Mick

I thought he took a couple of games to get up to speed last season, he probably just needs games.

I think it's got to the stage now where people are becoming immune to the shite that's printed, they've over egged it and it no longer raises an eye brow from all but the lower forms of pond life. At one time we'd be going mad about this shite, now it doesn't even seem to bother anybody.

We might have only brought 4 players in so far but I've got to applaud our new scouting network, they've done a cracking job. We need more players in but I can’t fault the job they’ve done to date, Bassong looks to be a real bargain although it's still early.

At least they were positive about us, I'll let them off.

.com had the Man U ticket allocation as sold out.

On Saturday they were both guilty of going passed the first player then running into a brick wall although N'Zogbia did seem to improve in the second half.

Even if we bid a record fee it doesn't mean we'll get the player, Modric has proven that.

What do you think of our 2 Argies and our performance against Man U? I know that's off topic but you seemed to have missed the threads where these were discussed.

We had 400 less than against Bolton in 2006 when the economy was buoyant, in 2008 we've got a credit crunch and thousands of people finding themselves out of work every week.

Get the winger on the opposite side running in and those balls become deadly.

Wait until you've got thick mackem bastards throwing coins.

sky are as bad as the others, anybody reading the printed press will know that this is shite. http://www.skysports.com/football/league/0,19540,11660,00.html

I thought that the singing section worked, it wasn't a wall of noise for 90 minutes but I thought it was louder when they sang.

Quite a bit of that will have been Taylor holding on to the ball.

I didn't think we had 61% possession.

And travel.

He wasn't.

I don't think we're far away from having a very good first 11, I think we've really got something to work with and if we replace two or three of our less effective players then we'll have a very good season.

Taylor showed today that he still has a lot to learn, it's going to be a big season for him because the excuse of playing with shite has gone. He's got the makings of a good player but he's got to get his game together and I hope that he does it.

I've just remembered one move in the second half when we had probably 20 passes before shooting, it would have been goal of the season if we'd scored from that.

I'd forgot about his midweek game, he was all over today and the lads become a crowd favourite already.

Absolutely spot on Spot on about him being spot on.

I'm sure they announced an offer for the Hull game today.

I think him and N'Zogbia suffered from the same thing today, they both beat a player then made the wrong decision or put in a shit pass, at least N'Zogbia picked up later in the second half, Milner missed a great chance in the second half when he seemed to be playing up front with Owen and to make matters worse Owen was next in line if Milner hadn't had a go.