Mick

Canny climb down, I like it.

Butt - Knee Taylor - Ankle

Not .com but I couldn't be arsed digging up an old thread. http://www.true-faith.co.uk/

I wouldn't worry about your country getting a bad name, I think most people understand that the mongs don't represent everybody.

If we can get some good defenders in, replace Dyer and keep our injuries down (some chance) then we'll have a good season and could qualify for Europe. That would be a massive achievement when compared with the shit of last season.

You got two brilliant bargains when you took Ferdinand and Fox.

The police should have left him, he was probably walking home.

Excellent, it's not just me.

You're lucky if you're starting to forget about Souness, consider that a bonus.

Pre-season and 4 or 5 games, he did OK under Robson in those early games when he did play.

Roeder wasn't committed to getting the best out of Luque because Roeder wasn't a good enough coach to do it, he'd prefer to let a £10 million player twiddle his thumbs while kids were playing poorly, Roeder was never a manager or coach, he was driven by events and just went with the flow.

Geremi will not be managed by Souness in a few games time, I think he'll be OK.

That's a good point which hasn't been mentioned, we do look a lot fitter than normal.

To be fair, most normal people are in bed.

You should sort your priorities out.

I'll have a look to see if it's repeated on Sunday as I'll have nowt better to do.

Did I miss the bastard Bill?

The rest of the article has very little to do with us. http://football.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2135757,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=5 On Tuesday afternoon Freddy Shepherd finally parted company with Newcastle United. The Chief Geordie of all the World had a somewhat chequered time of it during his reign as chairgadgie at St James', what with the fake sheikh, bulging bonuses and so on. But when this was put to one of his loyal servants in the local press corps the response was predictable: "You know, the supporters at Newcastle don't care about any of that stuff as long as the team is playing well."

I wouldn't mind seeing 1 kid in each area of the team regularly included with the first team squad, 1 in defence and I'd prefer Edgar out of that lot, 1 in midfield and at the minute it would be Troisi and one up front, it would have to be Carrol as he seems to be the only 1. They can be included in the squad and train with them but we shouldn't rely too much on them, at least they'll continue to develop and get the odd game but not too many.

A certain top German manager would train his players to play many different formations then just send them out without any tactics, he'd let the players dictate how they played the game and he'd bring on a substitute on if he needed to change anything.

How does 7 not look bad to anyone? That is including the kids, yet still does not give us cover in each position. I said 7 doesn't look too bad numerically, I didn't mean that 7, that's why I mentioned the 3 that I thought was good enough. If we have 7 good defenders then I think we'll have enough.

He played on the right of midfield and he looked comfortable on the ball, he looked as if he'd been playing in the first team for years, it didn't seem to worry him that he was playing in front of 30,000 people. He tackled well, moved with the ball under pressure and most of his passes were good. He wasn't making any massive runs with the ball but he covered the whole length of the pitch, helped out in defence and wasn't scared to get up the field.

7 defenders doesn't look too bad numerically, out of those 7 I'd only really rate 3, Edgar, Taylor and Rozenhal.

I would like to think that those three players will have to battle it out and whoever plays is whoever is on form, that would make a change from the last few seasons.