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Taken off the wrong midfielder Kev. 3 disallowed goals for us today.

Love the way Nicky Butt needs 2 minutes to work out his best option, before getting tackled.

As much as I've been negative in this thread, I'm very impressed with Duff today. Nice to see him getting some form back.

We won't score another goal today. Well, it worked last time

Owen scores, great ball in from Emre.

At least we're too good to go down, so these results don't really matter.

I know it was only Stoke, but how come we suddenly worked out how to play football in that match, only to forget again ever since?

Where's our next goal coming from?

Be interesting to hear what Allardyce has to say, bearing in mind that it was he who crippled this squad. We need Viduka on for the second half, and tell the wide players to stay wide.

We've had a shot

Nicky Butt has a live link to this forum during the game. Interestingly, the crowd aren't actually getting on the player's backs, so I doubt they can use that excuse. I'll be more of a superfan like you in the future though, sorry.

shut up FFS Does my prediction make a difference to the game or something? The players don't have a clue how to create chances, simple as. Should have bought Diarra when we had the chance - seemed to be behind all of Portsmouth's good play yesterday.

We won't score in this game.

At least N'Zogbia isn't at left back anymore............

Hold on. Smith's playing? Much better than Owen, or any of our midfielders. He'll no doubt get singled out again though.

Emre, Barton and Butt may as well have just stayed at home. There's more quality in the Championship. WTF has happened to them all?

Taylor, Cacapa and Given are just going to play triangle passing for the rest of the game, before one of them launch it long. Great stuff to watch. Please please please buy a creative midfielder in summer

Well we can't complain about the Arsenal results, but if we can't beat this shower of shite, especially with so many players missing, we should be embarrassed. Another Owen goal ruled out.

We don't seem to have any shape whatsoever. N'Zogbia is drifting to the right, with Duff and Barton always inside. No wonder we're easy to defend against.

This might be another Bolton. Boro seem to be putting 10 men behind the ball every time we get it. They keep showing the replay of the disallowed goal. I know they like to protect the keeper nowadays, but surely if he's not touched it can't be a foul??

Keeper pushed over by the wind.

Allardyce can get fucked. What a bitter tosser. It's our fault; hmm ok.

How many has Giles Barnes got Dave out of interest? 1 goal, 1 assist, in a worse team A worse team that he can't get a regular start in? Well this is a fruitless conversation. You rate our midfielders above Barnes. I rate Barnes above our midfielders. We agreed?

How many has Giles Barnes got Dave out of interest? 1 goal, 1 assist, in a worse team

Isn't Bramble a perfect example? not really, he came for a big fee after 2 premiership seasons. the young lads we've signed now have little first team experience between them and are going to play with the academy teams and reserves. more comparable to Bernard, or our intentions for N'Zogbia (though he developed quicker than expected), or as Nut pointed out, the likes of Pinas and Gudjohnsen that Dalglish signed. let's hope they turn out more like Robson's duo than Dalglish's. Correct. Recall also that KK plucked Aaron Hughes at a very young age, and he spent quite a while playing youth team football. yeah forgot about Hughes. Emre has 3 assists. Ramage has an assist without even starting a game. You're not counting N'Zogbia's goal at Boro as an assist are you? It's on the stats sheet. Couldn't think which goal it was though Emre has 4 assists. not including that one. Does he? Link? When gol asks for da link it means war.