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We're definitely dominating. Need to score soon like! Close from Ba there, unlucky!

Close...

:thup:

I'm expecting him to get at least half an hour today.

Squad depth is important, it's just that we can probably do better than Perch in terms of a squad player. "Expecting" him to be sold was probably the wrong phrase to use. In any case, can't see him staying beyond his current contract.

I'm not worried as such about the Ben Arfa situation. Reckon he'll be fine. Benwell Lad posted this in the Pardew thread which sounds about right imo:

Would be a farce if Man U gets back into the CL through that. Though like you've said, can't see it happening.

If he's found guilty, can see it being a much longer ban anyway.

Oh and onto footballing matters, it's a massive boost that he's back today

Fuck off Chelsea. Having said that though, still expect Tiote (and others linked with a move away from us) to be still with us come February. Still quite confident that we'll sell no-one in January.

I fully expect him to leave in summer tbh. On what grounds? Just my personal opinion, if we want to improve then we can't rely on the likes of Perch really although having said that we will be letting the likes of Smith, Lovenkrands etc. go so Perch might yet stay purely for squad depth reasons

I fully expect him to leave in summer tbh. And what about Perch? He'll be the new captain like

Pretty confident that he'll be able to handle Routledge today. Raylor would have been raped by Wayne tbh.

Good words Olivier Put in a good word in for us please

I fully expect him to leave in summer tbh.

My optimism has certainly gone up now Howay the lads!

Excellent line up

Something to do with this? http://www.nufc.co.uk/page/TV/FeaturesDetail/0,,10278~2550309,00.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Yeah, he says 1 week rest was good and he thinks he's going to be ok for tomorrow. Hope so!

Something to do with this? http://www.nufc.co.uk/page/TV/FeaturesDetail/0,,10278~2550309,00.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Right, so think I'm going to go for a narrow win for us tomorrow. 2-1 to us with Ba and Ben Arfa scoring.

That fits in with Douglas' recent tweets about targets being expensive and the existence of contingency plans

Marveaux was meant to be the other option Indeed but I didn't mention him because he's out for the season.

Definitely, still only 17 too. I actually wouldn't be surprised if a few PL clubs come knocking in January.