Ashley17

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/sheff_utd/8473058.stm Looks like that's done then

Was talking to my Norwich supporting friend the other day about him, said he had excellent communication, shot stopping and handling - likened him to Schmeichel Whilst that might be a bit much, it's good to hear he's getting rave reviews.

Someone change the thread title from March to Feb, or confusion will reign

I'm in, midfield or attack on whatever team wants me

I'd say the definites if fit are Krul, Kadar, Butt, Pancrate & Carroll. Probably Ranger too. Plus 5 assorted others - probably R Taylor, Coloccini, Simpson, Guthrie and...Smith. Would rather Kazenga or any other midfielder with working legs got a game but that's not how we roll.

It was a moved postponed game I think. Yeah, the one tonight was originally meant to be played back in August, but because of Arsenal's Champions League qualifier it got put back to the beginning of January. Then snow happened, so it got put back again to this week.

The guy on the end of their wall - Mulumbu? He ducked ffs I'd be going mental at him today if I was Di Matteo

The end of the year is 11 months away. If they sold players now and go down they've got no chance. If they hang on until June and somehow stay up then they have a chance, I guess.

The majority of people I spoke to pre-match in the pub said the same thing - play 4 in midfield with Nolan off Shola or Carroll tonight to stop WBA over-running us. If so many fans can see it, why can't Hughton? Nolan is a disgrace in a 4-4-2, yes he scores goals every now and again but as a central midfielder he needs to be contributing for more than 30 seconds of a game.

Fantastic game to watch, the neutrals must have loved it. Frustrating how easy it was for WBA to break from the back, too many players played shite tonight but everybody expected their central 3 to run rings around Smith and Nolan and that's exactly what happened. Harper - Did ok, was unlucky with their 2nd goal where the rest of the team were snoozing Simpson - Stood off Thomas all night, he didn't know what to do really, if he dived in he'd get skinned and if he stood off it invited pressure. Got minimal help from Guthrie Enrique - Not one of his best evenings, lots of misplaced passes but gets an assist for Lovenkrands' goal. Taylor - Solid for me, didn't do much wrong considering it was 7 on 4 a lot of the time. Coloccini - Same as Taylor really Nolan - Shite. Just lacks the athleticism to compete against younger, quicker players. Couldn't even lace the chance he had shortly after it went 2-2. Smith - His poorest game for a while, passing was all over the place and was overran time and time again. Guthrie - Great free kick, did ok in general play but not fantastic by any means. Jonas - Usual, lots of running and working, no end ball. Must have been fouled 10+ times. Lovenkrands - Looked lively, looking for flicks that never came from Shola, good header for the goal but Carson...dear me. Shola - Shola of old tonight, was just shite. Opening 15 he looked a handful but once he didn't get one or two decisions he was more bothered about tussling with their centre half than getting the ball. Still can't time his jump for headers. Having just seen the highlights, couldn't be arsed to stick with Olsson. Just lazy. Carroll - Won plenty, no direction. R Taylor - Came on and thought "I'll show Simpson, I'll get straight into Thomas" and got skinned. Few decent set pieces though. So a point gained in the end, although we could have nicked all 3. I can see why they're so good on the road, probably a bit like Villa in the respect that when they play at home it's harder to hit teams on the break. A lot of decent players in their side who can pass all day long, if they find a consistent formula at home then I'd back them all the way to go up. It's up to us to make sure we go with them. And finally, stupid anecdote. Two lads turned up to sit in front of us 25 minutes into the game. The first thing they saw was Guthrie score the free kick. They then spent 20 minutes chanting, standing, clapping and generally being pissed that they weren't sitting in level 7. Then the female steward told them to sit down and they left, saying they won't be back. So they paid £25 each to watch 20 minutes of football. Nice one

List of people who were wrong: Skirge Gordon McQueen Every ITK ever

He's injured, had a big injury coming into the season, played in the ones where he was fit then got injured again.

Well he's a cunt then

Dave, do you have a problem with math? We play 38, halfway the tournament is week 19. If we win today, we'll be 5 over real after 18 games. So whatever happens next week, we'd be top. I understand that, it's the repeated insinuation on Sky that after this game they've already reached the halfway point. It's daft. They're saying if they win today they will be top at the half way stage, as they can't be caught. They're not saying after tonight they've reached half way.

Don't know about anyone else this year but I've found myself feeling like Sven, when we score I celebrate still but nowhere near as much as I should/would if we were in the top division. At first I was happy to be out of the Premiership glitz and Sky shite, but after 5 months of scraping around for 30 second highlights I want to be back in the big time as soon as possible. I wouldn't count it as a trophy, I'd be reluctant for any parade and I just want to get it over with. Seeing players such as Nolan, Coloccini, Smith & Butt celebrating going back up when they were big reasons we went down wouldn't fill me with a great deal of joy - for me, if we do win the league or even go up, that puts this lot back on par, which isn't something worth celebrating.

Kinnear was there for their game on Tuesday. Add that to the fact it's Mick Harford taking over who worked with him at Wimbledon and I don't think it'll be long before Kinnear is back in a dugout. (No grave jokes please)

So basically if either club have an FA Cup replay then it will be postponed again then. 5th round replay in fairness, it's not impossible but it's a fucker if people book up to go to this again and it gets moved once more.

Same for Bristol City really, both games we didn't have Shola on the pitch though (except for 20 minutes against Derby, but it takes him half an hour to get into the mood)

Am guessing its too late to pick Friday night as they stated its the 23rd/24th didnt they? Confirmed for Saturday 23rd at 3pm, hurrah.

We'll see.

We were 3-0 up and Enrique hit a cross that the keeper picked out the air, about 87 mniutes in and Carroll absolutely bollocked Enrique for it. Bearing in mind Enrique had ran his nuts off down the left all night I'd have told Carroll where to go. Ranger looked lost last night when he came on, although coming in at 3-0 up with the game from our point of view almost at walking pace probably isn't ideal for him. Carroll wins a lot in the air but can't shoot at all, anyone who witnessed the warmup at the Gallowgate end can testify, he lashed a volley from about 6 yards out that ended up in the middle tier, and his shooting continued in that vein from there.

The people getting chucked out was funny, that bald guy who stopped when being dragged out to applaud the fans Well done to those who just made an atmosphere in the corner, fair play. Can't see the 4th round game being on the 23rd, Wolves, Villa & WBA are all due to be at home at 3pm, I don't think Wolves and WBA are allowed to be at home on the same day so unless they still do it where one game kicks off early, I'm not sure what will happen. It can't be moved to the Sunday because WBA are away to Ipswich on the Tuesday after (we play Palace on the Wednesday) but they'll have to decide sharpish.

That was a really cold training game, once the early goal went in we were never going to lose. Jonas, Enrique, Lovenkrands and Coloccini were all awesome. Nolan got a stitch Carroll does a decent job for the team but never looks like scoring. Ranger came on and looked a million miles away. Pancrate is all pace and no ability, his crossing is worse than Jonas'. Having said that, Jonas got 2 assists tonight.

They're £15.