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Some pretty underhand tactics used as we were on our way to defeat, Solano and Moore could well be up on FA charges for what they did.

Our main aim now is to avoid relegation, sad but true. Getting anything out our next two games would be a bonus.

Weaver was outstanding for City when they were coming up through the divisons, looked better than Wright and was odds to become England number 1. However as you said he made some mistakes and lost it mentally, then he had 3 years of injuries.

Seems like a good deal for Tottenham. Lennon has potential, but like most young wingers has next to nil end product, especially infront of goal. Any young player with some skills and flair is massively overated in England, just goes to show how we have lagged behind in terms of technical ability.

Oliver might loose his main sources' at the club then.

Overrated, decent shot stopper but couldn't catch the Ebola virus.

 

If England are looking for another option they could do worse than Nicky Weaver.

5 years ago maybe, Weaver isn't the same player he was when he was a youngster. He's gone the same way as Richard Wright.

Proberly the worst game he could have started, but at least it's something.

Essien gets one in the nuts.

That was a miss-hit.

About as much chance as West Ham in 2003.

Maybe these are the sort of players we should be going after nowadays. We've blown millions of pounds on foreigners and alledgedly-brilliants who just haven't worked out. Your Fergusons, your Vianas, your Luques, your Marcelinos, your Guivarchs, your Martins (some might say) - and they just don't work. You look at the squad Keegan built and the budgets he had. Andy Cole, prime example, cost £1.75m and look what he did for us!

 

Maybe these are the sort of players we should be going after? People such as Davies and Nugent and Upson, who have experience and quality yet still have a lot of fire in their belly. You look at the likes of Wigan and Portsmouth and Bolton and Reading who have built good teams on these sort of budgets, and have got very far and done well.

 

Nugent's got class in my eyes anyway - a key figure in a very good Preston side this year. I think that there's every chance that we've got another Andy Johnson or Darren Bent here, as apposed to a Gzegorsz Rasiak for instance. He's young and i bet he'll turn into a damned good player.

 

I rate Matthew Upson aswell, as i've said before. When he was in the Premiership he was always one of those just on the brink of the England squad. Plenty of decent attributes, just well down the pecking order.

 

Those guys could improve our squad no end. Unfortunately, we ain't quite got the manager to turn them into brilliant players... a la Keegan-Cole.

Was that from memory?

Anyway, Davies looks good at Bolton because of the system they play and the limited amount of pressure on him. If he were to come to us he would likely sink without a trace very quickly like he did at Blackburn. Just because we are doing badly doesn't mean we have to buy players who give a 100%, but have very limited ability. Nugent would be the way to go if we were looking to buy from the lower leagues, simply because he does have ability.

Luton Town boss Mike Newell has revealed that Hatters defender Sol Davis was absent for the 5-0 defeat to Ipswich because he suffered a stroke on Saturday.

The 27-year-old is currently in a specialist unit at Addenbrookes hospital in Cambridge after suffering a stroke less than half an hour after the Bedfordshire-based team left for the game at Portman Road.

The Championship club have released no concrete details about Davis' condition as they await further news, although Newell did state that the former Swindon Town man had improved somewhat after losing feeling in his left side.

However Newell has been told it could take up to six months for Davis to make a full recovery.

"We kept quiet about it until after the match but it puts everything into perspective," said Newell.

"It happened 25 minutes after leaving Luton and I am told that it might take six months before he makes a complete recovery.

"He has had an MRI scan but I am not qualified to talk about that.

"I am not going to use it as an excuse for our performance but we will never know what effect it had on the lads.

"Sol has made a bit of an improvement but he lost feeling in his left side and it has affected his speech.

"It was apparently a blockage to the brain that has caused it, but I will not go into full details as I am not sure what they are."

He would certainly need at least 1 game in the reserves before.

Why would he leave Lyon for us?

Back to football matters.... He simply doesn't have the power in his legs to get decent shots off from any remotely difficult position either with his right or left foot. That's what is truly frustrating.

Babayaro looked a persistent defensive liability against Rommendahl, as he has done for the last 18 months.

1st half was decent, the only thing we didn't do was finish our chances. Second half we looked clueless and Roeder was nowhere.

Proberly got all excited at playing on wednesday and shot a bit higher than he normally does.

He needs some diving lessons if he is to continue to do it, because what he is doing now is so bad it's laughable or even better, cut it out completely.

Most certainly a psychologist who could work full time on Bramble alone.

Putting European restrictions on him has stopped him starting games.

A month? I doubt it would be that long if we lose our next two league games, the article is just speculation.

Sounds like Japan circa December 1941.

Closed.