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Have to say, why the Eck do we stick Collins up front for the last few minutes when we have someone playing in centre mid who was an England centre forward, pathetic.

Bring Heskey on -> start lumping it forward. Not ideal, but understandable. Except Heskey's playing centre mid and seeing the ball sail over his head, where our two strikers (not tall) lose every ball to Olsson (tall).

Down to 10 men? Try not to lose the midfield. What happens? We end up with Petrov basically in their on his own against the entire WBA midfield, as Heskey doesn't have the positional sense to play centre mid (which is understandable, he's never played there before McLeish had his Eureka moment this season).

There was no Plan A when we went down to 10 men, let alone a Plan B. To be honest, there rarely seems a Plan A when we have 11 men.

Wouldn't make too much difference given the Lower North is always stood up anyway, but this has been too long in the offing. Germany have shown for years that this is a viable option and I'm surprised it's taken this long for it to even be discussed.

I would renew even if we got relegated with chris houghton!

But i will NOT renew if we manage to stay up with Empty Head!

Infact i would rather set my own hair on fire and put it out with a sledge hammer!

Please do, preferably soon

:bonk:

So now enough is enough, If GH is still in charge next season i will not be renewing. Myself and many others i know will be withdrawing all financial support!

Ok, bye then.

I trust/hope you'll not be posting here anymore too

just remember, when record transfer fees were less than 10m - we were buying Dean Saunders for 7m, Atksinson for 6m, then Angel for 9.5m

Ellis spent money to - in fact I think he gave JG nearly 80m - and that was 10 yrs ago thats the equivelant of about 300m now !

We have access to someone at the club as senior as General Krulak and he has to read drivel like that?

I am embarrassed for you

Well there's £60 odd I won't ever get back, what an awful game of football.

Ratings wise, everyone gets a 5 - average, with the exception of:

Petrov: 6 - for, as ever, being there to cover where others should've been

Collins: 8 - imperious defensive display

It's been a while, but here we go.

Friedel: 7 - couldn't have stopped either goal and made 1 great save

Cuellar: 5 - defensively ok-ish, but we need more from him going forward, which frankly we're not going to get

Warnock: 4 - didn't get to grips with Valencia, not much of a threat going forward

Dunne: 5 - crucial mistake for the equaliser

Collins: 6 - bit of a nervy start, otherwise ok

Young: 6 - beat his man more often than not, but his final ball was mainly poor

Milner: 8 - always looking for the ball and always dangerous

Petrov: 7 - typical Petrov performance

Downing: 6 - see Young

Heskey: 6 - held the ball up well, but we need more than that

Agbonlahor: 8 MOTM - lead the line well, linked the play, scared their defence shitless and was physically imposing too.

In the end we didn't have enough and they did deserve the win. However, if Mr Dowd had done his job properly it might been a completely different story.

And some nasty steward stole Cameron Jerome's shirt from some 10 year old

Stefan Dennis - Don't It Make You Feel Good

ABU

And happy to admit it

How do you make a greyhound go faster?

Whippet

Yes, however:

a) no better alternatives

fans' patience won't last forever

Rape Me - Nirvana

Hatton. Please.

I'm a believer (but only after seeing her face...)

It seems that some believe 'Top Class' to mean those players who will get in the Champions League sides and those who are further down their own development plans than we are. Yes in England that means the Top 4 AND Spurs, well I'm sorry but if I am honest we are not in the position to be signing those players just yet. It will come of that I am sure.

Carew certainly falls into that bracket, and I think his signing is one of the shrewdest bits of business the club has done for a long time. There are players of his calibre out there

Of course now he's signed the vast majority of fans (i.e. not the mindless idiots) will support him and hope he succeeds here, and rightly so, but that doesn't mean to say these fans will be happy at the signing or rate him as a good enough player

What the f**k are you lot talking about? Harewoods a bag of shite and we all know it! im amazed at some of the comments ie 'give the lad a break'! were not running a charity for prem rejects, and i for one dont want to see him warming his fat arse on our bench all season picking up his 20 grand a week or whatever it is for doing diddly squat which is exactly what i think the fools worth nothing i wouldnt want him in my sunday team!!!

If this is the callibre of player were bringing in for next season expect a dogfight people, MH was surpluss to requirements at west ham ask yourselves why gentlemen! sorry but this is unacceptable!! mon give youre head a wobble son and spend wisely!

I'll try and paraphrase - Harewood isn't good enough.

It's all very well signing people with the intention of strengthening the squad and not necessarily the 1st XI - à la Sutton last season - but Harewood just isn't good enough, and that is the bottom line. The money would be better off spent on someone like Luke Varney, a promising youngster who would be available for cheaper and have the prospect of developing into a better play than Harewood is. (By the way I know Varney's just gone to Charlton, just using him as an example)

Carew is in a totally different league to Harewood. And personally I'd question a player who, having said he wanted to leave a club to play 1st team football, chooses to move somewhere to be a back up

(Edited to remove a stray question mark )

Apart from comparing Carew and Harewood's age and size, are you seriously trying to justify comparing the 2 as footballers? Can't wait til some of the Norweigan Villans read that

Haven't read any of the other threads so far, but I really don't understand the signing, were it to go ahead. Unless Randy's dishing out so much money that we may as well waste nearly £4mil on a playe bought solely for back up and the odd League Cup match

Couldn't care less. Imagine Rooney winning the world cup with a "Hand of God" goal past Buffon, how'd you think the press would react, "England Kings of the World" or "Disgraceul cheating wins England World Cup"?

He couldn't head it, used his hand, got away with it. Fair play

A man walks into a drum set: badum-ch

8)

1 that i know of (Dale) - no doubt rubbed shoulders with many others up and down the country at matches

SKO, in the form of Kevin Keegan's Player Manager on the SNES

Scottish guy walks into a bar and says "I'll have a pint of Whitbread".

Barman pours it, Scottish bloke goes to the toilet.

A very large black lady is standing at the other end of the bar, while he's in the toilet she comes over, lifts his pint off the bar and farts in it. The barman looks rather shocked.

On returning from the toilet the Scottish guy lifts up his pint, but the barman whispers something in his ear. A look of disgust spreads across his face, and he approaches the large black lady...

"Eh, did you fart in my Whitbread?" he asks.

"No, I'm Tessa Sanderson."