James

I presume you are just going off the photos again, does that mean Edgar is now infront of Taylor in the pecking order for centre back? Those sentences were meant to be independent of each other, but I see how they can look now you mention it. I was thinking more about the fact that they are both left footers.

Enrique is fit btw, but played in the weaker team at the SJP practice match. It would seem that Kadar and Tozer are now in front of him in the reckoning I'd say.

In a couple of days a newspaper will probably tell us that Ashley sleeps in Mackem Pyjamas and that Mort has a picture of Gareth Southgate tatooed on his back, while Wise, Veterre and Jiminez hold swinging parties with Roy Keane, Niall Quinn and Nyron Nosworthy, and the board are trying to get us relegated to win a bet. People like McDonald36 will believe every single word and announce that we've got another board full of incompetent twats.

I prefer to stand at football matches, and I'd always choose to go into the terraces to watch sell out games if the option is there. I don't like standing when there are allocated seats though. There is the whole sit down stand up fiasco that has you going up at crucial moments, only whatever is often missed as the people in front stood up before you did, and then its an annoying fuss to sit down if you've travelled with a bag and coat to a stadium with limited space. Then if its standing the whole way through, the fact that all the seats have been packed so close together, and the whole square nature of the stadium means that a corner of the pitch is completely obscured, and you can't move anywhere to do anything about it. I'm 5'10", but the only sell-out stadium I've been too where I've been sat in the back corner of a stand and been able to see as much of the action as I've wanted, and stood the whole game is Wembley, and that's because the seats have enough room in front of them to move so that you can see between the few heads in front, and I think the bowl shape of the stadium also helps. If there were terraces, there would be no seat allocation, so people can choose to be either where the best atmosphere is, or be where they can see the game, but unless clubs want to cut attendances by removing every other seat, standing in seated areas is a no-no for me.

Might be interesting to watch Kadar in action - Keegan really rates him based on when he has trained with the first team.

Happy Birthday Sir Bob.

He was bigging up Kadar on one of his World interviews.

He was great in an old Football Manager.

Paul Kitson?

There are quite a lot of similarities between Beckham and Keegan to be honest.

Sunday Monday Habib Beye started on this forum btw.

It was widely believed when we signed Jonathan Woodgate that a similar deal for John Terry was also in an advanced stage, and that it was up to Robson to choose which one to go for. What if he had opted for Terry instead? How would things have turned out?

Happy Birthday!

We'll be going all out to win the league next season. For that reason, I think that we could attract players like Jason Koumas, Rob Earnshaw, Darren Huckerby, maybe bring back Matty Patisson

Looks like the Keegan factor has helped about as much as Allardyce's fitness regime then? Once fitness is fucked, its hard to bring back - we'll be playing catch up in that respect for the rest of the season. I wonder, was the bad run Bolton went on after Christmas last year fitness related?

One of Keegan's post match interviews iirc, either after Bolton or Arsenal.

Wasn't Allardyce (Pro-Zone, heart monitors and all) meant to be the dog's swingers at getting players fit though? When Keegan turned up at training, he apparently discovered that Allardyce had ditched all high intensity training, meaning that the only high intensity stuff happenning for the players was on match days. I guess Allardyce's regime was not suitable for many of our players.

It can be made much clearer, I don't see the problem here. Nobody's asking you to explain Data Co's rules and people aren't getting on your backs or having at go at any of you (people have been having a go at Data Co if anyone at all). All that's being asked is for clarification on your own judgements of this rule. I can understand you might not want to sit there and write a massive post that described 100% what you consider to be against the rules, that's why some people are posting scenario's that only require a yes or no answer. Sorry mate but you're paranoid if you think people here have been trying to start an argument with the mods. Quite a few people have posted genuine questions, some have been answered, while others have been met with flippant posts by people who seem to take questions as some form of attack. I honestly don't understand what you're problem is. Basically, naming four or more upcoming fixtures in a way that someone else will understand (ie no nicknames) is against the rules. Does that clear things up? Sorry if the admin come across all arsey, but the two forums that this site replaced in 2004 were shut down without warning by the server because DataCo sent a threatening letter to the server without anyone talking to the respective sites first. Since then, we end up having to clarify the rules several times a year, but in the end of the day, they are just doing what they do to keep the site running for you, the user, yet they do get grief from some.

When Geremi played for us in central midfield this season: Cacapa had someone to pass to, the defence hoofed it less, and the defence lost possession less. He generally had the second or third best passing percentage in the team, after Cacapa and Owen. This was despite receiving more passes than any other midfielder. He was at about 80-85% per game. Butt, Barton and Smith have been 65-75% with less passes. (See Telegraph) He's been involved in the build up to about four times more goals per game than Butt and Smith. This generally comes from intersecting the opponents from deep then finding Milner or N'Zogbia down the wings. We've had better results when he's played CM. However, his legs have gone, and we suffer in the second half like we do with whoever we play CM at the moment. Until we can get a better player who can manage 90 minutes, I'd give Geremi and Emre a half each, partnering Barton or N'Zogbia.

Took a break from my weekend excursion to watch the match in the pub. We had a good first half, Owen showed his class, and just before the second half started, the pub decided to switch over to six nations. By the time I found another pub, we were two one down, walked out after the third, and didn't find out about the fourth until this morning. I still don't know anything about the Villa goals apart from Carew's to make it 3-1. Don't know who scored them or anything.

Congrats to Geremi. I really hope the final goes well for him.

You see, I am a revolutionary figure in the English game.

The only move abroad I could accept would be a bi-annual playoff of 8 or 16 teams, based on the best performers over two seasons. Therefore league and cups are left untouched.

Put it this way, Bentley would solve our impotency on the right wing, and with him in the team, we would not need a creative central midfielder, we'd just need a good defensive midfielder to partner Barton. As such, I believe that Bentley could kill two birds with one stone, while not increasing the lightweightedness of our team.