Shak

I love playing Spurs.

Been funny had he signed his new deal while walking off.

Pisses me off no end what went down the few days either side of the end of August. The system had a hell of a lot of merit. Would we need to spend more? Sure, but it's not like net spend is the be all end all of things. I wish I could look at it and blame Wise and Jimenez and say they fucked Keegan over. But it's not the case IMO. We had a system that would have worked and really taken us places. A scouting team that could identify players and get them at a good price, and a manager who could put out a team that could win games and play good football. But because 4 or 5 guys haven't got the maturity to work as a team, preferring instead to squabble over power, it all went down the shitter. Now we've Joe Kinnear in charge and a club for sale that nobody wants.

Good to see him getting forward a bit more today. Vastly more use to us in the final third than Butt.

Feared the worst there

He's got no end product man! HTT said so Wasn't he banging on about moving him to CM, play him as a the box-to-box midfield man at the start of the year?

Awesome finish.

Going well so far, we've looked the better side tbh. I'd bring on Duff for Martins though. Stick Duff at left-back, Bassong into center midfield, push Guthrie out on the right and play Jonas up front with Owen. Cunts won't know what hit them.

"Sorry Michael, but I was trying everything I could for 2 hours last night and I just couldn't see any way to fit a 3 pronged strikeforce into a 4-4-2. Stick to playing, son, leave managing to the big boys."

Agreed mate. Can neither of you honestly see the danger of having a man like this in charge? We show up and play as well as we have under him all season, and Stoke meanwhile aren't at the races at all? We get 2-0 up at HT, at which point he proceeds to make a change that moves 3 players into positions that they simply aren't suited to? Why change so much when things are going well? Including moving your best player in the first half into CM, where he can't play at all and never has done. Either stick Cacapa in CM or move Colo there and slot Taylor in at CB. It's not that complicated, anybody with half a brain could see how ridiculous it was.

Wanker, belongs where he is.

What, we'll get a goal from absolutely nowhere after looking shite for 60 minutes and only being in the game due to the opposition missing an absolute sitter and Given making a great save? I actually agree, that's probably all we can hope for with Kinnear in charge. Clever. It's quite true though. Not one game under Kinnear have we looked good going forward, actually playing good football and creating chances rather than just hoping for the best and trying to keep it tight at the back. Until today of course, and we all know Joe put a stop to that as soon as it could be addressed at half time.

What, we'll get a goal from absolutely nowhere after looking shite for 60 minutes and only being in the game due to the opposition missing an absolute sitter and Given making a great save? I actually agree, that's probably all we can hope for with Kinnear in charge.

Relegation prospects will be determined by whether the likes of Owen, Martins, Jonas, Barton and Viduka can stay fit. With players like that to pick from, I don't think even someone as incompetent as Kinnear could quite fuck it up. We'll be shite all year, but we'll just do enough to get through it and stay up. But lose more than 1 or 2 of that lot and all bets are off, and we really could be going down. The man is useless, truly useless, and has no business in any level of professional football management, nevermind managing an established Premier League club. I'd give an awful lot for us to be taken over by someone, anyone, and a real boss brought in. Fuck all those cunts for what happened on the first few days of September. Power hungry cunts who've ruined the great direction we were going in.

FYP

So we started out with a team of (listing players natural positions) GK RB -- CB -- CB -- LB RW -- CM -- CM -- LW CF -- CF We get one player injured and by games end we've got... GK CB -- CB -- CB -- LB RB -- CB -- RW -- LW CF --- CF Aye, Kinnear obviously has a fucking clue what he's doing.

Taylor would be disastrous against this lot at CB. Aye, cos it's obviously going great this way.

Well done Kinnear.

Just back in from town, sounds like we're playing very well. Anyone want to give me a gist of how the two goals came about? Whose impressed the most thus far?

"If I had wanted to give 100 per cent, I would have stayed at Real Madrid, sacrificed lots of things, done my very best and I probably would have succeeded. Instead, I’m here at Sampdoria and I love it.” Laughed out loud reading that.

State of that pass from Bendtner trying to play in Denilson. Andy Gray blamed it on Denilson's touch, obviously.

Brilliant finish from RVP, brilliant.

Mile offside.

What was he thinking? Can't see City equalising though, they've been shite.