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and to think that Tevez is suspended/out. The number of attacking options they've got is just insane, must be the strongest ever in the Premier league

and he was duly booked for it. Later was sent off too for some typical Barclona play acting, so what's the problem?

so who did he hugged again and any idea why?

Yup you sure did rated Carroll even saying that he was better than Suarez How times have changed. Quite a few (valiantly led by the likes of Wullie) was not willing to sell him for even 50 million when he was sold. I want us to get one more striker in January but no thanks to Carroll. As for his current value, probbaly around the 12M mark now

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Why is it the moment there's even a hint of criticisms to some posters, then the immediate response is either to terminate membership or to be more discreet (whatever that means)?

Agree with this, the Barfa fans boys/girls are getting a bit tiring. Yes he is the best player we have now but it's not like we never had great players playing for us before. Shearer played for us and as far as I am concerned, is a legend and belongs to an elite class of players, yet even he had to be slowly introduced back into the team after his injury.

yup so let's throw out the likes of Rooney and Walcott then, the over reaction in this thread puts the English press to shame!

This. Especially in regards to rebuilding. One only has to look at Germany and what Lowe has done there to appreciate what an important effect rebuilding the national team can have upon football and player development in a country. The same needs to happen here - I mean young, in form players are hardly going to be incentivised when it's the same old faces being picked playing the same brand of football. The FA would do well to replicate Germany's model IMO. And in regards to Capello, I still find it utterly astonishing that after 5 years in this country and £6 million a year, he can only just manage a sentence in broken English. Nonsense! You never heard any of his interviews then? Sure his English could be better but "one sentence in broken English"? Bet you're the type who would prefer a McClaren coz at least he speaks immaculate English never mind that he's rubbish

Look, it boils down to personal judgment. Anyone has every right to say that HBA is on par with Modric without being labelled deluded as much as you have every right to say that Modric is the better player without being labelled a pessimist jerk. Its all subjective and no need to think that you are more right than others

It seems that some are so worried that we will be likened to the SMB that we somehow can't even praise our players anymore. I could not care less what others think of us.

I don't quite get the point that a player needs to play consistently in the premier league before we can assess how good they are. These players have played at many clubs before and some of them even in Champions League and we can't assess them? It's premised on the same shit that we should get overpriced English players instead of continental players because English players adapt better in the premier league. Anyone who has seen HBA play in France (domestic and national) would know that HBA is at least as good as Modric or VDV for that matter. Now of course if he is not fit, then that is another matter.

You could pretty much post this about twenty times a day (minimum) throughout the board. It only really matters to Dave when the poster posting 'aggressively' does so in support of a view contrary to what Dave believes in i.e. any attempt to give Pardew and the board more credit that Dave think he/they deserve. If it's someone running down the evil regime, they can be as aggressive as they want as long as they don't start cursing.

Wait till we lose against spuds, then many would be changing their votes to terrible!

I know it's a cliche but the match will be decided in the midfield battle. Spuds will have Sandro, Parker, Bale, VDV and Modric vs our Tiote, Cabaye, Jonas and Obertan. If it is 5 vs 4, we will get over run unless one of Ba and Best drops down to help the midfield or both of them cause problems to their defence that Sandro and Parker have to drop deep which then allows Tiote and Cabaye to dictate midfield. On paper their midfield has more quality (especially with Obertan being a bit of hit and miss). I would be tempted to go with one striker just so that we can add numbers to the midfield but I don't think HBA is ready to start and not sure who to drop between Best and Ba. For us to win, Tiote and Cabaye must have a 9/10 sort of game.

I fear that we will lose and then all hell will break lose over here

I have a solution...........let's just play with 12 players!

How bad was the knock?

Why in the world is Lovenkrads in instead of Barfa? Pardew is doing a Pardew again!

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Such a ridiculous decision!

so she has really left the forum?

Johnny I don't think most people begrudged him for leaving to a club that most would perceive to be better and more ambitious, it is just the way he dragged things out and stringed us along. Plus after all his confession about how much he loved the fans, his latest comment about training in Liverpool is better than at Newcastle was unnecessary and just disrespectful.

so what happened to Mimi?

Why you decide to keep him baffles me & others far greater. Is it purely up to me like? People seem to have a good time conversing with him. Anyway, seeing as you're so bothered by it, I've added a poll somewhere. You/admin, you know what i meant. Good time? He pollutes the forum with his bile and brings out the worst in people and brings it down to his level, it resembles RTG any time he posts; didn't think this forum wanted to go down that route. If people want to converse with muppets they can go join RTG, plenty of choice there and the same s*** is churned out over and over, be like a pig and cover themselves in it, drown in it for all I care, just sick of decent toon fans drawn in by this w*****. Are we allowed to freely abuse him? If not its like putting a biscuit on the end of a dogs nose and if it dares move punching it in the face. You are free to rise above it, ignore his posts and move on. If no-one answered his posts he'd sharp lose interest in baiting. Whilst an individual is free to rise above the baiting (or WUMming), that's never gonna happen on a collective basis in an internet forum is it?? End result is inevitably that the thread gets hijacked and descends in nonsensical abuse.