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Is Martins available or not? Shame Duff is crocked, I would love to see a front 4 of Duff Zog Milner Martins Playing like the Keegan teams pre Shearer - 4-4-1-1 Duff left wing Milner right wing Zog playing the Beardsley role Martins playing the Cole/Les role

No, Just no mate. Knew it was coming tbh Problems i see when looking at that: 1. Stephen Carr is playing - Recipe for disaster. 2.Beye is playing out of his usual position - Recipe for disaster. 3. Taylor is not only playing out of position but in a role where he will feel uncomfortable using his weaker foot - Recipe for disaster. 4.Smith is not a midfielder in any way,shape or form, he's not creative so i wouldn't know how we could possibly supply Viduka - Recipe for disaster. 5.Viduka - No use upfront on his own, he would have no one running past him and would be simply laying it off to our midfielders with no one else coming into play - Recipe for disaster. If we ever have to play those four at the back it should be Beye - Taylor - Faye - Carr

Absolutely right - that goal at SJP when he left Dabizas for dead before sticking it in, just about all in one movement, was sheer class... Admitted it was a fluke didn't he? Either way, for my money the best player the premier league has had the pleasure to host

He's on talksport enough too. Could drop them a line also

Graham Rix

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/2650/frontpagethursda413332aqn8.jpg Shocking journalism. Should have smuggled a camera phone inside and put the footage on You Tube

Still get rid for me, and still a 55:45 split I see!

totally different,at least in the case of bellamy as we had no-one to play wide right (where he has played before) and could play shola through the middle instead. What? As far as I can remember we had Bowyer, Ambrose, Dyer and Milner who could all play on the right and allow our best player (which was undoubtedly Bellamy at that time) to play in his proper position. I seem to remember one match when we had Shola, Bellamy, Kluivert, Robert, and Shearer all on the pitch. The fella was a mentalist, man. bowyer was playing centre mid at the time (or going throught one of his s*** spells)...dyer injured (at a guess)ambrose was s*** and i'm gonna check toonstats to see where milner was Look, I know you love Souness, but there can really be no excuse for playing Shola on the left. Even worse than playing Martins on the right. Didn't Sam play Shola on the left against Arsenal in the cup?

I'd take it! Would be an absolute stab in the dark. On one side he could be an excellent manager, on the other he could be as bad as Souness. Every manager at every club is a massive gamble

predict this will end 55:45 in favour of ged rid

Well won't Chelsea be without Terry, Carvalho, Cole, Drogba and maybe Lampard?

Funny how how best defensive records came under how most attack minded manager isn't it?

You would have said the same about the SJP expansion 5 years ago And? 5 years ago no one could have predicted that we would be in the freefall that we were at the end of Fred's time. That's stunning, don't you think? 10 years ago I don't think many predicted that we'd be in financial trouble and our future would be looking seemingly bleak. That's the main thing I've been trying to say so far, though god knows I've tried my best to sound as confusing as possible. ??? And in 5 years time Wenger may have let and Arsenal may be struggling to get 8th place in the Premier league. You've said exactly what I was getting at, the Emirates looks sound now, SJP look sound 5 years ago Aye, the MANAGER makes a massive difference, which is where we went wrong with the appointment of Souness, obviously. .....or even the sacking of SBR? didn't hear too many voices against it at the time. Never mind, after today, do you hope the club continue carrying on putting the books first, standby for more real mediocrity or worse. I thought when the Halls and Shepherd left, all this mediocrity would come to an end. I reckon we need a few of these quality trophy players to get up the league a bit, don't you Never mind trophey - upper mid table would do right about now

With Shearer you would get time and goodwill from fans and media. I've got doubts over his personality (too Souness maybe) for management but he seems switched on enough to know his weaknesses and employ the appropriate people to compensate them. He'd be stupid to take over before we lose to the big 4 in the next few weeks thogh - and both he and Mike know this (imo of course)

Time...Bolton....Change....Money......Time etc

Was it not also the 95/96 shirt? Aye

I'd take a reissue of the 96/97 home shirt please

You would have said the same about the SJP expansion 5 years ago And? 5 years ago no one could have predicted that we would be in the freefall that we were at the end of Fred's time. That's stunning, don't you think? 10 years ago I don't think many predicted that we'd be in financial trouble and our future would be looking seemingly bleak. That's the main thing I've been trying to say so far, though god knows I've tried my best to sound as confusing as possible. ??? And in 5 years time Wenger may have let and Arsenal may be struggling to get 8th place in the Premier league. You've said exactly what I was getting at, the Emirates looks sound now, SJP look sound 5 years ago

You would have said the same about the SJP expansion 5 years ago

I seem to recall Tim Flowers having the same problem. If you watch any 'goals of the season' from around 94-97 watch out for Tim, never stuck his arms out fully when going for long rangers and always seemed to dive backwards. Getting beat regularly frm disatnce is a weakness, but is ususally down to technique so can be worked on. I'm sure Shay recognises this - well he better had

Think I'm going to go jump off a bridge now

Bollocks That is all

Does anyone else ever wonder what they did in a previous life to be a Toon fan? Edit: Dukes!!!!!

City should thank him mackems.gif City are thanking us. :-[ At leaast he will be 'unavailable' for the start of next season

I'm guessing (with it being Sam) it wil be Duff for Martins and Emre for Barton??