Decky

Cant sit back against teams like this, they always score.

Whats he said?

Beckham on loan for a few months would be great. Wouldnt do the profile of the club any harm either He most certainly wouldn't come though.

Worst pre match thread in the history of the forum. Talk about something else (maybe the match?) you boring bastards

None of us can read those!

Anything less than 3 points is not good enough when we go to their place tbh.

FC United looking good for the draw on Sunday. Man Utd vs FC United would be tasty.

Fucking hell the Mackems are decent this year

Howay Bolton and Wolves. Cant believe the scoreline at Everton!

Wtf?! :lol: Did that buck toothed monster who stalks the team make that?

Boxing Day tbh. Before Christmas.

If we sold Carroll for silly money then you can guarantee some of it would go back into the club, and not in the form of transfers. Some of it would go to transfers of course but I cant see all of it just being spent again straight away. All this talk of it lining Ashley's pockets is just stupid though and you can guarantee if we sold Carroll for £25 million and didn't then spend that amount in the window, people would be screaming about Ashley pocketing some of it. For what its worth I don't think we should sell Carroll at all. We have to show some ambition to try and get back to where we used to be and selling our best players isnt how we will get there. The thought of £30 or £40 million is brilliant as it would help us build a better squad than we have now, but is it really worth selling Carroll when we could easily keep him and slowly build the same kind of squad? We wont even get close to those amounts anyway, we would be lucky to get even £25 million probably. As for Shearer's record, I think Carroll has a long way to go. Shearer was a different kind of player not just with his ability but with his personality. He wanted to stay here and be the hero, he wanted to try and win things with his home town club and the lure of other, bigger clubs just didn't interest him. I'm not sure the same can be said about a young player in todays game, especially when we are a completely different side to the one Shearer joined. Shearer played in a side that was competing at the top every now and then and playing in Europe regularly. The lure of medals and the likes of City, Man Utd etc might be too much for someone like Carroll playing for a side that is only aiming to survive relegation (at the moment anyway). It also remains to be seen just how good Carroll can be as the league has seen its fair share of 1 season wonders.

You know you want to touch all of that 12" rock hard black power until it shoots white stuff all over your face. Just as long as no one had their mobiles out... er... recording it or texting people about it.

Forgot this was happening soon, just seen its this weekend. Who would yous like to get? I think the mackems at home again would be tasty. Here are the numbers, we are 27. 1 Arsenal 2 Aston Villa 3 Barnsley 4 Birmingham City 5 Blackburn Rovers 6 Blackpool 7 Bolton Wanderers 8 Bristol City 9 Burnley 10 Cardiff City 11 Chelsea 12 Coventry City 13 Crystal Palace 14 Derby County 15 Doncaster Rovers 16 Everton 17 Fulham 18 Hull City 19 Ipswich Town 20 Leeds United 21 Leicester City 22 Liverpool 23 Manchester City 24 Manchester United 25 Middlesbrough 26 Millwall 27 Newcastle United 28 Norwich City 29 Nottingham Forest 30 Portsmouth 31 Preston North End 32 QPR 33 Reading 34 Scunthorpe United 35 Sheffield United 36 Stoke City 37 Sunderland 38 Swansea City 39 Spurs 40 Watford 41 West Bromwich Albion 42 West Ham United 43 Wigan Athletic 44 Wolves 45 Sheffield Wednesday or Northampton Town 46 Burton Albion or Chesterfield 47 Huddersfield Town or Macclesfield Town 48 AFC Wimbledon or Stevenage Borough 49 Hartlepool United or Yeovil Town 50 Bury or Peterborough United 51 Notts County or AFC Bournemouth 52 Droylesden or Leyton Orient 53 Crawley Town or Swindon Town 54 Brighton & Hove Albion or FC United 55 Southampton or Cheltenham Town 56 Torquay United or Walsall 57 Charlton Athletic or Luton Town 58 Colchester United or Swindon Supermarine 59 Hereford United or Lincoln City 60 Port Vale or Accrington Stanley 61 Wycombe Wanderers or Chelmsford City 62 Carlisle United or Tamworth 63 Dover Athletic or Aldershot Town 64 Darlington or York City

How long is Gyan out for then?

A Sunday league ref would have gave that penalty man

Sick of Guthrie on the right. Really cant wait for Gosling to come back.

They're central defenders, man. If they can't do 90 minutes there's something seriously wrong. 90 minutes against Chelsea though. They will have to do a lot of running and most of the game will be spent defending as well.

Sol and Taylor are great replacements to have of course, but it remains to be seen just how fit they are. In an ideal world they would only play 20 minutes or so on Sunday. Have they got 90 minutes each?

When was the last time we had 3 players from our starting 11 banned at the same time for violent conduct?

Fucking hell. Three 3 match bans already this season man

After losing 5-1 to Bolton we would probably beat the likes of Blackpool with a cracking performance. Unfortunately the team will probably put in a good performance this weekend and still lose. Similar to Man City away.

Really hate the fact that Chelsea is our next game

Worst time more like. 2 defeats back to back for them, all these crisis rumours. Perfect time for the "Crisis? What crisis?" headlines on Monday morning.