Other Games - 2010/11 Season

[dave.woodhall]

If 'somebody' wasn't banned, he'd be asking "Where's Gillott Road"?

Where is it by the way, I'm doing some 'research'?

I'm popping over there tonight, with knife, to clean it up (FILTHY HARLOT STRUMPETS PARADING THEIR WANTON FLESH).
I'll pick you up on the way

Ok good, is there a cash point? I need to... er... buy a knife. Yes, that's it, a bloody big expensive knife. I think I'll have to draw about £80 out.

Just round the corner on Dudley Road.

[martyn ellis]

If you loook at the ‘run-in’, everyone now has nine or ten games to go. Of the current top six (I include Liverpool as they seem to be more like their old selves now), we have to play two (Arsenal and Liverpool, last two games of the season so let’s hope survival is all tied up by then). Of the other bottom ten, from the bottom upwards, it looks like this:
Wigan have to play two of them, Wolves have played all the top six twice already, Blues have to play two, West Ham four, WBA have four, Blackpool have four, Blackburn have three, Stoke have four, Fulham have three. The rest mostly appear to be dogfights between similarly threatened teams, all taking points off each other.
So if our home form at least can stand up against Wolves, Stoke, Newcastle and Wigan, we'll have ourselves to blame if we are still threatened come the last two Saturdays.
I know this is completely meaningless speculation, but just a bit of idle fun while the wife’s at the gym and the dinner’s on.

[The Left Side]

I thought the Blackburn game last weekend was must win and we did well in that, I think our home games will see us ok as long as the fans get behind the team but still it's too close for comfort.

[olaftab]

My best mate at university was from Cornwall, and quite wet behind the ears when it came to big city life.

His first job after graduating was up here, working for Toys R Us as a manager. He got himself a flat on Gillott Road before asking me about the area, and was most bemused to find prostitutes hanging around outside his front door most nights. Apparently you don't get much of that kind of thing in Truro.

Is that still the scene on Gillott Road?  A friend was asking not me I don't need to know....no not at all

[atomicjam]

My best mate at university was from Cornwall, and quite wet behind the ears when it came to big city life.

His first job after graduating was up here, working for Toys R Us as a manager. He got himself a flat on Gillott Road before asking me about the area, and was most bemused to find prostitutes hanging around outside his front door most nights. Apparently you don't get much of that kind of thing in Truro.

Is that still the scene on Gillott Road?  A friend was asking not me I don't need to know....no not at all

There is still an issue with prostitutes along that part of the Hagley Road. I know undercover Police were patrolling it last year. About 7 or so years ago I managed flats on Gillott Road and the street prostitutes (generally drug addicts and literally very cheap) used the communal hallway as a toilet. Monday mornings tended to be a bit nasty for the cleaners.

[PaulTheVillan]

Sign of the future....

[Louzie0]

I shared a flat with another student on Gillott Road some years ago - nice to know the standards are not slipping.

[dave.woodhall]

I thought they'd been drive out of that area, and indeed Birmingham.

[damon loves JT]

What - students?

[Louzie0]

I thought they'd been drive out of that area, and indeed Birmingham.

The students? 

not to worry I'm long gone! and the flatmate.  Although there might still be a bottle of milk on the shady corner of the window sill, outside the glass, first floor.

[atomicjam]

Balsall Heath rid its streets of this (prostitutes not students) but it has always been an issue around the Hagley Road. There are less street working woman now but some remain. The Police had an operation there last year to combat street prostitution.

[Nev]

I made the textbook mistake of pulling over to answer the phone in Gillott Road.

It was mid afternoon, broad daylight but it didn't stop one of the "toms" approaching my car dreaming of the next fix.

[LeeB]

I made the textbook mistake of pulling over to answer the phone in Gillott Road.

It was mid afternoon, broad daylight but it didn't stop one of the "toms" approaching my car dreaming of the next fix.

"Honestly, officer"

[richard moore]

If you loook at the ‘run-in’, everyone now has nine or ten games to go. Of the current top six (I include Liverpool as they seem to be more like their old selves now), we have to play two (Arsenal and Liverpool, last two games of the season so let’s hope survival is all tied up by then). Of the other bottom ten, from the bottom upwards, it looks like this:
Wigan have to play two of them, Wolves have played all the top six twice already, Blues have to play two, West Ham four, WBA have four, Blackpool have four, Blackburn have three, Stoke have four, Fulham have three. The rest mostly appear to be dogfights between similarly threatened teams, all taking points off each other.
So if our home form at least can stand up against Wolves, Stoke, Newcastle and Wigan, we'll have ourselves to blame if we are still threatened come the last two Saturdays.
I know this is completely meaningless speculation, but just a bit of idle fun while the wife’s at the gym and the dinner’s on.

Comforting thought isn't it until you remember Spurs results against the top teams last season in the run in which we all thought they would lose

Or West Ham's results against the odds when Tevez got them all those goals after looking dead certs to go down...

One can never tell how it will all pan out. Seen too many of these scenarios to ever predict it!

[martyn ellis]

One can never tell how it will all pan out. Seen too many of these scenarios to ever predict it!

Agree Richard. Hence my covering point about it all being meaningless speculation, but after all, what is 99% of punditry if it's not 99% meaningless speculation?