James

£100 million debt meant that it was time the last board moved on.

When were we regulars in the top 4? There were Newcastle love-ins at Sky between about 1994-1997 and 2001-2004. It paranoia to be honest. Commentators are always going to show more approval towardsthe better teams because they play better football.

It would be great if somebody could summarise what was said.

Just looked it up, I stand corrected. As he played competative football for the U21's, he can no longer play for Nigeria. TBH, who cares? Didn't Tim Cahill get that rule rescinded? Is he playing in the ACN as well? He played a competitive game for Samoa U21s aged 14, but now plays for Australia. You only become resticted to one country if you play for the Seniors.

I'm just saying that I'm familiar with the footballing environment the kid would have been brought up on. At school, playground facilities consisted of narrow alleyways between concrete buildings, plus a minute fenced in playground shared by 100 pupils where any ball played over six feet equals a lost ball. After school, due to the estate being on a steep hill there were not very many places to play, so it was a case of either jumping over the school gate, or playing on my Gran's cul-de-sac which was built on the same platform that had been raised for the school. The nearest park was mostly woodland apart from a very steep grassy bank. It took a ten minute drive to get to the nearest playing field, and parking was difficult. Thus he was raised in an environment where kids had to improvise in tight spaces in order to keep the ball under the teams control.

My Dad went to that school, and was in the same team as Francis and got to the Plymouth Schools Cup Final with him. My Dad was inside left, and Francis was centre forward. Also, my Grandmother lived about 100 metres from this school, and when I was younger, I'd spend many Saturdays in Pennycross playground, or the nearest park, or the adjoining cul-de-sac playing football with the local kids - there is a fair chance that I could have played with him at some point. This does mean though that Tozer lived in a part of Plymouth where he wouldn't have had much access to football on flat grass until he moved on to Plymstock aged 12, so he would have learnt his early skills in a very compact concrete environment with kids that could be described as slightly rough. This could hopefully mean that Tozer is a mentally strong and technical player.

Just looked it up, I stand corrected. As he played competative football for the U21's, he can no longer play for Nigeria. TBH, who cares? Didn't Tim Cahill get that rule rescinded?

I reckon they just read that we were losing four Africans, and forgot about Geremi.

Emre will never be fit enough to start. He's bound to disappoint. Last 30 minutes off the bench is how he is most effective, and therefore how he should be used.

Jesper Gronkjaer

Like I said earlier: As long as we invest in youth and match it with the best players we can possibly get now, there is no problem. Shepherd's transfer policy helped leave us £100m in debt, a lot of which was spent in periods when we weren't competitive, and there was too much short-termism. Short-termism is only good if there is also a good long-term plan in place - something that we did not have post-Robson.

Paul Pott's teeth straightening surgery went badly wrong.

The next Maradonna tbh. Pele man, get it right. Rob Lee

Place one youngster with excellent potential in a team of misfits that wont make it professionally in the reserve or youth teams is not going to turn that youngster into a good Premiership player. The better the crop of youngsters in our academy/reserves, the better the chances that one or two players will come into our first team and become a good regular feature. Its survival of the fittest, and the fittest has had to constantly better himself to stay ahead of the opposition. This is partly how the youth setup works in Brazil.

With our Youth Team getting knocked out of the FA Youth Cup by Shrewsbury, we need to bring in as many good youngsters as possible.

Not holding it against Capello, but that press conference was an absolute mess, from Barwick shouting at everyone at the beginning, the press asking some rude, unanswerable questions, the translator mis-translating, the translator interrupting Capello, Brooking only speaking to deny saying something mentioned in a question to Capello, and Capello generally understanding more than what he was letting on.

Its a fitness related substitution. Geremi's performance always drops in the second half.

You would have Rozehnal in the team ahead of Cacapa HTL?

Drop Martins. Play N'Zogbia up front and play Enrique at left back. Drop Butt. Play Rozehnal in midfield and Faye/Taylor/Edgar centre back.

Yes, Geremi has been poor lately, but to say "get rid of him" is just stupid. He clearly can play well as he has shown in pre-season and we're going to have to be patient with him. If he doesn't find his form eventually then he'll have to be more of a bit-part player and someone else will have to be captain. He's also decent at right back if Beye is ever injured or moves to the centre. im entitled to my own opinion never mind your entitled to your own opinion its twenty past eleven at night now get to bed me lad Your IP matches, so even pretending for a minute you aren't just Kev, why don't you just say it to him in person? who's ip matches who's ? Kev and loves the toon have the same IP address. 20mins between posts. he has the same ip as me when he stays at mine.he signs on my pc in his name hes at home so hes on his own http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-ghosts/HomeAlone.jpg

It was more the overly-dramatic statements rather than construction, for me anyway. You don't agree that our 'squud will collapse'? Not as such, no. It may collapse, but it will gain an extra u in the process.

Does Kev have more than one IP address?

There is a big difference going to a new country, being introduced to a different culture and playing in another league than joining a team in the same league where your team mates are brilliant. If he was good he would easily adapt into that back 4. Is Ben Haim's positioning 1 out of 20 in FM by any chance? Chelsea are a completely different culture to Bolton tbf.

Some players don't work at certain clubs. Doesn't make them shite. You should know all about this Luque fanboy