VillaChris

We conceded 4 at Man. City with Collins in the team last season...

Strange, WM said Wolves were in the game for most of it and had some good chances. Not sure why it's fallen apart so quickly there after a promising start to the season, mick messing around with the team again?

I assume Collins was injured anyway?

Every side we're competing with this season will lose at Man. City. Let's see the response against the Baggies.

One of the Everton goals was a penalty...

The results haven't been that different without him. With him playing we drew 0-0 at home to Wolves and at Fulham. Without him we drew 1-1 at Qpr and Newcastle. Madness if we give him a new deal imo given he's in his 30s, is injury prone and isn't a first choice in his position.

Talk of Heskey getting a new deal... Now an often injured player, in his 30s, on 60k a week and not a first choice in his position would seem a likely player to be released in the summer surely. Just letting go of him, Beye and Carlos in the summer would shave around 6m off the wage bill.

No doubt Collins will be injured at some point this season. Clark will get his chance then.

What, that he has an hamstring injury? He wasn't injured for the Wigan game and he didn't make the bench for that, Weimann did. I think the Fonz will be sold in the summer tbh.

Comfortable progression for Ireland here. Score draw in Tallinn and 2-0 win at the Aviva.

Yes as they can't play the Czech's. :winkold: Walters has been excellent for Stoke in the last 6 months, surprised he isn't starting with Keane.

Venezuela are one of the most improved teams in international football.

Tremendous goalscorer but it is true to say his hold up play is flakey and he dosen't win a huge amount of headers so it might help to stop hoofing the ball...

Serious question though, where are all the good young players for Sweden, Mellberg's still playing for them aswell. Only decent one looking at that team is Olsson from Blackburn.

That was our B team with a couple of regulars like Cech and we dominated. Czechs are very underrated and we will do well. Lithuania beat you at home earlier in the group.. You were lucky with the penalty at Hampden and Levein completely bottling attacking you in Prague. The last decent Czech team was in 2004 when Rosicky and Baros were younger than much better than the broken versions we have now and Nedved, Poborsky and Koller were all still around. Arguably should've won that tournament.

Can't believe Sweden are beating Holland and are currently going through as the best 2nd place team, will add nothing to the euros as Anders Svensson is their captain who must be about 50 nowadays. :shock: Hopefully Bosnia can hang on in the 2nd half against France.

Lithuania must not even be trying as this is an awful Czech team nowadays and unless they draw Estonia I doubt they'll get through the play offs.

I'm sure there are, quite a few clubs were after Carlton Cole this summer and Gabby is a much better striker than he is.

To me Gabby is one of the more underrated players in the league, always amazes me when fans of other clubs (and even on here ) just seem to think he's a speed merchant. Maybe in 2006 but since then he's improved his strength, finishing and his technique seems to have come on a lot over the last 6 months. Only thing I'd like to see from him now is to go on to regularly score more than once in a game, when he scores one goal he often dosen't regularly go on to get a brace or even a hattrick. once he does that he could be touching 20 goals. I think I also put it on here a few years ago after he scored against Fulham, he's also reasonably two footed as he set up the Bent goal with his left foot and he's scored quite a few with his left down the years.

He's started the season reasonably well (as he did last season) but badly at fault for the goal on sunday. He should've headed that ball back to Given or out for a corner but too easily muscled out by DJ Campbell.

Tbf I'll say it every friday to try to jinx them. :winkold:

Spurs will win tommorrow.

Is it me or is he staying on his feet more playing for them? The main thing imo is Fergie isn't pandering to Young by trying to play him centrally. He's recognised Young is much better out wide.

Not really, he played 30 games for us in his first season and 25 last season so he hasn't been as injury prone as at West Ham. Has his uses in games where teams use the high ball but gets dragged out of position too often for me.

Gabby will start instead of Heskey imo.