Ashley17

"Please God, Alan can keep them up.." Instead of calling on a holy spirit why didn't you just stay yourself and help us you big eejit.

Expecting "Winn" to turn up on here today again with the team news, seeing that he was spot on last week with his ITK-ism (except predicting Martins' injury..)

What!? No Giggs? But, he's really old an still playing pretty well...sometimes...when they play him. And no Rafael either, the 10 games he's played in have all been classics. He even scored against Arsenal. Disgusting he's not on your list. I hate whoever is responsible for the nominees

It was only 2 weeks ago I read that Phil Jagielka was in the running. Not nominated I see

ITV were pro English for everyone except us, when they became AZ fans for the night. Still sickens me to this day

Rose wasn't very good i take it? If you're basing that on the OG, it's a tackle that loops over the keeper

Milner, fucking hell

Taylor seemed more willing to carry the ball yesterday, particularly in the last 20 minutes. Made a nice change from just hoofing it.

Well played

Every game against Stoke should have about 10 minutes of stoppage time. If it's 3 or 4 minutes in a normal game, how about a game where they take 30 seconds over every throw in? Such a detestable team, gutted they'll be around next season.

If we lose, yes, things are going to look bleak. But after next week the fixtures are a bit better in terms of our games and our rivals' opponents, so don't shit the bed if we lose.

What the hell formation did we finish the game with I doubt that will be tried again, Jonas having a free role was good news when he came on. Carroll and anyone up front. Nolan defended alright but his short passing...christ. To many occasions we had about 3 players within 5 yards of each other, and we don't have the ability to play out of those situations. I sympathise with Shearer on his selection, had it been the 4-3-3 (or 3-4-3?) we'd trained with all week, it may have been different.

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Considering "we've trained all week with the 3" (Shola, Owen and Martins) what the hell were we planning on playing until his late injury? Some sort of 3-4-1-2? Either way, we've played shite, don't look like scoring and we need a hero.

My guess is that the team Winn posted was the plan, but Martins has got a late knock or something. Either that or he's just a fucking lucky guesser

Nearly

4-3-3? Shola as the big man with Duff and Owen?

That's a somewhat elaborate game of Chinese whispers. I've always wondered what "rumour going around the ground" actually means. I reckon one guy behind him has said "Curbs on Monday" and another will have said "naaaah Reidy."

My mackem mate at the match seems to think there's two big rumours going around the Stadium of shite - one is that Curbishley will be appointed on Monday, the other is that Peter Reid will be.

If we're 18th and the teams above us are miles ahead then we may as well be 19th. I don't see why people don't see this. Look at the remaining fixtures and you'll see why Hull are in the shit.

It's better than a Hull win..draw would be ideal.

In my opinion: Pompey beat WBA - Pompey will be fine, WBA are shit. Spurs/Hammers - Who cares. Boro/Hull - Draw please. Boro win would be preferred over a Hull win IMO, I know it would drop us to 19th but we still need the teams out of the bottom 3 to be in touching distance mackems/Man Utd - Man Utd by a hatful Chelsea/Bolton - Chelsea, keeps them in the title hunt so they keep playing full strength teams against our relegation rivals Wigan/Arsenal - Arsenal for the reasons above

Wigan v Arsenal Wigan: Kirkland, Melchiot, Boyce, Bramble, Figueroa, Valencia, Watson, Brown, Rodallega, Scharner, Mido. Subs: Pollitt, Kingson, Koumas, De Ridder, Kapo, Sibierski, Edman. Arsenal: Fabianski, Sagna, Toure, Djourou, Gibbs, Walcott, Denilson, Song Billong, Arshavin, Fabregas, Bendtner. Subs: Szczesny, Nasri, Van Persie, Vela, Silvestre, Adebayor, Eboue. I love that Wigan put 2 keepers on the bench so they both get their appearance bonuses (yes that's a Brucey bonus)

Septik!? They from eastern Europe or something?