James

Back this month or next.

I'm starting to get the impression that he is going to walk straight back into the team if we continue with our current strategies, and that Allardyce is picking N'Zogbia on the right wing, or Milner on the left wing under the assumption that in the long-term they are second choice to Duff in this position. Does anyone agree with that assessment?

Have to say, enrique seemed quite anonymous from what i saw.

That is a reward, not a punishment.

All credit to him for working that move pretty much by himself, shades of last season. It may have been lucky, but I believe that if the ball hadn't gone in, Owen would have gotten to it and the result would have been the same.

What a crock of shit, not one single decent chance on goal in 94 minutes despite fielding a good strikeforce. Our mentality away from home is shit, and our midfield selection is shit.

He's safe for now, but I'd say its borderline towards the possibility of a suspension.

What did he do? Studded someone in the groin.

Barton should be sent off.

Our biggest problem is that Barton keeps going to ground with no chance of winning the ball, and this is creating too much space for them.

Players ranked in order of goodness in the first half: Faye Harper Smith Emre Viduka Owen Taylor Rozehnal N'Zogbia Milner Barton

Ashley travelled with the fans in one of the coaches then.

Guy who posted this team yesterday said that it might be a 3-4-3.

Training as normal, so must be dropped. What I've noticed with Allardyce is that he seems to have some sort of buzzword each week which reflects the gameplan for the next match, and this week seems to be about Derby experience, he's playing players that have played before in wins over Sunderland, while apart from the two centre backs, all the other players have played in other famous derby games at some point.

I notice Admin have turned off many forum features in anticipation of forum blow-up later.

Viduka took full part in training yesterday, so that shouldn't be an issue.

He wasn't in any training photos, but that doesn't mean that he wasn't there.

Owen does actually link up with the midfield a lot better than martins when we are passing the ball around well. Martins relies a lot more on others than Owen does in my honest opinion.

That's the slowest midfield and attack I've seen in years, and Zoggy and Taylor as fullbacks?! Fucking hell, lets hope Carlos Edwards isn't 100% because he'll murder N'Zogbia if he is. 3-4-3 Is this something you know, or a guess?

No orange bibs in today's training pictures.

OMG, Owen has just admitted that he isn't great!!!!!!11! http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10278~1164072,00.html

I'd love to see Mike Ashley do a pitch invasion.

Where are you hearing that?

Another one, easier, even though its older: http://www.skysports.com/fun_games/missingmen/0,20922,,00.html