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Cant wait to get Gutierrez back! Will he be back for man city?

Colocinni is mint, a class act. I have no quams in saying that whatsoever. When stability is restored to the club and we get real confindence going he will prove that. I have full confidence in his abilities. The naysayers are wrong.

Lol, get it right up yer!, nice to see some other clubs fans pissed off instead of us all the time!

I watched the interview. He never mentioned Supermac or Bob Moncur. Your stirring..... Maybe you should apply for a job in the Mirror. He was probably referring to Slaven and Gates/Horswill (sp), but its obvious he meant the 3 legends.

Kinnear for President. N'Zogbia is mintttttttttttttttttt. "If Shola scores we're on the pitch!" Come on! That is all.

You have a point to a degree, but not all of the 52,000 runners tomorrow are from the North East. Huge amounts come from the rest of the UK and elsewhere, but I agree the majority are locals.

I know these are terrible times but how come we never take the full allocation at Everton? Even in previous years, we can take un-told thousands to Anfield but it never seems that way when we play Everton for some reason.

I havent read the whole thread so it might not have been mentioned but one thing I think maybe *some* Foreign fans might not get is British 'banter'. What is said on here in jest is maybe taken as an insult. Where I work there are blokes from all over the UK and even some Aussies aswell. Since this whole carry on we have labled all the blokes from the London area the 'Cockney Mafia'. They dont take offence, they just laugh, have a go back at us "Geordie [inset expletive here]" and even play up to it! The jocks get it ripped out of them, so too the Aussies, anyones fair game. Cockney this, Jock that, Brummie so and so............... are regularly used in dialouge between us. It happens all day every day really, so I guess some people bring it on here and it leads to miss understanding. I have nothing but respect for our foreign fans, in fact I was sat near a bloke who had came from Winnepeg Canada especially for the Blackburn game the other day, I was amazed and embarrased at our shit state all at the same time. Still made him welcome though.

Agree to some extent. Or at least someone whose "worth" isn't so completely tied in their various businesses that they have no spendable cash to invest. Aye.

I know its wrong but I feel like if we dont get an arab multi billionaire we might aswell not even bother.

I agree and watching that interview there i get the feeling that he cares for the club more than alot of us realise. I dont reckon its totally nailed on yet that he is leaving, we'll just have to wait and see.

Terribly. Lol. Fair enough then. 4 centre halfs at the back, a left winger in centre mid, a centre mid at right wing, need I go on??...

His poor performances up front prior to switching roles are pretty quickly being forgotten. He's a class act playing from deep, and for that I hope he recognises and appreciates that Kevin Keegan has almost certainly given him a new lease of life. What poor performances? He's always looked a class act in a black and white shirt. Sure he may have not been involved much in some games whilst playing high up front but this was the fault of his team mates being unable to produce for him rather than him simply having bad games. I am yet to see him have a game where his touch and distribution are not spot on. The ones that caused Keegan to switch his position/role in the team. He was spending most of the game doing nothing up front, winning no headers, unable to hold the ball up adequately enough, failing to convert the few chances that did come to him, looking slow and poor in his finishing/shooting range, etc etc. I'm not going to dig up the threads surrounding Owen's poor form at the time, but I can assure you there were plenty who saw it, as it was pretty obvious his diminshing pace was hurting his game when he returned from his second major injury with us. In terms of blaming the rest of the team for a "lack of service", fair enough we we're pretty s*** under the likes of Big Sam, but at the same time its a common excuse for strikers who are providing little for the team to actually work with in the first place - you cant provide service to a striker who cant get away from his marker, and its difficult to regularly provide service to a striker who makes little runs that require world class through balls to be picked out. Owen's lack of pace or strength in the striking role that he was playing for us made it difficult to service him when centrebacks were marking him tightly. For example, even though we're s*** right now and weren't that good under Keegan due to the squad he inherited, we could all see that Alan Smith was struggling badly, and if he finds great form tomorrow or next year in different circumstances, I dont think it'd be an accurate statement to say his poor form previously was down to the team not providing lots of chances. Conversely, now that Owen is making runs from deep with other strikers doing the required jobs up front, he's far more difficult to pick up, and is considerably more dangerous - it's added a new dimension to his game, one that is compensating for him losing his pace. On top of being more difficult to pick up, he's actually contributing to the team now when hes not on the end of a chance, the opposite of which was a major problem when he was up front (effectively playing with 10 men alot of the time). And as we can see, that contribution is pretty good given his consistency in his touch, passing and awareness. Fair enough, but were those times not blighted by niggly injuries here and there? A fully fit Owen with games under his belt Is better than anything we have had up front since Shearer pre 97 imo.

Terribly.

His poor performances up front prior to switching roles are pretty quickly being forgotten. He's a class act playing from deep, and for that I hope he recognises and appreciates that Kevin Keegan has almost certainly given him a new lease of life. What poor performances? He's always looked a class act in a black and white shirt. Sure he may have not been involved much in some games whilst playing high up front but this was the fault of his team mates being unable to produce for him rather than him simply having bad games. I am yet to see him have a game where his touch and distribution are not spot on.

We did.

Love him, he is possibly the only player to come out of this situation with any credit. To my surprise, Charlie has done his bit aswell.

This smacks of the Roeder fiasco. Not in a MILLION BILLION years should Kinnear be offered a permanent job here.

Honestly, I will be sick as a chip if these Nigerians take over.

Aye its true on ssn now, get his name right though lol!!! :colo:

There was nowt impressive about the attendance last night imo. Would have been about 10 thousand lower had it not been for the direct debit thing and one fact which is overlooked imo is the fact that SJP is right in the city centre, if it was out in the sticks ala Leeds and Elland road, i think we would have gotten even less. I hate the cup game ticket policy. They are NEVER priced right imo, the club just want money, they are not arsed about the lift a full house will give the team. The only one i can recall which was well priced was West Brom in the League cup about 2003 ish. There was a full house iirc.

One of my mates who works in Barclays Bank on Grainger street is adamant that Gazza was in there today at around 5pm getting money out. Laughing and joking with other customers. Looks like this is one sick, sick joke.

The timing of this with regards to the match makes it seem a bit fishy tbh.

If this is a joke it is sick as fuck.