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With the news on injuries etc i'll change my line up to: -------------Harper------------- Solano---Taylor---bramble---Carr Dyer----Butt-----Emre------Milner ----------Owen ---Martins------ I would bring zoggy on for the worst out of dyer and milner in the second half and also give shola a run out later on aswell.

Harper Nobby---Taylor---Bramble----Carr Dyer----Emre---Butt-------Milner ---------Shola---Martins---

Yes, immediate reaction is ungrateful ****ard! But I would readily accept 6-8 million for him as long as it was spent on two decent defenders i.e. Dyer=2 defenders...yes please! I would also take the same for Parker as it seems plain to me that he doesn't gel with the team as good as emre and butt do (or sidwell and emre?). I honestly hope we have a half decent clear out and get some decent defenders and perhaps another midfielder...

What this club needs is stability.... At this time that equates to Glenn Roeder being here for another year. Would any manager come to NUFC when we are the only club who changes their managers more than ...Real mADRID (every year) It is obvious that we will strengthen the defence and hopefully we will get rid of dyer and anyone else who's heart isn't in it! We are on the right Roed (ha..ha) at the moment and for once I can't fault his team selection so it could just be the start of something

Milner had to cover him when he made forward runs, that is simple football logic being played to perfection!

The fans are as bad as the team in my opinion: completely inconsistent and only turn up for the big games!!! Reply only if you think you're hard enough

I only saw the game on telly yesterday but Carr was excellent in both halves, I don't think I've seen him play that well on the right and Baba will have to up his game 200% to get near the standard of yesterday... Didn't put a pass wrong and was a textbook modern day left back!! He is still inconsistent, but that seems to be the problem for the whole of our team not just Stephen Carr!! FFS we can grind out results against the supposed best teams "in europe" (see champs league) yet we can pish away games against less than average outfits such as Fulham man city etc...etc. Boils my urine, it does!!!

I would have thought that most dead wingers were overated.... the only crosses they could get near to are the ones six foot above their heads....ha....ha...ha

Wes brown is streets ahead of anyhting we have on our books!!! Gabriel Heinze would be a magnificent signing, really rate him!

Hope fully we'll spend around 15 million this summer.. 4 decent defenders for that money!!

Why hasn't he used emre in the middle instead of one of the Butt-Parker partnership all of the time? It makes sense to everybody else...

We should really be looking to bring in another striker regardless of whether we sell martins or not. We aren't going to keep sibs I suppose and only having shola as back up doesn't inspire confidence. Owens, martins, shola and ............. (dyer-emergency back up)

P.S. did nobody notice my little argument cheat? Ronaldo - crespo? Don't they play on opposing teams? Devious bastard eh?

Transition period is the term most people in the football world refer to when a foreign player doesn't set the world on fire... The one thing that we can all be certain of is that we do not have any idea how Owen and Oba will play together...until the day they do...

And it's also no surprise that when he's been utter crap, the rest of the team has. It's obvious they look to him for inspiration! Just shows the respect they have for him...

i.e. a la Van Buyten (wasn't a striker was he?)

Okay instead of point scoring lets see what Martins does have going for him: He has bags of skill and bags of pace. He is relatively young so I think that he can only get better, it's also his first season here and he has adapted better than a lot of other foreign strikers have.... As for the partnership with owen: The majority of defences will have to sit deep to cope with the pace. This causes larger spaces between midfield and defence which should make it easier for us to be creative? Owen is an area poacher who can find spaces and is generally in the right positions to recieve balls, oba does seem more random and it's hard to fathom out whether they will click or not. I also think that oba isn't bad in the air and he has great spring off the ground and has scored a couple of goals with his head... I would rather we had a good centre back who came up for corners and freekicks and set plays...

Why does the "whole world" think that a successful forward strike partnership has to have a "big man" who can head and hold up the ball and a speedy technical small man.....aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ronaldinho - etoo (both aren't good headers of the ball - not bad footy players though!) Rooney-saha (need I say more?) Ronaldo - crespo ................................................................

Do you only watch the players in the immediate vicinity of the ball? Do robots have tunnel vision? Have you actually seen the team make accurate forward passes for more than say a five- ten minute period in a match?

Tino (for that hatrick and my best night at St James!) Shearer Albert

Kluivert could hold the ball up well, yes, but he was a lazy bugger and didn't know the meaning of teamwork. Gemmil, depends what you mean by movement, he certainly "moves" a hell of a lot more than Kluivert did the only thing being that most of the time it's renedered useless due to the lack of able players to provide a pass...etc..etc I doubt anyone would pay over 10-12million for him, it would also be a mistake for us to sell him for anything less than the "silly" prices quoted (most in jest I would have thought) for a 20 something year old in his first prem season!!"!!!

----------------given-------------- Solano----Moore----Taylor-------Duff Milner----Butt-----Emre--------Zoggy -----------Dyer-----Martins------- FFS it's sheffiel not AC Milan!! All out attack for me!!

The goals scored may be different but you also have to consider the balls chased down, the defenders hassled, the cannels run, going wide to help out and you will note a slight difference in "team play" between the two players mentioned!!

He's been one of the only bright sparks this season. The last few games have been terrible and apart from high balls being lumped up at him he's not had any decent service and the whole "team" apathy that's stuck at the moment seems to be affecting him... Ridiculous if they sell him(25 million would be OK)!

Freddy Shepperd should have implemented a long term plan a long time ago..... I think Roeder has the right ideas/ideals but is incapable of carrying them out. He also seems to lack the iron needed to stand up to shepperd. Another new manager would throw us back into turmoil or would instill a new confidence within the players?? I really don't know? Obviously Van Gaal or Hiddink would be a huge leap in terms of management credentials and realistically would be too good to turn down... But with the fat pie munching cretin at the helm I doubt that these possibilities will ever materialise!