Shearergol

Chimbonda, Van Buyten and Defoe

At the moment, bringing in "promising" players isn't what we need. I agree that for the long term it's something we should be doing. Why not just buy both of them? Berbatov IS worth £30m, because that's what someone will pay for him. If it stops Man United getting him then it'll be worth every penny.

I think it might be an idea to start getting Owen into the box and then passing to him. Usually works, but we obviously haven't thought of it.

Berbatov, King and Hutton would cost a foooooking fortune.

Considering we had a centre midfield consisting of a central defender (a shit one) and a winger, added to the fact that Ameobi was playing, it's probably a good result. Need Shearer back in now though, to try and lift the spirits again

0-0 Now let's start the rebuilding process. splash the cash ash

Bolton nearly score. Given (he's shit, remember) makes a crucial save.

Someone asked earlier why Sky didn't choose this as a live fixture. Question answered.

Ref's been shocking like. Not in the sense that he's getting decisions wrong, but he's very frustrating with his nit-picking on ball placement.

Another penalty claim. We're getting a bit desperate now.

Ameobi close with a header. Our closest chance.

Disagree. Much better 2nd half. Shame we haven't looked like scoring though.

It'll take £100m to turn this team around.

I knew this was on the one game today I shouldn't have put money on

I can remember a lot of poor games against Bolton (they seem to beat us more than they manage it against anyone) but it's really not helping that nobody in our team has a little bit of invention to break them down. Another poor ball in from N'Zogbia, and Lua Lua coming on for Duff. 0-0 then.

Milner and N'Zogbia need a hell of a lot of coaching on how to put a decent cross in.

what lad from dundee? Barry Robson. Celtic want him too though. forgive me for not jizzing in excitment I believe Ronaldinho is unavailable. How dare we attempt to sign an attacking, creative, goalscoring midfielder who people on here haven't heard of?

what lad from dundee? Barry Robson. Celtic want him too though.

Hope we sign the lad from Dundee United, purely so someone else can take the corners.

Close? 9 foot over the bar.

It's interesting really. Another game without a single shot on goal. There's clearly something about the training we've been doing for the last 8 months. Even Derby manage more shots than us in games.

Can't see us scoring tbh

At least we know Big Sam won't be giving a team talk at half time, therefore a loss in the second half.

Yet you're not even watching the game. Right....

Failed a late fitness test.