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Excellent performance and a brilliant game, well chuffed. Given - 7 Solano - 7 Taylor - 7 Huntington - 6 Edgar - 8 Dyer - 7 Parker - 6 Emre - 5 Milner - 8 The Sib - 8 Martins - 7

Yakubu, Henderson. Dave's easily confused, bless him.

Fucking hell. Hope he's alright.

That Merson comment is class. They hate him down there too. Bad result for us at Eastlands if that stays the same.

A draw definitely the best result for us at the Riverside. I'm in a pickle with Boro, I hate them and want them to lose every game... but I don't want them to go down. Conundrum.

My mate at the Boro game tells me he thinks it's a bad one for Woodgate and looks like that thigh again.

Reading 2-0 West Ham, that'll do nicely.

If certain results go against us, we could easily be dragged into the shit again by the end of today. Good to see Liverpool giving Bolton the kicking they've long deserved.

If anything could make me more pissed off with our summer transfer shambles, it would be Campbell going to Chelsea.

Aye, they sing "Take me home, United Road, to the place I belong, to Old Trafford, to see United, take me home, United Road."

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For me, part of going to away games is winding up the home fans, something that'll get their backs up without being too offensive/making us look like ignorant cunts (racism for example). Some originality is good too. The stereotypical Scouser songs are quite amusing the first time you go to Anfield or Goodison, but I've been four times to games in Liverpool now, and it's beyond dull. Plus they're not bothered anymore, if they ever were, which means you shouldn't sing it, same as when people sing WWYWYWS or "You've never won fuck all" at our place, I just laugh at them.

I hate this bloke. I knew this would be coming up soon, it is impossible for the man to complete a sentence without fitting "I'm a Geordie like, me ye knaa" into it. Just fuck off Steve.

Aye, and Chelsea's two titles are because of their sudden influx of GREAT fans. :roll:

Absolute crap, yeah I'm sure when you take pens in the park against your mates its not that hard. But try taking a penalty with thousands of people watching and putting there faith in you to score what is considered an easy chance.. Try taking a penalty for your country knowing your entire nation is watching you and that the next thing you do will make you a hero or a national target. its anything but easy. If you took 50 pens in Premiership games I'd bet you'd miss 40 of them and so would I. but you can be a good pen taker without being a good striker is the point but you can be a good striker without being a good penalty taker, you can be a good striker without being a good header of the ball, you can be a good striker without being a good goal poacher, you can be a good striker without being good in dead ball situations, etc. Why are goals scored using one skill regarded as legitimate but goals scored because of another skill dismissed? I've already mentioned the players who take penalties, but don't play up front. If you're counting them just as much as a shot or a header, do you genuinely believe Gareth Barry to be one of the most prolific goalscorers in the Premiership? Would you advocate signing him and playing him up front? He'd surely get more that way, might be a 20 goal a season striker in the making... if we get a lot of penalties that is.

Roeder is part of the problem, we do better when he hasn't any decisions to make. It's hard to argue with that. He was forced into playing Emre-Butt. He was forced into playing Steven Taylor in central defence. He was forced into playing Solano at right back. Dyer is giving him a real headache too. Up front, off the front man, right wing, centre midfield and right side of a front three. Dyer has played in all of those positions in the last few games, and it's fucking ridiculous.

midds mentioned this the other day...What are the odds on Rossi coming off the bench on NYD and scoring the winner?

Roeder is part of the problem, we do better when he hasn't any decisions to make. True that.

I agree on Solano for captain, said it after the Spurs game. Solano shouldn't just be taking pens, he should be taking the majority of our set-pieces. Bob Moncur on Century has been raging about Emre's deliveries. When they were talking about the prospect of a consolation goal, he said he'd go home happy if we could deliver one set-piece that didn't hit the first man.

Yep.

Hartlepool with a last minute winner against promotion rivals. Something to cheer me up at least.

Good side tbh. Howay man. They're alright, they're not the type of team NUFC should be getting spanked like that off.

Fucking Everton. Desperate.

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Absolute crap, yeah I'm sure when you take pens in the park against your mates its not that hard. But try taking a penalty with thousands of people watching and putting there faith in you to score what is considered an easy chance.. Try taking a penalty for your country knowing your entire nation is watching you and that the next thing you do will make you a hero or a national target. its anything but easy. If you took 50 pens in Premiership games I'd bet you'd miss 40 of them and so would I. but you can be a good pen taker without being a good striker is the point Exactly. And a crap striker can quite easily end up with 10-15 league goals, just because he takes the penalties. Edit: wish he'd just taken that one though.