His Royal Dryness, The Duke of Cork

Our last evening in Les Gets.  7 days of excellent skiing, despite the lack of snow fall.  Conditions in places were very icy, but we managed to get some good skiing in.  Big thanks to Geoff who let us stay in his Les Gets apartment (La Soulane)  and who is also excellent company (and we hope we are good company for him too). The week's skiing the pictures can be viewed on my Picasa album ( http://picasaweb.google.com/DukeOfCork/ ) and the trails (with pictures) can be found on my everytrail profile ( http://www.everytrail.com/profile.php?user_id=30685 ) A fair old drive home tomorrow looms, but hopefully we will get home smoothly and safely.

A couple of things have sprung to mind.  I'm sat listening to the radio and it's nil nil.  In a relegation battle, a point away from home is always welcome.  There's also a chance you might nick a goal. In the last few months, the Blades have struggled with injuries.  A little while ago we had one fit striker - Ched Evans.  The same week Billy Sharp was injured or suspended for Donny and would be missing for a few games.  Even though they have other strikers, they got David Healy on loan.  He did well for them, I wondered why we didn't have a sniff around. In defence, we've struggled all season.  We've struggled all last season too.  In particular we missed the two Kyles.  We got one back on loan, which was a good move, but since then, both have been on loan to different places, but not Bramall Lane.  Walker scoring against us just rubbed salt into that wound. Still struggling for a centre back/left back type of player a watch...

Not the greatest game ever, and I decided in the second half that I wasn't going to bother with the Villa game. Blades played quite well first half, without really creating any clear-cut chances.  Once Donny had gone down to ten men, I thought we would be OK, but Donny grew in confidence and walked past our defence a few times before finally scoring, then converting the penalty.  At two nil down, against ten men I have to say I didn't believe we could get anything. It's a frustrating time being a Blade.  They came back brilliantly, to be fair and the players looked elated by the result.  Hopefully it will inspire them to perform better and we can stave off relegation.  It was nice to see the youngsters on the bench and have a run out. Kozzy (Crab Eyes) was on the radio saying how his kids didn't believe he was a footballer because he was always sat on the bench.  They thought that was his season ticket.  He said that because the postman had tweak...