Jon

countries are working towards this Nick. with you on the aftershave thing too! be interesting to see a list of "banned" aftershaves though. No Blue Stratos/Old Spice for starters!

he'll just resort to the trusted glassing i'd have thought!

Roll on July 1st. I've been waiting for this ban since I first started going in pubs/cars. WooooHooooo!

Been anywhere Nice Risso? :winkold:

A cheap and injury free kewell would be well worth a go IMO. sadly, i think his days at the top now are either limited or over, simply due to the injuries. maybe we could get him on a pay as you play basis? :wink:

How much advance booking would these lot need though? some of them are getting a bit long in the tooth too. maybe try for some younger blood like Owias Is?

yep! FWIW I think barry is this man. The way he was controlling central mid towards the end of the season spoke volumes for me. I think we might well see Barry and Stan dominate the 2 central midfield positions this coming season.

can't agree with the 1st bit there Bri, but definitely can with the highlighted bit. history, whilst important, is just that in the garnd scheme of things: history. SHA don't have a history as such, but as Bri says, they have the potential, and are back in the premiership again. Wolves maybe run thema close-ish 3rd. But SHA have been out of the premiership once in what? 3 or 4 years? :?: So at this particular moment in time, how people can't have SHA as 2nd in the pecking order is beyone me, unless you are approaching from a biased POV that is. EDIT: sorry - misread initial post as it referrs to "Biggest Clubs" rather than current pecking order, which are 2 very different things. SHA are still up there with the best of the rest though, IMO, albeit quite a way behind us.

That's my gripe too with Hughes. he seems relatively comfortable on the ball, and can pass and cross. But defensively he's been weak IMO, especially as you say in letting his man "do" him and/or get crosses in too often.

Well that, if you do not mind me saying, is a disgraceful cop out. The Premier League has abused its position, and as a shareholder in the Premier League, we have a duty to speak out. Still never mind, it's only Sheffield United eh? seconded. This looks like a cop out by AVFC in my humble opinion. We should be standing four square behind Sheff Utd on this, and i am not happy with the club's stance on this ....

5M for the pair. rouhgly breaks down as £5.25m for davis and -£0.25m for Hughes, I'd guess? :winkold:

i seriously doubt the scousres would let Sissoko go but if they did i would move hell & high water to bring him in if i were MON. having said that, i think other areas of the side are possibly higher priority?

roughly my thoughts too Ian. It is a bold move, this re-badgeing. It's a bold new crest too, IMO - a big departure from the past and one that signals a new intent. I believe and hope that this new badge will be a grower on people.

Malc has been banned, that's why! :winkold:

How can there be 2 best ages? :? anyhoo, all the threes for me ......

Nice report Pete - was good to met up again - decent boozer we came across to :-) I agree with most of the ratings. Pretty much everyone deserved a 7 i'd say, with Barry, Laursen & Carew excelling so maybe going beyond this. My ratings: Tommy - excellnet display apart form the bizzare attack on Vass for the pen. Thought it was harsh at the time but in the cold light of MOTD, was clearly a pen - you can't run through a player to get to the ball i'm afraid - could have cost us a result - 6 Bardsley - OK defensively - 7 Boomer - ditto - 7 Mellberg - not the same player as a few years ago - not in same class as laursen - did reasonably well - 6 Laursen - excellent - nothing got past him - MOTM 8 Stan - got more & more into game - kept & passed well - 7 Barry - great display - shackled JB quite well & was everywhere 1st half - 8 Young - In & out of game - good cross for goal though - 7 TINA Gardner - hard working display as usual - augmented the midfield well - 7 Gabby - worked hard - 7 Carew - physically immense with some great touches - looked like he went off with a slight injury - 8 All in all a great display & great day - Citeh were largely sh*t though.

he should play off against baros in a sulking contest. Wouldn't like to pick the winner from that one .....

reo-cokey sidwell barton wouldn't mind either of these in our engine room next season. at a push i'd probably go for NRC. Sidwell i'm unsure about still, and JB is a bit of T*sser all things considered. Good player though

If we're up for this game, we will win IMO. Citeh are a club in a little bit of disarray at the moment, similar to where we were this time last season. They have nothing now to pla for (other than the Man U game next week) and may not be fully up for this game. If MON can get the troops focused big time on this match, we can win it. If we can dominate Barton in MF, that's half the battle won. Big IF - needs a big game from Barry and Stan.

you know this for sure? maybe they should be ......

bitter? 8)

I shocked that i've not yet met "villain" (not sure what you rname is either?) even though she works about 50 yards from where i do. :shock: in fact, i may have done but i don't know what she looks like, so i would be none the wiser. hopefully meet up at a NW game soon!

I think you should card yourself Bri for such a poor showing

were you sleeping in a coffin? :winkold:

are you trying to show off?