Should we give up?

[Fierce]

I'd sooner spend a year in Grimsby punching myself in the face.

To be fair there's not much else to do in Grimsby



IF Gerrard and/or Torres do need surgery, then I would think the club will time it to coincide with our easiest run of games. Plus its only 2 months till the next transfer window, if we're looking like being without either of them around that time it would be suicide for the owners not to make funds available. Wouldn't it?

[The Erectile Banana]

To be fair there's not much else to do in Grimsby



IF Gerrard and/or Torres do need surgery, then I would think the club will time it to coincide with our easiest run of games. Plus its only 2 months till the next transfer window, if we're looking like being without either of them around that time it would be suicide for the owners not to make funds available. Wouldn't it?

I really don't think we'll have any money to spend in the transfer window without sales even if both Torres and Gerrard get ruled out for the entire season. The Yanks are up to their eyeballs. They can't just magic funds from nowhere.

[Shaggy]

To be fair you wouldn't need to punch yourself in the face in Grimsby, there's plenty of people who'd do it for you. My old man's mate (in his 60s) went there with his son last season to watch a League 2 game and got his head kicked in near the ground

[Exiled_red]

To be fair there's not much else to do in Grimsby



IF Gerrard and/or Torres do need surgery, then I would think the club will time it to coincide with our easiest run of games. Plus its only 2 months till the next transfer window, if we're looking like being without either of them around that time it would be suicide for the owners not to make funds available. Wouldn't it?

Yeah I've been there a few times

[pondus]

GIVE UP?

There are far more productive ways to attack the problem. How about a new nickname? "The deadly serial killers with no compassion" for example.

From the Mirror:

If football clubs want to get ahead, they need to get a better nickname

By David Anderson


Bradford Bulls

What do Luton, Bradford, Charlton, Southampton and Norwich all have in common?

They are all former top-flight clubs with embarrassing nicknames who have tumbled down the divisions.

Coincidence? I think not.

Take Luton. Just how much fear do you strike in your opponents when you're called the Hatters?

Worse still, some of their fans used to wear straw boaters to matches, which really must have terrified the opposition.

The Bantams, the Addicks, the Saints, the Canaries - all rubbish nicknames.

And what about the Robins? How can one of the true sleeping giants of the English game ever wake from their Rip Van Winkle state when they have such a cute and fluffy name?

When I was young, the Robins was the name given to the kiddies in the youth organisation the Boys' Brigade, whose motto was the blood-curdling 'The Robins are always cheerful'.

Look at Peterborough - rival fans must quiver in fear at the prospect of facing Posh.

Let's be honest, the only person scared of Posh is David Beckham.

To back up my half-baked theory, look at the top of the Premier League and you've got the Red Devils and the Gunners slugging it out for the title.

Those are proper nicknames, suggesting evilness, warfare and wickedness - things sure to put the willies up your rivals.

I think the likes of Bradford and Charlton should take a leaf out of rugby's book and try a bit of rebranding.

We've got the Wigan Warriors, the Bradford Bulls, the Widnes Vikings, the Leeds Rhinos, the Leicester Tigers and the Sale Sharks.

All nasty, in-your-face nicknames, which straight away let their opponents know they are in for a real battle.

Football clubs could take this a step further and perhaps Charlton could be nicknamed the sure-to-eat-you-alive Great Whites and Southampton the even-more-spiteful-than-that-Orca-who-ate Richard Harris Orca Killer Whales.

Liverpool could do with a lift at the moment and perhaps they should ditch their plain-old Reds and go for something like the Ninja SAS licensed to kill Warriors.

Certainly, the way Rafa Benitez's side are playing, it may be worth a go.

[little dave hedgehog]

why is everyone insane in this thread? :roll eyes:

[pondus]

why is everyone insane in this thread? :roll eyes:

Maybe because it is an insane thread? Just look at the title

[little dave hedgehog]

honestly....

[Ryan_Derrick]

Should we have given up at 20:30 25/05/05 ?