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Ha, same old Harry, always tapping up.....

Hope he isn't out for too long. One of our important players so the sooner he's back the better. That said, give him as much time to recuperate tbh, don't really want to rush him back if there's a risk of aggravating his injury. Some of the posts on here have put me at ease like.

He did alright. Of course, he was at fault for their first goal but after that he was pretty solid against Drogba/Torres tbh.

Just got in. We didn't deserve to lose by that 3-0 scoreline like. What I can say is we gave 100% to the cause, the lack of cutting edge from either wing was worrying mind (bar Lovenkrands' run). Our left wing was completely exposed in the first half, Sturridge pretty much destroyed Raylor on every occasion. Raylor did better in the second half though. What was also encouraging was the centre of midfield. The fact that I don't remember Lampard and Mata doing much speaks volumes. Oh, David Luiz should have got sent off, the ref (prick) completely bottled it. Still can't believe that he only got a yellow card. Stand-out players were Krul, Saylor and Guthrie. Hope the injury to Coloccini isn't too serious, not looking good for Saylor

Beautiful. Thanks midds, catmag!

He was my captain last week too. Guess I'm anticipating some sort of wonder goal

My captain's Ben Arfa

And so it begins.....

That isn't worth thinking. In any case, I reckon Pardew is more than likely to start Sammy on the left wing before Lovenkrands. (though we may actually see Lovenkrands at some point tomorrow actually )

Aye, as long as they get to brag about being the "NETD", that'll do them. No pressure about long term progression and all that.

Yep.

Same but £4 million for a player out of contract come the end of the season is a bit too much like. Won't he be allowed to talk to other clubs in January in any case or am I thinking of FM again...... Not sure British clubs can. Ah right. Well, I reckon that at most we should be looking to offer £2 million in any case. 2mill fee, 1mill agent, 1mill signing on fee.......hey that 4mill was correct in a way. Ha, in a way aye.

Same but £4 million for a player out of contract come the end of the season is a bit too much like. Won't he be allowed to talk to other clubs in January in any case or am I thinking of FM again...... Not sure British clubs can. Ah right. Well, I reckon that at most we should be looking to offer £2 million in any case.

Same but £4 million for a player out of contract come the end of the season is a bit too much like. Won't he be allowed to talk to other clubs in January in any case or am I thinking of FM again......

Actually, now that Bruce is gone, will Gyan now decide to give the mackems another chance?

Good man wor Pardew is. Says all the right things pretty much all the time. he's always done that. we all do that, just now we listen out for it more. Indeed.

Nice one Ronaldo.

I'll keep a close eye on Ireland's progress like. Want them to do well! They're definitely the underdogs which, you never know, could work in their favour! But as pointed out before, the prospect of Whelan/Andrews up against Xavi/Iniesta.......ha!

Reet, Hernandez and Walters in; Suarez and Modric out.

He does come out with some weird stuff from time to time but he does say the right things most of the time. So I'm not particularly worried as such.

Our very own OCK iirc.