Ashley17

I made reference to this in the Spurs match thread, Owen is only useful if people who can cross are playing. How many of Owen's goals were set up by Geremi last year? A fair few I'd say, without knowing the exact figures.

Watching Chelsea/Everton....they keep going on about Alex tripping Baines. At the risk of looking like a twat, Alex hangs his leg out, makes contact with the ball and then the man. Is that classed as stonewall these days? It wasn't given btw, for those not watching.

46m and they're still pretty f***ing s*** The league table since signing Palacios et al seems to suggest otherwise..................... http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/8383/picture2pxx.png That shows Nolan and Ryan Taylor have improved us, and thus is wrong.

I think if we go to Villa on the last day needing something to stay up we will get it, Villa aren't brilliant at home to begin with and they're already slipping into holiday mode - and they've been playing since July.

We've taken 4 points off them away, that's...something

http://www.planet-wissen.de/pics/IEPics/intro_uw_model_g.jpg Ramon Vega.

If you're going to play Owen you pretty much have to play Geremi. Geremi is slow but he can at least cross a ball every now and again.

If we'd had a penalty given against us for a handball like that I'd be livid. It was smashed at him from a yard away. He couldn't do much about it, but I thought it was the right decision from the ref in that case, he clearly (but inadvertantly) controlled it with his hand and wouldn't have scored without it. On the other hand, I thought Woodgate's challange on Oba was a clear pen. Yes, reminded me of the one he won against Birmingham at home under Allardyce.

If we'd had a penalty given against us for a handball like that I'd be livid. It was smashed at him from a yard away.

I think it was jonnypd in the match thread who pointed out that we're essentially one shit back pass from relegation Winning 3 home games is imperative, we're getting close to needing to emulate what Fulham did last season.

I've no doubt as soon as Enrique is fit we will ditch this 3 at the back shite, it's purely a stop gap so we don't have to put anyone out of position at full back. However we've had Duff, Bassong and Taylor there in the past 2 matches, so it's sort of backfired. Once Enrique is back, I expect 4-3-3. The only question is who the 3 in midfield are. The advantage with Geremi was his crosses in the box gave Owen something to arrive late onto, now he can arrive as late as he wants there's no service at all. Jonas can run all day but his crossing is poor, Butt is useless but almost guaranteed to start and then you've got Guthrie, Smith, Barton, Geremi himself, Nolan and Duff. I'd pick Barton once he's (match) fit but otherwise I'm really not sure.

Villa drawing, good. Nothing to play for on the last day hopefully.

Undecided about mackems/Hull. On the one hand, Hull have the hardest run in....so maybe them getting 3 points here isn't the end of the world as they might not get many more. The mackems however have games that are winnable, and this is their easiest fixture left - so losing it could well fuck them up. Howay draw/Hull!

Carroll, Lovenkrands and Owen in the 4-3-3 then?

"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