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aye and nah. getting more players in the box would also give those creating better options to create. it's difficuilt to create when there is no-one to pass to. we are desperate for another body whose natural game is to get in the box, whether it be a forward or someone who plays off a striker. anyway back to anita, our MotM yesterday by quite a stretch.

This ain't NUFC V WHUFC, this is pardew v allardyce.

that was one of the stories, as was the theory that varadi had been shagging keegans Mrs (unlikely if you saw Mrs Varadi), more likely was the idea that we had a little lad called beardsley coming in.

us, terry hibbitt probably. worldwide, cruyff definitly.

the thing is the French league isn't all that good. Outside of PSG and maybe in the future Monaco (and only then funded by people with way more money than sense) how many would do well in the prem? Think Marseille and Lyon would do decent but aside from that yeah the quality is lacking. what ? not sure they'd do well at all. current PSG and Monaco squads on the other hand.....

TWT (time will tell)

Oh come on man, doesn't every team. That's what full back's do now

I'm not sure how Coloccini was one of our worst, in the first half I thought we only had 3 players and Coloccini was one of them along with Krul and Ben Arfa. Aye, criminal to see his name alongside those others. Taylor was the worst, with Debuchy not too far behind. If Taylor didn't club that dude, would Debuchy be the worst? Because Debuchy was the worst. Taylor's performance was compounded by that moment, but lest us forget that he should have probably had a penalty against him (like Debuchy) before that. While his defending on goal #1 was equally as bad as Debuchy's and his defending on goal #2 was even worse. If we're just basing it on first half, Taylor was the worst. I think I'm too used to Taylor's s*** play to really see how bad it was today. I've seen Debuchy have pockets of play where he looks like he shouldn't be out there, but never 90 sustained minutes of just f***ing garbage. I was one of those defending Debuchy initially last season due to his mid-season arrival into a f***ed team, but today did not help my case at all. Me as well, in fact if anything i'm getting to the stage now where i'm getting annoyed with him and losing my patience. half a season.....do you like colo ?

I was one of them, I was f***ing wrong. Like many people are about many things in life. Ahh, you can never change your opinion on the Internet Kanji you can, if you say "it's a damn sight easier for me as my musings count for fuck all, I can come out with the most outlandish team selections etc and hold my head up high as they won't be played, I can slag off players today whom I desperately wanted a week ago because there is no comeback on me"

but he's who we all wanted a little while back. I remember people posting "just pay whatever it takes" type stuff.

I'd say Saylor, the other tried badly, but he let the whole team down with such a dumb thing to do. aye. i've defended saylor in the past from. IMO, over the top criticism on here but tonight he was in turn, poor then stupid. no doubt one or two will say he's always like that so i'll get my "fuck off and stop talking cack" in early.

Totally. I gave him 9 (I'll stand by it, too) and couldn't be arsed to score the rest. Some fantastic saves. Top drawer player. yip, still want to see aguero's goal again. think he thought it was going wide and didn't reach for it but not sure.

I see, no taylor for saturday, probably no jonas..............scapegoat needed.

Seemed to control the ball well from Krul's goalkicks He did, typical knee jerk stuff tonight. Passes to him, immediately crowded by 3 city defenders, no options on, no link between him and midfield (again). Sure his touch was poor tonight but he's getting slated for not being an out ball target man tonight. He can actually link play just fine (he did it plenty when he first arrived). Well thank f*** for you two. I know he tailed off badly fairly soon after as things generally descended into farce, but people don't half let rage cloud their judgement on here at times. While i'm not raging, i tend to think a players first touch is very important, even more so for a front man to bring others into play. He was terrible and has been for ages, hopefully he'll get back to form, giving him a strike partner to hold the ball up will help, but he should be able to do the basics himself. He was far from terrible at the start, which was all I said initially. Just wanted to bring a bit of balance. Not disagreeing that his touch has been appalling at times and that it ended up going that way again tonight. Fair enough, i just thought he was awful over the whole game. Tell you what worries me, when you have a player as jolly as him looking so disinterested and dispirited, there's a lot to worry about. what would you be saying if he was jolly while we were getting that sort of humping ? That's not what i meant and you know it. yeah well, he started off holding off lescott a couple of times, backing into him, then decided he couldn't be arsed (or was bullied out).

Seemed to control the ball well from Krul's goalkicks He did, typical knee jerk stuff tonight. Passes to him, immediately crowded by 3 city defenders, no options on, no link between him and midfield (again). Sure his touch was poor tonight but he's getting slated for not being an out ball target man tonight. He can actually link play just fine (he did it plenty when he first arrived). Well thank f*** for you two. I know he tailed off badly fairly soon after as things generally descended into farce, but people don't half let rage cloud their judgement on here at times. While i'm not raging, i tend to think a players first touch is very important, even more so for a front man to bring others into play. He was terrible and has been for ages, hopefully he'll get back to form, giving him a strike partner to hold the ball up will help, but he should be able to do the basics himself. He was far from terrible at the start, which was all I said initially. Just wanted to bring a bit of balance. Not disagreeing that his touch has been appalling at times and that it ended up going that way again tonight. Fair enough, i just thought he was awful over the whole game. Tell you what worries me, when you have a player as jolly as him looking so disinterested and dispirited, there's a lot to worry about. what would you be saying if he was jolly while we were getting that sort of humping ?

Nowt wrong with Lidl or Aldi for fresh fruit and veg and for drink. the fruit and veg are crap, cheap but crap.

had a conversation this morning at work with a mackem mate (doesn't bullshit his football, thinks they'll struggle but be safe) and he was on about their fixture list, the run of home games they have, then he said that with them out the way they can look forward to easier home games which, in his words "we'll have to win because we'll have the top 8 away.............and yews"...........then he just stared off into the middle distance. Wouldn't bank on us beating them. PDC may be a poor manager, time will tell, but one thing he can do is motivate for a derby. not banking on it, more that in their upcoming home games the one that isn't against one of last seasons top 6 or so is a local derby.

agreed, shouldn't be allowed. we do it far too much. i'd also make it league rules that strips are designed so that theres no need for 3rd strips.

and knew that one of them would get the player. nasty tackle, straight red.

guess who at it again and sent off ?

had a conversation this morning at work with a mackem mate (doesn't bullshit his football, thinks they'll struggle but be safe) and he was on about their fixture list, the run of home games they have, then he said that with them out the way they can look forward to easier home games which, in his words "we'll have to win because we'll have the top 8 away.............and yews"...........then he just stared off into the middle distance.

re strips, was that villa one their new standard kit or an "away" kit ?

Get French Football ‏@GFN_France 9m Lyon Reserves 4-3 Raon d'Etape. Bafetimbi Gomis scored twice (a penalty and an acrobatic winner) and Jimmy Briand once. #OL jimmy briand ? theres a name from the past. werent big things expected from him a while back ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Moveable_Feast answers a lot of questions that. pardews a hemingway fan, hence the overuse of "jonas guttierrez" in the way "robert jordan" was drilled home in for whom the bell tolls.

i'd rather he played when he's the best option till the hopefully end of season dead rubbers when you normally blood kids.