Shoody

Unless we sign a really attacking left back

Its true, in a few years in terms of 'being able to bring in players' we could find ourselves 8th with

Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea, City, QPR, Spurs, Liverpool all ahead of us but Im not sure QPR will go on a spending spree, not sure their fanbase commands a top team presume they will be happy with midtable and securing their PL place for a good long while yet.

I really think we'll struggle if we dont make big improvements next season, if we cant fight it out for Europe next season Spurs and Liverpool will be another big step up for us, where as they are catchable if we improve vastly next season.

yes history books, but when you look at the last 10 years we only start to catch them up in terms of 'who finished higher than who' at around the start of last decade. In recent years they have finished higher than us (tight but 3-2 to them in the last 5 years) they have a much better squad than us (one of our best players this season is theirs) and have made more money that us this year as well as getting MUCH MUCH MUCH better worldwide press with which to entice players.

We on the other hand have a deficit of £40m to make up, a wage bill 10m more than theirs and a worse squad. History tells us we are very similar clubs, with us the more successful. The present tells us we are similar clubs but they are out performing us.

Delicate position financially? They were making £30m bids for strikers left right and centre at the end of January. Besides if they needed to make money they have £80m in Modric and Bale. Unsure we have £80m in our squad

Why are we even talking about this its pointless. Arsenal would never buy bent.

Spurs when 'Arry leaves, outside chance of Utd

2-1 WBA imo they are in too good-a form for us.

------------Friedel

Walker-Collins-Clark-Young

---------Petrov-Delph

Downing--------------Young

---------Heskey-Bent

Think they'll be in the market for two keepers then come June! Anybets they try and take both brads

If a bigger team wanted a poacher theyd go for Hernandez or Falcao and obviously Chicarito wont be leaving Utd any time soon

If he turns out to be good a lot of us will have apologies to make tbf though!

Any better realistic managers than these:

Moyes - Hasn't won a trophy with Everton despite being with them for so many years

Had little to no investment and finished consistently above us (bar one season). A great manager in the running for Fergie's job.

Coyle - Stubborn and got exposed against Stoke when it really mattered

Agree, has a lot to learn but clearly a very talented manager

McClaren - Been sacked from England and Wolfsburg. Clearly not good enough

Agree he's not good enough would be a deathwish but he was fantastic at Twente and there's a reason he got the England job.

Jol - Was outsmarted by McClaren in Dutch league

Overrated but a good manager, would take him if we had to, getting outsmarted by McClaren over one season is no reason to diss somebody though

Big Sam - Poor version of MON

He's shitter than that

Hughes - A draw specialist. Average

Agree

MacDonald - Better suited for reserves

Agree

Rafa - Would prefer not to have another EX Liverpool manager this time. Plus his gone downhill recently

would definitely take him, not first choice but theres a reason he's managed Liverpool and Inter would be very worried by his transfer record

Lambert - Untested in Premier League.

Agreed.

Odds mean nothing etc etc

However im a fan of those odds meaning we get Moyes

Shit game but not much we could do about it, shouldve taken NRC or Petrov off for Delph/Makoun/Pires to get the game moving with the amount of space we had. Heskey should've come off earlier. (but i disagree with the 1 given to heskey by bauer)

Happy with a point just not a great game.

Expected worse after we went 1-0 down.

Unbeaten in 4 aint bad though!

Darren, you are quality

Bad decision imo

Albrighton on Downing off

Great corner, nobody there

Whey

They're looking dangerous, GMac needs to tell Ash to push out to the left, he's drfiting into the middle.

Wigan 1 - 1 Sunderland

1-0 Wigan

Richard Dunne the attacking midfielder!?

According to SSN Walters wasn't offside for their offside goal, only Shawcross (who didnt impede play aparently) could be 2-1 to them

Our players' own fault we've gone down to early and easily about 6 times now and because of it we're gunna lose a penalty shout or something later.

Can we bring on Agbonlahor? Heskey is as threatening as an Easter chick.