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How did Heitinga not get a **** yellow there?

....HuttonCollinsDunneGivenWarnockAlbrightonClarkPetrovGabby.... ...........................................Bent................................................

....HuttonCollinsDunneGivenWarnockAlbrightonClarkPetrovGabby.... ...........................................Bent................................................

I'm honestly not being a misery guts but I think it'll be 1-0 Everton.

Agree CI.

he is more devastating up front.... Terry and Luiz shat their pants when he played up front against them and them Mcleish sticks him on the wing in the next match after...go figure.... with his pace and running in the channels he stretches defenders and helps to pin the opposition back... on the wing he spends 60% of the game in his own half tracking the opponents winger and we pass the ball to him hoping he can kick it past their full back and put in a low cross..... thats not his game and never will be he belongs up front and i hope to god its ireland on the wing today I agree. I like Gabby up front with Bent and Zog on the left. That's how we played against Bolton and it gave Gabby freedom to drift out left higher up the pitch when he wanted and also Zog drifted inside too. Worked great. Sure enough we don't play like that anymore. What a genius AML is. Ireland is NOT a winger and needs to played as an attacking mid.

Given back in is great news. I think Guzan is pretty average and Given has arguably been our best player this season (along with Gabby). Cuellar out. What the ****? Guess McShitey doesn't learn. If he's on the bench then I assume he's fit to play. Real real shame that. I predict the usual snorefest.

Lovel lovely goal.

I hope Ireland cements his place now.

The best supporters are at the match. The worst supporters are on the internet posting lots of hilariously sarcastic posts on an internet forum. so cause I can't get to the match or afford it, I'm a worse fan? Depends if you're posting hilariously sarcastic posts over and over again. I don't think you understand your previous point.

The best supporters are at the match. The worst supporters are on the internet posting lots of hilariously sarcastic posts on an internet forum. so cause I can't get to the match or afford it, I'm a worse fan?

Great ball Stan. Great finish.

Obviously. You want us to pass it out? stupid.

We should definitely win this, but we need to score soon. The longer it goes on, the more nervy the game will get.

i don't see any blind pessimism? I see honest comments. We are genuinely playing shit. People are saying that cause they can see that. If there was any optimism then people would comment. (Good head by Heskey there).....

Blind faith is just detrimental though. If it is plain to see that we're already playing poorly then fans have every right to say.

A very shit start.... Long way to go though.

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some good football without Bent? passing it square and backwards in the middle of the pitch a bit more than we had in the few games before doesnt make good football. we still hardly created anything or looked like scoring. games we have played without Bent QPR 1-1 poor performance could only score with a soft penalty Liverpool 0-2 rubbish, never looked like scoring Arsenal 1-2 only scored with a gift from arsenal, only other effort on goal was gabbys header early on. stoke 0-0 dull, boring game, made their keeper work just once chelsea, the only game you could call good. 1-1 when he came on, finished 3-1 to us. just like the gabby "has no football brain, is an athlete not a footballer" myth that we had a few seasons back, it seems we now have the Bent just stands there waiting for the ball myth. im not going to claim his hold up play is great, but it is adequate, and he clearly worked on it under houllier. get the ball to his feet and get some support quick and it is fine. smash the ball at his head while he has 2 cbs marking him and no support and hes never going to hold it up. he is not physically big and strong enough. i have no idea what style of football we play, and it looks like the players have no idea either. we could do we getting bent the ball in the final third with some regularity, let alone the 6 yard box. the same goes for gabby. we spent most of monday punting aimless balls up to them, or having them watch as deep booming crosses sail over their heads. mind you, its not a surprise Mcleish is killing our strikers. last season blues scored just 37 league goals. their top scorer was craig gardner with 8. defenders accounted for another 8. phillips, jerome, zigic, o'connor, derbyshire, martins and mcfadden scored just 9 league goals combined. i know most of them are shit, but you should still be able to get more than 9 goals out of all of them. pretty clear mcleishs tactics were to play negative anti football and hope gardner could score a screamer or they could nick 1 from a set piece. he has no idea how to utilise decent attacking players. blues couldnt score enough due to him and went down because of it. we are having the same troubles in scoring. hopefully its not the same result This is a brilliant post and contains everything anyone with any doubts can't seem to understand. Also, why on earth are people starting to argue about who they would keep out of Gabby and Bent?? So unnecessary! Everyone needs to calm down. Unfortunately the board and current manager have created such paranoia around this club that people are starting to question which limbs we need to cut off when we don't even need to. Christ.

Today was a new low. No one can argue that he can't do much with the players he has. It is now 99% his incompetence that is **** this team up on the pitch. Look at the game: A) He took off Ireland........ wow.......just WOW. He waited until the 85th to make an attacking substitution. C) He did NOTHING at half time to change things. He is someone who is VERY VERY bad at this job and now indefensible against criticism.

Andy Marshall anyone?

84 minutes. 0-2. And NOW he brings on Bannan?

Yet again a game with no clear cut chances. Have we forced a save yet?

Probably because we don't have a clue how to get the ball to him? He had plenty of the ball in the first half, in Swansea's third too, but he's allergic to buildup play of course. We knew that when we bought him. He's a finisher. A fox in the box.

Probably because we don't have a clue how to get the ball to him?