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Dyer hasn't been punting it because he doesn't have the ability to kick the ball hard and in the air. Titus reminds me of a school defender. The teachers used to pick the centre halves based purely on how hard and far they could clear the ball.

Ramage is a better left back than Huntington, be good to have him back tbh. He's shite, but our best option while Babayaro is out. I look forward to seeing that crab like running style.

I hate it when they do that, makes the final much less of a showpiece. Can see why they need the money though!

PSG wanted about £4m iirc, but went to Man City for more wages. He's also got that wanker of an agent Willie Mckay, another reason to stay clear. Oh, and he's French.

That said more about Dabizas, O'Brien and Hughes than it did about him imo.

Its all about Teesside tbh.

No! Most sensible thing Roeder has said in ages.

Great stuff. That rehab coach seems to have done a good job with Dyer, lets hope Owen has a similar comeback.

You'd think people would learn after being loved by everyone, '2nd favourite team' etc, and winning absolutely fuck all. I'd take trophy after trophy if it meant we were unpopular.

I hate the way he keeps using injuries as an excuse now, its getting very tiresome. Obviously its been awful, especially with Owen out, but if we'd signed a couple of defenders in the summer we'd have never struggled like we have.

Don't think anyone can deny he's a better player than Onyewu though. I also like the fact that he gives us proper cover at left back. Two for the price of nothing. Only downside is his age and he may be considered 'over the hill' and 'looking for his last pay package'. Harsh on Onyewu after only 5 games tbh. Distin was shit when he played for us, and now he's probably risen to 'decent'. Surely we can do better.

Made me think then, theres a couple of girls I know at Uni (twins) called Chelsea and Stamford.

Aye. Just as I was saying the other day that Keane seems to be coming across quite well as a manager, he comes out with this rubbish and then had another rant the other day that the 'world class' David Connolly didn't get a call up.

I still love the bastards as much as ever. Winning is boring!

Distin is shite imo, agree with the other signings though. (Yorkie)

Hows that Rocha fella got on? Agree with Nut btw, I always rated Domi as a full back.

That goal by Nelson was quality, don't know anything else about him though. Luisao has always come across as a good defender like.

True that, he actually looked pretty decent in those few games. There was one in particular, might have been West Brom where I was quite impressed. Was absolute dogshit this season though.

I'm a massive Woodgate fan, and if he'd stayed clear of injuries he'd be up there with the very best. He's still a top class player like, but John Terry is absolutely immense For Chelsea, yeah. When has he had a bad game for England in recent times? England's defence is quality and always has been, its going forward where we're always let down. Only conceded 2 goals in the WC, only conceded 2 in the Euro qualifiers. 2 Goals conceded in WC? So what? I'd expect that as we played the mammoth Paraguay, T&T, Sweden and Portugal. We were lucky not to get smashed by Portugal, it should have been 3 or 4. Some of our marking against Sweden, Terry especially, was truely awful. And Woodgate has never lost his marker, or had a bad game? I swear, people on here make out Woodgate is like Bobby Moore or something. He's a class player, but he's not that good.

I'm a massive Woodgate fan, and if he'd stayed clear of injuries he'd be up there with the very best. He's still a top class player like, but John Terry is absolutely immense For Chelsea, yeah. When has he had a bad game for England in recent times? England's defence is quality and always has been, its going forward where we're always let down. Only conceded 2 goals in the WC, only conceded 2 in the Euro qualifiers.

I'm a massive Woodgate fan, and if he'd stayed clear of injuries he'd be up there with the very best. He's still a top class player like, but John Terry is absolutely immense

So long as they aren't like the guy behind me earlier in the season. Spent the whole game making crow noises shouting 'woooooooooo go Team Magpies!', and asking questions like 'hey is that the first throw in of the game?' in the 93rd minute etc. He was the ultimate stereotype, and incredibly annoying. Anyone else is welcome.

Aye, I really didn't like the current kit on first look but I think its mint now.

Seen him play then? Fucking hell I wouldn't be interested anyway tbh! Get someone in that is proven quality. Sick of us signing shitty crap wing-backs for nothing money; that turn out to be exactly that. Shitty and crap and worth nothing. Get wing-back sorted properly for once. I know what your saying, but how many times have we seen players sign for clubs who we've never heard of and come good? I don't particularly trust our scouting network, but if anything its been our policy of only signing BIG names thats held us back. Personally i'd never heard of Vidic, Agger or Heinze when they were signed. Thats maybe a few extreme examples, but to write someone off just because we've not heard of him and he plays in Ukraine is a bit daft.

Seen him play then? Fucking hell