Keefaz

Don't remember it, but too fucking right. I wouldn't give them a goal back for being muppets.

Ramage is the same next day in th Chron with a "HANDS UP" article, everytime he drops a clanger. Aye, but if you read it he said it was a terrible team performance and an embarassing result. Can't see Ramage coming out with that.

You mightn't rate him as a player, but his honestly is always refreshing.

From't Sun: 'Hopefully this will be the kick up the backside we need. I can’t think of a single player that played anywhere near the level that they are used to. I don’t even think we deserved to get a point. No disrespect to Derby but they’re not one of the top guns. We didn’t prove ourselves against them and we’ve only got ourselves to blame for that. I think the game was a bit of an embarrassment to be honest. 'You would think we would have had the players to have been able to cope with what Derby threw at us. We have enough quality to be able to handle a team that works hard against us and never lets up. We didn’t do that, though. 'We have to move on and show how good we are at the weekend. It’s going to be a test of our character on Sunday, although we can’t dwell on this game for too long. Hopefully, it was just a blip and we can still move forward. We’ll find out if it’s one of those nights or not in the next game. The most important thing is that we don’t make this worse. We’ll have to look at the video, analyse what we did wrong and move on.'

Why the fuck would he need a knuckle-duster? Does he think he's fucking Charles Bronson or something?

Good job I had him down as first scorer. £50k for me, and mum's the word.

It's football, man, you arse.

I don't think Sam rates him, tbh.

Bollocks, obviously.

All I'm looking for is balance. Our current starting XIs have been lop-sided and horrible.

People saying Solano would've helped last night; Geremi basically is a poor-man's Solano. He could've shifted right and had Smith as the attacking CM.

and today i believe sam found that out. if he continues to try it i will lambast him. You've been warned, Allardyce. Lambastment is coming your way.

Dunno. I can see a likeness... http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2506/henrykellycy6.jpg

That's ace. It's true, though. Last season, I heard he went up to a lad in the stands and said, 'I'm gonna do this next slide for you, champ,' then he ran half the length of the pitch, dived in two-footed with as much gusto as he could summon, and high-fived the little scamp as he was sent off.

I'm glad someone said it. It was a lop-sided 4-4-2, like. We played 442 with no width/ wide threat, Smith didn't keep a wide position & Milner only served to stop Zog getting forward. As a result Taylor went galloping down the right or we pumped the ball up to Ameobi who had a complete shocker. That's right. It was what I like to call 'a shit 4-4-2'.

Big Sam on't injury crisis: "We need the Mark Vidukas, the Joey Bartons, the Damien Duffs, the Jose Enriques, even the Celestine Babayaros."

I'd let Milner take the FKs. No one else looks close to scoring from them.

This.

I'm glad someone said it. It was a lop-sided 4-4-2, like.

I'm sure Big Sam said, in the summer, that Rozehnal wouldn't be playing every match and that he is one that he would prefer to bed in slowly to get to grips with the physicality of the game. No shame, then, in dropping him for Taylor or Faye, imo.

I think he still thinks he's at Bolton. Anyone see his pre-match interviews yesterday on Setanta where he talking about 'beating Newcastle' and 'the win over Newcastle'?

While Shola was terrible, he was bound to fail when we tried to play him in a Heskey role. He's hopeless at that job.

No, you know the guy. Kevin or something.

I blame the clinical psychologist's helper.