thomas

Fantastic at both ends. Really a lot of cheers for the defensive unit as a whole. Was expecting a total raping off Young+Carew+Ireland and they were kept well in check.

Hope he had a bet on with Chris, an extra £3m to spend for every goal scored.

:lol: :lol: Giddy right now, absolutely giddy

I uh. I. Uh. Huh? Does Houghton draw names from a hat for subs?

Whew. Strange even 3-0 up I didn't feel like exhaling but now I'm pretty relaxed.

Need a 4th to break them.

I'll be the first in line to slate him normally but Smith has shown up more in this game than he has for a long time and it really shows in how we're doing retaining the ball and going forward.

We've got to give up on that high line though, Young's too quick.

Fucking love Jose Enrique.

*prints out NoTW article* *folds article into swan* *puts swan in trash can*

It would be like a brand new signing.

Nice.

It's actually stickied at the top of the forum. 1 second!

Making a prediction about a specific transfer window (it will be crap) based on past performance is one thing. Waiting until the end of the window to assess its levels of crap is entirely another. To use your polar ice cap analogy, the former is saying "we see this trend of ice caps melting and think it will continue" and the latter is "let's see if ice is refreezing or continuing to melt faster in this specific period." The former makes a prediction the latter is verifying it, but not jumping to conclusions. Has nothing to do with supporting or not supporting ashley. for the record: he is crap and I think this window will very likely be a huge disappointment. I just can't agree that a final verdict can be passed before the end of it.

I'm not going to let vitriol and seething hatred spoil my sunny disposition. So if I don't advocate the shooting of Mike Ashley into the sun please don't mistake that as some kind of implicit agreement with his stance/position/decisions/being an apologist. Utterly cannot stand people who break everything down into ridiculous dichotomies like that.

Smith may be shit but at least he hasn't embarassed us by attempting a pass/shot, unlike 8 other fuckers out there.

Way to land like a mong, evra

We have all the off the ball movement of a bronzed cinder block, jesus christ

panic at the xisco!

Why does alan smith exist

I will boo at my TV set as loudly as I can.

Point of order, it's not the FA/PL Lawyers that need to be reeducated, it's the spineless ISPs intimidated by some letterhead and legal sounding language who need to start telling them to fuck off. Just a handy tip in case any of you were actually planning on attempting to change things. Which you're not. (I'm not either.)

I too enjoy arguing with brick walls.

too many wank breaks because of kaizero's av, imo

Heard he's porked up quite a bit since being put on the bench. Thin, he'd be an improvement over anyone in our midfield tbh.