Mick

The way we play invites the opposition on to us, we hardly had a go at then until the last 15 or 20 minutes, laying the blame on the defence is too easy.

Just remember what we were like before he came in, I'm not trying to build him up because he's cost us again today, not for the first time.

N'Zogbia set Martins up brilliantly, Duff had a part in the other goal but he's still shit and probably part of the reason why we substituted Enrique because he offered nothing when on the left unlike Martins who gave N'Zogbia something to pass to.

Duff reminds me of a nursery rhyme character, he huffs and puffs but never blows the house down, he's a waste of space.

Kinnear is better than having nobody, he's no better than that.

The internal errors should be history. It might be worth checking the logs to see if anything was happening when the minor problems cropped up. If you're reaching limits then you have a problem as I would expect traffic isn't that high.

The problems are minor, tomorrow will be a bigger test but the Chelsea game will be a bigger test again. The lag I've seen is no worse than you can get anywhere on the net.

You didn't, it's just me.

This one struck a chord, particularly with the club's/Ashley's line of thinking that you can try and attain the pick of the up & coming talent pool for next to nothing ie. Leeds deriding our 1m offer. Bates was well within his right to laugh us off. To pick up such players - and i'll rewind the clock to our purchase of a similarly hyped Jenas, a dynamic & young central midfielder.... whom we payed 5m for - the club has to speculate on their ability/attributes and their scope for development, whilst paying the going rate. No surprise to hear the player mentioned being linked with some big clubs come January, for 5m. The days of picking up the likes of Anelka or their prized assets at around the 18yr old mark, from the relevant youth set-ups for minimal fees for million pounds, a few hundred K's or less are virtually over. Hence Ashley's, and formerly Mort's, viewpoint that we could operate on a Arsenal-based model - which accomplished much, & formed the framework of their success over the course of the ensuing decade & beyond - today's transfer market is an ill-conceived myth. It's just an excuse for penny-pinching on Ashley's part. Arsenal's best work in the transfer market occured about a decade ago, when Wenger virtually got the jump on his British rivals by raiding the French youth set-up at a minimal outlay - Anelka and Viera are the notable examples. Fast forward the clock a decade on, and Arsenal are forking out 10m for Nasri.... the going rate. According to Keegan we looked at the same player. What drew the red flag? The price tag, in comparison to what were prepared to and eventually payed for another French-based U'21 repesentative player in Bassong? The transfer market's bubble has burst, re- the youth ranks, and this has been so for a few years now, and Ashley never quite caught up with this. Purchases like Bassong - ie. a bargain, with some ability - are a rare thing nowadays. Unfortunately the club's grocery store transfer policy - scouring the lower leagues for bargains - is a departure from the current day transfer market reality where U'21 internationals are concerned/the prices which are duly placed upon their heads, and it may have cost us in picking up a couple of very promising prospects. Unless you attain these kids when they're around the 15yr old mark or earlier, the Arsenal model - in terms of measuring the quality of it's youth ranks (the 18yr old bracket) against it's outlay - is dated. While Ashley remains at the helm our chances of picking up the likes of Delph, or the pick of the U'21/19 crop, are slim. Cheaper prospects like Kadar - ie. 900k - and signing them broadscale as the youth buying policy is just about the club's current direction. It's a riskier & scattershot - abeit cheaper & penny-pinching - youth buying policy. We get mentioned twice yet you pick up on the one we didn't get, you base your post around that and don't mention the one we do get just so you can rip our transfer policy to bits.

Why's it always you? What happened this time? It was just really slow so I closed my browser and it stayed the same, I refreshed a few times and the page loaded OK.

I've just had a mare getting on here.

Sorry, I normally just notice that you've posted and skip it. In reality, it probably wasn't bold so I thought I'd read it earlier.

Are you seeing unread posts from yesterday in bold or not? It seems OK with todays but nothing historic which is unread.

Yes, spot on.

Thanks, it seems OK. I did get a connection error.

Role Model, post something in a thread on here, even if you delete it after a few minutes, I can't see any bold topics.

Wait until he tries installing a theme, the c***. I was bored. It's still better than the temp forum which has plenty of members but very few users. It's been the same every time it's needed which will hopefully be a thing of the past. If not then knock a freebie up for a few days or so.

Has something been changed? Unread posts were normally in threads which were highlighted by bold. It looks like this is now just the case with todays unread posts.

Bobby was a class player, he would have been a one of our all time greats if he'd played for us. As far as I'm aware he only ever played 45 minutes in a testimonial wearing our colours.

This is much quicker at loading pages, it will be interesting to see how it copes with the pressure of a match day or a major club announcement. It's got to be said though, it looks a million times better so far. It’s just a pity Dave and Rich will be sleeping now instead of getting some of the benefit of the work they’ve both done.

Let's be honest, the job done by Kinnear at Fulham could hardly even be described as a performance. It reminded me very much of a game with Roeder in charge.

Well done lads, it must have been frustrating at times.

I find Duff about as inspirational as a corpse, Jonas had a dodgy spell when he couldn't hold on to the ball or make the pass but he seemed to get over it.

It looks like he was accredited with assisting an assist. He's shared one with Martins for Shola against Man City and the other one was against Villa when it was actually Jonas who made the final pass.

Yes, it's just in the league.