the plural. (And just to be more picky, they aren't superfluous anyway)  ;D

I know it is. I was trying to be humourous, while at the same time hoping some thick cunt would correct me. Congratulations, you win the honour of being recognised as Fuckwit in Chief.

humorous

This could be a long night.

Ok, that was me being a thick cunt.

He was too excited by seeing the word Nazi

*ellipsis. Note the spelling. And being picky, it means 3 dots so no plural required.  :D

Second time I've been a dumb cunt in the same thread.  :suicide:

To be fair, I think we all look like thick cunts at the moment, but I'm happy to be cunt in chief if you are willing to relinquish the title.

No. I've worked too hard for it. You can be deputy cunts in chief.

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 :D :D

If I work hard can I have it after you've retired?

I love it when a plan comes together.


Deputy cunt in chief ... it's deputy cunt in chief.

Cantyou read? I've already stated your all cunts.

*you're

Clearly, I'm making up for all the spaces I've put before question and exclamation marks, in the past.

Talking of spaces ...

And it all started with Neville....he has created a grammar monster

Back to the matter in hand, Moorhead is reporting on twatter that Roberts, Coke and Navarro are all out this weekend. Surely forces PDC to use Ferry and Miller as his midfield pairing. Which makes me happy. I might also go for Bostock behind 1 man up front. This is getting dangerously close to talking about football for which I apologise. Cunt bollocks, how do I tie my shoes? Has anyone ever breathed and can they give me advice on it, you used a lower case when you should have used upper, random fish pun. There. I think we're back on track now.

almost.

here's an unrelated image

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and a mention of Norway

Thanks Sonic.  I would have added that but thought Id leave it to the expert.

did you know that the paperclip is a Norwegian invention?

I have no way to respond to that.  Pehaps, erm, congratulations?

Why are you congratulating him? I think you're confusing someone who wants to be Norwegian with someone who actually is Norwegian.

I've heard of Anglophiles, what's the Norwegian equivalent ?

sonicyouth

Norway is over-rated Sweden is much better.  ;)

Sonic!  There's a Norwegian comedian on BBC at the moment.

He's not very good and he hasn't done anything with paperclips.

yeah. that was pretty shit.

Whilst we're talking about Norway here's a useless fact, Christopher Heyerdahl is half Norwegian and half Scottish.

We thought he was alright! not amazing, but not shit!