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My two favourite quotes on that Sunderland forum:

Villa fans have had a bee in their bonnet about Bent for years (they think they should have signed him when he went to Charlton, Spurs and us), Villa strikers are currently firing blanks, we get linked with Owen, so therefore in the minds of idiots on messageboards Bent to Villa.

They forget that we would not sell him to Villa, Villa would not offer enough to sign him, Villa are struggling against relegation and we are fighting to get into Europe, that Houllier has said a couple of days ago that Villa won't sign a striker in this window and the fact it would just leave us with Gyan as our only fit striker and even he has a knock.

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WTF has went on?

Last one

I did enjoy them all quoting in shock some fella called Caulkin, and then about three pages later someone wrote 'who the **** is Caulkin?'

What's all this about Drogba and Rooney?! They sound good, sign them up!

No better way to get motivated at work than hearing about this!

You're joking, I haven't even thought about work this last hour!!!

Wow.....dumbfounded! **** brilliant - we've need a player like this for years.

sky reporting Dann definitely won't play. good news.

God, they also have Pires in their possible starting XI........that really can't happen.

Got mine tonight.....although I do get on with people at work, 'work' is the only thing we all have in common and so we inevitably just end up talking about work. So it becomes a bit like just being pissed in the office.

And we had to pay £20 to bring a guest too! Must be to cover the huge fee the band 'Diamond Geezers' charge to perform at office Christmas parties.

There's someone on the Newcastle forum called 'scalded bollock'. Amazing.

It's a chaps birthday in the office, we've just had the generic stand round their desk whilst we give them a card and a comedy gift, and one of the women in the office bought him one of those cards with a tinny, shrill recording in it that plays when you open it. She stares at him waiting for him burst out with laughter at someone doing an awful impression of Del Boy, he forces a giggle......it's just excruciating.

The point I'm making is, cards with recordings in it. And people that buy them thinking they're funny. That pisses me off.

Have got a ticket for Frightened Rabbit in Exeter tonight but I can't go......I'm furious.

However, Biffy at Plymouth Pavilions on Wednesday eases the pain.

And Easter weekend the weekend before!! Book the 3 midweek days between Easter Monday and Royal Wedding Friday off work and you get a week and a half holiday for the price of 3 days holiday used. Genius!

Downing 16/1 with Coral to score the first goal........kerching!

Hansen's defence of the Essien tackle was embarrassing too...

I know it's not something you can judge a player on, but did you see some of his practice shots in front of us before the game at Craven Cottage?! Firing them literally into the very top corner of the net......Guzan just stood and applauded him!

Come on Barry lad.....14/1 first goalscorer with Ladbrokes....

Think Blackpool will attack us, which should suit us really - we've been playing pretty well, so I think we're due the win. Bannan should know the inside track on Blackpool too! 2/3-0 Villa.

Heskey will rip their CB's a new a-hole the way he's playing.

Carr will get raped by Downing and Young.

That's how we'll beat them I reckon - need to target that old bastard Carr.

To be honest, I'd be happy with another 1-0 and a dubious penalty! Sorry if I'm asking in the wrong thread, but is this game not on TV??? From the look of the Sky Sports website, it's just the Newcastle Sunderland game on?

Bolton at home has been a good fixture for us the last few years - a nice 2 or 3-0 for us I think.

Bellamy was arguably one of their best players last season.

Mistake letting him go imo.

2 of their best 3 players last year has been sidelined by Mancini in Given and Bellamy

Judging by the team he played at Spurs yesterday, it looks as if he's going to be ultra-defensive this year - 3 defensive midfielders! So I guess if he's only going to play 3 attacking players, Bellamy was always going to be left out...

Think someone mentioned this in another thread, but would anyone be against having Laursen in as Macdonald's 2nd??? I know we shouldn't get excited after one game.....but I'd think I'd cry if that happened! 2 men that know our club and players inside out....

According to Oddschecker, Sven is still favourite but the odds have lengthened.

Also looks like those bookies who stopped taking bets have reopened the market.

Some of the names that have actually got odds for them are brilliant! Danny Murphy!?!?!

Think that means he saw the goal against Feyenoord!

If Sven gets appointed, Heskey will play week in week out....

Hahaha, Maradona and Merson! I'd be tempted by it, if only to see how long it would take the drug squad to be on red alert to VP!

Oh come on, is it really that bad!?!?! Did you really have that bad a time last season watching us get to Wembley, beating Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool.....good god man! Things could be alot worse....surely the O'Leary days, finishing 16th aren't that far in the past to forget?

I desperately hope this Flamini link has some substance to it - a 5 man midfield of Flamini, Petrov, Young, Miner and Downing would be devastating....