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What?!... Babayaro is an absolutely awful defender! Depends whether you class ability on set piece skills and long shots, in which case Bale is better, or whether you class ability on defensive skills, in which case Babayaro is better. Doesn't necessarily mean Bale wont be better, but from what I've seen in the flesh, he has a hell of a lot to learn. But Babayaro has a lot to learn and he's 29.. Seriously Bale might have loads to learn but that doesn't neccesarily mean he's worse then Baba defensively.

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What?!... Babayaro is an absolutely aweful defender! And for all we know at this point, Bale could be an even worse one. Ramage, Edger and Hunttington are all better at leftback then Baba so I really don't see how that's possible.

What?!... Babayaro is an absolutely awful defender!

You from the east side or the west side? The Birmingham game sums him up? So you are ignoring the 3 MOM performances he put in before that then and yesterdays? Well done, clown! Read the post properly jon. let me take a guess, your still at school Your post reads like the random thoughts of an idiot, one read is more then enough.. Also I think you'll find that a few clubs attempted to sign Milner even when he was in bad form for us. Since then his performances for Newcastle have improved significantly. To be honest I'm amazed that some people are criticising him!..

Do you seriously think he should drop Drogba? He's been there best player this season and has saved them in games on many occasions.

The promise of first team Football got us Owen against all the odds, it got us Martins (who would have stayed ar Inter had they offered him more Football). Just a few examples there.. I'm sure a lot of 17 year olds out there would sign for Manure ahead of us even when they are being offered no chance of regular Football initially. However some young Footballers actually have decent level headed people behind them. You don't know Gareth Bale or his advisers/parents so why even try to suggest that you do. Though personally I wouldn't want Bale for the kind of money being talked about anyway..

So you're saying that Taylor makes as many mistakes now as when he first got into the Newcastle side? Clearly he doesn't, he's improved considerably in that area. Citing one stupid mistake that happened four months ago four England really doesn't prove much. The likes of Tony Adams got sent off for stupid fouls now and then throughout there carears but I don't think you'd claim that Adams was a poor defender. Yes Ramage has looked comfortable during our European games, but then so has the entire side (currently sitting 14th in the league), Titus Bramble has looked great in our European games FFS! I think the problem a lot of people have with Ramage is that he rarely seems to do anything above average. I'm not one to judge a player long term when the majority of his games have been out of position though so I'll give him a chance. But still, if you want to talk about criminal lets talk about his own goal against Bolton "Pavs running towards me.. crap he's almost past me and I'm 5 yards from an open goal... *panic*... I know, I'll head the ball towards goal".

Why not try quoting so that people know who your talking to? Also who do you think should start ahead of Edgar in our current state?, the tooth fairy maybe? Finally you do realise that Edgar is a right footed central defender/defensive midfielder and he was playing at left back. Yet he still did very well.

I can see the odd nob head doing that but not many and certainly not a 17 year old kid from Southampton who just wants first team Football in the Premiership.

hahahhaaa, suggesting Edgar should be anywhere near the first XI when we have a fully fit squad :D Did all our injuries just clear up spontaneaously? Because otherwise we don't have anywhere near a fully fit squad so what are you on about?

I wonder if he's really any better then some of our youngsters though..

I can't believe that article missed out this quote from Given: :lol:

Anyone can be racially abused, its not something exclusive to one race or another..

What's happened to Butt??

Something the laugh at today at least

I'd go:- ......................Given Solano.. Taylor.. Hunty.. Pattinson/Parker ......................Butt ...............Dyer......Emre ......Milner....Martins.... Luque

What a stupid argument.. If scoring penalties was so easy then teams would just rotate who takes them, there's a reason why teams have a penalty taker. Absolute crap, yeah I'm sure when you take pens in the park against your mates its not that hard. But try taking a penalty with thousands of people watching and putting there faith in you to score what is considered an easy chance.. Try taking a penalty for your country knowing your entire nation is watching you and that the next thing you do will make you a hero or a national target. its anything but easy. If you took 50 pens in Premiership games I'd bet you'd miss 40 of them and so would I.

blueyes.gif They really do bully us out of the park. Disappointing after the bright start but I would have taken a draw before the game so it's alright. Must pick up some points at Goodison though, massive game for our confidence/morale. How can they fail when they get every decision going?, cheating cunts.

That's just...... great :roll: Better then having Fatty Fattinson on the bench...

That would be a disaster IMO, Emre's tackling is far to weak.

Yeah he does do more defensively, though I honestly think he does even less offensively at the moment. I'm not saying he shouldn't be involved mind, I just find myself very un-moved by his return

I don't want to turn this into another Luque argument (I know your not trying to, just thought I'd give a disclaimer ). But if Duff is better on both players current form then why has he provided even less then Luque? Duff has scored once and gotten, no assists that I can remember? Even Luque, who has had a disaster, has done more then that in about a quarter of the amount of time on the pitch. IMO both him and Rossi have looked better on the left wing then Duff looked for us before his injury. I mean Duff looks more lively, but seems to have even less actual impact on the game then Luque at the moment. At least he provides some top quality crosses now and again. As I said I'm still confident that Duff can be excellent long term, but at the moment I honestly cannot get even remotely interested in his return.

Have people here forgoten how absolutely shit Duff has been for us? I can't remember him providing anything at all for the team or ever looking like he's going to beat a player (appart from a Uefa cup game against almost amatuer opposition). Rossi and Luque have provided more from the left wing then he has. In fact from the way we've played since he's been out he seems to have made our team worse when he was fit.. I'm not righting him off long term, but is his return really something to be optimistic about at the moment?..

How much cash has this bloke got? Must be quite a lot considering the £450,000,000 Liverpool offer but does anyone have any idea roughly how much he has total?