James

Lovely comments there about a club like Plymouth, who showed us a massive amount of decency and respect in April. Or Exeter City, highest placed fan owned club in the English football pyramid.

Long term prison sentences for the guilty directors/chairmen would be a more appropriate and fair course of action.

Absofuckinglutely. I don't think anyone will disagree. However, it is possible to have a different opinion on what will make a quality player for the team we've got. Talent, technique, skill, pace, flair. Team spirit doesn't do anything for any of those, and yet they're what we are missing in abundance. Ideally we want team spirit too, but quality always wins out in this league. I disagree. The winners in football always have team spirit. Teams with quality players that win nothing almost not. Robinho at Man City is a good case study. Robinho clearly didn't want to go there, and did so purely because of the money. Shit example. Nonetheless, name a success that wasn't built on team spirit...

Absofuckinglutely. I don't think anyone will disagree. However, it is possible to have a different opinion on what will make a quality player for the team we've got. Talent, technique, skill, pace, flair. Team spirit doesn't do anything for any of those, and yet they're what we are missing in abundance. Ideally we want team spirit too, but quality always wins out in this league. I disagree. The winners in football always have team spirit. Teams with quality players that win nothing almost not. Robinho at Man City is a good case study.

Absofuckinglutely. I don't think anyone will disagree. However, it is possible to have a different opinion on what will make a quality player for the team we've got.

Our survival is not dependent on a few players being good, more it relies on 5-8 players not being bad. Rock the boat with an individual like Ben Arfa, watch team morale drop, and watch NUFC drop down the league just like before. Our survival depends on us being able to score enough goals against the dross that fills the bottom half of the league, currently our attack isn't good enough to do this. Have you actually got any evidence Ben Arfa is a bad apple as a pose to a stereotypically sulky Frenchman? People posted links to articles when he was first linked. Yes we do need quality players, probably 5 or 6, but buy the wrong ones and you end up with the Newcastle non-team that got themselves relegated with players that showed up against the big teams, and then lost to Hull. Ben Arfa is a wrong one, and I personally don't think Hughton even wants him.

Our survival is not dependent on a few players being good, more it relies on 5-8 players not being bad. Rock the boat with an individual like Ben Arfa, watch team morale drop, and watch NUFC drop down the league just like before.

Cleverley will never make the Man Utd team. We'd be building him up for ourselves if we really wanted him.

I reckon Ben Arfa would have a negative impact on the team. Cleverley would have a small positive impact.

We are going to get more from having a strong team of eleven men this season. A poncy player who has sulked his way out of France's two biggest teams is definitely not what our team needs. He's hardly top level anyhow.

I would tend to agree. Me too.

Just read this thread through having come in. I must say that it is probably one of the best threads in the history of the forum, well played lads

Rene Adler

please tell me thats a joke Its not word for word, but its not a joke. It was in FourFourTwo

Read an absolutely unbelievable comment about Hughton today. Apparently he's done a good job because the club have been linked with trying to replace him every week for the last year. Source: Jamie Redknapp.

We've got to win this. Think of all the children that visit NUFC's trophy cabinet on the stadium tours for the next 1000 years. They will want to know all about Alan Smith, Kevin Nolan, and Leon Best.

You mean if we win it we get a life size replica?

Yeah, but he's a defensiv midfielder? Well they've got plenty of other players, and Ben Arfa sounds like a player most clubs will want to avoid because they value their team ethic. I for one would rather we went elsewhere unless it was a loan.

I want us to win the trophy. Then when we secure survival, run around SJP with that trophy like a bunch of loons.

Mid June is popular with serious footballers. In a World Cup year? The reason we had a load of WAG weddings in 2007 was because most international players avoid booking them when a tournament is on. With hindsight they could of booked a wedding in 2008. Sol was not at the World cup. Was it a deal breaker for Sol that Ash had to be there, sweet. I think either Sol wanted to be at the World Cup or was planning to retire when he booked the wedding.

Well at least if he is putting love before football we can be happy that he isn't out every night trying to shag team mates wives behind his pregnant wife's back.

Has to be deeply worrying that the press will try and dig a rift between Sol and the fans, and Sol seems to bite at a minority of idiots.

It doesn't matter how often or more accurately it is translated, it still means the same thing!

I'd already made perfect sense of it thank you.