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What's even more amusing is that some of those players actually would have improved on their starting eleven significantly, but their manager has always been too daft to use them and subsequently let them go. Bet they'd resort to human sacrifice if it would get them Zarate back now.

Two can play at that game. Via my Pro Evo Predictions™, we'll beat them 2-0 via goals in the second half by none other than Carlos Cuellar (with his feet) and Richard Dunne (with his head), both from corners. :^D Wonder what the specific odds are on that actually happening?

Very happy with the points and the performance overall, even if it wasn't the most seat-clinching, balls to the wall kind of game. I do wish MON would've subbed in a couple more players near the end, though. Ashley was looking a bit gimped in the last few minutes, so we could've pushed Shorey forward and brought on Warnock at LB, and maybe Delph for Petrov or Sidwell. Games we're winning comfortably are perfect opportunities to start working our new and/or inexperienced players into the side; we desperately need them to get time with the squad in league matches so we'll have reliable options in those games that might not be so comfortable.

The black top w/ red lion kit is badass.

Stay. He's at the absolute top end of managers available to our class right now, and the season is far too young, the game far too fickle to dispense with the services of such so readily.

Last New Year, before I grew out my Baron Münchhausen 'stache: I'm actually drinking Brooklyn Brewery's Winter Ale; the pub didn't have the correct glass. :^/

The criticism of NRC so far is both harsh and justified. He does some things as well as anybody in the game. However, those things alone often prove fruitless in the system we're playing, and those things which he does poorly are highlighted. Relying on him to carry the ball forward and distribute will not work, it seems. Playing him in the right three-man midfield would be successful, I think, as long as his ONLY responsibilities are harrying opponents and winning the ball. If we were to let him just sweep up behind a player who retains the ball and connects the play to an actual attacking mid, he'd be quite useful. With who we have now, they'd have to line up: ----NRC-------- ----------------- --------Petrov-- ----------------- --Sidwell------- Swap in an ideal new signing or two, and it could be beastly. A similar system works very well for Liverpool. Though Mascherano is a better player technically, he plays very much the same role as NRC would. In any game where the opponent is pressuring, he just wins the ball, gives it to Alonso, who in turn gets it to Gerrard or the wings. We have great wingers and a midfielder who loves hanging around the attack in Sidwell, so it could suit us just as well.

Somebody's had too much to think. Damn you edit and quote buttons being next each other. :?

Someone's had too much to think.