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And pisses me off when tabloids have him on all the "Worst signings of the season" lists... Ultimately he has to be considered a terrible signing though. Nearly 6 million for a guy I'd struggle to pick out from a line-up of somewhat similiar looking guys. There's other circumstances that have effected him, of course, but you can't argue with people calling him a terrible signing at this point. Why can't you argue? How many goals have we seen from our highly paid strike force this season? Not many, and Xisco has barely seen the field despite how shite they've been. I'm not saying its his fault, and if Shearer thinks he can get something from him and wants to keep hold this summer then I'm all for it. Clearly, he didn't get a fair go under the previous regime and there must be something about him to score goals in La Liga. But when you pay 6 million for a guy and leave him to rot in the reserves, it can't be called anything other than a terrible signing. Didn't Alan Pardew bench Tevez and Mascherano? Yeah. I'm not saying Xisco isn't a good player, just so far he's been a terrible signing. The two really have nothing to do with each other. Joey Barton was a terrible signing for us, but he's a very good player.

And pisses me off when tabloids have him on all the "Worst signings of the season" lists... Ultimately he has to be considered a terrible signing though. Nearly 6 million for a guy I'd struggle to pick out from a line-up of somewhat similiar looking guys. There's other circumstances that have effected him, of course, but you can't argue with people calling him a terrible signing at this point. Why can't you argue? How many goals have we seen from our highly paid strike force this season? Not many, and Xisco has barely seen the field despite how shite they've been. I'm not saying its his fault, and if Shearer thinks he can get something from him and wants to keep hold this summer then I'm all for it. Clearly, he didn't get a fair go under the previous regime and there must be something about him to score goals in La Liga. But when you pay 6 million for a guy and leave him to rot in the reserves, it can't be called anything other than a terrible signing.

And pisses me off when tabloids have him on all the "Worst signings of the season" lists... Ultimately he has to be considered a terrible signing though. Nearly 6 million for a guy I'd struggle to pick out from a line-up of somewhat similiar looking guys. There's other circumstances that have effected him, of course, but you can't argue with people calling him a terrible signing at this point.

http://i44.tinypic.com/2ng7c55.gif The change in his expression as he escapes to the woods is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

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Oh aye, this really changes my opinion like. Thought Kinnear was the business before I read this.

Unnecessary.

If relegation is still in the balance on the last day I don't think Ferguson will be quite enough of a cunt to send out a 3rd string outfit. He'll leave out the guys that it would be a major blow to lose, the stars of the team if you will, but there'll be some pressure on him in the week leading up to the game if rolling over could save Hull. They'll still probably half-ass it of course, but I expect it'll be a reasonably decent team that takes the field on the day.

Someone photoshop some decks in front of Dowie.

I'd say he's very consistent actually. He'll never be the difference maker you want in a winger, his end product just isn't there. But every team needs workers, guys who will put in the donkey work and run their legs off to create space for the impact players. Ji Sung Park is a bit like that for Man U, he rarely does anything special but he finds his way on to the pitch for most of Man U's big games because Ferguson knows that against other quality teams the difference can often be which side works harder. If we stay up I'd want to keep him and see what he can do with some better players around him. Get a winger on the other side who has got a bit of quality in his final ball and a couple of central midfielders who can give us some better distribution and he'll be a lot less frustrating for us. He always shows for the ball and never hides, a team needs characters like that. That said, I'll not be heartbroken if he leaves.

That moment where it broke to him in the first half and he had a bit of space to run at the Boro defence was depressing. He had Guthrie open to his right and somehow managed to not see him before lobbing an aimless ball into the box. It genuinely looked like he didn't have a clue what to do. Pre-injury he'd have run at the defence and tried to get a shot away, but he just can't do it anymore and he knows it.

Superstar!

I'd taken the numbers to be like a percentage. As in 3 = 30% chance you think we'll go down and so on and so forth. I'd be somewhere between a 3 and a 4 at the moment like. As in I think if the last couple of weeks of the season were played out three seperate times we'd go down one of those times. Never said Hull would win at Bolton, either, and they may not have to. Point could be enough. And yes I know they're shite but did you see the Bolton-Sunderland game at the weekend? I did and it wasn't pretty, Bolton have switched off and that could even the playing field for Hull. And Fulham may not have the best of away form but we're hardly a powerhouse now are we? Nowt wrong with a bit of hope but to see what I read as you saying we have only about a 10% chance of going down, when we're only out of the relegation on goal difference with two fixtures to go, just really made me shake my head tbh.

If we stayed up and Shearer didn't offer him a new deal then I'd start to really believe that he can take us places as manager. Easy thing to do would be offer him a new deal on reduced wages, but you don't become a great manager doing the easy thing.

Rather give Viduka a new deal than Owen. Both are crocks, at least Viduka can offer something when he's on the pitch though. He's still only 33, if Shearer can motivate him to get himself on the pitch more often then he'd be good to have around for another season. Obviously we'll need an alternative at CF because relying on Viduka alone would be lunacy.

Hilariously over-optimistic tbh, we're still pretty much shit remember? Despite being an absolutely dreadful team, Boro still were well in the game last night until the last few minutes. If Emnes wasn't a complete disaster of a footballer we'd have been in trouble. Luckily, Hull are an even worse team right now and are more likely to go down than us, that can't be denied. But Bolton have given up on the season, and I can easily see Hull getting something there if things go their way. We'll be rejuvinated against Fulham and I think we'll give em a good game, but they're a very well organised side who'll punish us if we're dodgy at the back and will be vastly harder to create chances against than Boro were. Just hate this attitude some people have adopted now that we've finally eeked out a home win against one of the worst teams in the league, like everything's going to be rosey from here on in. We're still right down there in the shit, make no mistake about it.

There's no reason whatsoever that Hull can't get something at Bolton, did you see them against the Mackems last Saturday. It's gonna be a terrible game between a truly shit team (Hull) and a below average team who've given up on the season (Bolton) and it's more or less impossible to call what way it'll go. I think we'll need a point more to stay up, at least. I think we'll get it against Fulham, too. 1-1.

Didn't think he was particularly good last night myself, bit better than he's been in most games but he'd fucking want to be. Did have a hand in the last two goals though so deserves some credit for that.

Just noticed this post. I doubt it was serious, and Im probably being insane, but can you actually do that? Honestly, what the fuck do you think?

If his name wasn't Michael Owen then he'd struggle to get a game in the Championship these days. Actually felt bad for him tonight for the first time. He was actually trying, the poor fucker, and still was so absolutely desperate it defied words. To think, five years ago he was legitimately one of the world's best players. Now he's reduced to this slow, weak, lumbering attempt at a footballer we see before us today. It's actually pretty sad, tbh.

Fuckin' hell, that was pure torture until the moment our third hit the net. Massive, massive win. Thought the crowd was immense, fair play to everyone who was there. Harper - 6 - Not much he could have done about the goal really and was competent otherwise. Beye - 7 - Unlucky for the OG, but worked his socks off the entire rest of the game and got forward very well. Bassong - 6 - He and Taylor never looked comfortable the entire game really, made some good challenges but has had better games for us. Taylor - 7 - Same as Bassong, but with an absolutely massive goal. Duff - 8 - Hated him for so long, but he's been one of our best players the last month. Never stopped trying, and for a makeshift left-back he's done very well defensively. Butt - 6 - Typical performance from him, good work off the ball neutralized by his desperate attempts at being a footballer when in possession. If he'd just realise that he's shit at passing he'd be so much better. Nolan - 5 - Seems to be earning plenty of praise on here, which I find odd. Offers very little, slow and immobile and generally just no sort of threat whatsoever. Hides an awful lot as well. Two assists mask what was another very poor display. Guthrie - 7 - Average sort of performance for the most part, but his delivery is by far and away the best at the club and his set-pieces looked our best chance of a goal all night. Jonas - 6 - Lot of nothing from him tonight, never stops looking for the ball and his workrate defensively is great but was ineffective tonight for the most part. Viduka - 9 - Absolute class. Fat, slow and old yet still produced more moments of genuine class than every other player on the pitch combined. Owen - 4 - Sad what he's become, actually felt for the bloke tonight as he was actually trying and still managed to give as ineffective a performance as you'll likely ever see. Time to put this one down, I'm afraid, he's had a good run. Martins - 7 - Massive goal, still looks to be moving a bit awkward but barring any sort of decapitation he needs to start ahead of Owen from here on in. Lovenkrands - 7 - Sealed the win, pissed about a bit before then for the most part but worked hard. Carroll - 6 - Did fine. All in all, fair play to the entire team. Nolan made up for his performance with two crucial assists, while Owen was pitiful but it's really hard to blame the guy anymore. To summise... http://blog.3bulls.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/01/Flair%202.jpg WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No luck then. They do a pretty solid pint of Guiness in that pub btw, it costs something like 7 euro mind you.

I really wish we'd bring back the black and white striped nets, they were the business. The new nets are why we are where we are, make no mistake about it.

Yeah, saw that. Crazy that the bookies actually have us staying up. Beat Boro and we'll be looking quite good, which is absolutely crazy when you think how shit we've been since early September.