madras

agreed to a point....but what about his last 20 for us,as opposed to the clubs last 20 ?

And they say KK can't read a game. Without going over the top the things he's getting now from Owen and others is a miracle. that last sentence is hilarious but i agree with the sentiment. remember this is the man who has no idea of tactics etc but he totally changes the formation and pattern of the team to get a load more out of them.

Don't change a winning team. Not a win like that anyway. change a winning team if it's for the better. this wouldn't be. however carroll will get his chance this season (poss next week if vidukas calf aint well according to reports)

we're saying "dropping back" but (and i only heard todays game,haven't seen it yet) in the previous 2 games the front 3 were very flexable. the spearhead of the 3 could be either of the 3 but owen rarely went left and martins rarely went right. viduka would often play either side if one of the others was through the middle. the mobility makes tham hard to mark. owen very rarely gives the ball away,something commented on by a few in the dark days...........the fault being he rarely got it.

bugger ! that means i'll have to go and get more beer for MOTD tonight.

is that 2 doubles in 2 years over spuds ?

now how can the london hacks spin this ?

Stan Seymour snr

totally agreed. it also means thast had maradona played in a very good team in 86 we shouldn't look on him as one of the worlds best players.

if it's all built on "if they get promoted" then a lot of the figures fall down....however if someone somewhere is barmy enough to pay £5mill for chops then who knows ?

Who gives a flying f*** what he's done for other teams? Brilliant player for us. was and wasn't...1st season fantastic, 2nd went to his head,3rd showed what he could do if he wanted (but he didnt want to enough) does that solve it ?

saturdays independent had their line up in the middle of malbranque-zokora-jenas-lennon. and i think "we have a chance". huddlestone will probably play instead of jenas/zokora. what we have to do is stop the supply to keane/berbatov. be ineteresting if we play the 3 up front, how their full backs push up and how we (particularly with martins) try to exploit it.

like to think so but i cant see how it makes sense ?

Can't really say anything else. Four f****** points. oh yes you can.............. "should've been six"

I've yet to get back in the groove. Maybe I've lost my mojo. takes time marra,browse a bit ,then paddle,then swim.

People forget they hammered us at WHL last year as well. We were awful and they were attacking us like mad. It was a few minutes of magic which won it for us. and following that pattern i think we'll play better than last season and get beat (just about deservedly....but close)

good to have you back keefaz.....but this is a shite effort!

cos it's bloody obvious and they have no choice

would of agreed a few weeks ago but i think the current system shows how some of our players can play. for example i thought barton was good against fulham and i am more impressed by owen now. midfield is no doubt the problem though and apart from that we possibly need to decide about players such as viduka, those who when fit are excellent with when fit being the key phrase. the current system shows we should expect better from some of the present squad, but i dont think we'll be 4-3-3 next season.

it's due to over zealous celebrations possibly causing the crowd to erupt ( i beleive)

maldini or shilton had a mention yet ?

i'll keep it o one. the final whistle at filbert street when we won to stop up.

Shearer in his absolute prime wasn't fit to kiss the arse of most of the players above but was probably for 18 months or so the joint best forward in the world with batistuta. ronaldo is probably the best and most exciting player in the world right now and yes he is a diving ,cheating churlish twat (he has to be to fit in a the theatre of dreams). whare i would place him above messi is ronaldo seems to have more influence on a game than messi.

i wouldn't be surpised at 4 for the first team and a new spine to boot...centre half...2 central mids and a centre forward.

providing we stay up and i have the feeling we are going in the right direction i don't care where other teams finish. it's happened before under ardiles,for all we were down the bottom most of the season there wasn't a clamour for him to go or any booing as we were playing decent football till he realised we had to get points,by then it was too late and he had to go for us to survive.