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Good luck Souness. Maybe this means we could get Jack Hayward as our chairman, he's excellent but ancient.

If Baba and Bramble walk back into our first team i will lose all faith in Roeder.

We will see two seasons of 15+ goals and numours stoppages because of injuries. Then because of his age he will lose his pace and his career will decline, us relying on him too much.

I remember when he fist signed for us, some turkish guy was on here saying he had everything to be a top footballer, Tackling, shooting, passing and dribbling. Then he pointed out Emres two weakness' the fact that he had never got more than 10 goals per season and that he misses about 15 games through injury per season. He's view seemed pretty accurate to me. Should Emre work under someone like Wenger he would improve and find his place in the side. I still don't think him or Parker no whether they are attacking or defensive, which is worrying.

Lucas Neill would be a great addition. He has a hot head to say the least but he'd soon help sort out our back four.

I keep on forgetting the lads only 21. He been around for 5 years now and has come on leaps and bounds. He deserves his new contract and i hope he keeps on steadily progeesing. Consumate pro.

Tevez is one of the few south americans that i would take a risk on. He's got high work rate and un-doubted talent. He just needs a little work done behind the scenes, lets not forget hes pretty young.

What amuses me about this post us that he contradicts himself. First off he says we are not going to sign anyone then he says expect last minute freebees and loans. I'd rather they didn't piss our money away and spent it wisely. Neither Fred nor Roeder have promised us anything.

No need to change personel in midfield, especially on the wings. Defence and attack please.

Steven Taylor for me is the one with the biggest talent. Like someone else said, it's up to him how far he goes because hes potentially great. Ramage has been highley underestimated so far. Everytime i have seen him play he's been the leader at the back not taylor. I don't see Ramage as potentially great but i feel when he hit's 28-29 he could be a top performer like Southgate in his later years.

Asprilla. Ketsbaia.

Given Solano Taylor Hunty Edgar Butt Patterson Dyer Milner Martins Sibierski Prediction 1-3 Martins, Sibierski and Patterson

I have to be honest i'm not too fussed about signing strikers. Even though it would appear we are a little short with only Dyer,Martins and Sibers as recognised strikers we only have to last about 3 months with keeping two of them fit until Owen returns and looking even further Ameobi wil be there for next season. The one thing i don't want us to do is sign someone like Viduka, who i rate but brings no long term advantage to the club. I'd far rather give a youngster like Carroll a chance, even if that is slightly risky. In the summer i'd like to think strikers won't be a problem as we would have Martins, Owen, Dyer, Ameobi and Sibierski. Easily enough for me.

In the words of football manager 2007. Wes Brown should be regarded as a definate purchase.

Obviously, i hoping that we will sign someone very soon. So that they are availible after the brum game. However, we have a checkered past to say the least so i wnt for very little. The point is that none of us know but it's interesting to see how much faith we have in the people at the club. Most have roeders transfers have worked out, so i'm hoping for more of the same.

Under the souness days he practically told us what he was doing. Which can be a good thing and a bad thing. Roeder likes to keep quiet but you could argue that worked against him in the last window. Do you think they are making any headway?

Good post. I think its fair to point out that what people are comlimenting is the raw talent of such young players. There may be alot of tuning need done but the lads have shown more commitment and talent than Carr, Babayaro and Bramble have done for at least 2 seasons.

There's no problem with our wide players, we hav a nice mix of youth and experiance. We have alot of talent in the central area, just no balance whatsoever. Emre and Parker don't know what type of midfielders they are and because of this don't support or defend well enough. I'd rather play Butt and Dyer just because they know their roles naturally. Roeder has two options looking at next season: 1. Sign a permenent attacking and defending midfielder. 2. Work on Emre and Parker and really drill their roles into them so they both know what they are doing. I'd rather we saved the money and tried to work with what we have. However, should someone like Barton come availible i would gamble.

Given 7 Saves were fantastic, kicking was average. Solano 7 Can't remember him being skined by ronaldo on too many occasions and a couple of composed headers Taylor 8 Considering he was up against rooney and giggs he looked very good. Saha is average. Huntington 7 Hard to do anything but compliment the lad. Couple of good headers but a couple of misplace passes. Edgar 7 Never looked out of place, against league leaders lets not forget. Dyer 7 Everytime he's on the ball he runs forward. Key to our season. Emre 6 Didn't do a great deal during the game. Him and fletcher canceled each other out. Parker 6 The only job he had was to stop scholes. However, did work hard enough. Milner 8 Goal and assist. Good game Sibierski 9 Won EVERY header. Martins 7 Gave the ball away four times in a row but also showed some good control and link up play.

Who says we have a shortage in central defence? Taylor Ramage Huntington Edgar The futures bright the futures black and white. bluewink.gif

From telly it might have sounded a bit different TBH. When they went ahead not suprisingly the crowd went a little quiter and pissed off but afer 5-10 mins we got back behind them. In fact if anything we contributed to getting the equaliser.

JWTBH Haha, take it he's injured. Didn't even bother to read through this sory mate. Would you briefly tell me the crack?

Given Nobby Taylor Ramage Hunty Butt Parker Milner Emre Dyer Martins If we close down everthing they do we can cause an upset in this game but we must put them to the sword. You don't get anywhere sitting back against Man Utd. Lets throw everything we've got at the fuckers, if we lose at least we gave it a REAL shot like we used to in the good old days.

Exactly. Agreed.

A draw would be a very good result. Given? Solano Taylor Ramage Hunty Butt Parker Milner Emre Dyer Martins With the pace of Martins and Dyer we COULD rape their slow defence but big sam has his teams well organised. Got the chelsea and spurs scores correct. 1-0 Bolton (Anelka)