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Wow, nice sly dig there. He was 1000 yards offside.

Always do, they are pathetic. Come here thinking its a battle of Britain throwing themselves into challenges like they're extras in braveheart. So fuking glad they've lost, 4-1 as well, what a joke. But their fans are bad enough when they've won, no doubt there will be a few cocks looking for a scrap before they go home, but by their usual brave and heroic standard they'll trash a kebab shop and find a lad walking home by himself to jump on. Oh and for what its worth, none of their players impressed me at all McGeady and Brown ??

The West Brom fans I know rate him higher than Curtis Davies. Always looked better than Davies when i've seen him. He's quick n'all. Not a bad signing. Agree he is better than Curtis Davies.

Agreed Hunty didn't look too good today. A left Back/Centerback as the priorities. In the first half linking up with Nobby he looked good. Second half not so good, skinned a couple of times. We need a top quality RB. Swap Dyer + £10m for Micah Richards (ideally) or + £5-6m for Lennon or straight swap for Lucas Neil. To be fair he had a very inexperienced Troisi ahead of him who wasn't offering the cover or outlet nobby was providing.

Striker/lone striker for the last 10/15 mins. Carrol had to go LB as Butt/Taylor got injured.

I would have thought SSN would show it. Especially with Harper's cameo.

Carr did look very competent tonight I'll give him that. On celtics side McGeady and Brown looked like top prospects.

at Harper although he is a much better midfielder than Pattison. 2 half was poor but I don't think it helped with the injuries/repositioning. Troisi runs funny but looked eager. Didn't see much of Edgar to put comment. Pattison is the biggest pile of shit and shouldn't be allowed to touch the turf. Carrol looked strong with a good touch and vision. Just needs to work on chance creation. Harper did well and was instrumental to the 4th goal. Milner, Geremi and Roz put in really good performances with everyone else good to average. Luque was frustrating but at the very least showed he can put the ball in the net.

Huntington left back according to .cock I saw your last line and idd a quick edit. Thanks man Hahaha

LUQUE STARTS! YAY! MILNER LW! YAY! - I think this will become his favored position. He is very effective from the left IMO.

I blame you [me=Leeds Mag]hides. [/me]

[me=Leeds Mag]bans himself. [/me] Apologies.

I wouldn't post that if I was you.

its hard to know if thats her make up or a reflection of the gate behind her!? Legend comment mate!

At least it will shut a couple of arguments up

Bout time we heard something. Come on get some defenders in now!

No.

Fuck off. Pile of shit

To work with Sam silly

Good points. Thing is the clubs are trying to gear their youngsters up for the Premier league - they owe nothing to international football. If you're quick or strong you are more likely to be thrown in and for a good reason. Players like Hugo Viana are simply less likely to cut it if over here. You could give someone like him a runout in the Portuguese league and he'll get time on the ball, bring a young player into the Premiership at that age and he'll struggle. I'd hazard a guess we have more technical players than Alan O'Brien in our reserves, but he got the nod because his pace on occasion meant he might have had an impact on proceedings. We simply can't expect English clubs to train up technical footballers who lack the physical characteristics so important for the Premier League/Championship/League One etc. If Newcastle started bringing through loads of kids who were slow and weak but had great touch and vision, and trained them up playing 5 or 7 a side, they'd probably get murdered when we bring them into the first team. This is why so few Italians/Brazilians have made it playing in the Premier League, and it's probably why English teams are reluctant to train up players who don't have the physical ability to handle the Premiership. There is room for cultured English players like Carrick and Scholes but you've got to be able to handle the pace of the game as well as the football we play in England doesn't lend itself to weak/slow players. A prime example of a world class footballer who would have got nowhere over here is Messi. He was a tiny (4 foot 2"? Due to a growth hormone deficiency) when he made it onto the bench for his team in Argentina. Imagine that over here

I think the problem with bringing through young players in this country is down to three things 1) Matches are about winning not participation. Only a select few kids get to develo pdue to the way most sunday league teams are run 2) Emphasis too soon on 11 v 11. Due to the pitch size in comparison to age this promotes a long ball game. This is also reflected in the lack of emphasis on maintaining possession. Countries which od this well include Brazil/Italy who incidentally use smaller pitches with 5v5/7v7. This promotes a need of good control, vision and creativity and the ability to hold possession in smaller spaces. The game for English young players is based on physicality and the more developed kids get more of a chance. In Italy they don't use a size 5 football until the kids are 14. They don't play 11 v 11 until then either. 3) Tactics. This follows on to much of my previous post. We are totally non versatile and stuck in our ways with regards to tactics. Holland play 4-3-3 throughout their training this leads to the players becoming adept at a number of positions. Our tactics are very much based on physical factors. Just IMO.

Right at the start of June we did I think. I rate him. He scores and is a presence.

I think he is quality. And versatile. And a big bastard. I rate him to be honest.

Nope. Can't agree!